The Sword Meets The Bow (Closed)

The outskirts of Karakura-cho seemed silent this day, the sun glaring on the leaves of the tree's, rustles of water could be heard if one was away from the city enough. The wind seemed to be taking a break and this could be called a general day. Tree's were everywhere making for a perfect scenery. Some wild flowers could be spotted here and there, and from a closer look the water looked like a crystalline stream of liquid fleeing from the fingers of a shinigami, sitting on a rock in the middle of the stream. Revolving around him at a point, as if by not moving he made the water resonate with each of his heart beat, Tatsu was meditating with his Zanpakuto. His Reiatsu wasn't really amazing, but it seemed to spread out in the water, and the water reached back to him, as if it wanted to cradle him from harm's way.

Suddenly, a rip in the sky opened as the shinigami's eye's flashed open, an incredible spirit pressure came to crash upon his shoulders like the waterfall crashed upon a rock. Multiple shadow's jumped while the crack, one of them, seemed particularly huge, and the word of its name tumbled its way on Tatsu's lips, he was sent here because of multiple hollow sighting, but never would he thought of fighting a hollow, and even more on his own.


Heartbeats, is what Tatsu could hear, his feet's running at amazing speed, a speed hardly matched most of the shinigami's without using the shunpo. One would think he was running away from the fight, but he preferred using the cover of the tree's to his advantage, hoping the Menos Grande wouldn't blind fire any Cero's. When the first hollow came into view, Tatsu's heart skipped a beat, it looked like a huge black Gorilla, he knew there were two places effective against a hollow, the hole and the mask, betting on his speed, even thought it was reduced by the spiritual pressure of the general hollow's in the area, Tatsu managed to swing a clean slash at the hole, but it didn't seem enough, at this point with the slash, Tatsu had made his way behind him, he needed to keep moving or else, the other's would catch up and that wouldn't be a good thing. So in a short moment, he jumped on the huge gorilla's shoulder's and smased his sword on the mask, judging it would kill it. Before he could notice another had come into play, spinning on the ball of his foot Tatsu, rose his still sheathed Zanpakuto to block the massive foot that was coming in his direction, but being caught almost off guard, he flew backwards, right into the Menos point of view. It howled loud and long, as if it was about to win, as if the Samurai had been defeated. Tatsu rose his eyes toward's the thing, the beauty behind the red ball of death that was forming in its mouth almost made him forget that he needed to get away.


When he attempted to get away, turning on himself he saw the massive gorilla trying to smash his face, and will it or not, he hit, rising up back on his feet, Tatsu smashed its mask again, this time making sure it was dead. Looking back on the huge monster that was behind him, Tatsu saw the huge ball of red almost formed as he was still in the middle of the opening. Turning on himself, Tatsu decided to dare the attack head on, he knew fleeing away from it wouldn't save his life. Raising his sword in front of him and over his head, he knew he wouldn't make it out, so atleast he was gonna have an epic end trying to face an attack even a captain would prefer dodging instead of blocking it. The sun's glare was soon to be replaced by the red glimmer in the air, and then just as the blarg of red would be fired....

Intense spirit pressure suddenly pressed itself onto the Quincy's shoulders. There was a great battle going on, and it would take a blind monkey to miss the giant Menos that stepped out of the Garganta. As expected there were much smaller Hollow accompanying the gargantuan creature, no doubt looking for weakened pray. Normally he would radio in for backup as he knew he stood little to no chance against this creature alone but the sight of a Shinigami fighting for his dear life stopped him. He appeared to be of about Hado's strength, but he was being overwhelmed and then, the Hollow opened it's gaping maw.

Hado knew what was to come, a Cero, one that was strong enough to shake even a captain class Shinigami. Swiftly did the Quincy uncap two of his Ginto tubes. It would take the strongest thing the Quincy could throw at the Menos to even come close to shaking it. The raw Reiryoku from the tubes was quickly spilled onto the Earth as one formed a massive spirit ballista, the other forming a massive arrow. Hado channeled all of the Reiryoku and Reishi he could manage into the arrow and heaved the bow string back. Then, the release, the arrow sent flying towards the Menos's mask. This however was not the end of it as without a second thought Hado used all of his remaining Ginto tubes to reload the Ballista. Sending off another five arrows to hopefully weaken the massive creature enough to allow for it's destruction.

The Arrows flew out, colliding heavily against the hollows mask and knocking its Cero off course. Narrowly missing the Shinigami as the large red beam created a massive crater in the Earth near the Shinigami. The Quincy's slowly extended his right hand out in front of him and from that motion did his silvery white bow materialize. He began to launch a flurry of arrows, two at a time, at the fairly substantial cracks that were made in the Hollow's mask from the siege.

The arrows collided against the Hollows mask, but in all honesty it seemed to annoy it more than anything else as it turned its head and began charging another red beam of death. However, unlike the Shinigami the Quincy was expecting the Hollow to do something of the sort. As the beam was fired the Quincy quickly used his Hirenkyaku to get out of harms way. Finally appearing far above the beam the Quincy continued his rain of arrows. These arrows were his best effort at slaying the creature, but they seemed to have about as much effect as throwing stones at a knight in full plate armor. The attacks were causing dents, and with enough time a rip in the armor may be established.

The fact the fight had started, roughly and fast didn't help Tatsu the glare of red light flashing in his direction made his afterlife flash through his eye's, it couldn't be over already, he had just begun it. A flash of yellow hair, and a blue bandanna crossed his thoughts and Tatsu reopened his eye's feeling it wasn't over yet. The crushing energy of the blast missed him as the other hollows made their way back to Tatsu, not taking the time to question what had saved his life, another spiritual pressure came in and crushed on his shoulders, it seems someone or something was attacking the gargantuan creature that had fired in his general direction.

Tatsu's reiatsu closed in on him like a turtle's shell, the protective nature of the reiatsu always helped him against stronger spiritual energy, even though Tatsu knew nothing of it at the moment his sword was bound to be a great one. The gorilla like hollow came raging back in onto the shinigami but this time wouldn't be so nice, drawing the dagger end of his weapon, the young shinigami sliced the hollow's throat and looked at it vanish. Without guilt, rage, or anger toward's the hollow, the samurai began swirling his blade around, deflecting some attacks while trying to fend off his foe's at the same time.

Glancing back up at the huge menos, countless missile like attack's came to its mask, but even with such ferocious attacks, it didn't seem enough to even break its mask, hope flared up into Tatsu's eyes someone had come to help him, his spiritual pressure was nearby and he could feel it crush on his shoulders but he bothered not, the beast seemed to draw its attention towards him.

Taking the time to think, Tatsu looked around him, a few more hollows were closing in on him, and by the time he noticed that, another glare of red light roared through the sky as the beam flew away in the general direction of his potential Savior. Deciding it would be smart to come closer, and give a better view to this ranged ally, Tatsu took a short sprint, any possible onlooker could definitely guess that Tatsu wasn't someone easily beaten on a race track. The Hollows had lost him and the samurai tried to find an opening in this forest he used to enjoy so much.

Blood trampling through the veins of his head almost gave him an headache as he flashed through his memories of this forest, he needed a wide opening, something that would save his ass, flashes going through his brain. Tree's, flowers, pink leave's falling behind a small water fall, waterfall, creek on top of the waterfall. A light bulb lit up on top of his head, that creek was about 50 feet higher above the river, if he could lure the regular hollows there, maybe his onlooker could help. Rushing straight in a different direction, making for the creek on top of the waterfall. Multiple black creature rushing towards his direction, could almost make the tree's move, making there movement almost visible to the human eye.

A shunpo could help, but using it might put him into a worst situation, Tatsu never let himself use a technique mid combat that he doesn't master, so running was the way out of this. The water's rustle was ringing hope into his ear's, in a short moment he could see the waterfall, a nice 20 foot large drop of water, where you could sometime's see fishes into it, but this wasn't the time to see them fishies in the water. The rocks could be fine for Tatsu to go up, jumping from one another.

After his climb Tatsu found out that the creek was not that open, but he hoped that the ranger who had shot the menos could still see, it was a little bigger than 20 meters by 20 meters with some tree's in the way. Tatsu turned around while standing in the middle of the creek, zanpakuto in hand with the dagger sheathed in the handle of the zanpakuto. The moment the hollows took to reach Tatsu seemed like an eternity, like all those drops of water falling from Tatsu's hair took forever to fall down, and then all of a sudden time came back to normal, as they all rushed at him at deadly speed. Tatsu didn't budge, Tatsu didn't shake, for he wasn't scared, he waited for the right moment to strike, standing still, statue style.

Wave after wave of arrow was sent flying towards the massive creature, each one seeming to deepen the cracks in its mask ever so slightly. They were dealing oh so minuscule damage and it became harder and harder to aim said arrows as the Hollow took to attempting to swat Hado out of the sky. If that weren't enough there was an occasional smaller Hollow that would attempt to spear Hado from behind. However, rather than wasting more Reiryoku to take care of them he let the Gillian accomplish that task. It was almost comical really, some flying hollow would make it's way up here only to be sent crashing back down to the Earth by a gargantuan hand.

Hado was not preoccupied enough to notice the slew of hollows also chasing after the incredibly fast shinigami. He seemed to be leading them somewhere, seemingly knowing the area like the back of his hand. After narrowly dodging a hand that would have lopped off his head, Hado saw exactly what he was planning. The Shinigami had lured every single Hollow into a large clearing and stood his ground. It was an excellent idea and without a second thought the Quincy aimed upwards, launching his own personal rain of lethal arrows onto the area. This onslaught of death would no doubt eradicate every Hollow in the area. Said Shinigami certainly being fast enough to dodge the arrows as he would clearly be able to see them coming.

However, Hado did not see the hand coming from behind. It crushed heavily against his back and sent him hurdling towards the same clearing, crashing through trees and tree branches alike. Pain seared through his entire body as the initial impact certainly did enough damage but the fact that he was ramming through trees would just add to his injuries. The Quincy finally reached the clearing and flew over the head of the Shinigami, splashing loudly into the water. He flipped himself over so that he was facing the sky and finally decided to speak to the Shinigami.

"That is one tough son of a bitch"!

Tatsu couldn't take the time to notice the little damage the man was dealing with the huge menos, but he knew for a fact that this menos was probably more to handle than the handful of hollow's he was taking care of, just that the menos wasn't at 10 places at a time. The time the Quincy took to notice that Tatsu was in an opening seemed like an eternity to Tatsu's world, swirling around, spinning on the ball of his foot to save his life from many attacks of hollow's, the 12th seat wasn't supposed to fend off attacks like this one.

Thing's went well for the time they lasted, raising his defence high to turn this upper attack from this snake like hollow to nothing to worry about, crashes of projectiles were raining down and Tatsu didn't need to dodge, the creature seemed to be covering the whole of his body. Tossing the soon to be dead hollow aside, Tatsu rose his eyes to the skies to see his saviour fly across the sky in a not so friendly way. The massive hollow turning its face towards the both of them, it didn't seem to fire another cero yet, but certainly looked pretty mad at the little fly that was throwing stones at Goliath.

Sometime's fate had a cruel way of making people meet and it seemed it took tree's, pain and water to make this shinigami meet this nameless savior. ''Seem's were in above our heads'' Tatsu said throwing a look above his shoulders towards the Quincy that had landed not too far away. Turning his face towards the walking menos Tatsu chuckled. ''Hope you have a plan'' The samurai said an obvious smile on his face, even though his zanpakuto wasn't even unsheathed, like he wasn't taking this fight seriously. Not really allowing them to think properly the sky took another glare of red zand another beam of death was about to be fired in their general direction. Tatsu sprint aside, glancing back towards the Quincy if he would have enough time to get out of the death zone.

The Quincy slowly staggered to his feet and smiled lightly due to the light heartedness of the Shinigami. It was certainly true that the dynamic duo were in waaay over their heads. The Quincy's two broken ribs would most definitely have to agree. This notion was only further proved as the Menos shot another beam of death at the two.

Reishi flooded into the Quincy's limbs as he sprang high above the cero, his brain working at full capacity in order to think of some possible way they would be able to eradicate this threat. Then, an idea jolted into the mind of Hado, one could almost see the light bulb above his head. The ballista that Hado had created earlier was still there, if Hado could launch the Shinigami up towards the Hollow's mask while drawing the creatures attention it might be possible for the Shinigami to pierce the creature.

"Oii, follow me"!

The Quincy began to sprint at top speed towards the ballista he had created earlier, once reaching it he rearmed it and told the Shinigami to get on.

"Launch yourself at the bugger after you notice I have it's attention, it should propel you at the bastard fast enough for your sword to pierce it's mask."

Following this short speech the Quincy used his Hirenkyaku to appear on the opposite side of the gargantuan. His spirit bow forming in his hand again as arrows began to fly out from the bow and smash against the Hollow. This action surely grabbed it's attention as a blood curdling howl seemed to shake the very ground that Hado stood upon.

Tatsu's eyes never left the huge menos that wanted their death, this situation would call for firepower he didn't have and probably never will, The beam was about to be fired as the man behind him staggered to his feet. The shot fired and the shinigami dodged, giving a glance towards the sky it seemed his archer friend had managed the same. Quite fortunate they were, getting to fight a hollow at their level probably meant their death, but atleast they would be remembered he thought.

Not too long after, some underling to the huge creature showed up, one looked liked a big zebra while the other looked like a cheetah ''I already feel that one running fast...'' the shinigami said, shortly after that thought the two beasts ran in towards Tatsu, who dodged, ducking low under the blow unsheathing his sword for the first time, making a perfect 90 degree slash right under the hollow's chin, in a moments thought, the zebra like creature was gone, faded back into black. As for the other creature, it had vanished...probably left a trap somewhere but his train of thought was interupted but the flying archer who yelled at him to follow, atleast it sounded like a plan.

Tatsu probably made short work of catching up to Hado, after all his speed made his strength, his reiatsu kept shielding him from the overwhelming spiritual pressures all around him. He looked at the quincy who explained his plan with a dead serious look. ''You ought to be kidding me...'' He said with his tone hoping that this was all a joke...but seeing as he didn't have time to argue he'd guess the man was serious..and he got on the ballista. ''You better get me something to eat after this.''

The menos itself turned around at the Quincy's taunt, howling in anger after its prey it had almost forgot all about Tatsu who was just about to propel himself at the monstrous beast. But then again, one may think a menos is only a beast..it could still feel spiritual pressure.

''How does this thing work..Probably have to get like this and use this thing and AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaahhh'' The shout wasn't necesary but he was doing something very stupid at the moment, the menos faced away, like it was about to launch an attack towards the archer boy, but in a short moment, while Tatsu had his sword all prepared and aimed at the creatures weakpoint, it turned around...and swallowed the shinigami.

''Darkness''