Ressurrection

Kajitora sat on a dune, in his inner desert. He hugged his knees close to his body. It had seemed like he had sent forever here this time for there was nothing to use for recording how much time had passed except the completely random winds which shifted the sands. Suddenly Kajitora’s black ponytail and academy gi were windswept, but the airy force did not distract him from his thoughts. He couldn’t find a way out, he couldn’t figure out what he was supposed to do to leave. Far off, reaching the peak of another dune, he could make out a figure approaching.

He could make out that the person was a female from her petite frame. He could not see her features for she was completely armored from head to toe. Even from the long distance he could make out the larger details of the helmet, it was fashioned after a phoenix’s head. The breastplate held two phoenixes curving upward to face a sword that was in the exact middle of the piece. Fiery tips garnished the gauntlets and boots. The entire armor set was solid gold; the suns making it shine like a star. It was then that Kajitora had fully noticed the seven suns floating in the sky like some giant child’s marbles. He stared up at the suns as the woman came closer.

Once she was five feet away from Kajitora, she spoke as if to get his attention, “I am Suzaku. I am glad that you can hear my name now, little chick.” Kajitora’s glance came down to look at her helmeted head, the ‘little chick’ reference had definitely peaked his interest. The only other being that had mentioned him by that name was the giant phoenix that usually inhabited this desert…could that woman have possibly been the phoenix? He looked at her head to see if there was any sign from her, but no emotion showed through, only the shine from the armor shone forth into Kajitora’s eye denying him any answer.

“Who are you?” asked Kajitora pensively.

“I am Suzaku, Kajitora-sama,” answered the armored woman as she sat down beside Kajitora on top of the dune.

“Sama?”

“Yes, you are the lord of this world. Even though you don’t remember what happen here.”

“What did happen here?” Kajitora was curious.

“A large amount of energy swept through this land, a catastrophic event and turned it into the wasteland you see before you,” said Suzaku.

“A catastrophic event?”

“Yes, your shinigami powers were awakened prematurely. As soon as this land and the seven suns that warm it were made, just as quickly they were eclipsed. For you see, you were still a Plus when you came in contact with the shinigami that activated your powers. The land that you see before you was only remade after you entered the academy and it was actually time for your powers to awaken.” Suzaku explained more thoroughly.

Kajitora nodded as he began to understand. “And you are the giant phoenix…the spirit of my zanpakutou-I am guessing.” Kajitora finally noticed the sword on the other side of the woman’s hip. All he could make out was a blue hilt.

“Correct,” Suzaku reassured him.

“What do I do now that I am here?” he asked.

“You can help hold this world up. Right now it is being held up by my enormous reiatsu,” She told him.

“How do I do that?”

“You will learn to use my abilities-my powers. That means you will have to be resurrected first, and for that to happen you must-DIE!” The armored woman drew her sword in the blink of an eye, bringing it up and then down upon Kajitora with unnatural speed and earth shattering strength. Kajitora managed to raise his arm at the last second and spit out the word, “Seki!” Suzaku’s sword stopped against the invisible kidou shield that repelled her attack. Even though the attack had been absolutely blocked to the naked eye, Kajitora had still felt the raw power on the other side of the shield making his arm fully numb. What exactly was this woman to have such strength!?

“I’m sorry but…I won’t let you kill me, no matter who you claim to be-without a fight!”

“I see you really have grown some,” said Suzaku.

Kajitora pushed her away with as much force as he could muster and she budged. He took a step back and instinctively reached for his sword which hadn’t been at his hip. How foolish a moment, he thought. But his hands felt his hilt and he looked down to see his zanpakutou’s red sheath and the red handle that had two red tassels hanging from it. He was greatly surprised to see his sword had somehow materialized there, but he drew it without a second thought. As the blade left the sheath, he felt a whirlwind of reiatsu burst forth from his zanpakutou. For a moment, he felt empowered by his zanpakutou’s reiatsu.

The armored woman shook her finger at Kajitora and scolded him, “You aren’t attacking me out of fear which is good but you still don’t understand anything do you? There’s a slight difference between courage and foolishness: knowing power. Knowing your power in correlation to your enemies.” Suzaku drew her sword from its blue sheath. The blade was that of a Chinese broadsword, and there were seven barbs lined across the blade: 4 on the left and 3 on the right side. The way the blade glowed with a eerie blue aura reminded Kajitora of a blue flame.

“Against some people it’s just foolish to draw your blade.” Suzaku informed Kajitora as she projected her reiatsu around her. The force of her reiatsu made it difficult for Kajitora to breath; it was like the air around them had grown dense. He was slammed down to one knee as well, his hand still barely gripping his drooping katana. He knew at once, that if this wasn’t her full reiatsu that she could easily support a world-her reiatsu was on another level than Kajitora had ever felt and then some.

She appeared behind Kajitora and announced, “Die”. Kajitora spun around and fell backwards letting the force of her reiatsu help push him back. Next it took every bit of arm muscles to lift up his sword in a blocking position. Once again, he had blocked her attack but the velocity of the blow had been so great that he now found himself lying in a small sand crater.


He looked up at the expressionless helmet, smiled and spoke, “I told you: I’m not going to die here.”

Suzaku had been wielding her sword with one hand, but at time of Kajitora's brave words she put her free hand upon the sword. Kajitora managed to hold her sword up with his own, but the pressure was unbearable. He could feel his bones grinding together in his arms, and his muscles screaming with pain.

Suzaku scolded him again, "You see...you’re doing it again. This is nothing, this is only my reiatsu-not my power. NOW-" Her head leaned forward menacingly as she said the word 'now', as if the small beak on the helmet wanted to scratch out Kajitora's eye. "NOW I will show you my power...Molt-Suzaku!" The sword that she was wielding burst into blue flame. It was above Kajitora but he could feel the heat as if it were against his very skin. After the flame was less intense, Kajitora watched helplessly as the seven barbs fell off the blade and onto his body. Somehow they stuck to his body, just lying on his body in wait of something, something horrible , he thought.

Kajitora swore he could see the barbs move a little before they exploded all at the same time. With seven explosions, his body was consumed by fire and then smoke. The next thing he knew, he was on his back in the sand.

His severely burnt skin refused to move.

Kajitora painfully mouthed the word, “Shou”. The first Hado spell shot forth from his downward facing palm into the ground and propelled him up to his feet. Once he was standing, the reiatsu of Suzaku more or less held him standing up by making his knees lock straight. The armor woman made her way towards Kajitora, walking down the dune near him with slow ease. Kajitora looked down and saw that his left hand still had a death grip on his sword, no doubt the only reason he still held it. He tried to think of a plan but nothing was coming to his mind. All he could think out was that demonic sword, how strong it was and surprising. Kajitora looked around and there was nowhere to hide, nothing to use to even the odds against that sword…wait-maybe the sword was the answer. If the armored woman was supposed to represent his sword, then what did the sword she held represent? He had to grab, he had to see what would happen if he had it. Would it change the tide of the battle?

Suzaku disappeared again, and he knew exactly where to expect her to reappear. He spun around with the rest of the strength in his legs and moved forward as Suzaku had her sword overhead-ready to strike him down. Once Kajitora had moved forward, he dropped his own sword and shot his hands up to grab Suzaku’s sword. He used the same powerful grip on her sword that he had used on his own. Moving to the side of Suzaku, he then swung his hands down and used an Aikido disarming technique to wrest the sword from her hands. The moment that the sword left Suzaku’s grip, her spirit pressure returned to normal and no longer pushed down on Kajitora. His legs were relieved, and his arms could wield the new sword more easily.

The armored woman kept her glare on the sword that Kajitora held. Kajitora smiled and said, “I don’t know how much of this world I can help you hold together with my pathetic spiritual pressure but I promise I will give my all. Now, allow me to show my new power.” He raised the sword up above his head and commanded the sword, “Molt, Suzaku!” He swung the sword down which resulted in the barbs being flung at the armored woman. Once the barbs stuck to her body, he visualized the seven barbs as seven flames and they reacted by immediately exploding. Fire-and then smoke erupted from the spot that the woman had stood and once the smoke had cleared, she was gone.

Kajitora looked around but he didn’t see her anywhere. All he could see was sand going on forever in each direction. He looked down at the sword in his hand with respect, the broadsword shining with a faint red glare now. The seven barbs slowly blinked into existence on the sword blade with a red flash, one by one. The sword he had used at the beginning of the battle was nowhere to be found as well, he noticed. Once all the seven barbs returned to his sword, Kajitora vanished from the desert.

Once the lord was gone, Suzaku appeared again in the spot that she had been in before the explosion. She spoke up to the sky as if Kajitora could still hear her and whispered, “I know you’ll do a perfect job. I just hope that I can help you as much as you have helped.”

She began to remove her helmet.

Shikai Template

Call out phrase: "Molt, Suzaku!"

Description of released form: Suzaku turns into a Chinese broadsword, and on the half circle hand guard is a picture of a phoenix soaring through the sky. The two red tassels are still attached to the bottom of the handle. One the blade is seven barbs, or as Kajitora calls them “blades” (making Suzaku a seven bladed sword in his mind).


Abilities: Suzaku’s first ability in shikai is Phoenix Feathers: the seven barbs can be released from the blade, once they hit a target (person, ground, Kajitora, etc) they erupt into explosions that can catch things on fire. With practice he can learn to trigger the explosions one at a time. Later the second ability is Tail Feathers: Suzaku's enormous reiatsu is formed into a dense beam that is fired from the sword tip. The third ability is Phoenix Breathe: Kajitora can learn to fire multiple beams of Suzaku's reiatsu (a beam for every 100 ZE, but only have he has 300 ZE to unlocke the ability).

Ability 1: Phoenix Feathers: the seven barbs can be released from the blade, once they hit a target (person, ground, Kajitora, etc) they erupt into explosions that can catch things on fire. With practice he can learn to trigger the explosions one at a time.

Approved. Well done mate.