Samurai skills and mystical arts(Natsume thread)

[Anastasia]

Starning at you,

With what she did last time...is Natsume...

"Alright," she nods, ducking behind a frozen over rack of clothes. This gives you a free shot, now...

[Midnight Sun]

After Kurumi is clear, Natsume focuses on concentrating her ki. Before long, she feels the familiar sensation of the energy building to critical, and a bright, pulsing point of light forms and grows at the tip of her finger. Hoping its enough to get the job done, she aims and fires...

[Anastasia]

Your body heats and prickles as your white hot chi forms, the familiar blast flying out! You are blinded a moment by the light and the effort to release it, taking a needed step back and watching on...

With a crash, the jagged bolt slams into the door! Ice is shattered and splayed about as you open a hole in the wall, more than big enough to get into the main mall through!

[Midnight Sun]

I should've just done that to begin with...

"Finally," Natsume says in relief. "Okay, we can leave now Kurumi."

[Anastasia]

Standing carefully, Kurumi views the hole that you carved out of the ice. "Good," sh esighs in relief. "Let's get out of here!" At that, she walks up to you, ready when you are.

"Say...this is like one of those things on the news that the Senshi deal with, isn't it?" she notes, not really sounding amused by the irony.

[Midnight Sun]

"Yeah, I suppose it is," Natsume answers with a bit of wry humor. "Makes me wish they were here right now."

Natsume cautiously steps through the hole, relieved to finally be out of the living ice box that was once Kurumi's favorite clothing store. After which she takes a moment to scan their new surroundings, in particular, looking for the nearest exit....

[Anastasia]

Walking out with your sister in tow, a brave new world greets Natsume Kusanagi.

Ice is everywhere - ice has coated and reshaped the first floor. Where there were benches are now blocks of ice, plants are now shining scupltures of beautiful, diamond like clear ice, glimmering with what little light is to be hand. Indeed, all is dim save for strange sources of light here and there, all hidden by ice. This gives the floor a sparkly, otherworldly feel. The walls and shops are utterly covered over, no outside doors discernable.

There seems to be some sort of building where the fountain was now...it's hard to see from here, but it's notable. There also seem to be moving ice bodies around there...?

[Midnight Sun]

Natsume takes a few precarious steps into the now frozen wasteland. The fact that the ice had spread so quickly was mind boggling in itself.

This is making less and less sense every minute

After being unable to locate an obvious exit, she notices the strange ice caste in the center of the first floor. To be specific, she notices the strange figures moving about around it...

What...are those things?

[Anastasia]

Kurumi stays close to you, taking in the transformed mall.

"Oh...my...God..." she murmurs in shock, stunned beyond coherent thought. "It's like an alien world..."

Walking a bit forward, you can see it's a simple enough structure -  a dome, almost.  Crystalline ice figures of all sorts - human, animal and a few that defy easy classification are around it, wandering slowly and stiffly. Gleaning in unseen light sources, it's like the constallations come alive on the gray predawn hours of early morning.

[Midnight Sun]

"C'mon, we shouldn't stick around and let those things notice us," Natsume says turning in the opposite direction. "If we can't find an unfrozen door, I'll just have to blast one open."

[Anastasia]

"Yeah," Kurumi agrees, turning away from the sentinels of frost. "LEt's get out of here...let those Senshi deal with this. This just too much!" Nodding so, she eyes around, hoping to see an easy exit.

Natsume wanted to help in stuff like THIS?

[Midnight Sun]

Those creatures are probably responsible for all of this, but as much as I want to fight them and try free all of the civilians, I can't let Kurumi get caught up in all of this....

After gaining a good distance away from...whatever that ice palace was supposed to be...they begin the search for an exit, frozen or otherwise.

"There should be one close by, I hope."

[Anastasia]

Retreating away from the small army of frozen figurines, you scan the walls. Everything is covered in a choking, cloaking, thick layer of ice. It's just one bland wall, save for the one hole that you made to escape your near-tomb.

Yet, you do find what -should-, if you remember the layout right, roughly be the door area. There are the frozen plants and sign there that welcomed you into the wall, but only a foreboding barrier is your way. No light comes through it, making it opaque and hard to see through.

[Midnight Sun]

This SHOULD be the exit, if my memory is reliable, but I have to get through this ice somehow

Natsume idly glances at her finger. The ice looks to be the same general thickness as the ice back at the store....

I could just blow a hole through it like last time....

She remembers the horde of ice creatures they encountered prior to their escape. They had not noticed them then, and she wanted to keep it that way...

No, that would be too risky. I had better not use anything that could potentially work against us.

It does not take long for Natsume to focus her thoughts and her ki and form her energy katana. When she first discovered the weapon, it took nearly all her will and concentration, now it took barely any effort.

"If I can't blast it, I'll just have to slice an exit,"

[Anastasia]

With a short, worried nod to Natsume, Kurumi steps back a good ways, out of the range of any potential mishaps. You hope.

Your blade of chi appears silently, the energy warming your hand. With this and your skills...you should be able to escape.

Right?