(+1 to fighting skill, Yummei, That mean (or misunderstood!) beast. Note: Xav and I chatted on IM about the nose break, so it wasn’t GM as I’d agreed to it provided I got a chunk of his tail in return. Shunpo stat for me, pleaseth)

“CRAP!” Elven’s day went right into the toilet as her nose started to fountain blood. She felt like it had exploded across her whole face. But it wasn’t a deadly injury and she still had a mission to accomplish. She gathered herself for another blow. Then the blasted thing turned tail and ran! Dead Meat was not one of those hollows who refused to run away from a fight. The canny devil ditched her and Kaiyo without a second thought. She growled low in her throat and pushed off the floor. Shunpo matched and followed Sonido as she struggled to nail him in a deadly game of tag.

What is that sphere, anyway? She wondered. The soul society had some bad experiences with sphere’s in its past. She didn’t want to think of what it would be like to have to tell her captain that she’d let a hollow steal the... whatever. It had to be important to warrant such a major incursion of hollows.

Out the last door, Elven followed the hollow’s spirit energy. Even though her shunpo was a touch faster than his Sonido, his head start was enough to completely screw her hopes of catching him. He was making good time, and she judged she only had time for one hard shot before he would dart behind the cover of his fellow hollows. If only she could stop him long enough to Shunpo in and grab the sphere! Gathering her Reiatsu desperately, she cast her most powerful Sai after him...

(OOC: Stark going for Intelligence)

NPC Shouzu

Shouzu didn't have time to takes insults from scum. He wanted to make this an easy fight, not to damage Seireitei too much beyond repair.

His facial expression stayed the same, bitter and cold. Shouzu gazed up at the Espada, he sighed and gripped into his Zanpakuto.

He did shunpo and dissapeared momentraily only to appear in front of the Espada. He began doing a series of attacks at the Espada. Slashing left and right as he moved him back.

Shouzu flash stepped again but this time to appear behind the Espada and swing his zanpakuto down on his head with all his might.

Stark:

Stark was continuously slashing at the hollows killing them with one slash or two. He was beginning to lose jhis stamina. That's one thing he needed to work on, conserving his strength.

He had to think up of tatics that could help him conserve his reiatsu and fight at the same strength. There were many watch tours from where he was standing. Maybe if he fought from there, No he thought to himself.

I should get into an open area where i can freely move He said as he continued running through the East wing of Seireitei.

As he was running he was stopped by a couple of hollows which he effortlessly defeated. His zanpakuto and him were gaining strength, he could feel it. Stark reached the plains which were in Seireitei, if he couldn't defeat the hollows in the streets he could do it here.

As he stepped onto the grass he was attacked by 3 hollows. He shunpoed and used his Kyuuten Hinote to kill the first two, then the last he charged at and jumped in the air with a loud scream. He slashed right through it with all his might has he began to stand there with his two blades within his grasp.

Kaiyo felt bad, and she couldn't help thinking that btoh the fact that dead meat had gotten away and Elven had what looked (and sounded) like a painfully broken nose. However Kaiyo had never excepted defeat so easily, she had just picked up her Zanpaktou when the mosnter used sonido out of the room, Kaiyo didn't want to leave Elven, but she knew it was a worthy cause, she shunpo'ed out of the room as fast as she could. 'Coward!' she called after Dead meat.

Although not entirely sure what the hollow had tried so desperately to get, it just looked like a small black sphere to her, but she was certain there was a bigger meaning to it. Kaiyo was faster than the ugly monster and she hoped; with a lot of luck she would be able to catch Dead Meat. Kaiyo knew she didn't have much time, if the hollow managed to get back to the main fight she would be toast. Kaiyo dodge as Elven started casting from behind her, the damn hollow was fast and Kaiyo could only think of one idea; and at best she would have to leave Elven to catcg the thing, after she slowed it down.

Kaiyo assumed Elven could hear her so she called back, 'Elven i'll catch you up', trying not to give too much away in case Dead Meat heard her as well. Her Zanpaktou still released Kaiyo waited for the right moment, it would be straight after Dead Meat landed another Sonido, Kaiyo, chased him and waited.

The lizard man disappeared from sight, Kaiyo ground to a halt and stuck her sword down, 'Denkou Kabe!', Kaiyo waited for the familiar wall of yellow energy to appear in front of Dead Meat, she wasn't aiming to hurt it, just slow it down to help Elven catch up.

(Going for speed with Shikyo)

Shikyo moved rapidly through the city, leaping from rooftop to rooftop until he heard the loud screaming of a woman down in the street. Peering over the edge he saw her running between the buildings, obviously too scared to notice the stack of trash lying before her, causing her to trip. As she fell Shikyo saw five large Hollow quickly descending upon her. "Not today!" He thought, leaping from his perch with his Zanpakuto drawn and landed between the Hollows and the woman. "Get out of here!" He yelled over his shoulder. The woman wasted no time in picking herself back up and sprinting as fast as her legs would carry her in the opposite direction.

Channeling his reiatsu through his staff, the Zanpakuto was bathed in a golden light as Shikyo launched himself amongst the Hollow. The first and smallest of the Hollow resembled an elephant in that two tusk-like appendages adorned its white mask, the rest of its obsidian colored body however looked more like that of a large gorilla as it walked on its front fists as well as its feet. Charging toward Shikyo its "tusk" shot forward, extending from its skull, attempting to stab the shinigami. It failed as Shikyo flash-stepped to right above the creature, his Zanpakuto arcing over his head and impaling the creature directly through its mask. The beast released one final roar before disappearing into black lights as it faded away. Shikyo confidently spun his staff in his hand as he turned to face the two hollows directly behind him.

Each looked like a ghost except for the fact that they're bodies were blood red instead of white and their arms ended in sharp claws. The lower half of their bodies reminded Shikyo of a large snake and the twin hollows hissed as they launched themselves toward him. Barely dodging the swipe from one, he was caught off guard as the second leapt into the air and whipped its tail at Shikyo, knocking him into a building. "That's not going to feel good in the morning." He mumbled as he dusted himself off. He looked up just in time to see another tail quickly closing in on him, but this time he flash-stepped out of the way, appearing behind the two Hollow as he shouted, "Way of Destruction # 33: Soukatsui!" Two large blue spheres materialized before him as they merged together before erupting into a ball of cobalt flames. The blast burst forth from Shikyo and consumed the pair of hollows as their last screeches were lost in the roar of the flames. Shikyo smiled inwardly to himself as he unsheathed Miku once more. Only two left now.

OOC: To start of with, +1 to elven for speed, and +1 to stark for intelligence. Oh and Yummei’s post is one for speed. Oh and I hope this deals with everyone’s posts if not just let me know and I’ll edit something in. Oh and +1 on speed for shikyo.

Npc Espada: A blur streaked forwards, coming in left and right with his spear. It was a simple case of dodge left and right, left and right. A routine of rudimentary cuts and strikes. Then a blur over his head and he felt a might rush of air as a powerful attack came pacing towards his skull. Again a simple matter, his hand moving with a serpent like precision he caught the blow as it came. Battling strength for strength against the captain commander, and eventually bright the spear to a rest on his shoulder.

He sighed up at the Captain Commander. ‘‘Is this really what you’re going to battle me with? If it is so, then I shall simply end this farce right now…’’ He let the talons of his claw cut into the palm of his free hand, and began to pour every ounce of energy he had into it. A vortex… No, a deep black hole seemed to emerge. Sucking in amounts of energy that would have brought entire cities to their knees. And ever so slowly a great blazing orb of electric blue energy formed in his palm.

‘‘This is a Gran Rey Cero… It will kill you unless you show me something more…’’
He left the sentence unfinished and gave only the barest of pauses for the Captain Commander to respond. The fate of everything in sierieti now rested on him.



Yummei: Streaking along, adrenaline coursing through him. He felt...he felt…. He felt alive. Then noises from behind brought him crashing back to reality. Two blurs were catching up to him; he cursed and poured everything he could manage into his sonido’s. Desperately working himself both physically and mentally to go further and faster than ever before.

He heard words behind him, an incantation for a demon spell. Cursing he pushed of against the ground and spun to face it, all the while building a cero in his palm. As he turned he felt a great wall of energy burst forth from the ground almost directly behind him, a slight sense of relief fell over him at having escaped getting battered senseless by it. But the two shinigami and a kidou attack sort of put a downer on it. Releasing his cero. He turned tail and ran. Unluckily for him his cero hadn’t matched up to the kidou released at him, and he felt a dull pain as a great chunk of his tail flew off.

The pain was… was…was indescribable. Great waves of it poured over him and threatened to bring him down. But he had a goal, and he had given his word that he would achieve it. So he bit down upon his tongue to focus his mind and pushed of harder and faster than ever before, not giving a moments notice to anyone or anything in between him and his goal he simply raced for the great battle that he could even now feel raging across sierieti.

(ooc: Going for another speed stat on Elven, please.

+1 speed for Yummei)


“Got it Kaiyo!” she gasped out. And her battle partner let loose a truly lovely sight. Whatever that attack was, and it looked like a special attack from her Zanpakuto, it was powerful and effective.

But not quite enough to stop Dead Meat. Nor was her Sai, damn it all. He was streaking off to the battle with hardly a hitch in his step. He certainly had acquired a hitch in his tail though. That was a very small, rather bitter victory. She snatched the piece up as she passed on the theory that Squat 12 might be able to... do something with it. Track him? Create a clone? Something... Whatever, that was their business. She’d pass the chunk of meat on after the battle was done, for now she just tucked the messy thing into her gi and left it at that.

Shunpo vs. Sonido, nearly matched. She’d judged she wouldn’t get another shot off, and she was right. But she poured every last ounce of reiatsu into her shunpo in a last ditch effort to close the gap, snag him, pull him down somewhere short of the finish line. If only she or Kaiyo could get him DOWN before he passed over to the enemy side! The air pumped into her lungs and burned, her muscles seemed to be on fire, Kosumosu lay ready and bloodthirsty along the back of her hands. Faster... faster... FASTER!

((OOC: I'm making a massive assumption that the Gate guardians would have either A)Been called to fight or B)Set upon by those pesky wabbit-i mean Hollow >.>))

Rukogai flashed by in a blur of broken down housing and startled grime covered faces. Sal had never felt better, considering he was dead this didn't say a lot about his health when he was alive. His ripped and torn shoes would have most certainly left the traditional trail of fire behind him if Warner Bros had decided to animate this scene, they hadn't and so for the sake of being descriptive and utterly unimaginative I'll say they were a blur on the ground beneath him.

His eyes were fixed explicitly upon Seireitei, his goal, journeys end. Where a Shinigami had one hell of a lot of explaining to do regarding adequate indoor toilet facilities and hot baths for the recently deceased. He vaulted from the roof of a shack that rattled ponderously and landed on another without slowing. He felt like he'd just snorted a gram of Speed while having two lucozade Iv's jammed in each arm. 'Bring the world, the afterlife and Mr T after me, I'll **** drop em all!' were his thoughts as with one final bound he landed in a cloud of dust before the looming gates of Seireitei.

"What the hell?" He said confused. This was the most anticlimactic experience of his life, aside from perhaps the day he lost his cherry but that's another tale for another time, the Gates to Seireitei lay open. The entrance to Seireitei hoisted some six feet in the air and stuck there. Perhaps the mechanisms were busted but whatever it was he felt a bit disappointed. The way everyone had explained it Seireitei was locked up tighter than a nuns knickers, knickers guarded by an army of Chuck Norris clones who had a strictly 'Roundhouse first ask questions later' policy.

He was actually furious it was this easy, livid that he'd gone through all that training only to come here and find the stupid bastards had forgot to lock the side gate. Twats!
Muttering like a senile old man, he stomped through the opening like a petulant child, it shut with a resounding BOOOM! behind him and not for the first time in his life did he give thanks to any Deity that happened to be listening for being to slow and stupid to kill him. His amusement didn't last very long, in fact it lasted precisely the amount of time it took him to turn his head away from the gate to in front of him. Hollow....lots of hollow.

He would have made a rather witty Jaws quote about a boat but his mind had crawled behind the proverbial sofa in fright and so he summed up the situation as adequately as anyone could when faced with the swarming hordes of hell. "Fuck..."

((OOC: Sorry for the shortness folks, i didnt want to get in to deep right off the bat))

(OOC: some speed points for Kaiyo please)

Kaiyo loved combat, but she hated opponents which ran away. Dead Meat had dodged her attack, and he was still ahead of her and Elven and getting closer to the enemy lines. Kaiyo was really starting to get annoyed she shouted out loud as the hollow dodged her attack, 'Come on!' .

Kaiyo put all of her energy into catching up a bit more, the closer she was the more powerful she could hit. Kaiyo strained her muscles catching up to Elven, she smiled sideways to her and tried to think of ideas, 'We need to get him out the sky' she called, continuing to flash step onwards, really feeling the strain on her legs. Determination spread across her face as an idea popped into her head, she grinned, 'Okay, we know he can dodge one attack so we'll try two. I'll get to his left and when i do you let off a Kidou spell, doesn't matter what just anything which is quick and fast'

Kaiyo took a deep breath and disappeared from sight, she knew she would have to act quickly when Dead Meat realised her new position; she just hoped Elven was ready. Pushing her spiritual energy to her feet and trying to ready Tenrai Zenpyou, Kaiyo appeared to the side of the hollow, a grin across his face she clenched her hands tightly on her sword, 'Now!' she called loudly, 'Raikou Mato!', a shot of lighting erupted from her blade edge and headed towards dead meat, kaiyo felt fairly confident the monster couldn't dodge two attacks at once, but she had been wrong before.

(+1 speed Kaiyo, Kidou for Elven please.)

"Right" said Elven to Kaiyo. They were running out of time, space... and in Elven's case, patience.

She dodged gently to the right, and called up a few spare scraps of her energy, silently forming it into a Geki. If nothing else, perhaps the spell would herd the hollow back towards Kaiyo. Proximity counts, right?

The Reiatsu burned along her nerves as she let loose with careful aim for their (hopefully soon) dearly departed (or perhaps, if they were very unlucky, simply departing *sigh*) Dead Meat.

Perhaps she had spoken too brashly in assigning him that name. He was the devil to nail down. She did NOT want to have to confess failure to the captains. New as she was to the guard, it would totally and eternally suck if her first major mission turned out to be a failure. Her pride was on the line here, and it was rapidly departing with a damned sphere in its hands.

WHY did the soul society insist on making these bloody spheres anyway? They seemed to be nothing but trouble.

OOC: Yummei’s section might be good for a point in fighting skill I don’t know see what yall think. Oh and T-bone is for sal btw so hands off. And +1 kidou for elven.

Yummei: Rubble strewn streets flashed by in a haze as he pushed his body to its limit. Pumping energy and his muscles as hard as he could without turning himself to jelly he raced forward.

He took the chance amid a deep breath to look back at his pursuers the two shinigami where behind him and while not gaining where not being left as he would have hoped, then he heard one of them call to the other one and suddenly a streak shot up towards him. ‘‘Shit….’’She had made a burst of speed with her shunpo and caught up to him.

Her Zanpakuto pointed towards him and a bolt of energy akin to lightning shot towards him; at the same time he thought he heard the other one shout something behind him.

He let the energy buffet his chest, amidst a sea of burning searing pain he moved forwards. Feeling his muscles and tendons beginning to tear he roared in agony but carried on none the less, gripping the small shinigami by the throat he pummeled her face with his fist. It was a risk she had taken by coming to close to savage beast and the cost of her attack in him was a ravaging.

Then he was struck by something, it felt like a thick jacket that seriously slowed his movements. Tossing the small shinigami aside, satisfied that her face had been worked on enough he struggled and strained with the kidou on him. He would be able to break it but was unhappy that it left him open for a good strike.



Npc T-Bone: T-Bone scratched his head in a puzzled manner, why was this guy looking like he had seen a ghost, and why did he stink so bad. O T-Bones simple mind the obvious question of why he was here at all didn’t compute.

‘‘Oi…. Stinky. Why you here? T-Bone don’t like you stinky.’’

Hollow had gathered around them, but his size and stature gave him obvious command despite his lack of wit, ‘‘He’s mine… back of midgets.’’

And pulling out his oversized zanpakuto he sent a heavy blow towards the strange cretin in front of him.

Kaiyo had landed a pretty powerful hit on Dead Meat but as a consequence she had left herself open, as the hollow roared in pain her reached out and grabbed Kaiyo's neck he then began pounding her face, the first few hits Kaiyo was still conscious, but when Elven's kidou hit and he slung her aside she was drifting in and out of reality, Kaiyo managed to call Elven's name, hoping she'd take the opening that Dead Meat had left. Kaiyo's body was flung across the sky, blood streaking across her face she shut her eyes slowly. Falling downwards at an alarming rate the young shinigami was just lucky to have collided with a nearby roof, the momentum had thrown her down with some force and Kaiyo had received various cuts along her arms and legs in her landind, her Zanpaktou returning to it's relased state and clanging onto the roof.

Kaiyo was engulfed in black with blood still streaming from her face all she could hear was the sound of her metal sword hitting the concrete rooftop. Kaiyo lay there for a while, vaguely taking in the sounds of the raging battle above her, she would be out for a while. Kaiyo slowly opened her eyes and didn't bother trying to move, she was coverd in her own blood and was aching allover her body, she needed the rest. Kaiyo would wait for a forth squad member and hope Elven could carry on where she had left off, Kaiyo would join the battle later and with that thought she shut her eyes again, soaking in darkness and her searing pain.

OOC: Sorry but i can't award a fighting skill point there, it's more of you getting beat up than of fighting. Nice detail though.

(lol yer i kinda didn't know what i was gunna write when i pit that )

((OOC: Aiming for speed this round boss))

Sal stood for a second, looking around the gathering of Hollow, at the wanton destruction of Seireitei, and then at the mass of steroids and testosterone that had stepped from the crowd. Norongachi cracked a smirk at the unusual Hollow, he certainly looked different from the rest, more human and less like a creepy kids toy.

Words were unnecessary, he knew when gratuitous violence was the best response and so as the slab of steel carved the air toward him he withdrew his Zanpakuto from its sheathe on his back, bending low so the width of the blade took the blow before it had even been fully drawn. His knees sagged slightly under the strength of the attack but since his arrival in Soul Society his own strength had amazed him time and again and he had a good feel for what he could and could not withstand.

In an instant he was running toward the enemy, his posture still low, his sword still half in its sheathe and the enemy Zanpakuto still pressed against his, kicking up sparks, as he ran the length of it toward its wielder. He closed quickly, then pushing upwards, he unsheathed his Zanpakuto fully pushing it up against the enemy steel, twisting it so that they were edge on to one another and then dipped down, spun with a flash of sun on metal and made to cleave the Hollow at the waist.

OOC: +1 speed for sal.

Npc T-Bone: The small man caught his blade on his own by baring the lower section of it over his shoulder. T-Bone grunted in mild surprise as the man managed not only catch his blade and stop it mid swing, but also managed to push back and knock his blade away.

He almost cursed but was to busy keeping track of the small lad with his eyes as he darted in low to the ground with his zanpakuto kicking up sparks. Then he saw mighty swing carve through the air towards his waist.

T-Bone grunted again and darted out of the way with a sonido, despite his size he was fast and agile and could move with a spring when he needed to. Facing the back of the man he rested his blade on his shoulder and laughed, ‘‘Nice try little man, but no cigar. Come on show me what you made of, a zanpakuto like that and this is the best you can do?’’

Ending his sentence T-Bone sent a rather brutal downwards slash towards his enemies midsection, this would either end the fight dead on or turn it into something that he could enjoy.