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Post by Cain on Apr 13, 2009 2:01:28 GMT -5
Alone on the Thanatos Hatori sat in the sick bay while two medical droids worked on attaching his new arms. The mechanical prosthetic were just simple skeletal arms, the metal was even colored white as to resemble bones. By the time they were finished the ship had already arrived at Alderaan. Hatori stood up and stepped forward into a strange pile of sand that was sitting on the sick bay floor. Extending his new arms out over it, he used the force to lift the sand. It wrapped around his arms, simulating flesh as it condensed giving the appearance that he had real arms.
Putting on his robe once more Hatori stepped back out onto the Thanatos' docking bay where their shuttle awaited and where he would rejoin Vherox.
"Our destination is high up in the mountains," Hatori explained to Vherox, "Unfortunately our shuttle will be unable to land us there. We'll have to make the journey to the top on foot. I hope you're prepared..."
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Post by Odan Thos on Apr 14, 2009 22:35:30 GMT -5
Kitana's StealthX came out over planet of Alderaan. The peaceful planet was the perfect place for her. The large mountains with massive glaciers and there was large quantities of water and sunlight. She reached out in the force and felt all the life on the planet. She was looking for one person and one alone. After a few minutes she located him heading up a mountain side. She set a course for a spot above him and programmed the Auto pilot to take her fighter to the base of the mountain.
Kitana took the fighter down into the planet’s atmosphere. The fighter covered the distance to the mountain in a matter of minutes. She brought the fighter over the top of the mountain and put it into over only a few feet from the ground. She opened the cockpit and jumped out. As her feet head hit the ground the fighter took off again. She quickly pulled nearby clouds in and condensed the water into an Ice armor which included a face mask. She walked down the mountain to get her revenge on Hatori.
It was not long before she was within range of Hatori. The clouds had followed her and she stopped and yelled out. “Step aside kid, me and this freak have a score to settle.” As Kitana spoke, she used her freeze power to turn the ground around them to permafrost, locking away Hatori’s own resource.
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Post by Cain on Apr 14, 2009 22:44:29 GMT -5
Hatori was leading Vherox up towards the Luminos shrine near the mountain's summit when the lady covered in ice suddenly appeared before them talking about having a score to settle. Hatori gazed forward with his usual tired, emotionless eyes, "Hmm? Oh, it's you again," he said with a slight sigh, "you'd better take some cover, Vherox... this could become troublesome."
Hatori calmly took off his outer robe and tossed it aside. He glanced down at the frozen ground, kicking at it a bit with his heal to test how solid Natcha was able to get it, "Oh?... I see Lord Cain has taught you well... and in so little time. You must be a quick learner. Well then let's see what you learn from this..."
Closing his eyes, Hatori spread his arms out. The earth began to shake as Hatori focused the force deep down under the ground to the magma below their feet. As it was force upward the lava suddenly burst up from below, shooting at an angle straight at Natcha, it's heat melting much of the permafrost around it.
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Post by Odan Thos on Apr 14, 2009 22:53:05 GMT -5
Kitana did not even flinch at the lava coming at her. "THIS!" She install sapped all the energy out of the air around the lava flow; bring the temperature only a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. She followed it up with a telekinesis push to shatter the wall of rock and cause it to fly right back at Hatori in the form of large boulders rolling down the mountain. At the same time she used blackout on Hatori so he could not see the rocks coming at him. She would not restrict herself to a one trick babe, she would show him the power of combining the forms.
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Post by Cain on Apr 16, 2009 1:21:19 GMT -5
As everything grew dark Hatori simply closed his eyes, guiding the boulders off course with telekinesis so that they would roll past harmlessly, "I see..." Hatori said almost to himself. The blackout used on Hatori was a double edged sword, though Hatori could not see anything, no light reaching him meant that Natcha couldn't see him either until she released the technique. Hatori decided to use this opportunity, bringing his hands together and whispering some unintelligible words. Suddenly the ground around him was forced upwards, curling around him and forming a solid dome all around Hatori. Condensed with the force, the outside of this defense became nearly as hard as diamond.
Once Hatori was solidly protected, he sat down inside in meditation. Soon after the earth all around the dome became unsettled as it rose up and took the form of Hatori. About twenty Earth Clones rose up all together, each taking a combative stance.
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Post by Odan Thos on Apr 16, 2009 1:56:15 GMT -5
Kitana stopped the blackout to see the diamond prison that Hatori had constructed around him. She smiled and sent him a special message through the force. "You never have been one for chemistry, focus light can burn diamonds." As he received the message, the clouds parted and the sunlight rain down. She drew the photons and in a massive beam of light; god's wrath, descended down the mountain consuming the sandman and the diamond itself. She continued the beam of light; turning the earth to glass, and the diamond to carbon dioxide and ash.
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Post by Cain on Apr 16, 2009 2:07:27 GMT -5
As soon as the light hit the diamond prison more earth rose up and added to the protection. The outer layers would be turned to glass but this was only to buy a little more time while the diamond prison underneath was pulled down under the ground with Hatori inside. Pulled down deep below the earth before settling again and completely disappearing from site. In meditation Hatori controlled his breathing to conserve the little air he had.
Back above, the earth clones didn't waste time. Circling around Natcha the clones doubled when twenty Shadow clones joined the fray. The clones quickly dashed around Natcha to jumble themselves up, making it unclear which was an earth clone and which was an illusion. Then ten charged inward, the first wave. Each unsheathing a sword and slashing at Natcha.
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Post by Odan Thos on Apr 16, 2009 2:19:58 GMT -5
Kitana did not worry about the clones too much. The clones would fail when Hatori lost conscious. She used her ice to absorb the blows as she attacked Hatori himself. She drew water into her armor, much like hatori's own prison, be a thick dense ice shell as strong as steal. She then started to pull all the heat way from the inside of his massive diamond. It was so cold that the oxygen to an unbreathable liquid state. In the same effect the diamond itself had grown so massive from her attack that it would easily absorb all the heat from the outside world leaving Hatori trapped not in a protective diamond shell, but an ice cold prison.
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Post by Cain on Apr 16, 2009 2:44:49 GMT -5
Natcha's armor may have been hard as steel, but she had clearly learned little from Cain about the nature of clones. The blades of Hatori's earth clones were made of earth the same as the rest of their bodies, but in order to allow them to simulate a katana the blades were condensed much like Hatori's prison... as hard as diamond. The blades were plunged into the ice and Natcha.
Holding the blades in place, the second wave followed. The clones changing back to loose sand and seeping in through the holes made by the katanas. The sand spreading over Natcha's body, immobilizing her if she was still able to move and seeping in to her body's every opening.
Meanwhile down below the air had grown deadly cold, but Hatori remained in his meditative stance stopping his breathing all together. Hatori's protective veil of sand was frozen over his flesh and his life signs were growing faint, but still he waited for the damage to Natcha to cause here to stop her assault.
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Post by Odan Thos on Apr 16, 2009 3:04:00 GMT -5
Kitana continue to pull the heat from the Hatori's crystal prison. She used the energy to instantaneously turn her ice shell into water. The water vial that it formed around her, trapping the sand particles in the water. The massive dense ice shell had collected huge amount of water which she released into powerful water cannon blast in all directions, washing which was cling to her, but hitting and trapping the particles that the clones were made of as will. She hoped Hatori would soon be too weak by the cold to function; easy prey for her darker abilities.
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Post by Cain on Apr 16, 2009 3:18:58 GMT -5
Natcha had to be weakened by now, but she still had some fight left in her it seemed. With his clones washed away Hatori focused all the power he could back to the ground around him. He could not endure this any longer. If his heart were to stop in this prison with these temperatures it would not start again.
Hatori's telekinesis caused the ground to shake violently and tear open a fissure where Hatori's diamond prison was located. Hopefully the shaking would also throw Natcha off balance and provide a distraction if nothing else. Hatori then escaped his diamond prison by fading into the void. Once inside he blasted apart his prison and his frozen sand veil, revealing his true mangled face and his bony mechanical arms.
Climbing out of the fissure while inside the void, Hatori's entire body was still shaking from the cold. Breathing heavily he fell back among the trees and struggled to concentrate again. Drawing in wandering souls to add to his strength Hatori faded back out of the void. The ground under him was distorted and black, the power from the void still flowing into him. Hatori's flesh suddenly began to crack as the pressure started to build. With a loud scream the pressure spiked and powerful bursts of telekinetic power pulsed off of Hatori randomly in waves as his body could not properly contain it.
"Guardian of the black gate..." Hatori whispered, still gasping heavily. With that the ground Natcha had been standing on began to rise upward. Still saturated from her water cannon the mud quickly started to suck her down and in.
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Post by Odan Thos on Apr 16, 2009 3:32:13 GMT -5
Kitana acted quickly to Hatori creating a colossus but she was not stupid enough try something in her weaken state. She used a simple photon manipulation to create a shadow directly below her feet. Using it, she vanished into the void and used the Force to slow her descent to the ground. When she hit the ground she took a breath. She was still weak from her wounds, but was not without her own tricks. Having not completely fallen yet, Kitana drew on her love for Elizabeth, letting the small bit of light to channel a healing energy into her cells. As her wounds healed she keep track of the time that passed. Once she figured Hatori could no long handle the ability, she faded back into the real universe, ready to trap her victim in a block of ice in order to drain his knowledge.
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Post by Cain on Apr 16, 2009 3:43:25 GMT -5
Hatori winced as his flesh continued to crack and chip away with each pulse of telekinetic power bursting off him like solar flares off the surface of the sun. Natcha had tried to escape to the void, but that was the source of Hatori's current power. She would not be safe there. Collaborating his attacks in both the void and on the outside, the earth rose up to swallow Natcha as she fell, trapping her in a diamond prison very similar to the one Hatori had just been in. The prison existed both in the void and out.
Then the prison rapidly began to fill in and sink into the ground, essentially attempting to crush Natcha in the earth and bury her alive all at once. Again, this occurred both in the void and out. Hatori himself kept himself in "Darkness Rising" for longer then he should have to make sure that Natcha would not resurface. Almost all of his outer flesh had chipped away at this point.
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Post by Odan Thos on Apr 16, 2009 3:52:03 GMT -5
Kitana was not as weak as she was before, but even if she was she would still have her revenge. She reached out into the force and felt the pain that Hatori was feeling by tapping into the power of the Void. She then channeled that pain into the Dark side of the Force, creating a greater grasp over her known abilities. She first faded back to the real universe and knew what she had to do. She dropped the temperature of the diamond to absolute zero; no molecular movement, along with any earth around it. She then used a telekinesis blast to shatter the diamond and launched herself into the air. It was from here she started to once again drop the temperature around Hatori and trying to freeze him into submission.
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Post by Cain on Apr 16, 2009 4:04:12 GMT -5
Fading back into the real universe may have been a grave error, as bursting into the air would send her right back up towards the colossus. The colussus' arms had become as hard as diamond and like swatting a fly when Natcha shot upwards it took a mighty swipe with its massive arm to pummel her straight back down. Hopefully this blunt attack was enough to knock her out because after that the colossus stumbled and crumbled back down to the earth.
Hatori himself released his technique, blood covering his face as he fell to one knee, wheezing heavily. Steadying himself he began to head up the mountain once more to catch up with Vherox.
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