What's to come of it... [Open Training]

[Ippin]

OOC: Going for CTP.

Everything was quiet. The noise that was there before was no longer there. The land was bustling with wildlife around as it should. The waters remained clean and filled with the life that resided within it. But the noise that filled it once before was no longer there. The fluttering and force in the water was still, calm, not like before. Something was wrong. The current within the lake wasn't the same, and became more apparent as the days went by. Nothing was as it should have been. Ippin could feel it in her bones.

The Naga was the one who brought her to this place. That Reptile introduced the Cecaelia to the patrons that resided at the location. Few in numbers but that didn't matter. It was the quality of them that made it feel a bit like a community. A place for Ippin to refer to as a home while she continued to look for hers. She thought that remaining in this place would do her good, so long as the others were there to help support her growth. Other beings who were very much like her in their own unique settings. Other Beastclan members who had their own ideas and aspirations that would help to develop the Cecaelia more than what she was. But that image, that dream was vanishing before her very eyes.

The others remained dormant, unseen as the days went by. The Naga that was once here was no longer. The offerings left for it remained untouch as the days went and the nights came. Nothing changed. The environment brought and held a lot of the nutrition that the girl needed to grow, for her body to mature. This was thanks to the new location. Plenty of room to exercise and learn more about what she could do on her own. But beyond that, there was silence. A silence that never seemed to be broken despite what she did in her passing time. What happened to this place? What happened to her new home? None of it made sense. How was it that it came to be? Did those humans return? Did they cause this to happen? Did they do something to the Naga? Was it them? Was it their fault?

Voices came and went as they normally did. Time after time for offerings. Others, were meant for their own reasons and volition. They laughed. They played as if nothing was wrong. The humans continued their lives as if nothing had changed. What was the matter with them? Nothing was as it should have been. How insolent of them? Hearing them from beneath the surface of the lake, Ippin could only speculate as to what they were talking about. At times she would hear the mention of the word Naga, but nothing else could be understood. A few humans arrived, donning garments of black. A special sort of humans the Beastgirl hadn't seen before. They appeared to be resemble the one who resided beside those who hunted her. Did they have something to do with this sudden change?

The humans did something to make this happen. Their visits became more frequent. Growing in numbers as they did. The humans who wore the garments of black came with them as well. Her home was slowly becoming tainted by their presence. She knew by their development that more would come. With more time, the lake would become infested by them. A place once kept to their kind would no longer be safe, and Ippin would be hunted again. No. She didn't want that. Not again. The Cecaelia became frantic with paranoia. With fear. But most of all.......anger. Another home was going to be taken from her. Not again. NOT AGAIN.

"Do you think it will come? I mean, we haven't seen or heard from it in days. I mean, the offerings from the previous days are still here." one man said. "I don't know, but we will continue to do so. I mean, this is it's home after all." another spoke out. A sacrifice was placed at the edge of the lake as always. A simple offering that was usually made for the Naga, hoping that it would be accepted. The trio of men prayed, finding security in the assistance of the pair of Shinigami that gave them aid to a place that was once guarded by the beast. "Hey, look at that." one of the trio pointed out. Ten feet away from the shore line the water caressed over the dome shape figure that slowly approached. "It's here. The Guardian has not forsaken us." the man praised. But, it wasn't meant to last. As the figure approached, so did the appendages that slithered up from beneath the shore's shallow waters.

What came next was red. Just simple red. All Ippin could see was the red that came with the duo of screams. The sounds of bones gnashing within her grasp, brittle as they would be in the arms of a member from the Beastclan. What the Cecaelia desired was justice. To protect her new home. But, for that to happen, she had to make it so that no human came close to the lake ever again. She had to rid the place of them. Her fangs punctured through their soft skins as if they were made of melted better. Their bones crushed into dust. For the last human among the trio, he fled while the Shinigami came to halt the advancing sea dweller.

"What the Hell is that thing!? one Shinigami cried out. "I don't know, but we need to report this to-" The female Reaper was cut off before she could finish providing her own input on the matter. Tentacles tore through the soft dirt from beneath the pair's footing to snap the woman off her defensive stance. The man shift to look upon what had transpired with his partner, to rush the creature in order to rid it's grip from her. But he'd soon find out that the two tentacles were not all that the Beastclan had to work with. She had plenty more appendages to use. The swing of his sword would hack at the tugging limb, Ippin snapping back her limbs to avoid dismemberment. Her sudden withdraw meant for the others to snap back to lash out at the male Shinigami.

Four of the tendrils snapped back and forth at the Shinigami's sides. All meant to distract him as the others did as they had with his partner. "Watch out!" The Shinigami spun around to slash at the two tentacles that his partner had warned about. Ippin snarled as she felt the sides of her legs were cut, but all meant for the main body of the Beastclan member to splash herself onto of him. Her weight added with her wrestling movement on the Shinigami made it more difficult for the man to move. The two together made it a trifling task to pull Ippin away from the man's garbs and fighting limbs. Including, for this ally to cast her spells on the pair. "RUN! GO BACK AND TELL THE OTHERS!" It was all that he managed to say beneath the grunting and gasping for air, as the man wrestled the girl off Ippin dragged him further and further to the waters. It wouldn't be long before the heavy grunting he emitted would cease beneath the surface of the lake. After, the bubbles would cease as did his movements.

His partner escaped, but there were more humans that remained close to the lake. The village beyond the tree line that resided in front of the Cecaelia. Their voices and actions had to be silenced as well.

[Ippin]

Ippin wasn't use to the land very much. When arriving at her new home she had to be hauled through the journey. Umaroth had to do a lot of the heavy lifting as he literally had to backpack her the entire journey. Moving about on the surface dried her skin and flesh, causing it to scratch her body all over as the sand and dirt rubbed her the wrong way. Easy to say that the experience is very much like having sandpaper rubbing against human skin. That was the sensation of what having sanded skin did for a Cecaelia such as her, but, the pain didn't matter for what she felt deep inside.

The Beast girl managed to keep herself from touching the ground. Most her body was kept elevated off the floor by clinging to the trees. Her tendrils whipped from one tree towards the next, Ippin's body swinging awkwardly from post to post as her muscles retracted to pull her body into the desired direction. Each tree shifted a bit, not too much but just slightly from holding the girl's joint movement with that of her weight shifting between posts. With this much activity it wasn't difficult for the humans to learn of the Beastclan member's approach. The Shinigami had gone ahead of her and warned them to what transpired by the lakeside. It wouldn't before long that the civilians were already evacuating the area.

This turn of events did not impede the Cecaelia. Instead, it only made her want to reach the area all the more. "IT'S HERE. MEN, PREPARE YOURSELVES!" the woman commanded. Before Ippin could even emerge from the tree line the Shinigami were already prepared for her. Crying out some sort of phrase the five Shinigami released streams of electrical energy from the palms of their hands towards the Beastclan member. Ippin had no choice but to fall back into the tree line for cover.

She didn't know what those streams of energy were, but they didn't appear to be good for her. As the girl fell back the bolts of reiatsu struck the tree bark that Ippin hid behind. The burnt singe was enough to tell Ippin that the Shinigami intended to fight back. They meant to destroy her with their tricks just as they did with her new family. They, the humans, drove her family away. It was because of the Humans that she was left alone again. Humans were a threat to her and to those like her.

Thinking back of her days spent as a captive, the humiliation that she was forced to endure, the pain that she had to deal with, and the shame of being reduced to that as some sort of pet. All of it terrified the girl to no ends, wondering what they will do with her next. She had to admit it though, there were good humans among their race. Those that risked their own safety so others may persevere. This was the reason why didn't attack indiscriminately. She only struck when she felt she was in danger. This however was an entirely different story. Her home was invaded, her new family missing, and with only the people in black robes around, only Humans, who else was there to blame?

With the Shinigami reinforcing their position, more were on the way to help their advance, Ippin was finding herself being pushed back. More so, she found herself slinging from tree to tree, branch to branch to avoid being caught by those beams of reiatsu. Having found a better handling on her own movements among the trees, Ippin decided to take remain within the sea of trees rather than retreating back to the lake. She knew if she had, then they would remain to watch over the lake, and most likely remain and keep her new family back if they ever returned. Ippin couldn't allow for such a thing to happen, she had to keep it safe, for herself, and for them.

[Ippin]

"It's over there, get it!" Ippin heard the rallying of the Shinigami from beyond the tree lines. Climbing to newer heights, her magenta outer flesh allowed the humans to keep a keen focus on her whereabouts. No matter how far up she rose the Beastclan member could not escape their sights. Twelve. Twelve Shinigami in total that came into the sea of trees after the girl. Leaving behind nothing but moisture and slime, Ippin continued to propel herself along the thick brushes up above the human heads. Though for the most part she remained unharmed. For the most part, it was the most uncomfortable situation she could find herself in as well. A fish out of water, quite literally. The dry bark and wood against her skin made it itch, painfully at that too. It scraped against the underside of her tentacles as splinters poked fun at her sensitive flesh. It hurt, blisters beginning to form between the suction cups. Altogether, it only angered the girl.

The Shinigami stormed the ground below, rallying their focus to a single point. At least until the girl fled up above the thick brush of the branches. High above, the girl resided within a thick layer of natural camouflage to remain hidden from their eyes. The humans spread out. Their lines broken and went about to cover more ground. A clean plan to better see where the Beastclan resided in hiding. Careful to insure that their sight of each other did not lose to the trees around them. Ippin didn't need to wait for them to enter into position. All she needed was the space that they created for her. The leaves from over head fell. They fell in the hundreds. Branches snapping and falling down from above, and with them, the Cecaelia.

"Look out!" another Shinigami cried out. The howling of the beast ripping through the air as she fell down on top of another human. Her suction cups grappled the black garments of the human, tugging her along with the Beastclan member's movements. Ippin slung herself around the base of a single tree before swinging herself around another. The combined motion made it seem that she was that of a different animal than what she was suppose to be. Left caught in the girl's legs and other tendrils, the Shinigami was flung into a pair of Shinigami. It didn't take a second before the girl came around launch herself on top of the trio. Snuggling her body close to one, her arms tangled themselves around the throats of the other two. Their comrades rushed the packed trio, however, it was thanks to the trees around them that made it difficult to use spells. A clear shot was more tasking than they realized, while Ippin remained on the humans it was the fear of harming their friends was what kept them cautious.

They did not have to worry for a moment longer as the human beneath the Cecaelia did not draw breath no longer. The man suffocated beneath the weight and elasticity of the girl's flesh, just he did the remaining other two had their necks snapped. It was thanks to the girl's natural suction that allowed the girl to retain a very firm grip on their throats. The moment was nothing more than a moment as their necks popped right out of their place. Ippin cried out in frustration; in anger. Intruders had invaded her home, and she wasn't going to allow any of them to live.