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Post 6: Garuda
"W-what..." Shigeko was awestruck, she couldn't muster a word, she felt like the air was being drawn from her body. This creature towered over them substantially, at least 15 feet tall. She, or it, carried this strange smile on her face, there were no benevolent feelings behind it.
"Garuda, child born from the gathering of demon and god of the sky, you have awoken!" Their attention turned to Ja'kill who, while his voice was still monotone, had a euphoric facial expression. None of them understood what he meant, who was Garuda, where did this beast come from, are they going to survive this encounter, will Shigeko still get paid?
"Feast on these sacrifices I have brought you, and you shall lay torment on the world." He waved his arm toward his defeated lackeys, whose purpose was made clear to Shigeko. This also clearly meant that the four of them would be sacrifices as well.
Ja'kill didn't bash an eye when he was picked up, the beast started from his head and ate down his body, her second sacrifice, the first being the lackey that was sent in to unleash her. She began to inhale, though it wasn't a normal intake of breath, it was like a vacuum attempting to suck everyone. The lackeys were easily sucked in, being unconscious, however the four of them had tight grips on anything in their vicinity.
"I'm still hungry." Its shrill voice sounded whiny, almost as if it were a child that was still in its early stages of learning how to speak. It made everything even more disturbing, a creature of this strength with the mentality of a child was not good.
"We have to kill it." Shigeko declared. Shin understood perfectly but Noa and Red were both unsure and unwilling. They wanted to run but Shigeko needed to let it be known that if they do anything but fight, death was inevitable.
They were able to get their strengths and weaknesses in order, to avoid friendly fire, and took their positions. There were plenty of large rocks and cave trees around, in case hiding was necessary. Shin and Shigeko took their position behind them while Red took charged at the creature with Noa not far behind.
Once red had the beast's attention Shigeko moved away from the rock she was standing from and into the open, prepping her ninjutsu while Shin waited until it was necessary. Red wasn't useful damage wise, which was fine, he was able to keep its attention while Noa attacked her from behind. The beast began to catch on, however, and began to release an AoE ability around her, which damaged Noa significantly, while fast and good with a sword she was still quite frail. Shin started with his ranged medical jutsu while Shigeko was able to use her own wind ninjutsu from afar.
When Shigeko used
-Wind Scar- Garuda's attention turned to her for a moment, releasing her own wind scar in return. Shigeko wasn't expected that and was caught off guard, though the damage wasn't significant, a quick heal from Shin got rid of that damage. Whether this being was using jutsu in the traditional sense or, like Shigeko, was attuned to wind was not quite apparent to the team of four, but that was unimportant.
After pummeling the beast for a bit, and it seemingly only taking a quarter of the damage they had expected to deal she became exceedingly angered.
"Enough!" She flew into the air and behind Shin and Shigeko. The area began to rumble with energy as she began to inhale. Taking the clue Shigeko, Shin, and Noa hid behind nearby rocks, however Red, being a knucklehead, charged ahead toward Garuda.
She released a loud screech and a sharp blast of wind blew across the room. Red took the blunt of this damage and was propelled far away, crashing into the wall. Strangely the rocks in the area was able to withstand all the damage. If any of them had taken the attack like Red did they would have been dead for sure, Red was definitely close to death but Shin utilized any and all abilities in his arsenal to get him back to, at least, half efficiency. This only meant they had to kill her faster.
They repeated the same cycle until she she became angry again, flying to the opposite side of the room and began to charge her attack. This time Red caught the cue and hid behind a rock with Shin, while she was charging Shin was able to heal Red a bit more before she released her attack. While the rocks were able to withstand the large attack they were clearly beginning to crumble away. Their time was running out.
Garuda was definitely becoming weaker, and she knew it herself. She began to use her abilities more sporadically, Shigeko wasn't sure how long Shin could keep both Red and Noa healed up. Shigeko realized she could no longer be quite as conservative with her chakra. Before she could act on this epiphany Garuda flew to the center of the room and began giggling creepily. She began to create a tornado within a close proximity of her, realizing what she is doing they hid behind rocks to avoid the massive damage that was incoming. The tornado blew outward, destroying all rocks and causing damage to each of them. While it didn't kill them there was no longer any protection from rocks or trees, they were out in the open and were clearly out of time.
Shigeko looked behind her and saw wind pick up and slowly began moving toward the center of the room, if they didn't kill the beast before the winds reached them then it was clear they would die. Shigeko, while limited, began using her strongest jutsu attempting to kill the beast before they died themselves. Noa went all out, though stabbing the ground and releasing some strange jutsu that began to speed Garuda up. At first Shigeko thought this was terrible until the beast seemed confused and unable to properly control her movements.
Shigeko took notice upon the impending doom and realized their time was up. Using what little chakra she has left from spamming her most powerful jutsu she delved into her knowledge and pulled a jutsu that she believes is unique to her. She has yet to see anyone else imitate it, not until she met this demon however. Collecting vast wind around Garuda she cautioned everyone to back away, while Garuda was confused by her increased speed Shigeko tore the last bit of her health apart.
A hellish screech was heard before... nothing. Silence. All that was left of Garuda were feathers... and the necklace. Seeing the state of everyone a fight was not in question, they wouldn't have enough chakra to fight each other at this point. however Shin was nearly passing out due to overusage of chakra, and both Red and Noa had taken too much close ranged damage. What to do?
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