Cross and Hebi's training.

-As the portal dissipated, the three of them seemed to be out in the middle of a desert. Hakku looked around, then had a relieved expression on her face once she knew no one could be around to get injured.-
"Alright, in this isolated field, I want you two to use your anti-akuma weapons to your fullest extent. But first, I must judge what ability your weapon has gained, Hebi."
-She also looked over at Cross, who was now over the 30 percentile. His weapon should become stronger accordingly, amplifying what it can already do.-

{After taking in his surroundings Hebi would hear Hakku ask him to activate his Anti-Akuma Weapon Zugaikotsu to see what abilities it had obtained. Hebi would activate his Zugaikotsu and would fist test it primary ability to become intangible. Green energy would then cover Hebi's hands and would begin to slowly crawl up his arm letting Hebi see how much of his body is becoming intangible. After a few seconds the green energy would cover all of Hebi's upper body including his head leaving his legs and feet physical.}

Hissssssssssssss
"Still need a little more work before becoming fully intangible. States Kobura."

{Hebi would then close his eye and would see what other abilities he had unlocked. Suddenly the spikes on the back of Zugaikotsu would begin to glow and then on each spike 5 glowing skulls would appear on them. The skulls would then release from the spike and would float around Hebi and some would move though the ground a few times showing they where able to turn intangible. Hebi would then look over at Hakku to see what she would say about this new ability}

*Cross emerged, he looked around at first then at the sky. The sun was beaming down brightly, he was passively absorbing photons bolstering his power passively. He didn't mean too but it was something that he just did. He then watched Hebi's mediocre ability that was of no use to him on the mission that they just went on. He knew that his ability was better... somehow.*

"My turn... Murder and Lament spoke to me, I know what my new ability is."

*Cross shoved both of his guns into the ground the ground would rupture as a seal of sorts would appear, the seal was not that large since the ability is new, but it encompassed Hakku, Hebi and Cross green water that was probably innocence filled the area turning the segmented area into a sphere of water, Cross knew that this was just part 1 of the ability.*

"I call it, Spatial Displacement Aquarium."

-Hakku seemed surprised, that her fellow exorcist were able to discover their new abilities on their own. It only showed how much they were progressing, and it made Hakku feel...something. Something she never felt before.-
"You two seem to have grown more than I expected from the time you first became exorcist. This makes the second phase of what I wanted to do much more simple."
-Hakku's anti-akuma gloves materialized onto her hands. She would then push outward, creating a field around her of her own innocence, just to keep the unknown effects of Cross's level 3 ability from effecting her. Within the field, a second, translucent orb covered her body, but what it was forged out of was a mystery for now.-
"You two will battle me, using your anti-akuma weapons, so I can see how much you all have grown. Beginning..."
-Even though she made a field around herself to deal with the spatial aquarium, it never hurt to take extra precaution. With her excellent speed she warped to the outside of the aquarium and clapped her hands together, sending a tycoon of innocence and binary energy toward the two exorcist.-
"Now!"

*Cross side flipped collapsing the aquarium for the time being, maybe he could use it later... maybe not. He quickdrawed murder and lament from their holsters. He had fought Hakku before, but he was MUCH different this time around... no more games. He landed on air so it seemed far enough away that Hebi was in the direction of the attack and not him.*

"I'm different than I was before..."

*Cross fired, naturally the bullets didnt head towards Hakku but appeared directly around her like before, expecting them to be deleted Cross had something else in mind.*

{Hebi would sigh since he does not like working with Cross in battle as it is not different then fighting two people at once. As Hebi was sighing he would sign and a large amount of sand would then erupt from the ground as the blast for Hakku hit. Although as the sand disappear Hebi would be gone sinking into the sand just like a desert rattle snake. While Cross bullets appeared around her from under her would then erupt a wave of innocence covered skulls although they would burst from the ground showing they where solid and could do much more damage then just phasing though Hakku. A few feet away on the opposite side of Cross is from Hakku, Hebi would slowly rise from the ground and wait to see what Hakku would do.}

-Hakku's eyes quickly turned yellow as her psychometry activated. Once she used this to for see into the future she could tell when and where the incoming attacks were coming. But first off, the tycoon was merely used to spread binary energy throughout the area, but Hakku would keep this to herself.-
"Data Displacement."
-Hakku thought as she solidified the ground of the entire desert, as far as the eye can see, to be harder than diamond, completely nullifying the sand blast. Now, data displacement kicked in. This technique displaced Hakku's body with something else in the area, and the thing Hakku chose was Hebi. Then instantly, Hakku and Hebi swapped places, placing Hebi right in the line of Cross's near instant fire. Sure, this would mean Hakku was implanted in the ground partially, but she could and would simply digitally warp her body back to the surface.-
"If your statement is true Cross,"
-As she spoke, possibly 50 meters away from Cross and Hebi, she began to set up her field of data manipulation, which at that point started to expand.-
"Then I'll have to widen my variety of techniques."
-Suddenly silver crystals would form around Hakku by the millions, swirling around the field at a velocity high enough to rip metal to shreds. These crystals were a combination of the limited water in the atmosphere, iron and a third unknown substance. Her field quickly continued to expand as the silver crystals ravaged the field.-

*Cross warped his bullets from in front of Hebi around the field as Hakku's barrage of crystal began to expand. He used the aftershock these were his special void shot bullets that exploded into small pockets of empty space that suck up anything and everything in the blast radius. Normally the size of the void of one bullet is no larger than that of a softball, but since the bullets numbered in the hundreds they did an excellent job of removing the crystal things from existence and then some. They were safe for now... Cross put his guns back into heir holsters only for the barrels to appear surrounding hakku*

"...."

*The triggers were pulled, bullets were fired, carnage would ensue... hopefully*

{Hebi would look surprised to see Cross actually had the bullets avoid him and was able to get all of the crystal. Hebi would then turn toward Hakku and would then create a set of skulls and would then point them toward Hakku. The skulls made of innocence would begin to glow and would phase though into the ground moving around the area phasing in and out of the ground to confuse Hakku. Some skulls would then appear under Hakku and try to hit and bite her although some others would appear above Hakku and would actually release beams of innocence from their mouths from Hakku.}

"Field Altering, Adaption."
-Now with her field set up, as the bullets appeared around Hakku, majority of them looked to have been deleted. The rest were quickly disbanded from the inside of the field, which continued to expand beyond 50 meters. However, one bullet caught Hakku in the shoulder as she predicted and instantly she performed,-
"Module Adaption."
-Which allowed her body to adapt to the bullet and its effects, so if a void was supposed to be created, it would have no effect or suction of any kind on Hakku's body. Not only that, her body also adjusted to the density and material of the bullet, so the same type won't be penetrating her body again nor will the void abilities work on her. Now, thanks to Hakku's vision, she wasn't confused in the slightest by Hebi's barrage of skulls, and with psychometry she knew the location of each one of his skulls without even looking in the general direction. With her gloves on, she jumped up toward the aerial skull and blocked the beam with her hand, absorbing all of the kinetic energy from it, leaving it with no type of power. She then grabbed the face of it and shattered it, deleting the shards shortly after (Hakku's gloves allow her to touch the intangible). As for the one coming up below her, her jumping up would have avoided the attack. She would then mix her energy with the power she absorbed from Hebi and begin to glow green, releasing it in one powerful blast.-
"Corruption burst."
-The burst of purple energy and innocence destroyed and deleted the surrounding skulls and corrupted the rest of the beams coming toward her causing them to instantly disperse. Suddenly a greenish tent covered the field for as far as the eye can see, making even the sunlight green. Cross would probably realize that couldn't absorb any more energy, mainly from the sun. And because of this green tent, the corruption burst was expanding at a critical rate, booming across the field faster than sound, attempting to corrupt Cross and Hebi and make them broken.-

*Cross had to defend himself before attacking... which sucked. He signed preforming his jutsu 'reality walk' which allowed him to exit this plane of existence and warp from one place to another. Which took an ass load of chakra to do seeing as how Cross hadn't mastered it yet. But he appeared a ways away from the greenhouse thing that Hakku set up and the various fields of energy that she had in place as well. As for hebi... shit he didnt know what he could do. Cross, locking on to hakku from far outside her reach signed again, this wasn't the aftershock, it was as if he was summoning something.*

"Aftershock..."

*He muttered, the bullet that pierced Hakku was a S.T.A.L.K.E.R, a mindless soul that is one of Khams many many victims, an energy vampire that has the ability to absorb essence, everything that has to do with an individual, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R is immune to physical, and most energy based attack but is on a time limit, being attacked to hakku at the moment, and upon activation would hopefully paralyze hakku as the S.T.A.L.K.E.R began to suck her dry of her energy taking vast amounts of it by the second, hakku couldnt possibly adapt herself and become immune to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R's touch, the only way to do that was to be one of them, and if she was... then Cross would have her under his control. Anywho, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R's kiss hopefully affected hakku while Cross on the outside continued to sign, his body glowing green. He was going to use his new power...*

{As he saw Hakku building energy for her Corruption Blast which Hebi could recognize from a previous battle that he had with her a while ago. Hebi would sign and slam his hands on the ground summoning a large and long snake that would swallow Hebi as it would lay out stretching its head out of the range of the green tented area and the blast as it was released. The snake would begin to be destroyed by the Corruption Blast it would spit Hebi out and he would land far away out of the range of the Corruption blast. Hebi would then point Zugaikotsu toward Hakku as a wave of snakes would appear on his arm becoming coated in innocence. Zugaikotsu would then release a large burst of energy toward Hakku at a fast speed. Although as the beam moved toward her now intangible snakes would fall of and phase into the ground for later. Although the beam would then change shape and would take the form of a large 8 headed snake that would attack Hakku from multiple directions.}

(I think the word you're looking for Hebi is an Orochi =] )

-Because Hakku found herself unable to adapt to the touch of a Stalker (sorry for not spelling it properly =p) she instead just made herself immune to the effects that she was suppose to gain from it. The absorption/devouring of energy, and the paralysis were adapted to successfully, but because she couldn't adapt herself to the touch of a Stalker, she couldn't keep her body from being penetrated by them. She would have to avoid Cross's bullets from now on, since she can't be sure which is a Stalker bullet and which is a different bullet.

With Hebi's Orochi beams flying her way, Hakku suspended herself in mid-air and she held out both of her hands. Her anto-akuma weapon, Marvelous, then materialized into her hands and it was already glowing white. She gave a single slash, opening a void before her which sucked in the heads and energy of the snakes. Once this action was finished, the void closed up.-
"Good Hebi, you're getting better."
-Once she said what she believed to be words of encouragement, she turned her attention to Cross. With her vision, she could already see the snakes Hebi implanted in the ground, but she couldn't help but wonder what Cross had planned or in mind. So, to keep him in the heat of battle, Hakku pointed toward Cross's location.-
"Data Crush, Judgment; Assorted Binary."
-Suddenly green beams about as wide as baseball field rained down from the sky at speeds of lightning, and although she pointed at Cross, these beams would aim for Hebi as well. They struck the intangible and would continue into the ground, obliterating the hidden snakes with pin-point accuracy. The thing that made these beams assorted, was that they were binary energy based, yet they had elemental effects. Beams of darkness, beams of fire, water, lightning, plasma, radiation and pure binary energy. Because these beams are binary based, they couldn't be devoured/absorbed/eaten/altered or converted and even if one was immune to lets say fire, the assorted binary version will do damage regardless, making each beam very lethal. They rained on the field for some time, with over a thousand of them being fired.-

*Cross looked towards the sky after seeing his plan of attack fail, he didn't have enough time to transform... he thought it was instantaneous but since he used a lot of his chakra it took a bit more time. So he had to improvise, which is what he hated doing. Cross' lightning flame ring struck a glow... he shoved the ring into the box summoning his signature piranha dome of ultiamte defense. The blasts struck, they were greater in power than the previous things that he fought but the piranha had a special ability up there sleeves, the ability to gnaw through energy with the soilidification attribute of the lightning flame addiing to there defense. Cross was safe for the most part But he used this as an opprotunity to transform. From within the piranha dome he muttered.*

"Model X"


*Cross' new power and his ultimate offensive form was to utilize the living cosmic metal within his body to increase his powers to astronomical heights. He emerged, in this form within the dome of course, he was no fool... but he fired his innocence eels rapidy (which he can do) and constantly buffed the dome over and over and over which eventually turned out ot be more than enough to combat the power of the beams. From within the dome Cross counterattack was maked, and would be coming from a very unexpected place, the STALKERS mouth.... that was attached to Hakku. Cross fired, his bullets in the hundreds making the speed of sound look like a crawl as the fired out of the STALKERS mouth at Hakku point blank, exploding with the blast radius and power of a neucelar warhead. The battle has begun*

{As the green beams rained around the area not taking any chanced with them Hebi would begin to quickly move around the area at fast speed dogging multiple beams using his snake like agility and flexibility to slip out of the way of every beam until they where all gone. Hebi would then rocket toward Hakku stopping a distance as he saw Cross use his large massive attacks. Meanwhile Kobura would then cough up a scroll and Hebi would would open it a 5-6 skulls would appear around Hebi. As soon as Hebi touched the scroll and would cause a large amount of snake skin to appear and wrap around the skull creating a large amount of energy. The light would then fade and standing begin Hebi would be a large Snake Hydra that would release a large roar that would shake the area. Although this Snake Hydra would have the innocence skulls and would then glow becoming intangible so it could attack Hakku though the explosion trying to bite her.}

(Visual)

-With a shocked expression, Hakku looked on her shoulder, noticing the Stalker mouth opening up. With her precognition, she would predict what was about to transpire, and decided she had to quickly get out of the situation. Instantly, she broke down and not even a second later reformed herself in a vortex of innocence. Upon breaking down, she got rid of every corrupt Stalker atom that was apart of her, and let it get banished into nothingness from the field as she reformed without those atoms and tissues, regenerating what she had lost. The bullets Cross fired from the the mouth of the were also deleted and banished from the field along with the Stalker. Her rain ring ignited a little, as that slight emotion of shock took to the surface of Hakku's demeanor, despite her expression remaining emotionless.-

"You've grown as well, Cross."

-She said as the massive serpent with 8 heads approached her at a high velocity. Her hair began to flow freely in the air. Above her a vortex would open up, and from it would shoot out chains, connecting to the reality within the field. Then, once the vortex ceased, a giant scrapped looking clock was left in its wake.-
(Ignore the girl)


"Space, bounded by time. Time Scape."

-Right before the Orochi made contact with her, it would slow down significantly, looking as if it went in slow motion. With this major opening, Marvelous rose like it had a mind of its own, but in actuality it was being controlled by Hakku, and slashed yet another void on the Orochi. The size of the void was according to the size of the serpent, sucking it inside before sealing up. It wasn't known where all this energy Hakku was trapping was going, or would go, or if it went anywhere. Only time would tell.

Hakku's lips began to move rapidly as she chanted a reverse incantation, literally redoing her previous move, Assorted Judgment. The beams fell from the sky yet again, ravaging the field and attempting to do the same to Cross and Hebi, only this time, as the beams fell the hour hand on the Clock of Reality rapidly spun forward, quadrupling the speed of the beams. There was hardly a second interval between the sky and the ground now.-

((This is gonna get ugly...))

*Cross' body can produce adrenaline at an ungodly rate, allowing him to see instances in slow motion giving him the opprotunity to react quicker to most situatations. Even with his boost, the blasts were still coming in a tad fast for his taste, no matter. In his model X form his shooting speed was power leveled, he would let his body do the work for him. He pivoted around and a clicking sound was heard, nothing came out but the blasts that threatened Hebi and Cross disappeared, it seemed that Cross was exerting a massive amount of Void Shot from his twin blasters as defense for him and Hebi, suprisingly he was being a team player this time around. The blasts that got sucked in the void, Cross could not manipulate them as he chose twas the price anything paid for going into once of Cross' portals. He absorbed the energy, increasing his strength even further. He then turned around back towards Hakku who was in the distance.*

"I haven't grown at all... these are just baby steps."

*Cross shoved his arm cannons into the ground, releasing a massive amount of void shot from under hakku that would encase the entire area save Cross and Hebi, anything caught would get removed accordingly. This happened as soon as Cross pulled the trigger....*

{Hebi would prepare to doge the beams but would look and see them disappear via Cross. Hebi would then sign and would pat Kobura on his head causing him to spit up a large dark red snake which Hebi would coat in innocence allowing it to phase into the ground and disappear. Hebi would then punch the ground and would send a large beam of energy though the ground which would move toward Hakku. Although underground the beam would divide into 6 beams which would then move around Hakku's general area. Then beams would then since coated in innocence would phase though the ground and would go high into the air before linking together creating a large dome the would then in an instant come crashing down on Hakku creating a large monstrous explosion.}

-Hakku giggled at Cross's remark. He was being pretty modest, and it made him seem, different, in a way. The beams that Cross sucked into the void couldn't have been absorbed, for binary energy couldn't be absorbed. They would simply exit the field from Cross's void, but then they were merely lost to the abyss, useless to Cross in every way.-
"Fine then Cross. You've, progressed.."
-Seeing what Cross did to her judgement from the sky, she thought of a way to deal with the voids. Thanks to Hebi and Cross avoiding alot of the judgment beams, the first time, the ground was charged with plenty of binary energy.-
"Open."
-Hakku said, and from the binary charged ground a green void opened up as wide as the field was. It would be used to not only cancel out with Cross's void, but adapt to it. With the battlefield groundless, Hebi's attacks were null and voided, as they were lost to the green void. Although, since Cross was attempting to making the ground a void, Hebi's move wouldn't work even if Hakku didn't use this void.-
"Split."
-Suddenly, green voids began to open around Hakku and all over inside of her 50 meter field. She gripped Marvelous tightly and made a wide arc swing toward Cross and Hebi. The shockwave produced by this swing was converted and altered into a tsunami of binary and innocence. Being a tsunami of these energies, it was needless to say that its force and power could rip even the strongest metal apart molecule by molecule, not to mention that it covered an extremely wide area. Dodging may as well had been out of the question. Also, it wasn't sinking into the green void beneath it, allowing it to cover the field in its entirety.-
"Isn't this a good time to test your new ability, Cross?"
-Hakku's intentions seemed to have been to force Cross to use his 3rd ability. She was curious of how good it was defensively, since binary could adapt to it and along with the tsunami it would eventually tear through it. She wanted to gauge its power. Its strengths and weakness. Hebi seemed to be adept with his abilities and Hakku saw what she needed to see from him.-
"Hebi, if you wish, you could leave now."

((For the record I was afraid to read this...))

*Cross while standing on empty space noticed that it seemed that Hakku's energy was impossible to manipulate, he'd have to find some way around that later in life but now he was in a tight spot and didn't want to use his third ability for defensive purposes. He wanted to trap Hakku in it but the voided ground could possibly away his ability entirely. He was weighing out these options as the wave of energies neared, this form wasnt making the cut anymore, he would switch to his other form pretty soon but he could try something first to neutralize this attack but he didn't want to take any chances. He reverted back to his old form instantaneously and pointed both guns in a odd stance, one upward and one down, he then muttered*

"Spatial displacement aquarium..."

*Out of his bullets came the substance known as innocence mixed with Cross' Lightning Flame this covered a small distance beyond Cross and Hebi, he assumed that the solidified innocence would do well enough to protect against the incoming attack if not it can buy him enough time to escape and try something new.*

{Hebi would move back in to the Spatial displacement aquarium but could tell that the binary energy would soon enough break though. Hebi would then hear Hakku's statement about him being able to leave. While Hebi though of leaving for a moment he still had some things he wanted to try out so would stay as Zugaikotsu would begin to glow.}

"Zugaikotsu level 2 activate."

{Zugaikotsu would glow brightly and would concentrate around Hebi's hands and arms. While Hebi had shown his level two ability he did not show transformation appearance. When the glowing would stop the straps on the back of Zugaikotsu would disappear and Zugaikotsu would transform into two complete bone gauntlets.}


{Hebi would hold up one of his hands to look at the gauntlet and as soon as he did so a wave of green glowing skulls would flow down both gauntlets. Hebi would then point Zugaikotsu toward the ground and a circular chain of skulls would shoot into the ground phasing though the ground. Although the skulls would glow causing the ground around where the skulls where touching to become intangible making a path way underground for anyone to use. Hebi would jump into the hole and would leave it in case Cross decided to use it to avoid the blast. Hebi would then appear from the ground on the opposite side of the tsunami of binary and innocence. Hebi would then clench his fist as a large skull would appear around it which would crackle with lighting like energy. Hebi would the point his and toward Hakku and from Hebi's hand would release the large skull that would rocket toward Hakku like a lighting bolt. As the skull opened its mouth energy would shoot out of its mouth trying to hit Hakku and explode on contact before the skull made contact trying to chomp down on Hakku before releasing a large explosion. Although unlike attack from Hebi before the skull and the blast of energy where made intangible so the could phase though anything in there way and made to stay like that until they mad complete contact with Hakku's body meaning until they hit the skull and energy beams had no kinetic force to be absorbed.}

-Hakku couldn't help but smile as Cross tossed his stubbornness aside and finally used the move that could save his life. However, this tsunami was still incredibly powerful and with its energies, innocence and binary, it would begin to break down portions and sections of the barrier. Once the tsunami finally subsided, as Hakku expected, the aquarium was still standing, even though it was full of rather large holes that continued to expand. The data Hakku received from the aquarium via binary energy was relayed back to her, allowing her to add something else to her already wide array of knowledge. She then ceased attacking, having done what she came here to do."
"Hm, as a shield it works quite well. Even my tsunami couldn't destroy it completely...Good work, Cross."
-Hakku wasn't sure what Hebi was doing, since there was no ground for him to make an intangible path way, or put chains of skulls into, all of his abilities weren't only lost in the void, but the void adapted to them and left themselves unable to be effected. As for the beam coming toward Hakku, the Reality Clock turned counter-clockwise, slowing down the beam to a crawl. With the beam reduced in speed, Hakku was able to easily catch and manipulate the flow of the beam. Doing this, she redirected it skyward, sending up until it reached space.-
"You two seem to now having a better understanding of your abilities now, right?"

*Cross waved his hand in front of him, with that motion he dispersed the dome of innocence. He collapsed like water around him. He looked at the ground and the Voided Ground was gone as well. He nodded at Hakku with a lax look upon his face, he wasn't satisfied internally, he had a bit more work to do. But for now he was surprised at how far he'd come. It still wasnt enough though*

"Is there anything more you require of us?"

{Hebi would simply wait for Hakku to answer Cross' question since his question included Hebi there was no reason to restate it. Hebi felt he had improved a good deal but has found many things about his abilities that have to be improved and fixed.}

While Cross and Hebi awaited their answer, Bloom walked onto the field holding Bliss. She looked at Cross, then at Hebi before reverting her vision at Hakku. She closed her eyes and a smile lit up on her face as she began to speak.
"Hmm? I suppose you're Hakku. Can I ask you something once you've finished with these two?"
She may have had a weapon withdrawn, but she was being pretty lax. It was just how Bloom was.