Chapter 1(pt1): Enter the Mouth of Azazel : The Strongman

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The Hunt: Strongman

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Byamba Saladin Kurogane , the strongman of the team. He is the heavy lifter, the tank and possibly their most dangerous member. Often serving as a one man battalion , leaving many dead in his wake. His tolerance for pain coupled with his ability to dish it makes him a near unstoppable force on the battlefield.

Today would be no different as he looked to make quick work of the two shinobi laying before him. Both Taigakai and Indra clearly weren’t used to the labyrinth’s warping effects which happens when it’s awake and changes scenes. The two laid on the ground slowly regaining consciousness. Instead of killing them on sight, Byamba waited for them to wake up. The orders he had received were clear and even though he’d follow them, he questioned if Tieros had the SOM’s true wishes at heart.

So as they woke up and slowly regained their comprehension, he’d have a great joke prepared for them . Mm, wake up. I was just making bets with your friend here. He really believes in you two. I told him that I’d beat the two of you to death in ten minutes. HE said that I wouldn’t win, in fact he believes that you will win in twenty. Now I’m not usually a betting man because I’ve got some real shit luck. But I honestly can’t think of anything better to pass the time. Wouldn’t you agree, Ciaoshin?

As the two fully regained the bearings they’d notice a lifeless Ciaoshin being held in Byambas left hand by his neck with his feet dangling. ” Well, what happened? Cat broke your neck?” He’d start chuckling having said all that as a set up for that dark punch line.

The realm was pretty simple. It resembled a jungle and was full of life. The temperature was warm, and the trees were gorgeous. It was like a tropical vacation. So if they had to fight anywhere else, guess this wouldn’t be too bad.

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A quiet groan and Taigakai sat up. The air was..warm. "Not again...", he grumbled while rubbing his forehead. Heat was his worst enemy. A voice rang out and his eyes opened up to a sudden change of scenery. There were trees everywhere and a big bulky dude. A big bulky dude with a disturbing sense of humour.

The man made light of someone he killed and that settled wrong in Taigakai’s gut. Not that it could settle right at all, mind you. He looked around to see if he was alone and thankfully he wasn’t. He had Indra with him. That was at least something. He tapped his chest, lightening his own body to up his speed. Even with the slight taste of how strange this place was, he didn’t really seem to trust anything here other than the teammates he was with.

"Hey, Indra. We need to come up with a plan about that guy over there. Any ideas?", he asked with a lowered voice. Of course if Indra just ended up doing their own thing, that was fine as long as they didn’t get themselves killed.

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Her eyes shift to the lifeless body of caioshin, despite being a horrible guide and leaving them unprepared, he still had things that he wanted to do with his life. For this guy to simply break his neck over a bet that he’d soon be regretting, he was surely in over his head in that regard. “Hey taiga...” Indra paused for a split second, giving him a split second to respond to her. “Can you promise, not to talk about anything that happens here?” she questioned him knowing that there was still a few people who wondered about Q disappearance, however this guy was much worse of a person than Q was of a teacher.

Indra would place a B-rank of storm release chakra into her eyes which allowed her to track B-rank movement and below, however she would reach into her shirt to grab the clouds she had been secretly hiding from her group since there was only one person who knew exactly what happened on her previous mission. In total there was 21 D-rank clouds, 1 very light grey cloud, and 1 light grey cloud. With this amount she wasn’t quite ready to do anything that could damage the guy seriously “Taiga, turn down the temperature, we are going to try to see whose going to win in a long fight” she whispered, yet whispering would do her much since they hadn’t quite figured out that he was a kurogane, making whispering at this point useless since she might as well been screaming it.

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Byamba would watch the two react to his joke and when they began whispering amongst themselves he would pretend to do the same with the corpse he was holding, but he realized that instead of letting them talk he could be forcing them to...dodge. As such he would tear off Ciaoshin's head and promptly chuck it at Taigakai at Crashing Ground speed before dropping the body and making hand seals ending in Monkey. The corpse would jerk a bit as blood would proceed to flow upward and collect into a sphere which would ripple as senbon would be launched from it each of them moving at B-rank speeds to hurtle straight for Indra. "The best thing about a fresh corpse is that the blood is still warm, still alive even if the body isn't and that makes it far easier to use in combat for someone like me." he said seeing if they had managed to dodge his first two attacks, with Ciaoshin's head cracking apart to spray blood and brain matter on whatever it hit, in order to spring his trap. Said trap was that while they seemed like they were alone, they really weren't as he was accompanied by Medjay who were lying in wait for his signal. Said signal would cause the two Medjay to emerge from behind trees and make a beeline towards Indra and Taigakai respectively both of them launching Jabs at their faces to keep them off balance while moving at C-rank speed.

While they were occupied with this Byamba would proceed to close the distance between them as while he could fight from a distance he much preferred to deal with opponents up close as it minimized the chance of things going wrong. Things tended to go wrong if one was overconfident as such he would ensure that he stayed pessimistic about the fight's outcome that way he would preform as if his own life was in danger even though it really wasn't. He did appreciate the back-up after all if they ended up killing his minions well that just meant more corpses for him to harvest blood from, gotta appreciate kunai fodder, they are useful even when they die.

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"Uh- Yeah I can do that." Making things colder was his speciality. It seemed she had an idea but there wasn’t much for him to go off of yet in knowing what the plan fully was.

Just then is when there was a loud noise of bones cracking and popping that redirected Taigakai’s attention back to the large man. He was already making his move. Blood sprayed in a large spiral as the head was flung in his direction. Thanks to the ice coating on the ground, Taigakai’s footing was a bit easier and he managed to get out to the side just in time, anchoring one foot to pivot around. During this time, he reactivated his Gekigan, eyes turning from a pale blue to a light steel blue tone instead, not that this was easy to notice without really looking at him.

It was a timely move too, because just as he was registering two other heat signatures, one went at him, striking at speeds he was just barely able to duck out of. Taigakai let out a breath, releasing a small puff of frost and tried to strike back, attempting to keep an eye on the other enemies around if he was able and listening out if Indra had something in mind for him to coordinate an attack with. Unless they were great at sensing the cold or chakra, they wouldn’t be able to see what other changes were happening without feeling it.

Taigakai leapt up and twisted around, using both legs to try to land a hit or two on the medjay in front of him. The actual kick wouldn’t hurt him, but ultimately Taigakai was more banking on freezing the person to death as his physical strength wasn’t that great anyways. He landed on his feet and used the momentum to twist around and strike the person again with his hands

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WB bumped to Stage 3, used 37 stamina

WB Stage 4 in 10 posts

Quote :: Light ice coats ground, victim slows down anyway (+3 fatigue for tiers unless they possess B-rank Endurance Tiers/Heat Based technique to warm body)

Flurry Kicks physical damage reduced to D-rank from Lightweight Rock.

Name: Gekigan
Classification: Multi-Stage Dojutsu
Type: Mutation (Activation Price collected once, Duration Price collected each post total)
Activation: Activation = D of Chakra 1st (C) 2nd (B)

Description: This Dojutsu turns the users eyes from whatever color it was originally to a grey-blue and gives them different techniques and abilities based on the level of mastery they have unlocked.

Activation - In this stage their eyes change into the grey-blue form. The user gains thermal vision allowing them to see heat signatures in addition to normal eyesight which is extremely useful in tracking hidden targets. This is obtained from birth.
First Stage - In this stage their eyes gain four swirl like patters around their pupil and they are given the ability of Premonition. This ability allows them to view into the future and react accordingly to it. The max posts the user can view is 1 post (total) ahead and the events will then play in reality with the user being able to react accordingly. The amount of times this can be used is Once at D-rank, Twice at C-rank, thrice at B-rank, four times at A-rank and 5 times at S-rank per topic. During this effect it can fill the requirements for both a Time-Slowing Dojutsu & Muscle Tension being used simultaneously. This can only be obtained by the user sustaining heavy injuries during a battle at one point in their lives.
Second Stage - This is the final stage of the eye which allows the user to detect life. Its unique sight pattern is extremely useful as as long as what they are searching for is alive they will be able to see it and it will be indicated by a gold outline. In addition this stage strengthens the Stage One's ability to be able to use its abilities much more potently; 2x At D-rank, 3x at C-rank, 4x at B-rank, 5x at A-rank and finally extending their premonition ability to the number of posts (total) in between the user's first post using this ability and their next post (an entire turn). Finally they gain a much stronger Premonition ability allowing them to make predictions of an opponents death which causes the eyes to lose their eyesight permanently upon use. The limit of this technique is that the death can only occur at least 5 topics later (Not including training and ooc topics). This ability can only be used once in the users lifetime. This can only be obtained by the user being beaten to near death at one point in their lives.
Name: Push - Electromagnetic Tagging
Classification: Nintaijutsu
Rank: D-Rank
Class: Passive
Range: Self

Description: Through the use of his Push Paw Prints, Taigakai is capable of attaching a unique electromagnetic charge to those he comes in contact with. This charge establishes an "Attractive Electromagnetic Field" to the target, causing objects within range to be attracted to the user at faster speeds than normal. The range of this field is based on Taiga's rank, while the speed objects are attracted to what is tagged is based on the number of trainings he has dedicated to his Push Paw Prints. Due to the charge stemming from Push Paw Prints, he is capable of manipulating the charge of the field through the use of further techniques.
Rank/PP Trainings - Range (Radius) - Speed of Attraction
D/1 - 10ft - +1 Tier Level
C/2 - 20ft - +2 Tier Levels
B/3 - 30ft - +3 Tier Levels
A/4 - 40ft - +4 Tier Levels
S/5 - 50ft - +5 Tier Levels

Name: Claws of the White Wolf
Classification: Nintaijutsu
Rank: D-Rank
Class: Passive
Range: Contact

Description: Following on from the natural coldness and slowing of metabolism that increases coldness, the Toketsu's body naturally becomes able to impact and inflict excessive cold burns upon a person. Of course the power of this passive is dependent on the age of the user although the effects of the cold upon the body of the victim is a facet of the Toketsu's focus, increasing in power with their skill level. Each level of the chill however can be negated if the victim possesses Defense (for the fatigue sapping effect), Endurance (for the numbing effect) or a Defense+Endurance Tier chain (for both) equal to the rank of the Toketsu using this passive ("Z" = SS, "X" = SSS).

Skill Level of Toketsu - Effect on Body
D - Slight chilling of body, saps 1 fatigue with each successful hit.
C - Increase in chilling effect, cold feeling where struck, saps 1 fatigue plus 1 additionally every 3 hits.
B - Heavy chilling effect, sinks deeper than just the skin. Saps 2 fatigue every strike and causes numbness unless opponent has B-Rank endurance tiers. Every third strike saps an additional 2 fatigue.
A - Light frost effect, cold sinks bone deep, reduces speed, strength or endurance by one rank every third strike (Legs, Arms, Chest). Saps 3 fatigue every strike.
S - Heavy frost effect, cold sinks bone deep, reduces speed, strength or endurance depending on location by 1 rank every third strike (Legs, Arms, Chest) as well as an additional sapping of 4 fatigue. Saps 4 fatigue each strike.
'Z' - Hypothermic reaction, skin turns blue, blood circulation slows. Each solid strike reduces a tier by 1 rank depending on location as of above. 5 fatigue sapped as well every fifth strike causing necrosis of skin permanently reducing the victims Fatigue limit by -10 and heavy therapy to heal their bodies (Medical Ninjutsu above S-rank).
'X' - Extreme frostbite/hypothermic reaction, skin turns black with necrosis with each strike permanently reducing the victim's Fatigue limit by -2 and reducing a tier by one rank each strike. After three strikes to the same limb it ceases to work, the blood coagulating in the veins and after twenty posts (Total) without medical treatment the necrotic part falls off due to frostbite.

Name: Ice Release: Black Ice Effect
Classification: Ninjutsu
Rank: D-Rank
Class: Supplementary/Passive
Range: Self (Ice Release)

Description: The Toketsu have found that by altering the way they cycle their chakra they can alter the properties of their Ice Release and grant it additional effects and weaknesses. Taigakai himself has not only learned how to do this with his Ice Release, but also found a new effect to apply to it. This changes his Ice Release techniques so that they are fully transparent, being much more difficult to pick up on with traditional senses. This adds a Reaction requirement equal to 1-Rank above the speed at which a Ice Release technique is moving in order to accurately gauge the position and direction of the technique. For those techniques that are stationary, it is much more difficult to sense, being completely invisible to even enhanced eyesight, requiring a Heat or Chakra Sensory technique equal to the rank of the Ice Release technique to detect. Ice Release techniques that are made specifically with Black Ice are known as “Black Ice Style”.

Winter’s Breath - Area covered - Tier Reduction [PT]
Stage 0 - 10 - 2
Stage 1 - 15 - 4
Stage 2 - 20 - 6
Stage 3 - 25 - 8
Stage 4 - 30 - 10
Stage 5 - 35 - 12

Name: Ice Release: Flurry Kicks
Classification: Nintaijutsu
Rank: C-Rank
Class: Offensive
Range: Short

Description: The user builds up chakra in their legs, which is released as a series of flurries that fly at C-rank speeds when they throw a kick. The flurries themselves deal hypothermia damage, which is heightened if the user has Winter’s Breath and it is active. The elemental aspect can be melted with use of fire or heat-based techniques, but the actual kick can still go through. The Hypothermia depletion can be countered via the use of Warming or Heat-Based techniques equal to its rank, though the physical kick can still connect in order to deal C-Rank Physical damage unless defended against.

Winter’s Breath Stage - Hypothermia Drain (per kick)
0 - 2
1 - 3
2 - 4
3 - 5
4 - 6
5 - 7

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At the current speed everything went down at it was perfect for Indra to react and be able to make use of her natural strengths on, she would watch as ciaochin’s head was launched at taiga, however everything wasn’t as meets the eye. She would take notice to the blood shards coming for her and instead of simply blocking this horrific use of Ciaochin’s blood, she choose to hurdle over the obstacle however she would use her gravity control and bounce alongside cloudstrider to push herself higher into the air, while she was making her way higher into the air; she’d leave a trail of nimbus clouds behind her.

While hopping upward through the air, she current focus began to shift, no longer on winning one fight but now three. She placed her hand into her cleavage to pull out the nimbus clouds from earlier, and threaded them alongside the ones she would potentially create, into several thunderstorm clouds.

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Byamba would frown as one of his opponents took to the air as such a thing was quite annoying to deal with as such he would whistle and two more Medjay smaller than the first two would rush from behind him before Byamba would grab both of them by their collars and throw them into the air with A-rank strength. The two Mejay would scream in fright as they rapidly accelerated having not expected their leader to just throw them upward especially since neither of them could fly and thus had no way of cushioning their fall when they eventually began to plummet from the sky. Either way the two of them would play rock paper scissors while flying in the air and the victor would nod and they would clasp hands with the loser going to the front and if any of Indra's clouds would come at them they would throw out Crosses. Essentially they were using the momentum and force from being thrown in order to deflect them away from one another like a pair of bolas travelling through the air. When they got close to Indra though they would use the same tactic on him, with the winner aiming for her face while the loser aimed for her ribs

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Taigakai had done quite well for himself as his Gekigan allowed him the perceptive ability to react to those faster than him and capitalize on their inability to see did he ever. His two kicks would land on their targets faces causing both of them to clutch their noses in pain even has cold radiated through their head enough to give them a brief bit of brain freeze. What really sucked for them was that they couldn't really see their opponent but they knew they had just been hit and would throw out punches to try and hopefully score a hit. If Taiga had kept moving then he was at no risk, truthfully only if he had lingered in the same spot after just kicking them was he in danger from their attacks but the true threat would come from an unlikely source. The Trees, as they were each quite tall each being about 50 feet tall with branches, and had been spread out about twenty five feet, and as such creaking would sound out throughout the battlefield when the temperatures plummeted. This was due to the trees reacting to the source of the change in climate and though only four of them could hit Taigakai where he currently was they would all lash out aiming for his location. In the process of doing that they would end up bludgeoning the two Medjay who were currently blindly punching around and knocking them to the ground but it wasn't as if the trees were on their side.

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Byamba would shift his senses in order to smell his opponents as sight wasn't as effective, and hearing was a bit annoying to use when there was so much going on. However smell was always useful especially in cold weather but rather than trying to attack he would instead project his voice. "You know, this doesn't have to happen. Indra Kukinorite those clouds of yours, I didn't realize you were an Arashi. Truthfully speaking the only Arashi you would of came in contact with would of been your late sensei correct? Hm how interesting...how can you trust that the Toketsu boy will keep that out of the official report as it's mighty suspicious that you seem to use Storm Release with the ease of a born Arashi." he said with a wide smile as he paused so that his words could really sink in.

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Taigakai landed on his feet and skirted around, momentarily distracted from a creaking noise and slipping around the opponents striking in a single direction. A quick look around and the trees seemed to be throwing vines at him. This wasn’t another enemy right? Or was it? Trees didn’t just decide to have a vine whipping fetish right? Right??

All the attacks were fairly easy to ignore right now, and striking both medjays in the face seemed to give them a bit of a stun with a sudden smack of cold. Taigakai slid behind them and began to tag them with Push, leaving traces of metallic ice wherever he tagged them. He’d at least stick to tagging since it looked like Indra also had lightning release. That only meant they could double up on that.

With the vines reacting to the ice forming, and striking the medjays like they were, he could use that to his advantage. While they were still on the ground, he leapt over them and slapped another tag onto whatever side was exposed and scanned around for the big man that seemed to go after Indra. In all fairness, the easiest answer to the big man’s question is that Taigakai knew almost nothing about Indra or didn’t really seem to think about his abilities too much. Man’s giving him a little too much credit.

Taigakai preformed handseals and positioned himself in the general direction of Byamba’s heat signature with the downed medjays in the middle before placing his hands on the ground momentarily, earthen spikes coming out of the ground and hopefully piercing the medjays and Byamba in the process. From what it seemed, it was a move and wait kind of game for him. That was totally doable. After all, skating programs were something he excelled at.

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With the wind gentle caressing her face, it had almost made her feel at home between the clouds, yet that feeling was soon broken by the sheer force of wind pressure being directed her way. She lowered her once calm and relaxed stance to stride across the cloud moving her into another direction just enough to allow the two midgets to barely miss their attacks. However, being that she could hear the voice of byamba telling her of her current blunder to release this type of move without someone she could actually trust, luckily for there was a way to protect her secret and escape the harsh reality of her actions. She would kick off another cloud allowing her momentum to push her towards the ground, however at that time she would begin to gathering the remainder of the nimbus clouds she left behind on her climb up to transform them into Thunder Cumulonimbus, this happened at Crashing Ground speeds however from the distance she’d came from by the time they'd made it to the ground, the sixteen Thunder Cumulonimbus would surround the remaining air with their deadly payload hidden by Taigaikai's cold aura.

Indra would shuffle through hand seals this would release a lightning that would beach off into four bolts which would then split into sixteen bolts, hitting everyone inside of the radius of her 16 thunderstorm nimbus which would have the strength of the initial strike increased by 2 ranks being more than enough to knockout everyone within the distance of her thunderstorm nimbus. “Free me, from the ASN” she mumbled before falling to the ground from the sheer strength of the lightning bolt like everyone else.

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While Byamba expected an annoying fight he didn't expect lightning to rain from the sky, like some sort of divine punishment, truly it was annoying enough that he was electrocuted just like his hidden Medjay but unlike them he wasn't critically injured. He was quite hurt and would grit his teeth as he shifted into his Berserk Mode in order to keep moving, but would poition himself so as to catch the falling Indra. He was unsure why she fainted but perhaps she was trying to get him to lower his guard. Either way rather than continue to fight he would simply take her and leave moving at A-rank speeds before snapping his fingers with the arena rumbling before beginning to crumble burying all of those who were left in it's rubble. The injured Medjay littering the floor would slide along the floor before falling into the cracks into the darkness below though there would be no sound of the bodies hitting a floor below. If by some miraculous way Taigakai has avoided being electrocuted by the Lightning Strike technique, he would have to deal with the ground splitting apart while the ceiling would fall off in chunks raining down along the entire battlefield. The only exit was the path that Byamba took and it was quickly closing off at A- speeds...

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The slightest bit of electricity raising his hair at the roots was enough to catch Taigakai’s attention. He leapt to the side and looked up for a moment, spending C-rank Chakra and forcing his Gekigan into a further state. Lightning strikes? 16 of them... To prepare as fast as he could, Taigakai did the simplest thing and thankfully there were a lot of trees around.

Lightning struck three people, a ton of trees, and a section of a tree cut out. Taigakai tapped on himself again, this time to move slightly faster and trail after the only moving heat signatures that converged into a single point. Though he wasn’t sure what Byamba was talking about, something felt like whatever he was saying was enough to have Indra make a move that would hit everyone and everything instead of just them. What was that about?

He went on a chase after Byamba while the area crumbled around him. He wasn't sure what was going on overall now, only that the guy was kidnapping Indra now too. During his chase, he sped over rubble that fell into a seemingly vast void below and scrambled upwards to keep up with the man.

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