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[Garō, Ichirou]

The wind whistled through the crevices of the dusty canyon, a few vultures could be heard off in the distance, but that was the last thing on Ichirou's mind right now. He had been tracking this... this thing. For months, and finally tracked it down. His preliminary recon of this things curse were conclusive and frustrating collectively. It would be difficult for him to take this thing down alone, especially given the circumstances.

So he needed to call in a little back up, no biggie. He knew just who to call in. The clay bird that he had sent out three days ago should have arrived at Athos on the second day, and if he had taken Ichirou's request seriously then he should be arriving shortly. The exact Coordinates of Ichirou's cave camp being listed within the letter that the clay bird contained.

He watched the shadowy hulking mass with his Byakugan as it paced around the canyon. Grumbling and grunting, it couldn't even speak it was so far gone. Ichirou was glad to have rained hell down on the bastards who had created this piece of evil, and even more glad that he was the one who would reclaim what was wrongly bestowed into this beast. Ichirou wore his usual red archery gear, his bow no where to be seen, but his executioners blade sitting close by in the small cavern he had carved in the wall of the rocky cliffs to use as a base. The blade was an identical replica of the legendary Kirigakure sword it was named after, though that was just for show. Everything else about this blade bore no relation to the original.

Ichirou would continue to watch the cretin should it's hulking mass decide to throw it to some other corner of the world, he hoped Athos would arrive soon before it relocated..

[Hazama]

Retirement was mostly what Athos had been up to as of lately, a different twist on his usual life. The man had been training still, of course, but also enjoying the more peaceful things in life. He walked to where Ichirou had asked him to come, at least at this point, not wanting to draw attention to himself as he approached. He was dressed within a sleeveless black shirt, and pants to match. He wore no shoes on his feet, though they somehow had still managed to stay completely clean.

Athos' crimson hair, like a silk cape, stretched down his back and to his ankles. This was a defining characteristic of the man, as well as the fact that he stood at a towering six feet and seven inches. His hands rested behind his neck as he walked, a relaxed look on his face, and a relaxed stance as he moved. His chakra was enormous, even though he was trying to hide it. It was only the size of a normal Jinchuuriki Host, which was still fairly large, all things considered.


"Man, are you sure about this, Athos?" To which the tall male would give a soft sigh,"What do you mean? Of course." The beast inside Athos, a long time friend and partner of the man, released a sigh,"If Estelle finds out, you're going to be up shit's creek without a paddle, my good friend." He frowned at the idea of what wrath his daughter would rain down upon him if he wasn't home soon. He gave an agreeing nod, as well as a sigh of disappointment,"Yeah, you're right. Guess we'll need to make this quick." Of course, Athos would finally come to reach the man's camp, glancing around it as he approached. As his eyes found Ichirou, he adjusted his steps to take him towards his old friend.

[Garō, Ichirou]

Ichirou would stand and turn to Athos, opening his mouth to speak, but as soon as words would have left his mouth, they were stolen away. A booming sound ruptured throughout the area, almost like a meteor had hit the ground, the sky would grow dark. As if night had been dragged from the other side of the planet.

The rocks around them would rumble and crack, Ichirou would scoop his sword and quickly leap from the cheaply made cavern he had constructe. Assuming that Athos would need no instruction to o the same. As the two men had left the encampment, it would crumble behind them as several small landslides erupted throughout the canyon.

They had been spotted.

The hulking beast stood roughly 500 meters away from their location. Steam erupting from it's mouth as it huffed, it's eyes and body hummed a deep red color, the corruption of the Gelel energy that did not belong within this host. As Ichirou landed on the ground he despawned his executioners blade in a puff of smoke, and begin to radiate his own energy, a much lighter green color. "It seems i'm not going to be able to brief you like I wanted to on this thing, and we definitely didn't get the element of surprise that I was hoping for. But there's one thing that you should about this thing above all others. It doesn't bleed. We can't cut it, we can't blow it up. This is all i've got on this thing as far as it's curse goes for now, but i'm sure we'll discover more shortly.." As Ichirou finished his sentence, his body changed. The green energy encumbering it and emitting a bright flash before fading away again. Now his body was as black as pitch. Claws on his hands and feet, and the entirety of his form looked like that of a humanized wolf. Because it was. This was the pinnacle of Ichirou's physical capabilities, and a byproduct of the Stone of Gelel that had been infused into his blood. His physical prowess was increased nigh 50 fold in this form, and on par with high level Hachimon users. His voice, now much deeper and gruff, called out through the wolf head that sat upon his shoulder. "Until we can uncover more about this bastard, our best rules of Engagement are going to be hand to hand combat. Which may be harder than it looks.." The hulking mass of energy and muscle stood at a massive 9 feet, towering over the two ninja who were tall amongst there kind. The muscles on this creature easily encompassed Ichirou and Athos' chests, and it was safe to safe that this beast possessed physical strength much higher than anything that either of the ninja had encountered before. In it's hand it bore a hefty blade, seemingly crafted from stone. The blade within itself dwarfed the two men... this was going to be quite the combat.

This was only one of the many abominations that Ichirou had committed himself to tracking and removing from the face of this planet. Not only would he be able to reclaim the gelel power that rested within these monstrosities, but he would be able to add to his own power as well. Though on a much more stable level of course."Before we get started, I want to let you know, I've only ever fought one of these abominations, and the first one i fought.. well.. the easiest thing to compare it to was a fighting a Biju." were Ichirou's final words as he knelt low to the ground, preparing himself for what was to come from this thing.

[Hazama]

As the cavern threatened to give, Athos made sure to make his way after Ichirou. He watched as the man summoned forth a unique power before his eyes, and then changed. He had seen the Stone of Gelel used so craft-fully used only once in his whole life, and it was when he was in his early twenties. To see it again so many years later, a fierce grin crossed his lips, the nostalgia starting to build in his heart causing him to want a fight.

So, as his eyes would came to lock onto the beast, his hands slipped out his pockets and rested at his side,"Okay, Athos, I know what you're thinking. But listen to watch Ichirou is saying." He had been, of course, every last detail. But the man before him had prepared for battle, and from the sounds, and looks, of all of it, this was going to be another fun fight. He nodded his head as he rolled his shoulder, walking at a casual pace towards the thing,"A Bijuu, eh? I can hold my own against a Bijuu, so let's hope you're wrong." Although there was some truth in that statement, it was usually a close match when he fought a beast with his strength and speed only. But they also had a larger form, this one was large, but it didn't equal a Bijuu. And for some reason, sometimes smaller meant stronger.

"We'll try and do this like a Hunt.. I'll take the first charge, try to look for an opening."A groan came from inside the man,"You're not going to listen to me, are you? At least let me lend you some of my strength." Athos' walk would start to change into a fast walk, then a job, then a run. As he charged towards the thing at increasing speeds he would give a nod of his head,"Fine, you can help out in this fight, I'm not so greedy."

[Garō, Ichirou]

Ichirou listened as Athos made mention of treating this combat like a hunt, "Sure, we'll give that a shot." Ichirou replied as he began to move along a wide right flank of the beasts position, his wolf like form gliding across the ground with elegant speed as he moved,

Of course, the abomination had other plans in store.

The creature, despite it's hulking size, lack of ability to speak and excessive anger. It was much much smarter than it looked. And rather than taking on Athos, the initial charger -a tactic that one would expect from a rabid beast- he would make his move for Ichirou.

The ground would explode in a huge cloud of dust, the abomination moving with the speed of a shunshin almost passively, a second earth shattering boom could be heard to the right of Athos, as the hulkling appeared before Ichirou. Ichirou snarled an ducked low as the beast swung to cleave him in twain with it's massive blade, missing by just the slightest of hairs. Ichirou used his low position to incite a powerful jump straight up, releasing a boom of his own as his knee came into contact with the hulklings chin, causing it's head to tilt back and the beast to furrow it's brow.

Jolting it's head back down it threw Ichirou off balance, causing him to flip behind the monstrosity, and before he could regain his footing he had been snatched from the air by the massive hand of the creature, and tossed like a rock directly towards Athos, but Ichirou was quicker than that. collecting himself and digging his feet into the earth as he flew back, stopping just shy of Athos' location/previous location if he had moved.

"Damn thing is smarter than it looks.." he grumbled as he straightened up and locked his eyes on his target, his eyes weren't fully comparable to the Byakugan in this state, but he was able to keep up with the thing more or less. He began to channel gelel energy into his right hand, the veins in his arm radiating a deep green glow in pulses as the energy gathered. He knew his next strike wouldn't maim the beast, but used in proper collaboration with Athos they could get the upper hand, at least for a few moments.

[Hazama]

At the moment that Ichirou had been attacked instead, Athos would turn his body and come to a stop, letting his golden hues lock onto the fight before him. Seeing that the beast had attacked Ichirou instead, it meant that Athos was on the job of looking for an opening. Of course, at that moment, Ichirou would have been thrown past him, leaving Athos with a smirk on his lips,"Oi, that means I'm tagged in now!" There was a nod before he took off towards the beast, giving a booming and powerful battlecry of his own as the man flew across the ground towards the beast.

He had taken note of Ichirou's glowing attack starting to take form, so he would aim to create an opening for his friend then. As he got close to the beast, Athos' plan was to lure to beast into attacking first, hoping he would swing the giant weapon in it's hand,"Alright, Sai-kun, you make sure to do your part here."

[Garō, Ichirou]

And yet the creatures intelligence was shown once more..

As the 'Tag' of sorts was initiated, the beast was quick to catch on, realizing that Athos had stepped up to the plate and intended to attack it. However this time instead of a full frontal assault, the beast would use it's blade as a projectile. Throwing it forth with speed similar to that of a bullet, a huge just of dust emerging from the force behind the blade.

Simultaneously, the beast would use it's outrageous speed to burst forth and around athos, ending up behind him around the same time the blade would arrived at his face, the beast drew it's hand up with intent to strike at the same time the blade would hit, a means to disabling one of the two opponents it was faced with

But it wouldn't be that easy,

With Ichirou watching from the distance, he would find the opportune moment to release his attack on the mongrel as it appeared behind Athos, having had a decent amount of time to focus the energy into his palm, he would swipe the air in front of him as he initiated the Gelel Blast technique.

This technique made to create a blast from a distance without the need of physical contact or projectiles, it would bend the air around it's target before erupting, but with the beast focusing on Athos and apparently not counting on long range tactics, it would go off without a hitch. Though Ichirou new this attack wouldn't do so much as to draw a spec of blood from this beast, that wasn't his goal.

The detonation would occur at the back of the beasts knee, the force of which caused the leg to buckle and the beast to unexpectedly fall to a knee behind athos, who Ichirou assumed would have dealt with the blade incoming blade by this point.

This would serve as an opening for Athos to initiate a counter attack, though only seconds existed for the window, and Ichirou braced himself to either take the beasts next charge, or move in for an assisting attack in conjuction with Athos.

[Hazama]

As the blade would have come towards Athos, his eyes widened for a moment,"The hell..." Was all he could mutter as he moved. Did this thing really just throw it's weapon like that? Athos' charge would have come to a sliding stop as the weapon came at him, though it didn't matter with how fast the weapon was moving...

And then, from beneath his shirt and in a blur, a large tentacle came forth. With great speed and strength, the thing crashing against the incoming blade with enough force to parry it and send it into the side of the canyon wall in the distance. Of course, his eyes watched the beast as it decided to use this as a distraction, using his sliding stop to turn on his feet and face behind himself.

The monster appeared and it seemed Ichirou found his moment, because the beast seemed to fell onto a knee as Athos faced it. A smirk was on his lips, the same tail from before smacking into the ground, cracking the ground beneath it's force, and propelling Athos with great force upwards. With his right hand cocked backwards, he threw it upwards at the beast's jaw, aiming to deliver and stunning blow to the beast. Though, red chakra bubbled his form as he took off. His goal was to end up above the, hopefully stunned, beast.

The red chakra condensed around his hand as he would open it, a small black ball of chakra forming. Creating something this small, yet with a powerful punch, was nothing for the Duo of Athos and Saiken. He wondered just how durable this thing was as he released a Super Mini Tailed Beast Ball towards the thing from his high position, aiming for the center mass of the beast.

[Garō, Ichirou]

Quite the move the duo had pulled on this thing, the successful deflection of the blade followed by a hefty strike to the beasts chin, causing it to stumble back a back as Athos released his tailed beast ball. The beast seemed to remain stationary as the attack came in, was it stunned? in shock? Hardly. It's never that easy.

The beast would smirk as the ball connected with it's forehead, the resulting explosion expanding rapidly, before appearing to implode in on itself as rapidly as it had expanded. What was left behind was smoldering ash of the rock that once was there, a crater. And the beast standing within. The red glow that was dim beneath it's skin had become bright, and it almost seemed rejuvenated as it leapt from it's crater in one motion, reaching Athos' position in the sky and opening it's maw.

From within? The blast shot forth from the Bijudama. The explosive power of the attack erupting from it's mouth like a beam of destruction as it once again aimed to remove Athos from the equation. "What the hell!?" Ichirou shouted as he too leapt from the ground in a tremendous bound, reaching the duo's position. However instead of striking the beast physically, he would howl. Release a force strong enough to blast the beast back to the earth, causing it to hit the ground and slide, throwing up a long trail of dust as it traveled before regaining it's footing and leaping up in a flurry of flips.

"What the hell was that? Did it just recycle the power from the attack?"Ichirou questioned himself as he descended, assuming that Athos had been tossed to the side. Hopeful that he had not been obliterated. The only thing Ichirou could compare this too as of this point was something similar to the Uchiha return.. but it didn't seem quite the same.

This was the real challenge in fighting abominations. Each comes with a specific curse, no two the same in any way. The effects that the corrupted Gelel energy casts upon their bodies results in powerfully outlandish abilities, which were coined by Ichirou as their curses. It appeared at first that this beasts curse was it's impervious body, but this didn't seem to be the case after all.. As he touched down he would move to regroup with Athos, while the beast moved to recover it's blade. They needed to decipher just how the creature had performed this feat.. just how it worked.

[Hazama]

Athos fell out of the wall in a tumbled roll of the blast as it ripped across the area with a powerful explosion. Of course, it wasn't all powerful but it could have been bad to take that on without any defenses. Taking a deep breath, he came on his feet and charged towards Ichirou. He perked a brow,"Okay, so, just exactly what the hell was that?"

"Chakra seems like a bad idea..."Saiken muttered inside Athos, which he nodded in agreement, he rolled his shoulder,"What exactly is your take on this, since you know more about these things than I do."

[Garō, Ichirou]

Ichirou paused for a moment and swallowed as he kept his eyes locked on the beast, "Well.. to be honest with you I don't have a lot to go on right now. I couldn't actually see whatever it did to survive the attack, let alone redirect it. But the closest comparison I have to whatever that was is the Uchiha Return, the only question is how many times can it do this in succession? He paused for another moment as he charge Gelel energy into his palm, creating a Gelel Rasengan roughly the size of the Odama Rasengan, and with relative ease. "Right now, I'd say our best course of action is to try to force it to the do the move again-" Ichirou's words were cut short as the beast appeared before him once again, It's hefty blade held high above it's head before being brought down in an outrageously fast single motion.

the force was enough to shatter the ground and release a shockwave, sending huge stones flying about in random directions, as for Ichirou, he had side stepped the black and moved in to the beasts center as to avoid his strike, the shockwave from the blast essentially propelling him as he moved to strike the creature in the stomach with the Rasengan.

However to his surprise, the beast did not repeat it's actions again. No instead it took the hit, being launched backward from the force of the blast, but not before it through a wild last out, aiming to grab hold of Ichirou once more, but merely smacking him to the ground, causing him to bounce like a ball before landing on his feet again.

Ichirou clutched his shoulder, It had been severely dislocated. "Son of a.." he grumbled as he gripped the arm tightly before shouting, "Bitch!" As he snapped it back into place with a relieved sigh. He had progressive healing in this satte, so a matter of minutes and his shoulder would be as good as new as far as any extensive damage was concerned. For now he focused his attention on the beast once more, who was collecting itself off the ground with a smile

[Hazama]

Athos would feel a type of annoyance bubbling in his stomach as the thing took his attack but had not taken his,"Oi, you cheating bastard!" He said with a roar of defiance before coming up on the beast's back, right side. His charge was fast, bringing him to the beasts side, and in a moment, he was at the beast's side, pivoting with his right leg raised.

Energy exploded out of him in red chakra as Saiken followed up on the attack, whether Athos' kick struck it in the side or not. From his pant's leg came a tentacle that was unbelievably large, aiming to come out with  the force of a Bijuu and hopefully smack the thing roughly to it's side before it could fully get it's footing again.

[Garō, Ichirou]

The kick was delivered to the mongrel with Gusto, causing it to lose it's footing for but a moment as the tentacle came down, however it was rather quick, and as the tail struck it the beast would not go flying, as it had latched on to the gigantic tail and had been smacked into the ground like a fly.

but it's follow up was clean, having a grip stronger than the strongest vices times a hundred, the beast would roll on it's shoulder, aiming to uproot athos from the ground before slamming him back down yet again, should the slam go off without a hitch the beast would burst forth and soccer kick the grounded Athos in an attempt to send him flying instead.

Ichirou would make his move whether the Beasts kick had been successful or not, tackling him hard not seconds after the kick, landing in a full mount position on the ground. of course physically Ichirou was outmatched here, so he had to be quick to try an force the technique out of the beast again. Funneling Gelel energy through his palm, he would utilize the Gelel Laser technique to release a highly potent highly concentrated blast of Gelel energy directly into the beasts ugly face. Ichirou hoped that it would either initiate it's absorption move, or he woul find a way to pierce it's flesh.

Luckily, the beast triggered it's move.

The space in the center of the beasts forehead, directly above it's eyes; would open. Much like a third eye, though what resided within was a Red Gelel stone. The source of the cretins massive power. Ichirou's technique would be absorbed into this stone easily, and if he had continued to supply it he imagine it would have drained him of all his available power. But he wouldn't let it go that far, he had gathered enough information from his assault to formulate a strategy on taking this thing down, the key was timing as always.

Ichirou ended his laser attack, and quickly covered his chest with his arms as he was punched, sent flying back and crashing into the ground though he still landed on his feet. As the beast stood, it was apparent that it had become larger, it's muscles more vascular and with more size, as well as it's height. The glow of it's body was once again a much brighter red. However the beast did not redirect the attack initially.

"Did it want the energy?Ichirou asked himself, "Did this make it stronger? Or simply give it a payload.." He quickly surveyed the area for Athos, aiming to formulate a plan against this thing as fast as possible before it began to get the upper hand. Without the aid of a Biju like Athos had, Ichirou had a much higher chance of getting pushed to his limits, though that was still far from occurring as of this moment, the point was that this fight couldn't go on forever.

[Hazama]

If he had time to say 'Oh shit' he would have, but he was torn from his feet suddenly and slammed into the ground harshly. He grunted before gritting his teeth, bring his arms around his form and balling up. He had no idea what attack was about to come next, so he tried to cover all angles of himself. Sadly for him, the kick came against his side, which wasn't fully covered. There was a crack as the attack connected before Athos was sent ricocheting across the ground like a stone skipped against the water.

He landed against a large boulder, dug into it's side. He groaned, cuts and marks across his whole body, his clothing torn some. He sighed softly, laying there in the rock for a moment.

After a moment or so, though, he would move to push himself out the rock and land on the ground, grunting at the feeling of broken ribs on his right side. He would be fine would now but he rolled his shoulders, letting his eyes scan over the beast from the newly granted distance he was granted from the kick.

[Garō, Ichirou]

Ichirou would arrive next to Athos in a shunshin flash, huffing a bit. "Damn thing knocked the wind out of me, but listen. I figured out how it's doing it. The stone of gelel is originally introduced into the body via the blood, at least in the old experiments. If the subject is accepted by the stone, the liquid fuses with their blood and becomes part of their being, their DNA. However if it is rejected, it takes the form of a stone within the experiments body. That's what he's using to absorb the attacks. The stone seems to conduct any energy it comes into contact with and store it within it's host. I believe it gives him a strength and durability boost while it's store inside him, but once the payload is released he is returned to his already ridiculously powerful state." Ichirou grabbed Athos and bolted as the Beasts sword was flung at them, crashing into and through the rock while Ichirou landed safely behind a large piece of rubble. The beast apparently didn't have a means of sensory detection, which was a good thing for them, that meant they had time to strategize.

The beast began searching for the duo, who were now positioned some 1,500 meters away from him. He smashed through stone and shouted angrily as his search was inconclusive. But every moment that passed was a moment wasted as he progressively got closer to the two of them."This is just a hypothesis, but I think if we can get him to draw the stone out to absorb an attack, we can attack the stone directly. Which will hopefully kill him, or at least weaken him significantly. But there may or may not be more to his abilities than what we've been shown. From what I can tell he's actually determining what is and isn't worth absorbing. what will give him the most beneficial amount of power to use against, which explains why he absorbed your bijudama. and if he's got the power of the stone I imagine he knew my laser would be a consistant source of energy, and wanted to see how long i'd keep it up." he paused for a moment to sigh, "Well, any thoughts?