1 A Path of Scorpions [Solo] Wed Jun 07, 2017 4:13 am
Nyx
D-rank
The sun peaking over the small mound which lead into the scorpion's lair made the small entrance much more intimidating then Nyx previously thought that the small cave could pose. She knew what lay below the entrance, a rather vast cave network filled to the brim with scorpions, but even still the small hill that served as the gateway into the pit was never intimidating, or at least Nyx never thought it could be.
The Girl let out a small sigh, as the temperature drop around her. She had come out to the location in order to train, as she could easily recognize once she was around other shinobi that she was honestly nothing much more than the average genin fresh out of the academy, and she needed to train, and to get stronger, and fast, however she doubted that the standard method of training, which was just going to be sitting in the training grounds and endless working on her body along with a bunch of other sweaty genin who all smelled like ass, was going to advance her past most genin, much less be anything appealing. She figured she needed real combat experience, and since she currently didn't have a squad. She figured live animals were her next best option. Knowing of the scorpions lair, and not really of any other place she could think of that would guarantee live animals, she figured that this was by far her best option to get combat experience. Though she supposed having to track down live animals to then fight would be good for Ninja experience as she would need to know how to track things down first. Though It wouldn't really do her any good if all she could was track things down, and not know how to fight it first hand, as such, it was probably better for her to at least get some combat experience under her belt, before she went off to train her tracking skills. That way she wasn't attempting to figure out how to fight things immediately after she finally was able to track something down, and wasted a whole bunch of time, which would inevitably lead to her needing to track something else down, and would lead into a perpetual cycle of her only really sharping her tracking skills and not really her combat skills at all.
Either way, it still had taken her a whole lot longer to get to the scorpion cave then she had hoped it would. She knew this is where she wanted to head this morning, and so had left then, but she hadn't expected it to take most of the day to reach the small cave which housed her prey. She had specifically left when she did so that way it wouldn't, but it appears she either underestimated the distance of the cave, or overestimated her ability to reach the cave in a certain amount of time, and if she knew herself as well as she thought she did, she would have to assume it was the latter. She knew for a fact her overconfidence was a bit too much at times and caused her to fall short in some areas. Though not that it really mattered anyways. She was here now, and she needed to get down to business.
With that said Nyx let out a long sigh as she calmed herself from her free flowing mind, and looking into the entrance to the cave. Here she was. This wouldn't be easy. these were scorpions. She would be fighting for her life, and if she didn't focus entirely on the fight ahead of her, she wouldn't likely see the light of the next day. With those grim thoughts on her mind, Nyx stepped forwards. The sound of the sand brushing underneath her feet, slowly transferring to the sound of stone under her feet, as she entered the cave.
It didn't take long for Nyx's eyes to get used to the dark. It wasn't dark enough that she couldn't see, there was a dim lighting, Nyx wasn't sure from what, but it was there. However more eerily there was no sounds. No movements. For something meant to be crawling with scorpions this almost unnerved Nyx. However she knew if she got too careful, or got too nerves that also might spell her end. She needed to remain calm and cautious. In preparation for combat, Nyx pulled out a kunai, and twirled it in her hands, as she cold and cal eyes remain focused ahead of her. the soft sound of footsteps echoed through the cave with each step she took. Then. Finally. Something besides her moved.
She heard it before she could see it. It was coming from a small corridor to her left. Her eyes shot that direction just in time for the rather large scorpion to strike. Nyx jumped back just in time to miss the stinger fling towards her direction, she slide as the loud crash boomed through-out the cave, as the stringer struck the wall, breaking off chunks of wall. Nyx was fairly certain she was outmatched here. She definitely should have trained her body a little bit before coming here, however she was here not, and the girl was definitely not going to back to some fucking scorpion. Nyx's eyes narrowed towards her opponent and slight grin took over her face. This would be fun. Nyx twirled the kunai in her hand to hold it in a reverse grip fashion, and began to move forwards towards the scorpion, her steps echoing out through the cave. The scorpions legs scrapped against the floor as it towards to face her as well. The gross looking creatures eyes focuses on her, as it ran towards her. the sounds it's body made as it ran towards her only made the creature more horrifying. Nyx's eyes focused on it's tail. More specifically it's stinger. Nyx had no inclination as to whether or not this specific breed of scorpion was poisonous or not and so she had to make sure at all costs that she didn't get stung by it in the slightest. However what Nyx wasn't ready for was the scorpion doing what was essentially a back-handed swipe at her with it's front claw. Of course because she wasn't ready for it in the slightest, she was promptly slammed into the wall on the left side of the walk way she was in.
Nyx hit the wall with a sickening thud the echo'd through-out the hollow cave. Her lungs lost all there air as she gasped for breath. Just as the girl looked up from being slammed against the wall, she saw it. The stringer of the scorpion headed right for her chest aiming to pierce her straight into the wall behind her. A killing blow. This thing wasn't dumb. Nyx moved as fast as she close to pulls her kunai up to defend herself, but she only managed to deflect the stinger to then cleave down her arm, leaving her with a huge gash. The girl clenched her mouth as the pain shot up through her arm. She wanted desperately to scream. She knew the creature wouldn't understand or take gratification in her pain, it only wanted her dead, but even so she wouldn't give it the satisfaction. Instead as the stinger stuck in the side of the wall after it finished glancing off of her, Nyx dug her kunai in the flesh of the tail, and continued on until the tail snapped and she pinned it to the wall she then twisted her kunai, further damaging the creatures as it almost screeched in pain. A small grin returned to Nyx as the thing howled. Nyx then unceremoniously pulled the kunai out of the and spit on the scorpion before her. The creature shortly after finished reeling back because of the pain and damage dealt to it. and screeched once more. It was angry. The corridor was only about 6 or 7 meters in width, and so it didn't have far to charge, but it charged anyways. Nyx then let out a small 'tch', before taking a step forwards, and using her right foot as an anchor, pushed off the ground into a side roll, raking her kunai down the top end of the scorpion, landing on the back side of the scorpion. however instead of facing her like she expected it to do, the thing simply caught her while landing, smashing into her with the base of it's tail, sending her flying further into the cave, cutting her off from the exit.
Nyx tumbled down the cave, rolling. skidding and sliding, Nyx came to a halt not longer after, her breath knocked out of her once more. If she survived she knew she'd be feeling this tomorrow... but first came surviving. Nyx opened her eyes just in time to see a perfectly uninjured stinger coming straight down on top of her. Nyx Rolled, ending up under the second scorpion to enter the fight. Nyx stopping trying to think and just let her instincts take over, the girl placed her hands on her hands on the ground as she shot her leg up into the under belly of the creature, kicking it up into the air, as it went up Nyx slashed her kunai into it's underbelly, causing blood to fall down around her, and a bit getting on her. Nyx then kept rolling even further into the cave. The first scorpion then proceeded to come further towards her, essentially running over the other scorpion to get to her. Nyx didn't have time to think or consider her options. She charged it, just the same as last time, however instead of barrel rolling over it, and straight into the stinger of the secondary one which was still partially under the first one, Nyx simply stepped on top of the first one as it lunged at her, and pushed off of it's head, plunging it's head down, as the second one's stinger came towards her. As she used the first one as a spring board, Nyx did a barrel roll once more, noticing the stinger coming, the placed her kunai the path of it, angling it down, and essentially forcing it to slam into the body of the other scorpion, killing it as it then slumped down on top of the second one. However, Nyx didn't stop to put it out of it's misery. She was in pain and hurt all over, so once she was past the two blocking her path towards the exit of the cave, she bolted straight towards the exit. She was done here.
WC: 1783
The Girl let out a small sigh, as the temperature drop around her. She had come out to the location in order to train, as she could easily recognize once she was around other shinobi that she was honestly nothing much more than the average genin fresh out of the academy, and she needed to train, and to get stronger, and fast, however she doubted that the standard method of training, which was just going to be sitting in the training grounds and endless working on her body along with a bunch of other sweaty genin who all smelled like ass, was going to advance her past most genin, much less be anything appealing. She figured she needed real combat experience, and since she currently didn't have a squad. She figured live animals were her next best option. Knowing of the scorpions lair, and not really of any other place she could think of that would guarantee live animals, she figured that this was by far her best option to get combat experience. Though she supposed having to track down live animals to then fight would be good for Ninja experience as she would need to know how to track things down first. Though It wouldn't really do her any good if all she could was track things down, and not know how to fight it first hand, as such, it was probably better for her to at least get some combat experience under her belt, before she went off to train her tracking skills. That way she wasn't attempting to figure out how to fight things immediately after she finally was able to track something down, and wasted a whole bunch of time, which would inevitably lead to her needing to track something else down, and would lead into a perpetual cycle of her only really sharping her tracking skills and not really her combat skills at all.
Either way, it still had taken her a whole lot longer to get to the scorpion cave then she had hoped it would. She knew this is where she wanted to head this morning, and so had left then, but she hadn't expected it to take most of the day to reach the small cave which housed her prey. She had specifically left when she did so that way it wouldn't, but it appears she either underestimated the distance of the cave, or overestimated her ability to reach the cave in a certain amount of time, and if she knew herself as well as she thought she did, she would have to assume it was the latter. She knew for a fact her overconfidence was a bit too much at times and caused her to fall short in some areas. Though not that it really mattered anyways. She was here now, and she needed to get down to business.
With that said Nyx let out a long sigh as she calmed herself from her free flowing mind, and looking into the entrance to the cave. Here she was. This wouldn't be easy. these were scorpions. She would be fighting for her life, and if she didn't focus entirely on the fight ahead of her, she wouldn't likely see the light of the next day. With those grim thoughts on her mind, Nyx stepped forwards. The sound of the sand brushing underneath her feet, slowly transferring to the sound of stone under her feet, as she entered the cave.
It didn't take long for Nyx's eyes to get used to the dark. It wasn't dark enough that she couldn't see, there was a dim lighting, Nyx wasn't sure from what, but it was there. However more eerily there was no sounds. No movements. For something meant to be crawling with scorpions this almost unnerved Nyx. However she knew if she got too careful, or got too nerves that also might spell her end. She needed to remain calm and cautious. In preparation for combat, Nyx pulled out a kunai, and twirled it in her hands, as she cold and cal eyes remain focused ahead of her. the soft sound of footsteps echoed through the cave with each step she took. Then. Finally. Something besides her moved.
She heard it before she could see it. It was coming from a small corridor to her left. Her eyes shot that direction just in time for the rather large scorpion to strike. Nyx jumped back just in time to miss the stinger fling towards her direction, she slide as the loud crash boomed through-out the cave, as the stringer struck the wall, breaking off chunks of wall. Nyx was fairly certain she was outmatched here. She definitely should have trained her body a little bit before coming here, however she was here not, and the girl was definitely not going to back to some fucking scorpion. Nyx's eyes narrowed towards her opponent and slight grin took over her face. This would be fun. Nyx twirled the kunai in her hand to hold it in a reverse grip fashion, and began to move forwards towards the scorpion, her steps echoing out through the cave. The scorpions legs scrapped against the floor as it towards to face her as well. The gross looking creatures eyes focuses on her, as it ran towards her. the sounds it's body made as it ran towards her only made the creature more horrifying. Nyx's eyes focused on it's tail. More specifically it's stinger. Nyx had no inclination as to whether or not this specific breed of scorpion was poisonous or not and so she had to make sure at all costs that she didn't get stung by it in the slightest. However what Nyx wasn't ready for was the scorpion doing what was essentially a back-handed swipe at her with it's front claw. Of course because she wasn't ready for it in the slightest, she was promptly slammed into the wall on the left side of the walk way she was in.
Nyx hit the wall with a sickening thud the echo'd through-out the hollow cave. Her lungs lost all there air as she gasped for breath. Just as the girl looked up from being slammed against the wall, she saw it. The stringer of the scorpion headed right for her chest aiming to pierce her straight into the wall behind her. A killing blow. This thing wasn't dumb. Nyx moved as fast as she close to pulls her kunai up to defend herself, but she only managed to deflect the stinger to then cleave down her arm, leaving her with a huge gash. The girl clenched her mouth as the pain shot up through her arm. She wanted desperately to scream. She knew the creature wouldn't understand or take gratification in her pain, it only wanted her dead, but even so she wouldn't give it the satisfaction. Instead as the stinger stuck in the side of the wall after it finished glancing off of her, Nyx dug her kunai in the flesh of the tail, and continued on until the tail snapped and she pinned it to the wall she then twisted her kunai, further damaging the creatures as it almost screeched in pain. A small grin returned to Nyx as the thing howled. Nyx then unceremoniously pulled the kunai out of the and spit on the scorpion before her. The creature shortly after finished reeling back because of the pain and damage dealt to it. and screeched once more. It was angry. The corridor was only about 6 or 7 meters in width, and so it didn't have far to charge, but it charged anyways. Nyx then let out a small 'tch', before taking a step forwards, and using her right foot as an anchor, pushed off the ground into a side roll, raking her kunai down the top end of the scorpion, landing on the back side of the scorpion. however instead of facing her like she expected it to do, the thing simply caught her while landing, smashing into her with the base of it's tail, sending her flying further into the cave, cutting her off from the exit.
Nyx tumbled down the cave, rolling. skidding and sliding, Nyx came to a halt not longer after, her breath knocked out of her once more. If she survived she knew she'd be feeling this tomorrow... but first came surviving. Nyx opened her eyes just in time to see a perfectly uninjured stinger coming straight down on top of her. Nyx Rolled, ending up under the second scorpion to enter the fight. Nyx stopping trying to think and just let her instincts take over, the girl placed her hands on her hands on the ground as she shot her leg up into the under belly of the creature, kicking it up into the air, as it went up Nyx slashed her kunai into it's underbelly, causing blood to fall down around her, and a bit getting on her. Nyx then kept rolling even further into the cave. The first scorpion then proceeded to come further towards her, essentially running over the other scorpion to get to her. Nyx didn't have time to think or consider her options. She charged it, just the same as last time, however instead of barrel rolling over it, and straight into the stinger of the secondary one which was still partially under the first one, Nyx simply stepped on top of the first one as it lunged at her, and pushed off of it's head, plunging it's head down, as the second one's stinger came towards her. As she used the first one as a spring board, Nyx did a barrel roll once more, noticing the stinger coming, the placed her kunai the path of it, angling it down, and essentially forcing it to slam into the body of the other scorpion, killing it as it then slumped down on top of the second one. However, Nyx didn't stop to put it out of it's misery. She was in pain and hurt all over, so once she was past the two blocking her path towards the exit of the cave, she bolted straight towards the exit. She was done here.
WC: 1783