Duel Betrayer vs Will be Betrayer

[Larsi]

Original post by: ziosa

A few moments pass before he answers her "They attacked me! I had no choice!" "Are you here to get me too? You've got one warning!" Jade frowns slightly.

"Just because they attacked you, doesnt mean you had to kill, and certainly not as brutally as you did" She couldnt really understand why he felt the need to be so quick to kill them even if they did attack first. "I didn't want to bring you in but I feel after all I have seen from you I should, even if its just for questioning."

Jumping down from the tree and landing a few meters from him Jade keeps an eye on him, expecting him to give himself up from naivety. She stands there with her hands on her hips and trying to do a serious expression but it came off as more funny than anything.

A breeze goes through the trees sending several leaves tumbling down from the branches, floating down around them in the patch of trees they were standing in. The small stream was off to the dwarves left, although it was quite far away with lots of trees in-between it and them.

 

[Larsi]

Original post by: ranger

Shalki unleashes a different section of his mantra to follows her movements. His lenses focus in on her, zooming slightly to grasp her little figure.
She's tiny. What can see do to stop me from getting away if she's by herself?
{She must be skilled to have been able to track us this far though.}

The Dwarf girl speaks and then plops down from her tree, landing proudly in front of the cyborg.
Shalki becomes agitated at her words. Sparks clash within his head wiring and he grinds his jaw a bit.
"THAT'S THE PROBLEM WITH YOU MARINES! ALWAYS TRYING TO GET IN PEOPLE'S WAY!..."

He stares her down for a moment. His weapons still ready in his spread stance, then he softens a little and partially lowers his arms and raises his body.
"I-... of course I didn't WANT to kill them! GRRRRRRRRRRAH! Look what they turned this damn thing into! NOW IT'S A WHOLE FIASCO! I was just trying to get to know them and create cultured tune..." the metal monster's neck gives a bit and his head sinks lower just before snapping back up, "THIS DAMN MARINE SYSTEM GOT THEM KILLED! NOT ME!"
I am...the need balance, right Daiki? ... lock onto her, Cpu.
{...locked}
little sensors within Shalki's lenses flash red in a audio-visual cue to circle his target mentally.

C.P.T. #02 steadies his right arm and begins to unload at the marine's head which appears to be about half her total size.
"PRAKA PRAKA PRAKA!"
*Shalki will fire until Jade gets to cover, shows that she can block the attack with ease or gets close enough
his left arm is still holding the shield up towards his center mass, ready to defend.

 

[Larsi]

Original post by: ziosa

"Dont blame the Marine system for what you did, it didn't force you to kill people even if what you say is true." Jade didn't know of Shalki so had no idea if what he was saying was even true or was actually an excuse for his actions.

The odd man aims his gun at her, not having time to draw her weapon or activate or Observation Haki; the dwarf had to just trust her instincts. As he starts firing, she was already diving to the side and running for the nearest tree; unfortunately she chose to dive the direction that the trees were fairly far from her.

The bullets hit the ground behind her as she runs to the tree, taking cover behind it she waits till she cant hear him firing anymore. While she waits, Jade draws her sword from the scabbard on her back and holds in near her side.

When he seemed to have stopped firing, the dwarf doesnt take any chances; instead walking forward and turning to face the tree. Holding her sword above her head she brings it down, sending a slash of compressed air at the tree "Giant Slash" the air slash chops the tree in half and keeps going; heading towards the place Shalki was standing before the Marine went behind the tree. She was hoping to catch him by surprise but would try and use it as a distraction if he had already moved.

 

[Larsi]

Original post by: ranger

Shalki tracks the small girl's movements with his processor. A thin, encompassing red circle hovers around her within Shalki's lenses that makes is easier for him to follow her. Cpu gradually calls out locations as well.
{90^o, 100^o, 110^o, 120^o}
PRAKA PRAKA PRAKA PRAKA
Shalki's arm moves with his body and eyes trying to keep his aim focused on the girl's head. The gun jostles back in recoil above Shalki's right arm and bullet capsules fly off Shalki's right side spinning and landing clink clink clink on the dried up leaves below bouncing as they hit the ground.

Jade manages to reach cover at a tree. Shalki stops firing as his last bullet tears into and through the trunk of the tree sending sawdust out both ends koof.
*Shalki sees it as useless to fire through trees since it will decrease the stopping power of his bullets. 9/30 bullets remain in his first SMG clip.

"Chgrruh!" Letting out a small grunt, Shalki stomps his left leg in frustration and thinks at computer like speeds.
Damn she's too quick! What is this? I've been working on my aim so much, cpu. I even began learning and utilizing our internal programs to help my tracking!
{She is extremely fast, 02.5.
We don't have a problem tailing her dash, but the distance between us is making it hard to keep our aim right on top of her, especially since you are just getting used to the tracking.exe program.}

Taking in what she had said to him before he opened fire, Shalki responded condescendingly and shouts opening his bionic jaws wide:
"And if I don't kill them they will just follow me to the ends of this earth! I won't spend my whole life runni-" Shalki's antenna stand on edge and stiffen, a sign from his mantra.

Before Shalki can finish his sentence, Jade cuts at the tree vertically in front of her with a giant air slash bisecting it like a hotdog bun. (66 strength DPR: B+1 haki = town level)
{WARNING!
02.5 the air slash cut that tree like it was nothing.}
I understand Shalki sees the large tree split right down the middle! Damn she plays dirty for a marine!

He pivots on his right to decrease the size of his body on the same axis as the incoming projectile and hops of the same leg powerfully backwards one step, raising his cyber shield to cover his vitals if he wasn't quick enough.
*(Shalki's reaction with mantra is 64+6.1=70.1, Jade's attack speed is 61)

The blast of compressed air digs through the soil tearing up branches, leaves and smaller trees in it's way, vaporizing them as it passes Shalki's position.
Shalki was in mid-hop still, moments from reaching the ground again.
Good. Looks like I had enough time after all. She isn't playing around so I won't either!

Sending a spark of electricity from his capacitor up his body and out to his shoulders, his mufflers receive a binary signal and begin to vibrate kwoa kwoa Kwoa Kwoa KWOA KWOA producing and unleashing murky cloud particles into the air behind him. He found footing and dragged an extra inch due to the momentum. The particles began to accumulate.
Spoiler: Black Storm
(60 weather balls remain)

The air slash tore through several more trees behind the cyborg before dissipating. STCHOOOO! Shalki lifted his right arm back up as he landed to ready his sub machine gun.

 

[Larsi]

Original post by: ziosa

Looking through the middle of the now cut in half tree-trunk, Jade watches how the man deals with her sword slash. He seems to react quite easily to it, he pivots and the slash goes past him; destroying some more trees Woops, the destruction of protected wildlife bill is gonna be high after I bring him in if this keeps up...

Something comes out of the mans body Whats that? It looks like...clouds? It was quite dark and murky as it came out but it slowly started to turn into a cloud-like shape "This guy is getting odder and odder..." The dwarf says to herself.

"I'm not sure what you are doing, but this forest is suppose to be protected; so please refrain from damaging it..." She pauses "And maybe not mention how much damage I just did" Jade adds sheepishly.

Bringing her sword up she prepares to defend herself from any attack he might do, she tries to keep an eye on the cloud but found it fairly difficult since she had to look out for his gun aswell. Deciding to take precautions she starts moving her sword up and down in front of her, doing it in a hard to follow pattern "Flowering Sword: Vine Wall"

Her tail moves to side to side as she stares at him, it would be a bit cute if she didnt have a massive sword in her hands. A tree falls over behind Shalki, it taking a bit of damage from her earlier attack but only now falling over and flattening some plants.

 

[Larsi]

Original post by: ranger

Shalki stands there defensively with his shield raised looking toward Jade who is not viewable through the spot where the segmented tree was. He changes to signal in his muffler wooooo and they shake side to side.
{02.5 she hasn't moved yet that attack may have taken up a lot of her energy.}
Or she could just be waiting for our attack.

Jade: "I'm not sure what you are doing, but this forest is suppose to be protected; so please refrain from damaging it..." She pauses "And maybe not mention how much damage I just did"

Shalki head visibly sinks to shoulder height at he looks very concerned at the small small. His arms begin to drop as well.
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME???" Is she daft or something? Or is she just trying to get on my nerves.
{We did damage that tree first.}

Jade begins to rapidly elevate and strike down with her "massive" (small for a regular size person) sword. She looks very focused and intense, but to Shalki is just comes off as...

Shalki reraises his shield in front of him to prepare himself for another air slash! He stands there for one complete second...
What is she doing? ...
{It could be an intimidation tactic, 02.5.}
Hmmm...

Peering over his shield and turning his head to the right in confusion he tries to focus just a single eye and his mantra on the girl and her power.
I don't feel her generating anything, cpu.

A tree behind Shalki SMASHES down onto the earth. CAW CAW CAW, a group of crows fly away due to the noise.

Shalki is visually upset. He slaps the side of his head with both hands (weapons still out and pointing to the side). His black cloud is now surrounding the air behind him. His muffles puff out a small burst of wind.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!???" he says aggressively as he throws his hands out in front of him in question. "Look! That damn tree that fell! That was on you not me! YOU! Y. O. U.! And now you are telling me to 'refrain from damaging the forest'?"

Shalki's mufflers stop woooo-ing and settle down. He places his hands on his hips to look like a parent lecturing a child, but his silky poncho is not steady and his hands slowly slide down...
"I wouldn't have to if you damn Marines stopped chasing me and trying to capture me! I'm so confused! Are you trying to make fun of me or something??? GO RIGHT AHEAD! I'm a monster! I know it! CHRRRRRAH!"

Shaking his whole body back and forth and whipping his head. His eyes turn a dull red in anger. The black cloud began down pouring as well!
If Jade had tried to talk at this point, Shalki sure as hell didn't care and just talked over her.
"I'm just going to leave if you aren't going to fight! DAMN MARINES DESTROYING MY REAL BODY, TRYING TO CAPTURE ME AND NOW JUST PLAIN OLD MAKING FUN OF ME? What is wrong with you!?"

 

[Larsi]

Original post by: ziosa

Cpt. said:

Shalki head visibly sinks to shoulder height at he looks very concerned at the small small. His arms begin to drop as well.
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME???" Is she daft or something? Or is she just trying to get on my nerves.
{We did damage that tree first.}

Cpt. said:

Shalki is visually upset. He slaps the side of his head with both hands (weapons still out and pointing to the side). His black cloud is now surrounding the air behind him. His muffles puff out a small burst of wind.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!???" he says aggressively as he throws his hands out in front of him in question. "Look! That damn tree that fell! That was on you not me! YOU! Y. O. U.! And now you are telling me to 'refrain from damaging the forest'?"

He seems upset, maybe I shouldnt have mentioned it.. Jade watches the man and the cloud forming behind him, still moving her sword since she doesnt know what he is doing with the cloud.

She refrains from saying anything until he is done ranting, he looks like someone scolding a child for a few moments; before he starts talking again and his hands go from his hips.
Cpt. said:

"I wouldn't have to if you damn Marines stopped chasing me and trying to capture me! I'm so confused! Are you trying to make fun of me or something??? GO RIGHT AHEAD! I'm a monster! I know it! CHRRRRRAH!"

"I dont know what you are but you are not a monster, and why wouldnt i try to capture you? You killed people, are acting suspicious; so the least I could do is take you in for questioning: resisting will only make it worse and will make me have to use force" She says to him in reply, even though he wasnt listening as he was still ranting.

He interrupts by talking over her "I'm just going to leave if you aren't going to fight! DAMN MARINES DESTROYING MY REAL BODY, TRYING TO CAPTURE ME AND NOW JUST PLAIN OLD MAKING FUN OF ME? What is wrong with you!?"

Something he says catches her attention Marines destroyed your real body..? The dwarf shakes her head slightly Better concentrating on stopping him first. As she thinks that suddenly the black cloud starts having rain pouring from it "Is he up to something? better stop it"

Jade stops moving her blade infront of her and holds it to the side swinging to create a diagonal air slash that heads towards the cloud "Tiny Slash!" She aims it so it misses him but will hit the cloud, aslong as he doesnt move before it reaches it.

 

[Larsi]

Original post by: ranger

As Shalki was screaming his head off, cpu was busy recording Ziosa's words as it does in every scenario so that Shalki can have logs to look back upon in case he needs to look something over and analyze it later.
{Taking in audio signals...
...}
The two little antenna on Shalki's head buzz with the incoming acoustically energy.
{Deciphering voices by frequency bandwidths...
...}

Shalki finally stops talking at Ziosa. And stands, straight bodied with his fists clenched at his side, waiting for a response from the tyke. She is still swinging her sword.
{complete!
02.5 as you talked over the marine she said this
"I don't know what you are but you are not a monster, and why wouldn't I try to capture you? You killed people, are acting suspicious; so the least I could do is take you in for questioning: resisting will only make it worse and will make me have to use force".}
it played back in Shalki's mind in the same voice Ziosa spoke in.
She doesn't know what I am? So... she doesn't even realize that I am wanted then???
"guh..." the skypiean lowers his head back down and groans to release his pent up aggravation.

But then, the girl attacks Shalki's cloud! A little slash of air speeds through the gap between the two and cuts Shalki's raincloud that is still in the midst of pouring! Bisecting the cloud with great pressure, the two pieces of condensed water look like embarrassed strangers who accidentally touched each other in public and were trying to distance them self now. Though... each piece kept on raining...

Shalki was shocked! His head perked up and he stood at attention.
DID SHE JUST TRY TO ATTACK ME?
{She is powerful, I doubt she missed.
I think our cloud was her intended target.}
What? ... So she is daft!

Shalki flings his arm forward to point at the Marine girl.
"Alright! Listen up! That's was pretty damn rude trying to sneak attack me while I was talking to you! Don't think I'll play fair from now on!"
I won't bother telling her attacking elements is pointless.

The cloud slowly realized it was one in the same and after the slash completely passed it began to refuse together and form a big cloud once again.
Time to setup a combo and really show this chibi-yaro who is who!

Shalki's mufflers began to shoot out strong wind. His finger was still pointing at Jade, but he re-emphasized it and pointed again with the same hand. In an annoyed tone he commanded:
"Bullet Rain!"

The mass of darkness was immediately struck HARD by Shalki's wind which pushed on the water inside and carried it over with enough force that each individual droplet became it's own unique projectile attack! It fired off at the general area of where Jade stood and went around Shalki who was standing in front of the cloud, making him appear to be a Moses like figure as he stood on the wet forest floor pointing intensely.

 

[Larsi]

Original post by: ziosa


The slash cuts the cloud in half There, whatever he was up to he can no longer do it. The now two clouds keep raining, a bit of distance between them ...Or maybe he can..

Cpt. said:

Shalki flings his arm forward to point at the Marine girl.
"Alright! Listen up! That's was pretty damn rude trying to sneak attack me while I was talking to you! Don't think I'll play fair from now on!"
I won't bother telling her attacking elements is pointless.

"You are the one who is doing something with that cloud, so I should be saying that to you" After a few moments, the cloud slowly floats back together. "So that was pointless I guess.." Jade mutters to herself. The man starts doing something else, but from this distance the Marine can't tell what it is, something hits the cloud which causes the rain to change direction and come out faster; turning into projectiles that come flying towards the dwarf.

Not seeing the cloud completely miss Shalki, Jade tries dodging the rain; this proved hard to do as there was alot of droplets coming at her from the cloud. A few hit her legs and arms as she runs from the rain "Ow.. those are gonna leave some bruises"

Jumping and running towards a tree, she climbs up the trunk to get out of the way of the clouds deadly rain. I knew it was doing something, but I didnt expect that.. Looking down from the branch she was on, Jade looks at Shalki "Maybe I should have aimed at him, he doesnt seem to want to come quietly." She was talking to herself slightly.

 

[Larsi]

Original post by: ranger
Listening to the marine antagonize him about his cloud, Shalki feels insulted as he begins his attack.
Just like a marine to blame their problems on someone else... Despicable.
"Chrrumph!" Shalki crosses his arms and squints at Jade as she runs from the incoming mass of water bullets.
In a mocking tone Shanki replies, "This cloooud-" and then he gets angry informative "-is the amalgamation of a lot of hard work and research!"

Shalki can't exactly see how well his attack is working, but that it is striking the girl and so she decides to scale another tree.

The water bullets shread through the plant-centric environment leaving a barrage of tiny holes in everything in their wake. Lower branches of trees are shot down and countless ground plants are shredded. The leaves look like overused targets at a firing range. Jade manages to leave the area of effect by climbing high enough.

Shalki's head gradually moves up to track the little girl. Now out of the path of rain, it is easier to see her.
"Chrrr" he grumbles, arms still crossed, that didn't seem to do much to her
{I am picking up just a couple pieces of shredded clothes from the human's path. No blood.}

Shalki begins to send a vicious signal through his nervous system. His mufflers on his back begin to CRACKLE violently and his poncho gets a bit stiff.
No matter! I'll hit her with this and while she is stunned, we'll make a move for the shore.
{I advise you to make sure the marine is dead, but it is your decision, 02.5}
Heh! We'll see... Depends on how stupid she really is.

Brining his arms up vertical from their folded position, Shalki focuses as his rain comes to a halt. The storm cloud behind him now charged with power.
Jade was looking down at Shalki
"KEEP RUNNING FROM THE TRUTH! FACE YOUR PUNISHMENT, MARINE SCUM!"

Whipping his arms foreword, his hands open and cross. Shalki digs into the air in front of him with his fingers.
A channel of energy zaps foreword from the storm cloud behind him and zig zags upward toward Jade.

 

[Larsi]

Original post by: ziosa

Jade looks down to see the rain striking the tree before stopping a few branches below the one she is on Phew, thought I was gonna have to jump to another tree or something Moving herself around on the branch she looks at Shalki who was looking up at her talking, although she couldnt make out the words from this distance.

"This guy is quite odd, first a cloud and then bullet like rain" She wasnt concentrating on him so doesnt see his cloud stop raining till he shouts up at her.
"KEEP RUNNING FROM THE TRUTH! FACE YOUR PUNISHMENT, MARINE SCUM!" The dwarf looks down just in time to see him throw his hands forward and the cloud fires a bolt of lightning towards her and the tree she is on.

"Now a bolt of lightning? What is going on" Talking to herself still, Jade brings her sword up and imbuing it with invisible Haki; lines it up and swings to send a slash of air towards the lightning bolt "Giant's Sword Slash" The distance between the man and the tree gave her time before the lightning reaches her.

The slow technique made it get pretty close however, clashing with the lightning it sends off sparks as the compressed air hits it. Dispersing the bolt, the slash keeps going; although it had lost any of the small amount of momentum it had had and was way weaker then when it was first sent by the Marine.

 

[Larsi]

Original post by: ranger

Jade's giant sword slash managed to stop Shalki's lightning bolt and even stay stable enough to head toward the bionic man himself. The tree the little white and navy clothed girl stood in rumbled from the energy released by clash. The auburnt leaves on the it's head knocked by the shock waves POPPED! off and rustled a bit with the new air pattern before slowly descending. Due to the bottom of the tree trunk having been poked by several water bullets, it too began to SNAP piece by piece until it finally began to collapse with a slow creeeeeek.

Shalki, who had been watching the girl to see if his attack would land was now shaking in anger.
"CHUGH!?" he belts releasing some aggravation How.... HOW COULD IT BE?
{The girl must be stronger than you, 02.5.}

Seeing the remains of the giant pressure wave coming toward him, Shalki pivots his left arm so that his shield would block the rest of the incoming attack. He wanted to gage the power of the move that bested his lightning.
"Grrrrru!" Damn she's a lot stronger than she looks after all. This isn't good. I'll need to get away.
{Remember, 02.5, power isn't everything. The dwarf girl has not been too intelligent from what she has said.}

Planting his feet firm and focusing his mantra, the technique meets Shalki's defenses and envelopes the shield easily. However, their isn't much power left and it only works to push the cyborg back a little before it breaks on his shield, the rest of it moving past him.
So there really is something left to that big pressure wave even after it overtook my lightning? It seems like... ? SHE WAS ABLE TO ADD HER VERY WILL TO THE ATTACK?
His fists clench a bit.
I've got a ways to go if this young marine is giving me trouble. Make sure to keep a record of this one, cpu.
{Of course}

"Chmmm" Shalki thinks as he peers back over his shield at the girl now. The tree she stood on is on it's way to the ground.

 

[Larsi]

Original post by: ziosa

Jade doesnt have much time to watch her weakened attack head towards the cyborg, the tree she was in had started to fall due to punishment it took from his bullet-like rain and now the clash from their two attacks destroying more of the trunk.

Feeling the tree sway from side to side, the dwarf looks down to see the trunk have a massive crack form up it, the tree slowly loses its footing in the ground and creaks forward. Trying to keep her balance as it tips forward, Jade looks for something to jump too; most of the surrounding trees were too far to jump to.

Before she has time to finish her thought of jumping to the ground, the tree's trunk breaks more and it finally starts falling to the ground. "Ah hay" She curses as the ground slowly gets closer, losing balance on the tree branch; the dwarf makes a leap of faith off it.

Landing and rolling, the tree crashes down near her, sending up a cloud of dust and making twigs and bark fly like shrapnel slightly. Having rolled quite a bit, Jade hits a rock; which is bigger than her but is fairly small for most people. Now having a few bruises and cuts from the landing, she tries to recover without much success.

Lying in a heap with a leg on the rock, she was in quite a state. Having lost her sword in the fall, it lay on the ground very close to destroyed tree. Branches, twigs and bits of bark lay around the area she was by, covering quite a large area as it was quite a big tree.

 

[Larsi]

Original post by: ranger

Shalki watched the tree begin to sway and then fall.
The chibi-yarou is staying in the falling tree? Is she that confident in her landing or perhaps... to afraid to jump off that height!
{The dwarf is much smaller than we are, 02.5.}
Of course! She must be petrified! This could be our chance to get away!

So as the tree crashes down and Jade finally decides to try her luck, Shalki sends out a blinding fog to further disorient the girl.

(42 weather balls remain)

From within Shalki's shoulder blades comes a heavy and dense mist that surrounds the woodland area making it look like an eerie Halloween night rather than a pleasant autumn afternoon. Not even Shalki can see through the fog with his cpu.

Instead he turns around as the atmosphere leaks from his back and begins to sprint towards shore yet again.

 

[Larsi]

Original post by: ziosa

Actions
"Talking"
Thinking
"Attack Names"
Jade slowly recovers from her fall, regaining her senses; which means now feeling the pain from her bruises and cuts. "Ow..everything hurts.." Sitting up she sees the debris from the tree around her and the tree itself not far to her right. Taking a few more moments for the pain to subside, the dwarf gets to her feet Now where is my sword?

Looking through the branches, leaves, twigs and other things littering the ground, the small marine looks for her large sword. As she does, she notices that the entire area is filled with such thick fog that she couldnt see much in front of her Where did this fog come from? Was it that guy again?

Wandering around in the fog for a bit, she finds the fallen tree and then nearly falls over her sword as she couldnt see it that well due to the haze. Picking it up Jade keeps looking around Where did he go... Did he create the fog and run away? Is he watching me waiting for a good time to attack? Coming to a stop she decides to try and search for him with her Colour of Observation. Closing her eyes she activates it, seeing the area around her much easier the dwarf looks for the odd man; she finds him heading towards the shore again.

Deactivating it, the marine heads the direction she thinks the shore is; walking slower due to the fog she passes several trees but nothing else to make her think she is walking the right way. Spending more time to make sure she is heading in the right way, Shalki would have quite a big head-start on her.

 

[Larsi]

Original post by: ranger

The fog provided distraction for a bit, but Jade quickly caught on using her observation haki to peer through space. Shalki was now getting closer and closer to his ship which bobbed on the light waves of the shore.

{Recalibrating complete!
2.1 km remaining, 02.5.}
"Cha!" Shalki sighed. Still some good distance to go. I should pick up speed before that girl finds out I ran.

Activating his weather abilities yet again, Shalki propels himself forward with "The Sailing Winds". (40 weather balls remain). His clunky, dense feet indent the ground one more time before the cyber-man launches himself into the air using the win he is creating.
I suppose i should keep a look out with my mantra.

A grey image appears in Shalki's mind of a small area around him including his blind spot, behind him. The forest animals would shine white, the brighter they were, the more energy they had.
Shalki's left leg rips against the air as he takes another step forward, propelling him past a dozen trees. He smashes against the branches now and they snap off making a chorus of cracking.

Shalki is too eager to leave to worry about the tears it causes on his clothes. Little strips of silk both float down with the leaves and plummet from being impaled by tree spikes.

 

[Larsi]

Original post by: ziosa

The dwarf was jogging, she didnt want to run as she could easily run into a tree or something due to the fog; but she also didnt want to go too slowly since he already had a head-start.

While Jade heads towards the shore, she was thinking Why is he heading towards the shoreline? He must have come to the island somehow so maybe he is heading towards it to find his boat? Or maybe it is just anchored nearby and he is heading directly to it? Either way I need to catch up with him.

She tries to pick up the pace as she escapes the fog, finding herself surrounded by trees; she was still fairly far from the sea and the marine knew he would be getting fairly close by now. Jade was now running past the trees as she tries to catch up, activating her Observation Haki again, she searches for him to make sure he hadnt doubled back or she was going the wrong way.

He is still in front of me so this is the right way still, I think I'm catching up but I'm not sure As she thinks this, the dwarf suddenly sees his outline jump forward by quite a bit What was that? He suddenly jumped forward quite a ways. Deactivating her Haki, she concentrates on running since he had gained more distance between them.

 

[Larsi]

Original post by: ranger

The two enemies had been running for a whole 2 kilometers! Shalki had wasted a bunch of energy to maintain his speed, mostly in the form of weather balls. He needed to create more and more wind so move at full speed. Now he was down to 30 weather balls.

The shore was finally just ahead now. 0.1km away from the cyborg. The autumn isle transformed from a wilderness of dense multicolored trees and bushy animals to a landscape of few and smaller oaks, tall thin bladed plants and a white-brown sand.

Shalki huffed as he pounced each step off the air now. He was low to the ground, his poncho torn so much that it looked more like a Halloween ghost costume. Seeing the tall dunes of the beach and his small personal ship, the Metal Voyager, in the distance, he spat out a glob of oil from his shark-like jaws before shouting in excitement: "FINALLY! Cha cha cha cha cha!"

Picking himself back up to max speed, his mantra had been active the whole time so he was able to tell that the girl was still not quite caught up to him yet.
I need to prepare the Metal Voyager quick and efficiently! She'lol catch up soon, I'm sure! There's no time to waste... Cpu, remind me the state we left the ship in.
{The Metal Voyager is anchored by the side of a large stone. You should pull it east to prevent strain. The sails are tied in a half hitch. The ship will also need to be turned around.}

Shalki slams his leg against the particles in the air. Just a couple steps over the beach now.
I won't have to use my wind to keep in the air for now, but the natural wind power here seems light... I should create a burst to move the ship when I ge the sails ready.

 

[Larsi]

Original post by: ziosa

Jade was feeling like she would never catch up to him, she was using her Haki every now and again to see if she had caught up to him; but only found she had only caught up slightly with the odd metal man. Turning her Haki off again she tries to think of ways to cover the distance.

Maybe if i went through the trees? No thats probably slower than running. What if I found an animal and rode it? It might be slower than me or I might not be able to find one which will mean he will get even futher ahead.. Shooting down her own ideas while she ran, the dwarf wasnt coming up with anyway to cover the distance between them any quicker.

The marine suddenly comes up with an idea that might work, drawing her sword as she runs, she gets closer to a tree that was coming up on her left. Pointing it behind her just as she passes the now very close tree, she jumps and sends a jab of air at the tree to push herself forward at high speed. "Kinokobaunsu!" Doing it several more times as the dwarf is propelled forward, she quickly gains ground; but damages several trees in the process, some of them not being able to take the blast of air and falling over.

Running out of trees to do it effectively as Jade reaches the end of the forest, she stops and lands on the edge of the beach. Looking around for the man, she sheaves her sword in the scabbard and wanders towards the lapping waves of the blue sea slightly.

 

[Larsi]

Original post by: ranger

Just as the bionic beast arrives at the water's edge the little Marine girl had finally caught up using a technique of her own to propel her speed through the forest. Behind the two of them now is a wake of fallen saplings. Freshly cut and crippled.

Shalki turned in shock, sensing the girl with mantra.
Already!? I have learned that can't trust her... I should attack.
{It appears to be the only solution at this point, 02.5}
His remaining cloack whipped against his metal frame and curved around him in a ghastly manner. Floating, a half dozen meters above the water the cyborg's hands prepared for combat as they rose to his center. Fists closed. His mufflers zzzzzzzz charged with energy and Shalki shot his left hand toward the girl, twisting it clockwise towards his own body.
"LEAVE ME ALONE!"