1 Lucid Dreams [Yosei|Nova|Invite only] Sun Aug 19, 2018 2:51 am
Nova Makato
A-rank
Nova sat with her back pressed against Doku Tsuki's hulking metal form, using the shade it offered from it's size as a respite from the desert sun for a moment. That glowing orb sat low on the horizon behind her, the shadow sprawling out before her like some sort of beast even more monstrous than the construct that cast that shadow. Though Doku Tsuki's hull was closed, the contents weighed on her mind heavily. On that cushion that made the spot she normally lay was the heavily damaged form of Sasori; his face, arm, and side all severely burned from an amaterasu in a fight that occurred on this very battlefield days before. Blades, swords, and kunai in various states of disrepair littered the ground, nearly buried by the sand that had been blown over it in the time since. It was for these neglected items that she had come.
Between her fingertips she would spin a single feather that she had crafted late in the night as she couldn't sleep, its form having come from a broken tip of a blade she had found in a similar manner such as now. Running her thumb over the flat side, she would feel the texture she had worked so hard on to make perfect. Even between both her hands should she grasp each side and twist, was unable to bend nor break the item. Perhaps it were the vultures that circled overhead for any carrion left from the carnage, or perhaps it were the hawks native to this desert land, but Nova's mind worked away at a new construct. And this feather she held in her hand would be the first of many to be placed upon that creation that only existed in her mind for the time being.
Leaning her head back and closing her eyes, she would sigh heavily. Before dawn she had set out to this point to collect materials, now her puppet was full of damaged weapons laid alongside Sasori's broken body. That body that had been sealed in a scroll, untouched and perfect for centuries now half destroyed at the control of her own hands. Well... my chakra at least. Sasori did what he wanted.... it was his fault then. Again for a moment Nova would wait for that response in her mind from Sasori's ever sharp wit, but like it had since that battle there was nothing but a resounding silence in reply. Silence not of an absence, but instead a mind that had retreated inward for any of the reason one's psyche might. Nova had tried to get a response from the mind within hers from the moment that he had fallen, and had gleaned nothing other than the occasional flicker of anger and anguish.
Those thought's that Nova would not hear would be those of fury and powerlessness. How have I been so limited and diminished in power? Having come back a shell is worse perhaps than never having returned at all. That sudden withdrawing of chakra from him, whether intentional or not, as it turned out having been, had struck a cord. It was he who had been at the end of the strings this time, not plucking at the strings to make his puppet's dance. Perhaps soon he would slowly come back into contact with the lavender haired puppet mistress, though for now he remained turned inward with the desire to repair his body as he ought to be able to do, yet could not without that flow of chakra through him. For that, he would need her help.
For now the sun would creep closer to the horizon and the light would take on an amber glow. It colored those dunes a wider range of warm hue's that Nova perhaps missed so much while in Kiri that she had been able to pinpoint and name at the time. That glinting steel feather she held between her hands she would press to the sand beside her, dragging it across the very surface to leave a textured pattern in the silky sands that made up so much of the land of wind. Furrowing her brow for a moment, she would stick the metal feather point first into the stand and shift forward as she began the process that rising to her feet would be. Using on hand she would grasp one of those metal spines on Doku Tsuki's hull and pull herself upwards', before being able to slip her right leg down to put her weight upon as the wooden one she wore stuck awkwardly down to the side. Once more upright than not she would rest the weight evenly, the only issue before having been the inability to properly bend that leg at the knee. Now standing, her hands would graze the back of her thigh's to let the sand fall from her skin.
With a quick look around to ensure she hadn't been approached while less aware than she ought to have been, her fingers would slide across the seam of the puppet's shell with a faint trickle of chakra through them causing the hull to click open and reveal the contents to her. Looking over the burned husk of Sasori she felt a pang worry that perhaps she should reseal him in his damaged form for now as it was only so long she could keep it a secret from those close to her. It was fortunate that in the fight she had remained somewhat anonymous, though her scorpions would likely have been heard of in mention alongside the return of Sasori of the Red Sands and declared an enemy of any that would hear of the battle between them and a pair of powerful nin who were accosted by them. Her fingertips would graze the charcoal stump of a limb on the unmoving Sasori, still donning a torn and torched akatsuki robe.
Nova knew she had to repair him, but could not fathom what steps it would take to repair such craftsmanship. Though it felt tainted to be impressed by the work of one considered to be 'evil'. Yet still somehow he had either altered or created a body of incredible strength and durability and for that he ought to be praised, though not even that crafted flesh stood up to Amaterasu. Besides his body lay dozens of the weapons that she had come to this place to collect. Tonight she would see Izumi again, for the first time since that battle, and before doing to she would need to reseal the puppet into the scroll in her leg. Sun setting, there she stood trying to overcome the odd and likely unneeded feeling of guilt she felt about doing so.
1137 WC
Between her fingertips she would spin a single feather that she had crafted late in the night as she couldn't sleep, its form having come from a broken tip of a blade she had found in a similar manner such as now. Running her thumb over the flat side, she would feel the texture she had worked so hard on to make perfect. Even between both her hands should she grasp each side and twist, was unable to bend nor break the item. Perhaps it were the vultures that circled overhead for any carrion left from the carnage, or perhaps it were the hawks native to this desert land, but Nova's mind worked away at a new construct. And this feather she held in her hand would be the first of many to be placed upon that creation that only existed in her mind for the time being.
Leaning her head back and closing her eyes, she would sigh heavily. Before dawn she had set out to this point to collect materials, now her puppet was full of damaged weapons laid alongside Sasori's broken body. That body that had been sealed in a scroll, untouched and perfect for centuries now half destroyed at the control of her own hands. Well... my chakra at least. Sasori did what he wanted.... it was his fault then. Again for a moment Nova would wait for that response in her mind from Sasori's ever sharp wit, but like it had since that battle there was nothing but a resounding silence in reply. Silence not of an absence, but instead a mind that had retreated inward for any of the reason one's psyche might. Nova had tried to get a response from the mind within hers from the moment that he had fallen, and had gleaned nothing other than the occasional flicker of anger and anguish.
Those thought's that Nova would not hear would be those of fury and powerlessness. How have I been so limited and diminished in power? Having come back a shell is worse perhaps than never having returned at all. That sudden withdrawing of chakra from him, whether intentional or not, as it turned out having been, had struck a cord. It was he who had been at the end of the strings this time, not plucking at the strings to make his puppet's dance. Perhaps soon he would slowly come back into contact with the lavender haired puppet mistress, though for now he remained turned inward with the desire to repair his body as he ought to be able to do, yet could not without that flow of chakra through him. For that, he would need her help.
For now the sun would creep closer to the horizon and the light would take on an amber glow. It colored those dunes a wider range of warm hue's that Nova perhaps missed so much while in Kiri that she had been able to pinpoint and name at the time. That glinting steel feather she held between her hands she would press to the sand beside her, dragging it across the very surface to leave a textured pattern in the silky sands that made up so much of the land of wind. Furrowing her brow for a moment, she would stick the metal feather point first into the stand and shift forward as she began the process that rising to her feet would be. Using on hand she would grasp one of those metal spines on Doku Tsuki's hull and pull herself upwards', before being able to slip her right leg down to put her weight upon as the wooden one she wore stuck awkwardly down to the side. Once more upright than not she would rest the weight evenly, the only issue before having been the inability to properly bend that leg at the knee. Now standing, her hands would graze the back of her thigh's to let the sand fall from her skin.
With a quick look around to ensure she hadn't been approached while less aware than she ought to have been, her fingers would slide across the seam of the puppet's shell with a faint trickle of chakra through them causing the hull to click open and reveal the contents to her. Looking over the burned husk of Sasori she felt a pang worry that perhaps she should reseal him in his damaged form for now as it was only so long she could keep it a secret from those close to her. It was fortunate that in the fight she had remained somewhat anonymous, though her scorpions would likely have been heard of in mention alongside the return of Sasori of the Red Sands and declared an enemy of any that would hear of the battle between them and a pair of powerful nin who were accosted by them. Her fingertips would graze the charcoal stump of a limb on the unmoving Sasori, still donning a torn and torched akatsuki robe.
Nova knew she had to repair him, but could not fathom what steps it would take to repair such craftsmanship. Though it felt tainted to be impressed by the work of one considered to be 'evil'. Yet still somehow he had either altered or created a body of incredible strength and durability and for that he ought to be praised, though not even that crafted flesh stood up to Amaterasu. Besides his body lay dozens of the weapons that she had come to this place to collect. Tonight she would see Izumi again, for the first time since that battle, and before doing to she would need to reseal the puppet into the scroll in her leg. Sun setting, there she stood trying to overcome the odd and likely unneeded feeling of guilt she felt about doing so.
1137 WC