The dusk falls heavy on a day of bloodshed and death. Three operations are executed by the end of the first day, taking on the Tenouza forces as the night falls; a shinobi specialty. This mission occurs right as the sun settles into the horizon and night fall begins to stretch her wing across the lands of Lightning. Traversing a swamp during the day is already deadly enough, but to traverse one at night that is also occupied by enemy forces? Some would call it a foolish endeavor. However, leading a great deal of the Kumogakure military is non-other than the immortal night queen Sennin Futotta. Her ability to heal and take a horrifying style of combat to the Tenouza in a land of death and damp could prove to be the edge the enemy doesn’t see coming.
The normal route out of the hidden village had seen better days. Between the recent Missing attempt and the cannon fired from Tenouza, the path was full of rubble and looked as if it had already seen the end of a war on their doorstep. Despite this, for the Kumo shinobi, getting down and into the Heartlands is still nothing to them. Highly trained men and women follow in the wake of a giant as they outskirt the lands held by a daring noble on the swamp’s eged and dive directly into the the drooping trees of the marshlands. On the way, the group meets with signs of war. The land nearby is razed and small camps of what appear to be Soldiers in the far distance dot the landscape. Far enough away not to see the shinobi execute their night attack, but close enough to Kumogakure to be worried about. These camps, however, are not the goal of Midori and her group as the night quickly comes into cover whatever tracks the marsh doesn’t naturally hide.
After twenty minutes of executing stealth as best the shinobi can, the army finally runs across one of the few, but prosperous, swamp towns. Its full size can be seen from the trees and it’s easy to discern that the original inhabitants have abandoned it; quite clearly, recently. Signs of a struggle are marked all across the town as splashes of blood mark both walls and the wooden piers the town stays a float on. There is no lights or signs of Tenouzans, but all because their enemy has taken to a Blitz form of tactics doesn’t mean they don’t know the secret success of stealth and surprise attacks…
[The Village appears safe…]
The normal route out of the hidden village had seen better days. Between the recent Missing attempt and the cannon fired from Tenouza, the path was full of rubble and looked as if it had already seen the end of a war on their doorstep. Despite this, for the Kumo shinobi, getting down and into the Heartlands is still nothing to them. Highly trained men and women follow in the wake of a giant as they outskirt the lands held by a daring noble on the swamp’s eged and dive directly into the the drooping trees of the marshlands. On the way, the group meets with signs of war. The land nearby is razed and small camps of what appear to be Soldiers in the far distance dot the landscape. Far enough away not to see the shinobi execute their night attack, but close enough to Kumogakure to be worried about. These camps, however, are not the goal of Midori and her group as the night quickly comes into cover whatever tracks the marsh doesn’t naturally hide.
After twenty minutes of executing stealth as best the shinobi can, the army finally runs across one of the few, but prosperous, swamp towns. Its full size can be seen from the trees and it’s easy to discern that the original inhabitants have abandoned it; quite clearly, recently. Signs of a struggle are marked all across the town as splashes of blood mark both walls and the wooden piers the town stays a float on. There is no lights or signs of Tenouzans, but all because their enemy has taken to a Blitz form of tactics doesn’t mean they don’t know the secret success of stealth and surprise attacks…
[The Village appears safe…]