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Post by The Tortured Soul on Jan 23, 2009 2:35:55 GMT
Nakamura nodded to her Lieutenant. She knew It would probably be safer going first herself. But she remembered her Lieutenant's reaction to the 12th Squad invention yesterday and felt it was best to give her a sense of protecting her Captain.
Before they entered 2 Kido Corps officers walked up to them and placed the seal in their chests. Then the pair stepped through into the Dangai guided by the Hell Butterfly.
They stepped out and it was night, the opposite of the Seireitei.
They were downtown. All the shops were shut and no one was about. It wasn't raining but it had clearly been during the day as the air still felt moist and there were pools of water all over the street.
Although they weren't often called to the human world the pair did have plenty of experience there. Something definitely felt odd. Normally even at this time at night the town still made noise, but this place was strangely Quiet.
Down the street a scream from young girl was heard.
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OOC leave the NPC's up to me I'll describe things as we go on. You do have a bit of time to take in your surrounding before the scream is heard.
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Post by Peishin Louh on Jan 23, 2009 10:24:30 GMT
The Kido Corps officer, a man, she noted dryly, reached out to place the gentei on her chest. Normally she would've bawled him out for being inconsiderate but today they were in a hurry, so she took it without comment.
Takara stepped into the world-piercing-gate and ran through the dangai.
Her soul felt constricted. Her heartbeat was slow, her limbs were heavy and more sluggish than usual. It was only her mind that remained untouched; her fighting prowess was now cut to a fifth of its normal level, her strength capped, her speed curbed by the seal.
It feels like an illness, Takara thought, as she often did when venturing into the Human world. Nevetheless she was a veteran Shinigami and didn't voice her complaints to Nakamura.
They followed their Hell Butterflies to the Human world and stepped out into a cool night. As always Takara took a few moments to orient herself, to acclimatise to her new surroundings. They were in a commercial area, she noticed, but, unusually for a town this size, there was no activity to be seen anywhere.
"Is there a holiday? Some kind of festival going on somewhere?" she wondered aloud.
The hush was unnatural and it wasn't helping to still the foreboding growing inside her. Something wrong was happening, but she couldn't place her finger on what. Damn the spirit seal! If only she had her complete faculties she would-
A scream burst out not far from their location, tingeing the air with fear.
It's close! she thought, suddenly alert. She'd heard the high pitch of it before the echoes reached her. Where? Where? Damn this seal. Coming from... With a sudden shock she felt the aura of a Hollow and knew without doubt where to find the soul in distress. She turned to Nakamura.
"Nakamura-taicho!"
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Post by The Tortured Soul on Jan 28, 2009 9:35:12 GMT
Her Lieutenant called to her but Nakamura's reactions were still faster than her's even with the Seal. She was already looking in the direction the Scream came from.
Just before she flash stepped ahead she simply said to her Lieutenant "Come".
She flashstepped to an Alyyway entrance where she just caught the glimps of someone running around a corner. She continued to in pursuit making sure Takara could keep up with her and not loose her.
The few corners they turned lead to slightly larger area than the narrow alleys. It was some kind of loading area for the high street shops. A few of the 1 person width Alleys converged here and one road curved out round a corner. So they couldn't be seen from the high street from here. But what the pair found was of more concern than that.
There were 3 Arrancar the Tallest of which was at the back holding his mouth over a small girl plus. All three turned to look at the Shinigami that had just arrived.
The Arrancar at the rear is 6'10. And his Mask Fragments are on top of his head in the loose shape of a crescent moon and a large point pointing down on his chin. His eyes are a dark blue and he has a stern face. He wears the standard Arrancar Uniform, in his case the jacket is worn open and comes nearly all the way down to his feet, with the collar worn up. The open jacket displays his Hollow Hole which is in the centre of his Chest. He also wears the standard white hakama and Black and white boots. His Zanpakuto is an 80cm Katana with an X shaped tsuba and Blue tsuka-maki. He is wearing this on his left hip.
The Arrancar on the right is 6'4" tall. His Mask Fragment covers most of his head. The top of his skull and his left eye are covered. Two Large Horns grow from the top of his mask down to his chin. His right eye is a cold icy blue which stares with a killers bloodlust. He wears a breast plate made out of tough red scales that look like they could have been from a Dragon! On his legs he wears red rag-like trousers that could down to his knees. He is holding a 6 foot spear with a flat blade and decorative scales pointing down the shaft where it meets the Blade.
The one on the left He stands at 6'7". A Messy mop of Blond hair hanging loosely about the top of his head. His eyes are blue and give of a kind of innocence one only sees in the very young or the very dumb! His Mask fragment is the bottom jaw with 4 curving spikes points down toward his chest and covers his actual bottom jaw. He wares what looks like an Animal pelt around his shoulders and down his arms, though it flows loosely off his back, it happens to be the same colour as his "fur" in his Released form. On his legs he wears plain black shorts which look like they were longer but have been ripped to their current length. His arms and legs are quite muscular and he has a well developed chest, which in the centre is his Hollow Hole! He is carrying a sheathed 70 cm Katana with a Sphere for a tsuba and red tsuka-maki.
"Oh." The Tall Arrancar at the back said "We suppress our spiritual pressure but we are still found by the Shinigami, Oh well they can deal with them."
He wafted his free arm in the general direction of the 2 Shinigami.
At this point to more Arrancar rip through the wall of reality. Though it is more similar to how low hollow pass through rather than Garganta which slowly opens a hole. They burst through into this world and are immediately charging at the two shinigami. Although they could easily be mistaken for Hollow if it wasn't for their broken masks as their Hollow forms haven't been sealed into a Zanpakuto!
The one Heading for Nakamura has a Humanoid torso which is heavily muscled. He also has 4 arms and his Body is a blue colour. As his torso meets his legs he has blue fur. On the ends of his legs are hooves like goats feet. (Similar to Pan, if he was Blue had for arms and a Broken Hollow Mask). His mask is mostly intact covering most of his face bar his right eye, Right cheek area and his Lower jaw. His human features look like a guy who's seen a fight or two. He has a strong masculine jaw which is slightly stubbled. He has a Scar on his cheek that stops just below his revealed eye (with a Yellow Iris). His Hollow hole is in its usual place in the centre of his Chest.
The one heading for Takara has a large spider-like body which is Black with red Highlights. The abdomen section is filled with spikes. Also at the end of his 8 legs are white claws used for climbing but also as deadly weapons. His mask is long and thin with the forehead reaching far above his own. It is also largely intact with only small break branching out from his right eye-hole. Only a small part of his Human face is visible and his visible human eye has a red iris. The mouth of his mask is largely open (to blackness) with his upper and lower jaws only containing 4 rows of small teeth. His Hollow hole is in the centre of its thorax.
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ooc due to the HUGE size of this post I'll leave the combat till next post ^.^
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Post by Peishin Louh on Jan 28, 2009 10:15:30 GMT
Nodding, she fell in behind her captain and kept up with her shunpo. They headed off the main street and into a network of alleys, jinking this way and that as they traced the Hollow's spiritual pressure.
They came upon a litter-strewn convergence of alleyways and found three powerful beings standing round a small, female Plus. The strangely dressed men turned to regard them, quite without fear, as they arrived.
That was the first thing to draw her attention. These men weren't overly surprised to see them, and neither were they afraid that a captain-class Shinigami had come across them about to feed.
The second thing she noticed was their appearance. The tallest held the Plus, and she got the instant impression of him being a hard, ruthless man. The other two were smaller but no less imposing for their lack of height, one wearing a red-scale breastplate, the other a blonde man with a curiously boyish appearance about him.
"Oh!" said the hard man. "We suppress our spiritual pressure but we are still found by the Shinigami. Oh well they can deal with them."
Takara was about to shout a challenge when the air in the alley shattered. Two new Hollows burst out of Hueco Mundo and into the Human world, headed straight for Nakamura and herself with a killing gleam in their eyes.
Charging the lieutenant was a huge, bloated spider-Hollow. Its body was red and black, riddled with savage looking spines, and its eight legs were tipped with viciously barbed claws. It howled through a long, top-heavy mask as it came at her, its one Human eye filled with crimson bloodlust.
With a frown of concentration, Takara used shunpo to counter-charge it. She landed on its weirdly shaped head, her zanpakuto already swung and trailing a long spurt of blood, and leapt off as the Hollow fell. It skidded a few feet in the rubbish and came to a stop at the same time as the Shinigami landed lightly on her feet some distance away.
She turned to regard it as it stood, mewling in mixed rage and pain. Its severed leg hit the floor next to her and twitched spasmodically.
Takara flicked her zanpakuto, shedding the blood that had stuck to the blade, and beckoned it to charge.
"Come on."
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Post by The Tortured Soul on Jan 28, 2009 11:39:21 GMT
Nakamura was charged by The large muscular Hollow. It had appeared a lot closer to her than the other did to Takara, it was also faster, so Nakamura was caught by surprise more than her Lieutenant.
However something so weak posed little threat to The Captain, It came at her fist first and although her Sword was sheathed when it had arrived it was drawn just in time to block the punch, slashing the demi-Arrancar's hand. It stumbled back and she quickly pounced forward, not even needing flash step while it was still screaming about it's hand. With one slash she tore straight through the remainder of her mask. The Hollow screamed as it disintegrated. Nakamura turned to look over her Shoulder giving the Tallest Arrancar a stern look.
The Spirder-Like Arrancar let out a loud Hollow roar. Takara was taunting it so it had time to compose itself from the pain. It jumped into the air, swinging it's Abdomen out and spraying sticky silk at Takara hoping to glue her to the ground.
The other Arrancar looked on watching the Shinigami as they battled their underlings.
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Post by Peishin Louh on Jan 28, 2009 12:36:09 GMT
The arachnid hopped into the air and swung its tail round to spray her with a cloud of sticky, weblike material, roaring as it did so.
Great, first it attacks me, then it craps on me.
She lowered her zanpakuto and extended her free hand, index and middle fingers pointed and aimed at the centre of the floating silken mass, muttering the incantation to hado number four.
"Byakurai," she concluded.
The kido pierced the web, a lance of searing light that melted through it and killed its forward motion, and continued on towards the Hollow.
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Post by The Tortured Soul on Jan 28, 2009 14:34:56 GMT
The Two unusually dress Arrancar looked slightly worried at how easily Nakamura defeated their companion, but this was brief and they retained their air of intimidation. But the Tall Arrancar decided to provoke Nakamura by throwing the spirit child into the Corner of the area.
Nakamura Flash stepped and quickly grabbed her mid air. The child was a nervous wreck so Nakamura did the kindest thing, She placed her hand above the girls eyes, gently sending her to sleep with an unnamed kido spell. She left the girl safely on the roof top of one the shops and then flash stepped to infront of the Arrancar who threw her.
"That was hardly a challenge for a Captain, but you appear to be the strongest here, so I'm going to take you out first." She said to The tallest of the Arrancar. "I am Nakamura Ai-Hanako, Gobantai-Taicho and it will be the last name you hear!"
The other two Arrancar looked concerned and the Blond one actually turned round and raised his fist but the Arrancar Nakamura challenged raised his hand to him. He stopped but protested!
"Did you see, what she did to Brute-P, you're not gunna let her get away with that are ya, we gotta pound her!"
He looked over to his dense friend and said
"I Shall deal with her myself, you two concentrate on her companion."
The other Arrancar turned back to watch Takara's fight while he turned to Nakamura
"You can call me Ambrosio and I think you should remember that, co you ain't gunna be hear no more names missy!"
He use Sonido to appear behind her and attacked her with his bare hand in a chopping motion. Though his movements were easily sensed by Nakamura as he was only moving at a Lieutenant's Shunpo speed. She blocked with Hibiki and simply said.
"Is that the best you can do?"
The spider-like Hollow barely reacted in time throwing his upper body back to do a mid-air backflip just in time to dodge the kido. He then fell towards the Lieutenant with his spiked Abdomen going straight for her.
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Post by Peishin Louh on Jan 28, 2009 16:28:38 GMT
Shunpo removed her from danger, propelling her backwards while she swung her sword up in one hand. She was aiming for the joint of the remaining frontal leg, hoping to remove another limb.
The spider crashed to the floor, its spikes cracking the concrete beneath their wicked points, and howled like a vengeful demon.
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Post by The Tortured Soul on Jan 28, 2009 23:51:23 GMT
The Arrancar and the Shingami Captain continued to exchange strike and counter strike while using their respective high speed movement techniques. Nakamura was most gauging how strong the arrancar was at this point and was just defensively blocking the Arrancar.
The spider-like Hollow got itself back on it's feet and once again charged at Takara sticking out it's remaining front arm hoping to plunge the spiked tip into Takara.
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Post by Peishin Louh on Jan 29, 2009 0:13:19 GMT
Takara had just about had enough.
She didn't dodge. She lifted her arm and shifted her torso, so that the offending leg whispered past her armpit, then slammed her arm down, trapping the limb against her body past the first joint.
Having voided bodily harm, Takara stabbed with her zanpakuto, aiming to bury it in the spider-Hollow's less-Human eye socket. Such a blow would, if she had judged her opponent rightly, kill it outright.
A kido would have been more fitting, she thought grimly, but there's no sense in wasting my reserves on a weakling when more fully-formed Arrancar wait nearby.
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Post by The Tortured Soul on Jan 30, 2009 1:58:42 GMT
The spider screamed in pain as it's mask cracked and split apart. It's body then disappeared into black smoke, it was purified.
The two Arrancar weren't happy about this and began walking slowly toward Takara.
Nakamura and the Arrancar paused in a stand off. He hadn't managed to land a blow on the Captain adn was starting to get annoyed.
"Ok shinigami taicho I guess I should take you more seriously." Ambrosio said, mocking in his voice when he referred to the Captain by rank. He reached down and drew his Zanpakuto and took stance waiting for Nakamura's reaction.
Nakamura had been aware of Takara's fight and was very much aware she'd now have to deal with 2 Arrancar. She felt her Lieutenant could handle, but still she felt she should give her a head start. Also with her own opponent about to step things up a gear it might not be a bad idea to do the same herself.
She flash stepped next to Takara. This initially confused Ambrosio as he prepared for an attack that didn't come. She was only next to her lieutenant long enough to whisper her courtesy warning in Takara's ear.
"Cover your ears."
She returned in front of the perplexed Ambrosio.
"Oh I'm sorry, couldn't follow my movements? No matter I think I should show you some respect as you are taking me seriously."
Her spiritual pressure was increasing to the point where a golden aura growing visibly formed her. The Arrancar she face was actually surprised at the spiritual pressure he was seeing even though this wasn't much from her just enough to release her Zanpakuto.
Nakamura raised her Katana so the tsuba was next to her mouth. Softly saying the release command to the spirit within.
"Sing, Hibiki."
She lowered Hibiki so it was level with her chest on her left side pointing behind her. The Golden aura that had been surrounding her flowed into Hibiki as she did this and the sword began to glow. Hibiki then began singing "Sing" and Nakamura slowly swung the Blade out horizontally around her. While the sword changed as it moved around Nakamura the vocals got louder, faster and higher in pitch. Once Hibiki was on Nakamura's right side at full arms length the voice had lost all clarity and was a painfully disorientating whine.
All the Arrancar present end up grabbing their heads in pain. The one holding the spear drops it to grab his head while Ambrosio simeply clutches his head while still holding his katana.
Once the transformation was complete the Glow and noise faded away. Nakamura simply smiled while the Arrancar were all still writhing in pain. She didn't need to take advantage of their temporary disorientation but she thought it would help Takara who was faced with two opponents.
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(The pair have worked with each other long enough to know whats going Takara would easily know that her warning meant she was about the release and the effect it would have on the Arrancar. They have probably fought a few Arrancar together in the 50 or so years Takara has been her VC so she'll be plenty aware of Nakamura's tactics)
Edit: Realised I'd forgotten about the little girl so I've edited my post, few posts back. just so you know
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Post by Peishin Louh on Jan 30, 2009 10:34:06 GMT
As the spider-Hollow dissolved she felt it fade, the newly-purified soul like a refreshing drink among the stink of the Arrancar's spiritual pressure.
Talking of Arrancar...
She turned on the two approaching her and brought her zanpakuto into a defensive stance. When Nakamura appeared briefly at her shoulder she didn't react, knowing what was coming from the shunpo as much as her superior's whispered words.
Very deliberately exaggerating her movements, Takara stuck her fingers in her ears and her tongue out at the two confused, hulking Arrancar in facing her. Off to one side she saw Nakamura perform her little pre-release ritual and on cue their enemies' faces twisted in pain. While her opponents were distracted by their pain the lieutenant took her chance.
"Chant, Hachisenkami," she said.
The katana in her right fist glowed, became shapeless, extended, and took the form of a yari. The shaft was two metres of black-veined redwood tipped by ninety centimetres of straight, wickedly sharp blade. Two blue tassels hung from either point of the shaft, and set in the wood at its base were three blue gems that glowed gently with a light of their own.
She spun the spear above her head and brought it crashing down one-handed towards the larger Arrancar's shoulder. Extending her free hand to aim at the other, she released hado #31.
"Shakkaho!"
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Post by The Tortured Soul on Jan 30, 2009 11:21:25 GMT
The Blond in his pain barely reacted in his disoriatated state, he simply dropped to one knee... The Blade of the Yari cut his sholder, which made him cry out even more.
However the smaller Arrancar was hit in the Shoulder by the Red shot of fire. This sent him up in the air spinning. However it completely woke him from the pain of Nakamura's release. He continued spinning in the air and landed in "press-up position" with his hands landing on His Zanpakuto. he got up picking his Zanpakuto up as he went and turned to face the Shinigami and his comrade.
"Step back Raul, I'll take her!"
His larger companion unsheathed his Zanpakuto and pushed the Yari off his arm as he stood up and took a few steps back clutching his shoulder. The other Arrancar then used Sonido to parry Takara's Zanpakuto and hold it to the ground.
"So, another spear user I see. I am Emilio and you ain't gunna be leaving here alive hunny!"
He then quickly swung his Spear up from holding down Takara's Zanpakuto to slash at her face.
Meanwhile Ambrosio has recovered from Nakamura's Shikai while she had been patiently waiting. He lashed out at her with his Zanpakuto, again moves she easily blocked.
"I know I'm meant to be taking you seriously but is this reallly all you've got?"
The pair then dissappeared in a Flurry of Sonido attacks and Shunpo blocks.
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Post by Peishin Louh on Jan 30, 2009 11:38:43 GMT
One on one is good, I'm not complaining.
Emilio slashed at her face with his spear, an attempt thwarted by the lieutenant's deft use of bakudo number eight. She'd let go of her zanpakuto with her left hand, lifted it, and thanks to the small kido-shield she'd been able to catch the blade on her wrist without harm to hook it over her head. At the same time she grabbed the shaft of her weapon in her right hand and used the momentum of her turn to slash at the Arrancar's ribs.
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Post by The Tortured Soul on Jan 30, 2009 12:55:01 GMT
Emilio used Sonido to appear behind Takara. Though he wasn't aware his Sonido was much slower than Takara's. His Sonido was probably around the Equivalent to a 9th seat's 15 steps per flash.
he thrust forward with his spear hoping to impale her straight through the back, and still completely under-estimating his opponents abilities.
Ambrosio was becomming irritated that he couldn't hit Nakamura, even though she still hadn't attempted any real attack. He went for a feint. He swung with his right hand while launching a Bala directly underneath, knowing the Captain would block the sword and thus be defenceless against the Bala.
His trick worked nearly worked... but Nakamura had enough time to make Hibiki create a Bass sound that Blasted the Bala off course and sent it hurtling harmlessly into a building. Then for the first time this fight, she went on the offensive and swung out at the Arrancar rather than just block. He narrowly avoided the blow with Sonido and thus the pair began flashing across the night sky once more.
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