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Post by Tagz on Nov 16, 2008 19:27:15 GMT -4
Growth was beginning to vex Kisamana to no end. His attitude, his situation, and his seemingly sincere displeasure of it were beginning to get to the woman. She was slowly losing her resolve, and for someone like her, that was a very bad thing. Then he said something that pleased her.
“I can tell you wish for battle, very well.”
It was like music to her ears. Then, as he unleashed his rather impressive reiatsu, it was back, her resolve to fight. The very fact that she had allowed herself to lose it for even a second infuriated. She would have to redeem herself.
Kisamana unleashed her own reiatsu, once again. Suddenly, she disappeared. Using Shunpo, Kisa appeared only several feet to the left of Growth. She then proceeded to extend her right arm, her hand tightly clenched around the hilt of her transformed Zanpakuto. Seconds later, an eruption of white water emitted from the tip of her blade. Then it shot towards the pseudo-arrancar at immense speeds. The blast of water came in the shape of a roaring dragon that had its mouth wide opened, as if it where planning on swallowing the being whole. It was a simple and straight forward attack, she had high hopes that he’d be able to either avoid or counter her dragon, despite its power.
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Post by Mr. Butterfly on Nov 22, 2008 20:19:45 GMT -4
Barda grimaced slightly as the psuedo arrancar took his Lightning kido and blew right threw it, using two different ceros to decimate it. Then he took the flame attack without dodging, blocking it with his free hand. Flame engulfed him and Barda thought it was a foolish move on his foe's part when suddenly the Hollow Warlord was upon him, Slicing his hand through the air. Barda brought his blade up two handedly, the tip of the zanpaukuto striking the hand, then being glanced off of. However, the blade pushing off pushed it's owner back as well, so that Hazandar's last attack left only a small scraping burn on his neck, barely getting through flesh. Okay, so that was too close for comfort. Seeing the Arrancar retreat momentarily gave Barda time to think. Hazandar was more powerful at this stage - so Barda had to increase his own, making the playing field his own.
Reiatsu gathered melo-dramaticly, a faded purple with wisps of golden yellow in the aura. Barda held his blade up slightly, gripping it tightly in one hand, the other held out to the side. The Vizard took in a breath, then closed his eyes for a second, speaking in what might have been a whisper, but could haveb een heard by Hazandar as his voice carried.
"Bankai. Ro-yaru Garsau Chishio Niiro Tooboe Akatsuki."
What might have been an enormous candle was suddenly lit, as the reiatsu burst forth, encircling the small perimeter it had already enslaved. It was gone just as soon as it had appeared, and in it's place was what might have been a black orb, large and moving very slightly. Suddenly the ball unfurled with a whooshing sound, Revealing themselves as being large black wings resembling those of a crow. The owner was the Vizard - eyes still closed. His zanpaukuto was now changed - the blade had grooves etched into it, and a very slow trickle of blue-violet reiatsu could be seen in them.
"Hazandar...come. Let blade meet flesh and silence come from the end of our fighting - and pray tell, we shall see whom the victor will be."
He opened his eyes and suddenly the trickle of reiatsu became a rush, and the torrent come out of the blade's tip, forming it's own blade of energy, adding almost two feet to the zanpaukuto. Barda was ready.
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Marisa scrambled back and tried to get to her feet as the hollow-hound's armor got blown off, and still wasn't detered in it's attempt to kill them both. The beast launched itself at her, ready to make her into mincemeat when suddenly the bullets were flying, hitting the beast. The Hollow retaliated, shooting a cero into Daniel, who retaliated in his own right, charging with his knives, stabbing the Hollow, all the while Marisa, on the ground a few feet away, doing nothing until this point.
However, she leapt into gear as the hound, about to die, went to manuever it's head down and chomp down on his new prey of Daniel. Nimbleness met speed and suddenly Marisa's foot connected with it's head after a somersault. She winced - it had a hard head - but was glad when she heard it's gasp. Did she take it down?
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Post by Galihan on Nov 23, 2008 23:48:45 GMT -4
The strain on Daniel's body was tremendous as the hollow continued to swat at him armor with it's large paw, but he refused to budge as he continued to slowly twist his blades through the flesh behind the steel plating on the spirit's leg. His shields were about to fail him when the large white-masked jaws began to come down in hopes of chomping the Battle Operative up. Suddenly, the hollow was knocked away several feet after being kicked in the head by the agile Marisa, landing hard as a loud thud of steel plating scrapping concrete floor echoed throughout the warehouse. Daniel fell down to his knees and eventually collapsed on his back, panting heavily as he regained some lost stamina.
"I think you got him," Daniel sighed, turning his head to the unusually slowly disintegrating hollow and back to Marisa. "I could use a minute to catch a breath, I'll be fine. He was a tough bastard but so am I."
The Battle Operative really was a tough bastard so say the least. The hollow left him a bit shaken up but he wouldn't need a long time to get back on his feet, his shield batteries were already beginning to recharge and he slowly got to his feet, walking off his sustained injuries. He picked up his dropped gun, and began loading a new ammo clip.
"That was some impressive stuff back there, I owe you one."
He wasn't used to saying those words, but it didn't bother him much. He'd just make it up to her later should she find herself in a tough spot with a soul-thirsty hollow. Daniel looked around the large warehouse, scanning his surroundings.
"So the mission, our objective's to find out who or what let these bastards out of their cages, right?" He asked to clarify. "Do you think we'll find whatever we need in here?"
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Post by Zhiel on Dec 13, 2008 19:46:06 GMT -4
OOC: Sorry for being absent for so long, if your still interested in this RP I promise to be active (Unless something really big happens, but thats not likely) The two faced hollow did not seem to hear Kiyoshi, or did not care. The less insane face was studying him with a nearly piercing glare, while the crazy one seemed to be unfocused and was whispering "kill kill kill!" constantly, but once Kiyoshi sprang into action and unleashed his bankai the crazy one seemed to become more focused as it gave out a surprised yelp. "Ooooooh! Flashy!" The crazy face said after Kiyoshis transformation, though the spirit force seemed to have little effect on it, the wind did cause it to take a step back to steady itself, and then Kiyoshi attacked, charging head on towards the hollow who simply stood there. Then he disappeared again, traveling in extreme speed to appear behind the hollow for a surprise attack, unfortunately the hollow was once again following his every movement with his eyes, almost like if Kiyoshi was moving in slow motion for it, and just as his armored claws was about to grip the tendrils of the hollow, they slipped right through his grasp like eels, and then shifted around and thrust towards Kiyoshi, trying to go past his arms and hit his body. Wheter the attempt succeeded or not the hollow jumped forward a slight distance and spun around before landing. "I suppose you havent noticed, but to me your movements are like that of a snail, a mere insect. I may not be capable of following that speed myself, but my blades can..." The calmer and obviously smarter of the two faces explained, though it made it sound like an insult, which it probably was. "STOP BABBLING AND KIIIIILL!!!!" The crazy one cut in before anything more could be said as an obvious jerk came from the hollows left side, like if one side was trying to move against the other. "I swear... If we did not need to be connected I would kill you myself..." The calm face said before raising one of his arms towards Kiyoshi, as red energy began to gather once more, however four of the eight tendrils began to continously stabbing into the dangerously growing cero, and it seemed to be completing at a amazing speed... --- Growth couldent help but give a short chuckle at Kisa's change in attitude the moment he mentioned battle, he had hoped he wouldent have to fight, but as she raised her reiatsu he could tell she should be strong enough to not get hurt badly by him until Hazandar was finished with his buisness. Then the girl disappeared, using the shinigami's shunpo to travel swiftly, appearing beside him before swinging her blade, unleashing a dragon made of water. 'Powerful attack, but water is water.' He thought, having followed her movements fairly well with his eyes. He turned towards the incomming attack as he raised one arm and lowered another, attempting to catch the dragons jaws before it could crash down on him. Once again green energy began to arch across his arms. For a moment the water dragon stoped as Growth had caught it in his hands, but then it splashed down on him, causing a multitude of cracking and breaking noises as Growth was pushed backwards out from where he had stood, as water showered everywhere. A large part of his chest and arms 'armor' had deep cracks going through them, however there did not seem to be anything missing. He was also drenched in water from the attack, but it seemed to be absorbed into him as the cracks began to glow with a green light once more as they unified once more. 'I wonder if she has figured it out yet, if not I will be able to prolong this battle a while longer without anyone getting hurt.' He thought as he raised his left arm and pointed it at Kisa as the palm of his hand began to glow in a green light almost identical to the energy he had used to heal his 'armor'. Moments later large green vines shot up from the ground beneath them and went after Kisa in surprising speed, as they had shot straight up after her several smaller vines shot out from the 'stalk' and tried to catch her by wrapping around her arms or legs, in the meantime Growth stood and waving his hands around, most likely 'directing' the vines. --- 'Tch, for being a kidou user he's quite capable of defending himself, no matter, I havent even gotten serious yet.' Hazandar thought after pulling back from his attack on Barda, the man just barely blocking his left handed swipe. In silence the pseudo-arrancar watched the vizard with his observant and calculating eyes, to him it seemed the vizard was evaluating the situation, hopefully that meant the man would get serious already. While he did not mind slaughtering weaklings, when he fought someone of similiar power he wanted to do it in a 'mostly' fair fight. He almost regretted his signature move burned the wounds it did so there was no bleeding, this battle could have been over already if it didnt. With a growing smirk Hazandar watched as Barda put his blade up in a stance that more or less just screamed 'special move!', after which he said the words needed to activate his bankai. Hazandars smirk did not vanish when Bardas new form emerged from the burst of reiatsu, neither when the now superior reiatsu wanted to push him down, he had fought many shinigami in his two thousand years as a hollow, and had already calculated Bardas strength when he'd have released his bankai, though he had to admit it was a bit under his expectations, probably due to the man being a kidou specialist and not a upfront fighter. The arrancar listened to Barda's words with a smirk still playing on his lips, he was an interesting person, and he would enjoy this fight. "Heheheh... This will be... Enjoyable." He said as he pulled his right hand out of his coats pocket, unlike his left hand which was covered in hollow-ish scales his right hand and part of the arm was bare, showing a human looking hand with grey skin, and as he pulled it all the way out it became obvious it was holding something. With a lightning fast motion Hazandar put his right arm infront of him, in his hand rested the hilt of a katana. The blade was broken, but it still reached out almost two feet. Like his mask the blade was covered in runes, though these were black in color instead of a deep red like the ones on his forehead. There was a visible change in the hollows reiatsu, and as both he and the sword he held began to glow it became obvious up until now he had only fought with his own power, not that of his zanpakutou. "Come, I will show you why we hollow are superior." --- "How's our status?" Richard asked to his 'second in command' Keishi. "All squads are in position and are eliminating the reinforcement hollow comming to interfere, we have established perimiters at the outskirts of the battlezone and have personel disquised as security officers leading civilians out of it, as well as keeping other security forces out of the zone by legal rights, though this is going to cost to keep silenced for the government later... The special operatives are doing their job effectively and we have had few losses so far, several of the escaped hollows have been either captured or eliminated and their weaponry salvaged and is currently being returned to base, there is only about ten bigger targets left to take care off. We just lost contact with Truax and Conrad, they have probably entered the shielded warehouse by now, small energy readings have been showing off from there signifying battle, it was just silenced. But judging by their expertise I doubt they have yet to meet any major resistance." Keishi finished his summary of the situation, he had had to pause several times to catch his breath throughout the long winded explanation. "I see, good work. Have ELITE squad Zeta-4, Delta-2 and Shade-1 take up positions around the shinigami fighting the hollows, but be sure to have them not get noticed. We may only have one shot at this and I want it to count. Have the Shades ready incase any of the 'targets' should get dropped. I will get into position myself, I want you to provide intelligence for our forces in the meantime." Richard ordered as he threw the massive gun he now held on his armored shoulder, this thing was definitely made more for those of Derrick's size, but as it was a prototype he had decided to test it for himself first, and with his suits superior strength enhancements he could use it even if it was a bit big. --- "Welcome, welcome members of the new world order!" A voice echoed out across the walls of the warehouse, on a support beam slightly above them sat a strangely disfigured hollow, only about a meter tall, however it was surrounded by a strange dark red glow which seemed to be tearing at its own flesh. And the way the voice was echoing out from it without it actually moving its mouth could suggest it being manipulated. "I believe you might have come here looking for me, and I'd be very gratefull if you would come join me, in the underground of this 'warehouse'. I will be waiting." And with that the glow around the hollow disappeared as it fell to the ground, dead. OOC: Might wanna do a semi-joint post with me for the last part, Steven, so we can get this moving
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Kiyoshi
Underling
"I am what I am. Love it or hate it."
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Post by Kiyoshi on Dec 18, 2008 19:55:29 GMT -4
Just as Kiyoshi was about to tighten his grip on the tendrils, they slipped right out his hands like slippery soap. The tendrils then tried to impale his body, but there was no way that was about to happen. His large dragon armored arms prevented that, stopping the tendrils like wood against metal. The two-faced hollow leaped forward then looked towards him. Kiyoshi was a little annoyed with this guy. The saner of the two faces spoke to him explaining the situation.
"STOP BABBLING AND KIIIIILL!!!!"
The crazy side of the hollow interrupted before either of them could say anything. Kiyoshi noticed the the left side of the body jerked against the right side. Then the saner said something that put a huge grin on the vaizards face, his quick thinking mind had found a solution. The ugly creature extended its arm towards him and began gathering in energy for an attack. The red energy seemed like he was about to fire a cero. Four of the tendrils helped speed the process of the energy, which wasn't a good thing.
With his speed, Kiyoshi could easily dodge this attack but what would he do to follow up with. The creature could obviously keep up with his every move, making it difficult to attack. He could use his bankai's true ability. Kiyoshi scanned the battlefield taking note of his fellow vaizards and the human soldiers. The vaizards could possibly survive the attack but the humans would be obliterated. He shook his head, no it wouldn't be wise at the moment.
Zetsumei, what should I do? he asked.
A calm and commanding voice replied to him. You have to do what is neccessary. We all must make sacrifices.
Kiyoshi understood Zetsumei's words quite well. With a nod of his head, Kiyoshi flapped his wings downwards creating a powerful gust that launched him into the sky. He looked down below to survey the area once more. Dammit, why did those damn humans have to join in on the fight. If they weren't here things would have been a lot easier for him. Kiyoshi extended his arms towards the two-faced hollow who was about to fire. The palms of his hands began to glow with a blue sparkling light, but before it could grow anymore, the light dissipated. "Dammit all!" he said letting his annoyance be known. Letting his arms drop, he flew towards the hollow going full speed head first.
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Post by Mr. Butterfly on Dec 23, 2008 20:57:59 GMT -4
Barda watched with intense eyes as Hazandar matched his own ante, finally showing what was in his pocketed hand. A matching zanpauku-to for his mask - runic, and to symbolize the incompleteness of their shinagami-facation, broken. That wasn't to say it wasn't harmless - but at least Barda's reach was longer. He calculated a quick mental battle image and recalled from his sword trainings that a foe with the shorter blade will want to fight closer, as the longer blade requires a longer swing to match the power. So Barda could simply keep his distance and fire off kido, like usual. But he had to be prepared, since Hazandar could match his kido with those ceros of his, or come in close and use that short blade of his for some damage.
Barda's wing flapped once, sending a very slight gust around him, fluttering his clothes. He tilted his blade upward, imagining a tactic in his head. Might work, might not - needed a try. At any rate, not moving and remaining to be a large target wasn't a good idea either. Barda gripped his blade tighter within his hands, and vanished in the slow sunder of a shunpo. He moved at high, spiritually backed speed right up to his Hollow foe and brought his blade down, with his right hand only. His left one was charging a small, ball like kido in his palms with a red light.
"Hado #31: Shot of Red Fire - Hado #1: Thrust."
Pulling his sword back and extending his left hand, the torrent of flame compacted into a shot went right at the Hollow Warlord's chest, propelled by the thrusting force to maximize damage. Whether it would hit or not Barda couldn't tell - but it would be oh so much more powerful than before.
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Marisa nodded in Daniel's direction. She herself took a moment for a breather, taking deep breaths to catch the wind she had knocked out of herself from kicking that mutt's hard head. She watched as he picked himself up, regained his gun and loaded it again. She smiled at him saying that he owed him something.
"Nah, you don't owe me anything. Unless you could get the Boss to stop being so harrassing..."
Marisa gave up on her little half-joke, and popped her neck, getting up herself. She adjusted a loose shoulder pad, and answered his next question after a quick check to her armor. All systems were green, but she would have to watch the support on her legs systems - they showed signs of fragility.
"Yeah, we got to search the warehouse and check out the scope of the place. Boss thinks that the culprit will still be -- "
Marisa was cut off by another voice. She turned around, and saw up on top of a beam above them a hollow. It was no ordinary hollow - this one was a glow stick. Another eerie aspect was that it's mouth wasn't moving while it talked - creepy. Basically, the Voice wanted them to go inside the warehouse like they had originally planned because the Voice wanted to meet them. Then, the hollow fell as though shot through the heart - Do Hollow's have organs? Oh well - without it's glow. It landed with a thud right next to Marisa, it's empty eye sockets staring at here before it evaporated. Marisa cringed away from it slightly, then gave Daniel a meek shrug.
"Well...ladies first, right? Um...yeah."
Marisa tentatively stepped forward and as she kept up her pace toward the warehouse doors she gained confidence. She wouldn't be afraid. No, the large, cellar like doors with the creepy LED lighting from semi-busted bulbs wouldn't deter her. She peered inside, leaning against the wall with her handgun poised at the ready. She didn't look back but assumed Daniel was right there following her as she entered in. The inside was rather empty - until she looked at the far side, and saw some pretty busted up steel doors. One was blown right off the hinge - claw marks were easily seen on it midsts the dents. The other was barely on, bent up like one folds a piece of paper in half.
Marisa gulped - something had opened the doors and hopefully that something was gone from here. She ducked under the bent door after crossing the short distance from the warehouse entrance. There was a short flight of stairs before a long hallway lit by ceiling lights, some off and some just downright broken, giving a dark look to the place. She pushed by another broken door - or the hinges, since something had burned through this set of doors. Inside this large, basement style room was a bunch of empty cages. She took a step or two, thinking she heard Daniel behind her, then scanned the area. Her eyes rested on different cage, this one more like a containment field she'd seen at headquarters. It was hooked up to a lot of loose wiring being fed from every direction, and a fancy looking computer with numerous keys on it. At least, that's what it might have looked like - the container was shattered, with a gaping hole large enough for someone of a large stature to fit through. The computer was smashed to bits, but it was obvious it was not by the same hand that actually got out of the cage....the computer looked burnt, like the doors.
The NWO operatives eyes glanced up at a very slight movement, and a shadow seemed to be crouched down on top of the container. She froze - who or what was it?
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Post by Zhiel on Jan 17, 2009 21:04:11 GMT -4
OOC: So much for staying active... Though in defense I can say that I was at first waiting for Tagz and Galihan to post >> Then I just got lazy again...
The flickering shadow above the large containment unit stood up slowly just as Marisa noticed it. It seemed to be humanoid in form, but the eyes on its face shone a golden color, like that of a hollow. Then suddenly the lights around the area sparked to life, illuminating the man ontop of the containment unit. At first glance he would appear a shinigami, black flowing robes covering most of his body, although their bad shape was hard not to notice, and a katana in his belt. However there was two obvious things which stood out, namely the mask which covered a quarter of the mans face, the upper left section, with the left hand looking like it was wearing a form of claw gauntlet made of the same material as the mask.
"Greetings, members of the New World Order. I assume you came here to investigate the cause of this little... Outbreak, and I can assure you, its none other than me." Kehieleth said aloud, his voice echoing through the long hallway. And as he finished he shot off from the containment unit and with amazing speed landed a few meters infront of the advanced cell. "Maybe I should tell you this before we start... But your communications devices wont work inside here, I've seen to that. So no point in calling for help. And, even if you somehow got through... You would merely be leading more humans to their deaths!" As he finished this last sentence he released his hold on his reiatsu, letting his spirit pressure rise to tremendous levels compared to that of a humans.
But luckily for Marisa and Daniel, their suits protected them from outside spiritual pressure, to a certain degree, Daniel moreso than for Marisa however. A smirk grew on Kehieleths face when he noted that the two did not fall from the pressure, even letting out a short laugh before he spoke again. "Heheh.. Yes as I thought, those armors of yours protect you from more than just physical harm. But I have to wonder... How much?" And as he said this several of the lights around them exploded in a shower of glas, and then Kehieleth vanished into the ground, but in truth he had used the newly made shadows to use Aneika's shadow walk ability. A mere moment later he appeared behind Daniel with his left hand drawn back, ready to thrust it towards the battle operative. He did not put everything into the attack, so he assumed that even should the man not be able to dodge, he'd atleast not die outright. Of course, he was probably underestimating the technology of the NWO.
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To Hazandar Barda's speed was nothing special, sure it was fast, but it was at his own level so he could follow the vizards movements with ease. And as the council member closed in using shunpo the Hollow Warlords eyes darted from one place to the other as they followed the mans trail, however the man seemed to have sped up slightly in the end, as Hazandar almost missed him completely when he appeared slightly above the pseudo arrancar, bringing his blade down towards him. He had only a moment to act, but that was easy enough for Hazandar as he brought his blade up in a hurry, to meet with the vizards blade.
The moment the two blades connected the runes on the side of the arrancars sword began to glow red nearly instantly, as a clear sound echoed out when the two clashed. A grin began to spread on Hazandars face, but that was when he noticed the glowing ball of fire in the vizards left hand, now being thrust towards him. The vizard swiftly pulled his sword back as he threw the fireball towards Hazandar, while quickly uttering the name of the two kido. "Hado #31: Shot of Red Fire - Hado #1: Thrust."
Hazandar's eyes widened in surprise as the ball of flame came soaring straight past his defenses, as he tried to block it with his left arm like before, only to hit him dead center. An explosion later Hazandar was sent careening out of the smoke the explosion had created while he gritted his teeth, partly in pain, but mostly in anger. After falling for almost ten seconds the hollow warlord expelled a large amount of reiatsu as he almost instantly slowed down and righted himself, though he stood somewhat shaky as he looked up towards Barda. The entire front of his white coat had been burned off, exposing his now cracked chest carapace which looked to be formed almost like a cuirass, although obvious blood stains was visible in the deepest of the cracks, so it was apparent the hit had done more than just break his armor a little.
"You... You think you have won? You think you are superior because you are a shinigami? I will show you just how powerless you are compared to us hollow!" He yelled as he shot off with incredible speed towards Barda, raising his left arm and pointing his fingers in his direction. A glow of purple energy emanated from each of the fingertips, and then five thin beams shot off towards the Vizard, in a moment they would surround him, and if he did not move by then, Hazandar was planning on closing his hand, causing the beams to bend inwards and pierce the man from five directions. And even should he dodge, Hazandar was still moving at high speed towards him, his broken sword at the ready to strike. And yet, there was something even worse going on where Barda could not see, but if the man was perceptive, he could tell there was a small change in the precense of his inner hollow.
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For Kiyoshi to dodge the two-faced hollows cero was prety expected, even if it had been made about twice as quickly as a regular cero. After all the man was fast as lightning, it did not matter if the hollow could see him or not if his attacks did not move at the same speed. As the man began to ascend into the sky above the calmer face moved the left arm up and rested his head in its palm, like if thinking. "Hrm... He's a little too fast for us to catch him, our cero's arent quick enough to hit him on their own, and though a bala hail could be effective it wastes too much reiatsu compared to its potential effect... Suppose we will just have to counter-attack..." The sane face said, mostly to itself, but also to its 'companion', which was surprisingly quiet for once.
"Hey... Whazzaaat!?" The crazy face suddenly yelled. And though the saner face usually paid no mind to the crazy one, he could tell he meant it, and looked up as well, and had no choice but to stare in fear at the gathering energy of the vizards attack, if something like that hit them they would be completely disintegrated, and he had doubts they would be able to dodge it at all, their power did not lie in speed as it were. But then the energy subsided, leaving the two-faced hollow in a state of surprised shock. "The Heeell was that aboout!?" The crazy face asked aloud, obviously having no clue of what was going on.
"Judging by the gathering reiatsu, I think that attack could potentially harm his nearby... Friends... As well, that was probably why he stopped it." The saner one explained, thinking it had realized the reason. "EY! ES COMMIN!" The crazy face interupted with a loud yell, causing the saner face to curse under his breath. "I am aware of that you dolt..." He said silently as he looked up once more, seeing Kiyoshi comming towards them at incredible speed. "Uh, I think we should move!" The crazy one cut in, and though the sane one agreed fully for once, he knew they did not have enough time to move aside. Bringing out as much reiatsu as they could the two put up their bladed tendrils infront of them, using them as shields.
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Post by Galihan on Jan 18, 2009 0:30:53 GMT -4
OOC: Yeah, my bad. I just personally don't like having to pick up after being left with such open ended scenarios like "who or what was it?" When I don't know who or what it actually is/or was intended to be. Now onward, away! Daniel followed his teammate through the damaged doorway after being invited by the dead hollow. Probably some sort of trap set up by some clever hollow that made up for it's lack of strength with a high intelligence and resorting to deception and trickery. Unfortunately his own assumption was quickly proven wrong when he entered the dark-lit room. Despite the lack of light, he was able to make out the form of the being using the built-in sensors within his helmet but the specific details weren't clear. When he switched back to normal sight, he was slightly startled to see what he first thought was a shinigami, then appeared to be a hollow, and then he wasn't exactly sure at all. Was it able for an evil spirit to become both shinigami and hollow? The very idea sickened the Battle Operative down to the core. Then the mutant spirit freak spoke of how their communications were cut off in this room, not the nicest situation, but he'd be able to cope as long as he had his battle armor and machine gun to get him through the fight. The large amount of loose spirit energy being released by the person was very formidable indeed, Daniel's own high personal energy for a human combined with the highly advanced Spirit Combat Armor muffled out a considerable chunk of the pressure but the amount that still got to him was ultimately more than the Battle Operative was used to experiencing. It wasn't physical burdening, in fact it almost heightened his desire for battle and thirst for action, but still dulled his reaction time slightly as the opponent vanished after questioning the effectiveness of their equipment and reappeared behind him. Just as Daniel was able to notice the... hollowgami, or whatever it was, the hell should Daniel know about what to call it... behind him, he began to turn and face it but only just managed to put his arm up to block the clawed hand that knocked him pretty hard. Hard enough to send a powerful blast of force that rattled the target and knocked him back halfway across the room, while not thrown as far as when pawed by the giant canine hollow, the actual damage done to Daniel's armor was considerably greater and more concentrated. "You unholy filth! What's your plans with those hollows!" Daniel cursed as he raised his weapon and fired a burst of spiritually-charged bullets at the enemy, not appearing to do all too much damage given the gap in power between the hollow-shinigami's reiatsu and that of the bullets. He prepared for whatever retaliatory measures the enemy might have tried to pull, expecting the shadow-vanishing trick again, but he wouldn't be surprised if he did something completely different.
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Post by Mr. Butterfly on Jan 25, 2009 16:05:49 GMT -4
Barda enjoyed his small triumph as his combination kido tactic worked, sending the miniature spirit grenade right into the false-arrancar's torso. The explosion was resounding, and Barda pulled out slightly, flapping his wings to pull himself into the air up and back. He pulled his blade to a ready as a figure fell from the smoke, not sure what to expect from his wily foe, but saw that his attack had gone through. A small grin etched itself onto his face as he saw the Warlord's anger. Blood was coming from the wound he had inflicted unto the Hollow's armor carapace, and that told Barda that he had gained a step in the victory march.
Hazandar spoke in a rant, then Barda felt the Warlord's reiatsu brace up. Barda readied himself as his opponent came at him with incredible speed, launching his mini ceros at the same time. This was when Barda reacted in a way he felt, allowing his body to react seeing as the 5 ceros would end up shredding him if he didn't do anything. He brought his legs up, and pulled his zanpaukuto beneath him. His feet planted themselves on the blade and he twisted sideways, as if jutting off a mountain while riding a snowboard. As the cero's reached their mark Barda put the finale on his defense. He released his reiatsu through the blade, like a focal point, and beneath Barda was no longer just a spinning sword but a round shield of energy. The quintuplet of Hollow beams pushed into the shield and a crystal effect happened, like holding your finger under water - the beams split and refracted through, becoming a miniature spiderweb. Most went wide of their mark but about 3 hit Barda - one scraped his knee whilst two pierced his left arm. While smaller, they still had the force of the original ceros and burnt like hell.
Barda kick flipped his sword back into the air once the cero beam onslaught ended and he caught it, only to catch Hazandar right at his location. Barda brought up his blade a tad to slow and was forced to brace it with his left arm on the flat side. The broken sword's tip sipped blood from the very shallow wound on Barda's shoulder, and the Vaizard gritted his teeth. He tried to shove Hazandar away with his blade, but if the pseudo-Arrancar tried hard enough they would end up in the lock they were in. So focused on trying to find a way out of it and back into a good position that Barda didn't notice the internal problems he was about to develop.
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Marisa's bare eyes studied the new foe with eagerness from training, trying to study anatomy and hindering points to see what she could exploit. Though she knew not to expect it, she figured the clawed hand would move slower than the other, but past experience told her otherwise. The other news that he spoke of got to her head but she was too busy figuring him out to truly devote attention - she understood that she wouldn't be able to communicate to the outside world. Then her attention was forced to him, as the reiatsu that tumbled her way was larger than what she had received before. She didn't buckle or anything or the sort, but felt like she was now carrying some of the weights she had seen the battle-oriented operatives lug around.
And then the lights went out, and Marisa's auto-visor immediately picked up on this and turned on the specialized infrared that the NWO developed instead of a helmet light, which would easily give away her position. It was infrared, but was specifically capable of locking on to spirit signatures. So when the reading read that the culprit of this mess was behind them, she was more than a little surprised. Daniel flew by her line of sight, and Marisa's first instinct ducked her to the side in a roll, retrieving her small spirit pistol from it's holster. She popped up from her roll and aimed two-handed at the shinagami-robed Hollow. Daniel fired off a few rounds after cursing him, and Marisa did the same - well placed shots trying to slam him in the torso area, even if they had no effect. Her shots were fueled by her own spirit energy, so she had no need to truly reload.
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Kiyoshi
Underling
"I am what I am. Love it or hate it."
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Post by Kiyoshi on Feb 4, 2009 20:48:47 GMT -4
Hmph...you always find another way don't you?
Better believe it, Zetsumei. Kiyoshi cracked a smile to himself as he headed straight towards the hollow before him. Many different attack strategies ran through his head, which one would be the best in this situation. The hollow then placed those damn tendrils of his in front to try and shield himself. That must have been the saner one's idea. Kiyoshi extended his arms above his head placing his hands together with his claws facing the hollow. His black lightning wings then pressed tightly against his arms engulfing them. He began spinning rapidly. From a distance, Kiyoshi looked like a giant, black bolt of lightning.
In a flash, he made direct contact with the hollow's tendrils. The impact caused a huge flash of light followed by a powerful shockwave that could rattle the teeth from your mouth and sounded off like an army of cannons being fired simultaneously. This creature's power was indeed impressive. Enough to make Kiyoshi have to use his bankai.....well actually it was that other hollow's fault for that. But this ugly bastard couldn't have withstood the power behind Kiyoshi's attack. Then again, he wouldn't be surprised if he did, the bastard was kinda impressive.
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Post by Zhiel on Feb 11, 2009 8:22:01 GMT -4
OOC: BAAAAW! I need to stop being lazy... Just to note, the lights in the warehouse isnt all busted, just the ones closest to the special cell, so theres plenty of shadows (mwehehe)
Despite not being able to react quickly enough to dodge the attack, the human had noticed him appearing behind and been able to reduce the damage somewhat by semi-parrying with his armored arm. The impact force from Kehieleth's carapace covered hand still sent the man reeling across the room however. 'Bah, pathetic.' He thought as he glared at the human as Daniel regained his balance and trailed his machinegun at him.
"You unholy filth! What's your plans with those hollows!" Daniel shouted at him, shortly after firing his weapon, while at the same time the girl that was with him had changed her position and was firing a few more accurate shots herself. Though it was not like Kehieleth had simply stood still for several seconds, he had now drawn his zanpakutou and was holding it in his right hand, blocking two of Marisa's bullets with the blade before he jumped up ontop of one of the many steel girders near the ceiling, now being completely covered in darkness.
"What do I plan to do? You ask?" Came his echoing voice from the shadows above them. "It should be obvious, after all the plan is already set in motion." He continued, his voice now comming from a completely different direction. "You must have seen the destruction. You could say, this is a way to assess just how little of a threat you are." Kehieleth spoke calmly, though it was obvious his voice was sounding more arrogant and superior toward the end.
Almost out of nowhere Kehieleth then appeared a few meters infront of the two. "Your purpouse in this little game... Is just to entertain me before you die," And as he said this he raised his left hand infront of himself and aimed it at Marisa with an open palm. "Destructive spell number fifty-four, Abolishing Flames!" as he finished this line a ball of energy-like fire was shot towards the girl, direct contact would be fatal for her, and even Daniel would find his armor to protect fairly badly against it.
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Hazandar couldent help but grin victoriously when he went into a blade-lock with Barda, having injured the man with both his reiatsu beams and now slightly with his sword. But what he was truly feeling victorious about was the now brightly red glowing runes on the flat side of his sword. It was time to show the true colors of his power.
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"CRUD CRUD CRUD CRUDCRUDCRUDCRUD!!!" The crazy face said repeatedly while sounding paniced, while the other face tried to remain calm and in position with the crazy face trying to run away, causing a bit of a problem in their defense. In only a few more moments the black bolt of lightning which was Kiyoshi struck down on the Hollows defenses. A massive flash of light and a large shockwave later, Kiyoshi would find a crashed building underneath him, with blood splattered across the center where the two-faced hollow had most likely been sent from the impact. Several of the tendrils which had been used to defend agains the attack had been severed and what was left of them laid scattered on the ground. If the hollow had survived the attack and was now hiding, it would be clear it would be unable to fight anymore.
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"Tch, should have guessed they would be useless. Guess I will have to use 'it' already after all." Hazandar said after he jumped away from the lock with Barda and took a casual glance toward the cite where Kiyoshi had nearly crushed the hollow. "And... With the looks of it Growth is still messing around with that other pathetic vizard... I have'nt even taken her mask and she's still not doing much harm to him, sad..." He said aloud, mostly to himself, though Barda would be able to hear him clearly, and maybe even Kiyoshi if his ears were sharp enough. "But then again, I've still got my 'secret weapon'. Isnt that true, Kyoumen?" As he said this last thing he turned his head back to Barda, with a smirk on his face.
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Post by Galihan on Feb 14, 2009 13:12:44 GMT -4
This damn spirit was pissing Daniel off, this whole "I'm a god and you mortals should all die for my amusement so I'm gonna blow a whole bunch of shit up and it'll be fun" attitude is exactly why the Battle Operative knew that it was his lifelong duty to serve the boss and eradicate these damn things,every last one of them, if they be hollow or shinigami or even normal ghosts it matter not to him, they all had to go to protect the safety of the world.
Then suddenly, he said some sort of incantation and in an instant a giant surge of fiery of energy was launched at Marisa. He knew he would be able to withstand the attack much better than her, even if the exact nature of the attack was unknown to him at the time. It was too sudden for her to avoid it on her own so his only chance was to take the impact in her place. He bolted at her, shoving her out of the way and was envelloped by the flames instantly. His armor was able to keep him from being reduced to ashes, but the heat was still so incredibly hot that he didn't know if he would survive.The heat was so sudden, so destructive that only a horrifying scream of pain could be heard echoing throughout the warehouse. Inside his helmet, red lights and sirens were roaring telling him
WARNING WARNING WARNING! SYSTEM OVERLOAD! MAXIMUM HEAT TOLERANCE EXCEEDED! LIFE SIGNS CRITICAL! INTERNAL SYSTEMS DAMAGED! POWER OUTPUT EXCEEDS SAFE LIMITS! WARNING WARNING WARNING! BACKUP BATTERIES EXCEEDING LIMIT! UNABLE TO MAINTAIN SHIELDING! PREPARING TO SHUT DOWN! Then the flames died down and on the ground was a collapsed and seriously wounded Daniel, most of his armor's internal systems completely fried and his outer armor nearly melted, the inner layers of protective material scorched to ashes. His entire body was suffering from at least second-degree burns and he was in serious need of medical aid, yet he still managed to stand despite his injuries and suit's condition, the pain not so noticable seeing as most of his skin's nerves were fried. His gun was also in ruins, but the spiritually-charged bullets inside were miraculously still in good condition, he would have to drain the power from his gun in order to power his armor and use every last ounce of his own energy from his own body to attempt getting away, or at least making an opening for Marisa to slip away.
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Kiyoshi
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Post by Kiyoshi on Feb 18, 2009 10:13:49 GMT -4
Ha, the attack was successful. After the smoke cleared the scene Kiyoshi scanned the area for any signs of the two faced bastard. He laughed a little as he noticed several of the escaped hollows were now scattered around, lifeless. He managed to get rid of a few nuisances and not harm any of those damn humans around. After taking a few heavy breaths to calm his breathing, Kiyoshi flapped his wings a few times to stretch them out. "Now... where is that ugly creature?" he asked himself.
Underneath the young.... well technically he's old as crap, but underneath him lay a shattered building. Just in the center of was blood splattered all over with what was left of those damn tendrils. It looked like one of those crime scenes that you always see on television shows. Kiyoshi sighed as he spotted a wobbly blood trail leading away from the 'crime scene'. "Well, Zetsumei," he said to his zanpaku-to. "Ya gotta hand it to the ugly thing. He sure knows how to take a hit."
Indeed. But he is no doubt greatly injured, possibly on the brink of death. What will you do now?
"Nothing. There's no honor in slaying an enemy that can't defend himself."
Hahaha, you really are starting to grow up, Kiyoshi. About time.
"Hey! I'm grown up."
Whatever you say.
With a shake of his head, Kiyoshi began moving towards the the debris that once was a building, but he paused. Something else going on around him had caught his immediate attention. His ears perked up like those of a dog. Did that other hollow just take a crack at one of his brethren? "Oh no he didn't!" Kiyoshi said in an angry woman's voice. He then vanished into thin air and reappeared standing next to Barda, who wasn't looking so great at the moment. Kiyoshi glared at the other hollow with a little bit of malice. Before his battle with the two-faced bastard, this bastard had did something to cause his own hollow powers to become inactive. Man was he about to get it. "Looks like you could use some help brother. And this f**ker could use a foot up his ass!" Kiyoshi clenched his large dragon fist while gritting his teeth.
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Post by Mr. Butterfly on Feb 18, 2009 19:52:35 GMT -4
OOC: BAAAAW! I need to stop being lazy... before I turn into someone I know....
Marisa was worried - she knew that the spirit could easily overcome both of them with little or no effort. Escape was their only hope.
Except, that Marisa was apparently not allowed to have hope - the fire-filled palm in front of her dashed them all away. No way she could take that, and her legs refused to move her away from it. Her eyes widened, and her life flashed before her - and then her legs were buckled and she felt herself being shoved. Next thing she knew, she had instinctively closed her eyes, but they were filled with a bright light, and her ears overloaded on ... someone screaming? A horrid, painful sound that literally chilled her spine to the core. She opened her eyes and sat up, groaning. She saw Daniel, now a living BBQ. She felt his pain, seeing as how he couldn't - just the sight of the burns hurt.
She got to her feet, not thinking about the fact that she had dropped her pistol. Her right hand gripped her spirit-particle dagger, however. She soon found herself standing in front of Daniel, the dagger poised, herself in a defensive stance.
"You...dirty spirit....you can't be allowed to hurt anyone else!"
While it sounded tough, Marisa was the scaredest one of them all in that room.
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Barda was looking quizically at his foe while doing his best to push off the blade, but the way in which they had locked made it a difficult matter. The Warlord then pushed away, and Barda took the chance to back away a short distance and resume a defensive stance. He heard him talking about the other Hollows. From what he could infer - and detect reiatsu-wise - the odd looking one with the tentacles had been taken out of the equation, and Kisa and the living shield were still at odds.
Hazandar started talking about a secret weapon, and right about the same time Kiyoshi appeared by his side. A surge of emotions seemed to hit Barda all at once - anger, bloodlust, murderous intent - that almost knocked him out, since it slipped past his mental defenses. The aura surrounding it - what was it? Before he could detect the signature feeling, he felt the cold grasp embrace his mind, and then nothing.
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[shadow=black,left,300]"....feh."[/shadow]
The exact second of the psuedo-arrancar's grin, Barda's sword arm swung out to strike - right as his comrade. Being one handed and a back swing, it would have easily been deflected - if he expected his partner to attack him, of course. After that, a shunpo landed Barda in front of Hazandar, to the Warlord's right. While hair fell down to cover his eyes due to his heads lolling angle, a single feature was changing noticably - a white, carapace-like material forming in the air around Barda. It was slowly attaching itself to the left side of his head, beginning at the lower jaw and working its way up. It was assuming the look of giant molars - big, fearsome teeth.
"Ah, so you are the one who called for me to serve . . . glad to be of service. Isn't that correct. . . . "
And at this Barda looked up, showing dialated, yellow pupils surrounded by night sky black. The grin was one of lunacy - madness, and a wish for battle and the glory of attaining a sought after freedom.
". . . Kiyoshi? Ah, the things I can do that that fool cannot! Here is a grand example. Watch closely now : you'll only see it once. "
The reiatsu wings that were attached to Kyoumen's back wavered slightly as he held out his outstretched hand - then disentegrated, reforming and collecting in his palm itself. It was no longer it's former hue - now, it was dark, malicious and a bloody purple. The entire matter took only a few seconds to complete. Then the freed Hollow crushed it in his palm. The effect was instant - the reiatsu surrounded Kyoumen instantly, like a coating. It was easy to see that this had increased his reiatsu level by a good amount - enough so that it made up for his injuries, and more. Barda dropped his zanpaukuto, letting it fall to the earth. It plummeted into the area below.
"I don't need that to defeat you." The former-Barda pointed a finger to his head, poking his temple. "I've watched you from inside him. I know how you fight. I know that your faster than my Host - but knowing is half the path to victory. The newfound strength from Hazandar - that's the other!"
Kyoumen's dart at Kiyoshi was fast - and so was the reiatsu-coated hand that was shaped like a claw, coming from an upper angle to cut into the Vizard.
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Post by Zhiel on Feb 19, 2009 9:49:58 GMT -4
OOC: Told ya so! :3
While Kehieleth was certainly not expecting the humans to be powerful at the least, he had not expected them to be stupid as well! He had knowingly targeted the smaller girl with his, or rather, Azerin's kidou, as she was the most likely to be capable of dodging it. Yet it appeared she was too scared to even move an inch, and she was saved by the foolish man, who pushed her out of the way and took the hit himself.
Kehiel just shook his head. "Sad, what miserable performance from the so called elite." The hollow-possessed shinigami said, his golden colored eyes returning to the now screaming man, who's armor was more than likely being incinerated. Kehieleth had honestly not expected the man's armor to take such a hit from that mere spell, but Kehieleth's reiatsu had a.. Unique... Property to it, which more than likely had had a finger into why the armor was destroyed like it was.
It seemed the situation had lit a flame in the girl's heart, not litelarily of course, as she moved up infront of the man with her gun in a strong grip. "You...dirty spirit....you can't be allowed to hurt anyone else!" She said, though her fear was obvious to Kehieleth, several thousand years brought with it a bit of experience after all. The hollow was about to taunt the girl, when he noticed movement from the collapsed form of the man behind her, as the charcoal colored man stood up slowly.
"Hahaha... You're definitely tougher than I expected, not many humans can stand after recieving that kind of damage, however... The fact that you even took so much damage from such a simple attack, well, lets just say its... Pathetic." After saying the last sentence a creepy grin spread on Kehieleth's face as he started walking toward the two slowly, and on the way he sheated his blade, but at the same time raised his reiatsu even higher than before, nearly making the weakened walls of the torn warehouse shake.
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"Yes, he certainly does need some help, but, so do you." Hazandar said with a sly grin on his face, just before Kyoumen swung his sword at the other Vizard, before using shunpo to appear beside the Hollow Warlord. "I'm generous to those who serve, as you can see." Kehieleth said in response to Kyoumen, having given the inner hollow a fair bit of power through his abilities.
Hazandar watched Kyoumen for a little longer, but as the Vizard launched at the other Vizard, he turned away and gazed out over the fairly ruined town. "Hmm... Seems like the humans have taken down most of the 'special' hollow, and at the moment, the weak things I called from Hueco Mundo are being wiped out. Guess its almost time." He said, mostly to himself as he turned his gaze to the buildings below. 'Seems like the humans are preparing to strike, this could become interesting.' And with that thought, the pseudo-arrancar began to descend down onto the ground below, where he landed just a few meters from where Barda's Zanpakutou was stuck into a big block of concrete.
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"How's our situation?" Richard asked his 'second in command' without turning away from the scene infront, or rather, above them. While waiting for the other squads to get in position the President of the New World Order had been preparing the experimental prototype he had brought with him. Due to its current composition and the early stages of its development, it was only good for a few shots before the force of its own shots made it unusable and in need of repairs, which was why Richard was making sure it would be performing optimally for the time when it would be used, which looked to be soon.
"Nearly all escaped hollow have been taken down or captured, with the technology retrieved. However the one that the Shinigami just... Obliterated... Could be troublesome to retrieve at this stage... But in either case, there are just about four left, and maybe thirty of the normal hollow. Estimated time of completion is three minutes, Sir." Kaeshi reported, shortly afterward turning back to the communication equipment he was using. "Good, and what about the other squads?" Richard then said, this time testing the aim of the large rifle, seemed like it was perfect, except being slightly too large for him. Good he let a certain other person bring his own prototype to the fray.
"Sir, they are in position and awaiting your signal, but what off the situation above? It seems like one of the shinigami just turned on the other..." Kaeshi said, he sounded prety confused about what occured above them. "Yes, it seems you're right. And he dropped his sword as well... This could be a chance we've been waiting for! Send Shade-1 to pick it up, it should be simple if they avoid being detected by the ones above. We will wait and see what happens here before we act just yet."
"Yes sir!"
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