OOC: Lovely post (except when you try to hurt my poor Yummei ) +2 to speed.

IC: Yummei pounded, releasing burst after burst of energy along with terrible punches in the aim of shattering this barrier before him. And then a ripping pain, No. A terrible ripping pain tore through a chunk of his tail.

His head flung back in pain now saw a shinigami streaking along aiming another blow at his lower leg upper ankle. Sneaky son of a bit... His tail even though wounded was not completely useless and he shot it after her in the same gambit of striking like a snake in grass. Of course he didn’t want to take the sword in the foot either so he did this very hap handedly while trying to dodge a crippling blow.

Whether his strike landed not he didn’t know for he was preoccupied with the calculating eyes weighting him up. Judging him and assessing his abilities. It drove him crazy. He didn’t have time for this nonsense, he needed to get through the barrier at whatever cost.

Gathering up his reatsu in a fiery rage he simply concentrated it outwards in a torrent of anger, not trusting this to take care of the fight he used sonido to enter the fray and sent a rapid burst of jabs with his claws, finishing of his flurry with an upwards sweeping roundhouse kick from his right leg and bringing his left leg low to trip his opponent. All the while his tail hung rather limp and swung simply with the movement of his body, like a weapon with its own mind.



Espada: His High in the air he watched as his second barrage of Bala was simply dodged, not surprising. H e couldn’t expect an enemy of this caliber to be taken out or even hit by such a pathetic attack.

A great light, no. A great wave of energy raced towards him, and at the same time he saw a figure step onto the field. A calm authorotive figure, that even in his unreleased state gave of a mighty spirit power. The Captain Commander.

Snapping back to reality he dodged the wave using sonido, and again with another use of it brought himself down to ground level.

With the Captain Commander on the field, things were going to get hairy. And he couldn’t afford to stay in this form much longer if he didn’t want to get his ass handed to him.

Unsheathing his Zanpakuto, he watched the light glint of the cold steel. ‘‘Hae Ryu’’

And with a great torrent of raging energy all bloody chaos ensued.

Kaiyo was over the moon to get the hell butterfly, she had been itching to get in some action, the thrill of fight was just too much temptation for the girl, she had taken a while to get ready as she had stupidly forgotten her headband, she hoped no-one would notice her rushing back to the barracks to get it. Kaiyo was late, and she knew she was sent to fight the hollow with another shinigami, she just hoped they were okay while she was getting her good luck charm.

Kaiyo used Shunpo all the way there; the spiritual energy in the air filling her lungs, she breathed out happily. Kaiyo tried to conceal her spiritual energy but using spells and such was definately not the girls strong point, so really she just made it seemed reduced. She arrived quickly at her destination, panting slightly she ran along the corridoor, trying not to stop for her fallen comrades and promising to pay back whoever did it to them. The corridoors seemed eerily quiet, Kaiyo never liked the quiet, it made her feel alone and irrelevant.

Rounding the corner Kaiyo couldn't help but stare at her opponent, it was the ugliest reptile 'thing' she had ever seen. Kaiyo had stared long enough before seeing her fighting companion, she was taller than Kai (most people were) and she had brown hair and for some reason unknown to Kaiyo she was wearing a cloak. Kaiyo tried to jump out of the monsters way when it swiped its claws around.

Landing on the ground next to Elven Kaiyo only now appreciated the spiritual energy of the monster, she unsheathed her own Zanpaktou from its bright red scabbard (a part of her sword she had always liked, was the vibrant colours) and called out, 'light the sky, Tenrai Zenpyou', Kaiyo took in a deep breath, enjoying the rush of energy that never failed to amaze her, as her sword gained it's usual glow. Kaiyo looked over to Elven and smiled, 'Heya, i'm Kaiyo, i.. erm i'm looking forward to killing this hollow with you', first impressions had never been a strong point of the girl, but she was more focused on killing the discusting monster that stood in front of them.

Never really one to wait an asses the situation Kaiyo let of an attack from Zanpaktou, 'Raikou Mato' she called, as she watched an electric bolt of yellow energy explode from the edge of her blade and aim for the monsters chest. Kaiyo didn't wait to see if it hit, she jumped into the air with her sword raised, aiming for the monsters shoulder she hoped to catch it off guard from her previous attack.

( OOC: I’m aiming for Spirit power with Stark)

Stark heard all the commotion from Seireitei and knew that the hollows were invading. He thought that this was a good time to practice his knew found shikai and power. So he strapped his zanpakuto onto his back and stepped out the door. An immediate sense of pressure overcame him; he couldn’t believe that so many captains were fighting. After a brief moment of awe, he snapped back to reality running towards the battle field. He unsheathed his zanpakuto and saw a small hollow in front of him. Even this could be a challenge for him if he doesn’t release is zanpakuto.

Stark gripped onto Ruby and let loose a series of attacks which the hollow blocked effortlessly. He couldn’t think of anything else to do, the sounds of swords clashing were nearby, he hear screams and screeches a like. He gathered himself together and sighed very well, if i must. He looked at the hollow somewhat content and said with pride. Messatsu, Ruby! A flash of red came from his figure and he was now holding two blades within both arms. His spiritual pressure was raised and he could feel the power coursing through his veins. He gritted his teeth and gripped onto his zanpakuto tightly and leaped into the air with no effort. He placed both blades in front of him and slashed right through the hollow, blood spewed all over the place, the blood was on his face and hands. The hollow screeched once more and disappeared into the abyss.
S
tark saw two more hollows charging at him, probably threatened by his new founded power. He unleashed two blasts of red scorching flames from his blades which burned his opponents in front of him, he then said silently under his breath Kyuuten Hinote. He looked forward a hollow was leaping towards him from the sky he blocked the furious attack with his Ruby. The flames slightly burning the hollow and then Stark pushed the hollow off and let forth more flames from the two blades.

NPC Shouzu:

As Shouzu watched the Espada dodge the spiritual blast from Juishiro and descend he began to remove his Haori and take his stance. The immense spiritual pressure from the Espada’s release was like a tornado, a gust of wind pushing back the entire loose rubble.

NPC Juishiro:

Juishiro waited patinetlly too see what was going on underneath all the dust. His eyes gazed upon the Espada who had just released his zanpakuto. He readied his stance as he took a glimpse at Shouzu and pout.
People can never get their own piece of meat to beat around, he said in disappointment.

OOC: Kaiyo for our fight, could you just edit out the zanpakuto part. Yummei is not an arrancar yet. Thanks. And +1 Spirit power for stark.

Npc Espada: Great waves of black energy surrounded him flowing outwards and destroying all in their path. This was his first resurrection, and it was a terrible sight for any enemy.

He was a tall bat like creature with white wings and a pitch black body, he had gained enough muscle to crush a boulder in one hand and he teemed with a great rage for death and chaos. Yes, this was definitely his true form.

In front of him the captain commander of the shinigami was removing his haori, pretensous fool he will be swept away soon enough. And there was still the matter of that pesky captain with the axe.

Letting his gaze flicker towards him, he released a cero oscuras as the axe man; it would be intriguing to see if he could survive a cero oscuras in his resurrection form. And as for the captain commander, their would be no chances.

Releasing a hail of Bala, he surged forward under there cover. Coming in with a flurry of fists and feet, utilizing his wings as well to create a deadly dance that would mean death if even one of the attacks was not blocked or dodged.

Pumping his wings he flew upwards towards the sky, and bringing his talons together shot a paired beam of pure white and pure black towards the captain commander, it was his own technique and it made the cero oscuras look like a hand grenade in comparison.


Yummei: To his immense annoyance a second woman blurred in next to the first, and with an arrogance that outstounded him deemed it necessary to talk to her before engaging himself.

Finally being drawn away from conversation she let loose a bolt of energy towards his chest. Ducking low he gathered energy in his palm and ran forward, he would nip this in the bud right now. Ignoring the pair of shinigami before him he smashed the energy into the barrier and felt a great shockwave as it finally gave way.

Without hesitation he scampered forwards, not deeming it necessary to fight without cause. Luckily the shockwave had loosed the door it protected and he was able to run through by barging it, inside he saw it, sitting on a pedestal. Gleaming in the light, a tiny thing of immense power.

The hougyuko.

Speed saved her some of the pounding, but not all. She managed to dodge Yummei’s tail, but took a couple of nasty hits from his fists that got past Kosumosu’s guard. Elven barely felt them though, she was too focused on the battle. For now, she could tell she was in a bad position alone with this powerful Hollow.

But not for long. Elven’s relief upon the entrance of an ally could not be described, but she didn’t allow it to distract her. “Pleased to meet you, Kaiyo. Very pleased!” she gasped out. Delighted to see the hollow seemed rather annoyed for some reason. That had to be a good thing. “I’m Elvensong.” she said to Kaiyo. That seemed to cover the basics. What else? Oh yeah. “Let’s dice this guy! No need for introductions, hm? I think we can just call him Dead Meat, right?” She grinned, never taking her eyes off of her opponent.

Kaiyo immediately took the battle to the hollow before them. And since her partner had taken the high road, Elven obligingly took the low road, ducking down and slicing a backhanded slash at his thigh as she stepped forward and to the side. She did NOT like getting blocked in against the doors.

That probably saved her life. The hollow, or Dead Meat as she liked to think of him, let loose a truly impressive blast at the barrier before him. Had she been standing there... oh dear... the thought left her queasy.

But this turn of events left them with one less thing to stop this creature. “Oh crap! she muttered, and dashed in after the insectoid Hollow. She followed his eye line, spotted the item she believed he must be after, and swore. She wasn’t sure what it was, but if he wanted it, she would stake her life to see him denied.

“Gah!" she grunted, as she shouldered past him in an optimistic body block, her left hand wielding Kosumosu to guard her back she reached out with her right to snatch up the small sphere...

Kaiyo giggled at the name 'dead meat'; she liked Elvensong, but she was certain later would be a more appropriate time to get acquainted. Despite Kaiyo's (and was sure Elven's) best efforts she could only move out of the way as the 'dead meat' barged its way through the barrier.

Kaiyo was slower back to her feet that Elven and heard her swear while following the moster,Kaiyo jumped to her feet and ran after Elven, she stopped when she saw a small object on a pedastal, Kaiyo knew it would be one of two things, either and old useless artifact or a weapon of mass destruction, unfortunately she was fairly certain it would be the latter. The lizard-hollow-thing was reaching out to get the small sphere when Elven barged him out the way.

While Elven ran past 'dead meat' to get the small object Kaiyo tried to run interference, which she figured would take quite a blow to distract the monster. Kaiyo knew she would regret this attack but she couldn't think of anything else that would be of any use, she adjusted her hands on Tenrai Zepyou and threw her Zanpaktou onto the back of the hollow, hoping to give Elven at least a few seconds advantage. 'I got your back Elven' she called after her ally, hoping she was right After releasing her sword Kaiyo jumped into the air, ready to snatch it out of the reptile when possible, or at the very least kick him in the back of the head, it would all depend on timing.

NPC Juishiro:

As the cero was coming his was he couldn’t do much but protect himself by building up an immense amount of reiatsu. The sight of the Espada’s release had peaked his interest and he wasn’t going to give up easily.

Juishiro widened his stance and let loose an immense amount of spiritual pressure which formed a barrier. The cero had hit the barrier and made a mighty explosion. As the dust cleared off, blood dripped from the left arm of Juishiro. He just escaped the dangerous blast, he attempted to move his arm but failed. He sighed and just had a great grin on his face as if this was the best thing that had ever happened to him. Once more he picked his axe and placed it on his shoulder, waiting.

NPC Shouzu:

The beam of light was heading towards Shouzu, he knew that if he didn’t release he would be done for. So he unsheathed his zanpakuto just in time to negate the attack. Roten, Herale! The atmosphere changed and everyone within a 5 mile spirit radius felt the reiatsu which was being emmited from Shozu. As the sphere of reiatsu and dust cleared away from his sight, he was holding a large spear. It was blue and yellow all the way down to the blade, and it was larger than Shouzu himself.

Even Juishiro was feeling the spiritual pressure of Shouzu smother him. The captain commander demanded Juishiro to stand back and watch. He did so without a question, but had a slight disappointment in his expression.
Shouzu looked up at the Espada. Why have you can here, what is your goal?

(ooc: Shikyo's introduction post to the main story line as well as aiming for the Kidou Mastery stat)

The moment Shikyo stepped out of his master's hut he knew something was wrong. The spiritual pressure flying around the entire Soul Society immediately alerted him to the fact that something big was going on. He had faced Hollows before and knew something about them, but somehow this seemed...off. There were a large number of Hollows in Soul Society and by the spiritual pressure he felt he guessed that something even more powerful and sinister had made its way into the previously peaceful area. His master had ended their training, deciding that Shikyo's abilities would now best be served by helping his fellow Shinigami instead of training, but Shikyo still had doubts about what exactly his role would be. Without unlocking his Shikai it would be unlikely he would be helpful against a stronger opponent but the skills he had learned would be enough to suffice against the lower level Hollow that now descended upon his new world.

He moved quickly from his location toward where he felt the Hollow's presence, astonished to see the number of Captain's and Lieutenants that now occupied the battle field attacking the enemy. Despite his awe at their power he knew that he could not simply stand by and watch the others fight, his help would be needed if they were to survive this fight. He locked his hands in the familiar position he had learned that would allow him to channel his reitsu as he called out "Oh ruler, mask of flesh and blood, all creations of the universe, fluttering of the wings, ye who bears the name of man! Truth and temperance, strike but slightly your claw upon this wall which feigns ignorance of sin! Way of Destruction # 33. Soukatsui!" As he said this blue flames encased his hands, materializing from his spiritual pressure as he formed the cobalt fire into several spheres that launched themselves toward the Hollows in the sky. The attacks hit their marks, incinerating the enemy as they perished in a shower of blue light.

Judging from the situation, Shikyo knew that these Hollow were only a distraction; something to prevent the Shinigami from seeing the true evil that entered Sereiti, but for now all he could do was attempt to help the others by lightening their load and leaving as few Hollow left as possible.

OOC: +1 to shikyo for kidou. Also let me know if you want me to maybe Npc some hollows your way something. I’m aiming for points in fighting skill for Yummei

Npc Espada: He watched out the corner of his eyes as his black cero raced towards its target only to be stopped by a hasty wall of spirit energy, satisfyingly he say that he had drawn blood. To add insult to injury he was ordered to back off by the Captain Commander, grinning he put on a slightly sympathetic face but quickly turned to face his real threat.

The captain had released his zanpakuto to block his strike, and it was a fine sight to see. An immense spear that was bigger than the man himself, and to accompany it a great amount of spirit power.

He ignored the mans question, not deeming it worthy of an answer, and simply responded in his own way. ‘‘Impressive my friend, I hope you will be a bit better than that child with the over grown mallet. Really he isn’t what you classify as a captain is he?’’

He kept a straight face at this, to add a sting to his words. And then he moved. Using sonido to traverse the distance he come in low, aiming a strike at the mans groin; while swinging a kick towards his head. It was a great benefit of having wings. Landing he carried on with the movement following with a spinning roundhouse towards the mans mid section, and finishing with a sharp thrust towards the heart with his steel like talons.



Yummei: A cold fury erupted inside Yummei, how dare this ignorant little maggot try to interfere with his masters plans. She barged past him, intent on grabbing the hougyuko before him, whether she even knew what it was he didn’t know but her actions alone were enough to convince him she needed to die.

Her outstretched hand was grabbed in his claws; with a ferocious yank he pulled her towards him kicked her in the back. No one would get in his way… And then an immense pain lanced into his back. He turned to see a long zanpakuto emerging from his back.

Roaring in pain he saw the girl who had thrown it, and his first instinct was to turn and smash her into a million little pieces. But his desire to obtain the orb before him overwhelmed this urge completely and he simply struggled on through the pain. Leaping forwards with sonido he snatched it up.

The turning to face the two shinigami before him he yanked the zanpakuto out of his back. His blood ran crimson along its blade. He licked the blood of it and grinned manically, ‘‘You want this back you scum? When you can pry It from my cold lifeless fingers then… then you can have it.’’

A hollow wielding a zanpakuto against a shinigami, the shinigami who’s zanpakuto it was none the less. The irony didn’t fail to strike Yummei, and It was with a big grin he faced his foes.

(OOC: Kaiyo will be aiming for Kidou points in this post please)

Kaiyo was not happy, he plan to help Elven hadn't worked and now she didn't have her Zanpaktou and the damn ugly hollow was taunting her about it. Kaiyo had only two forms of attack available to her, the first was to use hand to hand combat and by the looks of the hollows skin that wouldn't be so effective, the second was to use Kidou, which was the one area of combat Kaiyo simply failed at.

She steared deep into the hollows eyes, Kaiyo tried to ignore the fact that the hollow was laughing at her, instead she looked over to Elven a smiled, she turned back to the hollow and replied, 'Is your back okay, you sounded like you were in a quite a bit of pain' Kaiyo tried to sound as condescending as she possibly could, and she felt she managed to annoy the hollow enough.

Kaiyo really didn't have much choice in this combt situation but she had an idea to get her Zanpaktou back, Kaiyo thanked herslef for training specifically on this area at the academy. The plan was to catch the hollow of guard, push him backwards using a kidou spell and hopefully he would drop her zanpaktou...hopefully.

In an attempt to make her attack more effective Kaiyo turned and flash stepped away, trying to make the monster think she was leaving the fight, Kaiyo shupo'ed out the door, while she was waiting a while round the corner she tried to push all of her spiritual energy towards her hands, she then shunpo'ed back in front of the hollow and screamed, 'Way of destruction 1, Shō!', she had practised this kidou spell a lot and she only hoped it would work without her flying backwards in the air as well, that would just make my day even better she thought to herself as self doubt started to take over.

( Approved + 1fighting skill for Yummei and + 1 for Kaiyo in Kidou. Stark for Spirit power)

NPC Shouzu:

As the espada stood tall in the sky Shouzu had nothing better to do than to listen to the vile scum. He took the insults as a compliment, thinking that the espada was merely scared that’s why he was talking dirty. To reassure himself that these shinigami are nothing to him.

Shouzu was attacked by the espada almost instantly after his little rant. As the espada came down towards Shouzu we blocked the groin shot with his spear and with great discomfort had to block with body shot with his legs. This was he was holding down one of the espada’s talons to the ground.

Shouzu stared down his opponent has one of the talons was going for Shouzu’s chest, he let go of the other talons and simply dodged it. Moving to the right, with a swift and effortless shunpo, Shouzu unleashed a series of attacks onto the espada’s body.

Hitting him left and right until something came of it.



Stark:

Stark had been fighting the hollows continuously. There was no end to them, and he had almost reached his limit. His hands were bleeding from gripping Ruby too tightly.

Once more a hollow appeared, Stark stared this hollow down and looked at it in the eyes. He didn’t know if they even had eyes, but still gazed at its mask. The hollow screeched and charged forwards at Stark. It tried to bite a chunk of his shoulder but, he merely shunpoed to left and pounded his Ruby down onto the hollows mask. The two blades slashed the hollows as he smiled contently looking forwards and more hollow coming his way.

This is going to be fun he said lazily..

OOC: +1 to spirit power for stark. I'll edit in a post tomorow maybe. I'm a little tired to right loads now.

OOC: This is an app for fighting skill by the way. Oh and the hollow’s I’m npc’ing

Yummei: Blood was seeping down the crevice of his back and it produced a very strange tingling sensation in him, the kind of one that can be described as only ‘hot cold’.

His vision was blurring over and the predatory nature of his line was being brought out, he felt his retina’s dilate and expand continuously. The muscles all along his body started twitching as the adrenaline built up in him.

And the great ache that plagued all hollows intensified to a mind numbing pound, he wanted simply to rip and tear flesh right now. To see these fetid meat bags in front of him spill their blood, lost in his thoughts it was only the sight of the shaking zanpakuto in his hand that snapped him back into reality.

A great flash of light was blazing towards him and covering his vision, reacting with basic motor reflexes he simply raised the sword in his hand to block. Kidou met steel, and kidou left him scorched.

Slightly scorched and severely pissed off, he shook his head and let a growl rattle out of his throat. Damn shinigami and their stupid demon magic.

‘‘Ok now you really are going to get skinned and flayed alive. Come here little girl…’’

Moving with sonido he dashed forward a streak of lines, coming in hard and fast. Using his greater size and physical strength to try to overbear upon her, and hoping that being faced bear handed to ones own zanpakuto would leave her slightly clueless as to a next move. If this happened he would press home the advantage and lop her head off. If not well, she was still going to die he would make sure of it.



Npc Espada: The man was fast he would give him that; he had managed to block his attacks and somehow pin his arm down. But he wasn’t on par with himself and this showed through with the attacks that rained down upon his body, most were easily deflected with a single hand or use of his legs. And the ones that broke through for the most part failed to pierce his hierro.

He was disgusted. Doing an in air handstand, he sent a powerful kick into the ribs of the captain commander. Opening up a space between the two of them. And he shook his head visibly.

‘‘Pathetic, I thought that you of all people would at least be bale to excite me, I guess I was wrong. Do something to impress me or I will show you the true might of and Espada, and tear you precious sierieti to pieces with my Gran Ray Cero…’’

Giving the man a cool gaze he waited to see how he would react.

Npc Hollow: A large group of hollow, five in all ran through the streets of sierieti. On a mission of chaos and destruction they abided no laws and simply tore apart all and everyone they came across. They would have to be stopped!

(Xav: Nice bit of prose on Yummei’s injury. +1 for Yummei’s fighting skill, fighting skill stat for me too, pleaseth!)

Elven had never felt like such a rag’o’tag before. The hollow had yanked her around like a lifeless doll, and the kick had done her no good either. Cripes.

She lay on the floor, gasping for breath as Yummei snatched up the sphere. Well hell and damnation. Today was just going to the dogs. She managed to get up to her knees when she saw Kaiyo pull off a nice bit of kidou, simple, but elegant. With the blinding light still clearing from her eyes, elven used the distraction to call out “ Star Falls, Night screams, Kosumosu Rise!” while pouring her spirit energy into her Zanpakuto.

The ribbons of the hilt writhed and wove themselves around her arm, up across her shoulders and down her right arm as well. A good portion of the blade crawled up to scatter a few bits and pieces of various shapes dangling in pieces off a choker around her neck before slipping out over the knuckles of her far hand. She was left with two sets of claws arching off of clever metal braces around her hands.

With this she leapt in after Kaiyo’s incredibly well-timed and eye-searing distraction. Her Shikai was a close-combat weapon, if eever there was one. Dead Meat was on the move already, and Kaiyo was in a bad situation. Two on one suited Elven’s bullying instincts much better than one on one with an unarmed shinigami on the side, so she used shunpo to zip over to his side... and thrust her Kosumosu forward in a straight jab aimed to snare Kaiyo’s blade between two of her claws, and she continued forward crossing in front of him twisting her allies blade as she went. If Dead Meat managed to hold onto it, it would be a miracle in Elven’s opinion... and if he dropped it she would toss it in Kaiyo’s direction in a heartbeat.

OOC: +1 to fighting skill. And I’m going to be using this as an app for you guessed it fighting skill as well

Halfway through his strike his blade was caught by the other shinigami reject that he had manhandled earlier. She must have released her zanpakuto for she now had two claw like blades upon each hand and a necklace of what seemed to be Swiss army knives?

She had caught his swing in between the blades on one of her claws and it was now a matter of try to hold onto the blade and fight on with a broken wrist or let it go. Yummei liked to think that he could make good decisions in tight situations and as such he decided to simply let go of the blade, he thought it a safe bet that the shinigami would try to get the blade back to her ally. This was of course correct and of course what Yummei was hoping for.

She paid more attention to getting a weapon back to her comrade instead of paying attention to what was important, Yummei’s fist. She was probably knew to life or death situations or she would know that if an ally become dead weight do not carry them, drop ‘em like a sack of crap. And in a sword fight an ally without a sword was most certainly dead weight.

But that was not Yummei’s problem; in fact it was his shining salvation. For he took chance in both of his talons, and rammed a cold hard fist straight into the shinigami’s nose. The sound of cartilage breaking was audible and sickeningly pleasing to Yummei.

Giving know time over to the thought of it though, he weighed up his odds now. Two armed shinigami; albeit both wounded by himself, against well himself; who had taken a fair few wounds to. The situation wasn’t critical but it was not looking good. Never having been one for acting the hero he ran, and reassured himself with the words of a wise man. ‘‘Bravery is a fools pride.’’

As he let loose with his sonido, he clutched the hougyuko in his hand. Obtaining that was what had mattered. He grinned avidly knowing that he was helping to bring his masters plan into fruition.