[center][B][U]Tetsujin, Iyana[/U][/B][/center]

Bodies, thats what they all were, bodies with minds of men and women alike, minds that opposed her in this moment. Minds with bodies that fell before her, their vitals damaged, or their bodies crippled. Regardless they all ended up more or less the same, and while Iyana had many close calls in that battle, none managed to do much more than cause small scratches or varied amounts of bruising. Many fell to her, and some even pleaded for their lives or turned tail and run.

She let a few escape, but most ended up dead, crippled, or unconscious. She had certainly made a dent in their forces and she could tell, even from her low vantage point, that they were winning. Deciding to take a short break and survey the battlefield, Iyana spin kicked one man in the face and then sent off a rotating blade and a burst of chakra to disorient the others, utilizing an explosive tag or two to cause a distraction as she leapt into the trees and then up from them into the air where her chakra cloak formed wings and held her aloft. It took her little effort to do so, she had studied different birds so as to know what would be most effective for particular types of flight. For the moment she had created a mixture between the wings of a hummingbird and the wings of a hawk, allowing her to get plenty of altitude quickly, and also hover in midair almost effortlessly.

From high above the trees she looked down on the battlefield and saw much blood and much death. At this she smiled for if there was one thing about the Empire that pleased her it was the effectiveness of their shinobi, including herself.

Smelling something that turned her mind from the thought, Iyana's head turned, following the scent to see a large column of smoke ascending from somewhere below tree level into the sky. [B]"Interesting...I wonder what that is,"[/B] Iyana said, thinking aloud before she turned and began to fly towards the growing smoke cloud to investigate its cause.

As she neared it, the cloud began to dissipate, its source apparently stifled or doused. Quickly she dove and when she neared the spot, caught herself by catching a tree branch and swinging over it once to slow some of her momentum. After this she swung off of it and rolled as she hit the ground, getting right to her feet, ready to fight a moment before she realized she was in the presence of allies. Relaxing a good deal, Iyana glanced between the three, looking first at Izari before looking at Keiko and then the Jinch girl and smirking a bit as she listened to her list off the various ways she had killed the people who she had apparently burned, thus causing the smoke trail that had led her to this location.

Glancing around, and nodding her head in approval as she did so, Iyana spoke to Remi, [B]"Gotta say you did a fine job wiping out these shitheads".[/B] There was a tone of approval and amusement in her voice, though the way she said shitheads might have implied that Remi had merely been fighting mooks. Granted, in Iyana's opinion they had all been fighting mooks, otherwise this [I]might[/I] have been a bit more challenging. Realizing that she was still using In'ei kabaa, Iyana exhaled slowly and then inhaled just as slow, pulling the remainder of the unused chakra back into her body for later use. She didn't want to waste any afterall. [B]"Hey florist!"[/B] Iyana called to get Keiko's attention, [B]"Didja manage to do even half the damage that Ms. Hornet over here did?"[/B] Iyana's expression belied a certain level of doubt, as if she figured that Keiko had been more or less useless in the battle thus far, though she might be mildly impressed if she had been something other than that, regardless it hardly mattered.