Diana had entered The Stone Yard with a single goal in mind: To prepare herself for the coming times ahead; that of Nue, the beast she had used to take down the artificial Bijuu Indira Kujira. With her were her two companions, Irene Moneta and Titania Leveilleur, the three had set out to train for the coming fight ahead.
Irene was currently working on her punching technique, having been given the Kōkinjō during the initial discussions of the plan as she had strength that could nearly rival Nue. Even though she was more used to bows as her weapon of choice, the simple act of punching was something she knew how to do. In fact the thought of taking on such a beast thrilled her.
Titania was currently fiddling with a curious set of three-colored pills that Diana had given her, staring at the gourd with some trepidation. Even if she had the easiest of the three jobs, she was a blacksmith and weapon tester, not a fighter by any means of the imagination. Diana however had faith in her abilities, and she trusted that Diana knew what she was doing.
Diana herself was practicing her sword swings with the Shichiseiken. Even if swordplay wasn't her expertise, she was no stranger to using them given she had been working on swords that could also use explosive tags to enhance their damage and overcome just about any defense. The Seven Stared Sword was a bit awkward to use though, the balance not something one would immediately be able to adapt to unless one was trained for it.
In front of all three of them was a makeshift planning station made of stone with a map on it as well as several lists and plans in the works. the map itself was fairly crude, but it depicted a swamp-like forest with mangroves unending, except for a large trunk in the middle; Nue's dimension. the three Guren Hanarete Prototypes were also sitting to the side, one for each of the women to carry and use for the coming battle.
Looking up from the gourd, Titania motioned to the others. "Hey gals, can we go over the plan again? I know its a good plan, but I can't help but be a bit nervous about all of it. I mean, we all saw what this...thing was able to do to that artificial monstrosity two years ago, will just three tools and their wielders be enough to take down this beast?"
Diana stopped her sets and set the sword to the side while Irene uncoiled the rope from her arm, setting it onto the stone table. "Of course we can do that Titania, Nue is something that I underestimated before, and I do not want to do that again with your lives on the line this time."
Placing her hand on the ground, a new stone table would form, this time with the map rendered into a three dimensional area with the large tree stump in the middle. Placing her hand above four clay figures would fall from her hand; three humans of different colors and a large beast. "Titania, you are the red figure, Irene, you are the blue figure, and I am the yellow figure. Last time when I entered it sent me straight to the trunk that you see in the middle, and I assume it will drop us inside as well. To ease our approach I will create two shadow clones and three C2 crystal dragons so that we can all enter without worrying about initial injury." The yellow figure would split into three as Diana made a few mini amethyst dragons from her hand, flying down to pick up the five figures to represent the plan.
"We will not know whether Nue will be resting inside the tree trunk or prepared to face us as soon as we enter, so we will be erring on the side of caution and assuming the latter. As soon as my clones or I see Nue, we will fire off three dozen crystal rockets from the dragons to severely weaken it. Despite the many times we fought, I could never damage it for long, and as such I am assuming it has the ability to regenerate lethal wounds if need be in the same way a senju can, if not even moreso." The dragons would fire upon Nue, exploding into little puffs of smoke as the Nue clay figure roared. "My hope is that by doing this we will be able to force it to use a massive amount of chakra to heal it's wounds, giving us the upper hand for the next phase of the fight."
"The next thing we'll need to do is pepper it with as many bolts and rounds as we can with the Guren Hanarete Prototypes during that initial explosive entrance, as I am almost certain that once that smoke clears it will start using wood jutsu to try and shoot us out of the sky. I will make sure to have some clay pegasi on standby so the both of you can quickly get down to the ground as I want the beast to have it's attention completely focused on me." With the addition of two grey clay pegasi sitting on the back of the purple dragons, the humanoid figures mimicked the actions of shooting at the smoke cloud before the red and blue ones got onto the pegasi, flying into the air as the yellow figures clapped their hand together.
"Now comes the first hard part. While I prepare their rock golem techniques, my clones will using the Jade Crystal Pentagonal Column and Jade Crystal Wall Eighth Formation jutsus to keep it pinned for the duration, as we need to keep it on the tree trunk so we do not waste any chakra standing on the water. I know that the cost of using the water walking technique is almost negligible, but I learned that when fighting a beast like Nue, every little bit of chakra counts. In fact, I do not fully expect this part of the plan to completely work, as Nue is mostly, if not completely made of chakra, specifically dark chakra."
Irene gave her creator a confused look. "Then why would you attempt this part of the plan Miss Diana? That sounds like a waste of energy more then anything"
"Because by encasing it in crystal it will turn it's full attention onto me, allowing you to eventually get close and catch Nue off guard with the Kōkinjō. Plus, while I may not be able to crystalize it due to the beast's composition, the crystal itself is strong and will be able to hold it for a short while."
1,126/8,000 words
Bijuu Modifiers:
X-Class (Yes): 20
Res. Tech (Human Puppet): 10
Exclusive Techs (5/5): 10
Preparation Post (This thread):10
Additional KKG (Kiokugan): 20
X-Rank Item/Artifact (Treasure tools): 10
Entity Modifier (Nue): -6
Total: +74
Irene was currently working on her punching technique, having been given the Kōkinjō during the initial discussions of the plan as she had strength that could nearly rival Nue. Even though she was more used to bows as her weapon of choice, the simple act of punching was something she knew how to do. In fact the thought of taking on such a beast thrilled her.
Titania was currently fiddling with a curious set of three-colored pills that Diana had given her, staring at the gourd with some trepidation. Even if she had the easiest of the three jobs, she was a blacksmith and weapon tester, not a fighter by any means of the imagination. Diana however had faith in her abilities, and she trusted that Diana knew what she was doing.
Diana herself was practicing her sword swings with the Shichiseiken. Even if swordplay wasn't her expertise, she was no stranger to using them given she had been working on swords that could also use explosive tags to enhance their damage and overcome just about any defense. The Seven Stared Sword was a bit awkward to use though, the balance not something one would immediately be able to adapt to unless one was trained for it.
In front of all three of them was a makeshift planning station made of stone with a map on it as well as several lists and plans in the works. the map itself was fairly crude, but it depicted a swamp-like forest with mangroves unending, except for a large trunk in the middle; Nue's dimension. the three Guren Hanarete Prototypes were also sitting to the side, one for each of the women to carry and use for the coming battle.
Looking up from the gourd, Titania motioned to the others. "Hey gals, can we go over the plan again? I know its a good plan, but I can't help but be a bit nervous about all of it. I mean, we all saw what this...thing was able to do to that artificial monstrosity two years ago, will just three tools and their wielders be enough to take down this beast?"
Diana stopped her sets and set the sword to the side while Irene uncoiled the rope from her arm, setting it onto the stone table. "Of course we can do that Titania, Nue is something that I underestimated before, and I do not want to do that again with your lives on the line this time."
Placing her hand on the ground, a new stone table would form, this time with the map rendered into a three dimensional area with the large tree stump in the middle. Placing her hand above four clay figures would fall from her hand; three humans of different colors and a large beast. "Titania, you are the red figure, Irene, you are the blue figure, and I am the yellow figure. Last time when I entered it sent me straight to the trunk that you see in the middle, and I assume it will drop us inside as well. To ease our approach I will create two shadow clones and three C2 crystal dragons so that we can all enter without worrying about initial injury." The yellow figure would split into three as Diana made a few mini amethyst dragons from her hand, flying down to pick up the five figures to represent the plan.
"We will not know whether Nue will be resting inside the tree trunk or prepared to face us as soon as we enter, so we will be erring on the side of caution and assuming the latter. As soon as my clones or I see Nue, we will fire off three dozen crystal rockets from the dragons to severely weaken it. Despite the many times we fought, I could never damage it for long, and as such I am assuming it has the ability to regenerate lethal wounds if need be in the same way a senju can, if not even moreso." The dragons would fire upon Nue, exploding into little puffs of smoke as the Nue clay figure roared. "My hope is that by doing this we will be able to force it to use a massive amount of chakra to heal it's wounds, giving us the upper hand for the next phase of the fight."
"The next thing we'll need to do is pepper it with as many bolts and rounds as we can with the Guren Hanarete Prototypes during that initial explosive entrance, as I am almost certain that once that smoke clears it will start using wood jutsu to try and shoot us out of the sky. I will make sure to have some clay pegasi on standby so the both of you can quickly get down to the ground as I want the beast to have it's attention completely focused on me." With the addition of two grey clay pegasi sitting on the back of the purple dragons, the humanoid figures mimicked the actions of shooting at the smoke cloud before the red and blue ones got onto the pegasi, flying into the air as the yellow figures clapped their hand together.
"Now comes the first hard part. While I prepare their rock golem techniques, my clones will using the Jade Crystal Pentagonal Column and Jade Crystal Wall Eighth Formation jutsus to keep it pinned for the duration, as we need to keep it on the tree trunk so we do not waste any chakra standing on the water. I know that the cost of using the water walking technique is almost negligible, but I learned that when fighting a beast like Nue, every little bit of chakra counts. In fact, I do not fully expect this part of the plan to completely work, as Nue is mostly, if not completely made of chakra, specifically dark chakra."
Irene gave her creator a confused look. "Then why would you attempt this part of the plan Miss Diana? That sounds like a waste of energy more then anything"
"Because by encasing it in crystal it will turn it's full attention onto me, allowing you to eventually get close and catch Nue off guard with the Kōkinjō. Plus, while I may not be able to crystalize it due to the beast's composition, the crystal itself is strong and will be able to hold it for a short while."
1,126/8,000 words
Bijuu Modifiers:
X-Class (Yes): 20
Res. Tech (Human Puppet): 10
Exclusive Techs (5/5): 10
Preparation Post (This thread):
Additional KKG (Kiokugan): 20
X-Rank Item/Artifact (Treasure tools): 10
Entity Modifier (Nue): -6
Total: +74