Mission: Reap "Blood Witch Vyronica"

“And what of you? I am sure that a mere mortal such as yourself cannot survive in space as you are…”

With the reflection possession, it would seem as though her cover was blown. With Atra’s knowledge of a Vampire, he may or may not know that Vampires do not cast a reflection on any surface, be it water, a mirror or anything of the like. Therefore, he would not be able to use his Shadow Water to possess her because of this sole law of the Vampires. However, she did indeed cast a reflection, which is how it was revealed that the one attacking was not truly her at all, but in fact was… a corpse.

“… It is far too easy to trick the senses of the living, as all of you seem to think us undead to be all alike, as shown by your fight against my corpses.”

All of the ‘Vyronica’s’ that Atra had been fighting were merely corpses from her collection that were filled with several hundred gallons of magically contained blood within them. There were about ten corpses in total. From the very start of the battle when Vyronica disappeared, she had summoned her corpses from the holes in the ground and forced them to fight by controlling their blood with her magic, which explained their rather simplistic attacks, the lack of fluency in her attacks, since she seemed to be choppily throwing random attacks at him, and why there were no special abilities being used as of yet. She had been throwing her voice when necessary to make it seem as though the corpses were indeed her when they really weren’t, and because Vyronica had been masking her power since the beginning of the battle, there was no way to differentiate between her and the corpses, especially with her illusory techniques. But, the true Vyronica’s location remained a mystery.

“Blood Bath…”

Just then, the ten corpses spread across the field would violently explode in a concussive manner, spewing out all of the blood contained within them forcefully across the entire area in a destructive way, aiming to harm Atra with not only the blood, but the concussive and destructive force behind each and every one of the explosions. With the natural hundreds of gallons of blood within each corpse, once the blood exploded outward, the true volume could be seen, as all of the blood accumulatively well exceeded the 10,000 gallon marker. Even though the explosion was destructive and large, all of the blood seemed to disappear into thin air, leaving not a trace but the smell of blood after the explosion ceased. It was then that Vyronica exposed her true location… Which was up in the sky. The clouds parted and Vyronica could be seen with a large, thick condensed square of blood hovering below her and she hovering above it, with an astronomical sphere of what seemed to be immense power being held above her head in her hand, which was surrounded by an even larger funnel, or ‘eye’, of a storm that had already covered the entire sky, all of this being made purely of blood, which was pretty remarkable.

“… At least my corpses were put to good use in this battle… And now I get to use one of my more deadly combinations of attacks that I haven’t gotten a chance to use on the morsels I have been collecting… Far too weak.”

Atra would be able to tell that this was the true Vyronica solely because of the fact that her reflection did not show up in the Shadow Water, therefore she wasn’t a corpse, but actually herself. She had been charging up this attack ever since the battle between them had begun, as she hid within the clouds the moment she disappeared and just started to flush out her power. Upon closer inspection, if Atra could even see that far, because she was REAAAALLY high up in the sky, it could be noticed that her eyes were exposed and pouring out waterfalls of pure blood from them, all which was going upward into the sphere to make it larger and more powerful. After a few moments, though, that would cease, as her blindfold closed back up, meaning she was ready for the attack.

“Bloody Storm; Blood’s Tempest…”

With that, she flung the astronomical sphere at the ground at an ungodly speed, the vacuum behind it forcefully pulling down the funnel and creating a sort of hurricane behind it that moved at the same speed. Before the sphere hit the ground, it would explode with all of the power of a nuke, being much more powerful and destructive than the explosions of the corpses before, which were already damn strong. The explosion covered several miles naturally, blood soaking the very being of everything and destroying all in the way. However, afterward, the Blood’s Tempest started to suck in all of the blood that exploded outward almost instantly, causing it to grow several times its original size and power, having it cover a massive radius as of now, destroying all that was near and within, hopefully Atra. The Blood’s Tempest also naturally sucked in blood within itself a lot easier than it did anything else, as it was magically inclined to absorb blood. Therefore, it would be trying to forcefully rip out Atra’s blood by any ways necessary, and because of the magical inclination, his blood would be pulled out long before the rest of his body would be sucked into the tempest. Vyronica only hovered high in the sky, watching all of the chaos… the calamity… the turmoil… the destruction. She was thoroughly content with using her power, as she hadn’t been able to on anyone else recently, as stated before.

She did not know if Atra would survive this attack, however she was almost certain that it would have to do some damage.. even if he disappeared, the Blood’s Tempest wasn’t going to just ‘go away’ or anything. And he’d have to reappear sometime if he did, and this would be waiting right for him, Vyronica was tempted to continue her combination of attacks by entering the eye… But would instead wait to see what Atra did, now.

Firstly, Atra shielded himself in the shadow water which was pretty much every damn where he compressed it around himself to a thickness so dense that it was just a thin veil over his body. That being said his durability as a person was upped to a very high degree. This allowed him to survive the initial explosions of the clones, and the shield was made faster than the explosions occurred thanks to the sun ring... With that being done Atra emerged, granted the explosions were more than he bargained for but he was glad that those bullshit physical attacks wasn't all the witch had to offer, he was beginning to strain himself. But this was going to be a good fight. At least he got her to reveal himself with his taunt, which was all a farse.

Now the fun shit starts...

He thought to himself as she threw this massive construct of blood down at him now. He had a couple options, one, this whole area was tied directly to the shadow realm, so with enough chakra he can do numerous things. He decided to take the cheap way out, he stopped the blood sphere with the shadow force. With that, the sphere would glow pink as Atra was merging it with it's anti-matter which everything has, including vampires. Once that would occur, it would disappear completely. Granted, the things that Atra's nocturn can consume are proportionate to size and mass, so he wouldn't be able to do too much more of that. But he wouldn't be off guard like that again either. The blood tempest did just 'go away', and saying that the attack 'is magical' is bullshit. For even magic can be trumped with jutsu. Atra was panting while he spoke. So, I'm assuming none of these after affects occurred since there was no 'after the blood tempest'.

"I can survive in space... you cant. But I think I'll fight you for a little bit longer.

Atra signed again now, he was going to need some help. He decided to maintain the uber dense shield of shadow water surrounding him, but took a drop off, lit his sun ring and transformed that drop into Jace while another drop transformed into Vash Steinguard. This was about to either end really fast, or exhaust Atras chakra really fast. All of these figures linked shadows so Atra can share all of their abilities...

Vyronica peered down from the clouds, seeming to be amazed by how her attacks just vanished like that.

".. My, a remarkable power that is... But how can you survive in space? Do you breathe?"

The smell of blood was fragrant in the air because of her attacks, and she loved it. It was why the title of 'Blood Witch' was so fitting to her. She lifted her blindfold just a bit, letting a little stream of blood come down her face once more before putting it back. She separated the droplets, one by one, until she had enough 'ammo.'

"Blood Cannon; Bloody Rain..."

She took the first of 20 pea-sized droplets of blood and let it drop to the ground from the sky. Now, being that small and seemingly that light would pose no sort of threat to anyone, right? However, because of the magical inclination that this bead of blood had backed behind it, its properties were changed a bit... Though it looked the same, its density and sheer weight were increased several thousands of times of what it would be. Thus after a moment or two of free-falling at a normal rate, those factors started to kick in and it accelerated toward the ground at monstrous speeds. The bead of blood would hit the ground, causing a meteor sized crater to appear before it, releasing an explosive and concussive force where the impact sight was. Though, it wasn't done there... It exploded afterward, twice the size of the crater it made, trying to hit Atra with such an explosion. This was the true power of that attack, despite its very tiny and portable size.

So, the first one was for show... a warning shot, if you will... Because now, instead of just dropping the beads one by one, she started to THROW them one by one in rapid succession. She continued to throw and throw until all 20 were gone and lit up the area in nothing but monstrous bloody explosions twice the size of meteors. Though, Vyronica was starting to feel a bit drained now...

"... Hm... Maybe I should stop using such large attacks.. I might need a refill.."

She looked at her house (which was somehow still intact despite what was going on), knowing that she could get something from there... But she still needed to entertain her guest... She had an idea. She waved her hand at her house and a window would shatter. She simply waited after that, turning her attention back to Atra.

"I'll hold my breath while I watch you burn..."

Vash jumped into action now while Jace used his blazing speed (99.9 the speed of light) appeared in the shadow of the witch in the sky. How did she get a shadow? Atra can lend a foe a shadow for a limited time as long as they are in his soul wavelength, which is quite expansive. Vash unleashed several dark portals to let the blood bullets of doom pass through them and go to wherever they go. Now, Jace shoved his hands into the shadow of the witch and snapped, causing a massive explosion of Genesis (100X the temperature of the sun) to unleash upon the witches insides and blow her up from the inside out. This all occurred before she did the thing with the house, if she survived Atra expected her to burst into blood so as a fail safe, Atra signed while Vash and Jace's actions were going on. He was going to vaporize this bitch if she showed any signs of anything happening. If this didn't work, Atra was wasting all these massive amounts of chakra in vain, it takes too much to keep using the shadow puppets.

Vyronica wasn't stupid enough to just let things like this happen. She already had the entire field under her control as of now, and was waiting for everything to come together. Upon movement into her shadow, she reacted with her supernatual vampire reflexes and ability. Even though Jace was fast, her eyes could keep up with him just enough to see his movements, but not exactly fully comprehend them. But thankfully, her own shadow was covered by the giant blood block she created earlier for just such an occasion. Thus, all he would be doing was destroying that, which she easily made another one of.

"... So, you do breathe..."

The smell of blood was still in the air, which made it all good for Vyronica. Now, naturally, the thing with her house was done now, and, well, several things were about to happen as of now. Vyronica disappeared out of the sky for a moment, and just then, she would be behind Atra again ready to rip his spine out and two more near Vash and Jace trying to rend them to nothingness. At the exact same time, bats poured out of her house... Though not in a swarm like normal bats... No, they were all lined up vertically, one hiding in the shadow of its brother below. Thus, only one Bat's shadow would be on the ground at a time, and there were about 50 of them lined up. They did not move to Atra's location, but waited for an opening ... all lined up vertically.

But that wasn't the end. Since Atra had been breathing this fine air for so long, he should have been infected with a number of things at this point in time... One, horrific plagues and diseases thanks to not only the rotting, diseased flesh of the corpses from the explosion, but just the sheer amount of blood that seemed to 'vanish' into thin air. In actuality, Vyronica split apart the blood into microscopic sized particles that she could freely control at her will. Therefore, if Atra had been smelling the blood... breathing... Then he'd been exposed to the bloody particles as well as the disease ridden air. Thus, she could control it without the use of any movements or actions, since it was magical blood she had already conjured up... It was just lingering, waiting for her to control to her will. If her plan went as she wished... She would try to stop his bloodflow or pull out his blood... or, give him horrific disease.. without him realizing it, of course, since she gave no signal of what she was doing.

Yeah, Atra was breathing but there are certain precautions that protect his insides, once of course being the Nocturn that flows through his body but Atra didn't know her power extended that far...As of now, he was using this witch as a means to give his soul powers a field test. He was doing pretty well for himself. Able to keep up the shadow puppets and his soul wavelength for this long was a pretty sweet deal, that must have meant he gotten stronger. But he had Jace press his hand to the ground since he reacted the fastest, thus transporting this portion of the battlefield (everything outlined with atras soul wavelength) and shadow warped them all towards the shadow of a crater in the moon cast by the sun which was gleaming in the distance as brightly as it was, unfortunately Vyronicas house wasn't in Atra's soul wavelength but she was and a couple other things as well, all the little clones of hers that attacked everyone were possessed upon appearance. He wasn't gonna fall for the same trick twice.

"Ah... this reminds me of Jace"

Atra said to himself as it seemed as if he was talking even though there was no oxygen on the moon! These means are unknown of course, but it was probably quite disturbing to him as he watched the Sun have whatever affect it did on vyronica. He had a gut feeling that she wasn't going to die, or protect her soul or some shit, he started lecturing now.

"I can fight against Big-Dumb-Ass attackers like you all day. It's how I was trained. You should have kept up the physical fight, your speed is spectacular and your strength is phenomenal. But once you began fighting like a behemoth, the fight was mine. I trained under the biggest juggernaut around. It's those assassin types that I have a weakness against.

It would seem as though this time, Vyronica didn't respond while on the moon. The clones of her dissipated... She wasn't really there in the first place. She was still in the Darkness Lands.

"Hmhmhm... My feint worked."

The line of 50 bats would start to become flustered, as one of the bats transformed into... Vyronica. While Atra was gone, she consumed as much of the remaining blood that was brought from her house as she could.

"... Hmph. Children these days. So uncivilized that I'd have to drink this much..."

Of course, because her corpses were up there, she heard what Atra said, but couldn't exactly respond the way she wanted to because she had been low on power, until she drank that blood.

"I assume he is done here... So I shall be off..."

She started to walk away, her bats following behind her. She hoped that Atra would figure out where she was by the time she was long gone from here...

Atra frowned, she wasn't here... he kinda figured when she didn't come by some magical means. Time to bring her here which was pretty possible. All he had to do was have her bring herself out, which she did and have the Jace and the Vash that was still around (which I left because I knew you were going to be silly about this) into Atras and simply warped them all there again. It would take a REALLY long walk to get her out of Atra's soul wavelength and with Atra's sun flame lit on the other end it was near instantaneous!

(Ah you know me well. XD)

By this time, Vyronica was forcefully taken to the moon, however not without precaution. Though she didn't know she was going to go, her reaction time-- being a vampire-- was top notch and when she felt she was in danger, she reacted on the drop of a dime. There would be an explosion of blood from her, which would very quickly form into a barrier around her to keep her from being exposed to the sun. Though, because it wasn't instantaneous, she did get some of the light, which made her body steam and burn a bit. Hmph. Such tactics.

Though, at this point, it was just a matter of who could hold their breath the longest... and Vyronica was a vampire. She didn't need to breathe. She was undead. She could fight normally as long as the sun didn't hit her, which she was going to try her damnedest to ensure it didn't.

((DAMNIT YOU AND YOUR DAMN STANDSTILLS!!!!))

Atra cracked his knuckles, it seems that he underestimated her reaction time and overall reflexes. Which put him in a bit of danger, but it's cool... He had, methods. He knew she could fight from within this sphere, all he had to do was expose her. His mind was racing as he turned into his shadow form.

"You know what... I have to hand it to you."

Atra pressed his hands to the ground now, initiating his ultimate technique 'Eclipse' which filled the area cut off by his soul wavelength with concussive exploding shadow energy of uber pwnage! This segmented area that they were in was that region that would be filled with this destruction it felt as if it came from everywhere, and threatened to destroy the witch with its pwnage.

(It's all love, fam! XD)

Of course, her vision was impaired because of the fact that she was encased in a dome of really thick blood, but unnatural.. nay, supernatural senses started to kick in after she noticed the wavelength going to work. She waited until the very last moment...

"... There!"

The sun was completely blocked off, meaning she was definitely able to attack. Her magical blood would protect her from the excess wavelength, but the shadowy explosions, she wasn't so sure about. She tried to dodge them as much as she could, even with her unholy reflexes, speed and senses, wanting to finish Atra off before he finished her.

Somehow, her magic and natural abilities sufficed just long enough for her to get to Atra, since he didn't leave his place, and as her last attack, she tried to use a forbidden technique on him.

"Blood Pact; Bound by Blood!"

And the witch seemingly transformed into blood itself, numerous bloody tendrils shooting from her body in this state and trying to grab, stab or generally touch and engulf Atra as a whole. Mind you, this is going as an unholy speed, since she is still moving just that fast.

Atra didn't have time to talk shit, but he phased through the last ditch attack of death which was a passive thing to do in his shadow form. He used the extended tendrills and such as a means to posses the witch since he knew that he couldn't be touched at least, not by these means which made his possession all the more fluid. He triggered the same explosion as before, but not nearly as large as the first. just, contained in a geyser that shot out from her shadow with the same intensity.

(Mmmm... I dunno... a little iffy because of what I had in mind... but eh, I don't feel like prolonging this.)

Though Vyronica was using a forbidden technique that was supposed to touch and link both essences of the two fighters together by magical 'binding blood' means, even if Atra turned into a shadowy state, Vyronica would have still been able to bind herself to him because of the effects of this magical ability and thus, taken him with her. However, she was so low on blood by this time that she could not sustain the massive magical energy possible to use such an attack... and as such, it would be ineffective.

"... Tch... I should have taken that last swig of blood like I planned before I tried this..."

In her last moments of breath as the geyser consumed her, she would say only one more thing...

"... I shall be avenged..."

And with that, the ordeal was over. The Witch's Soul floated proud and strong before Atra, having fangs and bat wings to show it was the soul of Vyronica.

Atra pocketed the soul, placed it in his endless shadow realm pocket of deepness and ported back to The Darkness Lands, the moment he returned he collapsed on the ground on one knee... he exhausted himself way too much.

"I deviated from the routine... didn't think I'd have to go that far"

He didn't want to fight any more enemies, because he'd probably die. So he walked out of the darkness lands, albeit slowly due to circumstances. But out nonetheless, he needed rest.