Lightweight Division Match 7- Soma vs Reiyna Shai'arran

[Zaulyl]

One of the stranger fields was used for Match 7 of the Lightweight division-the Storm Field, an arena that required tact and strategy to use effectively. The arena itself was fairly standard-solid stone floors, the same range as most of the other matches; what set this arena apart were the 10 foot high iron poles spaced 5 feet apart that littered the arena.

Each of these poles were positively charged, which made them moderately effective magnets. These magnets would attract electric attacks, such as Raiton jutsu; perhaps more important to combat, however, was their effect on metal weaponry. The use of metallic weaponry in such a field would prove to be a greater challenge than usual, as the magnets strewn about would cause the weapon to swerve in the case of projectiles; in the case of handheld weaponry, the magnets could interfere with the various user's abilities to swing their weapons properly.

In the Southwest corner, Soma would be deposited by his aides; Reiyna would be left in the Northeast by her own. Between the two, a judge stood, ready to begin the match once the participants were ready-and, of course, around the arena were the fans, more than ready to cheer their champion to victory.

[LightKage]

The cloaked figure would reach the steps before tossing off covering. Reiyna had done well to differentiate herself from Shinoa. The most noticable difference in style had to come from the fact that the woman's skin and eyes seemed...corrupted. Of course this was a the effects of the Evil Aura Pill. However, her opponent would not get much of a view of her face hidden behind Chikyu Zenaki's Mask Form and already emitting an aura. This would indicate that the woman consumed two of the E.A. pills prior to the battle's beginning. But it mattered not. It was not the only change Reiyna underwent. Unlike the mock chuunin attire Shinoa normally wore in battle situations, Reiyna took the time to wear something a little more relaxed and loose with a belt housing all of her weapons in their sealed form, save her other belt item. Around her wrists she wore leather arm guards which would give minor protection against any slashing. If anything, it was for more for looks than anything. Of course the outfit was color coordinated blue with black accents to mimic her current skin. Underneath the clothing, the genin had decided to bind her buxom bosom so that it would be less of an indication of who she was. Lastly, Shinoa decided to cut her hair short and die it black. In ever sense, Shinoa was no longer herself, but Reiyna Shai'arran. And it was Reiyna who stepped into the ring.

Upon entering, the woman would take note the strange tugging feeling emitting from the field. It felt...familiar. But no matter how she looked at it, Rei wasn't able to put a finger on why she knew what this feeling was. She'd have to deal with it later as she stepped forward and survey her surroundings as she waited for the match to begin.

OOC:
-Reiyna walks in with Evil Aura Pill active for her body and Chikyu Zenaki's Mask Form, which is all on her face. This is done to help hide her true identity.
-Looks like this but the clothes and arm bands [which are thin leather] are coloured blue with black accents. Bosom is slightly bound
-Feels pulling feeling but hasn't figured out why
-Waits for match to begin

[TwilightRiku]

Soma Hoyujun
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There different types of shinobi, which can be simplified into two simple groups those who care about there personal goals and those who fallow orders, one would assume that flipping a coin would all it would take to understand these warriors, but it's not, if it where that easy one would find little logic in seeing why one of these trained men and women would purposely put themselves in the limelight by participating in a tournament.

Soma Hyoujun, a young shinobi from Hyouga had his reasons, he didn't care about the fame or the power, but the ability to prove himself, cause he was going to change history, he's going to change the past, but before he's capable of finding the true history, he needs to get to his match on time, something that seem to be challenge to the young boy, he was late, and sadly not fashionably late, but strait out late...

Thankfully his match has not started which meant he could calmly make his way to his arena, he regretted not going back to the Sparrow to stock up with new tools, or taking time to polish his skills, but that was life, life didn't bend to your whims, it did not give warnings or handicaps, life came at you at full force whenever you where ready or not.

Walking into the field his eyes looked around his opponent was already here, his whole body felt a soft, yet noticeable tug as he moved into his spot, not to big, yet not to small, the poles could be a blessing or a curse it all depended on what game he planned to play, a white cloak hid Soma's appearance, the cloak he whore Frost sparrow, even though under, he didn't bring, much with him, he had weaknesses and he had strengths, and above all insane enough to hold back while fighting a Jounin...

His eyes locked on his opponent, a smile carving it's way onto his face, "Vae victis", one demon against another, one who swore not to shed his human skin till time was right and another who stood before him, masking it's human identity, his hands rested on his waist calmly, relaxed, he was ready, this was time to prove that he deserved the Hyoujun heritage.

[Zaulyl]

The judge seemed to have gotten zapped by one of the pillars, and his body turned white before vanishing completely. Around the two fighters, the word "Begin!" rang out, seemingly from the pillars themselves. Battle on.

[LightKage]

Rather than rushing into the battle like most would, the genin would calmly exhale. It was only now that she realized how cold this area was, considering it was outside in Hyouga. She needed to deal with her opponent before her body started slowing down. But that did not mean she should jump immediately into the jaws of destruction. No, for right now the genin would be content with surveying the field for a moment and sizing her opponent up with her only working eye. She needed to know whether or not she could possibly overpower the genin with just brute strength. But she also needed to know whether or not he was capable of out smarting her from the get go.

In that case, Shinoa would reach into her belt and toss out a single smoke bomb in front of her. Once it began spreading across the area, the woman would first create 10 regular bunshin, who would all begin running into the smoke and out of it towards Soma. As for the real woman? She stood back and flipped through handseals for Smoke sight to let her see through the cloud. After which, she would wait and begin stretching to keep her body temperature up. Idleness let the cold seep into her bones. Something she really didn't want.

[TwilightRiku]

As the match was announced Soma's hands locked together to do the signs for Koori Bunshin, a clone appeared on his left and right side his eyes watching the world before him, he could still feel that tug against his whole body, taking a deep breath he concentrated his mind a body, he needed to win, for one very simple reason, he needed the money from the bets to get his expedition going, it was a selfish though, and sure he could have bet against himself and lose, but there was the real money would come from two or three wins.

The clones where ready for combat there stances different yet effective, hidden under there cloaks they held flurry bombs, one in each hand. The real Soma on the other hand slowly began walking forward, unworried about the smoke his opponent just wanted a little privacy it was understandable he was a scary person.

Raising an eyebrow he noticed something interesting, ten of his opponents walked out of the smoke yet he didn't see one bit of disruption, sure the smoke was moving and expanding and would slowly thin out till nothing was left, but when anything that size runs some of that smoke is bound to move or at the very least cling, the stone floor didn't provide him with any reason to believe these where the most basic of clone techniques, by the time he would hear anything they would be to close, but ten was a hefty number for anyone trying to control an elemental clone.

"Tsk tsk, Shift into turbo", he declared more for him than to anyone else as he rose his hands locking them together while continuing to move forward his two clones standing behind him, he was taking a big risk, but it was a bigger one to use up that much chakra for an elemental clones, unless his opponent is a ninjutsu prodigy and even so it was a deadly gamble.

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OOC:
-Made Two ice clones
-Ice clones prepared with flurry bombs
-Soma started to walk, fallowed by his clones
-Use Magical brain power to assume his the many people charging at him to be fake.
-Did a power ranger turbo reference

[LightKage]

Curiouser and Curiouser. The boy, rather than attacking the clones head on like most of her opponents had in the past seemed to be rather nonchalant about the introduction of ten clones. A smile played upon the lips of Reiyna as she canceled her technique. Instead, the woman would create a Ho Bunshin. Strangely enough, it would not be the one attacking directly. In the fading moments of the smoke bomb's life, she would place three of her own explosive tags against the clone's spine and activate them to impact. Leaning over to her clone, she would whisper a few commands to her own servant before it silently nodded.

The real woman would then charge towards her adversaries, careful to weave in and out of the poles, feeling the tug grow stronger every time she grew close. To them. However she thought little of it and focused on reaching her targets. Nearly halfway there, the genin would draw three items. The first was a scroll that held two of her Cloudy bombs. The next thing she drew was a single ring for on of her Freaks. Slipping that onto her right hand, the genin would wait before unsealing the item before finally drawing a necklace for Never Seen and slipping around her neck.

Once she finally got close enough, Reiyna unsealed the scroll and activated the 2 Cloudy bombs to 2B. This meant that even though the smoke would be released, the explosive tag inside would not activate immediately. Something she was banking on. Tossing both at the area where Soma and his two copies stood, she would toss them and allow the gas to cover herself and the clones. A grin would slip out as she unsealed the gauntlet form of Freaks and unattached on end of the chain, before rushing into the smoke. Of course this wouldn't be without a detriment. A slight cough would emit as she tried to breathe, but that was not an issue for now. Using Chain Manipulation, she would control the length of chain despite the strange tugging as she whipped it around through the darkness, using the serrated chain to attack each soma until the real one remained. However, she would not remain for long but retreat out of the smoke, but keeping the doujutsu active.

OOC:
-Smoke Sight still active
-Deactivated the 10 clones
-Created 1 ho bunshin and put 3 explosive tags along its back
-Smoke almost done fading
-Ho bunshin does nothing
-Real attacker ran at Soma and his clones while grabbing 1 scroll with 2 Cloudy bombs, 1 ring for Freaks on her right hand and a single Never Seen necklace around her neck.
-Unsealed bombs and set them to 2B [smoke immediately activates but 1 post before explosive activates]
-Threw bombs at area and rushed into the smoke, coughing once
-Unsealed Freaks and unraveled one side of chain before using CM to whip at Soma and the two clones
-Retreated after a while since she knows the bomb's second effect will activate soon

[TwilightRiku]

OOC: I'm sorry for the wait, I feel like an idiot, I'll do my best to make this interesting for you
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Soma's eyes did not falter, not his emotions, when he saw the ten clones vanish in thin air, he knew two things first that his gamble had payed off, those where fake, and the real one most likely was still hiding in the plume of smoke as nothing had given him the smallest warning that she had left that area, even so he needed to be careful.

His firm march continued fallowed by his clones, he continued to feel the tug of the spikes around the stage based on the feeling he was starting to have an idea what it could be, but till he had a good answer he would avoid the foolish task of assuming. It didn't take long before his opponent launched another offensive, demonstrating the difference between there styles, as she charged at them, he had little to believe this was another of those kiddy tricks, this had to be one of two, or an Elemental clone, or the real deal, any of the two could potentially be deadly, with the speed the she was approaching or she was one quick lady or this was the real thing, his mind keep trying to decipher that one detail could completely change his plan, this was a game of chess and right now he didn't know if this was a tower or the Queen...

The moment he separated his hands, both clones acted, making all four bomb explode closely, at one fourth the strenght each, he basically had the full effect, Soma could feel his blood rushing, and his body turning around gears as it siphoned chakra in order to allow him to see through the plume of ice, his bloodline for the first time in his life actually doing something helpful.

Soma did nothing to detain or slow down Shinoa's approach, he just waited patiently inside the plume, it was up to her to continue or slow down, one of his clones curled his fist, while the other held onto the hilt of his blade.

If Shinoa's planned continued as she intended the smoke from her Cloudy bombs would for the most part overpower Soma's own snow cloud, a grin formed on Soma's lips as he began to run forward, his clones taking the lead, curling his fist the fist clone in moved blindly inside the plume only to be taken out by chain, the second one fared somewhat better as it drew his blade when it began to run buying the real Soma a brief second, he could not see what was attacking, but that clang from his second clone before it joined it's brother in a pile of snow, made it clear it was metallic...

"Shit..."

Speeding up as much as he could he did his best to get out of the plume of smoke, not seeing his opponent and not being able to breath right, was not the best way to fight, specially when it was clear this was his opponent home turf, he needed to get close, yet away from the smoke, as he got close to another pillar an idea crossed his mind. "Oi! That's the best you can do? Hide in Smoke?", he taunted standing close to the one of the pillars.

OOC:
- Continued to walk forward
- Had clones use there Flurry Bomb
- Activated BL Skill: Frozen Sight
- Waited for Shinoa to get closer
- Shinoa's attack takes down Clones
- Soma ran away from the smoke and toward a magnetic pole where he waited.

[LightKage]

Immediately after hitting the second clone, the red haired genin would jump backwards, narrowly missing the explosion that dispersed the smoke completely. Her brow would dip as her opponent spoke. Hide? Shinoa? He knew nothing of the woman. And she planned on making him eat his own words. However she would have to do it soon. With the introduction of his flurry bombs and the Hyougaan cold air, Shinoa's felt her body start to slowly weaken. Even now she knew that her punches would not be up to full strength. This was far from favorable for her.

Deactivating her smoke sight and wrapping the chain around her gauntlet, the Kurohoshi brawler would draw two kunai from her pockets. The first would be thrown towards Soma where he stood. Its intended purpose was not to truly maim her opponent, but to see what was going on with the tugging that she had been feeling since entering the arena. With an eye kept on the boy, she would then dart in the direct he moved in, if he decided to dodge. What she lacked in ranged ability Shinoa made up with closing the range and performing take downs. Hopefully her opponent wasn''t as fast as she was. Else she'd be in trouble, especially with her cold weakness kicking in.

Once within range of her opponent, two things would occur. Assuming that he dodged, Shinoa would notice that her kunai stick to the metal pole, confirming her fears that this entire field had a magnetic pull to each pole. The second thing was that Shinoa reactivated Chain manipulation on her chain and lash at her opponent when within 20 feet. However, even though she had to expel more chakra and apply more concentration to keep her chain from missing its target, it was not to attack, but to wrap around his arm or neck so that she would have a close link and keep always at bay. Of course, this didn't mean that things would not go wrong. Her plans rarely went according to plan.

If she managed to attach the chain to him, she would attempt get closer by tugging at Soma with both her remaining strength and CM. Once close to him, she would try to stab him in the chest with her remaining kunai.

OOC:
-Shinoa leaps away as tag activates
-Deactivates Smoke sight because both smoke fields are gone
-Loses 1 tier in her strengths due to cold weakness
-clone still does nothing
-Shinoa draws 2 kunai, tosses one at Soma, but intends to make him dodge
-Rushes towards Soma if he runs from the strike
-Confirms they are in magnet field of Soma did dodge
-Uses CM to have chain try to wrap around Soma, preferably the neck area or an arm, whatever is closer.
-Tries to tug Soma closer with her strength and Cm
-Attempts to stab him in the chest cavity
-Attempts to get close to soma if chain connects and stab him in the chest

[Zaulyl]

It's been 3 days since the last reply. Light, all of your previous actions succeeds as if Soma was standing still. Please continue.

I was told to give you more time, TR. So post when you can.

[TwilightRiku]

OOC: Thanks Zau, thanks Light =]

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Soma didn't know if his taunts would work, not all shinobi where arrogant, yet sadly it was the fatal flaw of many, they where prideful and arrogant, and trusted on there abilities more than anyone should, the harm was not trusting on there own skills it was reaching that point where they practically believed they where unstoppable, sadly even though Soma was well aware this was the flaw of many, he could not see this too was his own flaw.

As the first Kunai whizzed toward him Soma didn't have much time to react, he expected her to charge not to start throwing things, this was a bad omen indeed, since she had shown skills in mid range combat, and areas he didn't exactly excel in, his body shifted as fast as it could, yet he did not want to move to far from the pole this would prove to be his downfall as the cold metal of the kunai grazed his arm, not willing to go through that again he clenched his hand, chakra flowing to his ring, the temperature around him lowering, right now he didn't need to worry about his heat cold, but there was another trick up his sleeve, his armor the was made out of frostweave and the colder it was the harder the material got.

His cold eyes saw his opponent dart at him, fast, he knew drawing his sword was not the best option, as she got close enough to attack he watched her offensive chain's headed his way a stupid idea crossed his mind as he darted forward, raising his arm to block the chain, he hoped that between the frostweve and the metal fins on his arm guard the damage would not be to great...

If she still decided to attach the chain, he keep pouring chakra into his ring in order to keep his armor strong, and seemingly struggle as she pulled him close, once close enough, he would activate the Hell raiser on the hand that had not been chained down, blue frosty blades would swing at her in order to deflect her Kunai, while he, stomped down at her feet, cause really, this was his best plan in such a short notice...

OOC:
-Waits Next to the Magnetic Pole
-Tried to dodge Shinoa's Kunai, gets cut on the arm.
-Activates his Ring's special effect, in order to activate the special effect of his armor.
-Uses arm to try to block Chains
- If chains wrap around faints struggling in order to get closer
-Activates his Nekode to block kunai while stomping down in order to try to hit her feet.

[Zaulyl]

Light's taking the hits. TR, please continue posting as if your actions succeeded.

[Garzett]

OOC: Objection!

TR hasn't posted for much longer than 3 days. Thus, Light may respond as per normal. Basically... there is no auto-hit. Light can respond as if he never passed the timeframe.

If nobody posts within the next 72 hours, we'll call the match and declare the victor then and there.

[Garzett]

Spoiler!

OOC: Light has informed me that he will be unable to post and is stepping out of the World Tournament as a participant and NPC'er. I'm calling the match to move it along.

"Soma is victorious!" The judge declared, the arena resetting.

The participants would be free to leave and could now prepare for the next match-up.