A new Enemy (closed)

[Uryuujin]

Seteku Drakulya, also known as 'The Count', 'The Prince', and Kyuuketsuki-sama, was bored. Bored out of his mind! Sitting in his chamber at Las Noches was not very entertaining for the Sexta Espada. Standing up, he bbegan walking to the door to the outside.
"Where are you going, Kyuuketsuki-sama?" Vrykolakas Servidor, or Vry for short, asked. Vry was Seteku's Fraccion, acquired many years ago after his death. His original name? Bram Stoker.

"Why, I'm leaving of course" Seteku said in his slightly entrancing and deeper voice. "I grow weary of staying in Las Noches doing nothing, so I am going over to the World of the Living. Just to cause a little chaos in out 'enemy Kingdom'. I'll go back to Istanbul maybe, I always love destroying Ottoman Relics there! It just never gets old!" The Arrancar who in life had fought the Ottomans smiled, ecstatic at the thought of causing harm to his ancient enemies, or at least their remains.

"Sire, the enemy, as in the Shinigami, already know your favorite attack spot, and are bound to keep quite a few powerful ones there." Vry then drew in his breath, mentally preparing to say his next statement. "I don't think that you should attaqck anything Ottoman related, sire" the weaker Arrancar said, cringing at the expected pain.

Seteku contemplated his head Fraccion's words. "I agree" He finally told the slightly cowardly Fraccion, who visibly relaxed. "And do not fear, "remember? I reward the Honest, and punish those who woould see fit to trick me. Take a look at Extranjero Sou, I did not punish him for telling me the truth when i was still the Infamous Vlad Tepes!!" Seteku always loved referring to his life, "So why would I change that policy now that I am even more powerful?" Turning to the door, he opened it, wincing slightly at the sunlight which came pouring in "We need to get that Infernal Sunlight replaced with a softer darkness, it's much more comfortable than glaring heat." Turning to the Fraccion, he continued the original topic. "If you wish.....I will allow you to accompany me this time" He always allowed Vry to come,"I will be going to Japan this time, i guess. Those people are quite skittish as well" Seteku finished as the Fraccion beamed with joy at being allowed to follow his master. Though Seteku was obviously excited at getting out of his 'crypt' as he thought of it, a slight tone of disappointment came into his voice at being forced to avoid harassing Ottoman loving people.

Going out into the light. Seteku opened a rift in Dimensions, aka used Garganta, that created a nexus between Hueco Mundo and the World of the Living. Walking out, Vry following closely, the Vampiric Espada looked out over the city he had chosen. Taking in a deep breath, he let it out slowly, and smiled. "Karakura Town has no idea what's about to hit it"

[Mr. Butterfly]

"God......this sucks."

Barda Kaazaki sighed. He had enough of not doing anything. Hanging upside down from a tree in the forest around Karakura Town, he shut his mind from all disturbances. Garasu, his zanpaukto's spirit, and Kyoumen, his inner hollow, were constantly bugging him.

Garasu piped in on Barda's thought."C'mon....talk to me..." Her voice sounded concerned, but also had a tone of "Don't Ignore Me". Kyoumen decided to add his two cents.

"Aw, shuttup, you lousy broad." Kyou's voice was condecending and cruel, as if constantly sneering, even in the face of death.

"Shut up....both of you....." Barda was starting to get annoyed with their nagging and bickering.

"Uh! Make him shut up! He's always starting it!"

"Oh, so blame me, just because I want to feel blood on my lips. Very stereotypical.

"Please, shut up....."
Barda dropped down from the tree, trying his best to ignore the voices in his head. However, they persisted, as usual. He simply drowned them out with humming, though it wasn't working as well as he had hoped as he started walking through the forest. Halfway in his trek, however, he felt something.

VHOOM

A powerful spiritual pressue entered then atmosphere, stopping Barda in his tracks. He turned towards the source, heightening his senses to pinpoint it.

"Damn....two of them...one of them powerful....doesn't feel like a shinagami, so......must be a hollow of sorts...a vasto lorde? Or an Arrancar? "

Barda thought aloud as he shunpoed his self closer to the field of energy, landing on top of a deserted factory building, looking towards the sky, seeing two shapes in the sky.

[Uryuujin]

"Hmm?" Seteku hummed, looking down to what appeared to be a 'Factory', something that Seteku envied. He always thought that he would have butchered the Ottoman scum if he had had just One of these 'factories'. "Well what do we have here?" He inquired rhetorically, recognizing the basic Reiatsu pattern. "A vaizard, eh? And you said it would be 'dangerous' if I went to Istanbul. And arriving at a different location, I run into a Vaizard, and one of the more powerful ones as well." Now Seteku was being honorable and modest, saying that his enemy was strong, which he was. However, everyone there knew that an Espada versus a Vaizard, even a more powerful one, wasn't going to end well for Vaizard.

"Well Kyuuketsuki-sama" Vry replied, honoring his master with his favorite title. "If you had gone to Istanbul, you wouldn't have faced one Shinigami, it would have been more along the lines of 300 shinigami, which could probably do a bit more than this One Vaizard." The Fraccion, though he was an Arrancar, was not particularly powerful. Thats what happens when an Arrancar is made from a Gillian. That is why he was so grateful that his master had made him the leader of his other Fraccion.

"I guess you're right. And besides, a battle might be really fun!" He shouted, and looked down at the Vaizard. "Greetings, Vaizard! I am glad that you were able to come and see me on this day! I hope that you are powerful, because otherwise...this won't be nearly as entertaining!!" At the end of his statement, the Espada dove down towards the Vaizard, taking out his Zanpakuto, a very Vampiric-looking sword. As he reached the Vaizard, he swung the maroon blade, and the Vaizard blocked it deftly, which made Seteku happy. Lowering his face towards the Vaizard, he went for the Dramatic line.
"Greetings, I am Seteku Drakulya, formerly Vlad Draculya, Sexta Espada" Then he grinned widely, revealing elongated canines, which were red on the tip, as if they were stained with blood.

[Mr. Butterfly]

Barda stared back at the Espada with fierce eyes. Just his luck. And numero 6, did he say? Well, this one liked to rant on. He took a slight leap back after he blocked the first blow, bring his sword in front of him, with both hands gripping the handle. Barda smiled. He hadn't had a good test of his strength in a while now. This was perfect.

"...Seteku, you say? The name's Barda Kaazaki. And no one gave you permission to be here in the world of the living. Therefore...."

At this, Barda moved his hand from his left shoulder in a diagonal arc across his face. A cruel, rectangal mask formed at his face as his eyes changed to black. He then leapt at Seteku, sword coming down in an overhead swing.

"I shall simply have to remove you from here!"

[Uryuujin]

Seteku instantly became angrier, letting his immense spiritual pressure, one said to be higher than most beings could handle, press down on the Vaizard. "Don't get cocky, young one" The Espada said in a booming and intimidating voice, with a very 'Dracula' feeling to it. Seteku loved his theatrics. "Though you are powerful, I posses a much greater amount of Reiatsu than you do" Swinging his Zanpakuto in a flurry of blows, he used his unoccupied hand, he began charging a Cero, while trying to keep the Vaizard occupied with his furious assault with his maroon blade.

[Mr. Butterfly]

Barda bagan to counter and parry the onslaught of sword blows he was exchanging with his foe. He needed an opening, for that cero blast at this range wouldnt' be good. However, one of Seteku's blows caught his sword with such force it knocked him back quite a distance.

"Crap!"

Barda held out his left hand as energy formed around it. A yellow energy conformed and compacted around his hand.

"Hado #63: Thunder Roar Cannon!"

The blast of yellow kidou launched itself at the Espada at high speed, twirling and spiralling in the air as it flew.

[Uryuujin]

"Oh" He said as the blast headed towards him. However, knowing that without the Incantation, it would ble less powerful than it could be. While continuing to charge his Cero with his left hand, he fired multiple Bala at the Kido spell, leaving only a small amount of the blast hitting him, which barely marked his clothes.
Going back on the attack, laughing theatrically, Seteku began slicing at his enemy once more, finally firing the newly charged Cero at Barda, from four feet away.
"Not so easy now is it? Activate your Zanpakuto or i may kill you too quickly!"

[Mr. Butterfly]

Barda deflected the Bala with minor difficultiy, then parried some of the close range slashes as the cero was about to be fired. He broguht his sword up and said something as the explosion engulfed him.

"Fly with Pride! Garasu Tooboe Akatsuki!"

As the smoke cleared, you could see Barda, his hand held out, the palm smoking with burn marks from blocking the blow at close range. In reality, he had concentrated spirit energy in front of him from his palm, digressing damage.

However, it was his sword that was to be looked at. It was slightly longer and skinnier. Barda brought his blade up again.

"You wanted to see it? fine...here it is. And this is it's power!"

At this, Barda vanished, reapearing in front of Seteku, sword being brought down in an arc as energy shot out of it at point blank range.
"Zekkyou Umou!!"

[Uryuujin]

Laughing, he dodged the blow by using going to the Vaizard's right, catching the zanpakuto in his hand and holding it in place. Then Seteku slashed at the Vaizard's body, Barda's blade in hand, then retreated back and up, holding out his Zanpakuto. "Now, Vaizard, prepare to meet the Impaler, brought back from his death! Rise again, VAMPIRO!!!!" He shouted, and his sword began to disintegrate from the tip to the hilt, surrounding the Arrancar in a swirling cloud of black fog.
Once the fog dissipated, the Espada looked different. Not it appeared as if he had bitten and clawed out someone's throat, bloodstains leaking from both sides of his grinning mouth, revealing fangs that had grown even larger than before. The collar that had served as his mask had grown to a larger length, and long claws glistening with what looked like blood.
Seteku's Spiritual pressure, which had already been hard to handle, became more smothering than the bottom of a small ocean. Vry, who was usually immune to this pressure, being his Fraccion, had his breathing stopped by the pressure. He had to go back to a longer distance of over a mile to be able to breathe in a labored manner. "I.......Can't.....handle........Vampiro......" the Arrancar panted, slightly depressed at having to be so far away. Activating a small latent ability, the Arrancar was able to see as if standing next to the Espada.
"Now it's you turn, Vaizard"

[Mr. Butterfly]

Seteku's slash at him after evading his attack and grabbing his sword cleaved into his shoulder, leaving a gash. It could have been worse- if Barda hadn't wormed backwards slightly.

Now, however, he was in a different situation. He was having trouble not sweating from the spiritual pressue that Seteku's true form was giving off. He realized that, to survive against this Espada, he'd have to pull out the stops.

Barda held his zanpaukuto in front of him, upward angle, then called out his bankai.

"Bankai! Ro-yaru Garsau Chishio Niiro Tooboe Akatsuki!"

At once, a blinding brilliance of light shot out, and in it's place stood Barda. Wings had shot out of his back, large and crow like. His zanpaukuto had changed as well- now pure spiritual pressue ensnared the steel blade like a layer of foil, adding to it's deadliness.

However....Barda still felt outmatched. He coudln't keep up both Bankai and his masked state for very long. The moment either one of them gave out, he'd be done for.

[Uryuujin]

The Sexta Espada wouldn't keep Barda waiting. Seteku appeared right next to the Vaizard, his arms a blur as he slashed at the Vaizard with his claws. Laughing, he began toying with the Vaizard, slashing at him, retreating, only to attack at a different angle. Slashing and laughing, the Espada decided to speak his thoughts out loud to the beleaguered Barda.
"Y'know, i think I'll wait to Impale you. I don't want to ruin a new toy!"

[Mr. Butterfly]

Barda was countering and parrying each and every blow, but before he could launch a counterattack, another blitzkrieg attack would be coming from a different angle. Barda grunted as he blocked an especially hard hitting blow. He needed to do something.

As Seteku came in from his right, Barda turned and did somthing different. He held out his arm in defense, and as the claw slashed into his arm, he grabbed it. Before Seteku could react, Barda brought his sowrd down as an extremely explosive amount of energy came out, almost distorting the atmosphere around them.
"Zekkyou Umou!!"
As the smoke cleared, Barda's mask started to crack slightly in the upper left corner.

[Uryuujin]

Flying back, Seteku suppressed a wave of pain that tried to cloud his vision. Noticing that the damage was extensive, Seteku tried a new tactic. Smiling, he waved at the Vaizard, and then he appeared to vanish. However, what he had really done was turn into a Bat. An extremely small bat that could move quickly and was about the size of a humming bird, and much more silent.
Sneaking up to the Vaizard's neck from behind, he sunk his fangs into Barda, sucking the blood that dripped out. Then he injected the spiritual 'Venom' that was a Vampire's trademark. Meanwhile, as he drank the blood that had a very large concentration of Spiritual enery, his wounds began to heal. Oh the great power of Vampires He said inwardly.

[Mr. Butterfly]

Barda's mask broke off as he saw that the Espada had disapeared. This puzzled him. Even he knew that his last blast couldn't have done that much damage. He released his bankai out of exaughstion. As he began to slowly drop from the sky, he noticed that his vision was starting to grow fuzzy and that he felt his energy being sucked from him. But how? He also felt some of his energy build up around him, as though in a bottle stopper. He couldn't freely release it. Why? What was going on? He couldn't think straight.

[Uryuujin]

Turning into his regular form, he released the Vaizard, feeling good as new. "Ah, a nice blood drink to bring about some good healing" Smiling, he looked directly into Barda's eyes, activating the 'Vampire's Trademark'. He then began speaking to the Vaizard telepathically. Greetings Barda. I am your master and the one you shall obey. I am going to leave you now. And as soon as I do, I want you to take your sword and carve a message into a tree. Once you do, go to sleep. When you wake, you will be free of my spell. Go carve this message "The Vaizard have a choice. Ally with the Espada, or suffer my wrath. He who was Vlad Tepes the 3rd, Seteku Drakulya." I loved our battle, and hope that we may continue it sometime after you have recovered
Holding out his hands palms up, two sharp wooden stakes appeared in his hands.
Remember, the next time, I will not hesitate to use my Impalement on you. Be stronger so that we may fight on better terms.
"Let us leave, Vry" He said aloud, knowing that the ability he had instilled in all his Fraccion had been activated.
Both of the Arrancar opened a Garganta and departed into Hueco Mundo. As the portals closed, the Espada sent one last message.
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