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Post by Steggo on Jan 27, 2018 0:14:02 GMT
Another explosion rocked the building, shaking loose the last picture frame from the wall. Its glass smashed as it hit the floor, adding to the mess of debris strewn everywhere in the room. Eri groaned, but didn't move. That picture had been his favourite, the last one he had of his grandmother. But he didn't dare move from where he was braced in the doorway, as yet another tremor shook the room. No, dammit, not just the room, the whole house, the whole street! Everything shook, and just as Eri dared to let himself believe it was over, another shake rippled through him. This one was the strongest yet, and he finally lost his grip on the door frame, being thrown to the ground. He held up a hand, watching blood drip from it. Thanks, Granny, he smirked to himself, before slumping his head to the ground.
Soldiers pounding past the doorway saw none of this, scrambling to reach the end of the street even as yet another tremor threw half of the group against the nearest wall, and the rest hard against the pavement. This was impossible! The whole ground was shaking so violently they couldn't go fifty yards without being thrown from their feet, and the entire squad were bruised, battered or bleeding, those that were even still able to stand. Already they'd left two behind, one with a nasty break in his arm and the other a suspected concussion. Their sergeant snapped out a demand for more speed, and the rest just growled to themselves at the unreasonable order.
In another street, a group were trying their best to be careful, lowering one of their number down a rope to reach a screaming man desperately clinging to an overhang. Half this street had collapsed into an enormous sinkhole. The soldier being lowered tried her best to call down reassuring words, but as she reached a hand for the wailing man another shake ripped through the area. Her rope swung violently, sending the soldier nearly plummeting into space herself, an ear-piercing final scream penetrating the night. When she managed to right herself, she looked down and found the man had gone, that scream must have been his. She began climbing, determined to rejoin solid ground before the next quake. She didn't make it.
Deep within the earth, in a terrible place where the air was stale from a hundred years without a fresh breeze, where rats ran riot in every corner and clambered over every orifice, a dreadful calamity roared with purest anger.
And another quake shuddered through the city.
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Post by Kohga on Jan 30, 2018 2:12:36 GMT
In a snap a man appeared in the morgue that housed all his supplies. He was one of the few men that had an express ticket into the militaristic village. Though highly illegal and could possible start a conflict between Konohagakure and Amegakure. Kohga had left his cloak at home and exchanged it for a thick jacket that zipped up to just under his nose and black goggles to hide his eyes, to make sure that no one knew that he was the Hokage. He looked out around the room, the bodies that were once neatly stacked on shelves were now laying in macabre shapes across the room. "I wonder where Keiichiro is.." he wondered aloud. Keiichiro was not only the attendant for his morgue, he was also the man showed him how to seal the bodies and transport them here. In a way, he was the man who gave Kohga his express ticket into the village. The earth shook. Kohga darted to the threshold of the nearest door, he was sure that his hideout was safe, but was unwilling to take any chances. Slight thumps were heard as more bodies fell to the ground. Guts spilled out from some. Kohga didn't have them embalmed, he would lose some of the organic matter.
He walked briskly through the halls, headed towards the door, when he heard the slightest whisper of his name. "Koh……ga." His gaze shifted hastily towards the faint sound. It was his friend, the frail old man, contorted in an awful shape under a marble statue in the shape of a ame-nin. His face white, and breath labored, blood leaking from his side where the hand had gouged in and threw him. It pained Kohga to see this, maybe the first time since his brothers did he feel something for someone who was about to pass from our world to the next. The earth shook again. This time much harder, the door frame cracked and splintered the door, sending little shards of wood throughout the room. The statue moved, too, causing the elderly man to wail and shriek out in pain. "I'm sorry. Until next time, Old Friend." Kohga retrieved a kunai from his pouch, and held the mans head softly with his fleshed arm. The two held eye contact, a sign of respect, and Kohga plunged the knife into the base of Keiichiro's skull. Kohga placed the knife in the corpse's hand and set them on it's chest, said a short prayer, then left. Kohga wasted too much time in his 'shop' and needed to make haste to catch his prey.
The reason for his visit to Amegakure was because of a rumor. A rumor that seemed more and more true the moment he stepped onto the street. The Nibi had been spotted or captured in the land of Rain. The giant fire cat appeared in the village during a torrential rain storm and was forced under ground so that it's life might not be extinguished. That all seemed true, judging by the state of the village. It showed leaned sky scrapers, houses torn in two, and all manner of tragedy. Bodies littered the streets, and loved ones wept loudly at their sides.
Another quake. They were growing ever closer, The bijuu was on the move. Kohga did not know of anything beneath the city, as everything is so closely guarded in Amegakure, but it seemed that there was some sort of underground system that ran throughout the village. Kohga heard a bloodcurdling scream, one that sounded further and further away the longer it rang out. Then, it was gone. He jumped through the wreckages and onto the street where he thought the scream came from, and as he landed it was obvious he had come to the right place. A sinkhole larger even than any he had seen in the forests he called home appeared and swallowed several buildings. Just then, a mind-numbing roar was heard from the abyss that was a sinkhole. 'Bingo.' The lady Soldier trembled on the rope, and began her ascent, while Kohga's mind lay elsewhere. Namely charging into the hole after the beast. After all, that was the reason that he was here. It was his and Steggo's plan to hunt another tailed beast, and see if they would all revert to stones or something else. Unfortunately, Steggo was unwilling to let Kohga seal him and ride the expressway into Amegakure, so it would be another day or so until Steggo got here. Based on the State of things, Kohga could not stand Idly by and let the beast destroy a village. It seemed most of the ninja were focusing on evacuation efforts.
The man stood in the rain, drenched from head to toe, and solidified his resolve. He would engage the Nibi himself. With that thought Kohga leapt into the sinkhole. He heard the woman scream for him, but it was too late, he had latched onto the wall and softened it with his chakra so as to ease his descent into hell. When he landed, he smelled the stagnant and putrid air, and saw the mangled body of the man who fell before him. Then he saw it, the giant holes stretching as far as the eye could see in either direction. The earth rumbled and cracked once more, and Kohga set off at full speed towards the epicenter of the quakes.
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Post by Steggo on Jan 30, 2018 23:34:13 GMT
"Careful!" called the supervisor from above for easily the hundredth time. Jako mouthed the word mockingly, making a humourous expression as he did so, and his brother Sako let go of the rope with one hand so he could suppress a laugh with it. The brothers savoured their joke for a moment, then returned to the serious task at hand: descending to the base of this hole. Half a city block had suddenly crumbled here, taking huge towers, a major bank, three residential buildings and one of the most famous landmarks of the city, an ancient statue of a lion atop a plinth, all suddenly plummeting down into the depths.The first rescuers to try to reach the bottom had not returned, and now the two brothers were heading in, determined to find someone, anyone, they could pull out of this mess.
The quakes had been going on for several days now and a feeling of sick helplessness had overtaken many of the city's inhabitants. Whole families simply sat in their homes, waiting for death to come and claim them. Nutters proclaimed the end of all days out in the streets, the young and the desperate took the law into their own hands without fear of reprisal, and the city's leaders seemed paralysed, torn between trying to decide what they should do and fleeing to save their own lives. This must be the end of Amegakure. Jako was grimly certain of it, and determined to make some light of the whole mess however he could. Sako simply accepted what was in his power to change and what was not. If this was the end of the city, he couldn't change that, but if anybody was down here to be saved, well maybe he could be the one to find them and pull them out.
Rain continued to pour down around them, beating down on their safety helmets as they finally reached the ground. That rain was causing small rivulets to run everywhere, the water cutting paths through dust and grime that hadn't been disturbed in decades, centuries even! The buildings around them had been fine once, but they must've dropped the entire way from the ground above to down here, easily a hundred feet or more, and most were shattered or smashed beyond anything. The brothers couldn't even recognise the school they'd attended as boys, and the famous statue had been completely pulverised, just powder and a single paw remaining of the once-mighty stone lion.
"This is hopeless, we should just get out of here," muttered Jako, staring around him in a mixture of confusion and horror. He just didn't know how to process destruction on this scale. They'd lived in one of those towers as boys, that over there had been their third year classroom, and that there was the street corner where he'd had his first kiss, stood in the rain with Marie Kinisoba, her raven hair plastered to her thin scalp. She was probably dead now, he was sure she'd still lived in that building over there and she'd gotten a job in the school. "Please have been visiting your mother today, Marie," he whispered to himself without much hope.
Sako broke his brother from his quiet prayer with a hand clapped warmly onto his shoulder. "Come on, if there's anything to be done, we'll get it sorted," he said, trying to project confidence and optimism he didn't feel. This was a fool's errand but one he had to do, for his own conscience and for any hope of saving that skinny girl he knew his brother still carried a torch for.
They set to searching, and over the next few hours they uncovered far more than they wished to. Both brothers emptied their stomachs at one point or another, Jako on finding an entire classroom of children, the poor things, and Sako on finding the remains of that skinny girl. No more kisses in the rain for his brother. He simply called through that there was no one in that room and moved on, not letting Jako go in there and see her for himself. Better to let him hope, today, they could face reality together when they left this awful place.
By late afternoon they'd seen enough. No one could still be alive here, everywhere they'd searched they'd found nothing but death and destruction, crushed bodies and broken skulls. Nothing could've survived that fall. They prepared to leave, when suddenly yet another quake struck, far harder this time. Jako lost his footing and pitched forwards into a hard stone wall, his shoulder crunching badly against a stone doorframe which sent him spinning to the floor. Sako caught his brother in the nick of time, hauling him to his feet, and they hurried back towards their waiting rope together.
As they hurried, another quake hit, followed almost immediately by another, and then another. The last sent both brothers sprawling, Jako quickly hauling himself back up this time but Sako sliding dangerously down towards a further drop into darkness. Jako ran and dived, catching his brother's arm and pulling him back from the brink, but another quake struck, this one stronger than any before, and both the two rescuers fell from view, disappearing into the darkness deep below the surface.
An ominous yowl rang out, echoing around the chamber and reaching up to the panicking supervisor above, who desperately tried to raise either one of the brothers on their walkie-talkies. Neither one answered.
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Post by Kohga on Jan 31, 2018 1:39:26 GMT
"Gah!" A lone shout was heard and echoed throughout the ruined caverns. "There is no method in this madness." Kohga was getting frustrated, he had easily been chasing the monster cat for a half hour now, but it seemed more like he was chasing his tail. He ran and jumped, climbed and tumbled through the wreckages. He saw the mangled corpses of people who had fallen a great distance to their demise. Some appeared to have just sat down for dinner, a shame that one was, Kohga did enjoy a hearty meal. A rather good deal of what was troubling Kohga was that this place was a literal gold-mine for him. The bodies strewn about randomly, lost in the chaos, were akin to a fruit ready to be picked. Yet, he had to race by them and let them further decay, or worse, be rescued. He rationalized it with one thought, 'If the cat was not stopped, soon, then his own morgue would soon topple and fall beneath the earth.' That was something he would not allow to happen. Kohga had spent many years defiling the dead and collecting their bodies for his KG. In his eyes, the dead were as a kunai would be, a tool.
In one good sign, the tremors did seem to be getting closer. The last one felt as if it were only on the side of the next couple walls. Sure, there were jutsu that he could use to track the beast, but he needed to conserve his chakra for this. He was in enemy territory, hunting a Bijuu, there was little room for error. The Hokage now stood in a vast clearing. It was abundantly clear that the Nibi had been here before. There were several giant paw prints leading two separate ways, into two massive tunnels. He chuckled slightly, "More like a mole than a cat." Then a breeze picked up, ever so slightly. The tunnels and sinkholes were funneling water and air into the long forgotten caverns that lie beneath Amegakure. Something that would surely disturb the cat. The man then looked between the two tunnels, relatively unsure of which to pick. Both were new, on the verge of collapse, and dark. Then an idea popped into his head, the only way to settle this is by chance. He walked to the nearest pile of wood that was once a house, and took a leg sized piece of wood from it. Upon removing the beam, the structure began to shake and creak. Weary of its potential to cause another sinkhole, Kohga jumped back several times to place a good distance between them. Then after retrieving a kunai from his pouch, Kohga would carve an arrow into one end. A boringly simple plan, throw the log so that it spins, go in the direction closest to the arrow.
Kohga took a split grip on the board, and hurled it towards the open tunnels. The board spun with such ferocity that it reverberated off the walls and hummed loudly. Just before it landed, the Nibi crushed another wall nearby. The tremors shook the earth in all directions and vibrated Kohga's legs. She was close. As a result, the left tunnel began dropping dust and rocks. The loud clacking of rocks colliding drowned out the boards hum and the sand falling from above. In the next moment, time seemed to slow down to crawl.
The man stood an ant in the massive cavern, and watched as the eroded rocks fell. Above the rocks were walls of buildings and the people they housed. One could barely make out the screams of the citizens. At one point in the hours it felt like, He would swear that a woman and her lover were stuck together by sheer force of will. They seemed to tumble forever, the woman's eyes were closed and the mans open. He was watching, waiting for the end. Kohga's eyes followed them into the dust, and all the screams stopped. Rocks and bits of the residences and businesses above continued to fall, no doubt crushing any that had survived the fall. He had no more time to wait around, dust had begun to fill the room and the rain had picked up and seemed a typhoon at this point. Water came rushing into the cave like a howling river, crashing off the debris below and spreading out in all directions. Kohga ran over to his board, now covered in dust and looked. It pointed to the collapsed tunnel.
"Hmph. Not today." and with that he was gone, his legs carried him with great speed through the tunnel, now he knew that there were more dangers than the beast he sought. It was then he heard a shriek. Wherever that came from, was likely near the Nibi. And Kohga flew with all the might in his legs towards the noise. Who knows, maybe he had found his prey.
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