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Post by Admin on Mar 30, 2018 21:48:43 GMT
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Alma watched the man jumped and land on his feet on the building straight across but at a lower angle. Alma's face shows how impress he was over it. In his chest is anxiety and his legs are nervous, clearly he plans to pursue the man. He creates some distance so he can make a jump as he touches his chest to make himself lighter. His aura changes his weight and makes him 50 pounds lighter, making him even faster than before. He waits a few seconds as he contemplates before making his jump. Just as he starts his run, he hears someone climbing up the ladder.
The man calls Alma evil and tells him to stop. Alma is bewildered as he looks at him; his face alone is asking him if he is stupid. “You think I’m going to let a man who stolen the watch of my late girlfriend, then I’ll remove you from my view.” Al charges forward while his legs able to run faster with his weight under the normal. He gets to the edge and kicks off on the group into a big jump. Alma soars through the air that lasts for mere seconds but to him, it feels like it hours. While in the air, he yells "HEAVENS TO BETSY!" He lands safely on top of the next building as he rolls forward after landing.
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Post by Shinzu on Mar 30, 2018 22:06:29 GMT
10. “Wait… He stole your watch? W-Wait!” Shinzu called out as the colourful man leaped onto another building. “You could break your ankle doing that…” Focusing on his aura, Shinzu dashed forwards at full speed and jumped over the gap. Despite not having any abilities to lighten his weight or increase his jumping potential, Shinzu’s acrobatic skills alone were enough to carry him onto the other side where he landed with a much smoother roll before shifting to a standing position in one liquid movement. “A-Are you trying to fool me? Like in those multiple choice Telltale games… The villain always gives one incorrect answer! But then again… The endings never change no matter what…” Shinzu clutched his fingers around his hair. He looked as if he was about to pull a chunk of strands out. “Prove your innocence!” Extending his aura outwards, Shinzu unleashed a black beam of energy towards the man with the watch. The aura then split to form a mouth which swiftly swallowed the watch. Pulling his aura back towards him, the black beam retracted and the mouth whizzed back into the teen’s hand where it spat the watch back out onto his shivering palm. “Both of you – tell me a detail about this watch that only you could know!”
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Post by Shinzu on Mar 30, 2018 22:38:20 GMT
Hatsu Lvl. 3:
1. Shinzu’s conviction birth courage. In turn, all that courage birthed aura. He wondered at that moment if it had a name. Focusing, he reached out to his nameless aura. It seemed to exude a warm force around him. It was like he had walked right out of a pit of goo and all the mess was still clinging to his body.
Reaching out, he attempted to gain control over it once more. He felt a shockwave underneath his feet while doing so. However, the lack of an expression on the others seemed to suggest that they didn’t witness anything happening. This was interesting. This aura stuff seemed to be invisible to others. However, not his own. His ‘mouths’ or maws as he preferred to call them, seemed visible to the two men.
Pondering over this, he wondered why. The other man’s finger banging technique was completely invisible. It seemed to just project a blast of kinetic energy. “Wait – is the colourful man psychic too?” It wasn’t uncommon for main characters to make allies during their journeys. The only question was - who was the main character? Shinzu, the colourful man or the kind-hearted man with the cat? Puzzled, his aura seemed to react and intensify in energy. It seemed very tied to Shinzu’s emotional state.
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Post by Shinzu on Mar 30, 2018 23:30:22 GMT
2. Realising this, Shinzu decided to take in a few deep breaths as he waited for the two mens answers. His emotional state began to calm due to his controlled breathing. As a further result, Shinzu’s aura stopped flickering and began to maintain a much more calm appearance. He also felt more at ease with himself. His aura didn’t seem to be vibrating as much anymore.
Being more akin to still-water, Shinzu focused on controlling his aura. At was at that moment that he felt slight distortions in it. They were like little bubbles from a fizzy drink. Sensing that perhaps they suggested impurities in his aura, Shinzu set to work fixing it. He realised there was still a doubt in his mind. After all, what if the two men jumped on him over the watch?
Not being a skilled combatant, especially in close quarters, he knew he had no way of winning a two-on-one. The doubts became even worse when pondering over thoughts around how all this may have been a set up to lead the young teen into an isolated rooftop. Terrified, he felt his aura beginning to fluctuate again. He then began to break out into several deep breaths.
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Post by Shinzu on Mar 30, 2018 23:59:16 GMT
3. With each breath that filled Shinzu’s lungs, the calmer his state of mind seemed to become. He let waves of relaxation and peace radiate throughout him, which helped his previous harsh breathing return back to something a lot calmer and more normal. His aura, naturally, seemed to respond to this positively. Focusing on it, Shinzu realised he now had more control over it.
Reaching out, Shinzu pushed his aura forwards slightly. Naturally, it obeyed and began to shift forwards like ooze. Grinning slightly, he focused himself by rubbing the cold metal of the watch he had in his palm. This time, he attempted to pull his aura backwards. As if it was a living entity, it obeyed and shifted backwards slowly like sand.
It was fun playing around with it. It was like living ooze. Carefully, he nodded to the lift and with that physical action, the entirety of his aura began to move towards the left. This was followed by a quick nod to the right, where of course, it obeyed and began to move in the commanded direction. The only issue seemed to be the realisation that he must have looked quite strange doing all that.
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Post by Admin on Mar 31, 2018 2:44:07 GMT
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The robber yelp in fear as he runs to the door to lead inside the building. He feet kicks up dirt and gravel behind him and whatever the imbecile man did seem to have miss! “Fool, don’t just stand there!” Alma anger shows on his face as he chases the man from behind. Alma pours his Nen onto his body and once more, allowing him to become lighter.
Now Alma being lighter than ever, his feet carry him to chase the robber down. The hooded man opens the door and bolts down the stairs with an angry Alma. As they go down the stairs, they come across several people who live in the building. They move to the side and watch the two men play the game cat and mouse.
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Post by Admin on Mar 31, 2018 3:17:20 GMT
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As the two grown men, play cat mouse, Alma who chasing to get his watch and the robber who intends to kill and fear his life, continues on. “Give up on the watch,” the hooded man shouts. Alma shouts back, “Over your dead body!” The man looks back and sees Alma aiming at him with his finger and trying to get a clear shot.
The man yelps once more and moves in zig-zags so Alma can’t get a clear shot. Alma stops charging his finger at the man and just follows for the moment. He sees the man making an exit, Alma begin using Zetsu, in case he can cut him off or hide to catch him off guard. Alma storms out of the building and sees they’re in the back of the building as the man climbs over a metal fence.
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Post by Admin on Mar 31, 2018 3:17:43 GMT
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It seems he hasn’t notice Alma as he moves slowly over the fence. Alma charges his finger into a bullet, a Nen bullet. He takes aim once in impossible range to miss and releases it. The net bullet hits the fence with 200-pound weight force. It rattles the fence and knocks the robber off. He hits the ground while shouting ahh; the robber body lands onto the ground with a soft thud noise.
Alma finally catches up, his head is sweating, he’s burning up, and he starting to smell. All are bad combinations for Alma as he stops on the robber's throat to prevent him from moving or any funny business. “You primitive ape… Drop the watch, now. I won’t tell you a second time.” He reaches into his pocket and gives Alma the watch as he begins begging for his life. He releases his throat and put it back on his wrist. As the man gets to his feet, he gives him no mercy and fires one more Nen bullet, sending him far far away. He won’t die from the Nen bullet however, he will be hurt.
Hatsu level 2!
/exit
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Post by Shinzu on Mar 31, 2018 10:11:42 GMT
4. Shinzu blinked as the two men dashed away. “B-But I have your watch...” He glanced down and shrugged. He was in no mood to follow and so just pocketed the item. Perhaps he could sell it for a new console. “A hero’s work is always hard.” He sighed as his aura continued to radiate power throughout his entire body with a strange intensity.
Carefully, he placed both of his fingers together. The power behind the aura was so great that it acted like two opposing forces – almost like the reverse end of two magnets pushing away from each other. As hard as he tried, he simply could not get his two fingertips to touch with all that aura in-between. He began to wonder if that was a sign of strength of weakness.
Curious, he spread his feet around shoulder width apart and began to press down on his two fingers in an attempt to force them to connect. Again, the invisible aura separated the two and prevented them from touching. Grimacing, he pushed down with even more force and grit his teeth together. His face was flushing red from all the exertion.
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Post by Shinzu on Mar 31, 2018 10:19:27 GMT
5. Shinzu’s teeth began to grit together even further from all the force his body was exerting. He began to wonder what kind of damage he was doing to his body through this training. Were his muscles fine? What about his blood pressure? Even more worryingly, he had no idea how many cavities all this teeth grinding was going to cause. Still, he was determined to continue.
Lowering himself into a slight squat stance, Shinzu managed to take some of the pressure off from his knees. He also rolled back his shoulders and raised his chest slightly. In a final action, he also tucked in his chin to fix his posture. Now feeling far more comfortable than before, he continued pushing both of his fingers together with as much force as possible.
Shinzu’s confidence quickly broke. No matter how hard he tried, the two opposing auras simply rejected each other. However, this failure seemed to birth an idea in his mind At the moment, his aura was unruly. It was simply a thick mass of power oozing from him with little purpose or strategy. Pondering, he began to think of ways to better control his aura. That’s when he was struck with a idea.
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Post by Shinzu on Mar 31, 2018 12:16:29 GMT
6. Shinzu knew he had some degree of control over his aura. His earlier technique used to steal the watch from the thief was proof of that. With that in mind, Shinzu began focusing intently. He imagined himself compressing the aura all around him back into his body. Upon issuing the mental command, it seemed to obey and retreat slightly inwards.
However, the aura still wasn’t skin tight. It still dangled outwards and danced along his flesh like thick fireworks moving in slow motion. Shinzu began to pull the aura into himself with even more vigor and energy than before. The action seemed to result in a slight amount of pain. It was as if his aura was pressing against his skin with enough force to crush it.
Cringing, Shinzu took a step back as the force threatened to topple him over. Luckily, thanks to his skill with balance, he managed to take control and fight off the force acting on him. Swiftly, he pivoted his feet outwards slightly so that they weren’t just both pointing ahead. He knew this action helped provide him with more grip against the cement roof-top.
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Post by Shinzu on Mar 31, 2018 12:26:40 GMT
7. Having given himself more grip, Shinzu pulled his arms outwards slightly in order to give himself slightly more balance. He was now anchored against the ground with little risk of being blasted away from the force of his own aura. Smiling, he began controlling his aura and through a touch of manipulation, managed to drag it even closer to his body.
The only issue was the fact that he could feel a strange pressure all over his flesh. His aura still seemed to be crushing him. Carefully, Shinzu began to coat himself in another layer of aura. He hoped to use this layer to protect his fragile body while the second layer was pulled closer towards him. Interestingly, it seemed to work. He was relieved of his pain.
The issue, however, came from the fact that he now effectively had two layers of aura around his body – thus double the required thickness. Grimacing, he dismissed the protective layer and found the regular layer beginning to crush him once more. Coughing, he fell onto his knees as the force bearing down on him just became too difficult to fight off.
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Post by Shinzu on Mar 31, 2018 12:37:25 GMT
8. “I can do this…” He told himself. The words of encouragement to himself seemed to boost his own confidence. Slamming his fists onto the textured concrete, he forced himself back onto his feet before shakily standing upright. In this position, Shinzu began dragging his aura deep into his core. Immediately, his aura flattened from all directions. It became thin and skin tight.
A smile formed on Shinzu’s lips for a moment before it shifted to a frown as he crashed onto the ground. The crushing force being emitted by his aura was now so great that he couldn’t pull himself back up. Furthermore, his flesh seemed to slowly be gaining a red tint as the aura pressed against it so tightly that it felt as if his blood vessels may burst.
“Ugh…” He whimpered as he began to push against the aura. It didn’t seem to work. The aura seemed to have the ‘be pulled towards Shinzu’s core’ command engraved into it. No matter how much he pushed back, it continued being pulled towards him with even more force. Luckily, this seemed to give him an idea upon realising the aura followed instructions to the letter.
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Post by Shinzu on Mar 31, 2018 12:50:29 GMT
9. “I just need to program it… Like a video game!” He smiled as he attempted to rewrite the command he had given to his aura. However, no matter how hard he focused on the mental command, it did not obey. Shinzu wasn’t quite sure if the problem was that the aura couldn’t take new commands until it had finished the previous order.
There was also a possibility that he simply wasn’t strong enough to issue multiple commands until he had more control and practice over his aura. Unsure of which it was, he decided to instead add an extra ‘command’ to his aura. Keeping the portion about it being pulled towards him, Shinzu added a extra condition to his command – ‘continue being pulled until Shinzu is in pain’.
Immediately, his aura stopped. Blinking, he jumped onto his feet. Having just transitioned from being crushed from all directions into comfort, he felt far lighter than before. Perhaps even, it was his aura that was making him feel far more agile and nimble. Jumping on the spot, he tested things out. It had worked. His aura now clung to him skin tight without causing him any discomfort.
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Post by Shinzu on Mar 31, 2018 13:03:15 GMT
10. Smiling, Shinzu dashed to the edge of the rooftop and leapt onto the other side with ease. Despite the aura still giving off the sensation of being immersed in jelly, his body was as quick and agile as ever. Analysing himself, his noticed the faint glow around the outline of his body. It gave off a warm and calming sensation – like a massage almost. This gentle massage seemed to ease Shinzu’s worries and brought a sense of calm to himself. In a loop, this relaxed mental state seemed to strengthen and intensify his aura. Bit by bit, the massage from the aura resulted in more relaxation, which lead to more calm, which ended with a stronger aura and more relaxing massage. After a few moments, he was radiating strength from all this. “Incredible…” He mumbled to himself as he looked down at his hands. The faint glow from before was now replaced by a tangible light. He wondered if others could see it – but quickly dismissed the thought. He was on the rooftops for a reason. He couldn’t allow others to know that he had powers. With a sense of determination possessing him, he undid his ‘cape’ and slotted his arms through the sleeves again to wear it like a buttonless shirt as intended. [Hatsu Lvl. 3 Unlocked!]
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