The Enemy

Drew and the others walked back into the bar as Era heavily threatened Dev, Reilly's not quite not a sister. "Why you?!" Reilly started as he saw the act against Dev. He drew his pistol and fired three times. As he drew however Drew himself muttered "Letta." as he adjusted his orange sunglasses. The bullets froze in the air as they left the barrel then fell to the ground. "Let's not do anything rash." said Drew calmly "she is clearly a hunter perhaps she could help us with something. I know of a night club that's being used as a massive vampire safe house. I was going to clean it out, but I could use some help." Phil smiled and said "I'm in." and Reilly answered "sounds good." then Drew turned to Ezra. "And you?" She smirked smugly and said "Thanks for the heads up but I don't need you people slowing me down." insultingly. Drew leaning in so his head was parallel with hers and his voice could only be heard by her "You think I actually need you? You stupid half breed, you're nothing, not as lowly as a human but not as high up as even the weakest pure blood vampire. Don't forget your place, and don't forget that there are species better than a pathetic half blood with a god complex." After coming away again, his steely voice still ringing in Ezra's ears he bared a cold smile and said "If you want to tag along you may, but stay out of my line of fire." His voice was temporarily warm again and gentlemanly then he spoke in his vocalized ice once more "you look too much like those who I wish to kill." Ezra's eyes were wide with shock. Shortly afterward Drew walked out of the bar, followed closely by Reilly and then Phil. "What was that all about?" asked Reilly. "Just putting a half breed in her place." he said coldly. This was a tone which Drew did not normally speak, he usually hid is cold demeanour and acted more human, but every once in a while Drew reminds those around that he is still a shade.

Reilly stepped inside to grab his coat and perhaps a few clips, and Drew decided to wait inside. Moments later Reilly came out of the back room, now donning his coat, and with smoke in his mouth. An instant before they left the store Reilly called to Pop's that he'd be out for a while, then almost walked into Phil as he entered. "Whoa careful buddy, wouldn't wanna ruin your classy clothes" Reilly sarcastically remarked. "May we help you?" Asked Drew kindly. Phil replied "Just wanted to stock up on ammo and find out the location of some local vamps." Reilly sighed and walked behind the counter "what kind of ammunition?" he asked. Phil leaned in and whispered "This may seem kind of odd but I'd like some silver SCIMTR rounds... for a shotgun" Reilly raised an eyebrow and answered "Riight" before reaching for a box with a white cross on it, and a small arrow like marking. He opened the box on the counter and took out several smaller boxes with what looked like shotgun shells inside. he took out two of the smaller boxes and said "There's 12 rounds in each of these. They are 125 euros per box. how many can you take?" Thinking for a moment Phil answered "5" for a moment Reilly was thrown off, Drew had occupied himself reading a chart of all the ammunition the store had near the door. Reilly typed out the order on the register and gave Phil 5 small boxes of ammo. Then said to Pops yet again that he was heading out. Drew looked over with a smile and they both walked out after Phil had paid. Phil followed behind asking "where are you going?" to which drew explained "Out for a drink, maybe to clean up a little." Phil asked "can I come along?" This time Reilly answered "Alright, but you're paying for yourself." Then they all made their way toward Reilly's favourite pub.

OOC: I?m at your place Forest "Ahhh Paris!" Drew exclaimed walking along the snowy roads. The sun was shining brightly. Drew had taken a slight detour on his way to England to make a stop in Paris. A wine glass in his hand and his red coat blowing n the faint wind, Drew had a wide smile. He tapped a man on the shoulder to point out "Isn't French wine one of the best made??" The man raised an eye brow then replied "Oh oui oui!" Drew continued grinning and sipped his drink while admiring the scenery.[I] "It's a pity vampires will ruin this wonderful place." [/I]he thought to himself. He then looked at his watch "Hmm only 3 hours until my ship leaves." he said to himself. He took another sip of wine and headed toward England once more. He took a private limo to the French city of Le Havre. On the docks he stepped out and walked to a large cruise ship. He walked on and got to his suite, a large room with a double bed . He slept for hours, he couldn?t remember the last time he actually had slept. And in what seemed like no time at all he arrived at Brighton England. He caught another limo to London. "Here we are sir." said the limo driver. Drew nodded and stepped out. As the limo drove away drew saw the glories London. Then he took out a small crumbled piece of paper, read it, and began walking down the road. Soon he walked up to a shady looking ammunition store and opened the door. ?May I speak to the owner of this establishment?? he asked kindly.

OK, the rp is up now post away. Try getting your characters in one place so we can all meet up. _____________________________________________________________________ Drew walked down the streets of Venice admiring the water ways and beautiful night sky. His night was disturbed however when he heard a scream. Instantly he recognized it as human and female. "And just when my night was going so well." Drew spoke aloud as he changed course toward the scream. Not any were in the streets at night any more, one of the reasons Drew enjoyed them so much. He heard the scream again, more enunciated this time "Help!!! Someone help me!!" called the girl. He found her as she ran onto the sidewalk he was on "Hello ma'am" Drew said kindly. The girl looked no more than 19. Drew wondered why she was out so late to begin with but had no time to fulfill his thoughts, as they were interrupted by a vampire. It ran after the girl ,calling "it would be over faster if-" Stopping as he saw Drew, the girl now hiding behind him. "Out of the way! No one needs you to ply hero." The vampire said angrily. "counter offer, you leave." Drew replied. The vampire lunged forward but Drew did not flinch. He waited, the vampire made it mere inches from Drew before any action was made. In a flash Drew pulled out his black pistol and elbowed the vampire in the head with one fluid motion. The vampire was up in seconds but by then Drew had taken aim. "What are you!?" Demanded the vampire. "I'm not sure I understand. Rephrase the question." Drew answered. The vampire fumed and shouted "No human is that fast!!" The girl behind Drew took a step away, not noticing before but in actual fact Drew moved barely fast enough to see. "Tell me why you would care first," said Drew "you probably won't be among the living long enough to acknowledge the information." He continued. "Why you!! I don't care whatever you are, you'll be dead soon and it won't matter to anyone!!" The vampire foolishly attacked again, he didn't make it 2 feet before Drew ha pulled the trigger and send him flying backward into a pile of ember and ash. "Thank you mister. Thank you for saving me." The girl said before running off again, presumably to her home. Drew blew the smoke from the tip of his gun's barrel and continued walking. "I remember hearing something of a vampire issue in England. Perhaps I'll head over there sometime for a little winter cleaning." After speaking with himself again Drew began to whistle as he strolled down the sidewalk.

[B]Name[/B]- Andrewselvok [drew] [B]Age[/B] - 3,734 [B]Personality[/B] - Gentlemanly to a tee an rather aristocratic, Drew is a rather kind guy for a shade and loves company along with fine wine. He believes vampires are beneath him and hates them for their over cocky god complex's. Deciding it was his job to show them their place. [B]Appearance [/B]- [URL="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/gooseberry_01/Alucard8.jpg"]Drew[/URL] [B]Weapons[/B] - [URL="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/gooseberry_01/01.jpg"]two pistols[/URL]: the handles have pictures of the virgin Mary to stop vampires from trying to use them, as well the ammunition used is a blessed sterling silver round with a holy water filled core. specifically for vampires but still tough enough for a human as well. [URL="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/gooseberry_01/Knife.jpg"]twin knives[/URL]: the blades are a combination between silver and one of the original nails in Jesus' cross, as well the wood in the handle being from the cross itself. [B]Race[/B] - Shade [B]Bio[/B] - Living for 25 years, the man once known as josah began studying the dark arts. He began summoning spirits for power and forgot the power of the spirits themselves. One day on his 26th birth day h tried a rather daring curse to summon an ancient spirit, the spirit did form but it overwhelmed Josah and took possession of his body, thus the shade Drew was born. Drew lived for hundreds of years trying to find the meaning of existence and the best sensations in life. One of them, Drew decided, was tasting a fine vintage wine. He grew accustomed to always having a bottle around, not to get drunk but merely the flavour. Growing older and older through the ages Drew found that money was essential in having a happy life, and began a business career, he bought ad sold stocks properties, and his most prized possessions, vineyards. Eventually building up a fortune.. Currently he has two homes, one in Italy overlooking his finest vineyard yet, and one in Ireland on the beautiful Irish mountains. He often travels between them. He also recently took up vampire hunting, though not interested enough to hunt and search himself he often decides to follow hunters already out, helping them when need be.

The year is 2010, humans believed they were the strongest species on the planet for ages by now, they had no inclination that something else could be stronger, faster, or more powerful then them, but of coarse, they were wrong. Other beings began emerging all over the world, many of them thought to be only myth. The beings that appeared first were a shock to all, they were vampires. People didn?t believe they existed even after they arose, that is until they began the murders. Thousands were slaughtered by the vampire race, they over ran cities killing all. Then ?The Guild? was formed. A group of highly trained humans with specially made weapons to hunt down and kill vampires, among other things. Soon after the vampires came forth they were driven back by The Guild, the humans took every opportunity to cover up attacks making the public forget the vampires ever came. As more and more new races emerged, there became a low life underbelly within the entire planet, it was the underground in which these ?creatures lived. There were vampires, demons and various other manners of beings. They were forced to hide from the humans, fearing The Guild would kill them. To the non-humans, everyone in The Guild and more were known as ?hunters? for the obvious reason that they hunted and killed the non-humans. The hunters found justification thinking that the non-humans were simply monsters and must be stopped. Even though almost every non-human is just as intelligent and sophisticated as any human. The only beings that really needed to kill humans were the vampires, and thus were viewed in a bad light, no pun intended. There are now several races of hunters, they hunt other races of coarse, all but humans that is. Recently however the so called monster vampires have been coming up with a way to fight back, they have started their own group known as the ?Blood Runners?. The blood runners are specifically strong vampires who intend to overthrow the human race entirely, and of coarse make vampires the dominant species. They have safe houses all over, building up their forces for a huge strike. Fortunately the humans have gotten word of the rebellion and are making an army to fight back. The war between humans and vampires had began, the world has been thrown into a state of chaos, the guild no longer able to keep the secret of the vampires and demons from the public. The war has started, which side are you on? ------- The Guild has started recruiting and placing agents in the areas where The Blood Runners are suspected of being. The Blood Runners are also taking applicants in a more ?forceful? manner, basically kidnapping people and turning them over onto their side. While civilians and demon inhabitants are starting to try to defend themselves in this quickly escalating war. You are now thrust into this war, fight for your side, your beliefs, and above all your life. [B]Name[/B] - (I think you will know how to do this one) [B]Age[/B] - (nothing younger than 18) [B]Personality[/B] - (Pretty self-explanatory) [B]Appearance[/B] - (Picture or a VERY detail description) [B]Weapons[/B] - (no more than 4 weapons) [B]Alliance[/B] ? (for humans only, are you a guild member or freelance, all vampires are considered apart of the blood runners) [B]Race[/B] - (vamp, human, demon, half-breed, or something else, pm me if you have any questions on your race) [B]Bio[/B] - (Must be at least two paragraph long)

[B]Name:[/B] Desmond Toal [B]Age:[/B] 18 [B]Gender:[/B] Male [B]Personality:[/B] Serious to the extreme degree, Desmond has virtually no sense of humour, though according to his brother he can smile. Desmond is also not one for wasting time, utterly despising laziness viewing those with it as a waste of existence. Thus Desmond is very intelligent, spending all of his free time either reading or writing about something that interests him. His family and few friends can vouch for Desmond's highly competitive nature, not backing away from any reasonable challenge, and often taunting others. [B]Appearance:[/B] [U][URL="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/gooseberry_01/devilman.jpg"]Desmond[/URL][/U] However Desmond does wear clothes, usually found in a deep black coat layered under a black cloak and large hood. [B]Rencarnation of:[/B] Sa [B]Power:[/B] Manipulation of darkness. [B]Weapon:[/B] [URL="http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x307/Haseo41193/scythe.jpg"]Scythe[/URL] [B]Bio: [/B] Desmond first discovered his powers at the age of 13, he was being bullied by some of the neighbourhood kids and was running toward his home. Suddenly the ally in which he ran was cut off on both ends by the bullies. They slowly walked closer to him as they called names and yelled threats. You see, Desmond had neglected to do the other children’s' school work for them, and so they were mad. Seconds before the kids got t him Desmond looked up at the sky and wished with all his might that he could just fly away...Then it happened. A gust of formless shadow bellowed from within Desmond and large black wings sprouted from his back. He took off like an arrow fired into the sky, but alas, had no idea what he was doing. He flew for about 30 seconds then crashed in a near by field. He didn't dare tell his parents about the mysterious wings but he did entrust his brother with the incredible secret. His brother of coarse wouldn’t believe a word of it at first, and so Desmond went to his home away from home, the town archives. He read book upon book, ancient scrolls and every type of literature between looking for an answer. Which he eventually found in a dusty old book half made of dust and ravaged by the ages. It told the adventure of he 8 gods and their betrayer, and how the reincarnations would one day come again. But unfortunately for Desmond, they did not tell him of adventure he himself would soon be twisted into.

Dante was sitting in his new office, he hadn't named the store yet and simply had no ideas for the title. Soon after a man walked in wearing a dark suit and holding a book. Dante immediately noticed a large scar on the man's face, then the man began to speak "Are you Dante? Son of Sparda?" Dante sat up straight and asked "Where did you hear that?" with a determined tone. The man continued "You're brother sent me to give you this invitation." As he finished the man put his hand on the table in front of Dante. With what seemed like nothing of effort, the man flipped the table. Dante quickly kicked off and landed on the table sideways catching his faithful side arm Ivory. When Dante aimed up however the man was gone. Dante Casually got off the table and put his gun in the back of his pants as he caught the falling pizza that was on his desk a moment ago. He picked out one piece and went to eat it, when suddenly it seemed like the room was shattering around him. Various reaper style beings baring scythes stood around him then instantly attacked. Dante was pierced several times and stood silently for a moment. Then in a flash Dante punched the reaper in front of him with enough force to behead it. Dante caught the being's head and spun it on his finger as he walked forward dragging some of the creatures with him. For a moment he paused taking a scythe blade from his chest and throwing it into the fan behind him, it slashed a few demons on it's way down revealing they were sand Dante took interest figuring this would be an interesting fight and decided he should have some music. He made his way over to a jukebox in the corner and in a dramatic style said "This party's gettin' crazy!" as he hit a button on the jukebox expecting loud music. Music did not come however, he angrily pushed the button several more times before anything happened and then gave up and just hit the machine. With a flicker of light, it turned on, and began blaring loud rock music. Dante stood, getting a feel for the beat, as more demons appeared in the fashion of breaking glass. When ready Dante turned and stabbed one demon in the neck with a scythe blade sticking out of his arm. as the creature fell he slashed another and kicked threw one with a scythe blade sticking out the front of his shin. He then turned and jumped onto the first fallen demon, riding it like a skate board over and off of his pool table, which had fallen to form a ramp when the kicked demon crashed off of it. While sliding Dante grabbed his other pistol Ebony, and spun shooting various demons on the way. After sliding the demon-board off the pool table Dante jumped off of it and kicked the lower edge of the table itself. Sending the table flying onto it's edge and launching several pool alls threw the air. Dante lifts up Ivory and fires one shot into the cue ball, knocking it into several coloured balls and knocking them into demons. As even more demons appeared Dante grabbed his sword rebellion from a table close by he sliced threw the pool table with ease and kicked the top half into a standing demon then kicked the bottom half across the floor crushing 4 grounded creatures. Dante continued fighting slashing up several demons and shooting more, before heading outside with his coat. He kicked the door open firing it across the road, and walked out. He threw his sword spiralling into the air and donned his coat which had holsters for his hand guns in the back. After catching his sword he looked back and quoted "You guys totally wrecked my shop!" to all the black wraith beings waiting outside. One of the creatures let out a loud wail as a battle cry, absently also creating enough shock to make the shop collapse. "I hope you guys have enough to cover all this." Dante said angrily pointing to the demons with his sword. Before he could start fighting however there was an interruption. A large pillar cracked threw the ground and rose up to the sky. Mean while on top of the pillar. The same man in the black suit throw's off a man very similar to Dante. The other man draws his sword, a katana, and slashes at the man as he falls, creating a large gash across his chest. As the second man fell Dante noticed a group of people running toward him with all manner of weapons, some fire arms, some pipes, there was even a hockey stick or two. "Look, another survivor!" said the guy in the front of the mob. "Come on buddy we're heading to that crazy tower thing to see what's goin? on!" he continued. __________________________________________________________________ OK then, as any fan's will know by now this is an rp based on devil may cry, devil may cry 3 to be specific. The story line is similar but there are a few major plot changes. First, Dante will not be alone, several other survivors are now accompanying him up the tower. Also, the man who got thrown off the tower will be joining you as well fans will know who he is, others will find out. STORY: OK for the people not familiar. There are two words, the demon word and the human world, long ago when the worlds were connected, a powerful demon named Sparda fell in love with a human woman. He wed her and they had two sons, twins, Dante, and his brother Virgil. For the safety of his wife and sons, Sparda sacrificed himself to close the gate between the demon world and human world. Successfully closed the sons laid in wait. Eventually, Virgil, the darker of the two, came across a man named Arkhem, He told of how the worlds could be reconnected. This is a little different but in this version, Arkhem stole Dante's amulet and Virgil?s . He is now using the amulets to reopen the portal between worlds, and Dante has to work together with the human survivors and Virgil to over come their new enemy. The Major parts will be played by me and a preselected gamer. Virgil-myself Dante-Shrader050 Arkhem-up for grabs (Lady isn't really needed but if you're a fan and you want to be her go for it) Zeke47 will be playing nameless demons and more important AI who we'll meet later on. Anyone else who signs up will be a person fighting along side Dante and Virgil. As an added bonus to get more players. Some of the random human survivors may have some history with the demon world and thus may have magic or some sort of powers, like both Dante and Virgil have because they're half demons, though probably not as powerful. [I][U]Sign up[/U][/I] [B]Name: Age: Personality:[/B] [B]Weapons: [/B] (humans have basic stuff but you will probably get something better as we fight high ranked demons) [B]Skills:[/B] (sword fighting marksmanship, and demon powers or other powers with a legitimate back reason) [B]Bio: [/B] (brief history OR a paragraph or two about how they reacted when demons started popping up.) [B]Appearence:[/B] HAVE FUN PEOPLE!!!

Thanks all, your information is very helpfull and appretiated. I do want to know more about the in-game stuff however. The word play is ok and all but me and friends constantly make fun of each other and stuff so trash talk won't work on them. They do however know that I'm usually the best at games. I use this against them, whenever I win by allot I'll note that they can't ever beat me, or they don't have a chance. This works best in SCII when I use Raphael. Anyone who's fought Raphael knows about his parry move, if not then you've never really fought him. I am superb at this move and I can dodge just about everything. My friend was using mitserugi and I killed him slowly over the coarse of about 2 or 3 minutes. But he was completely offencive and never landed a single hit. Eventually I got him to believe it was pointless because nothing would hit me lol. I suppose that's a big area for mind games. But I'm getting a new game soon called virtua fighter 4 evolution. The character I want to master is Goh, he uses judo. For those who don't know judo is a martial art that is almost completely grapples, I'm learning judo in reality so I want to master everything he can do asap. If someone could more thuroughly explain in-play mind games that would do allot of good. Thanks allot though to all who have posted so far, your help is appreciated and will be used whenever I get the chance.

Hmm I see, thanks. SC was a good example and it's funny that uyou mention voldo, in SCII he's my best character. Maybe second best right behind Raphael. Anyway thanks again for the input, if anyone else has anything they wanna add go for it.

Hello fellow gamers of various caliber. I need your help. I love fighting games and with little practice I can master just about any character I like, but there is still something about fighter games that I'm at a loss for. If you read the title you guessed it, mind games. I've been reading online all about different characters and fighting styles in fighter games, and allot of places mention the ability, or lack there of, to use mind games during a fight. There in lies my question, what are mind games in fighter games?? Do any of you know?? If so please tell me, I have no clue, but I want to learn more about these mind games and maybe have an extra advantage the next time I play a friend:).

Name: Mike Johnson Age: 17 Gender: Male Personality: Dark and secluded, usually sticks to himself. Some call him "emo" and a "loner" because he is never seen talking to anyone. He often draws amazing things such as entire detailed blueprints of the school, or some machanical design of a fantastic machine, but if anyone questions him about it he'll hide the picture and walk away without a word. Appearance: [URL=http://s167.photobucket.com/albums/u141/Wizards1rule/?action=view¤t=stones.jpg]Mike[/URL] Bio: As the ship crashed he ran to the center and hid in a small room trying to avoid those who paniced. When all seemed clear, he came out again but cautious to those who came aboard.He lerks in the shadows trying to avoid eye contact and waiting for the iright moment to take action. Weapons: He found an emergancy axe on the ship and is currently carrying it around along with a clip board some paper and a char-coal pencil. OCC: I threw this together very quickly so I may edit it to make it better later.

[B]Name:[/B]Coda Inuzuka, he always has his white wolf Bainco with him [B]age:[/B] 17 [B]appearence:[/B] [URL=http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/49017959/?qo=5&q=kiba&qh=boost%3Apopular+age_sigma%3A24h+age_scale%3A5]Coda[/URL] [B]rank:[/B] jounin [B]kekkei genkai or self-designed jutsu:[/B] These aren't self made but he does and probably will use them. -Four Legs Technique -Piercing Fang -Beast Human Clone (man beast clone) -Double Piercing Fang (with Bainco) (fang over fang) -Man Beast Combination Transformation: Double-Headed Wolf (with Bainco) -Double Wolf Fang (with Bainco) Unlike his relitive Kiba, Coda simply uses a scented smoke bomb to mark targets, this also allows for a surprise attack when preforming the wolf trainsformation attack. [B]bio:[/B] Always looking for a something to do as well as a good fight Coda entered the tournament for fun and excitment.

[B]Name:[/B] Fuzan Hyuga [B]Age:[/B]21 [B]Appearence:[/B][URL=http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/gooseberry_01/Neji_anbu_by_Vhea.jpg]Fuzan[/URL], He looks similar to neji hyuga but wears the traditional ANBU uniform. He has a katana on his back but only because the other ANBU operatives insist his hand to hand skill may not always be usefull. He rarely actually wears his mask but hs it on the side when walking casually to show his rank and hide his identity if need be. [B]Rank:[/B]ANBU [B]Kekkei Genkai or self-designed jutsu:[/B] [I][U]Hyuga blood line trait-[/U][/I] byakugan [I][U]Taijutsu specialty-[/U][/I]gentle fist (eight trigrams etc etc) [U]Newely designed trigram moves:[/U] [I][U]Eight trigrams numbing palm-[/U][/I] sends chakra into heavily nerved areas (like the spine) to make a body part such as an arm or leg to become numb and useless. [U][I]Eight trigrams lethal palm-[/I][/U] Doesn't lock all chakra points but hits stategic points like the heart and lungs to deal serious damage like wise. [B]Bio:[/B] He found out when he saw a flyer blowing around town. He decided to enter because his father made it to the last match in the last tournament. He will not hesitate to kill his opponant if victory hangs in the balance but if he can win without lethal force he won't kill for the heck of it.

OOC: sorry I haven't posted in a while. After Shinaru left Gaaza went over to more closer examine how Kurono was handling himself. Which turned out to be quite well. Kurono went for the final blow, he made a large arch with his hands and the bird puppet took a nose-dive toward Adoma from directly above. At the last second the bird moved and took a curved approach from the side displaying razor blade edges on the front of it's wings. A moment before it cut Adoma in half a large cloud of sand blew by. Like a living sandstorm in stalled between the puppet and Adoma throwing it off coarse and then formed to create Gaaza. "Stop this Kurono!" Gaaza exclaimed with a little anger in his tone. This frightened Kurono as Gaaza hardly ever showed negative emotions. "True enough, you have won." Gaaza continued. Adoma frowned at his defeat but Gaaza kindly explained. "Kurono, my cousin here, uses his weakest puppet first then the middle power puppet finally he might bring out the strongest of his collection if highly needed. He has at the very least, held you at bay with black hawk his first puppet. But has it occurred to you that both of his other puppets are much more powerful than the one he's used so far?" Adoma thought it over and realized he would need to greatly improve his jutsu is he were to take on Kurono in a real match. Gaaza turned to his cousin "Give him the antidote." Kurono frowned slightly at being told what to do but obeyed and took a vial of green liquid from his pocket. Then he walked over to Adoma "This is the cure to the poison I used, don't try to replicate it for if you face me again, I consistently modify my poison to make it more effective and I can almost guarantee the same antidote won't work twice." Adoma was a little freaked out at the complexity of Kurono's actions and poisons but took and drank the antidote. Near instantly he got his strength back and the fatigue practically disappeared. Gaaza continued "If you only with to use my sand for that jutsu you used, by all means." He made a soft-ball sized sphere of sand form in front of Adoma. "but be warned, if you try mimic my abilities for your own selfish gain, I will stop at nothing to hunt you down and kill you." The sand ball suddenly flashed into a sharp spike facing Adoma, and Gaaza grinned waiting for his reaction.

This is a tournament of ninja. A massive battle held every 50 years. Challengers from all the shinobi villages gather in the leaf village to decide which ninja shall become the rank of sannin. All ninja may compet, chunin and jounin are most common, but genin with potential may be fighters as well. Fuzan walked around the leaf village looking for something to do, he had become jounin a while ago and the genin teams were still a fe months away, as were the chunin exams. He recently got back from a mission and the hokage didn't have anything for him for the next couple of weeks minimum. genin were doing missions around town, painting fences and getting groceries for seniors, chunin were wondering or also doing missions and jounin were away or bored like him. As he walked a flyer blew over his face, ninja reflexes made him swurve and catch it instead of letting it hit him, and he decided on reading it over. [QUOTE] [SIZE=3][B]Come one come all any ninja may apply!![/B][/SIZE] It is time for the one event all ninja wait for the half decade shinobi exibition! A tournament for any and all ninja who wish to become legendary sanin. Ninja from all villages may enter. This year it will be held at the village hidden in the leaves. The battles will be held over the battle fields within the village, varying from open grass fields to dence forest underbrush. The battles will choose combatents at random, and be held to defeat, preventing death where possible. [SIZE=1]WARNING: Any competitors will put their lives on the line facing an opponent, death may not be preventable in all situations. Competiters must be full fledged ninja, showing headbands at the entrance is a requirement, blood line traits are legal, feel free to use any unique skills or jutsu at your own precaution. [/SIZE][/QUOTE] [I][U]Sign ups[/U][/I] [B]Name: age: appearence: rank: kekkei genkai or self-designed jutsu: bio:[/B] (how you heard about the tournament) [B][U]Rules and other info-[/U][/B] This rp will only work if exactly 8 or 16 pple sign up, feel free to create more than one character. I will set up the matches after the sign ups are closed, I will simply post who is accepted in the form of the first match ups. Yes some people will not be allowed if there are too many sign ups (eg like if there's 9 or 10 but not close enough to wait for 16). And I will post my character soon after other begin joining. Last but not least, some people will have to lose, although they may come back to sabotauge other combatants during breaks, and even set traps in the very battle grounds, who knows, some may even interupt a match to kill the one who beat them...perhaps some ninja aren't there to compete in the tournament at all. Use your imaginations ok? PS: sorry for forgetting the rating the first time, completely slipped my mind... Anyway any who joined the old version just repost your characters here.

This is a tournament of ninja. A massive battle held every 50 years. Challengers from all the shinobi villages gather in the leaf village to decide which ninja shall become the rank of sannin. All ninja may compet, chunin and jounin are most common, but genin with potential may be fighters as well. Fuzan walked around the leaf village looking for something to do, he had become jounin a while ago and the genin teams were still a fe months away, as were the chunin exams. He recently got back from a mission and the hokage didn't have anything for him for the next couple of weeks minimum. genin were doing missions around town, painting fences and getting groceries for seniors, chunin were wondering or also doing missions and jounin were away or bored like him. As he walked a flyer blew over his face, ninja reflexes made him swurve and catch it instead of letting it hit him, and he decided on reading it over. [QUOTE] [U][B][SIZE=3]Come one come all any ninja may apply!![/SIZE][/B][/U] It is time for the one event all ninja wait for the half decade shinobi exibition! A tournament for any and all ninja who wish to become legendary sanin. Ninja from all villages may enter. This year it will be held at the village hidden in the leaves. The battles will be held over the battle fields within the village, varying from open grass fields to dence forest underbrush. The battles will choose combatents at random, and be held to defeat, preventing death where possible. [SIZE=1]WARNING: Any competitors will put their lives on the line facing an opponent, death may not be preventable in all situations. Competiters must be full fledged ninja, showing headbands at the entrance is a requirement, blood line traits are legal, feel free to use any unique skills or jutsu at your own precaution.[/SIZE][/QUOTE] [I][U]Sign ups[/U][/I] [B]Name: age: appearence: rank: kekkei genkai or self-designed jutsu: bio:[/B] (how you heard about the tournament) [U][B]Rules and other info-[/B][/U] This rp will only work if exactly 8 or 16 pple sign up, feel free to create more than one character. I will set up the matches after the sign ups are closed, I will simply post who is accepted in the form of the first match ups. Yes some people will not be allowed if there are too many sign ups (eg like if there's 9 or 10 but not close enough to wait for 16). And I will post my character soon after other begin joining. Last but not least, some people will have to lose, although they may come back to sabotauge other combatants during breaks, and even set traps in the very battle grounds, who knows, some may even interupt a match to kill the one who beat them...perhaps some ninja aren't there to compete in the tournament at all. Use your imaginations ok?

[B]Name: [/B] Sam Tucker [B]Power:[/B] He can change the dencity of his body, with practice the density of other objects and people aswell. Allowing him to become dencer and near indestructable or mildly spred apart his molecules to pass through solid matter. He can only do either for a short ammount of time as dencer structure stops him from breathing and lighter has a chance of making himself unable to reform after too long. When dencer he appears to have a much darker complection and skin tone, where as when less dence his appearence becomes blurred and hazy. [B]Personality and description: [/B] He's a relitivly nice person, but often gets frustrated or angry at basic or common problems. He lost his family and close ties a long time ago and now uses his powers to aid his crimes, being able to pass through walls and take bullets without a scratch makes him one of the most notorious thieves in the known world. Standing a rough 5'11" and wearing mostly black clothing his hair is usually what sets him out in a croud. He has semi long pitch black hair with bangs that cover his eyes near completely, those eyes of which are a bright green, standing out when visible. He has only been caught twice, back when he began his criminal carreer, the first time he discovered his powers when he phased through the back of a cruiser.

Gaaza looked to the battle field next over to check up on Kurono and saw the stone warrior he was fighting. Kurono laughed as he saw his opponent "I have more than blades in here." he said smugly making more gestures with his hands and arms. Black hawk took flight and circled around then came in for an attack, Kurono used half of his chakra strings to pull off 5 of black hawks red feathers. The majority of it's feathers were black but there were red here and there and it's tail was covered in red feathers. "What are you trying now?" asked Adoma, but as he looked at the red feathers more closely he knew "Exploding tags!" he exclaimed. Kurono flew the feathers over to Adoma then activated them. The stone chipped a bit and he was knocked back a few feet. "Do you still breathe while in that form?" Kurono said making hand gestures to create another attack. Black hawk flew over head and dropped 4 poison bombs. Kurono jumped back and the purple smoke enveloped Adoma. Meanwhile Gaaza smirked at how well his cousin was doing with only black hawk. He thought of how powerful the sand version of that jutsu would be and kept with the mind of not letting him have any sand. While he continued moving the target he began thinking of what should happen if Kurono failed even with law maker, however unlikely.

Kurono laughed "As if I'd give you time to aim. Puppet control technique!" Barely visible bluish strings attached Kurono'd hands to black hawk, and as he made a few motions with his hands it stretched out it's wings. Next Kurono jumped forward toward Adoma. Adoma reacted by throwing the shuriken in his hand. With a quick flick of his wrist Kurono pulled black hawk in front of himself and the shuriken bounced off. Adoma got a little worried about exactly how serious the match really was. He didn't have much time to ponder it however as an instant later black hawk opened a hole in it's chest and fired out 5 senbon. Adoma dodged fairly easily but black hawk lunged forward and tried to punch him, after another quick dodge Kurono got frustrated and released the long blades from his puppets knuckles. Each of it's fists now adorned with foot long knives the puppet continued trying to punch and slash at Adoma. Meanwhile Gaaza thought bout what Kurono had told him as he continued training Shinaru. "Lets start with a simple running target." Shinaru nodded "OK Gaaza-sensei" Gaaza reached out toward the target and focused for a moment. Soon the target began moving back and forth, it wasn't too fast but it would make bull's-eyes more difficult. "Try getting a few bull's-eyes now Shunaru." Shinaru took aim and began throwing. Gaaza kept the target in motion but was concerned how powerful the new jutsu the ninja would create would be. He knew his fathers power to liquefy enemies with the dreaded desert funeral, he had the same devastating ability, but he would not let the power fall into the hands of a novice without caution. He knew the deadly strength of Kurono as well, however, and didn't worry too much that his dear cousin wouldn't be able to handle the job.

Kurono replied "Well Gaaza just happens to be plenty as well." the comment confused Adoma for a minute but Kurono kept talking "Tell you what tiny, you survive a half hour spar with me and I'll personally tell Gaaza to help you out. I'm not saying he'll do it, but I'll ask nicely." Adoma paused "Tiny?!" Kurono ignored the inquiry and continued "So if you're dire to make another sand based jutsu, you will have to earn it from a sand ninja. Meet me in battle field 20 whenever you're ready to get you're sand." With that Kurono dashed off to Gaaza to tell him of the situation. "Gaaza," Kurono said as he ran over to Gaaza and Shinaru "a mysterious ninja was watching you train you're student here in hopes that he could develop a new sand jutsu using some of your sand." Gaaza's eyes went wide and he took on a dark serious tone "We cannot have another with my powers wondering around." Kurono nodded "I agree, I challenged him to a fight, I said if he wins I would ask you for the sand he requires." Gaaza frowned and nodded slowly "OK, if all else fails you will use law maker." This time Kurono looked surprised "Law maker!? Are you sure?! You think this new guy will pull out law maker????" Gaaza replied "Maybe...probably not, but if he is as dangerous as I think he could be you must promise to give it your all." Kurono nodded and headed over to the battle field next over. He took a scroll off his back and rolled it open on the rocky gravel that made up battle field 20. Then he made a hand sign and the scroll disappeared as the new and improved black hawk was brought to a ready. Kurono looked over the puppet again for any minor infraction in it's design and smiled as he found nothing. "Gaaza actually thinks I will need the third. Can you believe that?" Kurono said to the awkward harpy. He used chakra strings to make it's mouth move in a laughing motion and smiled at the birds reaction, even though it was made by himself. "We'll see if he's strong enough to call out puma, but law maker? Ha as if he would be so honoured, only the best of the best make me use him. I haven't needed to in,oh let's see, going on 2 years now. Ninja just aren't what they used to be huh black hawk?" He made the bird laugh again and chuckled along with it as he waited.

"Good Shinaru good. A few more like that and we'll move on in no time." Said Gaaza as he saw shinaru throw a few more kunai through the center whole in the target. "Not all targets will be standing waiting for you to hit them though. In a few minutes I'll start moving the target." Shinaru was a little nervous but ready and excited for the challenge. He threw more kunai and got more perfect bull's-eyes, much to the admiring of Gaaza. Then Gaaza began moving the whole in the target but not the target itself...yet. Meanwhile Kurono finished his touch-ups on black hawk, he added humanoid arms making it more of a harpy than a bird, but he kept the name black hawk all the same. When finished he stood up and wiped his forehead, then re-sealed black hawk into it's scroll. he put it on his back with the other scrolls and walked out, closing the door behind him. He wanted to test out his puppets and have some fun, so he decided on looking for Gaaza. It had been a fair bit before Kurono remembered Gaaza loved training at battle field 21, putting himself in his element. Kurono grinned now knowing where Gaaza was and wondered towards him. On his way however he noticed a ninja spying on Gaaza, he looked like he was waiting for something to happen, but it hadn't happened yet so Kurono got a little curious and a little more defensive of his cousin. He stretched a bit, encase a fight was to ensue he wanted to be ready, and then made his quiet approach. e snuck up behind the ninja stranger and asked loudly "Excuse me. Can I help you, or will you be ok just watching my cousin mysteriously?" Kurono had one hand on the scroll of black hawk just encase the ninja attacked he would be ready for a quick summon.

"That's interesting, you're from the sand village. Well anyways, as you may have guessed me and my cousin are also from the sand village. My name is Gaaza, although some have called me Gaaza of sand, or Gaaza of the desert as a round about last name. I specialize in sand based jutsu and my cousin, as you can tell, is a ninja puppeteer. I am a teacher for the most part and that's why I was allowed to take a leaf ninja as a student. My methods are mainly getting a student to be good at all types of jutsu, and training through practical application, aka sparring." "Will you be sparring with me soon?" Shinaru asked eager to begin training. "No, no" Gaaza laughed "I'm rather impartial to fighting, but my cousin will surely help. I will train you in all other fields aside from sparring though." Gaaza leaned out the door and saw Kurono was still working to make adjustments on black hawk. "Hmm, we'd best begin with accuracy and basic ninja skills." Said Gaaza as he gestured Shinaru to follow. He lead Shinaru to battle field 21, each battle field being slightly different Gaaza favoured 21. Most of the fields were just that, large gaping fields of grass, 21 however was as enormous sand pit, meant to train ninja for the obvious occasion they will face off against an opponent in Sunagakure. Gaaza stood at one end of the area, a roughly 30 foot by 30 foot square of sand, and pointed toward the opposite side. "Let's start with across, and when I think your ready we can start on diagonals. He outstretched his hand to he far side of the sand pit, and made a fist before lifting his hand slightly. While on the other side, a target made of sand rose into existence, it was a 2 foot rectangle with a semi-circle on top. The target also had a whole in the upper center, symbolizing a bulls-eye just wide enough for a kunai or shuriken to pass through, although if it his the edge the weapon would obstruct in it's flight and be thrown off course, thus only a perfect bull?s-eye was would go through the target properly. "Try throwing a few kunai or shuriken at the target. We'll make a game of it, perfect bull's-eyes will be 10 points, hitting the whole but still going through will be 5, hitting the target at all will be 3 and missing to the outside will be zero. The target is roughly two feet by two feet plus the half foot semi-circle, plenty of room, it shouldn't be too hard to get 100 points at 25 feet will it?" Gaaza said to Shinaru handing him a leg pack of shuriken and about 10 kunai.

Toru and Gosa were stifling laughs as Shinaru wondered along the stage waiting for a jounin to look welcoming. After about 2 minutes of him getting odd looks, Gaaza called up from the back of the room "You know you're going the wrong way right?" He asked. Toru and Gosa nearly fell off their chairs laughing and getting scorned by a jounin to be quiet. "There's no point pacing up and down the stage if your jounin instructor is back here." Gaaza continued. Gaaza was a sand jounin but due to his prime teaching records he was allowed to take students from any allied villages. Shinaru was incredibly embarrassed and whispered "I'll get you guys for that." as he walked by Gosa and Toiru on his way to Gaaza. Once at the back Gaaza lead him out and they walked through the forest for a while eventually finding a small clearing. "Damn, already taken." Gaaza said as he saw Snicker and Yue already sitting and talking. They continued looking for a place to talk eventually getting to Kurono's workshop. "Hmmm I guess this will have to do." Gaaza said as he walked in. Shinaru was obviously out of place seeing all the puppet parts, stray arms, legs, eyes, and heads were all over the room. Kurono stood quickly and pulled out a kunai as the door opened. "What do you want?!" A calm smile from Gaaza and Shinaru jumping reflexively into a defensive taijutsu stance. "Oh, you." Kurono continued "This your not quite not a genin?". Gaaza answered "Yes this is my new student, we need a place to talk for a while and this seems to be the only one available aside from the battle fields." Kurono rubbed his chin in thought and eventually replied "Well ok, but don't interrupt my work," pausing to turn to Shinaru "and don't touch ANYTHING" Gaaza began talking again "Pardon my lack of manners, Shinaru this is my cousin Kurono, he will probably take some part on training you." Shinaru replied "nice to meet you Kurono" to which Kurono laughed and said "I bet it is." Gaaza then lead Shinaru into one of the back rooms, leaving Kurono to work in peace, and they sat in a make shift dojo. "So Shinaru, all I know about you is your name. Please tell me more about you." Gaaza said with a faint smile.

Looking around briefly Kurono pulled black hawk down to him. As it landed beside him he made a few hand gestures. Several panels along the bird's back opened up and emitted a chakra shield around him and itself. "Wow I've heard of those but I've never seen one up close." said Kantello from his hiding spot. The bug spears shattered on the large blue semi translucent dome. They began eating away and the chakra it was made of so Kurono prematurely disengaged it. While the bird was close to him Kurono also noticed a few bugs walking on it and eating away at his chakra strings. He picked them off and threw them into the large circle of insects now surrounding him and reattached the chakra strings needed to use Back hawk properly. It seems I've got a problem." Kurono said to himself as the circle of bugs closed in on him. He then made a few hand gestures and the bird puppet took off ,this time grabbing him in it's large wooden talons. The bird flew high and circled above Kentello. Kurono made a fist with one hand and a slot opened in black hawks chest again, releasing allot of needles which then flew downward quickly. Kentello dodged most of them but 3 or 4 flew through him and into the ground. That's when Kurono noticed Kentello didn't bleed. "What the?" He said to himself "Some sort of clone, but made of what?" He mentally berated himself "Duh a bug clone, why didn't I notice sooner??" Then he looked down and saw the swarm of insects all over the field below "Oh yah, that's probably why. Well I've gotta make a few adjustments to black hawk, and I don't wanna give away my other puppet designs should I hafta fight this guy again." He thought about the situation for a while as black hawk carried him around bug spears. "Aww man...Hey bug guy!" he called down "You win this time, but I'll wanna spar with you again, don't think it'll be as easy next time." Then with a few hand motions black hawk flew away with Kurono in grasp. They landed on a building a couple blocks away and Kurono sealed the puppet back into it's respective scroll. "Damn these leaf ninja are tough." He said as he headed back to the work shop he set up in Konoha. It wasn't much, just a small building on the outskirts of town where he kept supplies, so he wouldn't have to go back to Sunagakure every time he wanted to work on his puppets. Once there he opened the door to see puppet parts all over the floor and walls, with a large work bench in the center of the first room. He sat down and summoned black hawk again to look it over. There were still one or 2 bugs in it when Kurono did a closer inspection so he threw them outside. Then he began work on replenishing black hawks weapons. The gas bombs and needles mainly. And the massive bird's leg was a little damaged from when Kentello stabbed it so he replaced the wood casing on it as well. *** *** Meanwhile Gaaza made his way to the assembly room in the ninja academy. He stood at the back watching as the jounin prepared to pick out their genin teams and gazed over all the excited and bored faces in the crowd. "This is going to be a good class." he thought as even more genin to-be walked in to the room and took their seats.