00062. A lesson learned... AnnouncementFirst chapter of the week. Sorry for the delay, but another chapter should be out in a day or two.
Ezekiel and the others trailed behind Fantasia by about one hundred and fifty feet. It had been over half an hour since they started and it didn't seem like it would end anytime soon.
Ezekiel sighed before he said, "In hindsight this might have been a bad idea."
Wong nodded in agreement as he said, "Anyway to speed this up? I’m getting tired of walking."
Ezekiel shook his head before he said, "If we don't keep her in the mirror dimension, she’ll kill anyone she comes across."
"I thought she was under genjutsu?"
"She is, but it’s only holding because we are in this controlled environment. If not, it would have broken long ago. I think her alien DNA is just too strong for my current genjutsu skills." Ezekiel shrugged his shoulders slightly as he finished.Fôll0w current novÊls on n/o/(v)/3l/b((in).(co/m)
Tao nodded in understanding as she said, "If I fold the mirror dimension it will speed us up. I just don't know where we are going."
"Could you make the area under our feet move like a treadmill?"
Tao paused for a moment before she asked, "I should be able to, but how will that help us?"
"If you can then make that treadmill platform fly, it should speed us up considerably. We will just need to fly in the direction she is walking."
Tao nodded her head in understanding as she said, "That shouldn't be an issue, but I will need some help to stabilize the spell."
Tao glanced at the other masters she had brought as she said, "Wong, I want you and Kaecilius to assist me. Once I have us in the air, I want both of you to take over keeping us stable. Afterwards I will control our momentum and direction."
Both men nodded before Tao started to fold the neighboring space underneath their feet. The ground started to crumple and fold before compacting together. After a few moments an area the size of a football field had turned into a platform twenty feet wide and about fifty feet long. The platform then started to rotate underneath their feet as they walked.
Once the treadmill portion worked correctly, Tao started to cast a spell. The giant treadmill slowly lifted into the air, before it started to slowly move forward. As it did Wong and Kaecilius worked together to keep the whole thing stable. Once finished, Tao started to increase the momentum of the flying treadmill. It took another hour or so but when Fantasia started to circle around a certain area on the treadmill, Tao finally landed the construct and dispelled it.
As Tao pulled everyone out of the mirror dimension, they were greeted by the biting wind before Wong cast a spell to shield them from the elements. The mountain range they were on was covered completely in snow and it was hundreds of miles from the closest thing you could call a settlement.
Ezekiel continued to feed the ninjutsu as Fantasia slammed into the shield in front of him. He couldn't see her but he could see the magic shield shimmer through the fire every time she hit it. He only stopped when he was almost out of chakra. Once finished he looked over the room for a moment, the back of the room could barely be seen through the smoke, ash and heat haze. Almost everything in the room was now covered in a layer of char, soot, ash and red hot ciders. Some of the metal panels not covered in a layer of soot were almost molten red in color.
All of the eggs had burst open and cooked from the Katon along with Fantasia who was a few feet in front of Ezekiel. Her exoskeleton had become black and charred, while parts of it had cracked open. It exposed the softer inner tissue underneath which had also been charred black, while parts of it were filled with orange glowing ciders. Her right arm was stretched forward in an attacking motion aimed at Ezekiel's head.
Ezekiel studied the room for a few moments, the silence only broken by the random pops and cracks from the eggs in the room still being cooked. He turned to look behind him and only Tao was still in the room. Ezekiel relaxed as he said, "I am not sure what happened to the others, but you should take them to the medical facility to get checked out by Tsunade."
Tao nodded her head as she lowered her hands and her shield disappeared. She looked over the room for a moment before she said, "This seems a little... Much."
Ezekiel grinned as he said, "When dealing with heretics and xenos, always use the heavy flamer."
“The heavy flamer?”
Ezekiel nodded as he said, “I will tell you about it some other time.”
A loud crack happened in front of Ezekiel and the next second he turned into a puff of smoke with a purplish black spear where his head just was. His tablet clattered to the floor as Tao waved her arms and a new shield appeared around her. She then casted another spell and looked at Fantasia for a few moments. Tao lowered her guard as she realized that Fantasia was now dead and that attack was her last attempt to take the life of the person who killed her.
Tao shook her head as she said to herself, “It’s a good thing this was just a clone.”
Tao let out a sigh, walked over and picked up Ezekiel’s tablet before she transitioned to the mirror dimension to look at the people she placed there. Everyone was knocked out and she was upset that they didn’t notice it sooner. She shook her head and opened up a portal, it looks like it’s not just Ezekiel who was a little lax this time.
She started to weave a spell and lifted everyone up as she brought them through the portal. After she walked through the portal it closed behind her. She walked out of the portal room and clicked on an intercom as she said, “I have five people that need treatment, can I get some help in the portal room?”
“We are on the way, hold on.”
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Theo enjoyed the view as he looked out over his backyard, he wasn’t sure why he loved to be in tree’s so much. But he climbed up any tree he could whenever he had the chance. It might be because his old body was confined to a wheelchair and now he just enjoyed being able to move around freely however he liked. But another thought in his head was maybe he was being influenced by all the ninja’s in his head who liked to run through trees. Ezekiel shook his head and turned his attention back to the book he was enjoying.
Theo was seated on his favorite tree branch in the backyard of his house reading a book when he received his clone's memories. He frowned slightly for a few minutes as he sorted through the information he received. It was only his clone, but he was killed today because he was being cocky. It looked like he was going to have to start focusing on his training soon, a mistake like this couldn’t happen even with his clones. He didn’t want to form any bad habits from when he used his clones.