Lunar
11th Squad Captain
THE TOAST KING!
Lord of Toast
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Post by Lunar on Jan 18, 2009 4:59:16 GMT
(This is a private RP for me and Peishin)
Captain Susumu Kaede was on a personal trip to the living world. He walked out of a video game store with a collection of new magazines and strategy guides in his gigai. It was dark as the city he was in shut down for the night. He decided to go for a walk and look at the stars before returning to Soul Society.
(I said I would post this earlier, but I got distracted then had to go to work)
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Post by Peishin Louh on Jan 18, 2009 11:31:13 GMT
Reina was bored as she wandered the dark streets.
So bored. Even Hueco Mundo would have been more interesting than the Human world tonight. At least there something might have attacked her. Instead she'd chosen to visit the mortal realm and had been wandering all night.
On a whim she turned off the street and into a 24-hour convenience shop.
At first things were fine. She picked up one of the weird packages from a shelf and peeled it open, but it tasted horrible. It was hard and waxy, chewy, but with a nasty, lingering flavour. When she hiccupped a stream of bubbles floated out of her mouth.
"Oooooh," she crooned, reaching out to one. "Pretty."
That was when things started to go downhill.
The clerk, standing behind the counter, had seen the door open and shut by itself. Not too unusual, he thought, as the sensors caused it to go off if a dog went past. Then, though, he saw a bar of soap float up off a shelf, unpack itself, and begin to disappear in bite-sized chunks just as though someone was eating it!
And to top it off, a stream of bubbles appeared from nowhere! Understandably curious, he lifted the partition in his counter and walked into the centre of the shop to investigate the phenomenon.
"What are you looking at?" Reina asked testily.
The clerk, of course, made no reply. This irritated the Espada.
"Hey, I'm talking to you! Stop looking at me like that!"
The clerk, of course, did not stop.
"What? Am I that freaky looking?" she seethed. "Screw you!"
With a flick of her wrist she snapped the Human in two, and sucked up his soul without thinking. Of course such a thin soul tasted almost as horrible as the soap, which just deepened her bad mood.
Scowling, Reina turned her fury on the shop around her.
And that, really, was when the night began to get interesting.
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Lunar
11th Squad Captain
THE TOAST KING!
Lord of Toast
Posts: 401
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Post by Lunar on Jan 19, 2009 5:38:50 GMT
Kaede saw what Reina did, and knew he had to do something. He walked into the store very casually, trusting his gigai to hide that he was a shinigami. "You know, he couldn't see you is why he was frightened." He said. "There was really no reason to do that." He had his hand in his pocket holding a piece of Soul Candy in case she attacked.
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Post by Peishin Louh on Jan 19, 2009 10:39:22 GMT
She jerked to a stop when a voice behind her said "...There was really no reason to do that."
Slowly she turned, lip twitching, and saw a man. As far as she could tell with Humans, he was middled aged, with long-ish brown hair and a stern expression on his face. But wait, something wasn't right. Curious, she sniffed the air.
Her eyes widened as she suddenly realised what was odd about him.
"You're not Human!" she exclaimed.
Still sniffing the air, she walked up to him, becoming ever more convinced of his true origin. She circled him twice, smelling around him, and at one point lifted his sleeve to have a whiff of his clothes. Returning to his front, she looked up, stood on tiptoe, and shoved her nose right in his face, taking a deep breath.
"You're a Shinigami!" she gasped. "Wow, that explains the smell."
Reina opened her pesquisas.
"Hoo-boy, and a captain, no less. Such a powerful soul you have, it must be a lot more tasty than that Human's." She placed her fists on her hips, looking him up and down. "Anyway, what business does a death-god captain have judging me?"
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Lunar
11th Squad Captain
THE TOAST KING!
Lord of Toast
Posts: 401
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Post by Lunar on Jan 20, 2009 2:02:08 GMT
Kaede didn't really mind her investigating him, he actually found it to be a little funny. "Killing someone for staring at you is both unnecessary and unforgivable. Since you're obviously to much for the average shinigami to handle, I'm going to have to be the one to punish you. The only reason I even said anything to you was because it's rude to attack someone without telling them why." He took the soul candy from his pocket and swallowed it. As he ejected from the gigai it ran out of the store to get somewhere safe. Kaede kept his spiritual pressure restrained so he didn't cause any harm to the store. "If you'd like to die with some dignity, then you can except your punishment without resisting." He knew she wouldn't do that, but always gave his opponents that option. "However, if this must get physical may I ask that we take it somewhere less populated?"
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Post by Peishin Louh on Jan 20, 2009 11:01:14 GMT
The death-god captain ejected from his gigai, which scurried off to "safety" in the street. Reina had to admit, the old guy was much more imposing in the black garb of the Shinigami. He looked less like a lonely old bachelor with a bone to pick and more of a professional doing his duty.
Still, she burst out laughing.
"Who the hell do you think you are, Shinigami-taicho? You pick a fight with me and then try to give me orders? No! You want to fight, you do it here, or you can run away and forget you ever saw me."
While she was talking she unlatched her zanpakuto from her sash. It was a whip, with a twelve inch handle and a ten foot tail. To emphasise the words "run away" she made it crack loudly in the vicinity of the death-god's ear.
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Lunar
11th Squad Captain
THE TOAST KING!
Lord of Toast
Posts: 401
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Post by Lunar on Jan 20, 2009 18:45:16 GMT
Kaede was used to this reaction to his offer. He had given her a chance to surrender and asked that they fight somewhere else, yet she was uncooperative. "Very well then." He said before disappearing with a flashstep, reappearing behind her with his sword drawn. He swung down on her, hoping to end this quickly.
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Post by Peishin Louh on Jan 20, 2009 20:33:13 GMT
Luckily for her she'd just activated her detection nerves.
When the captain disappeared she sensed him reappear at her back and knew without a doubt he'd used shunpo. Rather than dodging though she simply took a step back so her shoulderblades brushed the front of his uniform - effectively leaving her too close to strike with his sword - and struck at his stomach with her elbow.
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Lunar
11th Squad Captain
THE TOAST KING!
Lord of Toast
Posts: 401
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Post by Lunar on Jan 20, 2009 23:17:10 GMT
Although her counterattack took him off gaurd, Kaede quickly fromed a plan. He wraped his right arm (the one holding his sword) around her neck and point two of his fingers on his left hadn at the center of her back. "Hado number four, Byakurai!" He said as he fired the kido at pointblank range, holding tightly with his right arm to try and prevent dodging.
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Post by Peishin Louh on Jan 21, 2009 10:58:03 GMT
Shit!
Reina couldn't get free! The captain's arm was tight around her neck stopping her from moving, and her hands were positioned too awkwardly to do anything about his kido. She struggled, but to no avail.
The hado hit her full force and bounced off her iron skin.
Reina tilted her head back, grinning at the captain. "Nice try Shi~ni~ga~mi," she sang. With her left hand she treated him to some of the same, aiming to blow his restricting arm off with a cero.
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Lunar
11th Squad Captain
THE TOAST KING!
Lord of Toast
Posts: 401
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Post by Lunar on Jan 23, 2009 7:02:24 GMT
Kaede tried to turn her around to take a shot at her face when he notice the cero about to fire. He took a quick leap back out of the store and used his sword to block the blast. "That's some impressive Hiero." He commented to stall for time since he couldn't get a message to Soul Society to set up a barrier around the town or get permission to remove his power limiter "I've always been curious, do Arrancar have to train for that to get stronger or is it just natural?" He took a slightly more assertive position with his sword, but was hoping she would attack so he could limit the damage they caused.
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Post by Peishin Louh on Jan 23, 2009 10:33:24 GMT
Reina blushed happily at the captain's compliment and beamed at him. "Yeah, it's pretty cool! I can get into all sorts of scrapes now and not get hurt much. It's not perfect though," she felt her back gingerly with her free hand, wincing. "That kido of yours gave me a burn and it'll be sore for a few days."
She pondered his second question for a moment. "Hierro just kind of happens, I think. I've never really asked anyone about it and I've never done any training, so I guess it's natural. Do Shinigami have to think about such things?"
Reina frowned. "Hey, you're just trying to distract me, aren't you?"
Using sonido she placed herself in front of him, crunching glass underfoot where the pressure of her cero had shattered the windows of the shop. Her left fist flashed out at his nose.
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Lunar
11th Squad Captain
THE TOAST KING!
Lord of Toast
Posts: 401
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Post by Lunar on Jan 24, 2009 17:18:37 GMT
"She seems childish, but she's a really quick thinker." Kaede thought after she realized what he was doing. Her punch connected, but he countered by kicking at her legs to try and knock her off her feet. If that worked he would follow with a powerful downward slash.
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Post by Peishin Louh on Jan 24, 2009 17:43:26 GMT
Unexpectedly her punch connected, throwing her concentration off. She'd been ready to have it blocked and was preparing to defend against a counterattack, so couldn't move her feet in time to avoid the captain's low kick at her legs.
She fell hard but managed to get her hand down first to break her fall, and rolled to avoid the downward slash of her opponent's zanpakuto. It was a close thing, and as she got up, a few feet away, several severed hairs fell slowly from her head. She watched them float to the floor, frowning.
He's not fighting all-out, she decided. She asbent mindedly stroked her zanpakuto's hilt. He's acting like this is a warm up. Should I force him to be serious? It looks like he's a better fighter than I am... should I gamble on having more power when we're both maxed out?
"Why are you playing around, Shinigami? Why not release your sword?" she grinned and cracked her whip loudly. "Don't think I'll go easy on you if you keep your power sealed away. One way another, I'm going to kill you."
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Lunar
11th Squad Captain
THE TOAST KING!
Lord of Toast
Posts: 401
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Post by Lunar on Jan 24, 2009 18:58:28 GMT
Kaede sighed at the question. He was tired of his opponents always asking him that. "There are two reasons I have yet to release my sword. We're in a city and I don't want to risk harming anyone else until I can get you somewhere safer. Also, you have yet to show me any reason to even draw my sword in the first place, I only did so because I figured you had a decent Hiero. Even that isn't to powerful, since it reflected a level four spell but you still felt a burn." Even though this sounded insulting,that was in no way is intention. He was just explaining his reasoning.
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