Well, let's get this show on the road... Ranking exam, s'il vous plait!

Priere felt rather psyched, blatantly said. She was definitely sure that she had increased in power and was a bit better at using her magic now that she had been through all that training and all of those battles... Thus, this was the ultimate test of her ability at this point in time... a Ranking Exam.

"... With this, I'll grow a little bit stronger and becoming that much closer to attaining my true potential and bringing Signis and Blue back to their original power level... Heh. Let's go."

^From the distance someone could be seen entering the area being noticed by something shining in the distance once the figure was close enough it could be seen clearly that it was Takai using Fuirko's dowsing ability to locate to young Dusk Ninja. Takai would stop walking as Furiko's crystal would be reeled back into her holster as Takai would begin to speak.^

Takai- Do you seek a rank Ninja of the Dusk?

"... Oh, great.. a guy... Hmph."

All of these guys she kept running into... She kind of wanted a female to talk to... Like that Alice girl, wherever she was right now. But he seemed to be her proctor, so she didn't really mind all that much.

"Hm? Wha..? Oh, yeah, sure sure. A Ranking Exam is what I came for. You gonna give me one or something? What do I have to do?"

She wasn't all that fond of being a 'ninja,' or used to it, in fact, but was definitely ready to see how others assessed her abilities... She needed to live up to the ungodly potential she had fast...

Takai- Well we'll make this simply for your ranking exam I will test your power with a full out battle please do not hold back. My name is Takai Kugutsu and this is my soul weapon Furiko.

^Takai would hold out his arm and from the holder connected to it would appear a crystal and from its reflection the young dusk ninja would be able to see a girl within the crystal waving at her.^

Takai- Now state you name and then begin.

Priere flipped her hair and smirked slightly, getting ready for battle.

"The name's Priere. Haha... Don't hold back? I hope you heard that, Signis... Blue..."

Priere stood battle ready, backing up slightly and conjuring up a bit of magic at the same time...

^Takai would simply create a few hand sings before he would touch the ground causing the area around Takai to turn pure black. Suddenly from around Takai would appear a large amount of red tendrils which would lash out toward Priere trying to grab and badly poison her. If Priere where to even touch the poison Priere would begin to suffer from powerful fevers which would cause Priere's body to over heat until she would pass out.^

Well, it was starting. She didn't know what the hell this guy could do, but when she saw the blackness around him, she figured it must have been something dangerous... Black stuff always meant danger.

"Huh... Okay... I guess I don't want to touch any of that blackness..."

She started to ascend to the skies a bit, keeping her magic stable in her hands. Then red tendrils shot from out of the ground at her, seeming to want to impale and grab her and stuff. Red stuff always meant something bad, too.

"Wooow, you just scream "Don't touch me," don't you?"

Well, nothing left to do but defend... Priere held her hands out, creating rather compact, yet incredibly durable ice shields in front of her. Their lack of size would be very much made up for in durability. The Ice Shields coated her hands, and since she didn't know the effects of this attack, Priere would not try to block, but parry the tendrils away to keep them from making head-on collisions as well as not hitting her at the same time.

"Ehhh... Okay, I'll try to make attacks..."

Priere pointed her hands at Takai when she was sure that she had deflected the tendrils away and then the Ice Shields on her hands would shatter into 100 tiny ice needles, launching at him at a high speed trying to impale him and inflict some sort of damage. Priere started to conjure up a little more magic right afterward to prepare herself... She was remembering her battles before... Maybe they would help her out here.

Takai- I hate ice.

^Takai would mumble this to himself as he saw the ice shield and ice spikes from Priere. As the spikes moved closer Takai decided to see if he could freak out Priere and see how she would react and adapt. As the ice spikes where about to hit Takai would sign and his body would then expand creating a large hole in his chest for all the ice spikes to go though. Takai would then turn into liquid poison and fall to the ground as a large puddle before begin absorbed into the ground. The area would remain silent for a moment until from under Priere would erupt a large amount of black poison which would try to completely engulf Priere. If Priere touched this poison she would become blind unable see until Takai removed the poison from her body.^

Luckily, Priere was in the air by now and had a general bird's eye view of the arena right now. She was conjuring up some magic when she noticed that something... was happening.

"... More black stuff? I'm not touchin it!"

Priere waved her hands now in a wide arc, releasing her Chill Wave from her hands... Which was a wave of coldness that could freeze things it came in contact with. With this coldness, Priere wished to freeze or at least slow down the poison coming from the ground, even though she was in the air... She didn't know how fast it could spread. She did, however, notice that Takai changed into a liquid state when he disappeared... Maybe she could freeze him for a little bit if he were to turn into a liquid around her... Or... Maybe...

"... I can try that again..."

But during this ranking exam, she figured she wouldn't have the time or the privacy to do that... nor the skill... But that's what trying was for! She started to conjure up more magic in her hand and she would start to rise a little higher in the air, moving her arms slowly and in wide arcs...

"... Signis... Blue... If you sense anything, that I can't handle, I want one of you two to switch me out and take over..."

^As as the wave of coldness moved toward the poison shooting up toward Priere the poison would bubble at the top until Takai would appear in half poison form looking at the wave of coldness. Takai would create a set of hand sign as the inside of his liquid poison chest would begin to glow brightly for some strange reason.^

Takai- I said I hate ice.

^Takai would then open his mouth and would release a large torrent of fire which would also have a large amount of blinding poison mixed in which would make the fire look like a lava. The heat from the fire would completely break though the Chill Wave and would continue toward Priere at a very fast pace now. The poison would then form into a large Dragon which would open its mouth wide open trying to swallow Priere whole to badly poison her as well cause some massive burn damage.^

The Chill Wave hadn't been too effective, it seemed, as the poison continued toward Priere, which was a bad thing since she needed a lot of concentration for what she was doing. Takai must have really hated ice...

"...Shit..."

Though Priere knew that she was not nearly fast enough to avoid this as well as continue what she was doing, she felt as if this ranking exam were going to end here... That is, until she thought of Blue.

"BLUE!!"

In a flash, Priere became completely blackened and her clothes were rather tight and dynamic. Her eyes changed from red to a deep blue, and in that very split second, Blue had appeared. In the very nick of time, Blue used her speed far superior to Priere's to jet out of the way in the air. Blue's 3 wings were extended now, keeping her airborne, even though Blue was never fond of flight in general. Their escape was very very lucky, but Blue's reaction was just enough to get them out of the situation... Though the strain of changing so quickly without preparation was felt on the body, as shown by Blue wincing just a little bit before landing in a nearby tree.

"... Lucky..."

Looks like she would be taking over this fight from this point... until another change was necessary.

"... You hate ice... I don't use it."

^Takai would be impressed that Priere was able to avoid his poison dragon at such close range but that only meant Takai had to step it up a little. Takai would sign causing the poison dragon to return toward Takai and begin to float around him for a moment before The Poison Dragon, Gyser of Poison, and Takai himself would rocket down toward the ground slamming into it with a large amount of force. This would create a sea of poison which would flow around the whole area making the ground itself poisonous by simply touch. However that was just the beginning because as the poison began to touch the trees they would begin to met away into the sea of poison which would begin to happen to the tree Priere was in trying to catch her of guard and badly poison her. Takai at the moment was unable to be seen completely hidden within the sea of poison.^

Blue's eyes narrowed upon viewing what was going on now... Poison all around. This wasn't going to end well. She was going to have to take to the skies...

"... I hate flying..."

To ensure maximum safety, Blue fazed out for a moment and reappeared in the sky, wings spread and flapping slightly. Her hands were glowing with a blue energy and Blue's eyes gleamed for just a bit. Just then, her shadow became pitch black, started to move on its own... moving toward the shadows of whatever was in the area, trying to consume them to grow stronger. Once it did that, it would seep into the sea of poison... Naturally, you can't melt away a shadow.

Now, Blue just had to wait for Takai to make himself noticeable... Blue had keen eyes and she felt they were good enough to be able to see him...

^From the sea would appear multiple Takai's in a poison like form and just as quickly as they appeared the would all launch toward Priere like rockets trying to grab her and pull her down into the sea. Although some would rocket way past Priere high into the air before exploding with a large amount of force sending a rain fall of poison down toward Priere leaving her stuck between an army of poison Takai clones and a deadly rain fall.^

He was really trying to go hard on her, it seemed... Even though Blue was quick, she did not have the speed alone to outrun all of these attacks, nor did she want to waste energy continuously fazing in and out, because doing that would drain her quite rapidly. She needed to escape and take out some of the threats at the same time.. And currently, she only had one move for that... The Blue Blur.

The concentrated energy within Blue's hands suddenly outlined her body for a moment, tinting her a cool shade of blue for just a moment before forcefully shooting itself out of her back, legs and feet all at once, propelling her at speeds much, much greater than she had been going before. She was so fast that she left afterimages... Or, it appeared that way. The afterimages she was leaving behind were actually manifestations of the said blue energy she was being propelled by taking her own shape and form... And naturally, they afterimages left behind by the speeding Blue were explosive by nature.

So, Blue was trying her hardest to outrun the Takais and the rain coming down, trying to off some of them with the explosions of the afterimages or something... But she couldn't keep that up for long for if she went on too long with it, her energy would be depleted rather fast. She just needed to stall until he stopped or until she found a place of shelter..

^The clones would be quickly destroyed from the explosions since they where not really that smart of clones. Although the sea would release more clones which would explode in the sky causing the area to begin to become a rainfall full of poison. Takai was every interesting in seeing if this girl could find some possible way to avoid this poison. As this was done the poison sea would begin to slowly disappear as it did actually take some energy to maintain it for a long period of time.^

Clearly, Blue was using up a good deal of energy just by using this ability for such an extended amount of time... Not too much where she couldn't function, but she was going to have to be conservative for a while... Yet, this rain and these clones didn't seem to let up. Perhaps she should try a different-- ... Wait. The sea was shrinking... Her stalling was working to her advantage to an extent... She had an idea now.

"... Chance..."

Blue went straight for the sea of poison now, stopping with the Blue Blur propulsion as if to her own death... Yet, at the same time, she knew what she was doing. Something else was happening... Her shadow, which was now mirroring her own actions was moving in the same way, only upward. So, when Blue was just about to hit the sea of poison, her shadow appeared on the surface and she would slip into that like a portal, escaping the onslaught of attacks. She instantly popped out of a different shadow in the area, hopefully with the clones now not on her tail anymore...

"... I hope it is not part of the test to beat him..."

She knew that as she was now, that was impossible. Blue's wings were spread and she would hover above the sea, ascending at a constant rate to ensure that nothing else... happened.

^As Priere was able to avoid his Poison Rainfall the sea would completely disappear and Takai would be standing in the center of where the sea use to be dripping with poison. Takai would sign and the poison rain would stop and would converge back to Takai simply disappearing where it would touch his body. Takai would then look toward Priere for a moment thinking to himself for a moment about how Priere had been doing so far. Takai would then simply lift his poison covered arm and would motion for Priere to attack him dead on that is if she could.^

With eyes carefully peeled on the entire area, Blue noticed that the poison was converging back to the origins... Takai. The true one, this time. He was motioning to her... For her to attack him? Head on? Blasphemy.

"... Only a fool would run right into battle knowing what their enemy is best at..."

Blue wished to keep her distance, for she didn't want to run the risk of getting poisoned in any way... Luckily, a majority of her attacks worked both close and long range, so she was fine. Blue energy suddenly engulfed her eyes entirely as well as her hands, as she looked at Takai. When she did, moderately large, blue beams of condensed and concentrated energy shot from them and down at his position trying to hit him and make him explode with their explosiveness... the Big Blue's what they call it. At the same time, she had figured out that Takai's body must have been special... able to become poison at will... Which is why touching him would be a bad idea at this point in time. He seemed to want to test her offensive capabilities... which Blue had, but the best offensive one of the Insangel was...

"... Signis...?"

Preparation time.

^As the beams moved toward Takai he would look at them for a moment until Takai would take his poison form making himself flexible enough for Takai to slide though the multiple beams and would move toward Priere. Although right when Takai was about to be on top of Priere Takai would actually split into multiple blobs of poison which would constantly change position trying to greatly confuse Priere. The blobs would then move in at the some time trying to completely engulf Priere.^

Blue kept a watchful eye even still, preparing for a switch with Signis... The blue energy surrounding her hands would be what she would use to block these blobs... hopefully...

"... Code Blue..."

Blue's legs were suddenly coated with the blue energy as well and she would begin to spin, releasing the energy as a type of sphere around her... The sphere, naturally would explode with an explosion much larger than the ones before, trying to blow away the poison blobs or something of that sort.. Keep them away from her or something before they got a chance to engulf her.

Once the explosion cleared, there would be someone floating there in the sky... It wasn't Blue... It wasn't Priere... No, this one was in all white... a tight suit similar to Blue's, however adorned with a beautiful white cape and corona as well... Her eyes were as red as Priere's and seemed to lust for blood. This was the Archangel Signis.

"Mmm... Poison, I see? Dear me, you are quite powerful..."

Signis was a little upset that her true potential was not unlocked yet... thanks to Priere... So making do with what she had was the best course of action. Her body surged with electricity as she floated higher into the air... Oh, how ready she was.

^The explosion would cause the blobs to scatter into multiple directions around the area. Although after a moment the would pile back together forming back into Takai who would be looking up toward Priere noticing she had gone under another transformation. Takai would pull down his gas mask and would release a large fireball which would be pure black, The fireball would be completely draining all air out of its general area and if it touched Priere the air around her would be burned away and she would be unable to breath.^

Signis gazed upon the fireball for only a brief moment, then began to fly away from the general area for some reason... as if she knew what the fireball was going to do.

".. I see... That is what it does...? I would not want that to happen to me..."

Signis darted off elsewhere before holding a hand out in front of her pointing at Takai. It was charged with some electricity, it would seem, and with it aimed at Takai, she would utter something under her breath...

"... Terminal Bolt..."

Out of her hand, a moderately large and swift bolt of electricity shot toward Takai. If it hit, one of its special properties would activate.. The ability to slightly weaken as well as siphon a small amount of power from what it touched. If she could hit him a whooooole lot, maybe he would become weak enough for her to handle completely...? It was highly doubtful, however.

^As the bolt moved toward him Takai would place his hand which Furiko was connected to on the ground and suddenly in front of Takai would appear a large amount of crystal which would block the lighting causing it to conduct though the crystal into the ground. The crystal would then disappear and Takai would then look up toward Priere and would then create a set of hand signs causing the fire ball to stop mid air and then appear above Takai as it would begin to shrink. Takai had mostly seen everything her wanted from Priere and wanted to test one last thing. Takai would space his hands out after sign causing the fire ball to expand into a large disk and it would begin to spin. Suddenly a barrage of fire balls would erupt from the disk toward Priere at decent speeds trying not only to hit her but slowly reduce her movements until she would be completely bombarded by fire balls. Although a large scale attack it would only last a minute or two releasing a good 200 fireballs until the disk shrunk and disappeared.^

Signis examined the entire situation thoroughly... There wasn't an attack she could do that would take care of all of the fireballs... She definitely was not fast enough to avoid all of them, even though she used lightning which should increase her speed. The only thing to do was defend and parry.

"... I see..."

Signis held her hand out creating an electrical wall in front of her of moderately large size. It was rather wide and tall and seemed pretty sturdy. It crackled and surged with nothing but her electricity. It shot out bolts of lightning from itself at the fireballs, Signis knowing that if she weakened the fireballs first, absorbed small amounts of their energy to power up the Electric Wall and let the fireballs hit the wall, then perhaps she could block and reflect them all, for the Electric Wall also reflected things that it hit after electrically charging them. Since the fireballs didn't seem to be all that powerful thankfully, Signis' plan seemed to work. Any oncoming fireballs would be hit with the electricity, thus weakening them slightly and increasing the power of the wall slightly and when the fireballs hit, they would be electrically charged and reflected back at a high speed. Signis aimed some for Takai and some for the other fireballs because... well, she wanted to destroy these fireballs more than reflect them. So, only a good 20 of them actually went down to try to hit Takai while the rest would most likely be destroyed by the Electric Wall, hopefully.

Though it didn't seem like much, reflecting all of those fireballs was pretty taxing on Signis. Using the Electric Wall for a long time in general did that because of what it was used for, since it was different from most of Signis' attacks. She only hoped that this worked because if it didn't, she might have to switch back to Priere... and clearly, Takai hates ice.