After hitting the sand Nova was dazed for but a moment, and the second she shook the dizziness from her head she sprung back to action. Through her spider's eye a brief but fierce battle raged, though the sounds of the fight were silent in her deaf ears. The battlefield was gruesome, blood dripping thickly to the sand. Rhys stood with his fist in the beasts mouth, blood pouring from its maw so profusely Nova was unsure whos it was. The sun glinted off the metallic looking armor that Rhys now wore, and she saw blood dripping down his chest from underneath it. The battle scarred mountain lion dropped lifeless to the ground, sliding off a katar that extended from Rhys' outreached left arm. Nova watched his arm drop back to his side, and a single tear slide down his cheek only for a moment before he wiped it away. She winced as he popped his other shoulder joint back into place.
" We will take him back with us when this is over. Come on, let's find this treasure." Nova heard the sadness in his voice over having to slay a creature such as that, and though she felt the need to comfort the gruff looking man she was unable, the glinting eyes of her puppet stared solemnly at him.
"Come on show me where the entrance is!" Rhys shouted before sprinting up the vertical wall, using his supernatural walking skill that Nova herself lacked. Though alone she would have been unable to follow, again her spider made up for her faults. Kurogokegamu scaled the wall back to where she had emerged from, and gestured to it with its front two legs. Just inside the cave entrance, was a small inlaid golden eye staring blankly at her. Clicking its legs together noisily to draw Rhys' attention, the puppets legs gesturing towards the marking. Leading the way through the narrow tunnel, she made sure to look for any other markings or such as she had certainly not seen that before. Rhys padded along behind her closely, having to duck in the narrow tunnel that must have been no more than three feet tall.
The tunnel opened up into the same room in which Nova had first encountered the lion. Looking up, she was unable to determine which one she had come from. Rhys was able to stand at his full height here, and now that there was no immediate threat, Nova stopped the flow of chakra that had allowed her to see through the spider eyes. The bright gems stopped glowing with the emerald light, and with a click the hatch on the top of the puppet opened and Nova popped up from the waist up. Worry was written on her face and spoke with care in her voice,
“Rhys, would you let me clean and heal your wound? Though not the best at medical jutsu's but I'm sure I'm capable of healing a wound such as that.” Rhys shook his head no, though she could tell he was in pain,
“Let us find the treasure and make sure there are no other threats first” Nodding solemnly, Nova spoke once more,
“I'm certain that eye was the marking that we were meant to look for..... though I see no treasure here”, looking around at the bare room, the only objects in sight were the gnawed on bones.
“What if one of the tunnels that leads from here is where we must go? I think we ought to check the entrances for another eye perhaps”, Nova continued.
Starting with the one that they had emerged from, using Kurogokegamu's sharp barbed leg Nova etched a small x into the stone to indicate it had already been checked, then after that put a large circle around it to indicate that this would lead them back to the open desert. Pointing for Rhys to check the ones to the left, she headed to the right methodically checking each tunnel for the inlaid eye. Several minutes of quiet work passed before Nova gasped as she saw the little eye staring down at her from the top of a tunnel.
“I found it! Here this tunnel! Lets go!” , Nova exclaimed. The tunnel was but a few feet off the cave floor and Kurogokegamu crawled easily to the entrance. This tunnel was taller than the others, but it was narrow. The puppet was a tight fit through the corridor, and the path was not a straight one. It was quite long and twisted, Nova was sure that the tunnel had crossed back on itself several times. They were travelling at a slight incline, Nova wondered if the tunnel would ever end or if they would end up at the top of the cliffside once more.
Several minutes of travel had passed when the mouth of the cave widened into a tall dome shaped room. At the top of the curved ceiling was a small opening from which daylight sun shone through, and a slight fresh breeze make the room less stuffy than the rest of the caverns. In the center of this peculiar room was a quartz pedestal that stood taller than Rhys, and propped up on top was a glinting golden tablet inscribed in kanji. The tablet that hey had been looking for sat before them. The puppet skittered over to the pedestal and Nova laid her delicate hand against the sparkling quartz surface. Though she did not sense any abnormallties about it, it was warm to the touch. Kurogokegamu stood tall, propping itself against the pedestal with the rear legs planted on the ground. Nova reached out and grabbed the glinting tablet. The artifact was hot to the touch, the intense head was so unexpected that Nova almost dropped it. Quickly grabbing a piece of cloth from the interior of her puppet, she wrapped it several times and stored it by her feet. She looked back at Rhys with a look of pride on her face that they had found their missions goal.
When looked at Rhys, she was the grimace on his face as he grasped at his wound. Remembering the injury that he had taken she hopped out of her puppet clumsily and limped over to him and asked him to remove the metallic armor that he had covering his wound. The armor dissolved back into its original form of metallic grains of sand and Rhys directed them back into the long tube he wore on his back. Four long marks tore across his chest, blood both dried and new coated the torn shirt that he wore.
“This will sting but for a moment” Nova pressed her left hand against the wound gently, still causing Rhys to wince. Laying her other hand over the left, she began channeling chakra to them. Raising them just half an inch over the wound, her hands began to glow a brilliant emerald green as the skin below began to heal itself back together. The sight was a disturbing one, seeing the muscles underneath the skin knit themselves back together. The wound was no longer visible, though the blood he had lost remained staining his skin and cloth. The shirt he wore was torn beyond repair but at least he would not bear the wound.
“Though I could fix the wound and muscles, I am unfortunatly unable to repair the nerve damage” , she pressed her hand against his chest,
“So you will have numbness here that I'm not sure will recover”. Though the damage was not as severe on his hand, she did the process again there, healing the teeth marks from the lion.
“Now that you are in better shape and we have acquired the treasure, let us return to the village and deliver it to complete out mission”, Nova smiled brightly.
[exit thread]
[Word count 1312]
- Total word count 3730:
2700 words-> Mission Ryo 300+300 bonus for extra words
1000 words-> Training SPD E1->D1
- Chakra 100/130:
Name: Puppet Technique (Kugutsu no Jutsu ~ 傀儡の術)
Canon/Custom: Canon.
Rank: E.
Type: Supplementary.
Element: None.
Range: 30m.
Specialty: Kugutsu.
Duration: -5 per post
Cooldown: Duration +1 post.
Description: This jutsu generates long, fibrous, malleable chakra strings from each of the user's fingers. They are partially intangible to prevent tangling; this jutsu cannot be used to bind people. The condensed chakra takes a hue of variable color depending on the user. Use of this technique on puppets is only available to those with the Kugutsu specialty. However, people without skill in Puppetry can still generate chakra strings to control weapons they have the specializations to wield, within 30m. This consists of whipping them around like a flail or yo-yo, or controlling their path of travel when thrown. Unless durability is enhanced by a separate technique, these chakra strings can be broken by any D rank technique that causes blunt force, cutting, or piercing damage.
Name: Spider Eyes
Canon/Custom: Custom
Rank: D
Type: Supplementary
Element: None
Range: Touch, Applied via puppet
Specialty: Kugutsu
Duration: Maintained (5 per post)
Cooldown: double maintained duration
Description: This technique allows Nova to see through her puppets eyes. She can’t hear while she’s using this technique. Her eyes must be closed and the only movement she can make is to operate the puppet.
Name: Basic Recovery Method (基本回収法 ~ Kihon Kaishū-Hō)
Canon/Custom: Custom
Rank: C
Type: Supplementary
Element: N/A
Range: Contact
Specialty: Medical Ninjutsu
Duration: Maintainable (-5 chakra per post)
Cooldown: Duration + 2
Description: Basic Recovery Method is an advanced form of the "hovering hands" healing technique. To perform this maintainable healing technique, the user simply hovers their hands half an inch above the target area, with one hand resting directly on top of the other. Chakra will envelop their hands, causing them to glow a color that varies from user to user. This technique effects the flesh directly under the palm of the caster's hand. Each post this move is maintained, it will heal cuts up to 1.5 inches, bruising, and first and second degree burns. This cannot cannot repair arterial or nerve damage. Cooldown begins once the technique is deactivated.