- TLDR:
Verdandi kills a few NPC and meets her auntie's pet tiger
Verdandi moved alongside Chigetsu for a while. Holding hands was comforting. But sooner than later, they would split paths. Verd expected him to soon turn into his monstrous form and her ice attacks tended to be nasty when she applied them on larger areas. Chi had already in his past the pleasure to figure out what happens to a fluid-based body when in contact with an all freezing ever frost in from of the coldest possible chakra in existence. It however made the subtle intimate interest between the two only more interesting. He who is but the closest being to immortal that she had ever met, yet eternally vulnerable to their simplest interaction. Forcing Verd to learn a much deeper, fine tuned control of her own element so she could make sure not to accidentally hurt or freeze him whenever they were in the same room.
And hence the palms, interlaced as they were, split and the team mates gave each other a final glare and smile before their characters mixed into the crowd. Loosing each other's visual connection. Verd had seen a specific mass of lower ranked ninjas clashing on the outer field and corner. The sunaan militia was incoming for their lines, threatening the ones that were retreating to be hunted down and slaughtered. Chi had gone off to scout the plateau and would certainly make himself more useful in his own way. The fact that the chakra clashing against the snake lady from earlier was growing bigger and stronger, emitting over the whole battlefield. Left Verdandi in hopes that Bakao was doing fine confronting that scary creature.
Ayakashi was still entitled to utter close combat, out of sight for Verdandi. Concealed and too far away. Probably better that way. She had enough of S-Ranked displays of power already. There was only so much her pride could take, while admitting her utter inexperience and weakness in comparison. She could however tell by the massive powers emitting from their epicentre that Aya was certainly still up and alive.
The battlefield would stretch out over the whole valley. Reinforcements of Kiri-nin and potentially village-nin, that deemed it was in their own interest to fight off the attackers, would stream like huge waves of nasty ocean tides against the attackers whom did a surprisingly good job in facing the sheer numbers of village ninja. But their own army was not to be considered weak. Staring at the battlefield, Verd could tell that every conflict seemed pretty even, whilst however the Defenders were rising in numbers and the attackers were being picked out one by one and given a tremendously hard time to stay vigilant against the sheer mass of defending forces rushing in.
Verd wasn't sure if, whomever organized this attack, had foreseen any or all of this and if they cared for themselves to win this battle or not. Men were dying on both sides like flies. The number of corpses the battlefield was producing was so unhealthy that Verd was sure it'd take them weeks to clean up even just a part of this mess.
Meanwhile she did catch up with Avalanche whom. Had retreated while protecting a few of the weaker forces. Verd quickly signalled her companion to follow suit once she was within eye contact reach. Grabbing on to his fur she would swing her body onto his back. He was still young and slow when she used him as mount but combining their forces together was still a useful feat. The farther she moved, the less she could feel how Chi was doing. But her eyes were fixed on the militia. Verd could see that the reinforcements were already coming from the bridges castle. All she had to do is give them some time to arrive.
Several civilians were moving slow. The scared, younger shinobi were also retreating, many much like her before in panic over the sudden turn of events and the unexpected incoming enemy forces. The first group of enemy militias was ahead of them. Verd adjusted Avalanches path to aim straight for them. Collision course. While Avalanche gradually trampled and bumped into the weak paper like enemies, Verd would slice he blade over whoever she could within reach. Using a strong grip on her right palm to keep her sword in place and her kunai in her left but with much shorter reach… would only hit anything if they basically passed by right next to her.
The primary impact worked quite nicely. The militia was roughed up and surprised by the sudden jump-in from the new contestant. But Verdandi's primary goal was already achieved. Despite having not cause too much damage other than some minor concussions from Avalanches impact on them, or very slight slices from her blades passing on their skin. Verd had diverted their attention rather to her than on the retreating forces. Giving them a proper breather to reach the incoming reinforcements in time to feel safe.
But that still meant, that Verdandi was left behind to deal with her new enemies. The first three were incoming and Dandi quickly jumped off her bear. Proper battle wouldn't work mounted just yet. While most of her enemies seemed to be of mere E or D ranked strength it would still require a certain amount of strength to deal with the lot of them. To start herself off she'd form a single hand seal to summon the Hyouton chakra into the ground below. Without much water to work with just yet, her technique would only be of moderate size. "Ice Release: Ice Spears" was cast to quickly raise the first three pillars of frost form the ground and pierce themselves into their target enemies. Verdandi didn't necessarily mean to kill them with that. But she needed to create some chaos within the militia troopers. Allowing her and Avalanche to charge forward and start their assault.
The bear would crush his head against the first person's chest. Throwing them back once more but this time going to town with his claws. Biting his powerful jaw into the mans palm to neutralize his sword-hand and then slowly rendering him useless with a series of slashes onto his chest and face. Verdandi was sending her kunai to hit the first guys throat. Her three shuriken to be spread among the masses hitting one on the shoulder, another one in the chest and a third one on his cheek. Verd chased after the guy she just neatly gifted her kunai to, as to kick his already bleeding body into the groin and retrieve her weapon with a simple grab. Pulling up her blade to slice past his chest and leave him to bleed. Now as she was actually within battle, Verdandi's pure offensive chances were coming to a rest. The militia was armed with spears and simple blades and they were now pointing at Verdandi. Seeing as they started to come dangerously close, Verd shortly sheathed kunai and nodachi, evaded the first spear supposedly aimed to her heart by leaning backwards, gripping its metallic pole and pulling on it with her superior strength.
Once she had the weapon in her palm she would find herself to be clumsy in wielding it. Clearly untrained and unfamiliar with a weapon of such size and weight. She however used whatever mother-intuition allowed her with to swing the staff like blade back around and shoo the incoming attackers back into distance once again. She didn't really aim for anything just wanted to make sure the spear told them to back off. As the first one dared to move in closer she lifted the spear on her shoulder and just tossed it towards him. While she actually aimed for his heart, her lack in proficiency with the spear would actually send the makeshift projectile to hit his left thigh instead. The weight of the spear however would still toss the man back and cause a huge unsightly wound on his leg leaving him to scream in agony.
With her hands free Verd formed simple Hyouton chakra between her fingers. Ice senbon were rapidly formed neatly tugged in position between her digits, 4 in each hand. Aiming the first batch at a guy to her left, her primary targets his throat. Using four senbon one would splinter against his collarbone, one would miss him and accidentally hit someone in their eye behind him while two would bury themselves deep into his neck. Causing the man to drop to his knees and grip for the projectiles stuck in his flesh trying to pull them out while it started to bleed and cut him off from breathing normally.
Verdandi shot the second batch vertically down the opponent to her right before backing off with a few spins and reverse handstands to gain some distance. To her attackers. Avalanche too had become busy trying to avoid the incoming weapons, having little time to actually deal much damage while trying to keep himself from ending up as cheese with many holes in. The vertically launches senbon hit a guy over throat, chin, nose and forehead. Causing massive pain on them and staggering down to their knees as well. It was time to start cutting shit up.
Verd adjusted her neck to make the joints in her connecting bones do that nasty 'crack' sound. She was ready to go full out cruel blood bath on this one. With a somersault forward she'd kick her leg into the shoulder of the first guy, moving quickly to the left to avoid an incoming fat spearhead aimed for her chest. Shooting her Kunai towards the same guy to hit his throat. This time she had attached a simple chakra string to her beloved throwing weapon. Allowing her to pull it right back into her palm once it hit its target. The blood of the mans throat still clinging to it as it neatly returned to her small fingers. She gracefully avoided the second spear thrust but realizing that this one went by rather close. Lifting herself back into action to slice he blade past the man's extended arm. Shooting her kunai to hit his foot and cause his stability to break before directly aiming an insanely quick kick full on straight into his face. Sending him backwards to deal with his arm and foot wounds.
The next guy to her right sliced his Dao's against Verdandi. Forcing her to parry them with the side of her blade. Dealing with two different blades seemed to be a bit more challenging. The guy neatly tried to pierce with one and slash with the other. Needless to say, he needed to be stopped. The flying kunai would be sent to hit the man where it hurts most below the belt line. A dirty move. One that too few ninjas honoured these days. But men were weak and they deserved to suffer from their exposed weakness. To round it off she used his fading moment of strength to chase aside his Dao's, kick him straight into his bleeding ball sack and lifted her knee to meet his face as it was incoming down in shock and knock the man out on spot.
It was probably more merciful to allow him to 'rest' than to remain in pain and actually experience what would happen to his cut open man parts. Verdandi had yet just begun. She shortly pushed her blade into the ground to free her hand, lifting one Dao at a time and tossed them in direction of two incoming enemies. One to bury itself neatly into his chest whilst the other one was parried. Verdandi was positively surprised by the actual resistance and lifted her own blade, making a short roll forward and raised her body with the blade. Clicking the little handle trigger to raise the shark tooth layer to the surface and saw her way slowly over the chest of her enemy, creating a gruesome display of ripped open flesh and a bloody mess for sure.
Avalanche ripped his way into his next foe. His claws tasting a lot of blood but his fur quickly painted in red, making it hard to see if he was wounded himself or not. So far, he seemed to be doing quite well against his enemies. While Verd moved on, dancing her way through enemy ranks as if it was some sort of play to her. Unable to rest her hands anymore now that her adrenaline was constantly pumping power into her veins. She discreetly avoided blades by moving her upper body just enough to let them miss her, just as Mizuki once showed her not long ago. Maximum defence with minimum effort. She used her blade in single, quick strikes that exhaled full power. Ripping the saw of her special Wyrm's Fang blade past her enemies. The hooks often doing most of the job of ripping skin apart or rendering armor of lower ranks useless. Her martial arts of basic ninja techniques blended in quite neatly. Her leg work mostly focused on strong kicks to critical points to cause knockouts. Using either her extending kunai to finish them off by hitting critical arteries or alike, or just simply dragging her saw-like sword over any exposed flesh to leave them bleeding like pigs before the slaughter.
Verdandi was very capable to use her advanced reflexes in her favour, often fighting multiple enemies at once. Sometimes trying to force them to hit each other instead of her by reflecting or rerouting incoming blades into another enemies' direction. Spears had to be carefully evaded as her sword didn't always deal well with the full force of their incoming piercing motion. Deflecting it to the side and answering with her chakra string connected, flying kunai would be sufficient enough. The enemy's numbers slowly reduced neatly but their own back-up seemed relentless and endless. Verd was almost out of juice for a first round. Exhaling her ice-cold breath past her blood clad lips. Her armor and battle kimono already coated in a thin, drying layer of red. A side effect of using a saw-like blade that intentionally causes massive bleeding everywhere it reaches forth. But the blade wasn't even at its fullest potential yet. The forges of the Yuki Clan, controlled by her Grandma was but one of the finest in Kiri territory. Aunt Ayakashi certainly spared no expenses while creating this little family heirloom for their little snow princess.
It was not without irony that yet another of Ayakashi's weapons would become part of Verdandi's story. In a way she had not foreseen it, in form of a living creature. In form of the ultimate beast Kirigakure could come up with in such a situation. The Mizukage's war monster of a pet. Bái Hǔ.
The white tiger roared over the battlefield. Followed by a large number of troops from the fort behind them. The reinforcements had arrived. The wave of shinobi would run past exhausted Verdandi and clash into her supposed enemies before her. Giving her more than a breather. Allowing her an actual break. Avalanche would quickly catch up with Verd. The young bear was not yet familiar with the huge tiger and obviously scared. Verdandi's chakra was too insignificant to the white tiger as he first passed her. Verdandi hidden in the mass of men charging past her to the front lines. Their morale was up to a new height. The beast moved into the midst of enemies and quickly rendered whole bodies apart by the sheer force of his claws. Verdandi stood in awe of the creature seemingly taking the lead at the front lines. Under his steps the village-nin were breaking past the lines of the enemy militia. Returning superiority over the flank and allowing the kiri forces to put a new very important pressure on the edge of the southern battlefield.
Verdandi didn't know what happened further away, east and west, north and central. She was aware to have seen Mizuki amidst them. Sense Fuyuko and was sure Chigetsu was still nearby. More dominant chakra signatures were popping up. Many of them in favour of the defenders. All in all, the battle seemed to be going well.
As of a sudden, Verdandi's eyes would catch glimpse of how enemy shinobi of higher rank directly started to target the white tiger. The attackers must have noticed the moral boost within the village ninja after Bái Hǔ appeared on the field. Many of the radicalized sunagakure shinobi turned they heads towards the tiger. They wouldn't allow the flank to break that easily. Jumping past the militia to directly engage their enemy. The tiger was busy using his teeth to render enemy weapons apart, smack the weak little humans away over the battlefield and claw his weapon enhanced tails through his enemies whenever he turned around, putting many militiamen to rest with simple motions of his purely weaponized appearance. Clawing his insanely powerful blades and fangs into the men with ease, rendering each of them apart one by one without really feeling much of their damage. Their weapons doing no notable impact on his armor. Only occasionally one of them manages to slice a wound into his unprotected skin, often followed by the persons immediate death in response.
While the kiri soldiers were obviously relying on the tiger to carry their burdens, no one seemed to be really interested in protecting the large creature, probably so impressed by its size and exhaled powers that one would think to be crazy that such a monster could even be harmed in the first place. But Verdandi had seen this giant furball sleeping before and had long since realised that he was, despite his size, not different from any other loving creature with an actual warm heart and deeply caring soul for those important to him.
Verd nodded to Avalanche, charging forward again. Screaming that scream of a battle roar that the village-nin were donning as they moved. Raising her blade and increasing her speed. Her legs still a bit hurt from previous use of burst speed, recovering but obviously still a bit slower than usual. Avalanche soon clashed into the first bunch of enemies again not far off the white tiger. Swallowing his fear from being close to the 5-meter-long, fully armoured beast. Verd slicing her blade once again into the various bodies surrounding the creature's feet. Trying to remove the pestilence of annoying militiamen that were searching for holes in Bái Hǔ's armor to wound him.
After several minutes of slicing her way through simple, barely defending militia, Verd would come to terms with the fact that the huge tiger had taken care of at least ten times the number of enemies within the same time frame she killed five. Verd would swallow that fact and yet be happy that the previously surrounding forced were finally eradicated, the men around the white beast would charge forward. But before Bái Hǔ could take another large leap of faith to once again charge into the heart of his enemies' troops. The suna reinforcements had arrived. C-Rank and B-Ranked ninja, put into a small but certainly powerful group sliced their way past the weaker village-nin and left behind but a mess of blood and tears. Their aim directly in sight. Bái Hǔ, the tiger hat would have to taste blood. Killing him would shatter the morale of the village nin and eventually return equal grounds to the battlefield.
Verdandi could see how the first one was already forming hand seals. While he engaged the tiger. In a short leap of faith of her own. Verdandi jumped to grab on the tigers armor, climbing his side until she could stand on his back. The incoming ninja had formed enough seals that a huge rock formation former before them and turned into a large dragon face. Starting to spill mud bullets forth and threatening to hit the tiger directly. While Bái Hǔ showed no signs of being impressed at all he simply charged forward into the incoming attack. Verdandi had a though time grabbing onto his armor and not falling off at first. Until at last, the tiger backed off for a second preparing for impact, Verdandi would open her mouth and scream a shout from her lips that would even be heard by the creature she was riding. Her familiar smell would slowly sink into the tiger's nose. He could easily distinguish a yuki clan, kin of his master. So, when Verdandi's shout "Voice of Susanoo" echoed over the battlefield, the tiger would pleasantly watch how the shockwave instantly eradicated all incoming mud projectiles into thin air by evaporating them and sending the remains back. The dragon head would slowly crumble and sink back into the earth where it came from.
The deep voice of the tiger would welcome Verdandi, niece of his kin. Before his intrigued smile donned his scary face showing off a murderous smile as his palm reached out to slice the daring shinobi that tried to mud the tiger, into tiny pieces of his formers shell. Forcing the remaining ninja troops to spread around and stare up at the infamous creature. But Bái Hǔ wouldn't allow himself to lose face especially in presence of a Yuki Clan. He inhaled, slowly and deeply. Ninja projectiles alike kunai and shuriken already being tossed in his direction. Some simply chipping off against his armour, others potentially getting stuck on his skin but their damage was too low to make him flinch.
Verdandi could feel the insane amount of chakra that was being accumulated within the creature below her. She opened her eyes widely. Her palms tightly gripping on his armor. Avalanche would glare up and quickly gain some distance from the two of them, moving behind the tiger. The enemy forces could clearly see that he was gathering. But they had less time to prepare than Verdandi whom sensed this quite quickly. The shinobi scattering and trying to retreat as the tiger exhaled his chakra filled roar over the battlefield before him. The closest enemies, within 5 meters would be thrown away like little stones as the primary impact hit them. The shockwave extending for another 25 meters forward. Send practically the whole squad that was supposed to hunt him down flying.
Avalanche quickly jumped forth to intercept the first of them he could see lingering broken and injured on the ground. The tiger would watch the, for him tiny sized bear, move on to violently feast his natural claws onto the enemy. Seemingly approving of such beautiful violence from a common snow creature, the white tiger would charge forth to reap his own claw horizontally over the stunned remains of his enemies. Verd would take her chance to take a breath from exhausting herself and her chakra pool. Clinging to the beasts armor as he finished up the remains of the pathetic forces. Verdandi once more reminded, that an all-powerful creature alike Bai Hu was more than capable of fending all but for himself and deal with many enemies of that rank. She smiles and rubbed her palm into his reachable fur past his armor. Her body clinging to his back. Her extremely light body seemingly not even noticed by the insane strength he carried within his limbs.
He walked past the lot of his stunned and fractured enemies. The bladed tail casually smacking down on their bodies without him even looking at them. His paw stomping on another. His claws digging into a third as he walked by. The last one whom he actually lowered his face towards, would escape this life with the cruel last view of Bái Hǔ's jaw widely opening and the myriad of sharp, blade like teeth greeting them before they would receive their very last kiss and fare well of this cruel world.
The match was yet, however, far from over. For some squads it had just began. The white tiger with the young Yuki on his back, an overly motivated little polar bear to his right and a large army of village nin to lead on towards victory… he would roar once again. Loudly exhaling his presence. Then charge. Forward. Into the masses of enemy militiamen. Ready to give them his worst.
Post: 4'101 / Verdandi: 6'580 / Totals: Link
- Verdandi Chakra 135 / 200:
Yuki Clan spend 20 Chakra in heated environments to keep themselves 'operational'.
Name: Hyōton: Kōri no Yari ~ Ice Release: Ice Spears
Canon/Custom: Canon
Rank: C
Type: Offensive
Element: Hyouton
Range: Close (0-5m), Far (5-10m)
Specialty: Ninjutsu
Duration: 1
Cooldown: 3
Description: By molding Hyouton chakra into a nearby water source, the user is able to freeze and mold the water into stalagmites of ice. They can be used various ways, whether it is to serve as a defensive barrier to keep opponents or their jutsu away, or a very quick attack, aiming to impale an unsuspecting target (1 inch). Advanced users of this tech can form the stalagmites from the water vapor in the air. The size of the stalagmite depends on the amount of water used to create it. These spears take one attack of equal rank to break, and two of a lower rank. While it's nothing severe, multiple wounds of this level would cause one to eventually bleed out. If a spear is broken, the jutsu goes to cooldown. In addition, when this jutsu comes into contact with water, it will begin to freeze the water. This effect is not instantaneous, but it will happen over a course of three posts. Up to 3 spears can be created at one time.
Name: Ice Release: Shards of Winter Technique
(Hyouton: Fuyuko no Jutsu)Origin: Library / Custom
Rank: D
Type: Offensive
Element: Hyouton
Range: 20m
Specialty: Ninjutsu
Duration: 1
Cool-down: 3
Chakra: 10
Description: The user generates up to 8 Senbon from their hands, each of the needles are 4” long and are able to penetrate 1/4” deep. They are able to be cast in mid flight, summoning them in mid-air and launching them traveling at speeds of up to 15mp/s for 20m. The needles once generated remain as natural hardened ice. On impact, these Needles freeze natural water 5” around them over 2 turns.
Name: Puppet Technique (Kugutsu no Jutsu)
Origin: Canon.
Rank: E.
Type: Supplementary.
Element: None.
Range: 50m.
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.
This technique cannot control living people; it can only control corpses, or Human Puppets currently in the user's locker.
The user pays a certain amount of chakra upon activation to determine the strings' durability; if severed the strings can be reattached to the same target for 15 chakra.
5 chakra = D-rank jutsu that cause blunt-force, cutting, or piercing damage can break the strings.
10 chakra = C-rank jutsu that cause blunt-force, cutting, or piercing damage can break the strings.
15 chakra = B-rank jutsu that cause blunt-force, cutting, or piercing damage can break the strings.
20 chakra = A-rank jutsu that cause blunt-force, cutting, or piercing damage can break the strings.
25 chakra = S-rank jutsu that cause blunt-force, cutting, or piercing damage can break the strings.
- 3 Types of Strings:
The following applies not to the rank of the jutsu, but rather the rank and the skill level of the user.
Multiple control:
The chakra strings at this rank are more tailored to controlling the base functions of many puppets as opposed to putting an astounding amount of effort into the control of few. Using this technique depending on the user's rank they are able to control up to 10 puppets, though the trade off is each of them operate at the user's speed and reaction time, -1 rank. (Stat increases from items and jutsu do not count towards this. However, those from clans do.)
E rank = 2 puppets
D rank = 3
C rank = 4
B rank = 6
A rank = 8
S rank = 9
SS rank = 10
Balanced Control:
Using more focused control on the puppets the user wields they are able to focus more into their puppets movement, and therefore they no longer receive the negative influence to their speed that the mass control strings had. However, the puppets still receive -1 to reaction time and less puppets are able to operate at this capacity per rank.
E-C rank = Max of 2 puppets
B-A rank 4
S-SS rank = 5
Focused control:
The user, with these strings, is able to literally control their puppets with such mastery as if they were basically human themselves. The concentration at this level requires they dedicate themselves into only one or two puppets, but they operate without any negatives what so ever, and move at the user's speed and reaction times.
E-C rank = 1 Puppet max
B-SS rank = 2
Name: Kiaido - Voice of Susanoo
Origin: Custom
Rank: C-A
Type: Defensive
Element: None
Range: 10/20/30m
Specialty: Ninjutsu
Duration: Instant
Cooldown: 3 posts
Description: This jutsu requires no hand seals. The user takes a deep breath and unleashes a powerful kiai in the direction of an offensive jutsu, cancelling a jutsu of one rank higher (or any one lower) immediately as long as it occurs within 10/20/30 meters (respectively C, B & A rank range).
- Bai Hu Chakra 50 / 75:
Name: Roar of the Byakko
Canon/Custom: Cusom
Rank: A
Type: Offensive
Element: Fuuton
Range: 5m // 25m
Specialty: Ninjutsu
Duration: Instant
Cooldown: 3 Posts
Description: Bái Hǔ takes in a deep breath before letting out a terrifyingly powerful roar which rips up the ground from around him and throws it outward creating a trench, throwing everything back if it stood within 5m of Bái Hǔ. Additionally, the roar projects outwards in a 50 degree cone for 25 meters. The shockwaves from the roar travel at 40mp/s and are strong enough to tear up the earth and throw ninja 5m past the edge of their range and can fracture bones, and knock away physical projectiles of equal or lower rank.