Khrona, I have a question

Koudo continued running straight forward, before redirecting himself and starting to side step to the right, as he did this he tossed one of his Chakrams, the one in the right hand which would be Maina, at Khrona yet again so that he could practice trying to get them to come back. As if he`d try close combat with someone that had a razor, that`d just be insane.

Khrona's keen eyes glinted the very moment the chakram was about to hit him, and in a swift movement too fast for Koudo's eyes to comprehend, Khrona's razor was between one of the open spaces in the middle of the chakram, spinning it nonchalantly before raising it above his head. There would then be a crackle of what seemed to be electricity... Khrona was about to use his own wavelength and shoot it through Maina, which, in weapon form, would still cause her severe harm.

"Ah, Koudo, what will you do now that I have your weapon~? I'm gonna~ torture her~!"

Khrona's wavelength started to surge through every portion of Maina in this form, causing her soul to be harmed greatly by such an occurrence. The wavelength was red, showing the color of Khrona's own soul. It was rather... terrifying, as the entire room began to glow red as Khrona used his wavelength... Though Despair would keep Khrona from doing anything too harmful to Maina, as her wavelength had the ability to basically weaken and counteract all others... Which is one reason why Khrona could suppress his own power.

"Let me here you SCREAM~!! Heeheehee~!"

It was nice to see Khrona enjoying himself these days...

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Misery was still lying there on the floor though, and she seemed rather pissed. "KHRONA. ARE YOU JUST GONNA LEAVE ME ON THIS GODDAMN FLOOR OR ARE YOU GONNA USE ME, TOO?!"

Maina: Damn it Koudo ... I really AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Yep, being shocked really sucked and she was feeling every last bit of Khrona`s wavelength. Koudo shook his head and looked at Naina, who was still in his hand, before looking back to Maina on the razor being shocked, then back to Naina. He needed to act fast to get her back, but he had no ideas on how to do that right now. he needed to analyze the battle a little more, but he couldn`t do it fully with Maina in harm`s way.

" Shit ... shit... "

He started running forward again, towards Khrona. Though he didn`t want to try close combat, there was really no chose at this point. He hadn`t notice that Khrona wasn`t using his other weapon, but that`s an important thing to notice is it?

When Misery screamed at him, Khrona snapped out of his sadistic euphoria and suddenly stopped what he was doing altogether. He stopped surging his wavelength through Maina and quickly dropped her, flinging Despair backward, who would change back into human form in mid-air.

"Oh yeah~! Sorry, Misery~! I forgot aaaaaall about you--"

Misery: DON'T GIMME THAT SHIT! See, now I've got this rage all festered up in me! I want blood on my blade! I don't care if it's yours or his, but I want it NOW!

She started to try thrusting herself at Khrona, which he would dodge and quickly jolt his own wavelength opposite of her own into her, causing her a bit of pain.

Misery: OW, SON OF A-- I'M GONNA KILL YOU!

Khrona: Ohhhh, don't be like that, Misery! You're so uptight... Despair's gotta have some fun, too!

Misery: SHUT UP AND FIGHT THIS KID!

Khrona: Sheesh... At this rate, I'll be the one holding YOU back...

Khrona gripped Misery tightly, letting the blade part drop to the ground as he held firmly onto the hilt. Koudo was running at him without the intention to attack him, it would seem... He was running forrrr... Oh yeah.

"Whups, I dropped somethin!"

Khrona brought his black blade up high with eyes locked on the lone chakram which Koudo was gaining on. Misery crackled with wavelength through her blade... Khrona would then swiftly drop his blade above Maina, threatening to hit and then shoot his wavelength even more into her if Koudo didn't do something.

While Khrona and Misery seemed to be having something like a lover`s quarrel, Koudo continued his running towards Maina who had been tossed like she was nothing. He looked at Naina, whose face he saw in the reflective surface of her blades. She smiled and nodded to him, he was unsure about what she meant by that, but he looked back to Maina and grinned.

He stopped running, He switched the hand that he was holding Naina with, and threw her, as hard as he could. She seemed to deviate from the straight line path that he usually threw so it looked like a misdirected launch as she flew past Khrona`s side, but she curved back around, turning horizontally so she looked like a wheel and rolled through towards Maina and the scythe Misery. Being well timed, she rolled through just in time and hit Maina, who slid out of harms way and back to Koudo`s side as Naina continued her rolling and came back to his side as well.

" That was a close one ... guess I`m picking up using these things. But I think I might just be getting lucky .... hey Khrona, how`d you charge that energy through your weapons? That`s was pretty sick. "

Koudo yelled, kneeling and picking both the girls up and holding them in the hands that he usually held them in. He looked at both of them, seeing their images in the reflective surface of their blades.

" You alright Maina? You look rough. "

She promptly ignored him.

Khrona cocked his head to the side, a bit confuzzled.

"Energy?"

He wasn't sure what Koudo was talking about... Did he mean his Soul Wavelength? Khrona used it so much and so naturally that most times, he didn't even know he was using it.

"OOOOH. My Soul Wavelength. Hahaha, that comes with more experience. When you learn to control the power flowing from your own soul, you will learn the art of the Soul Wavelength. Naturally, everyone uses their wavelengths in different ways and fashions, but in the end, it's always useful~!"

Khrona lowered Misery as he seemed a bit less threatening since he was in the middle of an explanation.

"Don't worry, that can be taught to you in time."

Koudo lowered his weapons as well and released Naina, prompting her to transform back to her human form and step back a bit. Koudo listened to what Khrona said before raising Maina again, in a slight defensive position.

" Alright, but first I need to learn to control them. Throwing them is fine, but getting them to return is hard. "

Maina: That`s because you suck.

" Shut it. I`m sorry you got shocked, but it was experimentation. I won`t let it happen again. "

Maina: You better not ... I swear if it does.

" Ssshh ... just watch alright. Follow my lead. "

Khrona shook his head slowly.

"Returning would be fine if your wavelengths were better in sync. Not only that, if you generally had more control over your wavelength as a whole, you would get better with that. In fact, I don't doubt that you would be able to control them in the air with just one throw."

Khrona looked up, placing Misery's blade to his wrist.

"But that just means that you've gotta work on it more."

Khrona slit his wrist, blood trickling down his wrist... yet, it wasn't normal blood... the blood was black. This Black Blood would start to rise from the ground and off of the Khrona's wrist as his wound almost instantly closed up as if it were never there. The Black Blood converged into a large wad floating in front of Khrona, however soon after dispersed into tiny droplets that floated around the room.

"... Take down the drops of my Black Blood. The more you learn to use your weapons, the less damage you will sustain. The more you take down, the less they will attack. Got iiiit?"

Just then, the droplets of blood started to jut out gigantic, long, slender spikes from themselves from every angle at Koudo, trying to violently impale him.

Alright, it was time for the real training to begin. Koudo assumed that what they were doing previously was only to assess how skilled he was with them after just getting them and he also assumed that he wasn`t very good at all. He looked around the room, locating all the drips of blood, but that wouldn`t be enough. He still needed to hit all of them if he wanted to not be swiss cheese. He took Naina`s hand quickly and tossed her in the air with all the might he had, she transformed shortly after and he grabbed her weapon form out the sky before throwing her once more making her circle around and hit the ones that were close to him. He then commenced to tossing Maina, making her circle around as well but with a larger diameter of the circle than Naina, so she was traveling in a wider circle and hitting those drops. He guess that it was time to try and sync with them so that he could control them while in the air, so he estimated their course of travel, putting his hand up and catching Naina as she traveled back to his hand, but Maina continued to circle around, getting lower and lower to the ground meaning that he wasn`t quite in sync with her so he couldn`t get her to return to his hand. Since she was traveling towards the ground and not towards the sky, he was impaled three times from three of the drops that he hadn`t knocked out of the sky, one hit his leg, the other hit his right shoulder and the last grazed his left side.

"Oooo, that must smart, huh~?"

Khrona saw the needles jab into Koudo's body, but he seemed predominantly alright in spite of this. Khrona watched further, letting his Black Blood do its business.

The Black Blood's numbers would be taken down a bit. But there was still quite a large quantity, majorly above and below Koudo rather than around him. The droplets now on the ground would be around Koudo's general position, shooting upward to create a sort of prison around him. After that, the drops above him started to jab down spikes, aiming mostly at his weakened shoulder, but still at the rest of his body, too.

Misery: Hey, Khrona, isn't the Black Blood highly infectious? Won't he get it, too?

Khrona: ... Pff, it's MY Black Blood. I have control over all aspects of my body, whether they be connected to me or not.

Misery: ... Even though the Black Blood is a separate entity within itself?

Khrona: ... It's still MY blood, ain't it?

Misery: ... Damn, you got me there. I guess you've got this under control, then.

Forced into a tight spot, Koudo looked around before using Naina to block the spikes coming from above his prison. It seemed as if he was something like completely defenseless right now and there was no point in lying about it, he WAS completely defenseless right now. He looked towards Maina, who was still spinning and flying through the air, and reached his hand out of the cracks of the prison spikes, hoping to not be impaled by more branching and needle making, and reached for her, she was willed towards his hand, but slowly ... ever so slowly.

" Come on ... a little more ... "

He reached more, not realizing that his reaching created an opening in the blocking that Naina was doing and he was stabbed, yet again in his already injured shoulder by about four spikes.

( Is that your way of telling me something about the Black Blood? XD )

(To an extent, but it was mostly for anyone else who thought 'Hey, Khrona's Black Blood is really infectious, it should probably be infecting that guy's blood!' When I really don't want it to. XD)

"He's getting better... But becoming more reckless."

Misery: HA, can YOU really call anyone reckless, Mr. Big Shot Kage? You were definitely the same way with me and Despair.

Khrona fell silent again because he knew that's how he was... Oh, so naive, yet still trying, despite the pain... Khrona cracked a slight smile now.

On the other hand, the spikes would retract, letting Koudo's own blood spill about from his shoulder. The Black Blood had no intention of stopping him from retrieving his weapon, but only inflicting damage on him. As he thought, however, the Black Blood would branch out when his arm would be put through the gaps and the needles would puncture his skin in his arm, severing quite deeply, in fact. Khrona watched it all as it happened. The blood spikes from above would converge into one blob now, shooting downward at Koudo as a large spike this time rather than just many tiny ones. This one would be a lot more damaging than the tiny needles...

( I get it, I read the part about the Black Blood in the new terminology topic that you put up. It sounds extra awesome actually. )

" A little more ... ignore the huge amount of unimaginable pain. "

Koudo spoke outloud, though he was being a little over-dramatic with the description of the pain. Sure it was large but it wasn`t super unimaginable so much so that he would die in less than a second. It was more like he was good for the most part now, but if the huge spike over his head came down and crushed him then he would be a pickle. He willed her more and more, and the more he reached the faster she moved until she finally made it to his hand, which he flicked in an upward motion tossing her to an angle to cut the Black Blood spear in half. He then used Naina as something like a circular sword and swung his arm around like he was at a concert and was cheering for the band and used her bladed edges to cut through the bars of the prison.

With that he created an opening and dove out of the way of the spike that was still falling, just cut in half, and tumbled forward raising to his feet in seconds and catching Maina, before crossing both his arms over each other and tossing both the girls with a little more confidence in his throwing, using them to attack the rest of the Black Blood that was used to trap him inside the prison, and the Black Blood that was used to impale him from above.

To add on to his assault on the Black Blood, he signed the necessary hand signs, before his cheeks puffed up and he released a ball of water from his mouth, firing it at the rest of the Black Blood that remained hoping to clear the area of it.

" Water Release, Water Fang Bullet! "

That was the name of the attack, he figured that he should add the name in there so that Khrona would know what he actually did and where the water had come from.

(... Do you know how much it means to me when you say you actually READ the terminology? ;; That makes me feel really, really appreciated. I can do nothing but thank you. That made me really, really happy, ya know. ;; THANK YOU SO MUCH. )

Seems as though Koudo didn't know that Khrona was psychic yet. Oh, that was always fun. But he seemed to be fighting off the Black Blood rather uniquely now. It was almost gone, in fact.

"Huh. He is slowly getting better... I like the progress."

A majority of the remaining Black Blood would be either cut away by the Chakrams or blasted away by the water, however there was still a little more left. The little Black Blood droplets left would form into a ring surrounding Koudo and begin to release a flurry of needles to jut out and stab at him as they spun around, as to increase the danger and make it harder for him to track where the needles were coming out from. As such, it would probably be more difficult to defend against them as well.

( No Problem. I still have to go back and read about Soul Nomad and the Blazblue stuff though since I only skimmed those sections. )

" Maina ... Naina ... human form! "

Koudo yelled as he tried his best to dodge the ring of Black Blood that jutted out spikes spontaneously to keep Koudo on his feet mainly. He dodged as many as he could while others slightly grazed him, heck there was one that pierced the same shoulder that seemed to continue to get pierced. They were too spontaneous for him to read and jutted out too fast for him to sign in enough time to do any jutsu.

In human form, the girls both came towards the ring that Koudo was trapped in and basically watched to see what he would do, but after a while Naina, being on a slightly higher sync with Koudo`s soul, transformed back into weapon form and sliced through the ring before Koudo grabbed her and sliced through the rest.

" Thanks Naina, you`re a life saver. "

Naina: " ... "

" Right you don`t talk. "

Koudo let go and she transformed back to human form before he stood between the two girls and looked at Khrona with a slight smile.

" That was interesting ... I feel like our souls are more aligned. "

When he said our, he meant his and his partners. After training with Khrona, for however long he was training with Khrona, he felt like he understood them a little more. Granted one still didn`t like to talk to him and the other didn`t like to shut up when it came down to it they seemed like the perfect team after all.

Maina: " Is there anymore? "

" I`m sure we`re just getting started. "

Khrona could be seen reclined on some sort of platform that resembled his desk in this world with his back facing Koudo and his wings outstretched.

"Eh, not really, you're done here."

Khrona didn't really seem to have anything else planned, in actuality. That was his only training. But then again...

"Hey, wait, no, I've got something else for you to do. To truly assess your skills, you're going to need to fight against someone of your level. Another genin. I've taught you one of the basic skills of Weapons, so now it is up to you to master the basics and learn to use them to your will."

Khrona yawned, his wing wiping across the area and returning them to his office as if they had never left.

"So, go find a genin to fight and come back to me with the results. Kaaay?"

Koudo, Maina and Naina all stood in Khrona`s office and nodded before turning around and heading for the door.

" Alright, It shouldn`t take that long. "

Koudo said waving his hand before he stopped walking.

" Do they have to be Dusk Ninja? "

Khrona shook his head.

"Nope. Any ol run of the mill Genin for ya. Tell me what happens~!"

" Right boss. I`ll try to completely obliterate them. See ya later. "

Koudo said waving his hand as him and the girls left.