Taking back the streets [Open to Shinigami/Human/Quincy]

The 27 foot creature thudded down the busy street. The ground shook with each footfall it's massive knuckles dragging behind it. From afar it looked like as though a large gorilla was loose in the city. It's shoulders so wide barely allowing it to navigate the road. Although invisible to those lacking spiritual power, it's effects on the physical environment wasn't. The asphalt cracked and cars were crushed by it's passage. The creature halted as the people on the street below screamed at the unnatural phenomenon. The tall hollow sniffed the air. It was searching searching for prey. The nostrils on the white bulldog mask flared. The puny humans weren't enough to fill the creature's stomach. There was nothing in the area to whet his appetite. The purple haired beast growled, it's roar shattered the glass from the buildings around it showering the populace below. It's frustration was rising it snorted in displeasure. With a grunt the muscles tensed and bulged. The ape creature swung it's over-sized fist into the nearby building. The building shattered from the assault as if it was made of cardboard. More screams from below, as the rock and rubble now crashed into the street. Those very screams were mirrored by those in the building as it collapsed. A riot had erupted on the streets now. Men, women, and children of various ages fill the sidewalk trying to run from the sudden disaster. With no suitable prey it would have to be satisfied with what was available. The hands opened and grabbed a screaming group of people. A few fortunate wiggled free of it's grasp only to fall to their deaths. The rest were given the pleasure of being eaten by the monstrosity. A jumble of bodies landed into it's waiting mouth. Those not impaled on it's jagged teeth were crushed with the tons of force from it's jaws. Seconds followed as it chewed meat, bones, and souls. With a grunt it finished and reached down for the next batch.

OOC: Stats to follow later

Tatsuya, for only a moment, had forgotten his own troubles as he lay in the park, underneath a shady tree, on a thick patch of grass. The brief moment of serenity, as he watched families play in the park, was cut short when he felt the reiatsu of a nearby hollow appear not far from his location. This hollow was hard to miss, bigger than most of the nearby buildings, Tatsuya had a clear view of the top half of the hollow. Tatsuya wanted to let the town's shinigami fight it off, but as he watched from the distance as the hollow ate a hand full of humans, he knew he could not wait that long. He quickly got to his feet and flash stepped over towards the hollow. Landing on a nearby roof top behind the hollow, he was going to go in for a quick kill. He silently unsheathed his zanpakuto and jumped into the air, coming down with a hard vertical aimed at the back of the hollows head.

The hollow stopped feeding as it shinigami took the high ground. True to it's beastly appearance it sniffed the air at his arrival. It bent down to feed again, but stopped. The purple gorilla could now feel that something wasn't right. The shinigami's blade came down and cut into it's mask. Tatsuya was a large man. No doubt he'd face a number of hollow and overpowered them. There was little doubt the large man had faced many creatures to jump at such a massive beast without much hesitation. Still there was some truth to the old adage "Look before you leap." The brave shinigami failed to truly grasp the scope of his opponent. The long zanpukto would easily cleave a lesser enemy in two, but against the large beast was another story. The man fell and his blade came down deftly at the hollow's mask. The blade bit into the bone white mask, but quickly stopped. Tatsuya's descent was halted immediately. He was suspended in the air by his weapon it's blade embedded. The creature reared at the sudden realized it had been attacked. It's hand rose and swatted the captured shinigami away. The zanpukto came dislodged as the massive fist hit it's wielder. It spun and turned around to see what had dared attack it. The creature spotted the black robe and roared in anger. A yellow glow surrounded it's fist as they slammed into the ground. The earth shattered beneath the creature's strength, but then something else happened. The broken asphalt rose and attached itself to it's hands as if drawn by a magnet. In a matter of seconds the large hands were now covered by an orb of rock. It knocked it's two stone entombed knuckles together and screamed again, the buildings shook from it's aggressive yell.

Tatsuya's firm look quickly changed to one of shock as his blade stopped after cutting into the hollow mask. He didn't think the mask would be that hard to cut through. As he tried to retrieve his blade from the mask, he was hit hard by the large hollow. Though the hit dislodged him and his zanpakuto, Tatsuya could not hold his grip over the sword and it flew off in the distance. Tatsuya hit the ground rolling backwards and flipped to his feet, coming to a sliding stop from the force of the hit. "Things just got more difficult." Tatsuya watched as the hollow stared straight at him. He took a fighting stance as the hollow's fist began to glow. The shock wave from the pounded ground shook Tatsuya's stance briefly. Tatsuya's lead foot took a step back as he watched the asphalt rise and cover the hollow's fist. "Tsk," Tatsuya ran towards the hollow and quickly disappeared with shunpo and reappeared at eye level with the hollow. Tatsuya hoped the hollow's size would hinder it's speed. He threw a hard right side kick right at the hollow's face intending to, at the very least, crack the mask.

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There was a loud popping noise. The creature's neck bent to the left from the powerful blow to it's face. It's eyes didn't flinch and it's mask didn't crack. The hollow's massive muscles and large spiritual power mad the impressive kick barely more than a slap to the face. It righted it's neck and snorted. The hot breath stunk of rotting flesh. It's eyes locked on the target before him. It's earthen fists were already swung. It was a creature of instinct by nature, barely above the level of those more feral beast. It knew what shingami were, but wasn't afraid of them. Already had it slain many of the black robed pests. Now a new shingami dared to try and hurt it. The large boulders on his fist both came together with the shinigami in the middle. The tons of stone coming to crush the life from the unfortunate soul reaper. Once it killed the puny man, it would resume it's feeding. It still hungered for more souls, more flesh to fill it's large stomach. The sooner the shinigami died the quicker he could get back to the important things.

Tatsuya had faced numerous hollow, but he had never seen one stand up to one of his powerful hits with nothing to show for it. He fell to the ground after being slammed between the hollow's rock covered fists. Two powerful blows from the hollow were already taking their toll on the former shinigami. An ordinary shinigami would probably have died from the last blow, but Tatsuya's body was tougher than most. He stood up slowly, body battered and bruised, and looked up at the hollow and purposefully spit out what ever blood was in his mouth. "I will not die here hollow, and I will not die by the hands of one of you...beasts." With conviction in his voice he prepared to attack again. Before he was just trading blows with the hollow, something he had done with many others. It never turned out well for them, but he knew continuing would be the end of him. Attacking it head on, and where it's body was most solid was out of the question. He quickly jumped and planted a heavy kick into the side of the hollow's left knee making it buckle under its own weight. Pushing off of it's knee, he treated it's other knee to the same treatment. He was going to chop it down bit by bit. If it can't stand properly, it can't attack properly. He jumped away to see what type of effect his blows had, he would repeat as many times as it would take, or however long his body would endure.

The large hollow didn't understand the shinigami's words. The noble words of determination were lost on it. He could have been telling a joke for all the monster cared. Nothing the man said mattered. It only saw a downed enemy and a chance to smash the annoyance into oblivion. It gave a growl of pleasure. It raised it's arms above it's head taking the large earthen mallets high into the sky. It's muscles tensed as it prepared to lower the two weapons with titan force upon the shinigami's head. But before it could release the coup de grace, the puny man acted first. With lightning like speed he attacked the purple gorilla's knee. The blow the face was easier to absorb than the one aimed at his vulnerable joints. The weight being held over it's head didn't help much either. It's knee buckled under the assault. Before it could right itself or redistribute it's center of gravity the shinigami had moved to the other knee. Too dump to understand the predicament the creature could only grunt as it's legs gave out and momentum took over. The large creature fell forward and into a roll due to the large weight. On instinct it ducked it's head from crashing into the ground, making the fall into a roll. Unfortunately it didn't know how to stop such a simple maneuver. A living purple boulder now crashed down the street, flatting all in it's path. The shinigami's attack has been successful, but now had created another problem for himself.

Witheren had just wanted a casual walk down the street, just brisk, nothing too long or too stressful. Yet, that was before King Kong attacked, or what Witheren identified as maybe it late twin. Not that she had gotten quite a good look at it before it destroyed a building near were Witheren was staring slacked jawed at it, and rubble began to fall. Witheren had come to a decision about what it was. The decision was that it was big, and to avoid it at all costs. So running was naturally an option, and Witheren proceeded to do so as she was pelted by glass and concrete of the above building, taking shelter from the rain in the nearby shade of another. Dust and screams began to fill the air.

What the hell is happing, Witheren thought, as she watched a group of people run from the scene. However, her heart froze as she saw a handful get picked up by a hairy hand, and get carried away, the swift motion of the hand clearing the dust long enough for her to witness the horror of whatever that thing was eating, a few falling to their death and becoming unknown blotches on what was left of the sidewalk. The rest were slowly and painfully crushed in-between the things jaws.There was still some moving, covered by rocks and other fallen rubble, and still some survivors slightly injured. Witheren, had to act fast, wanted to avoid ending up in that things stomach, noticing and moving towards a group of guys watching the scene. She ran and poked each one of them in the head, feeling the larva leave her body and her necklace warm a little.

“Hey what the hell…” One began to protest with the others following in example. Witheren did not have time for their protests.

“Shut up and at attention.” She commanded. They froze immediately in midsentence, their eyes glazing over as they did. They stood up straight and stared at her as if waiting for something. Her head surfed through each one of their minds. Some of them had families, some had hopes and dreams. Out of the ten before her, only one of them would truly not be missed. Though it made her sad, they would have to do for now. She commanded the larva to form armor on them, as the ground shook a little. She turned and saw the beast lift it had and swing at an object in the air. The thing hit back and the beast fell, crushing many things in its path.

Good, she thought. At least that will buy me some time, now that it is distracted. She turned to see, ten armored soldiers at the ready. She motioned them to the nearest casualties.

Tatsuya smiled as the hollow fell forward, he prepared to jump and stomp on its head, but was surprised that it started to roll down the street. "Damn it" Tatsuya began to chase after the hollow. Not to far from where he battled the hollow, he felt a new presence nearby, but it was insignificant compared to the hollow. As Tatsuya began catching up to the hollow, he spotted his zanpakuto on the street not far from him. He flashed stepped over to it and quickly picked it up before flash stepping again into the air. "Rise from the ashes, Suzaku." Tatsuya's sword disappeared and covered his arms with bladed flaming gauntlets. Tatsuya quickly descended down above the hollow and landed on the hollow's head just as it was about to roll over again. Tatsuya slammed all of his weight down on it's head stopping it roll and cracking the street below but yet not it's mask. "Tsk" Tatsuya picked a spot on the hollow's forehead and began to pound on it with his bladed fist. Making sure to watch for it's fists or other appendages that could attack, so he could evade.

The impressive blow had jarred the large hollow. Strong enough to stop it's destructive fall. It was still dizzy from the rapid rolling, the shinigami hammering at it's face did little to make it more comfortable. Standing astride the white mask the man stood his arms ablaze. The rain of strikes returned the man to the center of his attention. It gave a scream of absolute fury that shook the area. More windows shattered from the sonic scream. The man's kick had little effect, but the bladed fist were starting to chip at the white material. Little by little a crack appeared in the dense mask that covered it's face. A sensation raced through the creature; fear. A pale glow encompassed the purple beast's body. It's massive reiatsu burst forth flooding the area. The stone from it's hands exploded. The surrounding buildings suddenly shattered as if made of glass and hit by a massive hammer. The stone, glass, and rock moved like water in a river current. The stones shifted across his out stretched arms and moved towards it's face. The rest of the materials started from his feet and moved upward. In seconds the shinigami's next strike was stopped by the new stone armor. It moved like water, but like it's composition it was dense rock with near diamond hardness. The stone continued to shift to cover the rest of it's face threatening to consume the soul reaper's legs in it's wake.

Witheren had set up a perimeter of sorts, or what she thought a perimeter would look like if made correctly. Using her necklace, she had drafted about a good twenty more men into her blight, and had used their strength and brawn to set up a barrier of rocks and cars around the wounded. She had been fortunate enough to actually get three paramedics as they had come to help the wounded, and was now scanning one of their thoughts for information regarding first aid and medical knowledge. She then proceeded to connect her mind with all the others under her, um, mind control (or as she liked to call it her temporary services) and had an instant lesson in medical services for them all.

They will thank me later, she thought as she commanded the medic to tend to the many wounded with her. She sighed with worry. It was not like she had wanted to prevent them from getting to any hospitals by keeping them hear under her treatment and putting the good medics under her control. It was that the roads were blocked by the fallen rubble which made it nearly impossible for the ambulance to get into the area.

Someone moaned in pain near her. Her worry deepened greatly even more, but she was soon interrupted by that sound of more rubble getting created, and more buildings breaking. She narrowed her eyes and turned around, almost as if it pained her. There was an object in the sky with what appeared to have its hands on fire, knocking a Godzilla movie throw away around.

Oh ya, she thought, I forgot that thing was still there. The thing proceeded to fall on another road that could have been used for paramedics to come through. Witheren’s anger boiled.

That thing is the cause of all this carnage, she thought, If only I could help get rid of it maybe medics can get through. However she had no idea how she would ever be able to fend that thing off let alone survive doing it. Though she joked about it she was actually truly terrified of that thing. She stood for a moment to think until something caught her eye in the corner. There was small department store to her left, and across the street, still in half decent shape, was a gun shop to her right. Witheren smiled. Well if she did not do anything, that thing would probably destroy her, so why not. She may not have known much about weapons, explosives, or ammunition, but one of her linked minds was a convict. Some of the others were a veteran, retired police man, and some men with very morbid interests. No, Witheren may not have known a lot about destruction, but she was a quick learner and though she did not have a death wish, she did however, have a plan. Hopefully, whatever that other thing was in the sky, killed it first.
Hopefully, she thought as she ran into the store with to of her soldiers at her side.
fully

Tatsuya grinned as the hollow's mask began to crack from his blows. The hollow's scream did little to effect Tatsuya, who kept pounding away. Tatsuya stopped hitting the hollow when he felt it's reiatsu burst forth. Looking up from the hollow's face he saw it's earthen fist began to crack. "Hinote Soujuu," Tatsuya quickly created a wall of fire, blocking the shrapnel from the resulting explosion. "That the best you got?" Tatsuya dispelled the wall and continued his onslaught on the hollow hoping to finish it quickly. "What the?!" Tatsuya's fist was stopped by the new armor. As the armor crept up to Tatsuya's leg, he leapt into the air and stayed standing in mid air looking down at the hollow. "Lets see if I can't melt that new armor. Hinote Soujuu." Tatsuya formed a large boulder sized fireball and launched it at the hollow's head.

The shinigami escaped the creeping stone's grasp. The shifting armor continued it's journey across it's body as Tatsuya took to the air. If it was able it would have liked to consume the shinigami and suffocate him slowly. Unfortunately the armor didn't work that way. It protected him, it wasn't meant as an offensive tool. It was good it had made the man end his assault, those flurry of blows were starting to hurt. The gorrilla was shocked the man had mustered that much damage despite his size. It's puny intelligence couldn't understand how concentrated force on a single spot could breach even the strongest of defenses. Instead it figured the tiny man was a threat, and as such he should be killed quickly. The armor had already shifted past it's upper lip when the shinigami created his fairly large fireball. While large for the man, it was barely on par with the ape's huge form. It stared at the tiny sun Tatsuya had birthed. Even at this range it was impossible to dodge. He released the blazing ball of flame and the hollow raised it's arms to protect the part of it's face still unprotected. The fire hit it's stone shielded arms and shattered. Some flames squeezed between the small gap in it's arms and licked at his chest. As for the rest of the flames were deflected upon his equally shielded head and it's unprotected midsection. It let out a roar of pain as the fire grasped his fur and took hold. It licked at the hair and ate at his skin in seconds, another subsonic roar escaped from it's lips as the pain intensified. It was this scream the saved it from being completely engulfed. The burst of air snuffed the made the fires flare momentarily then snuffed them a moment later. Even with most of the flames extinguished it flailed at the dying embers as the armor covered it's burns. It rolled and screamed all the while trying to put was fire remained. A building was destroyed by it's violent shaking. It leaped ot it's feet as the armor was completed. There was no longer any fur showing, what stood before the shinigami looked like a man made out of mud. The top of the huge mud man was burnt black from the intense fire. It's white mask was covered, but there was a large hole in the mud face that allowed it to scream in fury. It's eyes locked on the target and it brought it's arms up and brought them down upon him.