Quincy Trouble

Deep within the bowels of Tokyo, 3 men and 2 women sat at a dimly lit table. One of the men was very burly and tall, and had a dark brown buzz cut. The other two were twins, and had very light blond hair, though one had his hair down to his shoulders, while the other had his shorter and gelled up into spikes. One of the women was blond and had long hair down to her waist, whereas the other had shorter brown hair that was done in a pony tail down to the middle of her back. All of them were dressed in white tunics that resembled Mandarin Chinese dress and priestly cassocks. Each had a silver bracelet around their left wrist, and from each bracelet hung a sort of cross.
The burly one spoke up. "I hate this place. It's time we came up with a plan to get revenge on those damned Shinigami for what they've done to us, to the Quincy."
The blonde-haired woman laughed. "Chojiro Kazuie, you're always saying stuff like that, you know you're not smart enough to come up with anything."
Kazuie stood up very quickly, nearly flipping over the table they were seated at. "You want a piece of me bitch!?!?!"
The twin with gelled hair spoke in a soft voice, though it had steel in it. "Shut up, Kazuie. You anger too quickly."
The other twin spoke after his twin finished, and he spoke with an equally soft voice, though in a decidedly more threatening manner. "Sasaki's right. Don't provoke trouble if it's not worth it, Hotta Masae."
The blond girl's face creased with fear for an instant, then she bowed her head. "Yes, Toshinobu-sama."
The brown haired girl lifted a finger to indicate she would like to speak. "Excuse me, Sasaki-sama, Toshinobu-sama. But are we going to do anything about the Shinigami?"
The twins looked at each other, then spoke, finishing each others' sentences in an eerie fashion.
"Yes. Of course we-"
"have a plan. And all it involves is a lot-"
"of Hollow bait. We will draw a multitude of Hollows into-"
"the city, and destroy them all, upsetting the-"
"spiritual balance. The Shinigami will be forced to come-"
"but in doing so, they will allow menos and adjuchas into-"
"the real world if enough of them come. We will create so much-"
"chaos that the Shinigami will be decimated first by the Hollow-"
"and then by us!"
Both twins spoke the last part. Sasaki spoke. "Is that good enough for you, Sen Takee?"
Takee nodded. Sasaki looked at each of the others; and both Kazuie and Masae also nodded their assent.
"Then let's get to it," said Toshinobu. All 5 of them stood and exited the room...

((OOC: For ever, everything except kido))
Katrex stood at the top of Tokyo tower, balancing precariously on one foot, using the veiw point to spy out any suspicious activity. Had he had any serious spirit training at all he wouldn't have needed too, however he was resigned to doing it the old fashioned way... ... If you can call standing on a spike 500 meters high old fashioned.
Katrex signed nothing much seemed to be happening so he took a moment to contemplate his situation. Katrex unsheathed his sword, and looked d ah other shinigami in the general vicinity. It was clear it wasn't an unnamed sword, from its shape and color, it was just that kat didn't know it's name yet. So kat had taken to talking to the sword about himself and sometimes asking it questions, even though he never got answers. The sword itself was a straight blade with a red and black hilt. It was double edged and slightly shorter than an ordinary katana, and of course perfectly balanced.
"Am I really going to be of any use to these guys?" He asked it "I can't even flashstep properly and i can't kido at all, Are we going to drag them down?" The sword was silent. Just like he expected it would be. He knew he would have to rely on his past life to just not die if a sticky situation. It was like he was four again, living in that school of hard nocks, life on the line, dependent on his nakama.
He looked to the shinigami near him. "So boss what's the plan?" he asked sheathing his sword slowly resting his left hand on it casually. " Do we yet know what's the cause of these spiritual disturbances?"
Kat seemed to be getting uneasy with the quiet, with the sense of danger,getting this raw Killing intent aimed at him. Not knowing was a horrible fate. He grasped the hilt of the katana with the hand resting on it.

ooc note: Takee's cross is an ankh. --> her bow is a recurve short bow
The twins Sasaki and Toshinobu have a Chi-Ro cross and an Occitan cross respectively --> they're bows are both Yumi (japanese bows that come in pairs, a long and a short)
Kazuie has a Maltese cross --> his bow is a crossbow
Masae's cross is a St. Brigid's Cross --> her bow is a standard longbow

Ryouta cocked his head and thought. "Well, I have a coupla theories kickin' around my head, Katrex." He shrugged. "But I don't have any proof of any of them, so we still don't know anything...and don't call me boss. It's Ryouta."
He gazed out over the Tokyo skyline. "It's not like we've been seeing an unusual number of Hollows lately...it's strange...we see the standard amount...but it's like more have been around and they're somehow being destroyed utterly, souls and all. So either there's a group of renegade Shinigami that's killing them only with kido, or there's something like- Quincy."
Ryouta scratched his head. "But there aren't supposed to be any Quincy left- they were supposed to all have been eradicated in the Shinigami-Quincy war..." Ryouta's thought process was interrupted by a scream. His head snapped to the left, in the direction of the scream. "Sounds like we got work to do... follow me."
Ryouta ran off in the direction of the scream. He and the other Shinigami came upon a soul of a businessman, who was being cornered by a Hollow with wings and a mask that resembled a birds. It was roughly the size of a trolley.
"Why don't you take this one?" Ryouta suggested.

Katrex nodded and quickly unsheathed his zanpakuto. "OI, Try picking on someone your own size" katrex shouted at the beast as he ran up to try and get between it and the businessman. It wasn't the time or place to try a flash step so he ran fast, with a natural grace for such a fresh recruit. The hollow underestimated him because of his low reiatsu and didn't notice the lack of openings in his fighting style and so with a beat of it wings it charged him.
Katrex used the one flash technique he had learnt and could do with ease. He brought his sword behind him on his right as he charged the creature, concentrating his Ki in his left hand, then he released all the ki the moment he got within range of the hollow causing his sword to disappear from behind him and and appear above his head to the left and in front of him. The hollow didn't know what hit him as a moment later they had passed each other. They turned to face each other and the hollow smirked. katrex simply looked to the hollows left arm, which dropped off a second later.
The hollow roared in anger and charged not knowing all the openings a loss of an arm created. Katrex gracefully sidestepped around it and just as the beast turned around stabbed backwards. Stabbed his sword backwards reverse grip. Katrex used the double edged sword to his advantage, slicing down, he then crouched changing his so that both hands were under the blade and sliced all the way up the body of the hollow splitting it clean in half. He flicked the residue of his blade before slowly sheathing it.
Katrex turned to Ryouta "Soul burial the plus?" he asked "Or do you want to question him?"

Ryouta shrugged. "I doubt he'd know anything we don't, but it's worth a shot."
He approached the terrified soul with a warm smile on his face. "Hello there, my name's Ayame Ryouta, and my colleague is Katrex. Long story short, we're Shinigami, and no threat to you whatsoever. Anyway, we're wondering if you've seen anything or heard anything unusual. Other than what Katrex just killed."
The businessman shrugged. "I don't know what'd be strange to you, but I've been chased by those things for a while now, when I was on street level. I thought coming up here would be safer, but then I found out some of those...things can fly. And I had nowhere to run. Thank you for saving me."
Ryouta scratched his cheek. "How many different things would you say you've seen?"
The man shrugged. "15."
Ryouta's eyebrows raised. "...15...that's a lot. I'm surprised you're not dead."
He pulled out his Zanpakuto and stamped the man's forehead with the hilt. "Enjoy Soul Society."
Ryouta turned back to face Katrex.
"So...it looks like there are an inordinate amount of Hollows here. I think we should investigate. Can you use Hohou?"

Kazuie (the big Quincy with the buzz cut) stood about 20 city blocks away on top of a medium-sized office building. He reached into his Quincy garb and pulled out a small white object, about the size of a pill. Hollow bait. Smiling, Kazuie broke it in half. Almost instantaneously, a Hollow that resembled a mastodon appeared and charged him. Kazuie let his Quincy cross drop past his Sanrei glove- his crossbow-like Quincy bow appearing in his hands a moment later. Kazuie fired point-blank into the Hollow's face, and it disintegrated. Kazuie smiled as more Hollow appeared everywhere around. He held his crossbow much as one would hold a submachine gun, and spun slowly, destroying each Hollow as it came at him.

Elsewhere, 20 city blocks from Kazuie, Masae let her Quincy cross drop past her Sanrei glove. As her longbow formed, she shot the Hollow that her Hollow bait had enticed to come. Like Kazuie, she spun and fired with expert marksmanship, destroying each one.

And finally, exactly 20 city blocks from both Kazuie and Masae, Takee let her Quincy cross drop past her Sanrei glove. As her recurve bow formed, she too began in the systematic destruction of the Hollows that spawned.

"You mean shunpo? No not really, still trying to figure it out. I can run fast though (zaraki style), But is it necessary to rush, won't they be drawn to our reiatsu?" Katrex tried a step managing to get about ten yards still moving he flashed again making it about five yards, before tripping up. "As you can see, not very good at it at the moment."
Katrex shuddered. Kat might have not had brilliant reiatsu, but his life as a martial artist had honned in him amazingly good instincts. "Something's happening" He said slowly, looking in the three directions "What do we do?" He slowly drew his sword whispering gently to it. "wakey wakey my love."

Ryouta closed his eyes and focused. "Hollow reiatsu is appearing at an alarming rate at 3 different points in the city...I can sense a different kind of reiatsu too, a kind I'm not familiar with. I'm going to call Soul Society and let them know about this."
Ryouta pulled out a cellphone like device and dialed a number. "Hello? Yes, I know this is the 12th squad. I want to report an alarming amount of Hollow reiatsu appearing. I'm sending you the data now." Ryouta pushed a couple buttons on the device.
He turned to Katrex. "This is kind of a big deal, so we're not gonna go rushing around looking for a fight. Suppress your reiatsu- this'll be purely a reconnaissance mission until I hear back from Soul Society. Let's go."
Ryouta suppressed his reiatsu and began heading over to the nearest source of the Hollow reiatsu (he doesn't know it, but he's heading for Kazuie's location).

ooc: if you look at the ooc topic i made, the admins have requested that we put a hold on this for a little while while they discuss it or something. here's the link
https://thebleachworld.darkbb.com/off-topic-discussion-f37/quincy-trouble-explanation-t332.htm#2260

Katrex followed Ryouta as fast as he could while keeping his spirit pressure down.
He kept a watch out while Ryouta used the phone, skirting the perimeter and doubling back.

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"This is kind of a big deal, so we're not gonna go rushing around looking for a fight. Suppress your reiatsu- this'll be purely a reconnaissance mission until I hear back from Soul Society. Let's go."
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He nodded in response, he wasn't the type to go looking for a fight except during training.

Still he kept his sword out and covered Ryouta's back.

"So?" He said quietly, "What do your instincts tell you is going on? I have a feeling there is more at work here than hollows, but I have no real way to justify that."

"Frankly, I have no idea. I don't want to say anything aloud, because then I might expect that, and I want to be on full alert...it is odd for there to be this number of Hollows in any one place, especially since this place is not known for spiritual power..." Ryouta frowned as he gripped his katana. "I have a bad feeling about this."

As they continued to move, Ryouta began to feel an interesting spiritual pressure that he had never felt before. However, he did not wish to open himself up to it, as that might result in him revealing himself. So, he slowed his movement and began a slow, cautious approach. Ryouta crouched behind an air vent and peered around it. Standing on the roof adjacent to him was a burly man dressed all in white who was firing reiatsu arrows from what appeared to be a crossbow into the Hollows that were appearing all around him.

So Quincys are involved...thought Ryouta. But the question is, is he an enemy, or a friend? It was at this moment that Ryouta's communicator chose to ring. Loudly. The man's head snapped around as Ryouta hid behind the air vent. He answered the communicator. "What?" he whispered. A brief pause. "Oh. Well that stinks...just one. All right." Ryouta emerged from behind the air vent, prepared to call out to the Quincy. He found himself face to face with the large man, who did not look particularly warm and inviting.

Ryouta jumped backward several steps and drew his katana. "As a Vice-Captain of Soul Society, I respectfully ask that you stop what you are doing. You are disrupting the spiritual balance, which is dangerous not only to you but to all innocent souls out there. If you choose not to comply, I will have to restrain you forcibly."

The big man laughed. "You and that other guy? Yeah right." He hefted his crossbow and fired at both of them. Ryouta flash stepped away, appearing behind the Quincy and aiming a strike at his right arm. The Quincy whirled around and caught Ryouta's blade on the outer edge of his crossbow and fired. The bolt took Ryouta in the side and sent him spinning backward and into the adjacent building. He emerged from the rubble with a smoldering wound on his left side.

"Weep, Reifujin Arashi," Ryouta said. The blade of his sword seemed to dissolve into innumerable water droplets. "Mizuyaiba!" With a slash of his hilt, he sent blades of pressurized water directly at the Quincy, who responded by firing bolts into each blade, bringing them essentially to a standstill...

"We're on the same page then" Was all Katrex said in response, waiting for something to happen as they continued to move.

Kat raised his guard as Ryouta slowed his approach and concentrated on further hiding his spiritual pressure. Katrex noticed the quincy but had no idea what it was, he was baffled but the vice captain seemed to be familiar with the sight so he just hung back and waited.

The communicator buzzed. *Feck* Kat thought to himself as he instinctively jumped back. The captain soon after approached and kat went in to cover and started sneaking around to flank the man in case something went wrong.

He didn't hear there conversation, but did hear the fight start and that was enough. Kat looked out from his cover and noticed the standstill. He tried to find a blind spot and tried to figure out how he could make and opening.

He charged the man from his blindspot sacrificing everything for speed, readying himself to dodge when the man noticed. He jumped high to deliver a falling sword cut was in fact chanting under his breath a kido, sending a beam of white lightning at the quincy before he was expecting. He would probably dodge it but wouldn't have time to consider where he dodged to. Hopefully that would be enough.

Because of the constant hammering of their attacks against one another, the area between the two buildings, as well as the surfaces around both combatants were becoming covered in a thin layer of water. Ryouta's eyes widened as he felt his fellow Shinigami gather himself up for an attack. There was nothing he could do about it; but to be honest, Ryouta hated having to trust his subordinates not to hurt themselves in acts of heroism. Then again...perhaps this could be advantageous.

The burly Quincy jumped out of the way of the bolt of lightning, whirling around as he did so and firing off a small hail of bolts at Katrex. Since Katrex was in midair, the Quincy reasoned that he would find it difficult to dodge these bolts. Ryouta tried to exploit this moment by sending off another couple of blades of water. The Quincy turned impossibly fast and fired off several more bolts. Apparently, he had not been fighting at full strength before. These bolts hit Ryouta's blades and sent water streaming down into his face, blinding him for an instant.

Ryouta blinked the water away rapidly to find himself staring down the barrel of the crossbow. "I wonder if you can take a hit at this range?" said the Quincy. Ryouta gasped, figuring that the Quincy would think him vulnerable. The truth was, the Quincy was soaked. He was the vulnerable one.

"I am not afraid to die," said Ryouta. "But I will try to avoid it. Aisu Kan'oke." The Quincy's eyes widened with pain and surprise as all of a sudden, his entire upper body, including his crossbow, were encased in glittering ice. The ice began to spread until it covered every part of him except for his head. "You know...you are about to die at my hands, and I don't even know your name...mine is Ryouta Ayame- Nibantai fukutaicho."

"Kazuie Chojiro!!!" The man began to release copious amounts of spiritual pressure in an attempt to shatter the ice.

"..." Ryouta gestured with his left hand, and Kazuie's entire body was frozen in an expression of desperation and false hope. "Sorry, Kazuie Chojiro. But I'm afraid that I am the stronger of the two of us." Ryouta sheathed his sword and laid his hand on the icy statue. "Hado no Sanjusan: Sokatsui!" The blast of blue flame shattered the ice and its occupant.

"It's a shame, really. Quincys are so rare already. But I sense that there are more...and this man probably the weakest of them. We should move swiftly before they notice his absence," Ryouta said.

ooc: i'm gonna let you choose which of the female Quincys we fight next...