Ketueki Guardian: Velnoth and Melchee

Egress observed the scene from his flat position as the girl made his jutsu and physical attacks seem like nothing. If she wasn't just a random accomplice and someone that either Rey or Zeros had chosen, then he could see why. Any Hyuga at the Genin level would have been enveloped by the flames due to their chakra rotation and his explosive-tagged kunais would have instantly ignited and exploded the moment that chakra sphere made contact with it. And if that happened, then the force and explosive blast will incinerate the Hyuga and Rey. But it didn't, instead the flames coming out of his fireball was bounced off instead of engulfing and he was surprised that his projectile attack was also repelled so precisely and quickly that the explosive tags did not even activate yet. She was chosen well.... noted Egress. This told Egress that she was at least Chunin level. She made it seem so easy but he is well aware that she knew her limits. Both kunai and paper notes were repelled before anyone of them could serve their purpose. And now blood spheres were heading towards Egress when Rey somehow materialized blood out of thin air around his projectiles and seemingly melted them before his explosive tags could take place. Egress chuckled. This Ketsueki is now able to create blood out of nowhere and can now make them melt the things they touch. Fantastic! What else can this kid do with blood? wondered Egress. He rolled towards the right in order to dodge the blood spheres, though not for long. But for him to act so quickly against explosive tags must mean that they would have harmed him. A weakness. or it could be that Rey is just showing off his skills. This was supported when the ground took a slight shake and from a distance, a huge wave of red liquid is now ready to topple everyone in the battlefield. So he wishes to change the terrain. This would mean that as long as that enormous supply of blood stands, he can attack from anywhere so long as that blood remains on the ground. deduced Egress. The blood wave toppled over Egress's position, firmly drenching and drowning everything around it as if the wave was just focused on him as the blood spheres were re-directed to attack him. When the blood wave died down, Egress's Mizukage cloak was left on the blood lake, all wet and destroyed. Had the jutsu killed him? Well, if one should look above, they would see a man cloaked in a silk-like black robe with incomprehensible text and symbols on it with what appeared to be a large, hand-like wing covered entirely in black feathers sprouted from his right shoulder blade. The Mizukage had just activated his Sora Juin, the Sky Curse Seal, which he had mastered and has developed from the day he received it as a Genin. Egress had been quick about it, as he is aware that he is incredibly vulnerable when he is on ground. The blood spheres that was aimed for him would be destroyed by the ocean that Rey generated. Now that he is in an aerial position, he hoped that he can avoid any attacks from the blood. Of course, Rey was nowhere to be seen. Probably hiding and swimming within the blood.... trying to launch a surprise attack on me. assumed Egress. From his view, he could see that the girl was formerly a Konoha shinobi just like him and is a Missing-Nin. A Hyuuga.... probably a good one at it too. That would explain why she possesses the Byakugan and why she was about to use the Rotation technique. But her Byakugan won't do much to me. I have already conjoured up something that blocks the chakra perceiving traits of all sensory techniques, including doujutsu. Of course, she can still see the tenketsu but she cannot comprehend any of my chakra consumptions or manipulation. The Hyuuga seemed to be focused on Zero so he will leave her to him. He already knew all that is needed to be known about the Byakugan after fighting the Hyuga clan a long time ago. He ignored Tamiat to study the grography. Nothing but blood. He had to focus on Rey and his sword. he located Zero, and found him standing right above the blood with a jutsu. "Zero! Get away from there! It's not safe to be standing right on the blood!" shouted Egress. Zero's Sharingan was still active as well as Apocalypse, but to be out of his Bijuu forms must mean that he did not find any reason to keep it active. The Uchiha agreed with Zero. They were both Jinchuruki, full-blooded Uchihas, true successors and masters of the Sharingan, and S-rank shinobi. Together, their shinobi powers will dominate the battlefield. But Rey and Zeros were brothers who probably spent time training each other's skills, so before any teamwork could actually be formed, Rey must be located. Suddenly, from the corner of his eye, he noticed Zeros's gaze looking above. He had been detected. Egress almost reacted when Zeros stopped forward, but saw a change in the look of his eyes. Suddenly, the skies roared with what seemed to be the shattering noise of thunder and the air shifting around him. Zeros is enraged, as evident by the change in the air, vibrating noise, and electricity sparkling around him. But it did not seem to be he nor Zeros he is enraged at. No, it was the demoness known as Tamiat. Zeros turned against her and made an attack. It was as if he suddenly realized something. Is he preparing to act on his own motives? Or is he simply invoking a sense of responsibility? Egress did not understand this at all. He didn't know which side Zeros was on. Probably he was on his own side. he wasn't sure how the Ketsueki's behavior suddenly changed and now he is acting all crazy. Is he pretending? Egress considered the fact that Zeros is just acting. He would have to check out the true intentions while within this battle. As the noise was thundering, Egress took advantage of the moment with a tactic of his own. Egress quickly formed a few handseals and sent a Raiton chakra signal all the way to the heavens. The thundering noise helped disguise this movement. Finally, Egress seized control over the thunderclouds all the way above. And because of Zeros's action, Egress doubted anyone noticed the lightning taking shape into the form of a dragon. Finally, the skies grew dark and it roared an immensely loud noise. The flash of thunder brightened the dimness and shook the ground even more. Finally, the gigantic lightning dragon can be seen right above the battlefield. "Lightning Release: Lightning Dragon Strike!' executed Egress. Nine more dragons of equivalent size and length apepared, each besides the other in a soldier formation. These dragons were powerful and dangerous, as evident by th advanced and complex nature of this ninjutsu in taking advantage of the atmospheric energy within thunderclouds. Because they were partly composed of chakra, they will not travel as fast as Egress would have hoped them to but still faster than the speed of sound. Course, the speed won't seem to be any difference. They were extremely accurate and controlled by Egress himself. The ten lightning dragons made the blood ocean seem like child's play. Strike down! In an instant, all lightning dragons aimed down towards the blood ocean in a quick flash, with a large blue pillar replacing the appearance of the dragons. The dragons will reach the ground in just one second after being told to, and the force they apply should be something above what Rey can block or dodge. But Egress isn't really trying to uncover Rey just by hitting the blood and guessing where he could be. Which is why he asked Zero to take on an aerial position. Blood is a fluid and is 92% composed of water, meaning that it conducts electricity due to its salt composition. In just three seconds after being struck, the entire blood ocean will conduct the electricity and electrocute the senses of anyone that is standing on or within the blood. Once that happens, the victim will either be dead or be completely paralyzed. Either way, once someone is caught within the electrical conduction, the battle is over. Which is why if Zero is too slow, he will suffer a most unfortunate fate. The others, including Tamiat, Zeros, and the Hyuuga girl will be affected if they don't get out of the way. The attack will also disrupt and severe the chakra flow of the blood ocean, thus disabling anyone or at least making it very difficult for anyone to manipulate or move the blood produced, unless of course, they pour chakra equivalent to the mass of the ocean or by some other means to return control over its chakra flow. The force applied caused waves of blood to rise high from the ocean, making the ocean a lot less thick and easier for Egress to detect Rey. When the waves descended back down, their size will pummel anyone standing near or in it down and drown them with humongous force. Egress remained his position as he decimated the battlefield, surrounded by descending waves of blood and flashes of thunder. While in mid-air, he can read the field and react. His guard was up. Turning Rey's own jutsu against him was a tactic developed by Egress in anticipation that he would confront him again. The blood was just convenient. Should Rey be under the blood ocean and be electrocuted, he will realize that his own technique have been turned against him and used to Egress's advantage, and if that happens, it is....

Game over.

Tamiat fixed her indifferent, yet venomous gaze upon Zeros, he was turning on Rey. But it didn't matter, for Rey would have him killed eventually. Tamiat plunged her tail into the ocean of blood and took the discharges like they were nothing. Rey had already thought of the chance that lighting may be used when there's so much blood around, which meant he also thought of a way to prevent it from having effect. When the lightning dragons struck the blood, more tidal waves were brought up from their impact, they would be able to crush the Hyuuga and Zeros, if they weren't able to avoid it, and Tamiat, she could just stand through it all. Upon feeding on so many Ketsueki guardians she had developed to be able to have absorbed their abilities and chakra, making her much, much more powerful than she was during that last fight where she had to hold back. The elecric discharges throughout the blood, created by the dragons, made Tamiat wince for a moment before it all disappeared, as if they had all vanished by some miracle. Tamiat smirked, Rey's counter to lighting when he was in this stage was Bloodluster, being made with a special material and itself being an infinite supply of blood the blade made a better conductor than the blood itself. With the sword plunged into the ground it acted like a lightning rod for all lighting that would be directed at or into the blood would, redirecting them into the ground to prevent harm from being done.

Before Zero could get a chance to get away from the ocean of blood on the ground, the upper half of Rey's body emerged from the blood, and it seemed that the rest of Rey's body was infused with the ocean of blood itself. A Ketsueki's power is measured by the amount of blood that can be produced from his body and be able to manipulate all at once, and to have created this ocean that seemed to be rising little by little each passing second, Rey had proven that he had the right to be the leader of Akatsuki, and eventually, God.

Reaching for Zero's legs, Rey attempted to pull the boy down into the blood then reached for his head, unless the boy pulled some sort of miracle it was unlikely Rey would miss this. And as soon as Rey grabs Zero's head, he would have Zero's own blood impale him from the inside, and if it works then Zero would be severely injured and possibly crippled, if not dead. Then he would just have Egress to worry about, after all Tamiat can deal with his idiot brother.

OoC: Anyone watched FMA? Think Scar... :3

Zero got dragged down but before he did he threw his sword at a tree and used Lightning Pinpoint Version 2 and gets away from Rey. Zero laughed and looked up and Grabbed Apocalypse then flickers by Egress. Zero then uses Lightning Volcano and fire four blasts of lightning at the Blood lake. “Thanks for the heads up, but one thing I Can’t Fly!!!” Zero Shouts whilst flapping his arms. Zero watched Zeros attack Rey Guardian. “Why can he make his mind up” Zero Said, before looking at The Hyuuga. His new target but could not fight her he may be the Thunder of the Mist and Part of the Seven swords men of the Mist but he morals told him not to attack her. “Egress i can’t attack the girl” Zero sighs “If we take out the Guardian the girl wont attack she is at Chuunin level but has the abilities of a Jounin” Zero Remarks. Zero Looked at the second big giant wave, and flickered behind the Big thing that Egress had made but stayed on a tree he had found.

Faith jumped to a close tree head and watched the on going battle, She just watched Zero escape Rey and Egress, Zero and Zeros attack Rey’s Guardian or the Blood lake. Her Byakugan watched it all, but She knew Egress and could avoid her attacks but so would Zeros. She felt useless then she remembered one jutsu. Faith flickered above Egress. “(Tenketsu Shouda) - Chakra Point Pound” Faith says aiming for his heart but as she got to his body she uses (Hakke Kuushou) - 8 Trigrams Air Palm as she tries to send him in to the blood so Rey could take him out.

OoC: Zero, you forgot to mention in your post about that giant tsunami of blood heading for you, and unless you can stay in the air above the height of the tsunami for at least a minute for the blood ocean to calm down, you will be brought down by the waves and crushed by the sudden water pressure...thank Egress for that...>.>

Rey Ketsueki wrote:

OoC: Zero, you forgot to mention in your post about that giant tsunami of blood heading for you, and unless you can stay in the air above the height of the tsunami for at least a minute for the blood ocean to calm down, you will be brought down by the waves and crushed by the sudden water pressure...thank Egress for that...>.>

Zero Flickered away just in time he had calmed him down, now out of his Two tail form and now with his Blue Sharingan Tomeo three showing and Apocalypse in hand. Zero landed on the blood using walk on water jutsu. Zero looked for Zeros, Egress, Rey and his guardian then last the Hyuuga. “Egress We need to work together we are Uchiha and they are blood users and Hyuuga”Zero Says calmly. He had changed a lot since his disappearance. Zero Looked around and saw the Guardian and watched her but was aware of any thing around him.

my post before faith near the top Rey

Rey he is Right u must have miss read the posts

OoC: No, the second tsunami, the one that Egress started with his lightning dragons striking the ocean...>.>

((EGRESS!!!!!!!!))

OOC: Do not blame me Zero, for either failing to read the entirety of my post or failing to produce a counter to it. Go edit.

((Done))

"Tsk Tsk... Trying to kill me with our own clan jutsu... You really should know better than that..." a dome of ice covored Zeros, and even the pressure of the tsunami couldn't crack it. "Tamiat, Rey, why don't you just stop now, while you have a chanse... Mercy will not last much longer." he looked around, the ocean of scarlet liqued finally dieing down. 'Well... The main two might be the major factor o this battle, but it will be best to remove one of the small pricks in my side...' he laughed, his sword was no longer with him. Before anyone could notice, it flew out of the blood ocean, blocking Faith's attack. "Nice try..." Zeros laughed, and as if te blade had a mind of it's own, it took a giant swing, the massive balde aiming for Faith. "Novos... Take care of the girl, while I help with the real threat..." A cold voice seemed to emit from the blade, muttering words as it aimed to strike her down. Zeros was glad, Egress's jutsu didn't even effect him due to the conductor, And his natural affinity for lightning.

So his Raiton attack did not work against Tamiat or Rey. The demoness is impervious to powerful electrical-attacks, including electrical conduction, and forceful pressure. Fascinating.... I wonder if she could regenerate? observed Egress. As long as she is within blood, physical attacks like that have little effect. He saw that Bloodluster also absorbed the major charges of the electricity. He saw the blood pool sinking even lower before, just about by one feet. The electricity must have been redirected towards the ground, and the lightning demolished some of the wet earth. A lightning rod type. This is good, as there will be further distance between himself and his enemies and there will be some mud below. Then, he realized that his assumption on Rey's position was somewhat right. Within the blood ocean, but something a bit odd that he couldn't put his finger on. But Egress didn't have to worry. The electricity obviously traveled throughout the ocean as it was pulled in by Bloodluster. Whatever Rey was hiding with he will have to exit out of within a few seconds. The task was done, for the chakra flow of the ocean was disrupted entirely. Completely useless, and Egress is glad that he no longer has to worry about that. Just then, he noticed a heavy tug on his back wing. Zero flickered himself and is holding on to it. You! grunted Egress. He did his best to keep balance, until Zero teleported to a tree behind him. True, they cannot kill the girl without some good reason. But they cannot simply ignore her, for she was someone that is likely to backstab them during an intense fight. This was confirmed when the Hyuuga flickered right in front of him. It was too easy to track her down, after all he had a full awareness over the battlefield and her speed was a bit too slow for his accurate eyes. Egress instantly looked above and shifted his body so that his heart area will be the target of Faith's attack. As expected, an attack from a blindspot. "You're quite capable, but I'm afraid that your Byakugan is still stuck at the Chunin level," stated Egress. But before he could choose one of the two options he decided to use to block, a massive blade flew from the ocean and blocked Faith's attack for him. Nani?! . The blade was Zeros's. Was he really trying to help them? And unless the Hyuuga had wonderful reflexes, Egress expected her to be cut down and immobolized for the rest of the battle. He then descended down about a feet above the blood. "Doton: Kajugan no Jutsu!" executed Egress as he gently placed his fingers on the blood. Instantly, the blood ocean petrified to an extremely solid, earthern quality as the blood ocean turned to stones and earth. The ocean will crumble away as it is solidfied and altered to earth, including increasing its weight so it fit it. If Rey is still within the blood, then he better get out because the moment he gets caught in it, he will be petrified and become a statue for an eternity. The blood on his fingers were also turned to stones. From his jutsu, the amount of earth that was destroyed previously in the battle will be restored and even heightened. After that, Egress flapped his wings with a powerful burst of energy and rose seven meters within the air. It amused him, because Zeros's warning to Rey and Tamiat was just the same one that was directed at Zero and he. In any case, it would take a bit more effort to take down his enemies. Suddenly, claw-like marks began to spread around Egress's body like flames, enveloping him with strange symbollic pictograms. This was the true level 1 release of his Sky Curse Seal. His senses as well as his physical capabilities, including strength, speed, agility, stamina, endurance, and jumping power have noticably increased. He also had a better chakra control. Level 1: Complete. Then, a second and final wing sprouted from Egress's left shoulder blade. With a full set of wings while in level one, Egress can navigate, manuever, and fly within the air like none other else. "I understand now! I understand how you managed to become the Akatsuki Leader. Rey Ketsueki, "The Blood Knight", here is your godforsaken answer to your attempt to rise to a god! Fight me with all of the strength you have trained to achieve!" announced Egress. And with that, he immediately flew higher and higher into the air with short yet powerful flaps from his two wings until he could barely see the ground below. Once that happened, Egress cupped his hand-wings together to form something like the Snake handseal with a large opening within the center. Suddenly, a fireball sprouted between the wings. Second by second as Egress flapped his combined wings higher and higher, that fireball was infused with more chakra and it became more fierce and intense. From the ground view, the only they could see would be the tail of a flame like the flame trail produced by a rocket launching into the air. Egress's wings grew hot as the blazing fireball was now a bright red-orange. Egress stopped at about 150 meters within the air, looked below, and focused the B-rank fireball. Egress then threw that fireball at blazing high speeds down right at the ground. Instantly after that, Egress sent a B-rank Fuuton wave towards the fireball, immediately igniting it and increasing its mass and size to a solid, gigantic, enflamed comet-like fireball. The flaming ball will travel down to the ground about where Egress last stood on in about seven seconds. Because the fire was enhanced by the wind, it was now at A-rank level. But because it is traveling down at an increasingly high rate at full force while the air friction is setting the ball ablaze, the descending force will increase the fireball to S-rank level, or more accurately, deal S-rank level damage. When it got near, it will be so hot that blood will boil, skin will sweat, and trees will ignite in fire. Upon contact, the large fireball will be so devastating that it will expand immediately into a tremendous explosion encompassing an extremely wide area. A blast radius even larger than the battlefield they were fighting in. The flames and force will destroy mostly all nature, the earth, and incinerate all at ground level into mere ashes and then nothingness. The outcome will be especially destructive to the environment, demolishing matter and shattering all hopes of simply moving to dodge it. It has enough heat in it to rapidly evaporate water. The power is exceedingly powerful and if the expansion of white, super-hot flames don't kill ya, then the force of impact will. The Mizukage felt slightly exhausted. This was unusual for him. Perhaps it was the heat that caught to him. He descended down at a fairly steady rate, trying to force Rey to fight at full power and push him to his uppermost limits. I tried out this move just to force Rey to rely on some hidden power he is concealing. I dislike it, but it has to be done. Nature's rebirth is natural, after all. I just hope Zero can survive this. The air temperature rapidly changed and heated up intensely. What will they do?

Just before Egress touched the blood, the ocean stirred and seemed to become unstable as wave after wave of the red liquid was brought up, each one more dangerous than the last. Tamiat realized what this meant, Egress was starting to anger Rey. As the crimson waves on the ocean became more and more violent, Tamiat walked beside Bloodluster and at that exact moment she seemed to suddenly start fading away, slowly, until there was no trace of her left. And a few moments afterwards Egress's giangantic fireball came crashing down, creating a much much larger tidal wave of blood. Much of the ocean began to evaporate, but no doubt the splash of this attack, along with the tidal wave, will kill both Zero and Zeros, unless of course Zeros somehow manages to use Novos to protect himself. As the ocean evaporated, a loud scream could be heard, it seemed to be coming from all directions, as if the blood vapor in the air was part of Rey as well. And that was proven true when the rest of the blood ocean, after the tidal wave has died down, suddenly acted up again and began to form itself into a humanoid shape, which soon became Rey. Except that now Rey had severe burns on his body, and there were large gaping wounds on him. The blood that had been evaporated had also been part of his body, but Rey quickly held up a hand and all the blood vapor collected in an orb on his hand then melted into his body, and as if miraculously, Rey's burns and wounds had healed in almost an instant. With that done, Rey glared up at Egress with a look of anger in his eyes, a look that hasn't been seen in several years, and no one who had actually seen it was able to tell of it.

"EGRESS! You've angered me, you really have. Now, I'll show you why I was chosen to be the heir to the Ketsueki! KYOKEIMYAKU!" Rey shouted.

Immediatly Rey's body became stiff, and things that looked like veins popped out, now visible under the skin of Rey's body, his arms, his legs, his torso, and even his face. But they were much too think to be just veins, no, and veins wouldn't make someone seem so, psycotic. But before anyone could catch a better glimpse of those "veins", Rey had suddenly disappeared and reappeared right behind Zero, although no sign of a transportation jutsu was used, could Rey had closed the distance of few hundred meters between him and Zero within a few seconds, maybe even less, just by running? Without waiting for Zero to react to his sudden change in location, Rey delivered an uppercut to Zero, the speed of his attack was so fast there was no way the Uchiha could've avoided it in his state, and to follow it up Rey used that exact same speed to leap after Zero and deliver many more punches, the speed that he swung his arms at was so fast, it could was as if his punches could match the speed of a gatling gun. Even if Zero could avoid Rey's strikes, the first one was bound to at least break a rib or two. And with the constant nuisance out of his way for a while, Rey returned his glare back toward Egress. His eyes had seemed to have lost almost all sanity as a human, and again within a second, Rey had somehow leapt to a height well above the height Egress was flying at, and on hsi descent he swung his right arm down toward the Mizukage's head. Rey expected Egress to notice the attack, and maybe do something about it, which was why a mere nanosecond after he landed on the ground he propelled himself toward Egress again with his right arm aimed for a blow at the gut this time, chances are the Mizukage won't be able to come out from both strikes unharmed.

Zeros watched the Chaos, and was able to Somewhat hold off all of the damn deadly jutsu. "Shit, this is getting intence." He was standing within a block of black Ice, which barely held off the fire and the wave. "It's quite a good thng that Novos and I fused into one being... Isn't it? All that remains of his conciousness is within the blade now..." with that, the I've shattered, the crystaline shards stoping in midair and darting towards Rey. "Well, now you've Gone and pissed him off... That's gonna be damn hard to restrain..." he grinned and looked up at Rey. "You idiot! It is true, you were chosen to be the next leader of our clan! Why? Because I declined the position! And mabie you would have a clan to lead, if you hadn't arranged yuer deaths! I Know everything, Rey, and now you have to die." Zeros pulled a scroll out of his bag and threw it into the air. It unrolled, and started glowing crimson. "I warned you to stop, and now it's too late..." A red blot seemed to morph out of the scroll, and make it's way to Rey, no matter where he went. The blob, is the combined blood of every Ketsueki ever to be older than 13, and will drain all of the Chakra from any who are treturous toward their own clan in every way. "Im sorry I had to use that..."

Rey landed and within a fraction of a second turned toward the orb of blood flying toward him. It would drain his chakra and therefore kill him, if something was not done about it. It was a poweful item, it made Rey wonder how long his brother had kept it with him, waiting for the day to fight him for real. But nevertheless, Rey took a small vial out of a pocket, it was filled with the same crimson liquid that was now a few meters away from him. But in the next instant the blood orb struck Rey's body, staining his shirt but nothing else happened. The rest of the blood had fallen to the ground and became nothing more than the crimson liquid that grants life, nothing more. Rey smirked as he put away the vial, that orb, it would've killed him if it had touched him in the state Zeros sent it out in, but that item had a special weakness. If anyone, no matter who, but when anyone's blood, as long as they weren't a Ketsueki, enters the mixture then the entire thing loses its power. Rey closed his eyes, and taking a deep breath he opened his mouth to speak.

"So, does that mean you've found out the fact that I had masterminded and planned out everything horrible that happened to our clan in the past five years? Yes, even the Crimson Massacre, it was all within my plans. And father's death, oh why must he have died? Answer, because he needed to, for me! And so, I took the liberty of ending their life, the trigger to the Crimson Massacre. And that was the final piece of the puzzle, then everything began to fall into place. Of course, I did not expect mother to have caught up in the massacre, but I guess that was the only part of my plan that went awry. Of course, it didn't put much of a dent in my grand scheme, I just overlooked everything to ensure it all went the direction I wanted it to." Rey said, with a slight laugh his eyes opened again, although it looked like he had tears in his eyes.

Just when Zeros's brain had processed everything Rey had just said, blows rained down upon him like hail. Very very large hail, Rey wasn't pulling any punches anymore, now his physical abilities were beyond comparison to that of any shinobi. And with a powerful spin-kick, Rey ended his 50-hit combo. Zeros may be able to escape with minor injuries by relying on Novos, and if he does he'll try for a counterattack for sure, and then would be Rey's chance to finish his idiot brother once and for all.

(Rey and Egress....you both write so much ahhh i can't even get like 2 sentences!)

Yuki continued to watch the violence before her eyes like it was nothing new to her, seeing the two brothers fight...once again. Though Yuki just watched she created an ice clone and had her guard up while charging up her chakra preparing for the moment when her powers would be most useful to the mizukage. Yuki softly whispered "Zeros be careful...."