"Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu," called out Sasuke, throwing a fireball at the deck as he sat behind Sakura on her broomstick as she swooped past the ship.
The pirates, not having incredible dodging skills, stood there. Sasuke, not having experience in aiming a fireball while doing a high speed flyby, missed the pirates and toasted a parrot..
"All right, Sasuke!" said Sakura, clapping her hands together as her crush did something suitably awesome. In her eyes at least.
"Steer!" exclaimed Sasuke as the broomstick immediately dipped while still going at very high speed.
"Agh!" said Sakura, grabbing the broomstick with both hands again a split instant before the tip connected with the railing on the pirate ship.
Pirates and ninja watched in muted astonishment as the high speed broom approach became an end-over-end spin and was followed by a plume of sand erupting from the desert landscape.
[4.5] read the pirate captain's card.
[3.0] read the cabinboy's card.
[7.0] read Schroedinger's card.
Everyone looked at Schroedinger who shrugged and mumbled something about a "sympathy vote."
"Ah, well, if ye knaves be done putting out the fires," said the captain to his crew. "Can we get back to the bloody slaughter?"
Akamaru turned into a duplicate Kiba, both of them charging forward to engage skeletal pirates.
Anko figured that snakes and poison wouldn't be that effective against undead, and so settled for throwing kunai.
Kurenai frowned as she determined that undead were NOT affected by genjutsu. She determined this just before she was mobbed by the four zombies she'd attempted to engage in a genjutsu.
Yugao discovered that her new sword DID cut zombie flesh. The Icebrand wasn't as effective as a Flametongue would have been, but the magically keen blade was still effective.
"Fireindahole," said Shino, brandishing his new toy. Lightning flared in an arc, hitting a zombie and flash-frying it. Insects swarmed over another three zombies, which didn't seem to hurt the zombies but seriously freaked them out for some reason.
Hinata found herself being lifted overhead and being hauled along in Kurenai's wake towards a door that seemed a little too dark to be natural. This was really NOT the situation she wanted to be in.
Anko found herself being swarmed, her weapons ineffective against the undead. Using explosive tags might have worked, except that once they were grappling - that kind of made using explosives less attractive.
"Okay, this is NOT how it was supposed to work," said Kurenai as she struggled against the skeletons who were trying to lock her into some manacles and leggings.
"NO! Let me go!" cried Hinata as the zombies proceeded to lock her arms and legs into place.
"Heh heh heh," said the zombie pirate Captain, who was missing an arm now. "As soon as we get the magic sword away from that scurvy tomboy, she be joining ye."
Anko, cussing enough to turn the air blue, was carried down the steps, then locked in place, then gagged.
"That be better," said the Captain. "Wenches like you should be obscene and not heard, or so I be hearing."
Anko twitched and sent a spray of snakes out to attack despite being largely immobilized.
"Poisonous serpents, lass?" asked the captain as the snakes repeatedly bit at his flesh. "Well, ye'll be tamed soon enough by our dark Master."
"Your dark master?" asked Kurenai.
"Aye, once he heard there be wenches here, he was all for rolling out a most cordial greeting," said the pirate captain. "He has some frustrations apparently, and he's got all his fleshy bits. Ah, here's the... what's with that hair color?"
"What about it?" asked Kurenai as an unconscious Sakura was locked into place.
"Well, pink hair ain't exactly natural is it?" asked the captain. "Admittedly it HAS been quite awhile, but you'd think I'd remember something that stood out like that."
"That IS her natural hair color," said Kurenai, testing the metal of her restraints as her eyes caught a detail and she very carefully did NOT smirk. "So - who IS this Master of yours?"
"Don't know his name," admitted the zombie captain. "He be calling himself different things from time to time. I think he be new to the whole world-conquering evil overlord kind of thing. Also crazier than a drunken bedbug, if ye be getting me drift."
"So he's new to his role and learning the ropes as he goes along?" pressed Kurenai as the sounds of battle continued overhead.
"I think ye have the right of it lass," said the captain as he nodded to some dagger-wielding subordinates. "Strip the lasses down. We don't be needing to be bringing additional spiders or snakes and such along for the ride."
"Got you!" said a skeletal figure, bringing his cutlass down onto the unprotected mage.
Swish!
"Eh?" asked the skeleton. He swished his sword through the mage twice more, not meeting any resistance. "An illusion? Waitaminute. That means... oh this isn't good."
The skeleton had just started back for his ship to give the warning when Sasuke caught up with him.
Jiraiya sipped at the tea, not looking or leering at the various scantily clad dark elves around. He was, for the moment, sated. Also at the limits of his endurance, so leering and similar behavior wasn't planned. Later though. When he'd had a chance to recover. Yeah. He could do it then.
"So you noticed our little problem?" purred the dark elf.
"Yes, the water is rising and you can keep pumping, but this cavern isn't exactly stable anyway," said Jiraiya. "Now I've got a few people to ask, I have to get permission from various authorities - but the Daimyo of Fire Country is a big fan of my work. I think I can swing it."
The leader of the drow elves smiled and her eyes seemed to gleam. "If you could arrange such a thing, we would be ever so grateful."
CRACK! went the teacup in Tsunade's hand.
CRACK! went the teapot in front of Tsunade.
Tsunade twitched.
"This means something," said Shizune, looking a little panicked.
"I don't know why, I don't know how," said Tsunade slowly, "but I get the impression something very wrong just happened."
Being a genjutsu mistress meant being able to notice minute details. In order to craft a convincing illusion, you had to pay attention to the little things. In order to BREAK a genjutsu, you had to be able to notice tiny imperfections that one could seize on and use. Much like shifting a weight, even if you could lift the weight easily - you had to be able to properly grip the weight and bring leverage to bear so that your strength was usable.
Kurenai Yuhi WAS a genjutsu mistress. So she noticed that when Sakura was brought in, she had a very odd shadow that blurred the light ever so slightly. That there was an area where the illusion that nobody was there wasn't completely perfect.
She was a LITTLE anxious though when Yugao was brought down the stairs and the door was quickly barred and barricaded. There were now twelve zombies in the crowded cabin. Also herself, Anko, Sakura, Hinata, and now Yugao.
"So you're going to take us to your master?" pressed Kurenai.
"Aye," said the pirate captain. "He has ways of compelling your obedience, lass. You'll meet him soon enough. First though, there's this."
Kurenai looked at the odd pulsing orb. "And what exactly is that?"
"Something that our dread summoner came up with, that'll reduce you lot to panting loveslaves," said the pirate captain, brandishing it. "Should be entertaining. Let's test it out, shall we?"
"Naruto? Now," said Kurenai.
"Eh?" asked the Pirate Captain.
"Amplify spell," said Naruto, suddenly appearing.
[Holy Smite] said Mitternacht.
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