10 years have passed since the second coming of Sephiroth and now catastrophically mako infected humans, also known as Alchemists....are now among us in the world of Gaia. These mako altered humans now possess the ability to use materia powers without the use of a materia. Rufus Shinra saw this as a way to make an Elite team of soldiers fighting for by his side, thus creating The Shinra Alchemists. Since then six factions have combined forces to overthrow ShinRa thus starting The Shinra Dismantlement War. Join Kyoshiro and his elite team of alchemists to stop the enemy from harming innocent people and Rufus Shinra. Become part of the struggle to stop the mastermind behind the combined Factions. Help win key victories in the war. Get to level 40, learn bankai and show everyone what your made of. Join ACF's best and longest running RPG, in the 3rd Season of The Shinra Alchemists. Created Originally by Shyde

Season 1
This was the era of the Genocide War, where the Copycat Alchemist annonced a no peace treaty alliance with the Shinra Alchemists and declared war. It was also said that any alchemist that was in this war are now called Originals. Many alchemist on both sides died and the war ended after a defeated Kyoshiro was able to have victory over the Genova Alchemists faction.

Season 2
The Shinra mansion was raided by a team of professional soldiers. With this group was none other than Leon Crestmere also known as The Gunblade Alchemists. After the raid Leon escaped with Top Secret ShinRa documents, and the list of all Shinra Alchemist weaknesses. Shortly after a hugh battle between six combined factions and Shinra would begin. The battle ended with the unconfirmed death of Kyoshiro.



*Newcomers must pm Me to be assigned an Alchemist name. You may not start til you have one*


{Rules}

1. Make your posts at least 5 to 6 sentences long.

2. Make sure that you follow the orders of your superiors. If they are an Officer then you should treat them with the same respect as you do me.

3. If your are going to change your username, Me, Soulless, or Slader telling us your previous username, your alchemist name, and your new username

4. All members are to follow the general rules of the SA Forums

5. Dont run off on a rogue storyline. Most of the RPG is controlled and have settings in order to keep the story interesting. Failure to comply with may result in Demotion.

6. If you leave do to In Real Life problems then contact me or Slader before just leaving. By doing this we can hold your spot and your level without having to delete you, and this would help you feel like you dont have to start over.

7. DO NOT ASK FOR PROMOTIONS OR TO BE GIVE AN OFFICER POSITION. This will actually decrease your chances of getting one. Get promotions and officer positions through hard earned work.

8. Bankai CANNOT be achieved by anyone who is not level 40 or higher. Shin Bankai CANNOT be achieved by anyone who is not level 65 or higher.

9. You are only allowed to fight NPCs of your own level. If you are level 10 then plz do not act as if you can kill a Captain Class Alchemist who is 20 or 30 levels above you. Good quality post and activeness will earn you levels in this RP.



{Important Info}

This RP is Final Fantasy VII based with a splash of Bleach here and there. So do not assume the name has any relation to Full Metal Alchemist, bc it doesnt and I dont want anyone thinking that. Besides that everything else is original and created by me.

every week that you have posted more than 4 times. You will receive 400 gil to your bank Account which can be used to buy materia or weapons at the SA Weapon Shop. Another way to earn gil in my RP is by completing missions on the Mission List. Which will be provided to you within the first post that i will open up with for the Thread. Once again ty for choosing this RP, and enjoy your time in it. DO NOT GO OUT ON A MISSION FROM THE LIST WITHOUT THE IC CONSENT OF CYNUOUS OR ANOTHER SA LEADERS APPROVAL.



{Leaders}

Commander- Kyoshiro

Major General- Slader

Lt. General- Soulless

Brigidier General- N/A

Colonel- N/A

Lt. Colonel- Kaizen

Captain- N/A

Major- Gin

Leader of Ansatsu Alchemists- Kyoshiro

Leader of SOLDIER Alchemists- Slader

Leader of Recon Alchemists- Soulless

Academy Instructor- Repraved




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The Standing Ranks



{Legendary Alchemists}

The Anti-Alchemist - Cynuous Lv.91

The Dark Alchemist- Slader Lv.82

The Brave Alchemist- Soulless Lv.78






{Guardian Alchemists}







{Ascended Alchemists}

The Persona Alchemist- Kaizen Lv.64







{Veteran Alchemists}

The Assassin Alchemist- Satsugai Kaze Lv.61

The Crimson Alchemist - cloudfinal22 Lv.60

The Dragon Alchemist- Ryuzacki Lv.64






{Slayer Alchemists}

The Silver Alchemist- Gin Lv.53







{Elite Alchemists}

The Primal Alchemist- Divine Archangel Lv.45

The Phantom Alchemist- Mangusbrother Lv.40

The Shining Alchemist- Sinner Lv.42

The Dark Aero Alchemist- Takuya Lv.40

The Crystal Alchemist- Syeren Lv.42

The Reverse Alchemist- Charlie Nash Lv.45







{Master Alchemists}

The HalfMetal Alchemist- Halfmetal Alchemist Lv.38

The Wolven Alchemist- Nanaki Lv.31

The Rescind Alchemist- Repraved Lv.40






{Expert Alchemist}

The Zero Alchemist- Darkened_Slayer Lv.27

The Stasis Alchemist- Coldman9 Lv.23

The Illumni Alchemist- Shadow Jet Lv.21







{State Alchemists}

The Spirit Alchemist- Lady Shenorai Lv.18

The EMP Alchemist- Raiden Lv.20

The Mist Alchemist- Amaya Lv.16

The Necro Alchemist- Reign Lv.16

The Mirage Alchemist- Zelarios Lv.16




{3rd-1st Class Alchemists}

The Mirage Alchemist- Zelarios Lv.16

The Divine Alchemist- Aeiou Lv.4 (2nd Class)

The Predator Alchemist- Asher Lv.3 (2nd Class)

The Vortex Alchemist- Justa Lv.7 (2nd Class)

The Chimera Alchemist- Wynn Lv.1 (3rd Class)





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Special Forces and Division Units



Ansatsu- Assassination Unit

Leader of Ansatsu- Cynuous

2nd in Command- Satsugai

3rd Seat- Gin

4th Seat- Repraved


{Requirements for being in Assassination Unit: Must tell Shyde that you wish to be an assassin/ninja type Alchemist before you fill out your Profile and start RP}








SOLDIER Alchemists- Special Forces

Leader of SOLDIER Alchemists- Slader

2nd in Command- Kaizen (SOLDIER 1st Class)

Operative- Charlie (SOLDIER 3rd Class)

Operative- Raiden (Cadet)

{Requirement to get into SOLDIER Alchemists: Must have a recommendation from Slader or Kaizen while in Academy}







Recon Alchemists- Task Force Infantry

Leader of Recon Alchemists- Unforgiven

2nd in Command- Ryuzacki

Operative- Mangusbrother

Operative- Shadow Jet (Cadet)


{Requirements for Recon Alchemists: Must have recommendation from Unforgiven during Academy}

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Hall of Fame

The Anti-Alchemist- Cynuous

- "One of four to be given the title of ShinRa's Edge. Which was given to Kaishiro due to giving ShinRa an edge in any battle. Kaishiro is the most decorated soldier in the Shinra ranks. The Shadow-Edge Zanpaktou is feared by all enemys of ShinRa and is said that seeing the blade is the only memory you will have in the afterlife. Kaishiro's assassination skills are unrivaled. Specialized in High Mobility combat, Kaishrio may be the most feared person in all of Gaia."



The Dark Alchemist- Slader

- "One of four to be given the title of ShinRa's Edge. Which was given to Slader due to giving ShinRa an edge in any battle. Slader is the second most decorated soldier in the shinra ranks. The Dark-Edge blade is of legend and is known to be the brother sword to Kaishiro's Shadow-Edge Zanpaktou. Slader's power and strength is overwhelming even for opponents of his level and is said to avoid face to face combat with him."



The Fullmetal Alchemist- Daniel Niekowal

- Loved and known by all, was killed by the Copycat Alchemist in the Genocide War. Daniel received the Medal of Valor for his sacrifice."



The Gunblade Alchemist and The Illusion Alchemist- Dark Squall/S. Mugetsu

- "First team to ever take down Kaishiro and single-handedly take down Prototype Cloud Strife. Together they are the two most coorinated alchemists on the team making them a deadly match when these two use teamwork."



The Brave Alchemist- Soulless

- "One of four to be given the title of ShinRa's Edge. Which was given to Soul due to giving ShinRa an edge in any battle. Soul is considered to be the right hand man under Slader and Kaishiro. It has been said that Soul silenced and killed more alchemists in the Genocide War than any other member of the Shinra Alchemists. Soul is known to share a similar style of combat as Slader but it is considered more deadlier as far Swordmanship goes."



The Gravity Alchemist- X-SOLDIER

- "One of four to be given the title of ShinRa's Edge. Which was given to X-SOLDIER due to giving ShinRa an edge in any battle. X was the first person to ever join SOLDIER Alchemist. It was said that X-SOLDIER surpassed Slader when it came to Multi-Purpose Combat but is no where in contrast of strength and power compared to Slader."

MISSION LIST

Click here for mission list assignments Mission List



WEAPON SHOP

Click here to view the SA Weapon Shop and Bank Accounts Shinra Alchemists Weapon Shop
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EXPERIENCE GAUGE

Alright, this is how this is going to work. Next to your name if you have a slash...that indicates you have 10% exp. And depending on what level you are will depend on how long it takes you to level. So for instance, if your a Captain Class Alchemist (Lv.40+) it will take you about 1 or 2 post to achieve 10% exp. And once you get to 100% (meaning you need 10 slashes) guess what...thats right, YOU LEVEL. White slashes means exp that you have, black means the amount you have left until you level up

Cynuous- Level 91: / / / / / / / / / /

Slader- Level 80: / / / / / / / / / /

Soulless- Level 71: / / / / / / / / / /

Gin- Level 53: / / / / / / / / / /

Mangusbrother- Level 40: / / / / / / / / / /

Coldman9- Level 23: / / / / / / / / / /

Syeren- Level 42: / / / / / / / / / /

Nanaki- Level 31: / / / / / / / / / /

Darkened Slayer- Level 27: / / / / / / / / / /

Wynn- Level 1: / / / / / / / / / /

CloudFinal22- Level 60: / / / / / / / / / /

Saddeus- Level 1: / / / / / / / / / /

Shadow Jet- Level 21: / / / / / / / / / /

Ryuzacki- Level 60: / / / / / / / / / /

Lady Shenorai- Level 18: / / / / / / / / / /

Satsugai Kaze- Level 61: / / / / / / / / / /

Repraved- Level 40: / / / / / / / / / /

Kaizen- Level 69: / / / / / / / / / /

Charlie Nash- Level 45: / / / / / / / / / /

Raiden- Level 18: / / / / / / / / / /

Amaya- Level 16: / / / / / / / / / /

Reign- Level 16: / / / / / / / / / /

Shikaru finally appeared in the battle. It was actually a good time too. It seemed that he had used his Shadow Wave attack. Once again the attacks of the Originals seemed ineffective against the Dead Reaper. While Soul was watching the fight between Shikaru-Kuto and the Dead Reaper, Mugetsu appeared right behind him as silently as he could. He was un-noticed. Thousands of Mugetsus' once again appeared around Soul. They all rushed for him at once.

Unforgiven for once was on the defensive. With great speed and effort he blocked the attacks with haste. He blocked all the attacks however Mugetsu stabbed him through the chest with is katana as Leon appeared right infront of him. Darkness was starting to eminate around his gunblades, Leon was copying his Angel's Punishment Shikai.. He could use it to the max of 3.5x the damage. Leon slashed upperward then unleashed a combination of 19 attacks, the darkness of the blade surrounded Unforgiven. Both Mugetsu and Leon stepped back far away as Leon snapped his fingers. Unleashing a chain of explosions totaling up to 40 of them. It was enough to knock out his Soul Fury form. "You'll become nothing more but a memory like everyone else that has fallen before you.. Even no matter how much you despised me."

He dropped his Buster Swords as the eminated into one again as he fell onto his knees. Soul coughed up alot of blood. He was paralyzed. He couldn't move let alone try to get up. A veteran of the Genocide war who killed 83 alchemists alone couldn't even have enough strength to defend himself. He was in a bad situation.

As she sat on the ledge on the little bird, her codec sprung to life in her ear, the one who was on the other end was no other then Ms. snow, but she sounded very serious.

"Blue, once you arrive at the scene, you are to take defensive and supportive action."

She silently crooked an eyebrow.

"Does this supersede any order I might receive from S.T.A.R.S enroute to the location.”

"Indeed it does, make protection your primary concern, let other people bother about killing the enemy."

"roger that HQ, proceeding according to orders once I arrive.”

Ms. Snow terminated the communication and Shinki turned to Muroga.

"you heard her right?”

She spoke into the newly acquired headset. Before Muroga could answer, the pilot interrupted the conversation.

"We are coming up on the battle field; we have confirmed a Friendly Blackhawk circling the area."

The little bird flew over the battlefield kicking up dust; Shinki looked at Muroga and nodded at him. Without waiting for the helicopter to come to a stop and settle down Shinki jumped out of the helicopter in mid flight, hit the ground and rolled on the ground coming up in a defensive position surveying the area. Spotted three active enemies and two inactive enemies, noting her three allies two seemed unscathed or only lightly wounded, the other one was Soul bleeding all over and currently lying on the ground with a pair of enemies surrounding him. she had read about the two alchemists surrounding Soul, she had no doubt about that they were going to hand her her ass on a plate, she just hoped that she would be able to distract them long enough to get Soul out of here, or back into fighting shape.

She clicked three times in the codec, silently notifying Shikaru and Gin of her presence, as she doubted they had noticed her spiritual pressure just yet.

Then she put her fingers to her mouth and whistled. it seemed as the most stupid thing to do, but she had a plan, by drawing the two enemy alchemists away from Soul he might be able to recover somewhat, also giving time for the S.T.A.R.S time to deploy. It seemed as the most logical thing to do. The two enemy alchemists looked at her startled, surprised to see someone so weak among the enemies. Leon looked at Mugetsu and nodded her way.

This is not going to work it is too obvious. She thought for herself. Mugetsu disappeared she made a vague guess where he would strike from and successfully blocked his first strike.

"You don't seem so strong.” Mugetsu taunted her. Yet she kept quiet, after all, she needed to get Leon into this battle as well, even thou she knew about their fearsome combination work, she did not have so much a choice. She thought of the misc equipment she always carried, she had a smoke bomb, but she doubted it would work in her favor right now. In addition, she had a knife in her left boot; once again, she doubted she would hit either one of them with it. Without taking her eyes of Mugetsu, she brought up the Longinus lance and fired with the handgun at Leon. He dodged and charged at her too; meanwhile Mugetsu created an army of clones surrounding her. While Leon came from behind of her Mugetsu’s clone army came from the front. as the army converged on her, swords risen to impale her she went down on one knee bought out the knife into her free hand and just as Leon was about to land on top of her after a jump slash her she threw the knife towards him. he was too close to dodge it completely, still it grazed his eye and made a long wound from his face to his ear cutting it in two, momentarily blinded Shinki had time to roll and slash at the army standing around her just as they turned the swords in their hands to implae her to the ground. Disintegrating the first row, she got up and faced Leon. He had dropped one of the gunblades and held a hand across his wounded eye. She took a small second to look around her, the clones advanced more slowly this time, seeing, as the first try hadn't worked on her. She bought up a smoke bomb and dropped it to the ground, its glass canister breaking and mixing two solutions together. Shinki stood completely still letting the smoke fill the area around her.

"Shikai: Attack power.”

She knew it was foolish to use an alchemic spell when Leon was close by, but she hoped that he would opt not to assimilate that spell, trying to get the higher ups spells instead. She used all her force and jumped out of the encirclement landed next to soul bowed down next to him and said

"You look like you have had better days, how long do you figure it will take you to regenerate these wounds, the S.T.A.R.S should be here any minute, and they have medical supplies with them, either you regenerate those wounds, or you hang on til then."

Without waiting for an answer, she stood up bowed to him.

"Sir, I’ll be trying to hold attention somewhere else."

As she straightened up she felt a sword enter her back, narrowly missing the spine, missing both her lungs and her heart, it was the definition of lucky. She looked down and saw the sword protrude from her chest. She used her free hand and shoved the sword out of her, vomiting a small amount of blood.

She turned and looked behind her; all the Mugetsu clones were poised to throw their swords at her. She quickly bought up Longinus lance and blocked all the ones aimed at her. All around her and Soul swords stuck up from the ground. She slowly began to move away from Soul. Finally clearing him out of the danger zone.

"an eye for an eye it seems.”

Gin’s power flowed around him driving him into a trance like state. His body went limp as the bluish energy encircled him. Taking this as the perfect opportunity to strike Soul down Leon leaves Gin as a multitude of Mugetsu clones surround Gin. The sudden appearance of the clones shook Gin out of his trance. Looking around he was no longer impressed with these two bit clones Fool me once Gin thought as he tightly griped the handle of Shinso. The clones converge on Gin to little avail his movements at 65 percent of his overall was too much his movement unseen. A flurry of slashes turns the would be assailants to dust. As Gin destroyed the last of the clones that had surrounded him Soul had collapsed to one knee and was surrounded by Leon and Mugetsu. Gin was about to make a move to break up the slaughter when his attention is caught by three clicks coming from his earpiece. Gin’s attention turns to the newly arrived Alchemist, the one he knew as Sinner. To his surprise Blue attempts to get Leon’s and Mugetsu’s attention. She is very successful as Mugetsu vanishes and attacks, to Gin relief she is able to block the attack, As Mugetsu taunts her she raises her weapon and fire several shots in Leon’s direction as Mugetsu jumps back and creates many clones.

Gin starts to move to help his comrade but is re-surrounded by an army of the Illusion Alchemist. Gin doges and counters the clone’s attacks dropping their number by more then half in less then a few seconds. Gin hears a smoke bomb go off as the last of the clones vanish into black smoke. Gin turns to see Blue hovering over Soul she speaks to him and soon after is hit by one of the clones sword, Gin couldn’t tell how bad it was but it didn’t look too good as is came through her chest. Gin attempts a quick step but is quickly halted by more of the Illusion Alchemist clones. Gin now really begins to lose his cool; he was getting tied of putting these half wits out of his misery. Gin powers up to eighty percent out put of his spiritual and alchemical powers and dashes with great speed past the clones. A trail of silver flashes follow him putting a crimson hue in the air as clones disperse in his wake. Gin’s form vanishes as Leon charges Blue. Appearing in front of Shinki as Leon comes down with a heavy over head chop. Sparks fly Shinso defects the gun blade to the side. Leon rolls as two Mugetsu clones come down on Gin from above. Effortlessly Gin dodges the two blades as silver trails cut up each clone turning them back into smoke.

Gin turns to Blue and smiles, and then a blade pierces Gin’s throat and chest. The two blades are pulled from Gin as his body goes limp, but the two clones violently erupt into smoke as Gin’s form wisps away in the breeze. Several feet in front of Blue Gin reappears and has locked blades with the real Mugetsu, sparks fly as their blades clash and bangs together. Mugetsu is just faster then Gin and gets the upper hand, and performs a series of flash steps that are meant to daze and confuse Gin. But being an adept study Gin is easily able to read the Illusion Alchemist every move. More sparks fly as Gin blocks every strike that is thrown. The two warriors vanish as the sounds of clashing blades can be heard all over the place. For ones not accustom to seeing people skilled in mobility fight Gin and Mugetsu aren’t even blurs. Even Leon was having some trouble in keeping up with Gin and Mugetsu’s fight. Mugetsu clone violently erupt as the fight breaks into their ranks, Leon dodges out of the way and then refocuses on Blue and charges the distracted warrior. Gin spots this and breaks from his fight with Mugetsu.

Shinso’s blade rockets past Blue’s head deflecting the Gun Blade aimed at her neck. Gin then counters and two shallow cuts tear into Leon’s uniform. Leon bounces back as Mugetsu pounds Gin with a hard thrust kick sending the Silver Alchemist spiraling back several yards. Leon follows up by chasing Gin down and swings with his sword, Gin rolls to the side as Leon opens up with fire driven Gin further to the left right into a trap set by Mugetsu. Two clones cut into Gin’s robes narrowly missing his body. A upward slash followed by one to the side quickly dispatch the two clones as Mugetsu drops down forcing Gin to back peddle blocking and guarding against ever more aggrieve attacks. Gin jumps over a thrust and lands on Mugetsu’s blade forcing it into the earth. As Mugetsu pulls his blade from the ground Gin makes some distance and positions his blade. Mugetsu then charges as Gin twist his weapon in such a way that it catches the sunlight momentarily blinding Mugetsu. Gin vanishes as silver flashes erupt around the Illusion Alchemist cutting into him lightly misting the air with his blood. But living up to his reputation Mugetsu avoids all the deadly slashes that were aimed at him. Gin reappears in front of a waiting Leon who had correctly assumed where Gin was going to be. A heavy knee doubles Gin over. Reaching down Leon wraps his hand around Gins neck and picks him up lifting him from the ground. With a sadistic grin Leon drops Gin into a thunderous side kick that send Gin fly several yards away. Gin slides to a stop in front of Blue, stabbing his blade into the ground Gin pulls himself to one knee. Gin then violently coughs up a good bit of blood and falls back to two knees. Never losing his smile he wipes the blood from his lips and regains his vertical base and pulls Shinso back into a defensive stance.

"I hope you are still able to fight or it would put me in a troubled position."

She grinned at him and looked at Gin's back.

"You just continue dancing with Leon; I'll take out that clone master."

She charged at Mugetsu leaving Leon to Gin. As she charged Mugetsu began to back pedal, just a little bit faster than she was running forward.

"This is why I dislike fighting high mobility warriors."

She bought up Longinus lance and fired at him when he was in midair. She hit him just where she planned it straight into his left kneecap, destroying it. Mugetsu went down on one knee and squeezed the wound.

"Now you did it."

He stopped back peddling. Stood up again, and disappeared.
All around her as the rolling of a mist, a new army of clones appeared. Shinki realized that the only thing that separated the clones from the real Mugetsu was the knee wound she had given him and that she probably would die unless those S.T.A.R.S would arrive really soon. Suddenly everything went black and white, as if someone just dropped all the colors on a television. In addition, her senses went upside down, made Shinki feel sick. She bit on her tongue until she got the colors back and eventually the world spun back. Before she noticed, she had a Mugetsu trying to stab her in the chest again. In addition, at the same time several other clones amassed at her. Slashing at the impaler’s sword made him spin and tumble into another clones sword dying in the process, Shinki followed the striking motion all around slicing up several clones that could not move, she felt several small rashes, and wounds open up at her arms and torso. Another Mugetsu jumped high up into the air and tried to pin her to the ground with his sword. As he came down Shinki used the Longinus shield to redirect him into the ground next to her. Then she slashes the Clone over the neck, almost bisecting his head. She took a moment and looked around with her mind eye located something she assumed was the really Mugetsu She drew up the katana still imbedded into the ground and threw it parallel to the ground behind her. With the words:
"You forgot something.”

It impaled his left arm at the elbow making it unusable but he just went up in a puff of smoke just another of those clones. Suddenly Shinki fell down on one knee, vomiting more blood. She felt very weak for a second, and then regained her composure, that’s another problem, this hole I have in my chest is leaking blood, I need to await the S.T.A.R.S and then use “that” only then can I allow myself some rest. She gotup again, looked around her…
“all of these clones are meaningless Mugetsu.”
She closed her eyes, surveyed the area around them, not the clones… something beyond, something bothered her. THERE! She had found him, he had amassed this army and then fallen back to treat his wound. That would not do. After all this was a battle of attrition right now, and Shinki was losing. She spun on her feet and drew an alchemic circle in the ground using the tip of the Longinus lance. She opened her eyes Focused onto her, ignoring all the Clones that were just a hairbreadth away from her. Light particles began to emit from her. Soon she stood in what only could be described as a pillar of light…

“ Holy Atonement.”
The light flew out in great bursts seemingly melting every organic being inside the radius, after the second wave most of the clones where either so badly melted they were just pools on the ground, or were more scorched then melted, their black skeletons lying there for a second before disappearing. Still an endless swarm of new clones just sprung from out of nowhere. However, Shinki had bought herself enough time. She looked in the real Mugetsu’s way tried to judge the distance she bought up the Longinus Lance readied it for fire pulled it back, built up a membrane of Light photons around the gun barrel on it, readied it for fire.

“ Shining spear.”
She fired and the bullet roared as it flew across the open area, the already dispersed Light photons added to the spear, making it large then before. As it was about to hit Mugetsu several clones jumped caught it instead of Mugetsu, still the spear went cleanly through several Clones before stopping, only one clone away from Mugetsu himself.
After this however she was just about dead, she could barely stand, she was hungry and she was tired, if the S.T.A.R.S didn’t show up about now she would not last much longer.

The Dead-Reaper appears right in front of Shikaru with his face no further than an inch from his. Razin had a wicked smile on his face, he then goes to punch Shikaru in the stomach. However when he follows through with the punch Shikaru is no longer there, but is standing 10 meters from where they were. Shikaru had speculated that they were about even in speed as Razin might be a tad bit faster in this form. Razin began laughing historically and couldnt seem to stop. When he did stop laughing another hugh grin came across his face as began to speak words.

"....die......SONIC FLASH!!!!"

Razin threw his hand across horizontally and as he did a never ending beam going horizontal appeared. There was no point going right or left as the beam seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see. Razin must be insane as this beam had the potential not just kill the Shinra-Alchemists but everyone in front of the flash...including his own men. The beam seem to stop as it spawned from the Dead-Reaper and moved in slow motion. But without a words notice it bursted into a speed unknown. Shikaru went into Shadowstep and came out of it behind Razin. Everyone else would also have the dodge the beam. Shikaru-Kuto prayed that everyone would get out of this safely.

Muroga wasted no time getting off the helicopter. In a flash, he spotted Mugetsu and Leon, along with the SOLDIER alchemists Gin and Unforgiven.
"Stay sharp people." Muroga now sent all of his orders over the headset. "This area is hot. Unless you have a good reason to tell me, try and follow all orders to the letter. Part of us getting out of this mess means we work as a team."

He drew out his daggers. "Little Birds will rotate shifts after fire support. Work on helping Gin and Unforgiven. Avoid Leon as much as you can, but if possible, keep hounding Mugetsu. He's right up my alley, but I'm right up his. If we tire him down somewhat, we may have a chance of eliminating him once help arrives."

On a finger click, missiles from the Little Bird's rocket pods tore into the ground, taking out a large portion of the Mugetsu clones and forcing many others to jump back.

No sooner than the dust started to settle, Muroga tore through some of his clones with an Iado Fang, in a single backhanded lunge. Most of the ones he went through died. Except one.

A low chuckle sounded through what Muroga could only term as a dull silence. Mugetsu had hardly used effort to block the spell. He stood as the clones around him faded away.
"A worthy effort. But, overall, futile."
Muroga said nothing. There really was nothing to say.
"You really believe that such a low-class trick could leave a mark on me? You'll seriously have to do better than that."
"Low-class, sure. But I would think that making a thousand pathetic versions of yourself would be just as low-class."
Mugetsu said nothing, but drew his own weapons, and they circled each other, both fading and disappearing like perfect chameleons, seemingly in silent taunts.
"Let's go."

Mugetsu struck with a speed that Muroga found difficult to counter, each strike a mere shadow. Were it not for the fact that Muroga could sense most of Mugetsu's camouflaged lashes, he would have been stabbed to a pulp. Mugetsu simply outclassed him and Muroga knew it, breaking off the attack with a surprise blow to the legs followed by a heavy punch with a sandstone forearm, his Ultimate Gates skill.

Mugetsu flew backwards and lightly touched down on the ground with his feet. The blow had sent out shockwaves, but Mugetsu seemed like he wasn't even scratched.
"Such childish tricks..." Mugetsu did not sound so confident, however, and was more wary. Nevertheless, there was not a scratch on him.

"Um... Valfreja. If you can, try and help annoy this guy. Let Toyama and Shimata keep Unforgiven company. Let's hit him with all we got."

"I hope you are still able to fight or it would put me in a troubled position."
Gin slightly looks back as these words leave Blue’s lips in time to catch her smile
"You just continue dancing with Leon; I'll take out that clone master."
She continued, and with that she dashed off after Mugetsu. Gin’s attention then turned to Leon who had reacquired his second Gun Blade and was now making his way back toward Gin. With little hesitation Gin charges his oncoming opponent and vanishes. Gin appears high above Leon and comes down with a thunderous strike. Leon brings up both Gun Blades in a X and defends rather effortlessly shoving Gin to his left. With a hop Gin straightens himself and re-engages his fight against Leon using nothing but his natural speed and cunning. Leon falls back dodging and blocking the multitude of thrust and stabs aimed for his chest throat and head. The speed and precision of the attacks made countering very difficult, but eventually Leon is able to catch Gin’s sword between his Gun Blade and is able to connect with a kick to the gut. Two slashes tear into Gin’s robes and hakama leaving a shallow X shaped cut on his sternum. Gin stumbles back but quickly regains his footing and vanishes. A flurry of slashes come from Leon’s left then right. The speed and direction from which the attacks come forces Leon to be completely defensive. Cuts open up on his arms and face as now his blood lightly paints the air.

It is at this time the Dead Reaper unlashes a devastating horizontal slash that let loose what appeared to be a sonic attack aimed at Shikaru, dodging left or right seemed to be to little avail seeing as the attack was so wide that it threatened to cut friend and foe alike in half. Luckily Gin and Leon was on the other side of the Shikaru-Kuto : Dead Reaper fight and the attack wouldn’t phase them. Gin could only hope that the rest of Shin-Ra Alchemist would be able to duck or jump the attack. Leon the re-catches Gin’s attention by bringing both Gun Blades out to the side Gin then reappears before him sword ready. A sinisterly dark energy envelopes the blades as he pulls back targeting Gin. Gin instantly recognizes the attack it was Soul’s the very one that Leon had used to put Soul down. Gin falls back a little ways and begins to bounce awaiting the attack. Gin didn’t have to wait long as Leon dashes forward with a surprising burst of speed unleashing a violent upward slash when in striking range. The upward strike lands home and sends Gin skyward as the darkness on the blade separates and tacks on an additional 19 hits. Leon looks up with a devilish grin as he pulls his right hand to the side taking a step or two back Leon then snaps his fingers causing the dark energy to erupt in 40 violent explosions. As the smoke cleared Gin’s body was gone and Leon momentarily froze as he felt Gin reappear behind him. Now back to back Gin begins to lightly laugh.

Leon: “What’s so funny!”
Leon shouts as he spins with a horizontal slash. Gin leaps up in the air and lands on the Gun Blade and balances himself then squats so that he can be heard.
“My, my that was close why so scary all of the sudden. I only laugh because I finally figured “it” out.” Leon pulls back with his right hand as he lashes out with his left. Gin springs boards off the retracting Gun Blade and doe a spinning back flip dodging the on coming attack and gracefully lands several feet away.
Leon: “What, what have you figured out?!”

Gin lightly chuckles as unfastens his now tattered robe and tosses it to the side. After securely cinching Shinso in his cloth belt Gin then addresses The Gun Blade Alchemist.
My, my so impatient. The “it” I have figured out is the holes in your offense and defenses. Why the puzzled look, you know your weakness very well and are covering them quite nicely. But one of my gifts is the ability to read my opponent very precisely and find the subtle hints that they display. In example you two biggest weaknesses are number one you fall in the same category as Soul and Slader you all out attack strength along with duel wielding. This puts a major weakness as mobility and high mobility fighters. You covered that nicely by teaming up with Mugetsu. You assimilate opponents attacks and use them against them and other people. Although you perfect the attack increasing both accuracy and speed along with attack power. Now here’s the part that is intriguing, you still fall victim to the laws of physics. That last attack was Soul’s and you executed it exquisitely, but I observed both him and you performing it, his weapon is much bigger then yours so it takes you less effort to swing the blade. Meaning you have to compensate by slowing the attack down, which you didn’t, or by counter balancing you weight after that heavy swing which you did by throwing you left arm and gun blade out. This threw your attack off by .04 millimeters giving me ample space to dodge. “

Leon roars in with a flurry of slashes and cuts, bringing his right Gun Blade up and crossing it over his left Gun Blade he squeezes of several rounds. Gin back peddles then dodges the squeezed offed rounds. Gin regains his balance as Leon comes back in with another flurry of attacks causing Gin to again to back peddle evading his attacks. Leon’s left Gun Blade levels with Gin’s face as he pulls the trigger. Gin doesn’t even try to dodge as the Gun Blade fires. Leon blankly looks at Gin as his right Gun Blade tears into the earth missing its mark. My, my did I fail to mention that I realized you carry two different Gun Blades? The one in you right hand is the ranged type that can fire off rounds like a normal gun. While the one in your left hand is the percussion type that uses the exploding gun powder to vibrate the gun blade causing the cut to have more impact.” A smile crept across Leon’s face as he backed up and calmed himself.
Leon: “This may be more fun then I originally thought.”

Goro arrived in Neibelhem. It was partly cloudy, with some places with sunshine. It was in the afternoon hours. Goro couldn't tell exactly what time in the afternoon because, he broke his watch on the way here. The village, was quite different from what it he remembered but it didn't bother him to much.

He worked his way to ShinRa Headquarters, where his new job awaited. It was the huge mansion in the back of town. Goro neared the gate. The place looked just like it used to, that short time ago. He stepped inside the gate and made his way towards the huge maroon doors. "This is it, my new life is about to begin." Goro said exictedly, as he pushed the doors open.

Inside, Goro passed into the threshold of the main lobby area. He looked around, and took in the sights of the HQ. He then noticed the ladt sitting at the reception desk. Goro stepped up to the desk and was greeted by the secretary Ms. Snow.

"Hello we've been expecting you Vortex Alchemist"

"Hi, I'm here to pick up my-

"Yes, I know why you're here, here is your key to your room, number 12."

Goro took the key,and placed it in his pocket. He picked up his bags
and turned to leave, but Ms. Snow stopped him.

"Your roomate is The Demi Alchemist-Eeyug Tamaly"
Goro nodded.
"He is also your partner as well."

Goro never really had a partner before but it should be fun to work with someone. He picked up his bags and walked towards the staircase that lead to his room. He stepped onto the first step and made his way up. Goro was at the top soon after and made a left in the direction of his room. He pulled out the key and slipped it into the lock.

Goro turned the key. A clicking noise rang from the door. He then turned the doorknob and pushed the door open. Inside the room was pretty big, enough for maybe 4 fully grown people. "This is a pretty nice place. He walked over to one of the beds and placed his bags on it. As he started to unpack, the intercom in the room came on.

"Goro, please come back to the desk please, there is something here for you."

Goro left his stuff on the bed and walked out the door. He continued on to the stairs all the way down. At the desk, Ms. Snow was holding a large envelope.

"Here take this, inside it is your required credentials. One of which is your ID card for your person and another which is the little card right there for your cadet training, which you must complete for full ShinRa access."

Goro nodded yet again, and took the envelope.

"Where is the sparring room?" He asked in a perplexed look.

"It out around back, you can't miss it, and good luck."

"Thanks." Goro said as he turned to head to the back.

Goro stepped back out the maroon door, and went around to the back. The sparring room was much bigger than he had anticipated. 'So this is it, I wonder what kind of training I'll be given.' he wondered. Goro stepped to the front doors of the sparring room and entered.

"BEGIN TRAINING!" Goro yelled out.

She only nodded at the S.T.A.R.S captain, preferring to let her actions speak for themselves.

She shrugged of this feeling of discomfort she felt seeing the two most skilled mantis assassin styled warriors duke it out. Circling around Mugetsu, she came up behind him, and charged him. she would prefer not to, but orders are orders, she struck out with the Longinus lance, trying to impale Mugetsu when he disappeared as she attacked, she fell more than dodge into the ground, she slowly got to her knees and elbows, before getting kicked in the gut, she spitted out blood and stomach acids. She rolled onto Mugetsu's foot withdrawing the sterling cross she got from Gin, quickly transmuted it so that the lower part turned sharp, and shoved it into his thigh, feeling the muscle inside split she knew she had hit the right spot. She narrowly dodged his sword and got up, upper cutting him in the chin as she did, temporarily stunning him.

"I am sorry sir; I don't think I’m in any shape to contribute further to this battle. This will be the final; I’ll leave the rest to you."

She got up and reused her favorite Shikai.

"Attack power."

She could feel it, all her strength returning and with that all her stamina, all her fatigue was like gone with the wind. She charged at Mugetsu, who was unable to get away fast enough on one leg. He tried to defend himself, but since his left leg was practically useless, every left swing that Shinki would throw at him left him off balanced. She continued to just hammering at him, making him leave the ground with every hit. Not caring much for her defense, she went all-offensive. Leaving several deep gashes and wounds on him, even a few puncture wounds. Mugetsu's sword on the other hand both had time to block her strikes as well to make deep gashes in her body. She gathered all her remaining strength and after a feint strike with her weapon kneed him in the gut, finally got her revenge for that kick earlier. After this knee kick, she felt all her power leave her and she did not even have enough strength left to actually stand, she hoped that Muroga somehow could move the fight further away from her otherwise she might lose her life. she remotely heard someone else scream something, and after that something akin to lasers appeared, but her vision was to clouded to see who or how they were there, the world faded to black. And she only had time to faintly remember something obscure she had heard earlier in her life.

"Laser is not difficult, ze."

Leon’s smile faded as he charged Gin with deadly aggression. Sparks fly as the two lock up in deadly combat. For all his power Leon couldn't get in a good solid hit due to Gin’s overwhelming speed. Gin vanishes as a well aimed overhead slash bisects his after image. Gin pours on the pressure as he comes from Leon’s left with a flurry of jabs. Leon back pedals blocking strikes all the way. Dodging a hard forward thrust Leon throws a quick sweep. As Gin jumps the sweep Leon uses the momentum he gained performing it to come back up with a powerful side thrust kick. All Gin can do is cross his arms to absorb most of the shock. Gin rockets back and lands on his back hard several yards away. Gin forces himself to his feet as he shakes both arms to regain some feeling in them. But before Gin could reengage Leon he feels Blue’s Spiritual presence fading. He looks to his left to see her collapse in front of a Mugetsu. Before Gin could react to this Leon comes down with a thrust that Gin narrowly dodges. Gin quickly regains his vertical base and runs up Leon’s sword as he starts to pull it from the earth. Rocketing over Leon’s right shoulder Gin firmly plants his left sandal squarely in the middle of Leon’s shoulder blades as his right pounds the back of Leon’s head knocking him over his Gun Blade.

Seeing that his attacks have dazed Leon Gin vanishes from view reappearing before Blue leaving two deep gashes across Mugetsu's chest. Mugetsu erupts into a dark cloud. As Gin figured it was only a clone. He peers over his left shoulder to see that Muroga was still engaging a Mugetsu perhaps the real one. But that was of little importance because as of right now Gin’s top priority was to get Shinki over to the STARS personnel guarding Soul because he refuse to lose the first person he thought of as a friend in twenty years. Gin bends down and gently lifts her into his arms then turns, using his speed while holding another was going to be difficult since he had never done it before. But he pushed that though out of his mind as he vanishes from view. Moments later he reappears in front of the heavily armed STARS and startles them. He walks past them with out a word and softly paces Blue by Soul. He then turns and walks back in between then guards and looks to each before speaking. “If you allow either one of theses people to get killed… before Gin could finish he sees Leon getting up holding his ranged Gun Blade in their direction. Gin quickly steps forward slashing out as Leon fires the last three shots in his chamber. Shinso destroys the bullets with precision. Gin then turns back to the soldiers “….I’ll personally gut the both of you.” As Gin’s after image fades the two guards only shuddered at the thought, it wasn’t the threat, but rather Gin’s presence and voice that made their skin just crawl.

Gin quickly reengages Leon who had just finished reloading his weapon. He brings the blade up just in time to block a strike aimed at his coronary artery. Leon then counters with a jab to the gut which sends Gin stumbling backwards, capitalizing on the situation Leon dashes forward with a X slash hitting Gin square in the chest causing him to spin in mid air and to hit the ground hard. Gin forces himself to his hands and knees as blood pours from the opened wound on his chest. Stumbling Gin forces himself to his vertical base. Gin pulls Shinso’s sheath from his cloth belt and brings it into a defensive form alongside Shinso itself. Gin’s whole body ached, he thanked his schools grueling training or he may have already died. Gin steadies and calms himself. Then with out warning vanishes from sight appearing before Leon with a flurry of sword and sheath strikes. Both Gin and Leon take turns attacking and defending as the overall war raged around them.

As Heaven tried to demand an answer the receptionist just stared at her awhile. "Certainly madam" She got off of her seat and moved off to a cabinet and pulled out a form which she gave to Heaven. "If you would like to follow me you could fill out this form for me then i'll pass it on. We are busy so you should get a reply from the Commander within 3 days" She told her while walking to a small room on the first floor. Heaven sat down on the seat and began filling in the form. "Date of birth" She mumbled to herself. "I don't know when I was created" She carried on mumbling. 'N/A' She wrote in the space. Carrying on writing down the page she reached. 'Background Information’ but she couldn't really write much about that either.

Handing it back in the receptionist Began typing away. "While your waiting for us to get back on this place try to settle down in this town. There’re a few places to rent out around here.” She smiled as Heaven began to walk out. Looking around it was all too new, a structure stood in the centre of the town. Standing by it she looked around and saw a place with "for rent" in the window.

Muroga cursed as Shinki fell and was quickly pulled out of the battle, and with a grim determination, he slugged a sandstone fist into Mugetsu with the force of a jackhammer. This time, Mugetsu landed heavily, skidding backwards on his good leg. He was far from giving up, though.
"You're lucky you have good friends to help you." Blood from his leg dripped slowly onto the ground.

"I'm more lucky than you think." Muroga clicked his fingers again, and the Little Bird came out, with both its mounted miniguns blazing. Mugetsu jumped and dodged with an amazing fluidity for a man who had a stabbed leg. By the time the helicopter stopped to reload, however, Mugetsu was sweating.

"You're also very cheap."
"Well, no-one said anything about honour, did they?"
They clashed again, this time at an equal. Mugetsu's handicap was, in hindsight, hardly worth the effort - Shinki wasn't just another soldier to be sacrificed like that.

Muroga's flowing wrist clashed with Mugetsu's solid blows as they fought in a dance like motion of both the blade, feet and fist. It ended with Muroga's uppercut to Mugetsu's chin, sending him flying up into the air. Following him, he struck him several times with solid fists of rock, before making contact with Mugetsu's blade, cutting a gash into his forearm.

Before they dropped to the ground, Muroga attempted his Iado Fang again, the vortex of air coming off his blade rushing towards Mugetsu once again. This time, he only half blocked it, and the two men fell heavily to the ground, kneeling with their backs turned to each other.

There was a large wound on Mugetsu's side, but Muroga had practically the same wound as well. Mugetsu seemed to laugh wildly, nostrils flared like a panicked animal, while Muroga fought to clear his mind from the blinding pain.

Eeyug walks in the main door of Nibleheim Mansion, and puts down his bags in the entrance. With a tone of relief ha hadn’t felt for about a month he said:
“Ahh. Finally the day has come”
Wondering what events expect him, he starts to explore the house but accidentally bumps into a woman coming round the corner. Without even looking at the person who she bumped into says:
“Watch were you’re going Mr. And do you normally barge into people’s houses as if it were your own?!?!”
After she looks up, she starts thinking.
“Wait. Sorry but I didn’t recognize you Darkmatter Alchemist. Welcome to Nibleheim Mansion. I am Ms Snow. I will help you around here. First off, here is the key to your room. Now I must bid you farewell as I have other duties to attend to.”
Ms Snow gives Eeyug the key to his room and quickly goes out of Shinra Mansion.
“Wait! I don’t even know where my room is!”
All of Eeyug’s shouts were in vain because Ms Snow never re-appeared. Eeyug, not knowing were to go, started exploring the mansion to find a door that opened with his key. He started with the basement. The door there wouldn’t budge at all and the key wouldn’t fit. When he saw that there wasn’t any other room down there, he went up to the base floor. The only door there was a huge one that led to what seems to be a dojo.
“A Dojo !! But I guess I better go unpack first”
Eeyug then headed up to the first floor and started reading the names written on the doors there.
“Shikaru, Slader, Soul, Heaven, Muroga, Hamaza, Raiya, X, Shinki, Gin,Eeyug & Goro (Room #12). I guess this has to be my room.”
Eeyug puts in the key and opens the door. The room is quite bare but big.
“at least they give their guests big rooms!!!”
On the table in the middle of the room, there was a note. It read: “Dear Darkmatter Alchemist, when you finish unpacking, go to the dojo at the back of the mansion, go in the middle, and shout “Being Training”. I suggest you take your weapon with you. Ms Snow”
“Finally some action. I haven’t fought someone in ages. All that chocobo riding got me out of shape.”
Eeyug unpacked everything were it should be placed, and while unpacking even found out that there was a family of mice living under his bed. When he was finished, he put on his ShinRa Metal Gloves and headed to the dojo. He stood in the middle and shouted:
“Training begin”
Eeyug got in fighting pose but nothing happened.
“What’s supposed to happen! Why did I need my gloves if nothing was supposed to happen. All I had to do was shout BEGIN TRAINING….”
A hologram of a person suddenly appeared
“So It was begin training not training begin…”
A voice from the background: “Darkmatter alchemist Vs. Static Alchemist.”

The Static Alchemist instantly shot Eeyug but luckily Eeyug managed to avoid the shot due to the static alchemist’s bad aim. Eeyug quickly dashed towards the static alchemist and hit him with a punch in the stomach that made him slam against the wall, but before Eeyug had chance to catch his breath, the static alchemist shot an Electro Shot at Eeyug. Eeyug quickly used his Tactical Cover shikai which put up an energy barrier and protected him against the Electro Shot. Suddenly the static alchemist was right in front of Eeyug and was going to shoot him in the head, but Eeyug quickly grabbed the static alchemist’s arm and flipped him to the floor using his Judo skills. Eeyug was going to slam the alchemist but he had gotten up already and was going to use his static punch shikai. Eeyug wasn’t at all distracted and used his D-Vort shikai which created a vortex right between the two alchemists and nullified the static punch and gave Eeyug enough chance to go right behind the distracted alchemist and hit him in the neck. The static alchemist fell to the ground and the hologram disappeared.
“That was quite easy for a surprise battle…”
Suddenly the door to the dojo opened and in came what seemed like another alchemist. Eeyug quickly ran to the side of the dojo were he stayed hidden. The alchemist went in the middle of the room and shouted
“Begin Training”
The voice in the background was instantly heard. This time it said
"Vortex alchemist Vs. Frost Alchemist”

Shikaru turned his head to where he thought the Dead-Reaper was, but suddenly found the Dead-Reaper instantly in his face with what looked like a zanpaktou in his hand. Shikaru raised his in defense and began to parry the flurry of attacks coming from the Dead-Reaper. The speed and strength coming from the Dead-Reaper was so impressive that Shikaru was unable to attack him at all. Just trying to parry the moves was literally draining Shikaru from having to react to every move without thought.

"Soul....I cant keep this up...If you got any thing left in you. You know what we have to do."

The Dead-Reaper then threw down a hard vertical slash and as shikaru and it was too much for Shikaru to parry. The move left Shikaru opened and the Dead-Reaper gave him a Kick to the face that sent shikaru flying in mid-air. Shikaru goes threw a tree and then skids on the ground as he lands. Despite the how hard the attack looked, Shikaru was able to get up as if nothing even happened. He looked over to where Soul was and then looked back at the Razin. Shikaru's eyes began to glow a devilish red.

As Goro shouted, "BEGIN TRAINING," a hologram appeared. The hologram spoke very politely and introduced itself,

"I am the Frost Alchemist, and you must be The Vortex Alchemist."

Goro was stunned by the sheer thought of a hologram being able to think and talk freely, not the usual fight first, talk later holograms.

"Yes, I am the Vortex Alchemist, and I'm sure you know exactly why I'm here."

The Frost Alchemist nodded and took a fighting pose. Goro did the same, unsheathing Kuga-Tenso from his belt. Goro paced the room, looking at every possible angle of attack. Without a noise being made, the Frost Alchemist lunged forward attacking Goro in the stomach.

The Frost Alchemist then unleashed his shikai, Frostbite, which appeared to slow Goro's movements down a bit.

Goro narrowly dodged it and put up a defensive stance. He still moved quite slowly though, thanks to Frostbite.

'I'm gonna have to be careful on this one.' He quickly thought in his head.

Goro waited for the Frost Alchemist to attack again, this time Goro would be ready. The Frost Alchemist attacked with a sideways cross-slash, aimed for Goro's chest. Goro used Counter-Step which allowed him to dodge by sidestepping. The blade of the Frost Alchemist got stuck in a nearby constuction beam.

The Frost Alchemist then attacked with his other shikai move, Ice shards, which were projectiles, that can pierce body parts. Goro used Counter-step again to dodge this attack. With that dodge, the Frost Alchemist went back to worry about his sword stuck in the construction beam.

This gave Goro enough time to attack head on, in full force. He quickly attacked the side of the Frost Alchemist, causing holographic blood to be spilled onto the floor. Goro then attacked with his shikai-Windstorm.

This move trapped the Frost Alchemist in a wind tunnel. He then used a couple of sonic waves to disrupt any plan of counter-attack from the Frost Alchemist. Goro then stepped back to see what damage was done. There amongst the rubble of the construction beam, lay the Frost Alchemist.

Goro then wiped his forehead and re-sheathed his katana. "That was truly intense." Goro then walked over to where he noticed some controlled breathing. With a sigh of relief, Goro said, "You must be the Darkmatter Alchemist. Pleased to meet you."

He pushes himself off the ground slowly, he had to take his time to make sure he wouldn't disturbed the alchemist that layed right beside him. Soul picked up his Buster Sword up off the ground, he then appeared right beside Shikaru with great haste. Once again the Brigidier General was pushing himself way too far, but when was this ever uncommon. He was always able to push himself way over the limit just to protect others. "I understand Shikaru."

His Buster Sword was on his shoulder and once again the air around him started to be covered in a dark mist. He sprouted the Dark Wing from his back once more. In sync with lips and voice, they both said the same intro line at the same time. "Shadow-Fury, your soul shall be submerged into darkness and your blood shall mourn your death."

[ Wow.. Man this post is short as hell. ]

Gin’s whole body ached from the tips of his toes to the top of his head. Leon was by far the toughest opponent that he had faced to date. Sparks flew as Shinso’s bladed crossed with the percussion Gun Blade. Leon pulls the trigger as he slides the blade down the length of Shinso. The resulting vibration deflects Shinso back toward Gin giving Leon an open shot at Gin’s stomach. The Gun-Blade rips through Gin’s form as it fades into dust. Two silver flashes erupt down Leon’s back opening up two fresh wounds that paint the air with a red hue. Leon quickly hits his knees and rolls forward. Spinning himself on his left knee he turns to face the direction the attack came from as Gin reappears also on one knee. Gin blankly stares at Leon for a split second analyzing what had just transpired. Gins smile ever so slightly widens as he realizes the biggest flaw in Leon’s armor, his flank.

As he keeps an weary eye on Leon and stands, Gin places Shinso’s handle in his mouth and pulls up on the tattered and torn upper half of his umanori hakama. After taking it off and tossing it to the side Gin re-tightens his cloth belt. Gin’s entire lower torso is painted red from the X shaped wound on his chest. Placing the pointer ad middle finger on the wound he slides his fingers down the tract of one of the stripes. He then gives himself some war paint two lines of blood under each eye. Gin then retrieves Shinso from the grasp of his mouth and slides it out of it sheath. Tossing the sheath to the side as well, Gin grasp the handle of his sword with a death grip that takes the color from his knuckles. Gin stands silently with ever present smile slipping back to it’s normal nonchalant smile. Leon pulls himself up to his feet bringing his Gun-Blades up one out in front of him and the other held straight up pointing to the air. With a roar that shook the very foundation of heaven Leon charges Gin. Sparks fly as steel meets steel Gin deflects or dodges each blow, being just a step faster then Leon himself.

Irate Leon throws a sloppy outer slash with his percussion Gun-Blade. Gin quickly capitalizes throwing a heavy upwards slash at the weapon. A silver streak runs up the blade right in front of the revolver chamber. A split second later a flurry of silver slashes erupt up and down the length of the blade. Gin hops a few yards back as blade of the Gun-Blade shatters into dozens of pieces. Gin lets out a light chuckle as Leon angrily re-sheaths the broken weapon. Leon then grips his good weapon with a vise like grip as he starts to grind his teeth. Gin pops his neck and speaks up. “My, my did I break your toy? Surprised? Well then I’ll tell that velocity X mass equals momentum. My sword weighs 32 ounces. Can you guess how fast I was swinging????” Leon was now getting tire of the mocking tone in Gin’s voice and charges. With a onslaught of swings Gin is forced to back peddle dodging the blows or deflecting them, Leon’s anger was getting the better of him and that was playing right into Gin’s scheme. Leon throws a hard horizontal slash that Gin dodges by bending backwards. Leon’s blade cuts a few hairs from Gin. But this was the moment Gin was waiting for. As he hands springs and twirls in the air Gin Brings Shinso across the palm of his left hand. He pools the blood as he lands on one foot swinging the other out to spin him in Leon’s direction. As to plan Leon is already charging Gin. Placing Shinso in his mouth he waits. Leon comes in with a power thrust. Sidestepping Gin grabs the blade with is good hand and hands springs over Leon's left shoulder. As he comes into range Gin releases the pooled blood.

The blood splatters into Leon’s face, more specifically his eyes, yelling in anger he quickly covers his eyes and falls to his knees. Not hesitating in the least Gin unleashes his Dome Slash Shikai. He speeds around Leon with an ever quickening pace. The first ring blurs into existence as dose the second Gin wasn’t playing. Instantaneously all Gin’s converge on Leon and vanish. Several yards away they reappear swords out to the side, they all turn and vanish as the dome of slashes appears. High above Gin reappears and comes down with the final slash. Gin lands on one knee, then hops back while uttering “Dome Slash” Leon kneels silently as shallow and deep wounds open up on his body a crimson mist paints the air as Leon collapses to his stomach. Leon lays motionless for a moment but he breaks Gin’s hope of victory as he pulls himself to his knees. He finishes wiping Gin’s blood from his eyes and looks to Gin with an angry scowl before he struggles to his feet.

Leon: “What the hell was that?”

“My, my I was correct. What you can’t see you can’t copy….” Gin chuckled out as he pulls Shinso into a defensive counter position and starts to bounce from foot to foot. Leon lets out a frustrated grunt as he pulls his Gun-Blade up to a offensive stance, he didn’t see what Gin had hit him with so he couldn’t use it against him. Leon now covered in his own blood begins to take a step forward, his fresh wounds tingles as his muscles tense and relax as he calculates his next move.

Leon: “This is far from over boy, I’ll show you a hell that you’d never dreamed possible.”

She woke up from the pain, feeling it flow through her whole body. She focused only on this feeling, slowly taking control over it. She opened her eyes, the whole world was spinning, and she only saw the blue sky above, slowly her hearing returned. She heard the clashing of swords nearby, but more importantly, she heard the sounds of someone crouched next to her, seemingly tending to her wounds. She tried to move her head, to look at that person, she felt the pain surge, her lightheadedness returned. Yet she forced her body to move.

"this is neither time nor place to lie resting.”

She got up on her feet, staggering, with several S.T.A.R.S medics trying to force her down. She brushed them off and started to stagger towards the battle between Muroga and Mugetsu. The combatants were too focused on the combat between them, to take notice her her current spiritual pressure residing down around zero. She had even forgotten the Longinus lance back with the medics. She still had her throwing knife. She looked at the battle; it seemed to go in Muroga's favor for now.

"he, it seems I actually did something good.”

She focus the reminding of her spiritual pressure into her knife, before throwing it, this was a do and probably die thing she tried.

"bankai.”

The knife hit Mugetsu in the back impaling itself into his back digging into his flesh as if it was butter. He barely had time to scream from the pain.

"holy explosion.”

The knife exploded, taking a rather large portion of his back with it. Now however Shinki felt completely drained and she fell headfirst into the ground. not knowing whenever the attack had any sort of success on Mugetsu, for all she knew, he might have survived, but she knew one thing, no human survives getting their spine blown to bits... once again she drifted back into unconsciousness, she could only hope she would ever wake up again...

One foot passes over another as Leon carefully advances on Gin. Since Mugetsu was heavily distracted at the moment he knew he couldn’t rely on his speed to counter Gins. So Leon slowly closed the distance as Gin continued to bounce from foot to foot. With an explosive burst of speed Leon flies forward with a horizontal slash. Gin lands on his left food and rolls to the side narrowly avoiding the slash then countering with a diagonal slash across Leon’s back as it came into range. Leon’s blood paints the air again as his roar of anger echoes across the battle field. With a spinning slash he forces Gin to defensively jump back. Pulling the trigger he fires off all six rounds as he chases after Gin.

With a backward somersault, cartwheel, forward somersault, back flip, and a pair of side steps Gin avoids all 6 shots. With a burst of speed Gin starts to back peddle quickly bobbing his body from side to side to avoid the onslaught coming from an enraged Leon. Gin ducks a forward thrust and spins on his heel toward the advancing Leon, as Leon passes him Gin lights Leon’s back up with two more silver streaks. The force of the two slashes forces Leon to stumble forward. Giving Gin time to come up behind the warrior. Lining Shinso up with Leon’s heart Gin thrust his blade forward. But Blue’s rapidly fading spiritual pressure catches Gin’s attention. His blade stops millimeters from Leon’s body as Gin looks back to see Blue hitting the ground. This momentary distraction allows Leon to catch himself. Spinning around Leon catches Gin on the bridge of his nose with a reverse elbow. Gin clutches his face with his left hand as he stumbles back.

Charging forward Leon catches Gin with a hard diagonal slash spilling Gin’s blood to the earth. Gin stumbles more as Leon unleashes a volley of diagonal slashes. With a final uppercut slash Gin is sent skyward. Following suit Leon first turns his back to Gin the back flips high into the air. Forcing himself into a spin then comes down on Gin with a hard heel to the chest. The force of the kick rockets Gin to the ground with great velocity. With a few hard bounces Gin finally rolls to a stop several yards away as Leon lands. Popping the chamber of his Gun-Blade out, Leon ejects the spent cartages out, and starts to reload his weapon. Meanwhile Gin tries to pull himself to his knees but he coughs up a large amount of blood and collapses again. As Leon closes the chamber on his weapon Gin again tries to reestablish his vertical base. With shaky legs he finally forces himself to stand as Leon comes to a stop several feet away from him.

Spitting a mouthful of blood out Gin looks to Leon still holding that nonchalant smile then speaks. “My, my looks that I have to play seriously with you no?” Gin holds Shinso to the side as he pulls on the last of his strength. His smile slowly fades to a scowl as the blue of the spiritual pressure and the yellow of his alchemic pressure become visible. Gin then slowly opens his eyes as his energies spike. His light green eyes seem to glow as small rocks and pebbles shatter as his energies combine to make a dark green. With an explosion of speed and power Gin attacks. Leon is caught with a hard horizontal slash across the chest. His armor creeks under the pressure and he stumbles back. Pulling his Gun-Blade up he begins to pull on his physical strength to counter Gin. Sparks fly as the two continue to clash blades. A explosion occurs as Gin blocks one of Leon’s attack that drive the two ten yards from one another.

Their battle had been raging for over an hour and they both knew they were reaching their limit. So with a wordless mutual agreement they both decided to put every thing on the next attack. Both of their energies spike as they charge for a final assault. They both charge one another holding their weapons in their most efficient position. Then they both use a burst of speed and vanish. The sounds of classing steel can be heard as both reappear the same ten yards from one another. The only difference this time is that they had their backs to each other. Both had their sword held out with their right hand. Gin breaks the silence as he coughs up more blood then collapses. Leon drops his arm to the side and straighten himself. He takes a step forward toward Shikaru, Soul, and the Dead-Reaper. He then takes another but stops and looks up into the sky and lets out a cuss word as a silver streak cuts from his right hip to his left shoulder. Blood pours from the wound as he also coughs up blood. Falling to his knees he losses consciousness and falls to his right. Gin rolls himself to his back and lets out a light chuckle as his vision blurs his eyes slowly close as he to falls unconscious. Despite this his smile comes back.

Roaring, Hamza thrashed around in his bed. Only Hamza’s bed was quite small and, as a consequence, he managed to fall off and bang his head in the process. In the wake of all the chaos and confusion, it took a while for Hamza to remember where he was, and once he could everything else came back to him.

Hamza rubbed his head but the dull throbbing was nothing compared to the sharp pain on the other side of the head, the after-effect of Hamza’s familiar nightmare, he knew all too well. Grunting with pain, Hamza groped before he found his tablets and got out two tablets of aspirin, swallowing them whole one after the other accompanied by a gulp of water from his water bottle in between.

After a while, the pain had ceased and Hamza could think more clearly about his nightmares. They weren’t as frequent anymore as they were after the fire. Back then, he’d have them almost daily. Now, it was just less than once a month. But after almost seven years, they still came, to haunt him. Eventually they would have to fade away from his life at some point, he supposed. It was simply a matter of time.

Hamza looked at the clock. It was still quite early. He clearly hadn’t managed to get much sleep. Well, it was likely that wouldn’t really matter so Hamza wasn’t too bothered. Dressing himself, Hamza decided to go for a walk around the building. The sun was yet to rise. Perhaps he could watch it at the top...

The sun was rising; slowly spreading it’s warmth to the cold morning. It shone a brilliant orange. The clouds surrounding it looked delightfully pink. Hamza usually liked looking at the sun rise. There were people liked that. He didn’t know what it was that put them at ease, though. Perhaps it was just the sight of something beautiful that stopped people from constantly thinking about the stresses in life. Hamza didn’t have any, though. Perhaps that could explain his unusual indifference.

Ever since he defeated the Limit Alchemist, Hamza played only minor roles in the missions, if he even bothered to do any. It wasn’t that he’d become lazy. He just didn’t feel the need to become strong, or move up the ranks. Some people might call that a lack of ambition. Perhaps, that was what it was. But he couldn’t see why he should have any ambition. Not when he was content where he was now. Hamza had noticed the change in his fitness. He wasn’t as strong as he was, not as quick anymore. His reflexes were getting worse and worse.

At first, Hamza was somewhat worried, but later realised that it really didn’t matter to him any more. As long as he could do his job, earn money have a roof over his head, a bed under him, and food inside him then he was okay. He was sure his partners knew what was going on, and he could tell they didn’t like it, but thankfully they hadn’t said anything. Not yet.

A shadowish sphere formed around Shikaru-Kuto and then engulfed him. Shortly after Shikaru from inside swings his zanpaktou and it instantly cuts through the sphere and makes it disappear.

He was now in full White Hakama Shadow Reaper outfit and eyes glowing bright red, Shikaru-Kuto now new no bounds. Shikaru then turned in looked at the Dead-Reaper known as Razin and smiled devilishly before speaking.

"Motion with no sound...silence hides the assassin....."

Shikaru-Kuto disappeared and instantly appeared right in front of the Razin.

"SHADOW WAVE!"

An oversized cresent beam came out of the blade and collided into the Dead-Reaper. The impact of it sent Razin sliding on the ground making a hugh trail of where the beam had pushed him to. The beam finally exploded and left a crater where Razin last was. Shikaru stands still as he waited for Soul to make his move.

Muroga's eyes blurred, and he struggled to initiate his Ultimate Gates skill. It took him what seemed like ages before he could heal himself again. The exhaustion of that alone blacked him out.

At least, it blacked out his normal consciousness. What remained of him in that state was a comatose but fully awake entity, with an emotionless expression and large, silver-white globes for eyes. What was really going on was that Muroga's soul began to retreat. Even as the other S.T.A.R.S picked him up, the only sign of life were the twitching of half-open lips and a those bright silver-white eyes...

Your time is almost up, Muroga. Any last words?
Uh... I have no regrets. I guess that's it.
Well, you're not dead. Yet. It seems that your friends are still helping you.
And who are you?
Hmm... I was a greater power than you, but I was brought down... back to the grave.
And why are you talking to me?
Your purpose is greater than you think. Rise to destiny, Muroga Gyoubu. Wake up.

And then Muroga woke. Although he felt like he had been smashed between a jackhammer and anvil, he was alive. And that was what counted.

[Thud-Thump……Thud-Thump…….Thud-Thump……Silence]

“Ha ha ha ha ha, dying so easily Gin? You let that Alchemist whip you rather badly, the worse I’ve ever seen in fact. Then even back then.

Flames erupt all around as the sound of screams slowly fade to nothingness. All around him a small village on the outskirts of a mountain range burned to the ground as fighting can be heard. Gin tries to force himself up but to no avail. The screams of bloody murder torment him bringing back the memories of a time long past. Gin’s struggles become more furious as his limbs starts to thrash about. The smell of smoke and charred flesh feel his lungs as he continues to fight a force that invisibly holds him down.

With an explosion of strength Gin forces himself to a sitting position as he searches the horizon for anything. Nothing, nothing as far as the eye can possibly see. Just the vast ocean of endless white sand and cacti that is Gin’s inner world. Gin draws his knees to his chest then slumps over them before looking over his left shoulder to the sky behind him. There he saw the two silver orbs that were Shinso’s eyes gazing upon him like they have been for so many years. Gin lightly chuckles before he addresses his oldest companion. “My, my. My old friend is it finally time for my eternal peace?” Shinso’s sinister laugh returns shaking the very foundation of the world they existed in. The two silver orbs shifted their position in the sky so now they faced Gin as Shinso’s voice echoed over the desert. “You die? No Gin you’re far to stubborn to die so easily. You’ll live like so long ago. I’ll close your wounds and mend your bones. But like before I can’t fully heal you. Hurry my friend get a Soul Reaper Zanpaktou and realize my full potential and transform yourself.”

A desert twister picked up around Gin and converges on him as Shinso’s voices echoes and fades. Back in the living world Gin’s body contorts and stiffens as steam starts to rise off his wounds. They start to force close as Gin’s busted and broken ribs start to realign themselves. With a light spiritual pulse Gin body relaxes as Gin’s slowly comes back to reality. Even the slightest movement hurt. His wounds were closed but all the damage he has received in the coarse of the day still weighed heavily on him. Forcing himself to a sitting position Gin looks to were Leon fell. The warrior still lay motionless but very much alive. Gin felt slightly relieved that his fight with the legendary alchemist had ended in a draw rather then with his death.

Then looking to his right he retrieves Shinso then surveys the area. Directly in front of Leon the battle between Shikaru, Soul and the Dead Reaper had intensified to a level even Gin was awed by. For the first time Gin gets to see Shikaru’s legendary transformed state. But the admiration didn’t last as a sharp pain rockets up Gin’s back. It was far too soon for him to move. Seeing a tree to his left Gin makes his way to it. Propping up against it he brings his left hand up to his ear and triple tabs the button alerting all of his allies that he is able to help if it's needed.

OoC: Sorry for the absense everyone. Things come up. Please excuse the shitty post you are about to read also. I haven't done this in a while, so I'm probably a little rusty.

IC:

"Sir, we are coming up on the crash site where the other alchemists are located." The pilot said to Slader as they drew nearer to the battle. He had been a little slower getting to the fight than his comrades. Certain, unexplainable events had delayed his depature with the others, and forced him to take another, shorter task before he could help his friends on the feild. It was a private matter concerning the president, which made it top priority. He had been personally serving Rufus for many years, taking on several missions; assassinations, destroying cities, even simple delivery tasks that he couldn't trust to anyone but Slader. He wasn't at liberty to discuss what the president had asked him to do, so there was no explaination he could give his friends for being late, except that he was just late.

Slader had left by jet, knowing that it was quite a long journey from Nibelheim to the outskirts of Midgar, and traveling any other way would have taken much too long. He didn't want to be responsible for the possible destruction of a ShinRa jet, so he decided to have Joe Highwind, nephew to hero/pilot Cid, fly him to the location and simply "drop [him] off". Joe was a capable pilot, but nothing compared to his uncle. They did, however, look very similar in appearance oddly. It must just be that gene pool. Who knows who's related to who in Rocket Town, right?

They were finally just a few yards away from the drop off point where his fellow Alchemists were. Slader popped his neck, then turned to Joe, "I really appreciate this Joe. It would have taken me forever to get here if you hadn't been around." Joe's face was hidden behind a ShinRa pilot helmet, but Joe gave a soft smile as he replied, "Yeah yeah...just go down there and kick some Jenova Alchemist ass." Slader smirked and nodded, grabbed his large Buster Sword near by, then snapped his fingers. Using his Dark Alchemy, Slader had himself fall right through the jet and drop feet first close to where Leon still lie in a pool of his blood.

It appeared as if Slader was casually standing in mid-air, as he quickly dropped to the ground. He strapped the Buster Sword on his back as he got closer to Gaia's dry surface, there was no hurry for him to start fighting already and he figured it would just be wasteful of the Buster Sword if the Limit and Turbulance Alchemists were still around (not having been there when they were defeated). Finally, he had reached the ground, near by Leon's body, landing feet first like a feline not even being phased by his long drop. Deep boot prints were implanted into the hard ground where he landed, leaving very detailed features from the bottom of his ShinRa boots. He stepped forward a few feet and observed Leon, nonchalantly with his hands in his pocket.

"Need some help up, or do you want to do it all dramatically, making people think 'oh man, this guy's a real badass'"? Slader asked the fallen body with a smirk going across his face. A muffled voice (since he was face first in the dirt) responded, "What took you so long? I was beginning to get bored." Slader took his left hand out of his pocket and extended it Leon's way. Leon turned his head and looked at him, then grasped Slader's hand with his left, and his gunblade with his right. Slader brought him to his feet and within a second Leon was already swinging his gunblade at Slader. Slader, very casually and carefree, back flipped and sprung himself even farther away from Leon, landing on his right hand and pushing himself up in the air.

Once again landing on his feet, he looked at Leon who was standing ready to fight a good few feet infront of him. Leon spoke out to him though, "So what did take you so long? Did the ShinRa Lap dog have some tricks to perform for his master?" Slader smiled and replied to Leon, "No, he started, "I had to stop at the general store at Edge to pick up a pack of smokes." Slader reached into his right pocket, and pulled out his pack of Chocobo medium cigarettes. He packed them hard, hitting it on the palm of his hand, then opened the fresh new package and took one out, placing it in his mouth. He felt around in his pants then looked at Leon, "Got a light?" Leon smirked devilishly, "Yeah, I have some fire for you.." he dashed forward furiously with force, making a stabbing motion with his gunsword which had engulfed itself in flames of energy. Slader, however, was no longer directly infront of Leon, but smiling to the left side of him, leaning in closely and lighting his cigarette then blowing the smoke in Leon's face.

Leon, angered by this, swung his sword horizontally just as fast as the stab, but again the attack had missed Slader. He was already sitting cross-legged, infront of Leon barely being missed by the blade. Leon swung down, even forcing out a beam of energy from the slash in several directions. Slader was now no where insight of Leon, then he felt Slader dead leg him, which made Leon lose his balance for a second. He spun around, slashing in several directions, still sending out blade beams of energy. The first one came horizontally, so Slader jumped. The next few diagonally and then some vertical slashes, and he finished with another horizontal beam. Slader had simply moved the position of his standing to avoid the attacks and crouching to dodge the last one.

Standing up slowly, Slader took another hit of his cigarette, blowing the smoke in Leon's direction and spoke out again, "You really must be worn out or something. You haven't even split a hair yet Leon. Losing your touch maybe?" Enraged by the condescending remarks, Leon dashed at Slader with a flurry of attacks. Slader quickly unsheathed his Bustersword and started to block the attacks with his giant sword, holding it in his right hand as if it was made as light as wooden one. Leon jumped in the air and slashed vertically down at Slader. He had taken just one step back and was almost an inch away from the tip of Leon's Gunblade. He became cross-eyed as he watched his cigarette slowly split down the middle. He looked at Leon, then spit the butt of the cigarette at Leon's face. Leon had knocked it out of the way with his hand quickly, but as soon as he had spit, Slader had dashed forward; left elbow first, ducked under Leon's sword and elbowed him in the chest sending him back a few feet.

Slader shook his head at Leon, "You dick, that was the first cigarette of the pack."

At the exact moment Shikaru-Kuto landed his Shadow Wave attack upon Razin; Unforgiven appeared right behind the Dead Reaper. With a suttle and brief motion Soul's hand starts to glow with a very dark aura, even stronger than usual. The presence of the preceding attack; Shadow Wave strengthened it. His shikai had a chain reaction upon Razin and upon his shikai as well, Dark Implosion was powering up with unusual rage. His own hair started to flow up from the impure strength. His attack was ready. "Shikai; Dark Implosion, let the lies fade into the dark as their God intended.", Soul exclaimed as he clenched his fight tight; landing a blow upon Razin. The impact of the implosion and Shikaru's shikai was enough to actually do a little damage to Razin.

He knew it wasn't enough. So the only thing he could do is try and keep it as a long chain combination attack; a tactic to keep Razin from gaining motion and a possible advantage. Soul grabbed upon his Buster Swords once again as the bandages wrapped round them flowed through the wind. Once again he was in the air. He didn't even have to touch the ground with his own feet, no need to dirty his own boots this time after all. His alchemic aura started to increase even higher than what it should; into very dangerous levels. To the point where a couple meters around him a person could taste pure darkness. If a civilian got too close to him their bones could possibly snap in a instant. "Steady your hand, Shikaru.", Unforgiven's words echoed through the darkness that was slowly enveloping around his body.

"Final Shikai; Destiny's Tear." , he murmured softly; almost completely non-coherent. Soul dashed almost going into a blur, unleashing 1000 slashes upon Razin's body before he could make a move. Razin was cut quite a few times and even started to bleed. He started to become iritated by the cuts. For once he was damaged in battle against them that involved bleeding. Razin dissapeared. The Brigidier General started to mutter words once more in a trance like state. "Stage Two: Revenge." At that exact moment the Dead Reaper appeared right behind him; taking out what seemed to be a Scythe, swinging it in a quick motion. With instinct Unforgiven turned around deflecting the attack with his left Buster Sword then counter attacking with his right Buster Sword, landing a decent blow upon Razin's body. "Stage Three: Rage", he said silently. He dropped both of his Buster Swords.

"He dropped his weapons. What a fatal mistake." Razin thought, taking the opprotunity he was waiting for. Running quickly to lock onto the Brigidier General, swinging is Scythe as hard as possible. Soul however reached his hand out; grabbing right onto the blade of the weapon. "What the!?" the Dead Reaper yelled out in complete shock. He watched as the Alchemist's hand started to bleed, even looking as how the weapon peirced through his hand. Unforgiven's eyes turned blood red. "Now you've done it." he exclaimed. His power started to resonate then dissapeared. The overwhelming amount of power was transfered to Shikaru, since he could be the best bet of taking Razin down. "Shikaru, NOW!"

The pain subsided as Muroga stood, the S.T.A.R.S soldiers backing away slightly. He listened to the dusty wind that roared past his ears, and could hear every clash of blade, every initiation of spell. The acrid smell of burning fabric and a tang of blood on his lip.
This was true battle.
No doubt very ugly.

His head swam, but he focused with deep breaths, and he willed his pains away. Years of fighting and training had been done but it was hardly enough to defeat one who was equal to oneself and then some...
And then some. Muroga dusted himself off and then took up his left dagger which had been digging rather uncomfortably into his forearm when he had been lying down.

"S.T.A.R.S!"
"Yes sir!"
"Keep sharp. Keep Sinner alive. Anyone have any sort of Cure materia?" One of the men said yes, they had a basic one. Muroga didn't bother to see who it was. "Use it. Call for the second helo. And someone get us some goddamn more personnel over here to help us."

He looked around and saw the still smoking body of Mugetsu lying face-down on the ground. He could hardly believe that they'd taken him down.
In fact, he was somewhat sceptical that he'd taken him down. He didn't know why, but the fact that Muroga recovered himself so quickly was rather suspicious.
And Muroga could swear that Mugetsu's body seemed to flicker when he looked at it from the corner of his eye.

That was enough suspicion for him. Muroga drew his weapons and silently stood there next to the S.T.A.R.S squad, not using his eyes. His eyes had been betrayed too many times during the battle anyway.

Smells, sounds and interactions were always the hardest to fabricate in Stealth. Muroga definitely knew Mugetsu's tricks, but Murgetsu probably knew Muroga's. His squad were still believing he had scored a victory, but even though Muroga couldn't sense a single trace of Mugetsu he was definitely suspicious that Muroga was still alive and kicking, pulling puppet strings on their senses.

Pushing the door open she kept her phone in her pocket for any sign of a reply from the ShinRa Alchemists. It wasn't empty as the room was already full with furniture and equipment. By the phone was a note. "For those seeking to rent this place, pick up the phone and dial 01853 477969". She did. "Hello Rented Residentals" A woman on the other end replied to the dialing tone. "I'm here to rent the house" Heaven replied looking at the sign by her. "It's 7 Serpant Close" She read out the first line of the address "Post cose NH98 9IS" She finished off. "Yes yes" The other person replied and repeated the address and it's loaction. "Okay now a tennant will arrive on the first Tuesday of every month to pick up your rent bill. Its 500gil plus extra for gas and electric" The person told her before ending the call.

Heaven loked around as she dumped her bag on the sofa and sat down on the desk area where a computer was already installed. Placing down her phone she waiting for a call back from Shinra Alchemists to see if she got in.

After the battle had just finished with some stupendous moves from the Vortex Alchemist, the Vortex Alchemist suddenly noticed that there was someone hiding and went to see who it was. Goro noticed it was the Darkmatter Alchemist and instantly greeted him. “Pleased to meet you too, I’m Eeyug” the Darkmatter Alchemist replied “Nice battle you put up there... I guess I won’t have a lame partner after all” “Heh, thanks” Goro Replied
“So... I’m off to our room. Meet me there if you need anything” said Eeyug.
On his way out of the room, Goro told him “Wait. I want to see if you’re really as strong as you say. After all you already saw what I can do but I don’t know a thing of what you can do!”
“Hmm.... OK. But you’d better be prepared cause I’m not going easy on you!” Eeyug confidently replied. The two alchemists got to the centre of the dojo and prepared themselves for battle. Goro took out his shimmering katana while Eeyug put on his leather gloves and tightened them to his hands. “Begin Training”. As usual the voice at the background was heard but this time it said: “Darkmatter Alchemist & Vortex Alchemist Vs. Frost Alchemist and Static Alchemist” “WHAT!!! We were going to battle each other not them again.” Eeyug shouted. The holograms had started to appear and Goro told Eeyug “I guess we don’t have much choice!” “Well, I’ll take care of the Frost Alchemist since it was probably very hard for you and in the mean time just try to stay alive against the Static Alchemist until I can get to him too.” Eeyug pompously replied. “You’re not taking all the fun for yourself..” Goro angrily answered.
Eeyug shot himself at the frost alchemist but the frost alchemist shot a frost shard at him. Luckily Eeyug had time to use his tactical cover shikai and allowed him to protect himself from it. But, when Eeyug recovered he noticed that the Frost Alchemist was already prepared to use his other shikai... FROST BITE... immediately Eeyug was so slowed down that the Frost alchemist had managed to walk right next to Eeyug and started hitting him with all the punches and kicks he could throw at him. As soon as the frost bite effect was over Eeyug was shot to the other side of the dojo with a frost shard and unexpectedly, hit into Goro, who had also been shot to the other side thanks to the static alchemist’s Static punch.
“This isn’t working at all” Goro said “They are on a totally different level”
“To say the truth, I agree... they’re too strong... What do you say, we team up against one and then beat the other to dust?” Eeyug promptly replied, avoiding a frost shard that was aimed at his head!
“Let’s go at the Frost alchemist first since it’s frostbite can stop us both and then we’ll be open target practice for both of them!” Goro answered, while using his counter step shikai to avoid an Electro shot that had just been shot at him.
“But watch out for the static alchemist’s shots, they can be quite a pain in the ass if you get hit. Believe me, I know the literal version of pain in the ass from that!” Eeyug said as they both shot as the Frost Alchemist. The frost Alchemist, suddenly surprised didn’t know what to do and shot a frost shard at the vortex alchemist. Eeyug quickly used his D-Vort and blocked the frost alchemist’s shikai. This also gave Goro enough time to use his Whirlwind shikai that trapped the frost alchemist in a tunnel of wind. Eeyug entered from one side and Goro from the other and together they started beating up the frost alchemist, punches from one side and slices from the other. In the end the frost alchemist fell to the floor and disappeared. Just as that happened, the wind tunnel also did. “Hmph! Not so hard after all” Eeyug proudly stated. Just at that time, the static alchemist shot an electro shot at both alchemists but luckily, Eeyug using his Tactical cover shikai and goro using his counter step shikai managed to avoid them. “You get ready to give the finishing stab” Eeyug said, while he shot himself towards the Static Alchemist. Using his Judo skills, he managed to avoid a perilous Static punch and slam the alchemist to the floor, face up. At just that moment Goro swept in and stabbed the alchemist with his katana. The static alchemist disappeared.
“Oooooooooooo Kkkkkkkkkkkkkk...... That was enough for today. See you in our room. See you later” Eeyug stated and disappeared through the dojo doors, just in time to hear the vortex alchemist saying: “But... not a man of many words I see...”
Eeyug went to the upper stairs and sat down on his bed. “Hmm. Seems a good fighter. But seems that you can tell him what to do quite easily. Enough for today.” He thought for himself

It was about midnight. The sky was dark but filled with starts, and the moonlight passing through the window. Suddenly, there was a huge crashing noise from outside. Eeyug quickly woke up to see what happened. Goro was still asleep and he decided to leave him there until he finds out what’s happening. Eeyug quickly rushed out of the mansion and at the entrance to a house nearby, he say a man running out with a woman on his shoulders. Eeyug suddenly rushed towards that man to save the woman.
“Out of the way, boy!” He told Eeyug. Eeyug, who hates it when they see him as too young to do anything, quickly took out his fighting gloves and tightened them around his fist. “Let her go. NOW!!!” He shouted, hoping that some other alchemist heard him, since the man had about 3 others with him, ‘ hiding ’ in the shadows. The man put the woman down and withdrew his sword. He quickly dashed towards Eeyug but, using his tactical cover, he managed to avoid the chain of attacks shot at him by the opponent and, without any warning hit him in the stomach in such a way that he instantly fell to the ground.
“Now, scram!” Eeyug ordered all the men there. But out of the house, came walking, slowly another man with long red hair and piercing red eyes. “Enough sniveling boys.” The mysterious man said. “I’m going to give you up till 3 to scram.” Eeyug hesitated for a bit, knowing that he wouldn’t stand a chance against the 3 henchmen and their boss. Luckily, out of nowhere, Goro came running. “Need any help?” He said “Well… yeah!” Eeyug replied. Goro took out his katana that miraculously, still glimmered at night. “Heh, two boys think they can beat me, the great Adeii! Boys, get ready.” The man with red hair said as he took out four small spherical red beads from his pocket. Adeii threw them at the floor and suddenly, four swords appeared out of nowhere, floating in the air just in front of Adeii.
The henchmen shot at the two alchemists but luckily, their punches almost had no effect on the alchmeists and Goro and Eeyug, in about two minutes managed to get make them run away. 3 down and 1 to go. “Heh, i guess you might actually have a chance to survive at least half a minute against me.” The alchemists shot at Adeii but Goro was stopped from hitting him half way through. The swords that Adeii had created out of nowhere were all attacking him. Eeyug, knowing that Goro could handle them, continued headed towards Adeii. Adeii quickly took out his gun and pointed it towards Eeyug, luckily he used his D-Vort in time and avoided the shots. He continued rushing towards Adeii and struck him in the chin, and caused him to backflip.
Suddenly a watch started ringing nearby. Adeii quickly turned it off and, without even the slightest sign of being hurt by the punch, smiled and said, “Got to go. See you soon Eeyug” Eeyug quickly shot at him before Adeii could be given time to escape but he vanished into thin air. Goro’s sword enemies also vanished with him.
Eeyug went towards the woman they were kidnapping and asked her if she was ok but, afraid of them, she rushed into the house and locked the doors. Goro and Eeyug slowly returned to their room and hoped that nothing else would come up that night and lied down on the bed. “So… what was happening?” Goro asked, but unintentionally ignoring him, Eeyug thought “How did he know my name?” “What was happening there, Eeyug” Goro asked, starting to get annoyed”. “ I never said my name out there” Eeyug continued to think. “ WHAT HAPPENED OUT THERE?” Goro shouted at Eeyug, finally catching his attention. “Oh, you don’t have to shout! The only think I know is that there was a woman being kidnapped, but other than that I don’t know a thing.” Eeyug replied. “Good night” he quickly stated and turned around facing the wall. They both went to sleep and slept peacefully for the remainder of the night.

She was envelpoed in darkness, but suddenly the darknes lit up with a light lit her up. she realized that staying in this dark dream would mean certain death. She floated up to the surface and awoke with a bang.

"Uggg..h"

She groaned and the stars operative said.

"Even though I just used a cure materia on you, you should probably lie down and rest for like ten minutes or so before moving."

Shinki laughed a bit but then began to cough.

"If we had time for that I would have been ferried out of here a long time ago."

She stood up stertched in her full length.

"Sorry about that Muroga, it's just that the enemy bored me so much it seems I fell asleep there."

Muroga managed a small smile, eyes still totally closed. "Good to see you're still in the fight, Blue." In his mind, he was fuming. He wondered exactly for how long Mugetsu might have been playing silly buggers with their minds.
The thought sickened him.

He had half a mind to yell out to the wind, but he knew it would probably make him look even stupider.
"You guys stick close to me. I have a feeling this battle's not finished."
When they were closer together, they didn't move. Muroga was the only one they could rely on who could even try and detect Mugetsu's presence.
And Muroga thought Mugetsu was smart enough not to try and pull any individual tricks on the group.

"Naaa... you guys sure learn fast for a bunch of ShinRa whoresons." Muroga heard the voice, reverbrating around them. "You're no fun."
Muroga didn't answer. "You guys aren't any fun at all..."

Muroga spoke only loudly enough for the message to pass through their headsets. "We let him attack. We stay close together and do what we can. The only way we get out of this alive is to make sure we can at least have a chance of staying alive. Expect the unexpected, as always."

The other S.T.A.R.S soldiers drew their bayonets, Kudos drawing two. They all stood, silently waiting, for some their hearts going at a million miles an hour that Muroga could hear them in the wind.

Souls power returned from whence it came. A sheer indescribable amount of pressure suddenly engulfed his body. He became prey to the very force of sheer power that he had summoned. His body could not contain it. It could not be controlled. Victim to his own sheer strength, Unforgiven had to find a way to release all of the energy. Or his life would end in a matter of moments. "Pray."

His strength had dissipated within him. Sacrificing it to all his wounded allies within a 5 mile radius. However he was left completely vulnerable. Falling down to his knees, you could see all the battle wounds easily. Even those accumulated from bringing true unstable power that resided within himself. He could not move, he could not talk, he was stuck in a situation that didn't look good for him. Then again these kind of situations were common for him. He would always be one of the first to run in blindly, using absolute force to weaken the enemy. While he fell weak, they would finish them.

Soul was always his own worst enemy, he would always push himself way too hard. To a point he would nearly cross the plains of death. Brute strength always followed him for the longest time. "Slader. I bet you wouldn't let this happen to you. Every fight you've been in, along with Shikaru, you made it look so easy. Brute force meeting assassination tactics. You both have strength I can't understand. Power that you can control. Mine always consumes me. While you both could always control yours. To this day I still wonder why and how you both do it." Those thoughts echoed throughout his mind. Power he couldn't understand. Power he couldn't control. Strength that never consumed him.

He coughed once or twice, spitting up blood a little bit. Unforgiven was lucky enough that he was still living. Still in the plane of existence. Razin appeared in front of him, grabbing his throat as he lifted him off the ground. Squeezing roughly as a eery smile would emerge slowly onto his face. "What makes you tick. What is it about you that you can call upon such absolute raw power. To the point that it could destroy you when you summon it from the shadows of your own body, mind, and soul."

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Everything goes blank and feels fuzzy.

"Is this Heaven on Gaia....."

VOICE IN A MEMORY: "You know me?"

"Do I....know myself....."

VOICE IN A MEMORY: "You are the Primera....when will you awaken me!"

Shikaru wakes up only to find himself in the infirmary room. He looks down at his body to see bandages wrapped around him in several areas. He lays back down feeling a bit dizzy still. Flashbacks of the fight with The Diamond Alchemist still going through his head. He tries to remember everything that happened but cant.

Unknown Person: "Aww about time, you finally up eh?"

"Who....are you?"

Unknown Person: "My name is Stark, 1st Class SOLDIER and Captain of the Alpha Team."

"So I'm guessing your the reason I'm in this place?"

Stark: "You guessed right my friend. Your lucky me and my team came in when we did or you guys would have never survived. The Diamond Alchemist guy was scary but you see....Alpha Team is comprised of nothing but 1st Class SOLDIERS like myself. Even he knows that he would have been no much for all the people there and my team."

"Indeed..."

Stark: "I know this is going to be kinda weird but I'm glad I finally got to meet you. Your a legendary hero in Shinra, and everyone knows who you are. I'm honored to have been able to come to your aid.

Stark extends his hand to Shikaru with a smile on his face. Shikaru still laying in the bed props himself up and shakes Stark's hand non-chalantly. He then pulls his hand back and looks up at Stark.

"How long did they say I have to be here?"

Stark: "Hmmm the nurse said you should recover in a few days but she was surprised with all the damage you had taken that your wounds were healing so fast."

Shikaru looks at Stark for a moment and then throws his feet over the side of the bed. He stands up and grabs his Haori captain cloak. He throws it on and puts on his Assassination Mask. Stark stares at him dumbfounded for a moment before speaking.

Stark: "You should be getting rest!"

"I have business to attend to.....also....thank you for your aid in battle."

Shikaru walks out of the room.

As the sun was rising, the nibelheim mansion was starting to show itself to the young lost warrior. His cloth were all dirty. With a huge backpack on his side. This town was once close to one of the most pure fointain of lifestream existing in this world. after the coming of shinra, the fontains became smaller and started to vanish.

After a little bit of reflexion about the place, Ryuzacki took his backpack and started his little walk in town. the last information he had about the location of the members of the Shinra Alchemist was in this place.

The main reason of his leaving was the fact that his hometown was under attack by unbelivably huge monster and some S-Class Alchemist. His fight lasted for almost 3 years but ine the end, every amonster were eradicated and almost every alchemist defeated.

He sundenly smilled-"hmpf, i hope Shikaru won´t get mad at me for taking so long to defeat those guys. Never though something like this would take so long" as he walked slowly inside the huge mansion where the most incredible soldier got crazy and shocked into a man full of bandages. When his eyes met the man´s face he recognised the leader of his facility. It was Shikaru. All thos wounds looked bad. he though to himself-*what the hell happened while i was out? damn... when i look close to this guys wound... he couldn´t be standing that easly...this man is as scary as always...*

he looked at the Warrior and said"Hello there! Seems like i missed some fun here... are you ok?"

The sun glared through the window shades cutting through the darkness that enveloped Yumi's room. Yumi is laying down on the shiki futon centered in room fully dressed in her uniform. The rays of light passed over Yumi's face awakening her, very abruptly she gasps and sits straight up. Taking deep breaths as if totally winded her eyes dart around the empty room. Her duffel lays at end of futon open and laying on side, her clothes are spilled on the floor. In far corner of room her weapons are laid out perfectly on silk cloth.

As her breath returned to normal she winced finally realizing the pain she was going through. Looking down at herself she examines her uniform on her and worn as if she just came from a battle. Yumi removed her shoes and then stands and strips away the rest of her clothing. Looking over her body she sees scars, scrapes and bruises all over. Letting out a long breath out she says in her mind "I've been through worse".

Going through her duffel she pulls out tsumugi kimono and dresses herself. Pulls her long hair into a tight bun, hair strands falling loosely down the side of her face. Folding her uniform her eyebrows furrowed, "What happened...?" she said so softly to herself her hands running over the worn patches.

Standing up she takes in small breath as every movement made her feel the injuries her body has went through. Goes straight out her door and walks through hallways to make her way downstairs. Hoping to run into someone, hoping to find out what was missing.
"What happened indeed?..."

Eeyug woke up in a white room face towards the ceiling. “Where am I?” he said as he looked around. He then noticed he was lying down on a bed in what seemed to be the Sick Bay of ShinRa Mansion. He tried to get up but suddenly his body started to ache. He felt dizzy and slammed back onto the bed. He was covered by a large amount of wounds and bandages. “What happened?” he asked completely unaware of what had occurred before.
He got up slowly as he went out of the room. It seemed that he wasn’t the only one that ended up there as the medics where rushing all over the place, but it seemed that some had already woken up. With no recollection of what had happened he decided it was best to go to his room first and see if there was anything that could hint what he was going to do.
In his room, everything was just as he left it. He lay down on his bed for a while. He remembered that he was involved in a huge fight but somehow he just couldn’t get a grasp of what happened after a certain point. What could have happened that made him forget so much? He realised that nothing would happen if he stayed in his room so he went out to see if he could meet someone who remembered a bit more than him.
He started walking down the hallways toward the main reception where he suddenly met Yumi. “Yumi. How are you feeling?”, he asked, noticing that she was also wounded during the battle.

Going through the halls, Yumi's mind jumped all over the place. Flashes of the fight came her randomly as she tried to recall what happened. They battle was intense, that was for sure feeling a sharp pains on her right ankle and lower leg as she took each step. She somewhat recalls what happened but it's just bits and pieces. So much a fog, almost like a dream..
Approached by squad leader Eeyug, Yumi stood at full attention not letting the wounds falter her stature.
"Squad Leader Eeyug, I will be fine sir" replied Yumi
Noticing the bandages on Eeyug. "What had happened?", the thought rattles in her mind again. Yumi wanted to ask just that, but she did not want to compromise giving up her position at SA, over memory loss.. The question must of shown through her clear violet eyes as looked straight at Eeyug. Her eyes did give her away sometimes..

Yumi looked straight at Eeyug, as if eager to question about the wounds all over his body. Trying to hide the fact that he himself doesn’t remember much he asked, “I guess this wasn’t an easy fight for you too huh?” but to his displease he couldn’t get much information out of Yumi with that question as she simply nodded back with a sigh, so he had to make the first step himself. “So.. what did you think about the ShinRa Alchemists’ strength in this fight?” This followed by some other questions of the kind led to both of the Alchemists to end up realising that they both didn’t remember much of what happened. It seemed like someone had just fast-forwarded time itself. Suddenly Eeyug’s phone rang. Apparently he already had some work to do, so he left, heading towards a new job.