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When she felt she was close enough, she flipped forwards, and over Aisa, spinning in the air, and touching the spots on the girls head; just a bit off, but almost there. Then landed behind her, poised to kick the girl in the back. Aisa guessing, jumped forward before it could happen and turned to Kale. "You were just a tiny bit off." She told the girl honestly. "But that was great, you have amazing skills." She cooed. "Very agile, that should help you. "And if you don't mind my saying. You have damn good body control. That's another very important part of being skilled in fighting, and moving.

{5/6; Mental Block}

He needed to find the clue about how to swing the blade. That was the secret of the real success. Just having the sword tuned with the technique wasn't enough, it was far from enough. This technique would be able to cut trough anything and because of that Jake needed to study the note really close of a failure here could result in great damage inflicted on himself. Yet now he remembered that such was not the case any more. Rake was certain that he would find the secret soon. All he needed was the rest and silence that this alley provided him with

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He begun to follow that loose story of the note. Having nothing but the key and the words of the note in mind. Everything else vanished form his existence. There was nothing but him, his sword and his note. It was how Rake kept his mind in check and studied. He was happy that his crew wasn't around. They where a nice bunch but they where truly loud. One rarely got time to do any good study and check about important matters. Here there was a difference for here he could be alone even if he wasn't that far away.

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What would come from this Rake begun to think and looked up into the sky. Was this the way he truly had dreamt of? Following a man and his dreams in order to fulfil them. Yet Rake shook his head and smiled a bit at his mind. He was here to fulfil his own dreams and followed his captain and friends to be able to do so. This was truly his dream and he was living it full out. Nothing would be there to stop him or his crew when the day would come. Crazy pirates that sail tot he sky and probably they would sail to hell on the way back.

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Rake shook his head to get back into the game about this technique. He hoped to have gained a bit of knowledge about it until he got back to the blue sea. Things up here where amazing indeed and those dials had some nice force within them but it was not for the true swordsman to use such items. Rake knew that he wanted to keep his skill to the swords and hold true to that, as his grandfather did before him. Crazy days could come later and now he truly needed to focus if he would ever reach any further with the note.

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Rake continued to follow the note, followed it where the key was leading him and as he did he begun to move the sword around gently as if he was trying something. Yet then he remembered somethign his father had told him when he was really young. Rake had been out with the saw and it took forever for him to saw though anything really. Not to mention the fact that it was very tiresome for him. Yet Rake's father had told him that the sword did all the work, one just follow it where it wanted to go. That was the true way of how to cut through things.

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Rake thought of that lesson for a while and dropped the blade. Allowing the blade to swing free of will. Now the song vanished but as it should be. Rake realized that the shaking was still there. He was still fine tuned and he recalled that his grandfather had once told him that when an instrument sings you're doing it right. Yet when you know how to make it sing you'll do it better and the instrument stops to sing but works much better. Rake had realized that he was on the very edge of the second clue of the technique.

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Rake stood up and swung the blade and it was very light. It was almost as if it cut though the air as well. It moved so much faster with so little force. The blade sucked up everything in front of it and kept on moving. Rake begun to smile as the second clue came to light in Rake's mind. This was it and now he spun around a bit with the blade but then he was stuck in a crate. That shocked him for the first minute he thought he was done. Yet the blade had begun great into the crate but stopped halfway. It was more to this technique then Rake had thought from the beginning.

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Rake placed the swords tip into the ground next to him and begun to read the note as it was needed again. Rake soon found out the ways to the clue he had just understood. Yet it made more things clear for the third clue was how to maintain the Ultimate b*****d Destruction mode through the entire target. That's when it would truly shine above all other techniques. He thought back of his grandfather. When Rake was really young that man had been strong and looked quite young for his age as well.

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He had carried a blade longer then himself, just as Rake did now and the old man Cane had worked hard for the village in order to protect it. Yet that was not the only thing that he did. He was often out to help the farmers with various problems, such as a huge tree that was needed to be cut down or stone on the road. Rake was always around when people called for his grandfather and as all young boys he was never late to brag about his hero. Why would he for there was not often when he needed to brag about him. For all villagers often knew the story before Rake but when they didn't, Rake was there.

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He remembered when the forest begun to burn. It was panic for the fire spread so fast towards the village. The drought had been hard on the crops and now it could destroy the little the village had left. This was one of few times Rake ignored his grandfathers warnings. Rake followed his grandfather to the scene. After a second, old man Cane had known what needed to be done. The big man grabbed his blade and looked upon it quickly and then he begun to run. Almost in front of the fire he ran and what did he do? He used the Ultimate b*****d Destruction to cut down the trees that had yet to be caught in the fire and created a road within the forest to stop the fire.

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Now Rake's eyes closed as he remembered the heat of the flames and the roar of the fire that raged in forest was unbelievable. He had looked up on the village hero and hugged him because he was so proud of the man. Rake had been scolded for ignoring the orders that had been set upon him but it mattered little for the village had been safe and all was happy. Yet then Rake's eyes became wide for in his mind he had reached an idea and when he looked upon the note it was all clear as the day.

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Rake grabbed hold of his blade and reached it into the sky. Soon he activated the mode where he could be able to cut anything. He looked at the crate and attacked it. It was cut in two as if it was air. When the blade hit the ground it cut through that as well. So Rake raised the blade instead and spun around to attack a barrel and it was cut so fine that the top part begun to slide down the other half. Now Rake continued to study the note quickly and found out all the clues one by one. Nothing could stop him to find out the rest and after some training he had mastered it. Then he placed his palm on the note and burned it until it vanished.

Ultimate b*****d Destruction 25-25 DONE

Ben finally made his way out of the Upper Yard and walked town to Angel Island about ready to go back to earth and on his way he spotted Kale walking covered in bruses and cuts and waved over to her. "Kale!" He walked over to her and looked at her injuries. "You ok?"

Ben then looked off to the side looking at teh sea of clouds and gave Kale an answer. "I was coming to get evryone else to leave Skypiea for a bit. Speaking of leaving, did you buy some of those dial things yet? Their really handy." He looked back at Kale smiling slightly.

"Well what kind of things would you find most useful?" Ben asked trying to figure out what she was intrested in. "Heat? Water? Smells? Morphing?"

Ben shrugged slightly. "A breath dial. It can contain gasses and spices. Anything else?"

"I suggest a breath dial for your spice, an eison dial for your weapon options, A flame dial for cooking, and maybe a jet dial." Ben said nodding to himself.

Ben sliped his hands into his pockets and nodded to Kale. "Your welcome. I'll see you back on Athena when your done shopping." He then left Kale do do her things and walked back to teh ship.