A quant little spar. (Wanzer & Kensei)

[kensei]

Taza grinned as he heard Sojukin yell. ”SHUT UP!” He yelled back to him before finishing off a sake bottle. ”What is a fraccion?” asked Mekio looking up at Taza. Taza smiled and said, ”Well a fraccion is a group that follows an espada. Kinda like a Vostro Lorde pack, except that generally speaking the fraccion is much weaker then the Espada. But if you joined then that would most likely be quite different.” He said before patting Mekio’s head. He moved one finger threw her grey hair and said. ”I wouldn’t even make you have to become a arrancar, if you don’t want to.” Mekio smiled and hugged Taza before looking at him with shock. ”We have company.” She said before looking out past the cave. Taza pulled out his sword and stood up as Mekio stood behind him.

But then the most unlikely hollow came flying into there little ice cave. A goat, plain and simple, and apparently afraid. Mekio extended her hand and the air around the goat grew colder as it started to speak. As it spoke its words Mekio started to ease off and said. ”Why would I join you instead of Taza? Or why join anyone instead of killing you. You obviously aren’t strong enough to do anything more then wet my appitite.” But before she could freeze the little goat hollow Taza grabbed her arm. ”This hollow comes with pure intentions. And I know you feel the power out of the cave. Lets go see who it is shall we?” Mekio growled at Berri before saying. ”FINE! But next time!” She didn’t feel the need to finish her sentence as she pointed to Berri.

Taza slowly lead the way up the ice cave, and with each step the ice around them grew thicker, until finally they saw Sojukin and Reina. “Ah, miss Reina. You blew up my theater last time I saw you.” He said with a hint of anger behind his voice. ”You owe me a bottle of whisky. And five bucks for the popcorn.” As he said this he twirled his sword around a bit.

[Wanzer]

Sojukin smiled as he moved sideways dodging the goat hollow that was now sailing through the air like a missle into the cave behind him. Sojukin coughed slightly and waited for the other source of energy to appear as he tossed the glass bottle beside a quartz tree. He cracked his neck and stretched out his body as he stared forward and saw Reina appear in front of him. He merely cracked his back, then looked forward at her and let her speak for a moment, then put on a hurt face.

"What an old friend can't stop by to say hello to a lovely lady such as yourself? Oh I'm hurt Reina, you wounded my male pride and my Casanova personality." He could tell she didn't buy it and simply chuckled taking a hand full of glass and heating it up into glass and began carving it with his finger as he asked a question of his own. "You come here for Mekio?" He stated it simply and uncaring as he made a swan out of the glass he had made. Setting it down next to the bottle, before turning around to see Taza.

"Ahh so I see I'm not the only one with a previous relationship with our Lavender Queen here, a pity she couldn't have been the Red Queen...I'm mad as a hatter as it is and our Alice is right here." Sojukin said chuckling as he patted Mekio's head as she walked by and the two reitsus violently reacted yet again, causing a malestrom effect over them. He winked at Mekio and walked a few yards away and the effect stopped as he looked around.

"So what now, the sober and melodramtic fight, between the star crossed lovers and the drunk guy? Which of course will culminate into a "who gets the girl" scenerio and leaves the rest of us most likely dead. Its all so cliche don't you think? Let's try not to be like Romeo and Juliet and Taza, you especially don't be like freaking Electra, as much as I know you loved your father, that kind of relationship is not healthy." He said tapping his fingers against the hilt of his sword as he looked around at the group that had gathered. Three hollows, two confirmed Vastos and one other as well as two espada. If a fight came it was gonna get ugly quick, he estimated his chances of surviving around twenty to twenty five percent and Taza's only slightly better.

"Ahh Decisions, decisions." He said out loud as he extended both of his hands out and moved them like counter weights. "On the one hand, I could simply kill Taza and give you the girl in which case I devour his corpse get my energy back and head home to Hueco Mundo and supercede him as Dos Espada. However, that leaves me with having to deal with Death, the fact I would be killing the closest thing I have to a friend right now and Mekio would most likely hunt me down as well. On the other hand, I can side with Taza and most likely walk into my own death in this state, but with any luck I can avoid any fatal injuries and devour that other hollow, which would level the field for all of us. On the third hand, I could betray you all and have almost no chance of surviving unless, I some how managed to slaughter one of you before anyone could react, munch on that corpse and use gorilla tactics till only one of you is left. That doesn't seem very likely though."
Sojukin pondered that out loud as he looked around at everyone, pondering they're strength as he tried to use pesquilla and could only make out slightly hazy shapes, each glimmering with its own color. He chuckled as he focused in on the colored lines and tried to see if they drew a picture, they didn't.

"So Taza, since you are my 'friend' what should I do?" Sojukin said laughing, then walked over and patted his shoulder. "Eh, don't worry about it, I am simply mulling over my options. I'm with you here all the way."

[Darkoda]

"Don't freeze me! I hate getting frozen!" Berri yelled out when the ice vasto lorde pointed her hand at her. She really didn't want to get into a fight now, Reina would likely get involved, and then everything would go to hell, and this part of the forest would get wiped out. Again.

The espada interfered on her behalf though, stopping Mekio and heading outside. Berri was about to sigh in relief when she realised that Reina was out there. "Wait! Don't freeze Reina! She really hates getting frozen!"

The small goat adjuchas skidded on the ice, sliding past the pair and stopping outside the cave.

During all of this, Reina was listening to Sojukin. His words pretty much confirmed that he was still a crazy, narcissistic, arrancar. At least he had a hobby now apparently, making glass sculptures. It was better than him randomly blowing up the forest anyway.

"So, Mekio's her name....." Reina muttered, tuning out Sojukin's insanity rant. He did sum up his options fairly well, considering, although it seemed that he still couldn't sense reiatsu worth anything if he didn't pick up on how strong Berri was. Ah well. Now to deal with the situation.

"Okay, first of all, lay a finger on Berri and I'll snap it off and shove it through your eye. and I'm not talking about snapping fingers, Sojukin." Then she started paying attention to Taza. "Next, Taza, go **** yourself you drunkard, you owe me the ten minutes of my life you wasted with your elitist speeches. I honestly am not sure which one of you annoys me more, Sojukin or you. And honestly, I'm leaning towards you."

Her reiatsu was steadily increasing as she got annoyed, which was showing with the ice literally dissolving into reiatsu particles. Berri, for her part, was getting steadily freaked out, and she voiced her concerns, by jump-kicking Reina. "Reina! Stop deconstructing the forest! And why did you throw me in there if you knew about these two?! She was going to try to eat me!"

Blinking, Reina's attention was quickly shifted as her reiatsu tapered off. "Eh, Taza's a drunkard, but he's mostly peaceful. And so Mekio's bad at telling people's strengths, it's not a big deal." She shrugged. "I would appreciate it if you didn't try to kill Berri though, it wouldn't end well. Back on why we're here though, I'm sure that Berri already filled you in. Feel free to direct any question you have to me."

Her sudden calm when addressing Mekio was a bit disturbing when you considered that she was near murderous with Taza and Sojukin. Berri just stood at her side, mumbling out everyone picking on her.

[kensei]

Taza sighed to himself as he leaned against the wall. ”Well Sojukin, its nice to know your on my side. But your right, if it came down to it neither of us will have good odds. The only way we would be able to walk out of the forest would be if me and you went after Reina and Mekio took on Berri. But both areas aren’t all that good. Me and you together have about a forty-five percent chance of taking out miss Reina right now. Though I believe Mekio would have better odds with Berri. But Berri is quite the strong Adjuchas, there almost even.” He said as he looked around the room.

He grinned as Renia told him to go fuck himself and said. “Id rather you do it.” He said with a laugh before saying. “Im kidding, I’d never keep a crazy ass bitch like yourself anywhere near me.” “Im kidding, I’d never keep a crazy ass bitch like yourself anywhere near me.” He let out a sigh and as if on que Mekio spoke as Reina stopped. ”I don’t know you, and I don’t care to. IF I where to go anywhere it would be with Taza.” As she said this she grabbed Taza’s hand and Taza smiled. Four thousand years older, and she was just like she was when they first met. Age hadn’t affected her personality at all, though he supposed that was because she was never around anyone other then Taza.

Taza sheathed his sword and threw his hands into the air. ”Why do we have to fight anyway? I mean come on, Mekio doesn’t want to go with you; me and sojukin could go for some sleep at the moment. So why fight? Cause you hate us? That’s not a good reason. At least miss Berri has the good enough sense not to want to destroy the forest and end lives right now!

[Wanzer]

Sojukin stood there listening to the words being exchanged as he crotched down and suddenly his finger began working at the sand. They grew fast and soon unable to be followed by the human eye as it scorched the ground. He chuckled as he finished a large spreadsheet was before him and he began mapping out his possibilities as the others talked. The list was comprehensive and filled out to the tee with every possible outcome of the situation in front of him. It had a key and all of their names listed inside of it. At the bottom held all the results and these varied from becoming dos espada to hooking up with Reina. All of it seemed to be pointing to what Sojukin was really thinking and some of the options were quite unprecedented.

“So Taza, according to my sheet we’ve got about a 2% percent of both of us getting out of here alive. However, if I kill you know or sacrifice you to these guys…my percentage rises up to 85%...so Taza ol’ bubby ol pal…how bout taking a shot for the team? Come on…we’ve known each other for how long? You’d give up your life for me right? I mean your odds of surviving either way stay at 2% as your attached to Mekio and unwilling to give her up so if you kill me, your percentage drops down to .00000000000001% chance of surviving. So you should just take the fall…or sacrifice yourself for the greater good.” Sojukin said this all with a completely straight face and with an air of dignity that was rarely seen from him.

“If you turn this down then……” Sojukin had been talking while Taza had been talking and at his final comments looked him dead in the eyes and said. “Are you smoking crack?....your eyes are really blood shot and the words that come out of your mouth….just…damn…and your breath…God Taza ever heard of a damn toothbrush? It smells like you’ve been brushing them with catfish smothered donkey shit and wrapped in skunk ass!” Sojukin coughed, then what he said sank in and he socked Taza in the stomach as he stood there, but pulled it so it would do little more than make him notice it.

“We fight because we were created to do so, We fight solely because that is what we were designed to do as all creatures are. You, Me, Reina, Death, the Humans and Shinigami…Bounts and Quincies, we were all designed fight and wage war to further are own advancements and to make ourselves dominant. In life there are kings and then there are his serfs and slaves…I for one refuse to be a slave to any man or woman! I may work for the one more powerful than me, but in the end I will be the one on that throne laughing at the ones below me!” Sojukin said this all as he gripped Taza’s collar and shouted it into his face, before letting go and turning to Reina.

Sojukin grinned at her and held up his thumb and index finger and made it so there was only about two inches inbetween them. “Hun you ain’t putting out anything what that worthless piece of shit, especially not my eye.” Sojukin chuckled and leaned back on his own feet so he looked like he would fall over at any moment as he rocked back and forth on his heels and began humming “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked.” He chuckled and soon actually started singing it under his breath.

“I was walking down the street, When out the corner of my eye I saw a pretty little thing approaching me. She said "I've never seen a man Who looks so all alone, Could you use a little company? If you can pay the right price Your evening will be nice, And you can go and send me on my way." I said "You're such a sweet young thing Why you do this to yourself?" She looked at me and this is what she said: "Oh, there ain't no rest for the wicked, Money don't grow on trees. I got bills to pay, I got mouths to feed, There ain't nothing in this world for free. I know I can't slow down, I can't hold back, Though you know, I wish I could. No there ain't no rest for the wicked, Until we close our eyes for good".

[Darkoda]

Reina started chuckling under her breath when she heard what Taza considered a scathing retort. Really, the drunkard had quite the short memory didn't he?

"You call me the crazy one, yet you were the one who followed that psychotic queen Calixta like a lapdog. Even when she nearly got all of you killed, even when Death gutted her like the pathetic dog that she was. You followed her like a moron to the point that you were ready to attack me because I pointed out what you failed to notice. Then there's Death."

She was struggling to contain her laughter at this point. "You are now officially the bitch of the man who killed your previous master. You're at his beck and call, when he says jump, you ask how high? Because you're afraid of him, scared that he will beat you again, and this time kill you. Even the numeros are talking about you, common belief is that you're Death's bitch in more ways than one. Then there's your crazy desire to try to kill him, which in itself is fine, except that you told him that to his face. Not wise. So, you're here to recruit a past friend to die with you when you screw up and attack him again? Or maybe you'll use her as a shield, to get Death to spare you? Wouldn't be the first time you abandoned your 'friends.' "

"You try to act high and mighty, when your main goal in life is to have the espada ruling over all the hollows. You call hollow bloodthirsty when arrancar cause far more death and destruction, for no good reason. You talk about not fighting when you intend to get yourself and anyone you can convince to team up with you killed by charging Death. You should actually take a deep look at yourself before you start throwing insults around."

"Now, onto reasons i have to kill you. You want to enslave all the hollows. That includes me, and as far as I'm concerned, that's already enough reason to kill you. As for Sojukin, the only reason he's not attacking me is because he knows that he'll lose. But my issues with him is more about who is stronger, so I actually don't want to fight him now. You on the other hand, I don't mind killing right here and now."

She was going to continue, when Sojukin interrupted in his own way. Reina really wasn't sure what to make of his outburst, and at the end, she was just left staring at him, wondering what the hell just happened.
"Two inches? Seriously? Is it possible to be that small?"

Berri on the other hand was in hysterics, holding onto Reina and laughing her heart out. It seemed that she actually liked Sojukin if nothing else.

[kensei]

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Taza was about to respond before Sojukin socked him in the gut. And as if that wasn’t bad enough Reina started to insult him, all that he stood for and trashed his name. No, it didn’t matter at this point, 0.00000000001% of getting out of here alive was better then accepting her crap. “Desaparezca a las nubes.” He whispered quickly as he drew his blade and separated them. His armor came around him almost instantly as he slid his arm around Sojukin’s and warpped it around his arm, chest, and his sword at his back. He slammed him against the wall and pulled his sword across his back, making a shallow cut into his skin. He removed his grip and sword as he slammed his two swords against the wall in a X fashion, Reina’s neck between them. ”You know nothing! I have never tried to set the espada as slave masters over the Hollows! I have tried to get them to side with Los Noches to create order and peace out of this chaos! I have never forced a hollow to become a arrancar and I never will! And I have NEVER sacrificed any of my friends!

His riatsu swirled, he was about to let out a attack that would blow apart this whole tunnel and everyone inside it as Mekio took action. The entire area turned to pure ice, freezing Sojukin, Berri, and Reina in ice. Sure it wouldn’t hold for long, but it was long enough to calm Taza down. ”Taza!” Taza pulled his blades out as the ice started to crack. He grabbed Mekio quickly and said. ”Alpha base?” Mekio nodded and Taza closed his eyes. Then they where gone.

Nearly a half a mile away, Taza sighed as he got out of his Ressurection. ”You probably just saved my life back there Mekio. How do we get out of this place?” Mekio grabbed his hand and started to walk out. Taza glanced around the cave. It was just as he remembered it, empty, separated, and abandon. How long had it been sense he carved this cave out? How many times had he used it to save his life? Things had changed so much sense those days. ”I missed you Mekio.” He said as she looked back and smiled. ”Follow.” She said as she started to lead him out of the forest, it would be a while. And he didn’t have the riatsu to spare for soindo’s or teleportations.

[Wanzer]

Sojukin dusted himself off as he pulled off of the wall and looked at Taza as he pinned Reina. "Hey dumb ass cut it out...you trying to get us both killed?" He asked angrily, getting ready to draw his blade when Mekio got in the way and the pair vanished. He chuckled and looked back at Reina holding his hand out to her. "Shall we my Lavender Queen, it seems our prey is seeking to evade us, despite how foolish that may be."

He turned to Berri, his eyes anaylzing the goat hollow intensely and he clicked his tongue once, sending a high pitched frequency at her, which returned immediately before he spoke to her. "Hmm...you have a sense of humor it seem and you travel with Reina so you can't be that bad...though if you stare at my ass again I just may have to 'punish' you." He said grinning as he turned back to Reina.

"So my dear, what say you now. Should we both give chase or will you empty your frustrations out on poor little ol' me and waste valuable energy decimating my already weakened state and have less to handle an unknown threat and an espada?" His question was blunt and he regarded her taking of his hand or denying it a sign of her decision. "So...Berri was it?" Sojukin said making absentminded conversation as he waited.

"How did you meet Reina and why do you travel with her? Your not a lover in the dark are you? Cause that would explain Reina's cold demeanor toward one such as myself, though I highly doubt that considering that she would through you in such a manner. Hmm...well I wouldn't know, but probably travel together out of necessity."

[Darkoda]

Reina's gaze remained impassive, as her hands moved up, pushing Taza's swords away. She really wasn't in the mood to listen to his ranting though.

"So I say a few words you don't like, and go off the deep end. And the hollows should let people like you lead, why? In case you forgot, you arrancar are the biggest source of chaos here. Who was it that had shinigami running rampant over hueco mundo again? But if you want to die here so badly, I'll be glad to oblige."

Fortunately for Taza, Mekio decided to freeze the area. While that had no effect on Reina, it did give him enough time to jump in a portal and run for it. Not that it would stop Reina from following him.

With a sigh, she tapped the ice crystal Berri was stuck in, collapsing the whole thing as the large goat immediately started complaining.

"You said that you wouldn't let me get frozen Reina! I hate being frozen!"

"Yeah, yeah, I'll take care of it." Reina muttered. "And I'm not Lavender, I'm silver, silver. The Silver queen."

"Umm, I'm not a lover." Berri said, her fur turning an interesting shade of crimson. "Reina saved me from an arrancar when I was younger. She's like..... family."

Reina sighed a bit, before firing a cero at the ceiling of the small cave. "Alright Sojukin, you can come, but try anything and I'm cutting off your nose." Not really bothering to listen to any other comments, she grabbed her two new passengers as her wings sprouted from her back, and she took off. It really wasn't hard pinpointing the two runaways - both of them together put out far more reiatsu than was common in the forest, and now that she knew what Mekio's reiatsu felt like, they were like beacons to her.

Hovering over the trees and caves that made up the forest, Reina glanced down at the area she knew the two to be in.

"Get ready to fight Sojukin." She sang out, as she tossed him and Berri into the air, before a fierce flap of her wings sent a wave of small spikes at the ground. It was as good a way as any to get their attention. If they died from just that, well, their won fault for irritating her.

For her part, Berri landed on one of the quartz tree branches, observing the melee. Sojukin should be able to take care of himself, Reina did toss them towards the trees gently enough. She wasn't going to step in unless Mekio tried freezing anyone again. She really didn't like getting frozen, it meant that she had to dry out her fur after this.

[kensei]

Taza sighed as they started to climb out of the forest. However as they started to near the exit Reina, Sojukin, and Berri decided to drop in. ”Oh shit here we go again!” he yelled out as Mekio created a giant frozen barrier between them. As the spikes hit the barrier they bounced off the riatsu aided wall. Taza grined as he watched Sojukin fall. ”watch my back.” As he said this he started to run, then he was gone. He reappeared behind Sojukin and kicked him in the back before slicing at his back and then kicking off and using a soindo to get over to Berri, where he then fired a instant Cero be fore teleporting back over to Mekio.

Mekio grinned and raised her hand before whispering to Taza. ”My turn.” As she said this the barrier exploded into a violent hail of ice shards, each empowered with riatsu to make them far stronger and sharper then they normally would be. Under this cover they started to make a run for it.

[Wanzer]

"You know I could simply just fly..............." Sojukin said sighign as Reina grabbed anyway and flung him across Hueco Mundo. He sighed and folded his arms closing his eyes as he peeked and saw Berri panicking in the air as she flew awkwardly, but landed carefully on one of the branches. Sojukin's body twisted in the air and he caught Taza's blade on his own sliding it before he could make a slash at him again. He simply chuckled and made steps of Reitsu in the air and walked down them like a lord as he approached Mekio.

"Saddly, I can't harm you...nor will I harm anyone here. I am in no mood to fight unless you wish to force me, then we will see which is stronger...my flames...or your ice." Sojukin said grinning almost as if he wished it would happen as he walked toward Mekio slowly. He folded his arms and stared her down. "Don't help Taza, he got himself into this mess, but if you know someway I could restore some of my energy I will aid him...but in my current state we would both die."

Sojukin said this cooly and with a steadfast logic as he turned to stare back at Taza. "By the way, if your thinking of trying anything while my back is turned to you...I wouldn't suggest it. While my pesquisa isn't functional at the moment, I can produce sonars with my tongue...I can feel your heart beating in your chest right now and I can hear all of their blades clashing." Sojukin clicked his tongue at this and began to crave runes into the ground with the point of his sword as he watched on boredly.

[Darkoda]

Reina didn't know what Taza was thinking; did he honestly think that attacking Berri would get him anywhere? All it really did was get him in more trouble. As soon he used sonido, it was a simple matter of sensing where he was headed. Noting that it wasn't by her, Reina moved herself to ground level by Mekio and her silly ice barrier, a fully charged cero sent at the ice hollow by way of greeting.

"Since Taza seems to want to pick on Berri, I'm going to play with you for a bit. I hope you don't mind." This of course was a bit late since she already tried to blast her, but just one cero shouldn't hurt that badly. Maybe. "Impalement or incineration?" She asked Sojukin randomly, pondering just what kind of games she was going to play with Mekio.


Berri didn't even react as Taza's cero shot out at her, she simply flicked out her hand, knocking the blast away. There was a slight flash of light as her hand struck the blast, but otherwise, the cero simply got sent into the ice barrier. "An uncharged cero? That's not going to do anything, not in your condition. You really should just apologize to Reina or something, otherwise you might end up regretting it." She replied timidly. "Reina gets really mean when she's angry....."

[kensei]

Taza looked at Berri and shrugged. ”Do you honestly think that would do any good now? She is hell bent on killing me and Mekio right now. He didn’t make for any attacks but simply grabbed Berri and started to fly up. ”You will thank me in a second. Just then Mekio spoke out to Reina. ”I think ill go for incineration. She said as she raised her hand and charged a cero. It wasn’t just any cero, it was a very, very strong cero. While not at Gran Rey Cero level it was substantial. The blast was wide and covered nearly the entire area. Taza and Berri barley escaped the blast.

”So tell me Berri, why are you with Reina? She is a cruel and mean person. You on the other hand are very nice. He said as the blast finished. But before anyone could get there bearings Mekio was already at Reina slamming her fist straight for her face. Behind it was the strength of a thousand raging elephants. And if it didn’t hit well, she would go into a kick even harder. Mekio was strong, though she wasn’t near the speed of Taza or Reina.

[Wanzer]

Sojukin sighed and looked around himself as the pairs were fighting and sauntered off a little ways, turning around for a moment to watch the cero blast through the trees. He turned and grabbed Reina’s arm quickly and looked her in the eyes. His grip was not firm, but rather just a steady one more to attempt calming her.

“Reina is this all really necessary? Mekio has already made her choice and though Taza is going about it, in a completely horrid way, he is only doing what he feels best to protect a former ally. Would you not do the same for Berri?” Sojukin looked into her eyes and released her grip, before using sonido to intercept Taza’s blow.

“Taza…cease this foolishness!” Sojukin cried at him as he looked him straight in the eyes. “You will only get yourself killed in this situation…if you wish to fight Reina some other time, but right now it would be best if we came to some kind of agreement…”

Sojukin sonidoed back down to Mekio and looked her in her eyes as well. He simply stared complacently at her and he spoke only a few simple words. "Make your voice heard."

[Darkoda]

"Well that's interesting, didn't peg you as in incineration type." Reina said calmly from within the blast. Her nonchalant mood alone should have been enough to let anyone know that she was perfectly fine, and as the blast died, she was visible, yawning from behind a curved barrier. "So much wasted energy in that cero though...." She added, sidestepping her follow-up punch.

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"Reina isn't really that cruel or mean of a person; she just really hates you." Berri said timidly. Her voice took on a tone of a mother scolding a child for the next part. "And you really have no right to talk about anyone's mentality; this situation is your fault. You were the one who was talking about hatred not being a good reason to kill someone, yet Mekio tried to kill me on sight, and even though Reina didn't raise a hand to either of you, you tried to kill her. Yes, Reina really shouldn't have egged you on like that, but you threw the first blow when she made no attempt to attack you."

"Reina may be short-tempered, but anyone would react badly if someone tried to decapitate them, then their friend tried to freeze everyone. It didn't help matters that Reina's highly overprotective of her friends. She was already on edge when Mekio threatened me, and when she froze me, Reina, as is usual, went overboard. You can't really expect me to try to calm her down when she actually has good reason to be ticked off and no one's willing to try and stop the fighting. She certainly won't be first to offer peace, and if you don't, she'll eventually get really going and then there really won't be any stopping her."

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As Mekio's kick came flying at her, it was intercepted by another small barrier. Unlike the first one though, this one bent under the force of the kick, being visibly indented, but instead of breaking, it sprung back like rubber, throwing her leg back and likely unbalancing her. Reina didn't care either way, she was tired of this and was going for the overkill when Sojukin grabbed hold of her.

"You dimwit, do you really think that this is because she didn't want to join? I don't care about that, it was her choice. What I am mad about is that the hypocrite espada up there, after preaching to me about being too violent, decides to try to cut off my head because he still can't handle someone pointing out his real nature instead of that two-faced lie he tries to carry around. Then, after I made it explicitly clear that anyone who touched Berri was getting maimed, the ice queen goes ahead and tries to turn her into an icicle. Then the drunken idiot attacks Berri again! Tell me right now why I shouldn't tear them to pieces! I am not known for being a pacifist, nor am I anywhere near nice enough to just turn the other cheek to a couple of people who attack me out of the blue!"

"Do you go around attacking people then complaining when they fight back? Of course not! Like you said, at least we're willing to admit what our natures are, unlike someone who preaches peace one minute, and sneak attacks and targets bystanders the moment someone upsets him. Seriously Taza, what are you, five?! The moment I met you I knew that we wouldn't get along, and things like this is exactly why?! I generally dislike arrancar, but you're the only one that I outright hate. Hell, I can even get along with Sojukin and our first meeting was each of us trying to kill and eat the other!"

Pissed was an understatement for Reina's mood right now. Her reiatsu was flaring even more out of control, and it was showing; the area was starting to literally fall apart, and everyone with any kind of sensing capabilities could feel the pure anger and hatred pouring out.

"Reina, shouldn't you give them a chance? I know that you don't like them, but forgiveness couldn't hurt" Berri called out. "Losing yourself to your anger and killing him won't make you any better than he is."

"Actually, I never denied that I have temper issues, besides, it generally is a bad idea to let people get away with trying to attack you." Reina muttered darkly, although her tone was notably nicer when compared to the demon's call from before. "But for your sake Berri, the two idiots have two minutes to convince me not to start bringing out the real firepower. And I interpret running as permission to kill you two."