Board Thread:Important Logs/@comment-25687356-20170508004309/@comment-26021384-20170511015359

Shinra's intervention and adding to the earth style encampement was a god send. The earth jutsu prodigy had managed to create a three layer defense with a foot of space ebtween each layer, creating another of his matryoshka style defenses. It was with this that the earth encampement wouldn't be turned into a clay oven with the dragon fire, only heating up the space between the first two layers while the third wall and second space were kept cool. Shinra heaved a sigh and gave Hotaru a thumbs up as a thank you for all of the healing work she did. He felt as good as new after all of that.

The back up of one of the dragons was another god send, Laggia spoke to them, that Battalion 3 had been wiped out? Shinra's eyes went a little wide, his iron sand stopping and wavering before falling to the ground like dead weight as he clutched a hand over his scarred eye. It couldn't be true, his vision shook as he clenched his other fist. He shouted up at the dragon as Laggia flew away, "Like hell they're dead! I refuse to believe anything until I see a body! Do you hear me?! Takahiro, Myoo and Tak are not dead!" He quickly formed a hand seal and slowly reformed his iron gourd while the sand started to collect back inside.

With Keldran arriving on the scene and Hotaru going to heal him, Shinra looked and gave a nod to their leader, "Glad you got all of those swords back." He commented while collecting the new weapons that he had collected from the rise, tucking the four swords behind his back between his gourd and body.

He looked over at Hotaru and Hiroshoka, "Stop. Refuse to believe that they are dead. If you do not have faith in the strength of your allies and their tenacity for life, how can you expect them to have faith in you?" He unholsted his fan from his body, slowly bringin the weapon in its folded form up overhead. "Until I see the bodies or someone from battalion three themself tells me, I will not assume that they are gone. We will push on and support battalion one, crushing the bodies of any and all enemies we meet along the way!" He then pointed his weapon off at Konoha, and in a fell swoop, opened the fan in a sweeping motion before folding it back up with a loud clacking sound to get attention to what he had just said.

His vision was still a little shaken, and his breathing was uneven, trying to withhold himself. He wanted to rush to Battalion 3 and find his comrades to make sure that they were alive, but he had orders, and he had to be a leader. It tore him up on the inside, and he would have to mourn his decision later, one way or another, but now, the certainly living battalion one needed their help.

"We are not pulling back battalion one, they can handle themselves perfectly, but with back up we will not be stopped. On the way there, any open fields you find perform small scale earth jutsu in the event of more mine fields.  We don't need any more dead bodies." Battalion 2 was headed to finally back up Battalion 1.