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Post by +Rinri+ on Nov 19, 2010 19:40:47 GMT -5
As the many hollow fell with the gargatuan Menos Grande behind them, the captain took liberty of his zanpaku-to's avian features, kicking off of the ground and taking to the sky, his black and white wings flapping every few moments. But out of the battle going on, one word rang louder than any.
"Bankai!!"
In a glorious explosion, the captain released every ounce of his reiatsu, plunging his okatana into his wing before slinging the blood downward as it seemed to stop at two points; these two points created similar wings as the one blood was spewn, creating three sets of black and white wings. As one of the more flight-capable hollows soared towards him, nothing gave off the warning he was about to attack other than his sword twitching. With this twitching, he gathered shadows to his blade in an almost perfect instant, much like his Kamikiri he used in his shikai.. but it wasn't; it was far more powerful. He swung his sword upward, releasing the powerful shadow wave known by one name..
Kage Ishikiri.
One of his unique abilities severed through the hollow's body like lava through butter, sending the remaining shadows across the battlefield. He smiled, the hollow's severed carcass falling inches near one of his subordinates, causing them to jump quickly out of the way, fearing it was still alive.
"Focus more on the Menos, Yoshiro... your division may to be able to handle them without facing massive casualities." Darakushita suggested, causing Yoshiro to look at the large, black cloaked beasts. "Right."
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Post by Nero Maxim on Nov 19, 2010 20:56:58 GMT -5
Atop the Menos' shoulder, the Arrancar woman's eyes never left Yoshiro as he leapt into the air dramatically and called for bankai, leaving his subordinates to fend for themselves.
"Oh my, what a display~" She hummed musically as she watched him cutting through the hollows with ease. She crossed her legs and leaned her elbow on her knee and her head on her elbow to watch him.
"What a handsome young man... and those terrifyingly precious eyes... My my..." She said as a smile crept over her face. "I might have to keep that one for myself..."
Below on the battlefield, it was full on war. Groups of shinigami in black charged forwards against the large and more powerful hollows. The only advantage they had being the size and numbers.
One young shinigami with a streak of white hair through his otherwise jet-black hair ran forward, zanpakutou held tightly in hand and with a woman with short brown hair and another man with a bald head close behind. Ahead of them, two hollows were rampaging forwards.
The closer of the two was a mammoth praying mantis-like hollow with a long neck, four skinny legs and a pair of sickles for arms. Behind it, the flying centipede followed.
The black-haired man gritted his teeth and held his hand forward as the two behind him ran ahead. The bald-headed man in front now as the mantis swung down at him.
With a huge clang, the hollow's blades slammed against the man's zanpakutou as a foot landed on his shoulder. The more nimble woman leapt up and up along the hollow's arm to it's shoulder, severing the sickle in the process before jumping up and stabbing the hollow in the eye with her finger.
"Hadou #4, Byakurai!" She shouted as the lightning bolt blasted through the hollow's head and killed it. But she was already on the move, standing and turning on the collapsing hollow's back.
Below, the black-haired shinigami jumped up, landing on the bald-headed man's shoulder and jumping again to land his foot in the waiting hands of the woman. With a boost, he jumped a third time, this time soaring through the air and landing cleanly on the hollow's back with his zanpakutou aimed down, piercing it's head and running along to cleave it in two all the way to the end of it's tail before landing on the ground.
Once again, the three charged towards the next oncoming target...
A Menos with a particularly glowing red mouth.
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Post by +Rinri+ on Nov 19, 2010 21:37:21 GMT -5
As the three who were quite possibly his most epic members defeated two large hollows with ease, they began to charge towards the Menos....
"Attack... they'll die at it's Cero!"
Yoshiro inhaled, sighing as his skewering attack towards a different Menos stopped...... only to have the same shadow sink into the ground, surfing throughout the area through other shadows, until it appeared in front of the three. Almost instantly, it rose, creating a lengthy and sharp spire of blackness in front of the three, providing a walk path towards the hollow's upper body, as well as serving as a weapon that drove right into the hollow's chest. It stopped it's movement, as well as injured it greatly, stopping it's Cero. "Now..... kill it!" Yoshiro shouted, swinging his blade.
As he did this, a single Menos Cero screamed through the air... towards Yoshiro.
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Post by Nero Maxim on Nov 19, 2010 21:53:35 GMT -5
The Epic Three nodded dutifully at their Captain and wasted no time in getting to work. Like free runners they sprinted at the Menos' body, hurdling and sliding around obstacles in their way like pros.
Hopping up along the shadow steps, they ran straight up and jumped onto the hollow's body. The woman and the streak-haired man leapt onto it's shoulders while the bald man jumped directly into the enormous hollow hole in it's chest and stabbed sideways into it's chest cavity, only to start moving his zanpakutou up and around the circle like a bloody clock.
The ones on the shoulders were quick to move as well as the hollow's enormous head turned to face the woman. She avoided it's mouth by jumping and clinging to it's long nose, dangling hundreds of feet above the ground while the streak-haired man climbed up the back of it's head and stood tall with his zanpakutou above his head.
With a strong stab, he pierced the top of the hollow's head and ran forwards towards the edge of it's face before dropping off. With the weight of his body pulling him down with his blade embedded in the Menos' face, he shot down, grabbing the woman on the way before dislodging his sword in the Menos' chin and falling the rest of the way to the ground, landing easily on his face as the behemoth fell over.
KA-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
An enormous crimson explosion suddenly tore through the air as the cero heading for Yoshiro suddenly exploded, sending a wave of reiatsu out, momentarily crushing everyone to their knees as the two hulking powers slammed together like angry thunderclouds.
The explosion happened so suddenly that nobody seemed to know what happened. The dust cleared, and the cero was gone.
Yoshiro was untouched - aside from any damage from the explosion.
The Shinigami, and even the hollows around them, seemed to be confused for a moment before turning back and attacking one another again like nothing had happened.
=-=
On the Menos Grande's shoulder, the Arrancar was fuming angrily, gripping the Menos' robe tightly in her hands.
"Which one fired a damn Cero at my angel!!" She shrieked, looking down the line from Menos to Menos. "I told you, I wanted him!! Kill the rest, keep him alive! If you have to tear his arms and legs off to keep him down, do it, but keep him alive!!"
The Menos each gave a sullen roar of acknowledgment as the Arrancar crossed her arms across her chest and humphed.
"I'll have to thank the hapless warrior who got in the way of that one for him. Poor soul, they must have been delicious as well to sacrifice themselves for him... And he must be quite a leader indeed, ohhhoho..."
=-=
With smoke wafting lightly from the end of the barrel, Orion spun the white pistol on his finger then holstered it behind his back before leaning back against the tree to watch the battle continue.
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Post by +Rinri+ on Nov 19, 2010 22:18:56 GMT -5
As the Cero's collided with another, Yoshiro didn't flinch. If the Cero would've hit him, he wouldn't have been killed.. but he would have been severely injured and possibly taken out of the battle... something that couldn't happen at the moment. He inhaled, his heart racing slightly. Alright..... now.. what fucking Menos has the balls to fire?
Almost instantly, a red light engulfed the captain from a Menos once again attempting a Cero...
However, it didn't last. Almost instantly, Yoshiro disappeared in a blazing flashstep, appearing beside the Menos, sword pressing into it's next. "Hadou no Rokujuusan, Souren Soukatsui..." using dual Soukatsui blasts, Yoshiro sent a single spiralling blast of the two into the mask of the hollow, the other impacting in the black cloaked beasts chest, effectively killing it. He slowly descended with the hollow's fall, his wings keeping him from falling too fast and hard onto the ground. "Next?" he asked, cracking his knuckles.
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Post by Nero Maxim on Nov 19, 2010 22:53:03 GMT -5
Nearby, the Epic Three were already back in combat, standing back to back to back in a tight circle as hollows rampaged around them, fighting other members of the Division. So far none had tried to come after them, which was good because there was a problem.
"How bad is it?" Streaks asked over his shoulder to Baldy.
"I'll live. It's just a flesh wound." He growled in reply, obviously pained from something.
"Flesh wound my ass!" Boobs (for lack of a better name) spoke up. "I can feel it poking me in the back!"
Baldy's chest was crimson through his shihakusho. A black spike was jutting out of his chest, as well as out of his back. After landing amidst the explosion, the chunk of hollow bone had gone right through his abdomen's left side.
"Alright, relax. We'll keep you covered until the Captain can keep us covered enough to open a senkaimon for you-"
"I'm not going anywhere! You know that..." Baldy cut off Streaks, glaring at him and forcing himself up. "I can fight through this. When they're all dead, that's when we rest."
Streaks smirked a little and nodded. "Either them or us, huh?"
Boobs snorted.
"Now you're talking, Boss." Baldy grinned as he raised his sword. In front of him, a ten foot tall hollow that looked like a lion with a mane of snakes and a tail with an axe head on it was leaping forward.
"Die, Beast!" Baldy roared before stabbing his sword into it's face, killing it.
"Alright, here they come!" Streaks announced as hollows reacted to the death of it's brother and turned to them. "Stay tight and keep each other covered!"
At once, the hollows charged in.
=-=
Up on the Menos, the Arrancar was watching with annoyance as more ceros were fired at the soaring Captain. She'd ordered a stop, but Menos were stupid beyond belief.
However, something that pissed her off even more.
"We're losing!!" She yelled, pounding her fist into the Menos' shoulder and causing it to yelp loudly in pain before she pet it better.
"Damnit, why haven't we killed any of them yet!?" She growled, baring her teeth before looking at the other five Menos standing in a line between her and the battle.
"All of you, Go! Kill them all! Spare only the leader! Kill him, and I will devour you!"
With a rumbling growl, the five Menos took a collective step forward and began to walk into battle like a battalion of two hundred foot tall tanks.
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Post by +Rinri+ on Nov 20, 2010 9:19:04 GMT -5
As the arrancar fauned over the captain like a schoolgirl, Yoshiro continued to fight.
A small voice entered in his mind... a voice he hadn't heard in roughly four years... a voice he thought was dead and killed off by Roy.
Somto.
Somto's hollow powers were devoured by Roy four years ago by Yoshiro's plead. This left him just another voice in his mind... but the loss of his hollow hollow powers caused Somto to receed into his mind as a silent husk of his old self. But now he was back alive... perhaps it was the thrill of battle Yoshiro was beginning to feel. Hell, Yoshiro hadn't had this much fun killing stuff since..... well. Never!
"Having fun, Shi?" Somto asked as he stumbled out of the recesses of Yoshiro's mind. Yoshiro half smiled. 'Long time no see.... how's being powerless going for you?' Yoshiro mentally asked, carving into a smaller hollow.... despite being a lengthy distance away. His bankai was amazing; nearly complete shadow control proved very worthy in this battle.
"Mmm... don't rub it in. It's pissing me off that you can't blow off a hollows head or wipe out one of those Menos faster...." Somto growled, shaking his dreaded hair. Yoshiro smiled. "I deal." he said quietly, stepping back and dodging a Menos stomping feet. "'s alot of them, huh?" Somto asked as he watched through Yoshiro's eyes.. seeing the many many menos... an army of hollows.
"Maybe." Yoshiro said as he sliced through the air, causing the spike that skewered the menos to help the Epic Three to sink into the ground, appearing in front of Yoshiro, only to rise in the form of a very thin, impossibly sharp, needle-like disc. Yoshiro quickly grabbed the disc, hurling it towards the Menos that nearly made Yoshiro turn into a Wil E Coyote cartoon. The disc surfed through the air until it met flesh; severing the white foot and causing the hollow to slowly lose balance before it fell down with an earth shattering thud. With a single hand motion, the shadow was gone, back into the ground.
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Post by Nero Maxim on Nov 20, 2010 20:15:55 GMT -5
"I've got two over here!"
"Hadou #4, Byakurai!"
"Watch your left!"
The Epic Three remained huddled together back to back as piles of hollow bits started to stack up at their feet. Whether it be the dust left behind from cleansing or the bodies after being obliterated by kidou or another means, they were becoming trapped within the mountain.
"We can't stay here, we'll be buried at this rate!" The female shinigami called back with concern rife in her voice. "We won't even be able to see!"
"Damnit, how many of them can there be!?" Baldy growled in annoyance and pain before slicing a hollow's head in half with his katana.
"I never counted, but I'm more concerned about the Menos we saw coming down after them. Where did they go?" Streaks replied as suddenly the hollows ceased to appear.
"They stopped?" The Female asked uncertainly.
Streaks pushed a hollow's body in front of him but it didn't budge. "I'll take a look..." He said back before clambering up. "Stay here."
As he rose up above the carnage, he found a nearly empty field. The snow had been completely blown away by the battle, leaving only yellowish grass and a forest of dead trees in the distance.
"I don't see anything..." He said as a faint reddish glow started to appear, casting a deep shadow in front of him.
Spinning quickly, Streaks found himself face to face with a Menos, standing high above them and glaring down their rabbit hole with a Cero orb in it's mouth.
"Fuck! RUN!" He shouted down, but it was too late.
=-=
In the trees, Orion watched as the Menos descended upon the small hill of corpses with the three shinigami in it. The seconds ticked by on his counter, the amount of time he had to give them before he acted.
As the cero appeared, the counter hit zero.
Reaching back to his holster, the white pistol appeared in a flash, pointed straight at the Menos' face as it prepared to fire. His ungloved finger rested on the trigger...
A faint blip flickered in the back of his mind. Barely registering amidst the immense forces at work, but present nonetheless.
Hesitantly, the weapon returned to it's holster as a smirk appeared under his mask.
"I give you an A+ for dramatic timing..."
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"We won't get out in time!"
"It's firing!"
The Menos' cero exploded forth in a terrifyingly powerful beam of destruction, aimed point blank at the pile of dead hollows and the trapped shinigami.
From the shadows, a shadow darted forth and leapt directly into the way of the blast.
Instead of exploding, the beam disappeared as whatever it hit suddenly gave off a cloud of smoke and landed on the ground nearby.
Streaks looked at the cloud for a moment, then down at the other two. "Something happened. I think someone got in the way."
"Wouldn't it have exploded?" The Female pointed, getting only a shrug in response.
'Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....'
The demonic growl seemed to come from within the cloud of smoke. Two red glows appeared, followed by ten more around it. An eerie red glow appeared from within, turning the smoke into a blood-colored mess as whatever was within began to grow.
"Here!"
Streaks spun around and looked up to find a familiar face holding a hand out for him to grab.
"M-Miku-chan!?"
"Take my hand, we have to get out of the way!" She said hurriedly as Streaks nodded and took it, pulling himself up. He turned and helped Miku lift Baldy out, then the Female.
"Run towards the trees!" Miku shouted at them before drawing her crimson-hilted katana. "I'll deal with the Menos!"
"But-"
"Just go!"
The Trio nodded and turned, heading for the safety of the trees near the hidden Orion.
Miku turned back and watched as the cloud of red smoke grew and grew, taller than it had been in Yoshiro's office.
That time had been a simple kidou.
This time, Yajuu Dorobou had absorbed a Menos' cero.
Finally the beast grew out of the smoke, taller and taller before it stopped at nearly three quarters of the Menos' height.
"Doro-kun!" Miku shouted up to it.
"RrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRAAAAAAAAAAUGHHH!!!"
The dog-like spirit's roar dwarfed anything the Menos had been capable of up until then, shaking the ground and blasting away the smoke.
The Menos turned slowly towards it as a black dot shot up Dorobou's fur and on top of it's head.
Miku pointed her sword at the Menos.
"Bite!!"
The Menos never saw it coming. Dorobou lunged forward and the hollow's entire head disappeared inside it's mouth before being dramatically torn off by Yajuu Dorobou's two rows of razor sharp teeth.
Holding on tight, Miku pointed towards the next Menos.
"Return!" She called out as the summon turned its head and opened it's mouth.
It took only a moment for the cero it had absorbed to rematerialize in Doro-kun's maw before firing back and obliterating the top half of the nearby Menos.
With the absorbed energy gone, Doro-kun shrank back to the size of a normal dog, with Miku hopping off and kneeling beside him.
Miku patted Doro-kun's head with a bright smile on her face.
"Good Doggie..."
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"NOO! MY MENOS!" The Arrancar shrilled angrily, standing up on one of the last two remaning Menos Grande. Her entire hollow force had been completely wiped out, and she was livid.
"That little runt will pay for interfering..." She growled before hopping off the shoulder and landing on the ground with ease.
Purposefully, she started to march towards the unsuspecting Miku and Dorobou with her hand on her sword.
"I'm going to dice that girl and use her for garnish!"
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Post by +Rinri+ on Nov 20, 2010 21:55:30 GMT -5
As the Cero was charged, Yoshiro's eyes widened. He swung his sword in an attempt to cause a shadow to rise to defend and block most of the force of the Cero, but the shadow couldn't travel fast enough... but Miku was. Yajuu absorbed it and later returned it as Miku and her blade attacked together like a true team.
But as the arrancar hopped off her Menos ride and began to walk towards Miku and Yajuu, Yoshiro's eyes widened. "Ooh, pretty girl...." Somto smirked at the arrancar. "She's dead."
Yoshiro instantly disappeared in a furious flashstep, appearing on the shoulder of a single menos and then forward, bounding through the battlefield towards the Arrancar. "Miku!!!!" he screamed, attempting to warn her. He just hoped he could get to her first.
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Post by Nero Maxim on Nov 22, 2010 16:18:07 GMT -5
Miku heard the distant voice and nervously smiled as she recognized Yoshiro's voice. No doubt coming to congratulate her and sincerely apologize.
'I knew I did well...' She thought to herself cheerfully before scratching Yajuu under the chin and standing up to face Yoshiro.
"Hai! Sorry I'm late, Tai...-"
She turned and found herself face to face with a furious glare belonging to an irate Arrancar holding a blade out towards her and within only a couple steps of Miku.
"-cho."
"Know your place, Little Girl! Now pay!" The Arrancar screeched. Her sword rose up, ready to strike the girl down. The murderous intent in the Arrancar's eyes fed upon the terror and helplessness that was in Miku's eyes.
The end...
"Narcisista."
The Arrancar froze and looked up with her blade only inches from Miku's head.
Her eyes widened and her blade shook.
"Y....You.... Impossible."
Ten paces behind Miku stood Orion with his arms crossed over his chest and a terrifying glare fixed on the Arrancar Narcisista.
"What are you doing here?!" She demanded, reaching out and knocking Miku out of the way before holding her sword up defensively. Miku rolled off to the side before standing and rushing away, turning to look back at the encounter.
"Temper, temper Narcisista." Orion flatly stated without any playful tone in his voice. At the same time he raised his hand and showed the powder in his palm before tossing it in her direction.
The Arrancar picked up the concentrated scent of the bait and shuddered questionably, making an odd gasping moaning sound before glaring at Orion once it faded.
"You did this! You tricked us!"
"Well, I didn't know you were going to show up, so technically, no I didn't." The hooded man countered, smirking under his hood as he watched the Arrancar getting more annoyed with him.
She opened her mouth to speak, but he interrupted her first.
"Do you remember my rules from last time?" He asked, his voice and eyes turning serious.
Narcisista immediately sheathed her sword, turned and started to run as fast as she possibly could, shooting past the last Menos in the line. She stopped only in the empty field beyond it and turned as lines began to appear in mid-air.
Pushing his arms back, Orion's coat slid off his shoulders and to the ground, leaving him without his hood and in his white shirt with his guns strapped to his back.
Narsisita bore her teeth at Orion as the garganta opened behind her. Two human sized hollows appeared, standing beside their mistress.
Primera.
With his left arm, Orion reached up to the right and tore the sleeve off, revealing a powerfully built bicep ringed with seven black bands.
"Are you sure you want to do this? You know what I did last time we met." He called out flatly to the Arrancar.
Narsisista looked like she was hesitating for a moment before jabbing her finger towards him. "Kill him!"
Orion shook his head and sighed.
"Fools."
Gripping the topmost band on his arm with his hand, Orion waited for a second before looking at Yoshiro nearby.
"I'd start running now."
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