The Blocked Gates (Pre-Determined Participants Only!)

Kaiyo glanced sideways to Saroki with a death glare, annoyances before combat always put her in an un-needed bad mood, the girl spoke with a sharp edge to her voice, 'Eurgh! They wouldn't leave me alone!' she moaned, throwing her arms in the air for a mild emphasis. Kaiyo's expression switched when she heard her voice, spinning round to Kao the girl grinned, 'We're being sent off through this portal' she gestured over-dramatically, 'And then! We're either gunna make our way to the real world to take down the hollows, or see what crawling around in Hueco Mundo' Kaiyo's clear passion for fighting was obvious in such situations, with glimmerings of emotion that only a few would note to the girl as a genuine worry for the souls of karakura Town.

Kaiyo remained seated on top of the portal, quite impressed at the troops that had gathered to rush through. Bored of waiting around, the short girl hopped up to her feet. Placing the thumb and index finger into her mouth as she let out an ear-piercingly loud whistle. 'Alright, so i'm gunna go ahead and guess everyone here is wanting to head through this portal!' she shouted across the crowd, her voice holding an oddly authoritative tone. 'Lets get one thing straight first of all, some of you will die, some of you will be critically injured, and all of you will follow the damn orders given to you, or all of you will die'. Kaiyo glanced sideways to Kuro as a not was passed to him from a Vice Captain. The girl scratched the back of her head gently, 'So! Kuro's gunna tell ya whats goin on'.

No definitive orders had been given, the shinigami had to do something. Whilst Kaiyo would have suggested splitting into smaller groups with each group leader keeping direct contact with others; the girl also knew other factors had been put in place, and her calling to arms so suddenly, without knowing what was going on, would have just been stupid. So, in her usual manner, Kaiyo decided to let someone who knew what was goin on do all the talking. At least she'd vaguely managed to subdue the hustling and bustling of the gathered soldiers though. The girl glanced back to Saroki and Kao, hoping both fighters would at least stick with her for a little while; Kaiyo wanted a team of decent sword skill and speed.

Ri followed the Onmitsukido member which was difficult after all shunpo was a speciality of the Onmitsukido forces. Ri could feel Kurama close behind him. The Onmitsukido member stopped suddenly and came to one knee in front of Kuro.

"Reinforcements from Squad ten" The Onmitsukido member said then vanished from sigh no doubt carrying out more of his orders. Ri looked at Kuro and saw both Saroki and Kaiyo

"Looks like were on Time, What are our orders" Ri said bowing his head slightly showing his respect for the two captains and the third seat. Ri was eager for battle but knew that if he didn't follow the orders he could be the cause of a disaster.

Kuro took the opportunity caused by Kaiyo's announcement and the calmed atmosphere it had created. Sepping forward, he addressed the mass of volunteers assembled in front of the gate.

"Kaiyo-taichou is correct. It's likely that many of us will be injured, and some of us may even die. But we are using this portal with that knowledge in mind. For the sake of our duty to protect the souls of the living world, we are charging into enemy territory against unknown forces."

As Kuro spoke, a few more volunteers showed up, most notably the rest of his Onmitsukido members, one with members from squad 10 and two with a large group of members from the 4th squad. Good...we're likely to need medical support on this mission...

"Once we're through the portal, we have two main objectives. We must find a way out of Hueco Mundo so we can send some of our forces to support the Shinigami and others in the living world who are resisting the hollows alone at this time. Our other objective is finding whoever and/or whatever is causing this disturbance with our normal traveling means and eliminate them.

"We'll be splitting up into two main groups for the initial search when we get to hueco mundo, one with each captain. This is for safety reasons in case we run into enemies as dangerous as arrancars. Once one group finds a way to the living world, we'll inform the other group of it so that three quarters of both teams can be sent there. The remaining forces will then operate as one group and search out the means to restore our Senkai gates."

Kuro breathed deeply. He wasn't used to long speeches. Turning his back to the group, he faced the portal. "It's a good chance that there's no turning back. This is the last chance for anyone having second thoughts about this mission. But those who are ready to risk it all for the sake of what we stand for, it's time to move out!"

Finishing his speech, Kuro dashed straight into the dark portal. He felt the same cold feeling that Saroki had earlier, but continued to traverse into its depths. Darkness swirled around him like a thick blanket, with almost no way of telling where he was going. After a few minutes of blindly running straight, he emerged in a desert of white sand. The guards that had gone through the portal earlier were nowhere in sight, but instead of looking for them, Kuro waited for the rest of his volunteers to emerge from the gate.

Kuroi had left the with the rest of his group from 3rd squad, shunpoing in front of the rest of the shinigami gathered and walked through the gate gracefully, Except for Kuroi, who had tripped. The Vice Captain paved the way, Each focusing their Reiyokrou into the path...

Kuroi spoke up, "Shouldnt we pick up the pace?"

"Your right lets hurry and get their to assist Kuro Taicho" replied the vice captain

Simultaniously they sprinted forward, emerging through the gate into a expansless desert... The Fu-Taicho obviously wanted to be with Kuro Taicho and the rest of the group stood, Kuroi stood behind the rest, grabbing the Zanpaktou on his back caution being his motive.

Kuroi was ready to use the freshly sharpened Zanpaktou to cut straight through the sheath on his back to bring it to a fighting position...

((OOC: I beat you all except Kuro, hehehe))

The orders had been given. It was time to go for the team of Shinigami volunteers. An unseated member of Squad Ten who Kurama had met not too long ago approached him with questions of what his orders were. "Shinji, you are to join Captain Saiyouko's group. She will be leading most of her Squad Eleven members in Group A." Kurama looked to his friend Ri. "As for us," he continued, "We'll be joining Group B. We have extra skill in Shunpo that Captain Akarui would appreciate on his team."

As Group B began to follow Kuro-Taicho into the portal, Kurama turned back to Shinji to give him a single order. "Shinji. Don't let any of my men die in there, that includes you." Though he was only the sixth seat officer, Kurama still felt protective of his subordinates. "Alright, let's kick some hollow ass Ri!" Kurama flash stepped towards the portal, diving head first with his hand on his zanpakuto. They said that no Shinigami had ever set foot on the sands of Hueco Mundo. Whether that was true or not didn't really matter much, either way it was very likely that no one would live to tell the tale...

The vast deserts of Hueco Mundo were not as packed full of roaming hollows as one would imagine. Hopefully this wasn't because they were all seizing the opportunity to mob the Human World at once. All seemed quiet as the last of the groups stepped through the portal to regroup. Kurama began sensing the area around him for spiritual energies other than their own. He relied on Ri to alert him when the group began to move. There wasn't much to sense, a few smatterings of Reishi could be found mixed in the sand. He could tell fighting occurred here not too long ago. Kurama fear that it may have been the Second Squad's scouts...

All of a sudden an immense amount of spiritual energy began to manifest itself out of the air only a few meters from the group. Unless he was mistaken, the amount of energy dwarfed even Kaiyo-Taicho's. He could sense two separate signatures emanating from the massive collection of Spiritual Pressure, it was obvious that they were arrancar...

"Taichos!"

(OOC: Incoming Niiro Sekkou and an NPC ran by Ryuujin-D)

Ri enter the portal shortly followed by the squad four contingent. He came through the gate and saw Kuro and Kurama as well as a few other Shinigami already on the otherside.

In the soul society everything is Reiatsu which is opposite to the living world but here in this desert Ri could feel everything was Reiatsu but if felt unmistakable corrupt and sinister. He could sense clusters of Reiatsu but little else to indicate a threat.

He walked up behind Kuro , he still owed Kuro his life from his fight with the Arrancar a few days ago and was hoping to repay the debt now. He turned his head around as he saw the rest of the forces enter Hueco Mundo , they all began to divide into two groups following Kuro's orders.

Ri then caught sight of Kuramas face and for a moment Ri was puzzled then he felt it too ,a spirit pressure that was eminence. He looked around and saw a few of the weaker Shinigami barely able to stand up with the pressure.

Ri knew exectly what is was , an Arrancar ,the pressure was distinct and having nearly died from one Ri wasn't about to forget anything about them any time soon.

"I'm Right behind you" Ri said to Kuro knowing Kuro was ready to fight the arrancar. Ri didn't usually opt for two on one fights but they had to get to the living world or more innocent would die and so he'd have but put his honour code aside for now for the sake of protecting the lives of others.

Pajaro flew in the skys of this new realm, He had gotten sucked into it when a big hollow, the one that fired the big red Onda Llamarada, had come into the living world.

Pajaro flew torward the rift, as he was pretty close to it in the first place out of curiosity he flew in and kept flying straight through the almost oppresive place...

Then he was in a world of sand, full of rich power, his kind of power, He felt more powerful than he had ever been even when he had eaten the one with the hammer, he felt invincable.

Pajaro flew up high, at 11000 feet, he felt a few presenses that were like his own but not in the slightest were the same power...

Pajaro then spotted it, someways off but still not unreachable Pajaro started flying there, torward the massive group of shinigami.

Draze anda few of his fellow students, specifically picked for this 'privalige,' marched forward, as ordered, to the front of the gate. Now not a metre away, Draze closed his eyes as he stepped through. A sensation he felt must be like drowning washed over him, and he opened his eyes again.
Sand.
And lots of it.
They were on the rise of a particularily large dune, and other shinigami had been making their way down the sandy slope. Draze felt reitsu of an alien nature to what he was used to, and could make no sense of it at all. So he was unable to detect various swirling currents that marked the marching of incoming Hollows.

Hageshii was running as fast as he could to the West Gate he was annoyed by the sirens as they had awoken him from his nap on top of one of the lowed roofs of seireitei. He wasn't very far from the West Gate but was forced to detour when he attempted to recieve information on the reason for the sirens. His mind was in extreme disarray as he ran through the groups of shinigami. He was mid stride when two older shinigami stopped him.

"You're an academy student, right? What are you doing here?"
"Maybe he's late and was a part of the student squad. Where you with the student squad kid?"

"My name is Hageshii Yasuragi. I am here for the reason you have stated. I am a memeber of the student group, I had to rushh back to another end of seiretei to report to memebers of another squad down near the souther part of Seireitei. Please I'm in a hurry and must get through the gate. I'd be on cleaning duty for a thousand years if I don't get there soon."

Hageshii addressed the two shinigami as politely as possible trying to avoid anymore questions because he wasn't a part of any student squad in fact he had just heard of it. They lead him to the gate and addressed a few others that he was apart of the students who had already gone through. He was able to get through with little to almost no trouble and arrived at the gate sooner than expected. He rushed through the gate. Without anyone interfering with his passage.

That was way too easy. Hageshii thought to himself as he became engulfed in a sensation similar to drowning. He came out of the enclosed, hallway like area and at the back of a large group and was gasping for air. He noticed a familiar face and rushed to it. He was shortly hit by the feeling of not only the other shinigami's reiatsu but also that of something dangerous. He was overcome with a slight fear and excitement, his body also began to tremble as he rushed closer to a kid he had met in a training dojo a while back.

"Draze! Hey, Draze, wait up!" Hageshii called out as he rushed through shinigami. As he ran he was given a series of angry, confused, and distasteful looks. When he caught up to Draze he was almost out of stamina. He slowed down and tried to slow his breathing as he spoke between breathes. "Draze, I need updates, fast. What exactly is going on? Why are we here in this desert?" Hgeshii tried to keep his voice low so that he wouldn't be noticed anymore than he already had been. He began looking around and taking in his surroundings. In just that instant, he felt it. A shock of terrifyingly, powerful reiastu. "Draze do you feel that? What they hell is that power?!" Hageshii looked around and still only saw the shinigami. He sudenly lost all excitement and was overcome with imense fear. What the hell is this? He thought, terrified, to himself.

((OOC: Sorry I'm soo late. CPU was outa commision.))

as Chaos awoke in the corrupt desert of hueco mundo, he began to sense huge amounts of reiatsu nearby, he climbed to the top of a sand dune and shouted out a war cry, calling out to a few of his brethren hollows near by, the roar was loud enough that you could here it through almost all of hueco mundo. 4 very odd looking hollows had arrived to his location in a matter of minutes, including his little brother Hiromaru. as they all stood before haroku ( hollow name:chaos ) he began to explain the reason for summoning them.

i sense a huge amount of spiritual energy brethren, this energy isnt like ours, it feels completley different from any of our kind

what do you think it could be master???

i have a strong feeling that there are shinigamis here

master, what would shinigamis be doing in hueco mundo???

well it must have something to do with the human world. follow me if you wish to feast on some of the best souls you have ever tasted in your lives.

brother, this is foolish, we will be slaughtered!!!!

dont be such a coward little brother, i could care less if you come. dont be so ungreatful if it wasnt for me you would still be lost in the human world all alone.

chaos chuckled a demonic laugh that was just a tad freaky on the insanity side. chaos then took off into the dessert, and they all followed including his brother hiromaru. when he came towards the top of the sand dune, he began to hear human like voices, he slowly peaked his head above the dune and seen a group of shinigamis. chaos clinched the ground and threw him self at high speed toward the back of the group, snatching up a shinigami in his monstrous sized hand and teleporting behind a sand dune immediatley after he grabbed his prey, he then ripped him in half and devoured his soul as quickley as he snatched him up. Chaos then moved quickley back to his group of hollows, by circling around far enough so the shinigamis couldnt see him. as he watched the shinigamis look around all of them almost completley oblivious to what had happend.

i wonder if they have sensed are pressence yet...

((Marlamin1, This post is just to explain to hageshi whats happened.)
As his fellow student came, stumbling through the crowds of shinigami and over the cold dry sand, Draze spared a glance his way. Hageshii. The bigger student was the one he had gotten in an argument about his zanpakuto a long time ago. Draze suppressed the urge to facepalm when his fellow student actually started calling out to him. He grabbed Hageshii when he came close, and forced him to stand in rank with Draze and the rest of the students. As there were 16 students to form a perfect square, Hageshii had to be content with bieng an un-wanted 17th.
"Hand on zanpakutos." a voice rang out from the front of the crowd of shinigami. Higher up the dune, and forming the back of the crowd, Draze and his students barely heard the call, but where able to obey just as others did.
"We're in Hueco Mundo, hence the massive power." Draze whispered to the panicky looking Hageshiin response to his question. "The human world is bieng attacked by an army of Hollows, and someone or something is blocking the Gates to the real world. We have come to Hueco Mundo to see if we can do something about it." Draze continued. He was about to go on, asking how Hageshi had gotten here, when a blur and ripple of reitsu caught his attention. He was just in time to see a large Hollow jump over a dune towards the group, grab a young shinigami, and bound over another dune, to be hidden from the group. All the shinigami huddled closer together as a scream, which was cut off suddenly, to be replaced with tearing and chomping sounds, echoed from the other side of the dune

Shikuro stayed calm waiting to see if someonwe had noticedhis presence seeing that nothing moved closer to him, he moved into the nearest ally and by that ally he swiftly moved up to the ropof, where he could hopefully get a better view over this battle, since right now it seemed quite pointless as he was outnumbered by far, and couldn't really feel any allies near him at the time, which he found pretty strange, a hollow attack like this should have sended loads of shinigami here to back those up allready here, it kinda seemed like they had been left to slaughter, or where sleeping or something.

Shikuro thoughts got interupted by a feroucious growl behind him, he just got turned around holding up his Zanpakutö to keep himself from being eaten in one go, though instead he was thrown onto his back the only thing keeping this hollow from eating him was the blade holding the creature devious teeth away from himself. The pain in his back was indecribeable it just kept hurting him he had proberly landed on something sharp now stabbing up into his back bone, but he couldn't really think about it alot, as his adrenalin was pumbing sky high from being so close to become swallowed whole, though when this was over he would proberly have a hard time moving around alot.

Shikuro bended his leg up nicely placing a kick on the hollow's side making him slide to the side of Shikuro the hollow noticed it to late making him bumb its head into the the ground as Shikuro removed the blade from its jaw, its it bumbed into the ground, Shikuro then stabbed the sword right into the mask, then afterward slicing it up, exorcising the hollow.

Kuro was quick to begin devouring her victim again, letting him screams as much as he want as she rip his arm off and swallowed it en one bite, she quickly killed and ate his soul before, getting her attraction back to the world. Her mouth was almost overflowing in saliva after haven’t eaten her 7 victim, suddenly she could feel it another hollow had just been killed again down the street

Covered in a lot of bruises and having been in a good share of fights, Lavi had move trough the real world trying to find a shinigami, really any shinigami would do.
Lavi noticed a familiar face that seemed to be in trouble Shikuro was fighting some hollows and it seemed like he could use some backup as a hollow was sneaking in on him while he was busy with another one.
Lavi jumped ahead and in a single strong hit he cut the hollow mask open and then looked over at Shikuro "did not expect to meet you again so soon, and certainly not here of all places" Lavi had his Zanpakuto ready should other hollows appear

Shikuro was lying witgh his back down on the roof looking up to Lavi for the first time after this had started a smile was brought to him though he found it kinda weird.
"Well atleast we both got out of those ugly colors..."
He said with a small teasing voice before getting up on his feet, allready there he could feel a staggering pain in his back, though not certain if it was a wound or just a hard blow to the back he had gotten.

Lavi laughed a little "you can say that again, it was really getting on my nerves wearing that" Lavi looked a bit around as he could see hollows off in the distance lucky for them the hollows had not seen them yet "So do you have a clue to why all these hollows are attacking, or where the hell our backup is?" Lavi did not feel too well about the situation, he had gone on patrol but ended up with being alone as he could not use the senkai gates to return to soul society, his gaze returned to Shikuro

ooc: disregard my last post

Jacques Kyoukan stood on a balcony in Las Noches, enjoying the view and an expensive cigarette. As he blew a smoke ring out in front of him, he frowned slightly. There was a strange reiatsu he could feel in the distance. No...not a reiatsu. Given that he had nothing else to do, it seemed a good idea to investigate. Jacques took a step up onto the railing, and then Sonido'd toward the source of the disturbance.

His senses told him the source of power was coming from the middle of the desert. As he neared the area, Jacques took cover behind a dune, and then turned invisible. He trekked up the dune and peered over the edge. Jacque's mouth fell open in surprise; his cigarette fell to the ground and burned itself out. It was a strange, pulsing gate, outside of which there was a moderately large group of Shinigami, two of which he could sense were stronger than most. Tch. Jacques did not particularly care how this portal had manifested itself- all he wanted to do was to eject these Shinigami from Hueco Mundo; forcibly if necessary.

So, Jacques became visible once more and stepped over the top of the dune. He cut a somewhat strange figure, dressed as he was in what was clearly a well-made, and likely expensive suit. "Well well well, what do we have here? A group of Shinigami who have found a way into our humble abode. Trespassers, as I do not recall that an invitation was ever extended...how very rude." Jacques straightened his posture and raised his hands, fixing his gloves as he did so. "I feel it is my obligation to teach you common courtesy...first rule: always knock first."

Sonido! Jacques appeared behind one of the weaker Shinigami, knuckles extended. CRUNCH! His knuckles literally knocked through the back of the Shinigami's skull, spraying those around him with blood, bone, and brains. Quickly, he grabbed a similarly powered Shinigami next to this victim and Sonido'd back up to the top of the dune with him. "Rule 2: Always offer a cigarette." Jacques removed the cigarette from his mouth and pushed the burning end into the left eye of the unfortunate Shinigami, before breaking his neck.

"Don't make me hit Rule 3..." he said in a dangerously soft voice.

Draze stifled a small yelp at two students dissapeared from nearby him. He drew his zanpakuto, as did everyone else, and huddled with the other students. The figure on the dune held one of the missing students, who he swiftly killed.
Suddenly Draze realized that huddling was useless againt this new monstrosity. He separated himself from the group. Now he had room to swing, not that it would be of any help. Draze had always been good at sensing reitsu levels, and this new threat was at least Captain level. Draze could do nothing but appear prepared, hopefully this could save him from a terrible and messy death.

Kuro was taken by surprise by the sudden appearence and overwhelming ferocity of the new enemies. Three of their students had been killed in cold blood before he or Kaiyo could even react. This enraged Kuro more at himself than anything and his power began to surge out over the desert sands, making them swirl and drift like a light breeze was blowing through the area.

"I guess we don't have to split up like we previously thought Kaiyo-san. This will make things easier."

Kuro drew his blade and locked his eyes on the arrancar. He called out orders to the squad members and students.

"Saroki-san, Ri-san. I want you two to take charge of the volunteers and focus on those hollows behind us. Do your best to work together and protect everyone. Me and Kaiyo-san will deal with this monster."

Kuroi was shocked to see a few students die... from an arrancar no less... that and the captain's power was overwhelming... but Kuroi had to press on...

Kuroi yelled, turning to the hollows encircling the group, "Bakuto 4 Crawling Ropes!" Kuroi encircled his Zanpaktou as Kuroi used his other hand to release the sheath from his back by pushing it upward.... Kuroi Brought the sheathed sword around and drew his zanpaktou horizontally...

he dropped his sheath... he wouldnt need it for a while... and after that... Kuroi stuck his zanpaktou into the sand while aiming his fingers... "Hado 13 Killer bee", Kuroi yelled as he fired them at the hollows in front of him... 2 were taken out... 3 were hurt and 2 were not affected... the rest missed...

Kuroi felt the surge from the zanpaktou as he drew it from the sand... but it stopped after drawing it back out... Kuroi then awaited orders from the Ku-Taicho, who was launching a kidou as well... A hollow dodge it and tackled the Ku-Taicho and was locking the Lietenant in a fight so Kuroi waited for one of the captains to issue orders for the the rest of his group...

Meanwhile, back in Soul Society...

12th Division Captain Ryouta Ayame was just waking up from a nap in his private lab. He stood up and stretched extravagantly, yawning widely as he did so. He then cracked his neck and back loudly. "Aw that feels good," he said out loud. Ryouta rubbed the side of his face and his eyes to wake himself up, and noticed that he had indentations from the keyboard across his face. He grinned, and looked up...

To see a very large and angry looking message on his computer screen. "What's this...?" His eyes widened as he read through in its entirety. "Oh that's not good at all. I need to get going." Before he left the lab, he grabbed his goggles, shanghai'd a couple division members into following him, and headed for the nearest Senkai gate with a sh*tload of expensive looking equipment.

Upon reaching the nearest one, Ryouta had the equipment set up. "Now we just wait for some workable data..."

Ri would of argued to stay and help fight the Arrancar but he saw the look in Kuros eye and wasn't about to get between him and the Arrancar. He nodded to Kuro in acknowledging of his orders and shunpo'd away.

"Flow me and stay as a united front. Highest seats give me two minute then follow me" Ri said calling out his own orders and enjoyed giving them. He shunpo'd once against and appear behind the on coming horde of hollows lines.

"Destruction! Surround my body! Send any around me to the realm of the the unconscious, where dreams do not reach! Hado twenty White Crawl." Ri called out as he place one hand to the sand as the area around around him erupted in an explosion of Reiatsu and sand, killing all the hollow nearby.

Ri raised his head as the five highest seat arrived with him in the centre of the horde. Ri smiled he liked being in the fray of everything. He charged toward a worm looking hollow and without stopping he ran his sword straight threw its mask. As it vanish Ri leaped in the air and saw the hoard of Shinigami and hollows clash against each other.

Saroki entered the portal right after Kuro, following closely behind him; As she emerged, a dark and eerie feeling engulfed her mind. Such a evil pressence, this wasn't natural. It was so...Depressing, Saroki could litterally feel the pure essecne of depair reek from her new surroundings.

But...

It was also a feeling of exploration, and excitment. As everyone else exited from the portal, Saroki started to feel a immense reiatsu. Two, no, three. No...Damn, it was hard to tell. There was one immense pressence, and three minor ones. Saroki drawed her sword, as she saw a hollow snatch a shinigami.
"SHIT! KAIYO! KURO! HOLLOW INCOMING THREE O' CLOCK!"
Even then, as the shinigami around her fell into casual battle stances, another hollow appeared, vasto lorde to be exact. Saroki could feel the air around her thicken, and grew harder and harder to breathe, and she could feel it...It hit her...Finally...

It was like a fucking brick hit her in the head, and suddenly she knew the meaning to the universe...As she saw her comrads die infront of her, she could feel her own emotional anger and sadness, turn into physical power.

And within seconds her entire body was engulfed in a condensed, black reiatsu. It wasn't much, but it was extremely concentrated. Saroki absorbed the reiatsu; A ominous glow suddenly eminating from every part of her body. She wanted to protect people, that was her resolve, and even though she felt like her new power was temporary, she knew her duty, and was prepared to lay her life down for it.

Saroki respected Kuro's authority, but to be honest, she was losing patience rapidly. This wasn't just about the mission anymore, it was about revenge; Still, she knew she wasn't a match for an Arrancar, so instead. She charged towards the oncoming horde of hollows. Ten had already appeared from nowhere. Damnit! Where are these things coming from?! Saroki shunpo'ed towards her new enemies, traveling at extremly high speeds.

Jacques watched with great amusement as the horde of Hollows in all stages of Hollow evolution surged forward. Perhaps he should make things a bit more interesting for the outnumbered Shinigami. Jacques jumped high into the air and formed his fingers into a triangular steeple shape. A green Cero began to form...VMMMM! <- Cero sound. He sent the ball of energy directly into the crowd of Shinigami, not really caring whether he hit Hollows or not; after all, there were plenty more where they came from.

That being done, Jacques began sending down Balas at a quick pace, all of them aimed at the two Shinigamis wearing white haoris over their black robes. He wanted to keep these two pinned down and distracted, and thus have them become overwhelmed by numbers.

They had the audacity to come here...thought Jacques as he continued his assault.

Several things seemed to happen at once as Kaoseu passed through the gate. He was assaulted by a powerful, dark Reiatsu as soon as he arrived in the sandy landscape. Then, several Shinigami went up, their lives snuffed out before they had a chance to act. The last thing that happened was that he felt the Arrancar's power surge as it charged a Cero. Kaoseu acted without thinking. The Cero was aimed into almost the center of the mass of Shinigami, where he happened to be. He jumped in the air, spin kicking everyone he could, creating a domino effect as they went down and the Cero blasted the ground, sending limp bodies flying.

The Shinigami survived, but several were injured and some in critical condition.

"Anyone in the Fourth Squad, get over here now!!!" he barked as he headed off to Kaiyo-taicho's side as balas rained from the sky.
"Kaiyo-taicho! I'll watch your back, take care of the Hollows that get too close. I take it you two have the Arrancar, so have a blast!" he said as he arrived by Kaiyo's side, sidestepping and Flash Stepping out of the way of incoming bala.

He would protect his captain, 'til death, and did so as the wave of Hollows washed around him, and he was gone, sucked into his own world of battle, a flashing shock of white hair and silver metal, both blades spinning. Manic laughter began to escape his lips as he ceaselessly sliced and stabbed at Hollows. Three disappeared with his first strikes and he saw Saroki Flash Stepping at high speed, her body engulfed in black, ominous Reiatsu. Kaoseu grinned and stopped in mid swing, holding his blades aloft. He concentrated his Reiatsu as a few small Hollow approached. His amber eyes flew open and he was engulfed in a thick, bloodred Reiatsu of his own, blowing back a few of the Hollow. He laughed maniacally again as he systematically began slicing at the hoarde of Hollows once again, his only intent and focus being to protect.