The fog crept in that night with four sets of watchful eyes paying heed as it came to a point and started rising into a virtual wall of mist.
Ryoko's eyes widened as the reports of the mist seemed to be turning out true. She bit her lip as the chi about her reacted to the changes taking place. Huge waves that pressed on her such that she almost felt like stepping back.
There was a huge disturbance here, something trying to bulge its way into the world.
Across the way, Naruto felt a shiver down his spine at the creepy atmosphere leaking in past the rising mist. As he watched the mist partially fall back, he saw the valley beyond it and clenched tighter to the tree that was his cover.
Eventually, the witch herself came into view, dancing at the edge of where the mist was rolling back. With each moment the crack in the mist was getting wider and the valley beyond was growing clearer.
"Go," Kakashi said over the radios.
A salvo of kunai struck outwards towards the woman as Ryoko started to move forward. Almost instantly the woman's dance shifted and she rolled out of the way of the salvo.
The woman gave a wordless sound of frustration, black hair hanging down in front of her face as she rolled to her feet and dusted off the tattered black robes she was wearing. As soon as she stopped her dance, the fog started to slowly close back in on her valley.
Ryoko reached her then and was almost staggered by the weight of dark, resting energy that lay on the other side of the bulge. The surprise made her hesitate in her attack, and the dark-haired woman easily shoved the wooden blade wide off target, carrying Ryoko into the air onto her back as she did so.
Rolling up, the martial artist had more than a suspicion as to the nature of their opponent. Sasuke and Naruto came in past her moving to attack the witch.
The black-haired woman dodged aside of their attacks fluidly before leaping out and away from the pair and reaching within her robes to draw out a coiled ribbon. Without turning her head, she slashed the ribbon outward away from either of the three younger warriors.
Ryoko was moving to close the distance with the woman even as she saw the ribbon pulling back to reveal Kakashi-sensei on the other end, one visible eye open in surprise at being found out.
The Saotome girl's charge was interrupted as she had to roll out of the way of the incoming jonin. She was recovering her feet as the jonin caught in the woman's ribbon poofed into smoke and left behind nothing more than a log.
The woman was trying to move her ribbon around again when Kakashi appeared at her side. Unprepared for the sudden appearance of the jonin, the woman could barely resist as one of her arms was gripped and she was brought down to her knees.
"Way to go, sensei," Naruto declared as he and the other two of the team came up to where Kakashi had the woman under control.
"Looks like this mission is over," Sasuke agreed.
Ryoko started to step forth and her eyes widened as she felt the influx of chi about the woman.
"Stay back!" Kakashi said just moments before the woman through her head back.
The hair fell away from her face revealing eyes long ago burned out by some slim, burning object and a mouth with the scars of old cuts standing out against the corners of her mouth.
The image of that scarred face was visible only for a moment before a burst of shimmering red sparks poured out of the woman's mouth into a cloud that surrounded all five of the combatants.
Kakashi snapped in irritation as he rose a hand up to where the gas burned at his eyes, and he felt his prisoner slip his relaxed grip. The kids were covering their eyes and could barely follow the casual movement of their enemy heading back to the edge of the first mist.
The woman, protected within the cloud of her own living essence, felt the mists closing in and the moon setting. The window was closed, she'd failed again.
With a wordless snarl, she leaped into the air, landing outside her cloud of living chi and swirled an eddy of dark chi out of her body into air before her. All about, the dragon chi was pulled toward the magnetic charge of her construct.
Naruto, Kakashi and Ryoko felt themselves drawn heavily towards the anchor of chi, as if gravity were pulling to a new point and with much greater ferocity. Only Sasuke remained standing fully against the strange jutsu.
The woman walked casually forward again, the sparks flowing out of her into the dark eddy behind her. Sasuke moved to intercept the dark woman, but she seemed unconcerned.
As Sasuke moved forward to strike her, the woman let her head and shoulders droop, not focusing at all on avoiding the blow.
Behind the Uchiha, the mist was quickly closing into a wall about the ghostly valley again. It was pulling away as he passed through the woman that they'd been fighting for the last few seconds.
Turning about, the Uchiha watched the woman fade into a figure of mist and be pulled away with the valley until before vanished before the eyes of the ninja again.
Grimacing, Sasuke looked back towards his other teammates.
Ryoko was standing up, sweat covering her face, but Kakashi was down to his knees and Naruto pressed flat against a piece of air noted by a swirling black sphere that was dissolving away into the night.
As soon as it finished dissolving, Naruto fell out of the air to the ground, and Kakashi released a breath from his lungs, standing up.
"The hell is going on?" Naruto demanded. "Is she really a witch? Or maybe she's a ghost?"
"There were no hand signs in anything she did," Sasuke noted suspiciously. "What sort of Jutsu was that."
"Ryoko?" Kakashi asked.
"I…it was chi," Ryoko said. "B…but, she is m…much better than I am."
"What was that thing at the end?" Naruto asked. "It felt like I had a boulder on top of me."
"I…do not know, but…i..it was pulling at my Dragon Chi," Ryoko said. "So I let it go and kept m..my dark chi."
"There's more than one kind of chi?" Naruto asked.
"Hai," Ryoko said. "Dragon chi, is en..energetic, light and warm. Dark chi is restful, h..heavy and cool. Li…living beings mostly fill with dragon chi…s…some few h..have dark chi naturally. Well…dark chi is everywhere dragon chi is, b..but…usually one is much gr…greater in strength. S..so it looks like there's only one or the ot.." She looked to Sasuke and bit her lip.
"I understand," Kakashi said. "What about you?"
"I've trained to let both in at once," Ryoko said. "S…so can the witch, b..but she expelled her Dragon Chi with th…those sparks."
"Well, she can't beat us," Naruto said with a smirk. "So all we have to do is try to make sure she doesn't get away."
"Easier said than done," Kakashi noted. "And we apparently can't capture her, she'll be pulled back with the rest of her home when her techniques end."
"Then we'll just have to kill her," Sasuke said grimly.
"Perhaps," Kakashi said. "But we'll deal with that later. In the meantime, I want to see if we can learn more about this village and this woman."
"You chased her off and didn't even lose one person of your group?" the headman said. "This says a lot for your eventual success. I'm glad I thought to call you in."
"That means no one else is missing then?" Kakashi asked.
"Well, it's too early to tell if she didn't pop up to steal people away from somewhere else," the headman said. "She usually takes people from the logger camp or the trapper's cabins around the edges of the village's hill."
"Oh, I see," Kakashi said. "And I take it you've sent someone to guard against her appearance each night?"
"Yes, and we usually end up losing one or two each time she appears," the headman said.
"And what does the priestess do with this?" Sasuke asked.
"She lays blessings on the village folk that go out to guard against the witch," the headman said. "And whenever the woman tries to break back into our world you can see the lights of her battle in the shrine over yonder. We could see them last night. Shouldn't you have spoken to her before making your attempt tonight?"
"Oh, well, we have our own ways of dealing with these things," Kakashi noted casually, one eye squinting closed.
"I'm wondering why that priestess wasn't out actually helping us," Naruto said under his breath.
"Uzumaki-san," Ryoko whispered with a slight degree of chastisement.
"Well, we've got to look more into the background of this problem to prepare for tonight," Kakashi said. "Naruto, Sasuke, Ryoko, let's go."
Outside the headman's home, Kakashi led the group down the street for several minutes before finding a quiet place to talk.
"Naruto, Sasuke," he said. "Make a circuit of the houses outside the village, talk to them, see if they're missing anyone. Ryoko and I will speak to Priestess Luta. How close do you need to be to feel anything about a person's chi."
"It…d..depends," Ryoko said glancing furitively toward Sasuke standing about eight feet away. "Uchiha-san I..I can feel fr…from h..here."
As she spoke, the girl took a few shuffling steps away Uchiha, breathing a slight sigh of relief as she did so.
"Wait," Sasuke thought to himself, arching an eyebrow at the motion. "Shouldn't she be trying to get closer to me? What was all that talk about having children with a 'manly man' if she wasn't talking about me?"
"All right," Kakashi said. "How about myself and Naruto."
"I can feel you at arms length, Kakashi-sensei," Ryoko said. "Uzumaki-san I need to b..be closer to. His flows wr..wrap tightly…v..very tightly. Why, Kakashi-sensei?"
"Because if the witch is a chi-user," he said. "It's possible this priestess that fights her is too. You didn't notice anything yesterday, but she was across the room maybe five or eight meters. This time, I want you to find a reason to place yourself close enough to her to sense her chi-flows as well."
"If sh…she uses chi like that w…witch," Ryoko said. "She'll…she will…she will…she will! Notice me first."
"Can't be helped," Kakashi said. "We need to know if anything is strange about her."
"Th…the whole village is…uncomfortable," Ryoko said.
"Really," Kakashi said. "Okay, everybody, get to your tasks."
The sound of low thunder came to the four and they looked up to see a small roll of dark clouds forming in the sky.
"Oh, that's a sudden rain," the Copycat Ninja said.
"Ah, man, let's get on with this before it starts," Naruto declared loudly. "Come on, Sasuke!"
And with that the hyperactive ninja was running for the village edge with Sasuke moving behind him, shaking his head.
"The moron forgets he has to ask where the outlying houses are," Sasuke said with a sigh.
"Sasuke," Kakashi said. "Head the other way, that way you can cover more space in less time."
"Assuming Naruto finds anything," Sasuke said before leaping to a roof top.
Kakashi laughed under his breath and then rolled his eyes.
"I wonder if this isn't a mistake, country people can be easy to offend," Kakashi said.
"Ano…?"
"Oh well, it'll be a life lesson for them," Kakashi decided, shrugging.
The rain came over the village and finished over the space of twenty minutes, sprinkling the entire area with a light drizzling coverage before the clouds parted and the sun came streaming back in over the village and the woods around it.
"Damn sun," the forester was saying as he looked up, irritably and then looked back to the tree in front of him.
"What's wrong with the sun," a boisterous voice asked, startling the man to dodge aside several feet and seeing the orange-clad boy hunched up on a rock beside where he had been standing.
Catching his breath, the forester stood up straight and moved to the tree and easily peeling off the bark to reveal the dry wood underneath.
"See this?" he said. "We've had almost no rain for close to four years now. It comes in spurts here and there, but mostly, we've had sun, sun and more sun. Several of the trees around here have died and others are dying. The wood is useless for anything other than firewood."
"So there's a drought then?" Naruto reasoned.
"That's the size of it," the forester said. "Needs to let up soon or this piece of forest is going to turn dead all the way through. Anyway, its been trying harder to rain of late, and I hope the sun lets up, but what are you doing here, boy." "Oh, we're here about the witch," Naruto said.
"Witch?" the forester said and he looked to Naruto's headband. "Oh…shinobi then. And you're here about the cackler then?"
"Cackler?" Naruto said. "You mean the witch?"
"I didn't know her as a witch," the forester said. "Just a pain in the neck. Laugh fit to rend metal. Her husband brought them in from the east somewhere, took over the valley and built a house. Almost a small compound really. It vanished six years back, heck the whole valley vanished."
"Yeah," Naruto said. "We heard that story. She was messing with stuff she shouldn't and got pushed outta the world. And now she's making people go missing while she's trying to get back in."
"Are you going to let me tell you what I know, boy, are you just going to interrupt me?" the forester demanded.
"Eh, heh, heh," Naruto said, scratching the back of his head. "Sorry, go on."
"Anyway, the family was named 'Musk' or something like that," the forester said. "The wife, what that foreign priestess calls a witch, was from the Land of Tea I think, judging by her features, but the husband and sister-in-law were something else. Pink and white hair, pointed ears. Strange folk to be sure. And for siblings they weren't too friendly, never saw one in the same place as the other. The wife was good for medicines though. Can't remember her name unfortunately."
"I know people with pink hair," Naruto said under his breath. "It's not that strange."
"A few years later, a bunch of strange foreign warriors are about the place," the forester said. "One of my neighbors said they took away either the husband or his sister, didn't hear anything else until the village started talking about the cackler as a witch."
"And that's when people started going missing, then?" Naruto asked.
"Feh, I think that's just people getting tired of this drought," the forester said. "And moving on to the next village. They get rain there right like clockwork. Right in sight of us, stops like a wall a mile out of that shiny batch of wood up on the hill."
"Nani?" Naruto said, looking up toward where the man was pointing. "You mean the village."
"Of course I mean the village," the forester said. "Now, if you don't mind, I've a got trees to look to."
Naruto shrugged and stood up, starting to move off before he remembered something.
"Uh, Mister, where's the nearest house from here?" he asked.
Sasuke's normal expression was a frown, so it was no surprise that he was frowning. Therefore there is little point to pointing out that he was frowning. Nevertheless, he was frowning.
Of the three houses he'd been directed to, the first was abandoned, likely long before the situation began. The second had a small family living in it, but no one had gone missing in the night.
At the third, he was finding more signs of what he was supposed to be investigating. However, unless the witch could be in two places at once or else had tried to enter the world at another time and place, he couldn't see how she was involved in the scene he was looking at.
The door was hanging off its hinges and the room within in was in a state of disarray with the previous night's dinner splattered about, along with much of the furniture. Scorch marks everywhere and a fine layer of ash covering everything in sight.
"This seems more like the work of a beast than a witch of any sort," Sasuke said.
He re-evaluated his estimation as he looked at some of the damage done and noted that while the overall damage was wild, the individual points of attack were made with high precision.
If there was any sign of the former occupant of this house, it was most likely in the ashes that covered nearly everything.
"Looks like someone went 'missing' last night after all," he noted unnecessarily.
Kakashi appraised the shrine as he approached it. It looked as if it was quite old, with dry, cracking wood and some peeling paint that appeared to be due for some maintenance. Despite that, there was a definite feeling of…activity to the place, not particularly chakra, but it seemed to press on his chakra.
He looked to Ryoko and watched her face go from nervous to slightly straining as she stepped onto the shrine grounds and forward to the building itself.
Whatever it was the Saotome girl felt it too, perhaps more so.
Ryoko herself felt a draining sensation similar to what she'd felt last night when the witch formed the dark chi eddy to create a magnetic pull on dragon chi. Only, different. Last night, it was like her chi wanted to flow down a steep hill and she was working against nature. This time, it was like something was trying to tear into her body and rip her dark chi away from her.
It took her a moment of controlled breathing to draw in the abundant dragon chi to replace the dark chi as she let it flow out. Slowly the strain lessened, breathing came easier, but it still felt…strange to her.
"Hello," Kakashi called out. "Is anybody here, we'd like to speak to the priestess of this shrine."
The orange-haired priestess from before stepped out of a side room into the main gallery with a comforting smile on her face as she moved about, tending to the incense and other daily duties of the shrine.
"Good morning, shinobi of the Leaf," the woman said. "I hope your actions went well last night."
"Not as well as we hoped," Kakashi said. "Your witch escaped, but we had no injuries."
"A mix of good and bad news then," the priestess said. "What is your business here?"
"We've come to compare notes," the jonin said. "I've heard of your own struggles with this woman and wondered if you could tell me about them. Apparently her chakra reaches out here? Oh, I'm sorry, I don't believe I've introduced my subordinate here, have I? Ryoko, please step forward."
"H…hai," Ryoko said, starting to step forward with a bow. "I…I am Ryoko Sao…"
"There's no need, Kakashi-san," the priestess said with a negligent wave. "The girl will clearly be able to tell I am a chi master. I doubt a girl with her stunted level of awareness could handle the chi around me after such a battle."
Ryoko slumped and lowered her head, biting her lip, at the rather blunt assessment of her skills.
"Ah, I apologize, Priestess Luta Beia" Kakashi said. "But I thought it might be impolite to ask."
"It is all right," the priestess said. "Now as you said, I have had my own battles. The witch herself does not reach out here, but I have some countermeasures about her prison which must be maintained when she strains them."
"I see," the jonin said. "When did you first come here, by the way?"
"I first heard of the situation…five years ago," Luta said. "I came here one year later and built this shrine with the help the villagers to keep the dark woman's magic contained."
Kakashi didn't let it show, but he felt a bit of surprise to find that the shrine was so young. From the condition of the building materials, how everything was aged and dried by the days of sun, he'd have suspected it to be much older than that.
"This is the seal I use to hold her prison solid," Luta Beia said. "It needs a constant flow of chi to remain and when she attempts to break out, the demands of power are intense. The egg itself starts to crack from inside as she pushes out, and I must bend all my will to keep it intact."
She pointed to a complexly jeweled egg in the place of honor within the shrine. It was a shimmering mix of many colors reflecting mostly the golden tones of the shrine around it. Ryoko's eyes widened as she moved closer to the object and could feel the flows of chi bending in to it.
As she got closer, the feeling was so strong she could actually see the bands of purified dragon chi wrapping into the egg tighter and tighter. Though the chi was breaking off underneath where there was little space to move and a resting chi was needed.
"Why is there no dark chi?" Ryoko asked softly.
"Pardon?" the priestess said, looking from Kakashi toward the girl he'd brought in.
"Th…there is only dragon chi…" she said.
"You mean yang," the priestess said. "Dragon chi, fu zhensong is the technique of drawing the yang out of the world, dark chi, chakuri-chi, is the cursed technique of drawing out yin. Do you not even know that much? What sort of fool was your teacher to be so incomplete in his instruction?"
Her tone was patronizing and pitying all at once.
"M…my father is an excellent teacher," Ryoko said in a manner that was both nervous and firm at once.
"I am sorry again," Kakashi said. "Ryoko can be something of a handful at times. Ryoko, please apologize to the woman, and then we'll be on our way."
"Ano…"
Ryoko said looking up toward Kakashi a bit confused. The ninja returned the look firmly and slowly, the girl relented…for the moment, pushing the insult to her family aside…for the moment.
"Sumimasen, Luta Beia-sama," Ryoko said, nodding her head and inclining her back slightly.
Kakashi arched an eyebrow at the abrupt lean of a bow.
He was suddenly glad it wasn't Ryoko's mother or younger sister the woman had inadvertently insulted. He doubted he could have convinced Ryoko to give any sort of apology.
"I think we've gotten everything we came for, Priestess," Kakashi said soothingly. "I think we'll be better prepared for tonight."
"I do hope so," the woman said with a manner of gentle appeal that, after seeing some of her behavior toward Ryoko, held a hollow manner. "It would be best if this witch's time were over quickly."
"So we hope," the jonin said as he and Ryoko left the shrine.
After they were gone, Luta looked toward the egg and frowned.
"How did she know there was no yin in the egg?" the woman asked cautiously. "Even a fully trained adept would simply assume it was a strong yang flow and they just couldn't see the trace yin, but she realized after a couple of moments standing near it with out even the training to see flows."
The woman was walking toward the back rooms of the shrine when she froze at the doorway, a certain memory of that conversation coming clear to her suddenly.
"I…I am Ryoko Sao…"
She remembered the girl's figure and stature.
"Ryoko Sao…"
Closer now on the face and shoulders
"Ryoko Sao…"
Shorten the hair.
"Sao…"
Make the hair red.
"Sao…"
Remove the glasses
"Sao…"
Make the eyes blue.
The priestess's lips finally opened and finished the name.
"Saotome."
The shinobi came together again as the night was closing in around them. Soon it would be time for them to venture back into the forest to prepare for the witch's renewed attempt to escape.
"There's something weird about this," Naruto said. "The headman said those raiders were from the witch, but that forester said they came to take away her husband and sister-in-law."
"He implied," Sasuke corrected, "but I agree. That woman we saw last night used nothing like what must have caused the damage in that cabin."
"That doesn't mean she can't, however," Kakashi said. "We also had some interesting discussions with the priestess. In fact, your forester's drought began about the same time she arrived. And she confirmed that Ryoko's 'dark chi' and 'dragon chi' are the same as yin and yang."
"Yin and yang?" Naruto asked, beside him Sasuke looked toward Kakashi as well.
"It will come up later," Kakashi said. "Suffice to say that chakra uses the same terms for some advanced concepts."
"Ano…"
That gave more credence to Kakashi-sensei's assertion that she would need to learn both chakra and chi control.
"Ryoko," Kakashi said. "When you said no Dark Chi, did you mean in the seal, or in the building. You had troubles walking in, as I remember."
"I…I had to release all my da…yin," Ryoko said. "Something was trying to destroy it inside me a..nd…I didn't think that would be good."
"Ryoko-chan, you just said 'didn't'," Naruto said.
"Ano…" Ryoko blinked and then opened her eyes wide before bowing low. "WAH! Sumimasen! I didn't…did not…did not…"
"Hey, Ryoko-chan," Naruto said. "I wasn't trying to correct you, it's okay."
"Bu..but, Mother would not accept s…such…" Ryoko started to protest.
"It's not important how you talk," Naruto said. "Just what you say."
"And right now," Sasuke said. "We have more important things to do then talk about speech patterns."
"Hai," Ryoko said. "Su..sumimasen. We were ta..talking about the chi..in the shrine, yes?"
"That's right," Kakashi said. "You're saying something was destroying yin there?"
"H..hai," Ryoko said. "Uchiha-san should n…not go there. M..most of his chi is …yin, it would be…bad for him."
Sasuke frowned at the girl's warning, as if he'd need her to protect him.
"Was it the seal?" Kakashi asked.
She shook her head.
"There…there was no yin in the seal," Ryoko said. "Th…that is why it constantly needs to be fixed."
Kakashi nodded and then looked out toward the horizon.
"Well, let's go, it's getting close to when she might be making her assault," Kakashi said.
The dark-haired woman wondered why she was bothering to make this attempt, she wasn't prepared for full scale battle with three shinobi and one chi-apprentice. Especially not ones that could see the visual spectrum, unlike her.
Her chi senses made her completely capable of defending herself, just as if her eyes still worked, but attacking was…iffy. She was surprised she managed to snag the older ninja last time.
In addition, she was relying on yin to break the prison that held her and the accidental "guests" she'd picked up over the last six years. Yin did not enhance speed and strength with the same efficiency that yang did.
Still, it would be interesting to see how they responded from an outsider's perspective.
She only hoped she had made her preparations correctly.
What she wouldn't give to have either her husband or her old rival turned master present to tell her whether she was guiding the chi correctly for her goals or not.
Then again, neither of them dealt much more in sorcery than they had to. They stuck to channeling, the martial aspect of chi, for the most part.
That was fine, she was much better at things that required careful preparation than she was improvising on the fly. She'd just have to be the first Anything Goes martial artist to master sorcery instead of just dabble.
Gods, how many times had she told herself that the last six years?
This time, as the fog started to roll in, Kakashi had his sharingan eye uncovered. It was hard to tell for which distortion was the prison seal and which was the so-called witch's attempts to break through.
It was nothing like watching a chakra sealing art.
At the moment, he wasn't even sure he could really tell there were two distortions and not just his assumption there was. Sighing, he let his eye rest again and waited for the dark-haired woman to make her appearance.
There was something a little bit different about the bulge into their reality this time, but he couldn't quite lay a finger on it.
Slowly the dancing figure came into view, moving with a strange lack of caution despite last night's results.
Frowning, Kakashi felt something was off, but still, their opportunities at this woman were few and short.
"Go!" he shouted.
His three subordinates rushed forward below him and the fight started off similar to what had happened last night. The kunai disrupted the witch's dance and Ryoko moved in to try and fight hand to hand, stubbornly still using her bokken.
Kakashi was about to move himself when he noticed that the fog was still pushing out. Last night, the fog had started rolling back in as soon as they interrupted her, but this time.
He lifted his eye patch again and opened his sharingan eye to take in the view before him.
The woman they were fighting this time had no chakra.
Kakashi started scanning about the area but his eye couldn't see past the barrier of mist that led to the witch's prison.
He leaped forward coming down into the fight, ending it quickly by kicking through the chi-image and causing it to vanish into nothing.
The fog was pushing out slower now, it was going to stop soon.
Was that a pre-arranged effect as well this time?
Where was the witch?
"A clone?" Naruto protested. "What kind of cheap coward is this witch?"
"Not a coward," Kakashi warned watching the still wide gate carefully. "Just very cautious. She knows she can't beat us so she's giving herself a chance to see what we're capable of, what sort of tactics and abilities we use. This woman calculates."
He looked back toward his team and looked to see how each of them was taking that information in, even as the fog started to slowly roll back in as whatever trick the woman had used started to fall apart.
Kakashi hadn't even started to evaluate his team when something charged forward from the edges where the fog had pushed back the prison.
It was vaguely humanoid shaped, but stood out like a walking fire in the dark of night. The thing moved silently and swiftly in a straight line towards the backs of his team, aiming in particular for the only girl.
"Ryoko, move!" Kakashi shouted.
The Saotome turned about and eyes widened briefly before she shifted naturally into a stance to kick back at the approaching thing. It was a weak attacker, easily read. She was surprised that she hadn't felt it coming, actually, but perhaps all the distortions in the chi around this battlefield had hid it.
Her foot struck perfectly placed to send the thing flying backwards.
Only it didn't.
The creature passed straight through her foot and her body.
In an instant, the form ripped through and stole the dr…yang chi she'd gathered at the shrine earlier.
Where it did so, she could feel the flesh and organs trying to burn, fighting the yin that was still in her system.
She'd never felt anything quite like it, or at least not to such an extent, and could only stand frozen, eyes wide and as the sensation washed over her.
And she toppled.
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