Throughout Naikishin's travelling he found himself starting to get tired of simply wandering around the world, meeting fewer and fewer challengers that would face him. It had been a few months, actually, since he had last faced someone honorably. As his wandering has brought him to Lightning country, and even having had done quite a few tasks for what he had learned later was a contract for the foxes, who didn't have much of an outward problem for his personality. Though as it started to get late in the day, he'd decide to set up a small camp to wait for morning. As he sat down on a stump of a tree that had long since been cut down, he would stretch a bit as he started to think on the memorable fights he had, which were mainly a group of people against him.
"Why is it that I'm not much able to find someone who's enough of a challenge by themselves? That really shouldn't be something that's too much to ask for." He said, while crossing his arms as he continued to sit on the stump. He continued to ponder on what he should do as he was simply looking for someone to have an fight that would keep fufill his want for a strong opponent. "I'll find one eventually, though this wait is starting to piss me off." He said, looking up at the sky as land started to become dark as the sun finished setting. He would soon stand up while uncrossing his arms so that he could go start a campfire. He had the general base of it already made, though he quickly got the wood needed to start and maintain the fire for a while.
A short while late, Naikishin would be sitting on the log again with his arms crossed, as the fire crackled every now and again. He looked up at the sky as the moon was just rising over the horizon before he heard a sound that seemed fairly closeby, which he immediately put his gaurd up. Another similar sound happened within a few seconds after the first had happened, which meant, at least to him, it was fairly possible that another group of people were after him. He soon stood up and uncrossed his arms, looking in the direction the sound came from, or at least where he thought it had come from. "Please tell me this isn't one of those groups of people who want to try and beat me for having beat all of them..." He said, as a few bushes had started to shake, which would cause him to grab the hilt of his sword and draw it. The moment he had drawn his sword, the creature that had been causing the rustling of the bushes had stopped for a moment, though had soon walked into the light of the fire. The creature that had been making the rustling had seemingly just been someone in what resembled a turtle of the ninja variety. Though this metal turtle held a giant hammer-type weapon.
The metal turtle of the ninja variety wielding a giant metal club didn't move for a moment in which Naikishin would wait for it to start moving towards him, because he was respectful towards his opponents, unless they were repeat customers to his beatings. After a few moments after the original turtle had arrived, several more had also arrived so that there was a total of eight of them, though they stood on the edge of the bushes. 'Either they're going for one-on-one or they're going to all rush me at once...'<i></i> He though, as he heard the bushes behind the eight metal turtles rustle once more, though who or whatever had arrived wasn't seemingly going to fight until an opportune moment.
Either way, Naikishin stayed ready in which the first of the eight visible opponents in front of him started to move towards him, though he didn't know exactly what to expect from this enemy and its giant hammer. "Let's go... Here's hoping all of you put up a worthy fight!" He said as he started to run towards the enemy with his sword, Hoshitesson, in hand. As he moved closer and closer to the creature in the iron armor, it would raise the weapon it wielded in the air above its head and started to run as fast as it could, which wasn't fast at all, towards him. "You'll have to think of something better than that!" He shouted towards it, moving to the side as it had swung the weapon down at him. While it did miss, it did cause him to stumble slightly from the shockwave it cause when it hit the ground. He would swing Hoshitesson at the iron clad enemy a few times, seemingly doing damage as it had staggered it slightly in which he would keep the onslought of attacks until he had been hit by a swiping attack. Though as he slid back from the attack, the first iron turtle had fallen, which meant that the seven suits of armor slowly made their move towards him, though it gave him enough time to unlock his body's potential. As the seven enemies approached him, he would feel himself start to bleed slightly from the hit he had taken from the first of the iron clad soldiers.
Even with how out numbered he was, he wasn't worried. He quickly used the technique that made it almost seem he was using a technique or two just to move so fast. As the slash from the technique hit, he would turn around so that he'd be able to use another technique that would allow him to cut through armor, though he would have to hold out using the technique to finish all seven of the opponents at once. One by one, he would cut through though he would be taking a hit from each of them which would cause him to accumulate more and more wounds which would cause him to bleed more and more.
As he finished cutting through the last of the armor wearing 'soldiers', which he would be panting by now. "Damn it... Come out here now, you coward!" He said, still panting as well as bleeding from each place he had taken a hit from the enemies he had just fought and killed. As Naikishin stood several yards away from the bushes where the rustling initally happened, he waited for whoever had moved into the bushes to move into the open, though after a few moments as well as a breeze moving through the area, he started to get impatient in which case, he would move towards the bushes and cut them with his sword, hopefully trying to get whoever was in there to move.
As the bushed moved from being cut with the sword, it revealed that there wasn't anyone in the bushes anymore. "Damn it, they must have moved when I was fighting his... metal turtles..." He said, growling slightly as he looked up to the sky to try and slow down his panting before he heard a voice, though he couldn't pin point where it had come from. "Behind... -ou..."
The voice cut in and out slightly through out the second word, which did shock Naikishin as he didn't know who it was, let alone where it came from, but he decided to humor it, in which he turned around to see a fairly large humanoid figure sitting over thirty yards away. He growled slightly to himself as to took several steps towards the... man, or so he presumed. He seemed to be just taller than him, though it was more like a foot or three taller than him. The size of the person didn't much matter to Naikishin, it was more so their skill with a weapon.
"I've defeated your underlings, since you've sent them after me, but now you're the one who fights!" He spoke, pointing the tip of his sword at the man. The man started to stand up slowly, which was still fairly quick, and had done a slight bow before quickly attacking. Naikishin didn't expect such speed from the man, though. He was barely able to block the first strike with his sword in time, in which the man had followed up with a second attack which had connected with him. He continued to bleed from the previous encounter which had taken its toll on him. He had coughed up a bit of blood from the impact of the hit and him hitting the ground. As he stood up, he watched as the man moved towards him, in which he slashed at him and had just kept the mans weapon just out of reach, before attacking the man, though it almost seemed as if he hadn't done any damage.
The man quickly moved back after the attack and had done a jump attack towards him. "Dodge!" As Naikishin heard this, he quickly dodged, which meant that the attack had just barely missed him. He started to pant again as he swung at the man, twice this time, as the recovery time for the jump attack was fairly long. As he panted and bled, he watched the man take his sword, stab himself in the abdomen, and pull it out, which caused the sword to be surrounded in a red and black aura, though it didn't seem to effect the man all too much. "What the fuck? How the fuck does that not affect you?!" He said, in both anger and surprised.
As a moment passed, after the event of the man stabbing himself with his sword to give it some sort of buff, Naikishin would be doing all he could to not get hit by it, though no matter how hard he tried, he would get hit by the end of the slash or take it head on.
After several moments of trading blows, Naikishin was now bleeding heavily while the opponent seemingly hadn't taken as much damage. All that Naikishin could tell from the battle so far was that the buff only lasted a few moments before it ran out, though it seemed that he was doing more damage to himself by buffing his weapon than he was doing to the man. "What are you?!" Naikishin shouted, before running as fast as his wounded body would let him. As the man started up an attack and launched it at him, he felt his weapon move, presuming that he was the one moving the weapon. Though as the two weapons struck, the voice that Naikishin had heard twice before would speak once more to him.
"Strike him with full force! You're doing more damage than you think!" The voice spoke, this time it was crystal clear though. As Hoshitesson's blade ran along the blade that the armored and masked man wielded, he would knock it away just far enough where he could hit the man in the torso to do enough damage to him to stagger him. He seemed to have ample time to strike the man with all the strength once more as well as hopefully end the fight, though being behind him wasn't the best thing but Naikishin hadn't even thought of what would or could have happened next.
As Naikishin moved to slash towards the man, the man had recovered faster than Naikishin had anticipated and had moved to buff his weapon a split second before Hoshitesson had made contact again. As his blade made contact, the man had sent his own sword through him to hit his opponent. The man's blade which was almost as long as he was tall, had pierced Naikishin through the abdomen as well, though it hadn't gone through anything vital. "Are you alright?!?" The voice, chimed in again, having a bit of worry in it. He slowly removed the sword from his abdomen and moved a few feet from the man and coughing slightly before panting extremely heavily. "Whoever... you... are... I'm fine..." He said slowly, as his body started to catch up with the wounds it was inflicted with. He moved so that he was on his hands and knees as he continued to bleed out, though he had some time before it became too life threatening. Though even with the wounds, he could feel as if he had put part of himself into his weapon to help him though this battle. He got his wish though, he found someone who was a challenge.
As soon as he recovered the energy he needed, he would do what he could to fix himself up and head to the closest place he could find to get healed up fully.
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"Why is it that I'm not much able to find someone who's enough of a challenge by themselves? That really shouldn't be something that's too much to ask for." He said, while crossing his arms as he continued to sit on the stump. He continued to ponder on what he should do as he was simply looking for someone to have an fight that would keep fufill his want for a strong opponent. "I'll find one eventually, though this wait is starting to piss me off." He said, looking up at the sky as land started to become dark as the sun finished setting. He would soon stand up while uncrossing his arms so that he could go start a campfire. He had the general base of it already made, though he quickly got the wood needed to start and maintain the fire for a while.
A short while late, Naikishin would be sitting on the log again with his arms crossed, as the fire crackled every now and again. He looked up at the sky as the moon was just rising over the horizon before he heard a sound that seemed fairly closeby, which he immediately put his gaurd up. Another similar sound happened within a few seconds after the first had happened, which meant, at least to him, it was fairly possible that another group of people were after him. He soon stood up and uncrossed his arms, looking in the direction the sound came from, or at least where he thought it had come from. "Please tell me this isn't one of those groups of people who want to try and beat me for having beat all of them..." He said, as a few bushes had started to shake, which would cause him to grab the hilt of his sword and draw it. The moment he had drawn his sword, the creature that had been causing the rustling of the bushes had stopped for a moment, though had soon walked into the light of the fire. The creature that had been making the rustling had seemingly just been someone in what resembled a turtle of the ninja variety. Though this metal turtle held a giant hammer-type weapon.
The metal turtle of the ninja variety wielding a giant metal club didn't move for a moment in which Naikishin would wait for it to start moving towards him, because he was respectful towards his opponents, unless they were repeat customers to his beatings. After a few moments after the original turtle had arrived, several more had also arrived so that there was a total of eight of them, though they stood on the edge of the bushes. 'Either they're going for one-on-one or they're going to all rush me at once...'<i></i> He though, as he heard the bushes behind the eight metal turtles rustle once more, though who or whatever had arrived wasn't seemingly going to fight until an opportune moment.
Either way, Naikishin stayed ready in which the first of the eight visible opponents in front of him started to move towards him, though he didn't know exactly what to expect from this enemy and its giant hammer. "Let's go... Here's hoping all of you put up a worthy fight!" He said as he started to run towards the enemy with his sword, Hoshitesson, in hand. As he moved closer and closer to the creature in the iron armor, it would raise the weapon it wielded in the air above its head and started to run as fast as it could, which wasn't fast at all, towards him. "You'll have to think of something better than that!" He shouted towards it, moving to the side as it had swung the weapon down at him. While it did miss, it did cause him to stumble slightly from the shockwave it cause when it hit the ground. He would swing Hoshitesson at the iron clad enemy a few times, seemingly doing damage as it had staggered it slightly in which he would keep the onslought of attacks until he had been hit by a swiping attack. Though as he slid back from the attack, the first iron turtle had fallen, which meant that the seven suits of armor slowly made their move towards him, though it gave him enough time to unlock his body's potential. As the seven enemies approached him, he would feel himself start to bleed slightly from the hit he had taken from the first of the iron clad soldiers.
Even with how out numbered he was, he wasn't worried. He quickly used the technique that made it almost seem he was using a technique or two just to move so fast. As the slash from the technique hit, he would turn around so that he'd be able to use another technique that would allow him to cut through armor, though he would have to hold out using the technique to finish all seven of the opponents at once. One by one, he would cut through though he would be taking a hit from each of them which would cause him to accumulate more and more wounds which would cause him to bleed more and more.
As he finished cutting through the last of the armor wearing 'soldiers', which he would be panting by now. "Damn it... Come out here now, you coward!" He said, still panting as well as bleeding from each place he had taken a hit from the enemies he had just fought and killed. As Naikishin stood several yards away from the bushes where the rustling initally happened, he waited for whoever had moved into the bushes to move into the open, though after a few moments as well as a breeze moving through the area, he started to get impatient in which case, he would move towards the bushes and cut them with his sword, hopefully trying to get whoever was in there to move.
As the bushed moved from being cut with the sword, it revealed that there wasn't anyone in the bushes anymore. "Damn it, they must have moved when I was fighting his... metal turtles..." He said, growling slightly as he looked up to the sky to try and slow down his panting before he heard a voice, though he couldn't pin point where it had come from. "Behind... -ou..."
The voice cut in and out slightly through out the second word, which did shock Naikishin as he didn't know who it was, let alone where it came from, but he decided to humor it, in which he turned around to see a fairly large humanoid figure sitting over thirty yards away. He growled slightly to himself as to took several steps towards the... man, or so he presumed. He seemed to be just taller than him, though it was more like a foot or three taller than him. The size of the person didn't much matter to Naikishin, it was more so their skill with a weapon.
"I've defeated your underlings, since you've sent them after me, but now you're the one who fights!" He spoke, pointing the tip of his sword at the man. The man started to stand up slowly, which was still fairly quick, and had done a slight bow before quickly attacking. Naikishin didn't expect such speed from the man, though. He was barely able to block the first strike with his sword in time, in which the man had followed up with a second attack which had connected with him. He continued to bleed from the previous encounter which had taken its toll on him. He had coughed up a bit of blood from the impact of the hit and him hitting the ground. As he stood up, he watched as the man moved towards him, in which he slashed at him and had just kept the mans weapon just out of reach, before attacking the man, though it almost seemed as if he hadn't done any damage.
The man quickly moved back after the attack and had done a jump attack towards him. "Dodge!" As Naikishin heard this, he quickly dodged, which meant that the attack had just barely missed him. He started to pant again as he swung at the man, twice this time, as the recovery time for the jump attack was fairly long. As he panted and bled, he watched the man take his sword, stab himself in the abdomen, and pull it out, which caused the sword to be surrounded in a red and black aura, though it didn't seem to effect the man all too much. "What the fuck? How the fuck does that not affect you?!" He said, in both anger and surprised.
As a moment passed, after the event of the man stabbing himself with his sword to give it some sort of buff, Naikishin would be doing all he could to not get hit by it, though no matter how hard he tried, he would get hit by the end of the slash or take it head on.
After several moments of trading blows, Naikishin was now bleeding heavily while the opponent seemingly hadn't taken as much damage. All that Naikishin could tell from the battle so far was that the buff only lasted a few moments before it ran out, though it seemed that he was doing more damage to himself by buffing his weapon than he was doing to the man. "What are you?!" Naikishin shouted, before running as fast as his wounded body would let him. As the man started up an attack and launched it at him, he felt his weapon move, presuming that he was the one moving the weapon. Though as the two weapons struck, the voice that Naikishin had heard twice before would speak once more to him.
"Strike him with full force! You're doing more damage than you think!" The voice spoke, this time it was crystal clear though. As Hoshitesson's blade ran along the blade that the armored and masked man wielded, he would knock it away just far enough where he could hit the man in the torso to do enough damage to him to stagger him. He seemed to have ample time to strike the man with all the strength once more as well as hopefully end the fight, though being behind him wasn't the best thing but Naikishin hadn't even thought of what would or could have happened next.
As Naikishin moved to slash towards the man, the man had recovered faster than Naikishin had anticipated and had moved to buff his weapon a split second before Hoshitesson had made contact again. As his blade made contact, the man had sent his own sword through him to hit his opponent. The man's blade which was almost as long as he was tall, had pierced Naikishin through the abdomen as well, though it hadn't gone through anything vital. "Are you alright?!?" The voice, chimed in again, having a bit of worry in it. He slowly removed the sword from his abdomen and moved a few feet from the man and coughing slightly before panting extremely heavily. "Whoever... you... are... I'm fine..." He said slowly, as his body started to catch up with the wounds it was inflicted with. He moved so that he was on his hands and knees as he continued to bleed out, though he had some time before it became too life threatening. Though even with the wounds, he could feel as if he had put part of himself into his weapon to help him though this battle. He got his wish though, he found someone who was a challenge.
As soon as he recovered the energy he needed, he would do what he could to fix himself up and head to the closest place he could find to get healed up fully.
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