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Post by kensei on Feb 25, 2010 1:08:10 GMT -4
Taza shook his head as he watched Sojukin feast on the corpse. "I learned another way to digest spiritual riatsu, rather then eating the corpse." He said walking over to it. He placed his hand on it and slowly the corpse turned into pure riatsu. It swirled into his mouth and he felt himself fall down. "Then again, it takes a bit out of you to do it.." He said as he looked at his skin. It was starting to heal, but a single leg only stopped the bleeding. "Ah fuck it.." He said taking another leg and started to eat it. "Damn this shit hole. I cant teleport out of here."
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Post by Wanzer on Feb 25, 2010 21:57:54 GMT -4
Sojukin looked up tearing bits of flesh out of hollow as he looked around the desolate area boredly. “Well seems we have little else to do here….we should probably move on for a while and make camp somewhere else, wouldn’t be wise to hold still with those hollows hunting us…and where there is one vasto there is sure to be another.” Sojukin said quietly holding the arm like a drum stick in his hand and ripping off the raw flesh as if it were just that. He looked around the forest searching for some way out as he stepped forward, feeling the ache with every step that he took and felt furious at Taza for inflicting them.
“God Damnit Taza…you took it a bit too far, you could have screwed up my perfection, well actually you did, so when we get back I’m gonna make sure you don’t walk straight for a week!” Sojukin said almost playfully as he walked along, even though he was dead serious about that. He was cold for some reason in this dark place, he didn’t understand why, his body should have been more than adapted to the areas temperatures, hell it should have been hot in the area just because of his presence, but he was so cold. He looked down at his flesh and found it covered in goosebumps almost as if the area were freezing. Shivering he held his arms closer together as his teeth chattered. “Ta…Ta…Taza…are you doing tha…tha…that?” He asked to his traveling companion as the area’s temperature steadily dropped faster and faster and soon snow was falling around them in brilliant shades of blue and white.
“This is…un…un…unnatural.” Sojukin said producing a Fuego to heat himself and coughed a little from his lack of energy as he scanned the area for some kind of presence. Finding none he continued walking through the ever deepening snow and found himself soon up to his knees in the stuff. “God…God…Damnit…I…Hate…the…fucking…cold!” He looked around as his fingers twitched and he could hear something ahead of them, almost calling them to come closer. “Taza do you hear that?” Sojukin asked him curiously.
A small giggle seemed to come from nowhere as they approached a cave surrounded completely by the snow and was carved out of what looked like a massive chunk of ice. “Ok…that’s definitely not natural.”
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Post by kensei on Feb 25, 2010 22:10:48 GMT -4
“If we are where I think we are, there should be a isolated area not far from here.” He said pointing down a cave. “Fallow me.” He said as he started to walk down the area. Taza laughed at Sojukin’s threat and said jokingly. “Oh really? Ill drop you in the hollow forest again.” As he said this he looked back and smiled at him. “Or just blow that ugly face of yours out of existence.” He looked at the snow falling and hit the cave. “Ah crap.”
Taza pulled what little remained of his clothes around him and watched as the steam come off his breath. “N-o-o-o, I w-w-w-wish I w-w-as.” He said as his teeth clacked together. There was no riatsu nearby, no it was more then that, it was a void of riatsu near by. “Your r-r-right-t-t. Onl-l-ly one such h-ow-ow-owlow exists that do-do-dose this. Sh-sh-she has gr-gr-grown strong.” He said as they neared the cave of ice. “Sh-she was but a chi-child when I was a Vostro Lorde.” He managed to get out despite the string on his skin every time he took a breath. The riatsu had managed to heal it for the most part, but the nerves where still very raw.
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Post by Wanzer on Feb 25, 2010 22:27:39 GMT -4
Sojukin was going to make a smart comment about burning him to a crisp as he walked into the cave and breathed easier as a wave of heat struck his body. It was exuberating to feel the heat strike his cool flesh and he that out a pleasurable ahh…”He stretched his body out and grinned as he continued down the now moist cave with ice stalactites dripping quickly making the cave ring out in a chorus of drip…drip…drip. “This is a bit more like it, so tell me a bit more about this Vasto Lorde, Taza…and what its like to be one…I became an Arrancar as a Adjechas.” Sojukin asked plainly as his interest had been a bit peaked by the sudden knowledge of Taza’s past. He looked around the area and chuckled a little. “Seems this friend of yours knows your tastes…I can smell booze.”
Sojukin waited for a comment as he analyzed the area, it seemed a bit too cozy, though he really had no idea what was going on in there. Sojukin being Reitsu blind, had little sense of anything there, just a fuzzy outline of the place and a kind of sinking in the pit of his stomach as he looked around. He clicked his tongue and the returning screech nearly knocked him unconscious, so he decided that wasn’t the best idea at the moment and simply pressed forward as the caverns began to fill with steam. Sojukin breathed it all in, it was his element and he was happy in it as he looked around and found the floor becoming increasingly damp. "So...you do anything to piss her off?"
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Post by kensei on Feb 25, 2010 22:42:49 GMT -4
Taza shook his head and said. “She wasn’t a Vostro Lorde at the time, like I said, she was a child, a very young hollow. She became a member of the Gillian collective right before I was exiled from the menos. But that was over four thousand years ago, so she is most likely a Vostro Lorde of great power by now.” HE sighed before answering the next question. “Well, its much like being a Espada, you are top dog, you usually run in a pack of generally three or more. Kind of like a small thief group. There was often turf wars, each one marked its territory like gangs. The fights shook the hollow forest to its core, especially back then, there where few of such strength. WE thought we owned the world, Death opened our eyes to how weak Vostro Lordes truly where compared to some powers of the earth.” He looked back at Sojukin and said, anticipating the next question. “Yes, Death has been around a long, long time. He killed my pack, they where the people I held most dear. HE spared me twice, to chase after his shadow. Third strike I make, I either win, or I die. He made that painfully clear last time.” His voice trailed off from one of just talking to one of anger.
He shook his head and smiled. “Oh yes, she knows my taste quite well, even took after me in it.” He let out a shrug as Sojukin asked if he had pissed her off. “Like I said, I was exiled from the menos collective after she became a part of them. I had killed one unjustly, and so the entire collective, nearly a hundred, attacked me. Not to mention the Adjuchas and the giant Gillian. I made it out though. I have come through these parts on occasion to speak with the hollows and gain there allegiance to Hugeo Mundo. Never found her though.. Only natural that she would seclude herself in the very area I had saved her in. But that is a conversation for another time.”
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Post by Wanzer on Feb 25, 2010 23:06:41 GMT -4
. “Yes, Death has been around a long, long time. He killed my pack, they where the people I held most dear. HE spared me twice, to chase after his shadow. Third strike I make, I either win, or I die. He made that painfully clear last time.” Sojukin looked back at Taza with scorn as he said this.
“You presume that I didn’t know as much, despite the fact I am thousands of years younger than you. I know what Death is and I know his age, Death is Death simple as that and no greater mystery than that, may try to make it more with cold logic and boisterous gossip. Death has always been and he always will be till one of us takes his mantle…or a collective do so.” Sojukin made his say on this matter as he turned back around and halted Taza for a moment. “We both don’t like Death lets make that clear, but I swear to God if you die, by anyone else’s blade I will drag your sorry ass back from the world of inbetween and kill you my damn self!” After this was said there was a a silence and he turned back around waiting for his answer as they continued down.
“I suppose you’ve lived a great deal more than I have and I suppose your much wiser than me, but answer me this…how are our strengths comparable when our ages are so different? It seems odd to me that there is no constant rate of evolution among hollows. Some grow rapidly and never stop, while others creep along slowly. Still others stand in the middle ground and others start off near monsters.” Sojukin spoke almost sagely as he pondered what it all meant as they came across a large pool in the center of the cave, it was shallow and the rocked had been formed around it to hold varieties of alcohol and bathing liquids. Sojukin marveled at the magnificent stone work and bent his hand down touching the water and sighed blissfully at its heat. “Ahh…damn that feels good…looks like a hot spring.” Sojukin said looking around, trying to spot anyone, but he couldn’t find a single soul anywhere around. He let out a call, but there was no response at all, chuckling he tossed one of the bottles of Sake to Taza.
“Drink, you could use one, you old fool.” He looked around again, everything felt right in that area, but then again everything felt wrong as well. It was probably a trap, but right now he had no desire to turn a gift horse in the mouth. Scanning around for anyone around he noticed there were also smaller pools located at intervals all along the opening, but there was no exit but from the way they came. He sipped a little of the sake himself and noted a flowery taste to it, not poisonous, but not normal either. He felt a bit happier after he drank, but put the bottle aside and began removing his clothing behind one of the pillars and sank down into the hot water and exhaled deeply as the hot water cradled his body easily. Spreading his arms out against the cool stone he left his feet touch the bottom on the pool and could feel the smoothly carved stone.
“Seems your friend knows how to treat a man Taza, or is very very good at laying traps.”
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Post by kensei on Feb 26, 2010 0:00:07 GMT -4
“You presume that I didn’t know as much, despite the fact I am thousands of years younger than you. I know what Death is and I know his age, Death is Death simple as that and no greater mystery than that, may try to make it more with cold logic and boisterous gossip. Death has always been and he always will be till one of us takes his mantle…or a collective do so.”
Taza looked at him and said. ”Sorry, you just never seemed like the listening type. I never would have pegged you for knowing anything that you didn’t live through. But your right, if Death is to be defeated it would take a collective effort. I come here to seek the alliagence of hollows to the Espada, to destroy Death. Even the shingami may be needed to do it.”
“We both don’t like Death lets make that clear, but I swear to God if you die, by anyone else’s blade I will drag your sorry ass back from the world of inbetween and kill you my damn self!”
Taza let out a laugh and said. ”OH Sojukin, you really do care don’t you? He turned around an kept walking. AS he neared the place he couldn’t help but feel a sense of unease. ”The rate that a hollow grows at is half luck, half how much they kill. And the only times I truly hungered for power was when I first became a hollow, when I first met death, and when I tried to kill him. But most of my life I have only hunted what I needed to survive. I never grew quickly because I never consumed quickly. Believe me Sojukin, if I wanted to I could devour and become far stronger then I am right now.
As they walked into the place, Taza sense of unease grew. No mistake, it was her. “I hope you like that one, I built it. Though she has made it more... Elegant.” He said admiring the stone work. He caught the bottle of sake and slowly put a finger in before tasting it. “She added nectarine, from the Gillian tree. Quite a feat.” He said before taking a sip. “She sure has made this a lot nicer then it use to be.” He sat against a rock and said. ”If she is going to be hostile to us then she will freeze you where you are and kill you. So you might wanna get out, or take your chances. I say the odds of her being hostile our 30/70. Odds in our favor.”
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Post by Wanzer on Feb 26, 2010 20:58:03 GMT -4
“Oh yea let me tell ya Taza, I’m just wild about you! Thinking about ravishing you right now and wearing that cute ass of yours into dust!” Sojukin said rolling his eyes as he snuck lower into the hot spring and blew a few bubbles, before looking back up at Taza and grinning. “If you don’t know about sarcasm I sincerely request you learn about it before you speak with me again or I may find out somethings I don’t want to know about you. Anyway I particularly care about you, simply because I like the way your reitsu tastes. Its odd, but there is just something about the texture and flavor of your reitsu, it is sweet and appeasing to my palette and makes me remember good things early in my life; also if I eat enough of it I get drunk which is always a plus.” Sojukin said leaning back in the pool
His eyes glazed over slowly as he stared up at the ceiling for a moment. Taza reminded him of a sergent in his army, it was so long ago over a thousand years. He still remembered the man’s dark face, his cocky grin and the constant odor of alcohol on him. He always smelled of cheap sake and whenever he got a hold of some of the ‘good’ stuff, he would let out a scream like a battle cry and dance around the camp drinking it, leading everyone in a merry song. He warmed everyone’s souls with his dance, but underneath it all he was troubled. He had lost his wife to another man in a duel and he constantly fought trying to get her back, but he could never win. He died in the last fight and Sojukin stepped in and slaughtered his old friend’s rival due to the dying man’s last request. Sojukin sighed at this and drank a little to the memory, then poured the rest of the sake into the pool. “Los Muertos, te esucha me.” He said for a moment, then turned his eyes back to Taza as he spoke.
“What is nectarine?” Sojukin asked looking a little confused for a moment, before he made ready to get out of the pool. “Your not taking into account our conflicting types here Taza. I’m completely heat based against an ice user of most likely equivalent or lower power. It won’t be a cake walk because of our decreased power, but I’d still give us 10/90 odds in our favor.” Sojukin said giving him a cock sure grin. “The worst I’m afraid of at the moment is stepping out of this pool and you finding out your tool is bigger than mine. Feelings of inadequacy always disturb me and if it turns out your telling the truth…I can trim an inch or two off yours.” He said winking at Taza as he removed a spec of hollow flesh from his blade. “Now turn around, I need to get my clothes back on.”
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Post by kensei on Feb 26, 2010 21:14:40 GMT -4
”I never knew you liked that. HE said jokingly to Sojukin’s comment about liking him. ”Hm really? Maybe I should lay off the sake..” He said to himself as he looked at the bottle before shrugging and taking another sip. But he couldn’t help but laugh at Sojukin’s question. ”Nectarine is a sweet syrupy thing that comes from trees. There is only one spot in all of Hueco Mundo to get it.” He threw the now empty sake bottle to the ground and got up and turned around as Sojukin requested.
He chuckled for a second and said. ”So you really are small? Well I always knew that attitude was making up for something.” He joked as he waited for Sojukin to let him turn around.
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Post by Wanzer on Feb 26, 2010 21:28:54 GMT -4
“You definitely should lay off the sake old man, you know you’ve consumed a lot when your reitsu starts tasting like it.” Sojukin said pulling back on his clothes and sheathing his sword. He chuckled walking back over to Taza and looking around the room as he did so. He had meticulously analyzed the space and decided it was growing a little till dull for his tastes as he turned back around to the exit, then back to Taza. “So is she gonna show her face or not?” This had distracted Sojukin from the earlier comment, then he chuckled and laughed insanely as he realized what Taza had said.
“Ahh, you prick, so you insult the size of my manhood now? What are we high schoolers? Nay my friend, my size matters not to me, especially when many hollows and arrancar lack genitals.” Sojukin said this in a matter of fact tone as he turned his back to Taza, quietly contemplating how best to kill him. “By the way, Death doesn’t have genitals either, so hitting him there will do you little good.” Sojukin said touching the wall and leaning against it, breathing in and out as the air suddenly became cooler and he adjusted his body heat to correct this minor annoyance. “Seems your friend is coming Taza. We’d best prepare a red carpet for her arrival.”
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Post by kensei on Feb 26, 2010 22:28:42 GMT -4
Taza joined in Sojukins laughter and said. ”I guess you have a point, besides I don’t hit there. Its unsportsmanlike like.” As he said this he noticed the air grow thin and cold and noticed the void of riatsu in the area. He placed a hand on the hilt of his blade and said. ”Yeah, don’t try and kill her Sojukin. Right now I don’t want a fight.” As he said this they heard that same little giggle as before and snow started to fall. She was truly the exact opposite of every other creature. Riatsu made things hotter, her void made it colder.
Then, as the lakes started to freeze, and the walls turned to ice she game. The ice queen herself, Mekio. Taza grabbed a bottle of sake to see it wasn’t frozen. He smiled and said. ”Yo Mekio, its been far to long. I hope you remember me.” Just then a small girl in a elegant white armor appeared. Her mask had slits up and down it which where filled with gold, her eyes. ”Ta-za? Is that you? Taza smiled and walked over to her before handing her the bottle which she took a sip of. He mask opened as she talked and drank. ”The one and only. I know I look a bit odd without my mask. How you been kido?” She drank the hole bottle in one sitting and threw it to the ground. She looked at both of them before saying. ”Fine.”
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Post by Wanzer on Feb 26, 2010 22:47:45 GMT -4
“Why don’t you too have a nice chat, try not to bloody him up too bad kiddo. I’m still gonna need him later.” Sojukin said mockingly walking past the pair back up the now frozen path. His eyes wandered back down to Mekio as he passed her and their reitsus violently collided with each other as they passed creating a maelstrom effect from their polar opposite nature. The red and icy blue reitsus became volatile as they mixed longer and Sojukin’s slowly back down into his body as he repressed it and took in a deep breath. “Apparently central heating isn’t exactly allowed around her, Taza.” He said putting his hands in his pockets to shiver as the cold seeped into his body.
Mekio looked up at Taza, blinkingly confused at the event that had just taken place as she took another sip of sake from a different jar. She had been alone for a long, long time. Her only company had been prey which she devoured after freezing them without hesitation as the world she knew was eat or be eaten. Taza was different however and the heat of the reitsu she saw in the other man intrigued her to the point that she risked being destroyed to see what exactly it was. Now she saw it, a boisterous rooster of a man with long yellow hair and draped in the white garbs of Hueco Mundo. She kept her eyes away from him, he was opposite everything that she was. “Taza…who is he?”
Sojukin chuckled at this. “Don’t worry about me, I’m leaving. I’ll leave ya and your lady friend alone Taza, have a good time.” Sojukin breathed some fire into his hands as he walked out of the cave and leaned against the wall outside taking in the vast emptiness of the Hollow Forest with the penetrating eyes of an man returning home. His eyes roamed the entire area as he uttered out the words. “Where are you Reina…our score still stands and I mean to settle it.” He closed his eyes at this and slowly attempted to sense her, but his senses were too weak and the air was full of blazing images that made his head hurt, especially when he tried to follow a single one or tried to walk on a thin wire like line that formed the longer he stayed into it. “I wonder where that leads…” Sojukin thought to himself, then chuckled. “Probably to the machine king or Xion.”
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Post by kensei on Feb 26, 2010 22:58:32 GMT -4
Taza looked at Sojukin as he passed by and said. ”Hes nobody, just a prick who happens to like fire a lot.” As he said this he leaned against the ice wall and said. ”No ones been givin you a hard time have they?” The girl shook her head before sparring a glance at Sojukin. ”What happened to you?” She asked before sitting next to him. ”A lot, I have visited the forest several times. I never could find you.. She looked down before saying. ”The ones who find me I kill. Therefore no one knows where I am.” ”I see. So you’ve been alone all this time?” ”Yes. But now that your back we can be together like old times!” She said getting up and smiling at Taza. ”Im afraid I aint here to stay kido. But you could come with me. Leave the forest, become a member of my fraccion. She looked down and shook her head. ”I don’t know…” Taza nodded and said. ”Its up to you. But, while im here lets drink!” And to that they both opened up a bottle.
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Post by Wanzer on Feb 26, 2010 23:10:45 GMT -4
Sojukin listened to them from outside of the cave and coughed, before shouting back down at Taza. “I HEARD THAT YOU FAST LITTLE PRICK!” Sojukin said nothing as he sat down in the sand and stared off into the desert once more and took a hand full of sand, turning it glass, before standing back up and slowly taking his finger and began carving the glass slowly with long even strokes into the coarse and unrefined substance. Having found a sweet spot, he plugged his finger into it and made a hole, then began to blow into it with concentrated heat and turned the glass. It slowly expanded making a orb, the Sojukin super heated another chunk of sand and began making a tube. He chuckled as he fused the two together and set it aside to cool, before making a cap for the bottle. After the process had finished, he walked along the hollow forest, in search of the tree that he could draw nectarine from. “What Taza and his lady friend be surprised…well I could just piss in the bottle and they would be equally surprised, but I might as well do something nice so they let their guards down.
Mekio said nothing for a time as she stared at Taza. “What is a fraccion?” She asked quietly, mulling over her thoughts constantly inside of her head as she cast her gaze back to the caves entrance and wondered if the other man would come back in, but she could feel him getting further and further away.
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Post by Darkoda on Feb 27, 2010 0:01:21 GMT -4
While the two espada were having their own issues, two more figures walked along the desert, one actually trying not to get attention for once, while the other ambled along without a care in the world, constantly drinking from a bottle. One of the figures, a tall, silver coloured hollow with odd markings over her body, and silver hair flowing behind her, eventually broke the companionable silence. As the older one there, it was obviously with some sage advice.
"This is getting boring, where is she?"
Or maybe not.
The other figure, who appeared to be a five foot tall goat, covered in brown fur, walked alongside the impatient hollow, a sigh leaving it's lips. It's small tail lazily waved in the air, as it examined its three clawed hands. "It's going to take time to find her, she has a bad habit of freezing anyone who gets near. That's why I didn't want to go alone, remember?" There was only a hint of exasperation in the goat's light voice; while telling her gender was all but impossible from just looking at her, her voice certainly pointed towards a female. "If you keep asking me that, I'm going to kick you."
"Yeah, yeah, I don't want want any hoof marks on me." The taller bat-themed hollow responded. "I need to make a good impression on this vasto lorde." She suddenly stopped moving as her eyes narrowed. Picking up on this, the goat hollow also stopped.
"Keep your guard up B, the vasto lorde's ahead, along with two.....annoyances." Without missing a beat, the silver hollow grabbed the goat, easily lifting her up.
"Hey, Reina, what are you -" Her sentence was cut short as the forest they were in vanished, and next thing she knew, she was flying through the air, right past some creepy looking arrancar, into a frozen cave.
In the meantime, Reina stood outside the cave, glaring at the espada. Of all the people to run into..... "I don't know why you and another espada are here, but just stay out of my way, and I won't incinerate you."
Within the cave, the goat hollow rolled to a stop besides the VL and espada. Pulling herself up, she looked at both of them before speaking, with more than a little embarrassment. "Umm, hello there vasto lorde, I'm Berri, and I come as an envoy of the leader of the Maestro, to extend an invitation to you to join our group. Please don't turn me into an ice statue, getting frozen is......unpleasant."
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