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Guess I'll begin, for when ever you get here Midori.

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Forming a thick mist, Drake waited till Midori appeared, then immediately launched several knives hidden in fireballs at her...

(now if only the roll option existed <_E ?)xD

Even though Midori had dodged Drake's attack she could smell the stench of burnt grass and wood from her hidding place behind a large tree trunk, which one of the few good pieces of cover their was to be found in the sparse arena battle field.

Eyeballing the still red hot knives that had embeeded themselfs in a heep of ash that was all that remained of the log the fireballs had stuck she almost let out a low wistle but stopped herself before giving away her postion.

'Seems Drake's not holding back...well then I better not hold back either.' though Midori to herself as she drew out one of her heavily customized trick boomerangs which was currently folded in half to make it look like and behave like a simple kunai, a disguise that could only be exposed by careful and close examination.

Taking a quick second to make sure that she had remembered to apply the temporarily paralazing nerotoxin to the edges of the blade Midori gave a small smirk as she quitely lept out from her cover and hurled the special projectile at Drake like a dagger towards his heart.

Midori almost laughed as Drake unleash a jet of flames in her direction. 'More fire huh? is that all he can do?' she thought with a grin as her hands flashed thought a series of seals she had practiced over a thousand times before.

'Time to fight fire with fire.' she thought as she finished the final seal. Crying out "Fire style Dragon's Breath" she opened her mouth and let forth a stream of burning fury that stuck Drake's jet head on just a few feet away from her causing the two to collide in mid air then sink into each other and explode.

The force of the explosion sent Midori flying hard into the nearby tree with a loud thunking sound. Midori groaned as she shook the stars from her eyes and quickly pulled herself back to her feet. 'shoot his fire is stronger then I expected' she thought while gritting her teeth.

Glancing over at Drake and scanning him over with her raptor like eyes she noticed he had taken a light cut on one of his arms. "Bingo." She breathed in relief knowing that the potent poison she had applied to her blade was already working its way into his system.

She was an assassin after all and could kill with a single scratch. If this hadn’t been a mock battle between village mates then Drake would have been dead on the arena floor already. Luckily the type of poison she had used this time would only slow him down first, thought it wouldn’t be long until it paralyzed him…an effect that would last until either it wore off or he was given an antidote.

Not that she bothered to have an antidote handy. After all as an Assassin she had been exposed to various poisons since before she could even walk and was by now all but immune to them.

“You better surrender now. You’ve been hit by a poison blade. If you don’t get the antidote soon you’ll die” said Midori with no hint of falsehood in her voice. It was very easy to lie when part of it was the truth.

In reality she was just distracting him from what was going on behind him. A few feet away from Drake a pre set silent timer on her Boomerang disguised as a Kunai had gone off causing the folded blades to spring open and causing the device to head right back towards the back of Drake’s head.

With no sign of emotion of her face Midori began to gather chakra in preparation for her next move incase her surprised returning weapon tactic failed.

Great job you two! I'm very impressed with the way you are using your techniques and background knowledge Midori!

Midori watched wearily as Drake summoned a sword from the ether. ‘Guess he’s not going to give up so easily.’ She thought letting herself crack a small smile. It wasn’t often she got into a fight that lasted longer then a few seconds so it was nice to have a challenge for once.

Seeing Drake’s surprise when her boomerang bounced off of his air shield she immediately capitalized on the moment by flecking her left wrist sending a couple of her Skien Style Shuriken flying at him as a distraction.

Forming a quick seal she jumped after the blades shouting “Fire style Talon of the Dragon” as she drew her right index finger in an arc to the side generating a long thin trail of blazing white hot flame in the shape of a whip from the tip of her finger.

With a sharp sizzling and crackling sound she trust forward her arm causing the whip to snap forward towards Drake’s midsection intent on bisecting him where he stood only to watch in horror as tossed a blade covered with a blazing inferno towards her.

Reacted instinctively Midori clasped her hands together in a seal with the index finger held up to avoid burning her own hands with her whip, well at the same time quickly unfurling the wings she had kept hidden by pressing them to her back.

This time there was no chance to flashily declare the name of her jutsu as the whip curled around into a circular shape then spread inwards. It had barely just finished forming the shape of a shield when Drakes attack crashed into her makeshift defense shattering it into a thousand pieces.

Luckily while the shield had failed to block his attack, it had bought her just enough time to jump backwards at the last second narrowly avoiding the blade sinking into her gut. Instead it hit the ground just in front of her burying itself up to the hilt before it exploded with a deafening bang.

When the smoke cleared a few seconds later Midori had vanished into thin air leaving behind only the smoking and charred remains of her shoulder and chest armor behind along with a few specks of crimson blood.

Meanwhile high in the air Midori panted lightly as she tore off a piece of her skirt and wrapped it around a small cut on her left arm using it as a makeshift bandage. She had escaped the explosion by using a substitution jutsu to quickly duck out of her armor leaving it to take the brunt of the blast.

Her spread wings had allowed her to effortlessly ride the thermal gust generated by the explosion sending her soaring high into the sky, but not fast enough to avoid a random piece of rubble that had struck her arm hard cutting it.

Tracking the hot and sticky fluid from the wound with her thumb Midori contemplated using a summoning jutsu but quickly dissuaded the thought since most of the dragon’s she could call forth that where large enough to fight would simply mock her for her inability to handle this exercise by herself and then vanish. ‘I can’t afford to waste chakra wantonly like that, still even if I can’t have one fight alone side me I can still draw upon them in other ways. If Drake is going to bring out his big guns then so am I’ she thought with a grin.

Her hands moving like lightning Midori formed a series of complex seals as she began to quietly chant an ancient phrase that would be necessary to complete the ritual she was performing.

“Oh Lord of Dragons, shining like platinum upon the sea of stars. I call upon thy, by our covenant signed in blood. Grant the heaven’s wrath to my hand and let the fool who stands before me be defeated by the power you and I possess”

Finishing the words and the seals Midori held out her right hand allowing a glowing orb the size of a basket ball to quickly take shape in her open palm. Quickly she circled around in the air so that she was behind Drake and so that the sun was behind her.

The bight glare of the sun would mask her attack nicely in case he happened to turn around and look in its direction. Her strategic positioning done she outstretched her right arm carefully taking aim squarely at his back while bracing her right arm with her left.

“Shining Nova” She whispered as the orb launched itself from her hand at prodigious speed with enough force to push her back several feet in the air. At full power this was by far the most devastating attack she could pull off.

But because this was a mock battle she had held back using only a small fraction of its full potential but that didn’t make it any less capable of putting Drake in the hospital for a good while if it landed directly and even if he didn’t… well her orb didn’t have Nova in it’s name for nothing.

Midori could feel the sweat drenching her forehead and she knew that she wouldn’t be able to pull off another Shining nova again anytime soon because she currently lacked the prestige for the lord of dragon’s to bother lending her power more then once per day.

Glancing at the ground as the smoke cleared she knew that somehow Drake had managed to avoid a direct hit because she could not see an unconscious body in the creator that had resulted from the spectacular explosion.

She frowned as her predatory eyes scanned the battle field and failed to find any trace of her elusive foe. ‘I don’t have the chakra to simply attack the entire arena floor at once. So I’ll have to use another method to flush him out.' She thought.

Reaching into her dress she carefully withdrew a small bundle of cloth. Placing a finger on a seal it registered her chakra and vanished allowing her to unwrap the bundle and revealing a set of seven special Skien shuriken whose trailing pinions had been replaced by an incendiary variant of the explosive tag.

“Bombs away” She cried out as she threw the Shuriken randomly across the arena taking special care to make sure that each of the trees had been hit by one. Then a few seconds late each tag ignited with a loud whoosh generating several large fireballs.

The ones that had stuck the ground randomly wouldn’t last long but would cover more ground before they vanished while on the other hands the ones that had hit the trees had set the wood ablaze and would continue to burn for quite some time unless extinguished.

However the point of the attack hadn’t really been to burn Drake even if by chance she landed a lucky shoot with one of the fireballs. No the true point was to cut off his air supply.

The initial burst of flames had consumed a large percentage of the oxygen that was available at ground level and the smoke that the fire on the trees was generating was quickly gobbling up the rest.

But Midori wasn’t finished yet. Pulling 3 poison smoke bombs from her sleeve she scatted them across the arena and watched as the burst upon impact generating purple clouds of miasma which clung tightly to the ground as it spread across the arena floor.

Preparing for her next attack Midori waited for Drake to either fall unconscious from smoke inhalation/lack of oxygen or for him to reveal himself when he tried to do something about the smoke and flames.

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Ooc: Oh I don't mind that you used my profile as a template! In fact I'm honored that you'd think it was good enough to use the same format!