Human Once More (Open)

[Ryu Hime]

Hakuren is from the village of Andaran. It is a village of spell casters, though they are a little untrusting to outsiders. Much like how Tsuchimakado cast metal jutsu with talismans, the people of her village use magic circles. These magic circle are scribed out of what is her village calls mana. Mana is the fusion of spiritual and physical energy and in the shinobi world it is referred to as chakra. Though she spends power to write the circle it is now her mana that powers the spell. Symbols and kanji within the circle are used to gather power from celestial bodies and other forms of spiritual energy. Some spells require her to constantly have her mana flow into the magic circle in order to sustain a spell. Some rather unique spells require certain constellation and heavenly bodies to be present in order to work properly. Tonight there is a full moon and a few key constellations and planets will be visible: Ghilan The Guide, Asha'belannar The Wise Woman and Era'harel The Demon-Mage. With these three constellations on a full moon night she will be able to perform a ritual that will allow her to bend the powers of the demonic curse placed upon her to her will.

She scribes various kanji in the open spaces and then points to the center of the magic circle with her hand. What emerges from this magic circle was three girls. They seem to be a ghosts of little girls no older than five. Their skin was as pale as one who has never seen the sun in her life and hair as white as freshly fallen snow. Their eyes were like pools of sapphire that seems to stare into one’s soul. On their forehead was a mark; a crescent moon in crimson red. Within their hand was an ornate mirror. It was circular in shape and was as big as their heads. A silver dragon frames the looking glasses. However the moment was quite short lived for they both instinctively transforms into a copies of their summoner immediately after being summoned. One could have easily missed it with an inopportune blink of an eye.

The three clones gather around her on this scared night. Each of them hand an index finger glowing with chakra. Hakuren braces herself for what was going to happen next. Each of the three clones then scribe their own specific seal on different part of her body: Lunar, Terra and Hell. Through Hakuren body has learned to adapt to having curse seals placed upon her, have three at one time was simply excruciating. She howls in pain as they scribe, but soon they were done. Once they were finished the clones vanish and the shadows seems to engulf Hakuren. When the darkness finally reseeds Hakuren would find herself much more human looking again.

 

[Megumi Tanigawa]

Megumi had been “volunteered”, to close up shop for the night. Ever since the boss met that special someone, the man’s been slacking on his shop. She have him placing more responsibility on her now that she’s working toward her headband.

Locking the shop, up for the night. She waved to the other merchants doing the same. “ Hey shop, that asshole ran off to meet his true love again eh”? Turning around, she would be faced with a large scruffy man. The behemoth of a man, easily towered over the small academy student. Megumi smirked and spoke in a joking tone, “ yea i told him, if he runs off again i’m going to burn down his shop and let him run off with her and the insurance money”. The giant man gave off a hearty laugh as he hands her a paper bag. “ Here’s what you ordered, don’t know how your grandfather can stands your cooking”. Swiping the bag and walking off. “ He does not have a choice, unless he wants to make it himself”.

Making her way home, the streets were almost vacant save the few late night partiers and the village watch that observed from the shadows. As she cut through the training grounds, she came across a flickering of light. Whatever was causing it was not any kind of light from a candle or flashlight, it looked more chakra based. While it was not uncommon for other ninjas to practise after hours. Megumi was curious to see what was going on, maybe she might learn something new. As she approached the source of the light she took care as to not stay in the open and use whatever was available as cover.

Peeking around the cover, she spotted some sort of ritual. She was unsure what was going on as she could see three dark figures scribing onto another form. Whatever was going on the lord howls from the ritual, did nothing to comfort Megumi in her thoughts on the event that was occurring in front of her. She would be sure to report what had happen to one of the watch, but first she had to get out of the area safely.

 

[Ryu Hime]

Looking at her hands she could see herself becoming human again. Though unseen the truth of what she has done will soon become apparent. With the heavenly bodies and the curse seals she was able to manipulate the demon chakra fueling her curse. She would split the demonic chakra into yin and yang and seal one of these halves into her finalized egg. She is unsure a child could withstand the dark half enough to survive to bring to term. So naturally she takes the Yang and gives the child the better half. The curse was so weaken that she was no longer wolf-like at all; her claws, enhance smell and etc. were all gone.

The dark chakra she kept seems to now act like a separate chakra pool that would be toxic to anyone other than her. Because of the gradual increase in strength the curse has placed on her, she has grown a resistance to it and other toxins. She pulls a kunai that was imbedded into a wooden dummy used for practice. She imbues the weapon with the demonic chakra and throws it into the green. All the grass around the blade wither and die leave a dead patch in the lawn. It would seem that if she were to imbue her chakra into a sword the blade would be considered poisoned.

Unaware of the girl presence she continues to test her new found powers. She wraps her entire body in a demonic aura that would completely protect her from harm. She even creates extra arms out of demonic chakra thus allowing her to wield multiple weapons. There was many things she could do now that she couldn’t do before, but she did not want to expend her new charka pool too much. It was then when she decide to call it a night that she notices a presence. She could see a living soul peeking from the corner. “It is considered rude to spy on people.”

 

[Megumi Tanigawa]

Watching The women as she wrapped and formed the dark chakra into weapons and armor. While it looked very effective and impressive, the way in which it had been performed and the events priour gave Megumi a bad feeling about the whole event.

As the women looked to be finished her training, all Megumi would have to do is wait for her to leave. Unfortunately her skills in espionage were not up to the task as the demonic women looked directly at her and scolded her about her nosy behavior. Trying to keep her cool and not show the women that she was afraid of her. “ It is, and i apologize, i only came to check the area due to your pain screams”. Walking backward slowly and she continued to speak. “ I see that you are fine so i’ll just be on my way now”. Turning around and putting the academy in between her’s and the women's vision. Megumi would quicken her pace as soon as she was out of sight.

Balling down the streets, cutting through a few alleyways and moving to high ground. She would catch her breath while using the high ground to searched for the women that she interrupted. As she looked around she clutched the worn grocery bag that had braved all of the girl’s rapid movements. Inhaling heavily, as she continued to look for the women unsuccessfully. Thoughts for setting up trip wires around the area or signaling the village with an explosive ran through her mind. Megumi knew that the women was much more skilled than herself, and she had to calm down and think how to deal with the possible threat.

Taking out Ibuki and Akemi. Hopefully she could create an opening to attack or flee if the women was still on her trail. The small area that was the top of the building, would not give the women a lot of room to move with Megumi and her puppets holding most of the territory. “If she could pressure the women and set up a sure fire hit, for a explosive paper, she might just see another sunrise. Though she could just be overreacting and they are not an enemy, and i’m just overreacting.. Again”. Thinking to herself as she held her ground for an attack or another misunderstanding.

 

[Ryu Hime]

Hakuren accepted her apology, though she could not help but notice the nervousness of the student. Could it be that this little one was scared of her? As the girl goes out of sight Hakuren giggles to herself. “How cute. I bet she has quite the imagination. Though she better be careful not to let it run away with her.” She had to wonder what a child her age was doing up at this time of night in the first place. Either way she felt no need to follow the young girl and it was getting late. She had things to do tomorrow so staying up all night was not an option. With a big yawn she decides to head back home to the clan house district.
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[Megumi Tanigawa]

Standing utop of the roof with her front line of puppets at the ready, and a paper bomb being her only option. She would hope that it would bring help, however would she even be able to last long enough for the help to arrive? Shaking her head trying to keep focus and not let doubt affect her ability to survive. Keeping a watchful eye for her surrounding, she was to afraid to drop her guard for even a moment. Thinking back to the dark chakra she sensed and saw, Megumi was afraid of what such a jutsu could do to someone.

Time would pass as she continued to stand atop the building refusing the move from her defensive line. She did not know how long she stood their for and did not care. Looking around her eye would catch one of the watch moving to her position. Focusing on the man that moved closer towards her position. She checked for any signs of a transformation. Noting seeing any signs did not prove anything as the person she came into contact with obviously was more skilled than her, and could easily hide her transformation from her. It could even be a genjutsu for all she knew. As the man reached the top of the building she was on, Megumi watched the blacked haired man like a hawk. The man seeing that the young girl was obviously on guard, we disarmed himself and raised his hands and he moved away from his weapons. “ Young lady, i am no threat to you however, i don’t think you on edge for know reason. Why don’t you tell me why someone your age is standing on top of a building in the middle of the night heavily armed”? Giving Megumi a smile as he spoke calmly to her. While she wanted to believe that he was here to help she could not take any chances. She would explain what had occurred previously that has lead her to her current predicament.

The watchman would listen to her words and lower his hands once in her story, only to have Megumi jester for him to keep his hands up. “ While i could see why someone would be put in a defensive state after what you saw, however by your description it sounds like the person you encountered was a dark sage. While they action may look malevolent, the practice is not frowned upon or illegal here”.

Letting her guard down, as it was her overreactions to the unknown. If she had learned anything from this encounter was that she still had a lot to learn about the ninja world and the rest of the world as well. The watchman would move over to her and pat her head as she looked down defeated and embarrassed. Even though it’s allowed, from the pain she heard from the woman placing these seals on herself. How could anyone think that such a practice was safe.

(( Unless anyone else has anything to add i believe this thread is officially over ))