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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2014 17:16:36 GMT
Oni didn't know who instructor Ma-Surin was, but after the explosion he kept his eyes open for Nai-Ran by using his scouter to scan for her presence. The scouter beeped when he turned his head to the right of the explosion and indicated she was in the bamboo that grew at the edge of the clearing. He quickly stomped over there to try and finish Nai-Ran off, assuming she'd died in the blast or been badly wounded, but on his way over found two energy beams cutting through the stalks and heading straight for him. Finding himself without time to dodge, he took the blast to the face and hit the ground hard.
His hands covered his eyes and he screamed, "Augh! My eyes! What have you done you evil snake!" Lights flashed before his eyes as retinas tried to dull and re-adjust to the pain, however, so much blood was coming down his face it made it impossible for him to see or rid himself of the pain.
He grit his teeth and used more of his energy to form a red blind fold with Magic Materialization which he then used to cover his pupils. He was pretty sure Nai-Ran's damage to his eyes was not permanent yet now he had lost an important sense to fight her with. The demon, still feeling he was facing the Bamboo Forest, rose from the ground with his pain and cried, "Demon's Gate!" as he raised his right hand above him and shot a burst of black ki into the sky.
A hole ripped through the sky and within seconds a giant demonic looking gate made from metal with a demon's face on it appeared above the area. It's forty by forty foot frame cast a shadow on the bamboo thicket where Nai-Ran was. With the lowering of his hand, Oni commanded it to drop possibly leaving only a few seconds for the woman to dodge as the massive structure attempted to crush her under foot. This was the crazy yet awesome power of a demon. They could take damage quite well although the most fearful things about this species of creature was that they were even more reliable in causing true destruction.
Sure, Oni could not see Nai-Ran now, but with his scouter still in play and a quick action he was sure he could hunt her out before long. It was only a matter of time before his words about making her unable to speak became true. She was going to pay for his eyes now too.
Oni's Techniques:
Demon's Gate [N1] (No Charge- 8195 PL)
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Post by Nai-Ran on Oct 20, 2014 9:38:11 GMT
Nai-Ran heard Oni screaming as soon as her ki had dissipated. The attack had certainly connected. He wasn’t too happy about it either, shouting something about his eyes. Alright, the upper hand belonged to her at the moment. She would need to go about this carefully so that she would stay on top. After tying a strip of cloth around his eyes that he had materialized out of nowhere, Oni called out the name of an attack. Nai-Ran watched as he sent a blast of the same jet black ki straight up into the air. She knew he had been temporarily blinded, but even so it should have been obvious that she wasn’t above him. Then again, this guy had already proven that he was not one to be underestimated after the little bomb that had been tossed her way. Not all of his attacks were what they seemed. A rip was torn in the sky as if it were made of cloth. Nai-Ran had never seen anything like it before! Was it some kind of portal? Looking up at it, it felt like she was frozen in place. Was it due to fear? No, it couldn’t be that. That was something she hadn’t been allowed to feel. Well, perhaps feeling it was alright; it was showing it that she hadn’t been allowed to do. The emotion was ugly yet necessary, but her face had to remain free of it at all times. Moments after the strange portal had appeared, some kind of metal structure was being pushed through the tear. The Ryashi attempted to leap out of the way as she was covered by its shadow, but it was a nanosecond too late to get herself completely clear. The structure slammed to the ground and caught her left half of humanoid portion of her body from her shoulder down, as well as some of her tail. This had gone one for long enough. Still face down on the ground with the metal object sitting atop her, Nai-Ran closed her eyes. It was time to unleash her Serpentine Fury. Nai-Ran could feel energy surging through her form as her power level doubled, which would be picked up by Oni’s scouter. Though, whether or not he would be able to tell what the readings were due to his temporary blindness was another story all together. Once her opponent had inevitably regained his sense of sight, he would be able to see the minor alterations to her appearance in the form of her elongated fangs and the sparks of red energy that her form emitted. Nai-Ran’s right arm went completely numb from the pain caused by her shoulder wound for a moment, allowing her to push the large metal gate off of her. Between that arm and the arm that had been crushed by Oni’s last attack, the serpentine lass knew she would be in a world of pain the second she slipped out of her transformation. Her return to her cave in the Diablo Desert wasn’t going to be a pleasant one. At least her tail was fine. Ryashi tails were far more durable than the parts of them that were covered in soft skin. The off-worlder began circling around Oni. She wasn’t sure how acute his hearing would be on whether he would still be able to follow her movements by the sound of the rustling grass, but it’s not like it mattered too much. As she moved, Nai-Ran pinned her right elbow to her side and fired off another ki blast in Oni’s direction. Nai-Ran’s Techniques:Serpentine Fury! [transformation] ( Current PL = 53,448) Basic Ki Blast [N1] (No Charge - 17,637 PL) ((Note: I wasn’t sure if we could transform and attack in the same round or not. If we can’t, ignore the ki blast entirely... ^^ )
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2014 21:53:41 GMT
A thud sounded and even though Oguma was blind he felt sure he had hit Nai-Ran since everything seemed to go silent for him. Suddenly though his scouter began to beep as Nai-Ran charged up her energy and transformed.
"What's going on!" he cried in shock as the numbers representing her power changed. He could not see them in his current state, but knew that the beeping of his scouter device was usually a bad sign. Now he wished Niku was not unconscious in Satan City so he could take a minute to focus and try and find his target. This was impossible now as Nai-Ran's movements were so quiet tracking her by ear was not going to work.
"Curse your damned snake body!" he cried throwing his hands up in frustration. He raised his right hand again and summoned a second gate with his dark ki just as Nai-Ran fired another red blast of energy from her hands. He had no clue he was being encircled by her or that she'd fired another blast until the scouter beeped again causing him great frustration and not allowing him to complete his attack as her next one slammed into his back hard.
"Rawr! You'll die now I swear it!" he roared. A searing pain burned deep into his skin and almost reached his spine as he thought aloud, "I need to dull this pain!" He was fine with having no eye sight, but with the pain now hitting his back he realized he could do nothing until that was resolved. Unfortunately for him, the metal plating protecting him now also fell off and hit the ground with a clinking noise. The back of his new materialized armor was a ruined pile of hot metallic liquid.
His hands lowered managing to touch the pockets on both sides of his black pants and pulled out a tiny Senzu bean. "I hate to use this now, but it's what I bought it for." He carefully brought this to his lips, crunched on it with his teeth and swallowed it. Slowly, the pain in his back disappeared as well as the pant in his eyes. He wiped away the blood and felt somewhat better as his brown eyes began to clearly see a giant snake woman with long fangs and a crackling red aura circling him.
"What did you do?" he asked hoping she would stop and answer him, "How are you so different now?" Oni needed his answers before he could continue trying to smack her around as she was now doing to him.
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Using 1 Senzu Bean
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Post by Nai-Ran on Oct 21, 2014 19:49:31 GMT
Oni continued to shout about his inability to see what was going on, among other things. The young woman’s ki blast had interrupted his attack and completely destroyed his armor. He then pulled something out of his pants pocket and shoved it into his mouth. Was this really the time for a snack? Perhaps it was, because Nai-Ran watched in complete surprise as he removed his blindfold and appeared to have made a complete recovery of any damage that had been cause to him up to this point!
When the demon saw the changes in Nai-Ran’s appearance, he asked what it was that she had done. "Mmm? Haven't I always been like this?" she asked calmly, her voice noticeably different from before. She had kept quiet until now as to not give away her position. It didn’t really matter anymore since he could see again. Either way, maybe it would have been best to save any joking around for a more appropriate time. “If you must know, this state is something that we Ryashi refer to as Serpentine Fury.” It wasn’t a very detailed answer, but he should have been happy that she had stopped to inform him of even that much. The Ryashi didn’t feel like being interviewed about her transformation at the moment.
Nai-Ran was incredibly troubled over the fact that her opponent was back up to full strength. It was as if nothing had ever happened to him! Her arms didn’t hurt. Both of them had gone numb thanks to her transformation. However, they were becoming increasingly difficult to lift. She would have to rely on her eye blasts for the remainder of this fight, or her tail if he tried to close the gap between the two of them. She may have been powered up, but she was still on her last legs, so to speak.
The young woman fired off another blast from her crimson eyes before she proceeded to weave her way through the stalks of bamboo that still stood tall, trying to make herself as difficult to hit as she could. She seriously hoped that Oni didn’t have any more of whatever it was that had restored his strength on him. Though, if she let herself take much more damage, perhaps that wouldn’t really matter.
Nai-Ran’s Techniques Eye Blast [UP2] (no charge - 35,275 PL)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 21:28:43 GMT
Oni listened to Nai-Ran as she hissed/spoke to him about her power Serpentine Fury. Talking in battle sure was a good way to get information and lower a person's guard to formulate a counter attack measure Oni realized. Yet after she spoke of her power he was not so sure about this since although her arms looked severely injured she managed to gather red ki into her eyes fire it towards his chest. His body and demonic energy felt a whole lot better after his snakc though so he decided he was going to actually dodge for once.
"I shouldn't be talking to you..." Oni uttered aloud as the beams sliced through the forest's bamboo and attempted to strike his heart. "...I should be gouging you apart!"
He ducked at the last second feeling his hair singe as he literally was within a hair's breadth of having his head blasted. He did not stop though and rushed towards Nai-Ran's location bringing both arms out to his sides and and slashed them towards the center of her stomach hoping to tear her to shreds. If she tried to block this strike or dissuade him from his assault with another energy blast he intended to respond in full measure with his own techniques.
Oni Techniques:
Physical Strikes [N1] (8195 PL)
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Post by Nai-Ran on Oct 22, 2014 22:16:40 GMT
“Then why ask in the first place?!” Nai-Ran hissed back as he ducked under her attack. It was still difficult to fathom being able to bounce back so quickly like everything that had been done up until that point had been nothing at all. If anything, she was the one tempted to ask him what he had eaten to achieve such an affect. That wasn’t going to happen though. All she was concerned about was getting this over with and returning back to her cave.
The Ryashi scooted herself to the side and attempted to counter Oni’s attack by grabbing his wrist with the tip of her tail. Had it connected, she would have yanked him forward in the same direction he was going to build up a little more momentum before harshly yanking downwards in a half circle motion, attempting to slam him to the ground on his back. Whether or not she had been able to grab his wrist, Nai-Ran would then try to deliver a hard lash with her tail to his chest before trying to put some distance between the two of them.
The stalks of bamboo were beginning to grow fuzzy-looking as the young woman’s vision began to blur. How perfect... Not only were both of her arms pretty much unusable to her at this point, but now her eyesight was starting to fail her. Nai-Ran felt her blood finally reaching her scares from her shoulder wound. Normally any amount of moisture on her scales would make her cringe. She simply didn’t have the energy for such a reaction at the moment though.
Nai-Ran’s Techniques Melee Combo[N1] - (17,637 PL)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 23:22:44 GMT
"I don't know..." Oguma answered as Nai-Ran's sleek body dived under his claws. He could see she was tiring while he was definitely fit and strong as she moved to one side and launched her tail out to grab Oni's wrist. He could feel himself moving forward before she swung him around rather roughly, however, instead of allowing himself to hit the ground he reached around with his other hand and gripped her tail hard. Then he surged his power through his entire body at once in order to transform. It was clear he needed this hidden power of his more then ever now.
"Eat my full power you snake!" he screamed. His voice deepened while he yelled this and his normally brown eyes turned a strange, blue color as energy swirled around him. Every muscle in his body expanded and with this six foot wide, demonic bat wings ripped through his shoulder blades and spread out wide making it harder for Nai-Ran to possibly toss him into the ground while he continued to hold her tail. His hair on the back of his neck, back, and shoulders increased covering him in dense hair follicles. Most of it covered his legs completely and his arms though. These changes were not the only thing that happened though as he sprouted a four foot long wolf tail from his buttocks and hard, iron horse from his once human feet. The last of his major changes came in the form of two elongated white horns that curved out from the top of his forehead and pointed outwards. Each horn was a foot long and if he needed to he was intent on using them to prod Nai-Ran, however, for now all his might went into trying to crush Nai-Ran's tail as he was thrown around in his new Demonic Will state.
He felt a little queasy doing this in amidst his opponent's own attack, however, he noticed that while doing this his power seemed drastically reduced from other times and that his form was vastly different from previous uses. "Have I not perfected my power?" he pondered. It was almost like he was only using half of his real strength at most. The reason for this being an utter mystery to him.
Transformation Activated:
Demonic Will (X3)- 74,496 PL
Oni's Attacks:
Physical Strikes [N1] (24,584 PL)
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Post by Nai-Ran on Oct 23, 2014 0:06:09 GMT
Nai-Ran wasn’t able to put much distance between herself and Oni, since he had grabbed ahold of her tail before she could actually slam him to the ground. To make matters worse, he apparently had a transformation of his own up his sleeve that he had decided to tap into. Unlike the minimal physical changes that Ryashi went through when they transformed, it was almost like looking at a completely different being! He was absolutely covered in dark hair, a pair of wings had sprouted from his back, he had cloven feet, and there were a large pair of horns that had sprouted from the top of his head. At least she could still make out that much of him. His outline was still blurred.
“Let... go!” Nai-Ran grit her teeth as she tried to yank herself away from his powerful grasp. It wasn’t like she could just blast him from this position. It would be far too easy for him to use her own tail to shield himself from it. While her lower half was indeed built to be tough, she was already down two arms. The serpentine lass didn’t want to risk anymore damage to her last limb that might prevent her from making it home. If that was an option anymore, of course...
The young woman winced as he continued to squeeze down on her. Her squirming wasn’t doing anything to make him let go. She needed to do something to loosen his grip. Powering through the pain that surged up and down her spine, Nai-Ran darted up and began to circle around the demon. If she managed to get around the back of him, she would fire a quick eye blast at what used to be the heels of his feet.
Nai-Ran's Techniques Eye Blast [UP2] (no charge - 35,275 PL)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2014 0:19:38 GMT
"Never!" Oguma screamed at her, "I'll never let you go for all you've done to me! All I wanted was all of your stuff!"
As she circled around him to fire her eye blast at him Oni brought forward his free hand and churned black ki into it before firing a powerful beam of black ki at the end of her tail. He could see her coiling around him fast with energy in her eyes which worried him, but by now he also noticed she was not moving her arms at all to help her move quicker and outpace his own actions. If this attack was faster then Nai-Ran's own movements this would negate her attack through charring her tail severely with his energy blast. It was a clearly even fight. This he believed though was going to be the end of Nai-Ran as he hoped his attack would cut the size of her tail down to half it's length before she could hit him. It hopefully this would leave her alive, however, he was pretty certain this was the serpent alien's final moment. He was at full health while she was damaged to the point of being unable to fight at her peak.
Oni's Techniques:
Basic Ki [N1] (24,584 PL)
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Post by Nai-Ran on Oct 23, 2014 3:48:21 GMT
“Why?! What could you possibly want with a wash basin and some women’s clothing?! They wouldn’t even fit your friend! All I wanted was to go home!” she screamed back, completely baffled at his fascination by her purchases. She thought he was just looking for someone to fight with what he said back in Satan City, but he was still seriously focused on what she had bought? How did that make any sense?!
Nai-Ran was unable to get her attack off as she felt intense pain rock the very core of her being. The Ryashi let out a blood-curdling shriek as the lower half of her tail was completely swallowed up by Oni’s black ki blast. It had been completely disintegrated! With nothing left for the demon to hold onto, the young woman crashed to the ground and skidded several yards away, her shoulders leaving a mark in the ground beneath her until she skidded to a halt.
The crimson sparks that had been dancing across her form had vanished completely, her fangs had returned to their normal size, and her power level had reverted to its original state. She had lost her Serpentine Fury form and was now just struggling to stay conscious. Though, she wasn’t exactly sure why she was bothering at that point. All of the pain that her transformation had been attempting to suppress came crashing down on her all at once. There wasn’t a single spot on her body that wasn’t screaming at her for all that had happened during the fight. Nai-Ran didn’t even dare look down to see what had become of her tail, which looked like a charred stump of its former self. The same dark indigo hued blood that had stained the right side of her body was now leaking out onto the floor of the bamboo forest. It didn’t really matter what Oni did at this point; she couldn’t move in the slightest to even think about defending herself. All she could do for the moment was bite her quivering lower lip, squeeze her eyes shut, and try to still her trembling.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2014 0:18:43 GMT
"Um, all I can say to you little Nai-Ran is this quote I like to use, 'Death is a Business.' It's my motto and my life." Oni stated as he scratched his head confused that she was baffled by the fact he'd nearly killed her.
He took a step towards her as she let out her blood curdling shriek and smiled. Her entire freaking tail was gone. He was very surprised that his power could do this as he lowered his arms and stood mere inches from her charred appendage and smiled. His twisted lips revealed razor shark fangs that rubbed against each other while he smiled at her. He sniffed the air and his mouth began to salivate. She smelled like the perfect morsel to eat, however, he had come to promise himself recently to not eat souls anymore after what people like Azurai had done to him over that and the fact he'd not gone and eaten many of them recently.
The energy that had consumed her body earlier was gone and the only thing left that seemed to be lively in her was her fearful eyes. He bent down over her and in an act of violence grabbed her chin, to lift it up against her will, and looked her sternly in the eye. "Death, fighting, and zeni are linked. The only way to get by in this world is to prepare for inevitable death. There are many out there that try to squash you under foot and as a result they are strong. In order to stop them though you have to train to fight them, but in order to get stronger you need money. So in the fashion of one big cycle you must agree to conquer fear, conquer the strong, and conquer the world of business. I want your stuff because even if my precious little princess can't wear or use them I can find another beautiful woman who can. If I can't though I can always sell your dinky items and return them to their base form zeni."
Once he finished speaking he let go of her chin only to grab her long, white hair with a strong left hand and shake her upper body like a rag doll. "Here's the deal," he stated while doing this, "give up all your recently acquired possessions and you won't die. I'll let you go to spread a message that I, Oni/Oguma Inugami, am a demon of great power and wish to rule this world. Any fighters, not you, who have real power can put their pride on the line and attempt to stop me. I'm not sure how yet I'll do this, but let them know now that I can and will strike at any point and time. That is all you can do now since I ruined your tail you poor like snake."
He paused, let her go, then shouted in her ear, "Now scram injured damsel and leave your belongings with me! Find a knight worthy of my time here on Earth!"
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Post by Nai-Ran on Oct 24, 2014 2:07:11 GMT
Nai-Ran felt like she was splitting at the seams. Never in her young life had she been in so much physical pain before. It wasn’t even over yet. Oni was still there. It sounded like he was speaking to her, but was so difficult to tell what he was saying. His voice was incredibly distant and had sort of an otherworldly echo to it.
It was getting more and more difficult to process what was going on in the world around her when she suddenly felt her enemy’s hand wrap around her chin and lift her off of the ground. A few ragged breaths escaped her as the movement caused the pain to intensify once again. Even though it was clear that she was still clinging to life, her body put up little more resistance than a corpse would. All she could do was dangle there uselessly. Though the unyielding pain continued to grip her tightly, Nai-Ran couldn’t help but feel somewhat strange. The demon may have been tall, but she was used to being able to raise herself up at least a little higher than any biped that she had met. The serpentine lass still hadn’t even tried stealing a glance at what had become of her tail. Whatever the extent of the damage Oni had done to it, it definitely didn’t reach the ground anymore with how she was swaying in his clutches.
The Ryashi could definitely hear him more clearly now that he was so close to her face. Her eyes had still been shut tight due to how much she was hurting, but she was just barely able to open one of them to look the demon in the eye. It was no good; everything was still extremely blurry so they snapped shut again. The man was going on about how he lived his life, always being prepared for death and setting his sights on conquering the strong. ”A... ahhh...” While Nai-Ran certainly heard him, she could bring herself to respond in nothing more than a pained groan and a series of gasps. The young woman was in no state to be holding a conversation.
Oni’s hand quickly left her chin. However, before what was left of her could hit the ground, he entwined his fingers in her pale pink hair and gripped it tightly. The young woman once again bit down on her lip as she tried to quell her trembling; even more jolts of pain shot through her in the process. This was only made worse by the violent shaking he gave her as she dangled by her long hair. He once again tried to speak to her, but the only answer he received was her crying out in agony.
With that, he finally let her drop back down to the floor of the bamboo forest with a soft ‘thud’. Though he shouted at her to get out of there, it was fairly obvious that she had no ability to move on her own anymore. Not only was Nai-Ran’s tail far too damaged for her to likely ever slither freely again, both of her arms were completely useless for the moment. Even the smallest of movements felt like she was being stabbed over and over again. The most she could manage at this point in time were a few small movements from her neck and head. It was obvious that if left like that, she would eventually bleed out.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2014 19:19:16 GMT
Oni stood there looking at the damage he had done to Nai-Ran and realized his fun and games were over. There was no way this poor creature could fight back against him in her current state nor move from her apparent lack to do so now. His shaking had only allowed her to answer him in painful moans, but he was sure she had gotten the message. As a result, he felt satisfied, turned away from his prey, and dashed off back to where Satan City was leaving her and her stuff to fall prey to the wildlife of the forest. The only thing that bothered him was that while he ran he noticed a continual drip of blood flowing down his newly formed stump of a left hand. It hurt while he run but probably not as much as Nai-Ran was now.
"Where did I get this?" he pondered as he cradled it against his chest and brought his right palm underneath it to catch his own blood, "Oh, that's right... How could I be so stupid? I blasted it off when I went to beat her to a pulp." He reminded himself of this as he thought back to Nai-Ran one last time and felt his energy suddenly drain. His demonic will disappeared as ki leaked out of his body in the form of his own blood and soon he was left only with a less muscular form of the previously seen form produced by his demonic will. He had barely enough ki left he realized to take on the form of a human, so he used this to move onto Satan City with great haste. Niku was waiting for him.
In mere moments he crossed the vast eastern continent's jungle with speeds that surprised him and returned to the shopping district where he had first met Niku and Nai-Ran. He came to a halt and found that the bloodied hand he was cradling throbbed in pain. "It's a small price to pay..." he uttered finding Niku still in the middle of the street now surrounded by a crowd of doctors.
Oni pushed himself forward freaking the crowd out as a thin, tall horned beast made its way through the crowd. "What are you?" they cried in fear.
Oni did not answer as he brought his right hand out and knocked doctors trying to lift Niku onto a gurney aside. He grabbed his unconscious minion with his good right hand, slung her on his shoulders with his remaining strength and slowly made his way through the crowd into a dark back alley. They dared not pursue him, however, now Oni wished they had. It was highly likely too many were scared by the explosions he and Nai-Ran had caused amidst the city though the people on hand did give him glares of contempt. Perhaps they were unsure if he or she was the enemy or the cause of the battle, yet whatever the case they left him alone for now.
He soon found a large blue dumpster back there in the alley and with the last of his strength crawled inside it with Niku on his back to hide. Here, he closed his blue eyes and finally fell asleep. Today was not the end of Oni but it was likely to be the end of Nai-Ran as footsteps ran by his hiding space trying to find the monster that abducted a casualty after the explosive fighting.
(I am exiting the thread here. I would like 50% Zeni and PL please if possible.)
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Post by Nai-Ran on Oct 28, 2014 2:20:17 GMT
All Nai-Ran could do was lay there on the floor of the Bamboo Forest. She couldn’t even hear Oni anymore. Perhaps it was just her hearing finally failing her completely. The young woman opened up her eyes to find that she couldn’t see any movement in her limited field of view. It didn’t mean too much since she had landed on her stomach when he had dropped her, and her surroundings were still incredibly fuzzy. Had he truly left though? The idea that he was gone should have been a relief, but she was still losing quite a bit of blood from where her tail used to be. Finally working up the courage to glance at the extent of the damage, Nai-Ran inched her head downward so that she would be at the right angle to take a look. She still couldn’t move very well due to the severe pain that gripped what was left of her body. An intense wave of nausea overtook her as soon as her gaze focused just enough to see what had become of her lower half. Even in the darkness of the night that had fallen not long ago, she could see it well enough. At least two thirds of her tail was completely gone! Her once pearly scales were now smeared in her own blood; the edges around the wound looked thoroughly charred. This was just a nightmare, right? Any second she would wake up to find that she was curled up in the improvised sleeping chamber of her cave back in the Diablo Desert, right? If only she hadn’t been hurting so much, she might have been able to trick herself into believing that. Nai-Ran couldn’t just sit there though. If she didn’t do something to try to patch herself up, she was going to bleed out. Her eyes then came to a rest on bright white blur that was her shopping bags. They couldn’t have been more than 20 feet away from her. She could potentially fashion a tourniquet and bandage from her new clothes if she could somehow get over there. They would have been clean from staying in the bag, so there was very little risk of infection. Right now the idea of ruining them was the least of her worries. The Ryashi’s right arm was completely unresponsive, so she tried to outstretch her left arm in an attempt to start dragging herself closer. However, she immediately drew it back to her chest as another strong jolt of pain shot up it. Bruises were already starting to form on the appendage; she could feel it starting to swell up as well. Nai-Ran was an absolute wreck. Even if she somehow managed to pull herself over there, she couldn’t possibly manipulate her fingers well enough to perform any sort of first aid. Otherwise, she could have just started ripping strips from dress she was currently wearing. It didn’t matter how dirty the cloth was if she were just to use it to slow the blood loss from what was once her muscular tail. If Nai-Ran did make it out of this alive by some miraculous turn of events, what would her father think? Would he disown her? Surely he wouldn’t go that far; she was still his only child. He would never accept her taking his place though. To have lost such a large portion of her tail like this... Not only would her appearance no longer meet his standards, but one who couldn’t even move on their own would never appear to be strong enough to carry the burdens of those they governed. In any other circumstance she might have been relieved at the thought of him finding someone else for the job. However, for him to do such a thing because she was... broken... There was something about that premise that horrified her. Surely she was just overthinking things, right? Nai-Ran groaned weakly as she lay head back down on the ground. Her mind was quickly filling up with ‘would have’s, ‘could have’s, and ‘should have’s. She had been taught from an early age not to dwell on the past, but she honestly didn’t see much of a future for her at the moment. If it existed at all, it would certainly be a bleak one... ~~~Thread Completed~~~
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Post by Pieter Wolfbane on Nov 15, 2014 22:48:10 GMT
Nai-Ran: 12839 flat power level gained.
Oni: 3672 flat power level gained, 3173 zeni gained, 1 senzu bought as well (full total combined was 7345)
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