Crystal AE Activation RP[/b]"]
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What the eye saw inside the... well, eye of the storm left Nanami flummoxed. A whole other storm raged and a great electric barrier at the very centre and only confirmed what they already knew. This was not nature's work. It distracted her for a beat or two. Especially when she could
see,
feel as her creation was
killed, toss aside like useless junk. And distractions were rather deadly.
Had she been alone on this venture, she might have been incapacitated then and there, left buried alive by the sands. She barely had time to blink as a stone ricocheted toward her like a bullet, right between the eyes. Getting blinded by the broken glasses of her spectacles would have been the least of her worries, had it hit. Thankfully, she was not, due to Katsuo's quick reflexes.
It did not stop there though as a torrent of water tried to drill through her. It was Makoto's shields this time that would save her.
The conclusion came quick.
This storm, rather whoever was behind it, was trying to kill them and it was trying to start with her first. That pissed her off. Royally. And the doctor was often one with a great deal of patience and a temper that often only came to simmer, at most. Never boil. But, oh, how she
boiled right now.
Her anger was momentarily forgotten however. There was no time, as one thing happened after the other. First the stone and then the water. And now, she found herself weightless. Not exactly floating. But leaning towards being flung around like a rag doll.
Katsuo's gravitation technique didn't quite kick right away. The delay was long enough that the good doctor was several feet off the ground, flailing. In her panic, in her admitted inexperience compared to the
real shinobi, she lashed out. Her shadow expanded and distorted, tendrils of darkness reaching out towards the others with haste. That did more harm than good, at the moment, as it sped up how the others were lifted off.
Heights. Heights! She never liked them. Not one bit! Especially when she was high up, not of her own volition.
When the gravitational distortion cancelled out though, her blind panic subsided momentarily. Enough to realize crashing down to the ground would be very, very painful with the environmental conditions.
Stupid. Stupid!
They'd fall to the unforgiving sands, battered by the storm or struck by the lightning because of her. Because of her and this would be all for nothing, just because she
fucking panicked.
She had to rectify that.
Time seemed to slow down as her mind got working.
Even though she was only part Nara, she had certainly gained their renown intellect and analytical abilities. Her brain worked on all cylinders, firing one possibility, cause and effect, one after the other at dizzying rates. She dismissed them at the same rate as well, the moment she saw a flaw.
「 Think, Mizushima, think. Think fast or there won't even be enough left of you for them to get DNA identification from. Think-」
「 Cell nucleus.
Nucleus.
Nucleation.
Crystals.
Crystal.
Sand.
Lightning.
Glass.
Shelter.
Insulator!」
As unorthodox, as strange how her mind worked... she had her methods. She silently thanked her (un)lucky stars at the horrifying amount of general text she had read in her spare time, filing away such knowledge. She'd never thought she'd put them to practical use, of course. "Hold on, you three! Trust me!" she roared, pulling them higher with her. On purpose this time. It left them vulnerable for a few moments. Hopefully, Makoto's shields would hold long enough.
But she focused, the roar of the storm fading to a small whisper in her ears and everything blotted out, washed in bright light as she looked straight at the electric barrier.
Focus.
She had been thought to
control. Chakra was nothing more than a
medium, the
fuel. She repeated the process of making the Crystal Eye like before. But this time, in a grand scale, letting her chakra trap the sand that swirled around them. It was easy enough, with how much of the stuff there was. The idea now was to let it flow tightly around them like a... tunnel.
So as lightning struck... or tried to, at least, it hit the sand. One thousand eight hundred degrees Celsius and chakra in place of silica, bonded and formed the flimsy structure into a glass tube. It was a Crystalline Passage (though a Fulgurite Slide would have been more accurate), to protect them from the raging storm and the lightning, even as they were pulled down by gravity.
Although, due to their descent, the tunnel came out to be more of a slide rather than a proper tunnel. A slide that shrunk and grew, following Nanami's movements with her limited range and focus, so staying close to her was a definite must as she tried to steer them
through the electric barrier in their transport and shelter.