Gyuki (Bijuu)

**Gyūki** (牛鬼, *Gyūki*), more commonly known as the **Eight-Tails** (八尾, *Hachibi*), is one of the nine tailed beasts. The demon's body is that of an ox’s torso with the tentacles of an octopus, each tentacle serving as a tail. It is covered in gray-brown skin that offers little protection other than simply being durable. In addition to its eight tentacles, the Hachibi has two large, muscular arms and a head adorned with two sets of tough horns that the creature uses to do battle with other creatures. This demon is very tough and serious, and tends to use its head to augment its power more than the other demons seem to. However, despite its considerable power, past hosts were not known to retain any facets of the demon’s physical appearance, nor did they retain any of the mental attributes of the demon outside of its personality, usually, if the host takes on personality traits from the Gyuki it mellows them out and forces them to almost overthink things. Gyuki tends to only help his host when it’s the most tactically advantageous for him, and will pry at his host’s most sensitive memories to try to gain control over the body. If he is on good terms with his host, however, he will put all of his attention toward addressing the situation at hand. He bears surprisingly little ill will for his hosts, aside from generally wanting to be free. In combat, Gyuki commands storms, diseased ink from his octopus lineage and manipulates weaponry with masterful skill with all eight of his tentacles.

***Current Jinchuuriki:*** Coda

## Guild History

As with all chakra demons, Gyuki's origins were as a portion of the ten tailed beast (juubi). The juubi was a powerful creature created by Jashin in the earliest period of Evergreen's (SR's) universe for the sole purpose of destroying as much of the dimension as possible. The juubi would travel from galaxy to galaxy consuming as many star systems as possible before Evergreen expended some of her divine power to weaken it by splitting it into nine equal pieces with unique names and identities. The gods Utu and Zelel would weaken the nine demons even further until they were banished and contained to Earth.

Gyuki resided in the Land of Floods after the UHV war. Arashigakure's twin Arashikages Jay and Jeon sought to seal Gyuki within the twins by splitting the demon into yin and yang. During the fight leading to his capture, the demon's left horn was sliced off by Kenshin Kosei. The twins became the jinchuuriki of Gyuki.

After the twins vanished, the Goddess Evergreen sealed Gyuki within its current host, Byakko, a servant of the Goddess. Evergreen killed Byakko's friend in order to make a statement to her servant which enraged Byakko and allowed Gyuki to bond with their shared hatred of Evergreen and swore an alliance to slay her.

When Jashin was preparing to invade Earth during the Jashin Crisis Arc, Evergreen ordered Kenshin Hyuga to take Gyuki from Byakko and use his human sage abilities to purify it of Jashin's influence. When Byakko ran away from Kenshin they made a pact with the Hokage Sadayo Soga to ensure that Kenshin would not destroy the demon. After Kameyo and Masato Umechika performed the sealing ritual, Kenshin became the temporary jinchuuriki of Gyuki to mix his human sage abilities and the demon's power to prevent Jashin from controlling the tailed beasts.

## Traits

Wounds sustained by the host the previous post have status effects removed at a rate of 1 stage per post. Open wounds, including bleeding close in two posts. If an additional status of the same type is applied before fully healed, the status is renewed to it's full stage and effect. This effect passively draws from Gyuki's chakra reserve.

Upon mastery of Demon Cloak Stage 1, Gyuki fully unlocks the lightning and water nature transformations in the user as additional elements if the host does not already possess them. Additionally, Gyuki grants the host a free storm release (ranton) implant that does not consume an implant slot if the host does not already possess it. If implanted, the host will only be able to use S+ rank storm techniques from Gyuki and not the bloodline itself.

Gyuki's Ushi-Oni origins cause physical contact with it to impart tiered disease status dependent on the rank of technique used with the impact.

The Seven Sword Dance is auto-learned without consuming a Bukijutsu Slot up to the user's body rank learning capacity.

The user's storm release PA Conductive Destruction has it's cool down cost removed and cost reduction is increased to 10 instead of five.

The user's Strength and Endurance Caps are 10 at base rank.

Gyuki's Eight Fold Style grants [2] stat points when stage three is mastered and another [2] stat points in stage six is mastered.

Demon Attributes

Colossus Impact | Each instance of physical contact with the host or demon's physical attacks causes it's own shock wave or concussive blast if a technique already would cause such instead of the technique applying a single shock wave, doubling the size of the shock wave. Those in it's range have trauma applied at two tiers lower than the original attacks with a minimum of tier one trauma. Finally, each shock wave crushes earth beneath it, creating dangerous terrain that reduces agility and speed by two points within that area. If shock waves are generated simultaneously upon a single target from opposing angles, the trauma that target suffers is increased by one tier.

Eye of the Storm | When using techniques or abilities based on the water and-or lighting element, including ranton and other bloodline techniques their rank is increased depending on the proximity to the user. When 20-25 feet from the user, techniques are increased by one rank in strength, when 5-10 feet from the user, techniques are increased by two ranks.

Ink of the Behemoth | Using his Octopus lineage, Gyuki is able to convert it's water release techniques to ink, applying tiered disease at no cost. In addition, water release techniques have the volume of water produced tripled, increasing water release techniques by one rank during collisions. Finally, custom poisons may be applied to the user's ink when used in this manner.

## Transformation Stages

### **Demon Cloak Stage 1**

A cloak of purple demonic chakra forms around the user and can manifest two twenty-foot long tentacles of demon chakra. Additionally, the host manifests two horns on their head reminiscent of the ushi-oni demon.

* The user's speed and agility are elevated to 10 for the duration of their transformation while strength and endurance remain unchanged.
* Lightning release techniques are considered overwhelming during the transformation and lose their elemental weakness.
* Bukijutsu is considered overwhelming and releases a ten-foot shockwave of ranton chakra as a spiritual attack equal in rank to the bukijutsu technique. This increases the range and deadliness of the weapon strike. This can be done once per post.

### Demon Cloak Stage 2

The user is coated in a thick, ominous black and blood red chakra that coats their figure as nothing more than a silhouette of their figure remains. During this stage, the user's eyes become frightening white orbs as their head, arms, and torso become more ox-like in shape. The user is often unable to do more than roar at their foes during this transformation. The user also grows 4 twenty-foot long tentacle tails.

* The user's agility, endurance, speed, and strength are elevated to 10 while the transformation is active.
* Lightning and storm release techniques are considered overwhelming during the transformation and cost [1] rank less to cast.
* Bukijutsu is considered overwhelming and releases a ten-foot shockwave of ranton chakra as a spiritual attack equal in rank to the bukijutsu technique. This increases the range and deadliness of the weapon strike. This can be done once per post.

### Demon Mastery

* The host dons a purple aura of demonic chakra as they and Gyuki are able to unify their will and openly share his chakra and the host's body without reserve. This purple demonic chakra hugs the user's form and clothing tightly, appearing similarly. The user manifests all eight tentacle tails and they can extend to up to sixty feet long.
* The user's agility, speed, and endurance are elevated to 10 while the user's strength is elevated to 12 for the duration of the transformation.
* Lightning and storm release techniques are considered overwhelming, are boosted [1] rank higher, and lose their elemental weakness during this transformation.
* Bukijutsu is considered overwhelming and releases a twenty-foot shockwave of ranton chakra as a spiritual attack equal in rank to the bukijutsu technique. This increases the range and deadliness of the weapon strike. This can be done once per post.

## Yatsuori Style

Gyuki's host has learned to masterfully manipulate fine blades upon each of their tentacles that manifest during the cloaked transformations. Collectively, they have learned to combine blade and the elements of the storm with their tentacles in order to attack target's eight times as hard and fast as any other being could.

**Stage One**

**▰ Eight Fold Blade Creation [ Yatsuori Burēdo no Aakusei ] | Rank X | Spiritual**

The user pays chakra equal to their body rank in order to manifest blades composed of chakra upon each of their tails while in their demon cloak stages. These chakra blades cannot be broken and inflict an additional tier of trauma when interacting with targets. These blades are capable of carrying any of the user's elements and bloodline elements, dealing one related status at a tiered amount upon contact. After being used, this technique allows it's user to manifest and dismiss the swords at will with no cost for the remainder of combat, giving them full flexibility of their 'tails'.

**▰ Eight Fold Stance [ Yatsuori Dachi ] | Rank X | Simple**

The user manipulates their tentacles to stretch around their body and place the blades at each limb in the desired direction to ready themselves for any foe within their sight. Any opponent the user can visually identify and that they place their blades between them has a 1 point reduction to their agility and endurance while B rank and above causes a 2 point reduction to both of those stats. Additionally, the user's bukijutsu techniques used with these tentacles is preformed an additional time for no activation with the user's other tentacles.

**Stage Two**

**▰ Eight Fold Rising Tide [ Yatsuori Michishio ] | Rank X | Simple**

The user attacks with their multitude of swords, slashing upward with one tail's sword which sends the target ten feet into the air per rank of the technique. The user then leaps to follow their target, striking them with all of their swords in a barrage of blows that is successful if the target is unable to avoid being thrown into the air. The flurry of blades negate the target's armor bonuses and endurance stat before the user uses a supplementary action to grapple the target with a tentacle only to throw them to the ground, burring them in a crater while dealing total body paralysis at tier 1.

**▰ Eight Fold Cyclone [ Yatsuori Tatsumaki ] | Rank X | Complex**

The user rapidly spins in circles over and over as they generate a cyclone of raw demonic chakra. All objects within a ten foot radius per rank of the technique are drawn inward. Those who come into direct contact with the cyclone that is thirty feet in height and five feet in width at base rank, increasing five feet per additional rank have all armors negated and defensive and fuuin techniques treated as one rank lower when used at C Rank and below while B rank and above treats them as two ranks lower.

**Stage Three**

**▰ Eight Fold Rampant Storm Beacons [ Ōkō Suru Arashi no Bīkon ] | Rank X | Spiritual**

Each of the swords being controlled by the user's tentacles are augmented with storm chakra as they glow brightly. Each blade then produces a beam of storm chakra that causes tiered burning, body paralysis, blindness and treats spiritual techniques as one rank lower when used at C Rank and below while B rank and above treats them as two ranks lower during collisions. These beams extend the range of bukijutsu used for two posts per rank, applying the effects above. Alternatively, the beams can be charged and fired into a single location up to twenty feet away per rank of the technique, carrying the same effects.

**▰ Eight Fold Infinite Sword [ Yatsuori Mugen no Ken ] | Rank A | Simple**

The user executes one bukijutsu technique from any other style that is physically possible to use with one sword per tentacle. Each of those bukijutsu techniques are supplementary, requiring only the activation of this technique to utilize them. The user's tentacles allow the user to preform these techniques from any angle, making this extremely deadly.

**Stage Four**

**▰ Eight Fold Ink Cutter [ Yatsuori Inku Katto ] | Rank X | Simple**

From each suction cup on the user's tentacle a pressurized fountain of ink is created that cuts through techniques as though they were one rank lower when used at C rank and below while B rank and above treats techniques at two ranks lower, ignores endurance when the target is within ten feet of the user and inflicts tiered blindness if it impacts a foe, covering them. This ink washes over a twenty foot radius per rank of the technique.

**▰ Eight Fold Thunder Clap [ Yatsuori Raimei ] | Rank X | Complex**

The user slams their blade wielding tentacles into a target from all sides, causing tiered trauma at one tier higher than normal. If unevaded, the target's endurance is treated as one point lower for three posts by one point when used at C rank and below while B rank and above reduces endurance by two points. Additionally, the impact of these tentacles releases a twenty foot wave of lightning chakra in the form of a sonic boom that causes deafness and tiered paralysis.

**Stage Five**

**▰ Eight Fold Spiral Cut [ Yatsuori Rasen Kiru ] | Rank A | Simple**

The user extends all their tentacles forward to wrap a target(s) with any number of tentacles. These tentacles hoist a target into the air and hurl them in any direction up to sixty feet. As the target is released, the blade at the end of their tentacles run along the flesh of their target and slice them in a can opener fashion from neck to ankle. This technique causes tier four trauma, six stacks of bleeding if unguarded and reduces the target's endurance to zero for the next six posts.

**▰ Eight Fold Execution Strike [ Yatsuori Shikei Shikkō Sutoraiki ] | Rank S | Simple**

Making use of every tentacle, the user attempts to grapple each of the target's limbs. If successful to grapple one the others are automatically captured. Each limb captured applies it's own grappled status, requiring that and the cost of this technique's execution to break. During this time, the target's agility is reduced to zero. At the user's leisure they can use a supplementary bukijutsu attack to flay the target or even behead them while restrained. Upon capture the target suffers a single tier of trauma and for every additional post they are restrained they double that trauma, doubling the effects each post after tier four is reached.

**▰ Storm Saber [ Sutōmuseibā ] | Rank S+ | Spiritual**

The user channels their storm release into any and all weapons they command on the battlefield. Each sword ignites with energy as their storm release is enhanced to a new level, it's potent energy causing disintegrating effects as the blades glow with power. For the next ten posts the user's blades have an additional A Rank amount of force applied to them when interacting with techniques while treating physical objects and techniques as two ranks lower, allowing the energy saber to cleave uninterrupted through the masses before the user. Flesh contacted by this suffers tier four paralysis and burns upon the limb affected. Limbs severed with blades under the effect of this technique do not bleed but require double chakra to heal, repair or regenerate.

**Stage Six**

**▰ Eight Fold God of the Ancient Storm [ Yatsuori Kodai no Arashi no Kami ] | Rank S+ | Spiritual**

The user slams their tentacles on the ground, creating a two hundred foot shockwave that churns the earth, changing the landscape and causing tier 3 trauma to those in it's range. From this massive impact, the user is thrown skyward as they vanish into the clouds. From above, the clouds begin to turn black as they are filled with demonic chakra. Within the clouds, the user manipulates the clouds as well as actual lightning to shield themselves, requiring techniques to be double the chakra output of this technique to harm the user during this power up for the remainder of the post. The following post the clouds take shape, forming a titanic form of Gyuki that is three times the size of his standard form. From the ground below the only thing visible is the lower half of Gyuki's body and arms as it's head that appears from the clouds peering down at the topic. While in this form the user is visible throughout the subforum as it's tentacles can strike anywhere within the topic and three other topics in the subforum and are formed of the black storm clouds. The user may attack up to eight times each post, once per tentacle. The user's tentacles devastate the landscape with their five hundred foot length, causing lightning to leap to all conductive items, creatures, structures behind the clouds of the user's form. Each tentacle's attack is S Ranked and causes tiered paralysis, burns, and drench once the tentacle passes over a target. Anyone attacking this form must combat it with spiritual techniques and techniques cannot be treated as spiritual in collisions with the user. To destroy this form the opponent(s) must dismantle all tentacles and deliver an S+ ranked technique to the user's head. This technique remains active for eight posts.

**▰ Cataclysmic Storm [ Gekihen no Arashi ] | Rank S+| Complex**

The user thrusts all their tentacles into the earth as they expand them to any point within the topic in order to reach a target. From beneath the earth their tentacles explode skyward, threatening to skewer any targets above them, negating their agility and speed for the following post and reducing their offensive activations by one. As the user's tentacles retract after their offensive action the holes they leave begin to blast water forth from them, flooding the topic in a one hundred foot deep body of water. While within the water the user's demon, storm, water, lightning and bukijutsu techniques are considered one rank higher during collisions. Finally, this applies tier four drench to all opponents in the area. Each post following the use of this technique for three posts the user may use one raiton technique per post as a supplementary action. These techniques will originate from storm clouds formed overhead.