Bleach: The Lament of Power IC

[Ghost 97]

Equilla Jeranta - Cuatra Espada, Hueco Mundo

Equilla regarded the exchange of power from a distance. He's powerful, ambitious, not to mention caring for the Arrancar around him. It will be difficult to turn any of his own Fraccion against him. On the other hand, he's also naive. If I play my cards right, I might be able to trick him. The Espada witnessed Thirteen's abdication, and how the Arrancar was now the Cero Espada. She would be lying to herself if she said it didn't sting a little to see a new Cero Espada, and it not being her. In any case, I will have to wait now. I still don't know enough about his powers to attempt a coup, just yet. I will have to learn about him, which, considering his traits, should not be a difficult task.

The Espada used a Sonido to move up to the newly apointed leader. "Congratulations." She smiled sweetly at him, noting to herself how useful the form of a child sometimes could be. "This is a great day for all of us Arrancar, now that she is gone. Equilla nodded in Thirteen's direction. "She may have been powerful, but she was no leader. She never did anything... But, now we have you! Which reminds me. I was wondering, what are your plans, now that you are the leader of Hueco Mundo?" It was even more painful to say it, but Equilla kept her mask.

Harmony Acro - 4th General of Heaven, Tenebrae's base

"Oh, so he's one of THOSE people." Harmony grinned at the thought of teasing Lariel into a rage. She would definetly do that when she got bored.

The Fullbringer looked back to Melissa. So, she left the Espada, which means she used to be one... I think. That means she's more dangerous than she looks. "That brings up another question, though. Two, in fact. First of all, why did you leave the Espada? And why are you now working with them again?" Harmony started playing a slow-paced, relaxing tune.

[Feldrain]

Ambrogio Amedeo,Something something Dark side.

Ambrogio smiled at the girls blunt honesty. "My my. Your honesty is.....refreshing." he laughed. Turning back to 13, Ambrogio stood silent as she walked away. "Well she certainly did not stick around long, did she." he sighed. "Though I suppose it's better this way...." Now Ambrogio could focus on the matters of enforcing his Law and otherwise bending the Arrancar of Hueco Mundo to the cause. Though, right now, there was still the matter of the girl...

Turning back to Iala,"Now she did bring up a valid point." he said sternly. "I called upon the Espada to this little show of power, I think it is obvious to all of us that you don't share that title. He bent down to look into her eyes."Just what is it that you are doing here-" Ambrogio was cut off by the sudden arrival of yet another child Arrancar. Listening to her drone on made her seem like she was borderline ass-kissing. A opportunistic soul hoping to get on the good side of their new leader perhaps? Still, Ambrogio was one who held high value in first impressions."ho ho...Why thank you little one. Your too kind....." Ambrogio's eyes narrowed and his face became more feirce."...As for what I have in mind...All in good time."

Ambrogio turned and began to walk toward Los Noches "Speaking of which..." called out to the Espada."Let us waste no time in settling in. I want all currant Espada to meet me in whatever you pass as a meeting hall. Somebody find Tomas' sit in!" His voice was stern as he walked on.

Hajime Daichi, Seriously overreacting

Hajime backed up a bit, cocking his head away from Eris. "Definitely not a scented candle...." Hajime said warily. "Do you....normally take a whiff of people like that?..." This girl had quite the mouth on her... Something was odd about her...Aside from the whole smelling thing anyway. Just what did she mean by "What the fuck are you". I'm human obviously...Well mostly. The real question is, just what was she? Something about her didn't feel...human. "Well...I'm a guy.. You know...Flat Chest..masculine voice....uh...Dangly thing between the legs." Hajime explained dryly

"Wait a minute..." This girl looked familier...really familier... Then it hit him. The limp body that woman was carrying off earlier, this girl...looked just like her.. There was only one explanation. Hajime dropped to his knees."Oh...My..God.." he gasped. "Your a Plus!" he said jumping back up and grabbing her shoulders and shaking her around."You were the girl who that chick killed aren't you! She's running off with your body right now! She's probably gonna chop it up and feed to dogs or pigs or something!" Hajime ranted hysterically.

Hajime pulled Eris so that her face was back up to his."Don't worry!" he said a little more quietly. "I'm something called a Fullbring, I'm gonna go find a Shinigami to help you. Then, I'm gonna go and find that lady and avenge you!" He was still shaking her around frantically.

[Fieryfly]

Sakei Eris

Eris rolled her eyes. "Well duh! I can see you're a guy what do you think I'm blind or something? And you're not even very handsome... You definately don't smell enti-"

Her words were cut off as Hajime was suddenly grabbing her and shaking her around. Now Eris was not the girl to be shaken around without warning. She didn't like people toying around with her even though she loved to do it herself. A vein popped as the guy began to rant stupid things while shaking her. Then the two were again nose to nose, still shaking. That was his mistake. Eris reared her head back and than smashed it forward to headbut the man holding her.

That would teach him throwing her around like that. He was only a Fullbring. Who did he think he was messing around with a Vizard like that?

"Now look here punk I don't care about you're little Fullbring powers. You humans might have some powers aquiered because of a hollow attack, but I assure you well used Hollow powers are far worse. So I suggest you piss off. You are not," She pointed her finger at him so that it was almost touching his nose, "calling any Shinigami here, but most of all you are not," the finger crept even closer, "killing Kagura."

She turned around. "I'm so doing that myself." And with that she stomped towards the door.

Iala Sorino

Thirteen left. It was sudden. It was expected. The new Lord of Hueco Mundo was still kind. It was not expected. Iala didn't like unexpected things. He asked her what she was doing here and Iala remember that she had not explained her presence at the Espada meeting. They did not know that Melissa had gone somewhere. Iala didn't hope they were going to ask her were the Primero was, because she didn't have a clue. Melissa never told many things. She just did things.

The Cuatro arrived, late and full of flattery. Iala knew she had always aimed for leadership.

Ambriogo was about to leave and Iala stood up. "Sir, the Primero Espada is not here. I'm her Fraccion and was said to come in her place. I'll therefore represent her at the Espada meeting and pass on every information given."

[Feldrain]

Hajime Daichi, Ouch...

Hajime was about to say something else when the girls head came crashing into his face. Between the door and this girl, Hajime's head was going to be seriously hurting in the morning. The blow made him pull off her and bring his hands to his nose, which was now oozing blood from both nostrils. Pulling his hands away from that so he could speak, he was nearly about to start yelling at her when she pointed a stiff finger at him and started off on her own rant.

When she was finished Hajime just sort of made a low growl but decided that tending his messy nose would be better then actually doing some thing about the girl. His gaze turned back to the inside of the house. "Fuck her...Crazy bitch I was only trying to help...." Hajime mumbled under his breath as he stepped inside the house in search of a bathroom.

When he found the bathroom he helped himself to the sink, washing off his nose and hands of blood, all the while fuming and uttering profanities about the "red headed witch". Still he found himself wondering what she meant by "Well used Hollow powers". He was just stuffing some cotton balls that he found into his nose when the thought struck him that she was probably not a plus after all...

[Glitchybugger]

Shouting quickly reached Kagura's ears as she neared home, and she grimaced slightly with annoyance, someone had caught sight of her antics, it seemed. Oh well, there was me thinking I could do this without much fuss, now I HAVE to make that gigai for Eris though. She thought to herself as she carried the unconscious Aaron home in Eris' current body.

The first thing she was greeted with was an angered Eris. "Oh, Eris, did you want to tag along to see just why I took your body? Or are you just giving me a warm welcome? Regardless, get back inside, I still need to take measurements for your new Gigai." Acting as if she hadn't recently stolen the woman's gigai, Kagura smiled softly and would walk right by Eris, dropping the occupied yet unconscious gigai on the sofa. She could feel the human-ish presence within her house. "Eris, why do we have another home intruder?" She called to the smaller Vizard before following the trail of reiatsu (and blood) to the bathroom. "Can you not keep people out of my house? Granted, I allowed the Quincy to come in, but that is another matter entirely."

Swinging the door to the bathroom open with considerable speed, she would either greet Hajime with a door like she did not many moments ago, or just see this man standing there profusely insulting some red headed witch. "What a day for visitors, first a quincy, then an old acquaintance, and now you, whoever you are..." Kagura wasn't even paying attention to him as she spoke, she was sort of starting to stare into space, pondering on who might show up next.
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Melissa tilted her head slightly as Harmony enquired into why she'd left the Espada before and why she was now working with them again. "Would because I can suffice? I do not need to relinquish every ounce of information, do I? Regardless, I am now interested in this power of yours, whilst all I see is a musical instrument, I am certain it does more than just create music through your skilled hands." She said before directing her attention towards Wolfe.

"Caution? So you would not warn me if I touched sensitive ground in terms of conversation? In all honestly, if you wish for me to leave so you can attend to other needs, I can find my way back to Hueco Mundo and leave you be." Giving a smile, Melissa waited for a response from the both of them, holding two conversations at once wasn't hard at all.

[Feldrain]

Hajime Daichi, On the verge of a meltdown.

Oh what a night it has been! Before he could put the last cotton ball in, his arch enemy, the dreaded hinged door, flung open on him in an attempt to seriously maim him. Hajime was caught off guard yet again. Still, he made the foolish mistake of turning his head toward the door just as it opened, resulting in it bashing him face first. The force of the blow did not send Hajime flying as it did last time, but it easily knocked him off balance. He teetered back wards, tripped over the toilet, and tumbled into the bathtub banging his head on the tub.

lying there in the tub with his legs hanging out the end, his vison blurred again, it was actually easier to recognize the woman, the hair and...bust were the dead giveaway. She was the woman who he saw running away earlier with the body. The murderer as it were. Still, he was starting to doubt there was any murder or victim(unless he counted himself of course...)

Hajime only half listened to what she was saying, and when it was his time to talk he gave her the same amount of attention she gave him."You wanna know who I am?" he asked with a sigh. "I'm the guy who stubbed his toe yesterday and thought that that was the worst day ever. Not so much now..." he sighed as he pulled himself out of the tub."My name is Hajime Daichi, I live next door with my mother, a locale medium." he began to slowly walk toward her. "I myself am an entities that calls itself Fullbring. If you are a murderer, then I really don't care anymore just stay away from my house and you and I won't have an issue..." He stopped right in front of Kagura. He looked tired, which was really no surprise considering what he had been through and what time it was.....

[ManaLove97]

"Maaaaan, this is so boring. Sitting here for hours and no hollow arriving so far..." Kai-Asa mumbled to herself, yawning and directing her eyes towards the sky above her head. The 2nd division member sat on top of a large building, her feet dangling off the building's edge and her torso leaning backwards, supported by her arms. Her small Zanpakutou laid on the floor, to her left. With her cap pulled deep into her face, she effectively shaded her eyes from her bright sunlight, as she looked back down, scanning her city beneath her.

She was on patrol in the world of the living and had been here for quite a time already, having no clue of what was going on in Soul Society. Still, although she was quite weary of this dreary mission, she was a Shinigami of the 2nd division and she had to fulfill her duty at all cost.

A couple more moments went by before the girl finally made up her mind, coming to the conclusion that walking around the area may be wiser than just sitting around all day. That way she would at least not get all too tired. Picking up her weapon, the 7th seat fastened the blade on her left hip and quickly jumped off the roof, landing in a narrow alley and starting to walk in a random direction.

[Ganryu]

Post from the Fastlane

Aid to My Allies

Through out hell an audible sound of water dipping onto water. "Maailma polttaa meidän ympärillämme kuollut hukkuu, kun saadaan eloa lähes kuollut, varjo sielu särkyvät kuusikymmentäkaksi" (The world will burn around us, The dead will drown, as life is breathed into the near dead, Shadow soul shatter sixty-two) With these words Damien reappeared far from Shin'ya he was standing directly next to the wolf with his palm on the wolfs head. With those words he was nearly knocked off his feet as his energy split portions going into the wolf, Atori, Aria, even a portion went into Ran. This power caused them all to rise to their feet other than Ran who would be knocked back a couple inches, the wolf's energy eminated. Tamara took the hardest hit so he didn't give her any energy. Even though she would have had the best bet of using the energy properly.

Resolve

Ali was all but frozen as Both Captain Kiyomura and Captain Vale moved in to tackle Shinya, he was far too powerful for a little shinigami like herself to deal with, but it didn't mean she couldn't try to help. As she thought this, the lance became whip-like once more and she darted forwards and lashed out with it, attempting to wrap the large stone whip around Shinya's neck the moment after he would block or avoid the other two attacks, planning to simply take advantage of out numbering him instead of trying to charge in like a wild beast.

They had to do something or the Quincy was doomed, it seemed. One thing Ali knew for certain was that she was going to get punished for goodness knows how long when they got back to seireitei... If they got back.

Assault of the 2nd captain

She was about to attack when suddenly captain Vale decided against attacking, appearing quite far from Shin'ya and started mumbling some kind of enchanting. Ran stopped on her tracks. Her plan had been attacking Shin'ya while he was busy dealing with the other captain, but it seemed that that was not going to happen. Before Ran could form another plan something hit her and she was knocked back several feet. Shocked she looked to her body suspecting a wound of some kind to be present, but the opposite was true. She was overflowing with energy. Her Shunko effectively reacted to this sudden burst of energy, flaring up brightly for a moment. Ran narrowed her eyes at Damien. What exactly had he done?

No time to think though. They had to get Tamara out of here.

Ran's head flung around when Ali appeared on the scene. Shit. This was seriously too much for the little shinigami to handle. Still the girl lashed out to Shin'ya. Ran almost smiled. She was determined, that little girl, Ran had to give her that. It was no use telling her to stop now. Way too late. Instead she charged too, appearing next to Shin'ya and started a sequence of kicks and punches. She figured that Shin'ya would probably dodge all of them which was why she enhanced every jab she gave with a Byakurai so that soon the air around Shin'ya would not only be full of her punches but also filled with electricity.

Powertrip

From the side and the front, a whip and a fury of melee bombarded Shin'ya. Nox jumped away from the melee but the air was still filled with lightning. A smile graced his face as the whip touched his neck and then his hand was on the rest of its form and a horrible sickening sensation would be imbued into Ali's entire body. A horrible eldritch glow would permeate the whip's form and her own body would begin to show signs of it as well. A tearing would begin, from within the girl, a tearing of energy, not of body itself.

Then the electricity took its toll and entered the form of Ali's zanpakuto to shock Shin'ya and stop the process. He gritted his teeth and the whip's movements seemed to stop being its own as it came off his neck and flew back towards its master. Nox's eyebrow twitched and he turned, looking at Ran once more and sneered in the most unpleasant of ways. "Come then shinigami!!" he appeared behind her and attempted to backhand the woman as hard as he could to send her hurtling towards Damein, the bastard...he would be next.

Chained Demon

"Hisss! how dare a mortal chain me down" Kin'iro hissed with a deadly fury as the lances chained and grounded him with his own bloody bonds. The blade whistled through the air to strike the feeble, but massive, neck of the serpent and it could not move...there was no defense that it alone could provide.

Yet...within the bloody chains Naratsu's body was kept, chained, defeated.
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Inner Conflict

Why?...such pain, why was there so much pain in this world, he wondered. He could not understand it and even as the blade neared Kin'iro he found himself pondering this. He had always hated the serpent, his sword spirit, it had done so many horrible things, caused so much pain. Yet...he could not hate it in its entirety, why?

Then his eyes opened, both figuratively and literally and he saw only bloody chains around his body. The serpent was not separate from himself...and he did not hate himself entirely so how could he hate the serpent? He had always fought it, suppressed it, tried to ignore it or push it down...and he had always lost. No...no more, no more fighting, he was denying it the right to him, he was denying himself his own potential.

The chains seemed to tighten but Naratsu's eyes began to burn with a midnight glow 'No' he thought the reiatsu building even as the blade plummeted towards Kin'iro. "No more, listen to me serpent!!" The chains cracked as the withered knight that he was spoke "I accept you!!!" the chains could hold the spiritual pressure no longer and became dust under the sheer power, borrowed power, the power created from the serpent. A deadly hissing ensued and the entirety of hell would resound with the sound of enraged demon, of Kin'iro, of the serpent.
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Acceptance

The red dust of the chains swirled around him and converged on his blade just as Kin'iro's head was cleaved off by the blade. Kin'iro began to dissolve, his skin first, and become a black serpent...the color beneath the white of his typically scaled hide. Naratsu's clothing shifted colors becoming completely white and made mostly from scales. The blade he held, almost appearing as large rings stacked on top of each other. The blade went from silver and blue to a stark red and then the hissing turned into another sound, words.

"Hahahaha" the serpent laughed, sounding almost...freed, calmer even "You accept me? Hahahaha" the amusement flowed from the very reishi of the realm and could be felt everywhere as a disembodied force. The shinigami simply nodded, his captain's robes stained partially with blood from the bloody chains. "Is this so strange?" The spirit's amusement only grew "Hahahaha, you lie like the sinner you are Naratsu."

The commander's eyes narrowed and he looked down to Tenebrae who was slightly lower in the air than he. "I do not lie" "SILENCE!! You lied to me once before and you are doing it again!! SILENCE YOU SINNER, YOU HAVE NO RI-" the spirit suddenly fell silent as he heard Naratsu's thoughts 'I do not lie to myself, you are part of me and I you...so I will not, cannot lie to you.'

The feeling of amusement bled out of the air and silence reigned "How?" Naratsu shook his head "there is no other choice, no other path, no better solution than the hardest one before me, I accept you."

Throughout this Naratsu had already begun walking towards Tenebrae and down through the air which swirled and parted before him. The horrid reiatsu of the false god hung in the air, but it could not touch the captain commander. The sickly reiatsu that had been NAratsu's other half, the serpent's, was becoming purified and it turned into a new form and gathered towards Naratsu and the blade he held. Before Naratsu reached Tenebrae however, his blade twisted in on itself and formed a spiral formation of interlocked blades. It was still the same length, long and straight, but now it was as if warped metals had been wrapped around one another to form it. The serpent said no more but Naratsu now spoke to Tenebrae, to the false god. "Face the sum of your life's work, face your sins his eyes appeared as glistening sapphires lodged in the face of a judge, Tenebrae's judge.

A strike, stabbing towards Tenebrae's heart, that was Naratsu's movement, from yards to mere feet in barely a second. "Face your charges!! sinner!!" the voice of the serpent was also in this cry of battle, how would the god deal with the judge?

Return from the Dead

Artori Sentio

A shock of energy entering his form, Artori's consciousness began to flicker back into existence. He felt weak though, weak and helpless in the face of Shin'ya's power...it frightened even him. Yet, he knew he had to get up for there he saw her, Ali...one ranked similar to he, fighting the abomination that Shin'ya was. Artori's elbow and knee rose to support him and he looked to his side, putting his hand on the blade that had fallen there, his blade. The moment he touched it he could feel his sword spirit, Alma, call his name with a fervent whisper 'Artori...awake and fight' it was intense but quiet.

The shinigami's eyes turned steely as the silver regained it's shine and he managed to rise to his feet and mutter "Cover us with resplendence...Alma" the blade shone silver and then his reiatsu condensed in even further...it felt almost alien to him. Yet, he knew he could continue...somehow. The shine increased off of his blade and he said louder now Suto-mu kai(Blade Shell) the shell formed and then he hopped off the ground and flew towards Shin'ya the tip of the shell pointing to where he had just stood. "Yousetsu no hineri!(Weld and Twist)" the shell twisted inwards almost choking Artori with the level of condensed reiatsu, then it exploded backwards propelling his unique movement 'Souen(Silence).' He reappeared, behind Shin'ya now where his blade pierced forwards, a new blade shell already forming around the blade rather than him.

Resu-fu, Aria

Barely even conscious after Damein's assist, she rolled over and looked up at the battle, a worried crease in her pretty face. She felt pain everywhere as if she had been emptied of her reiatsu forcibly, but how could that be possible? She lay there, motionless and watching, she couldn't move yet but she hoped, with all her heart, that it would pass. Aria could not stand it when her friends were in danger and she could not help, it tore her up....

Disobedient spirit

Ali was frozen for the moment that he grabbed her whip-like lance and the sickening feeling overwhelmed her, causing her to all but double over before it subsided, it was a horrifying sensation to say the least as she felt the tearing. But she had to overcome it as her zanpakuto seemed to swing back to go for her, causing her to lift her shield up and stop the return blow.

Stop! You're not meant to attack me! She thought hastily as she would force it to take it's lance shape and started concentrating as much as possible. We need to work together, I can't help them if you don't work with me. She started thinking to her sword's spirit, but there was no response.

Fine, I'll have to use your power like this! She thought once more before rushing forwards, keeping a tight grip on her lance to close in on Shin'ya, almost on exactly the opposite side of Shin'ya to the others, then she would land heavily and twist her grip on her lance and throw it straight for Shin'ya, aiming to attack whilst he was distracted once more, surely he couldn't make it turn around and go after her now. Throwing her Zanpakuto like that was probably no way to treat part of your soul, but if he made it rebel somehow, she would have to use it like that.

The throw itself would make small cracks appear underneath Ali's feet as she threw it, showing the power with which she threw the lance at Shin'ya.

Role of Power

Tenebrae shook his head, and turned as it appeared he had killed the serpent, and it's master was chained beyond help. Easy fights were not his style. In his invasion of the Gotie 13, only higher ups, and those crushed by his power were really killed. He found no point in trouncing weaklings. He had left the Soul Society when he had run out of strong people to challenge.

Power lived to clash with other power.

He was....almost sad that it had ended that quickly. The serpents power was not it's own, but it was still a worthy opponent, if it could have concentrated more, it would have been an interesting match.

Power on it's own was useless unless applied right. A thought came in his mind at that point
Then is my power useless?

"No.... as long as I hold power, others will challenge it. By existing, I strengthen the world. This darkness is the challenge the world must overcome to be strengthened, elsewise it would weaken under complacency. I am it's forge."

It was then he felt the explosive buildup of reitsu behind him. That wasn't the power of the downed.
"What!?"

"Face the sum of your life's work, face your sins

As he turned his head, a blur of motion towards him, with Naratsu rushing with a stab to the heart.

Tenebrae took a simple counter measure, and gambit against the attack, using the energy sword which he held to return the gesture to Naratsu, aiming his chest as well, only he simply held his sword out, for Naratsu to impale himself on... by his own speed.

Where as Naratsu's was a high speed charge, he would need both hands to accomplish such a thrust, reducing his range. Tenebrae merely needed to extend his blade forward with arm, giving more range. More range meant Naratsu would be impaled before he had the chance to hit Tenebrae.

This state also left Tenebrae with a free hand, to cast his kidos, and so he did.

"Bakudo 63. Sajō Sabaku."

A chain erupted from Tenebraes fingers.... but not at Naratsu. The chains wrapped around Tenebrae's chest, forming an impressive and improvised armor against the incoming blow, using the chain's strength as a defense rather than a restraint. He would still take quite a bit of damage, but it was insurance against his gambit, incase Naratsu was foolish enough to continue his charge.

Sympathy for the Enemy

Damien moved again, this time he moved forward quickly. The demon's eyes were turned to follow shin'ya his eyes were still penetrated by darkness. He was seeing the world around him with a darker outlook and thought to himself. Maybe Shin'ya, Tenebrae, aren't wrong about what they do, but maybe the way they do it. This made him stop what he was doing but only for a fraction of a second then shun'pod to the left hard he needed to have a moment but that would wait until later.

He made his way from behind and swung the blade attempting to split shin'ya not a killing blow just a warning.

The wolf began moving around to make an attack it was watching everything around them deciding who to kill and got ready it was prepared.

Discovered Check

This time Ran could follow. Shin'ya appeared behind her and Ran was ready. Just before he could touch her to throw her away she moved. Her hand lashed out and grabbed the hardly visible strings that were dangling around Shin'ya's sword arm. As she got a firm grip on them she made one shunpo step backwards, wrapping the strings around her black gloves where they attached themselves again to the silver rings. By doing this the strings tensed and Shin'ya would feel a ripping force trying to rip of his swordarm, or at least strongly damage him. At the same time, because the strings were not elastic in any way, Ran pulled more on the strings in an attempt to pull Shin'ya closer to her. It would seem convenient to him to be pulled closer to Ran since there was an incoming spear and an splitting attack coming from both sides. He would have no where else to go since the string would not break without at least a great amount of force.

The hand that held the strings also was infused by Shunko which had been, as soon as Ran had grabbed the strings, extending its reach to the wires that Ran was holding. Electricity rapidly charged at Shin'ya. With Shin'ya coming at her Ran raised her other hand which would soar forwards to lay an heavinly pumped up Shunko punch on his face.

Familiar Rage

Shin'ya did not go towards her, instead he pushed off of the air and jumped above her where his darkening eyes glared down at the foolish kenpachi. "Die Ran-taicho" for a moment his voice would sound strangely familiar to the woman and then a spiralling torrent of reiatsu would crash downwards towards the woman. It would not only incinerate the strings but it would obscure both individuals in deadly spirals of energy. Damein's attack would miss but Shin'ya would not be unscathed either. Ali's attack would also miss and likely head straight towards Ran as that was who was in it's directly flight trajectory.

Unexpected Action

Reacting quickly and with the inner assistance of kin'iro, his sword spirit, his blade suddenly expanded back into it's ring bladed state and spun like a drill to tear the energy blade of Tenebrae apart. However, this would make his strike inaccurate and so if his blade pierced he would miss the kill shot and only stab the false god in the left shoulder. This meant the chains would not protect him against the commander's piercing blow.

Rise

Artori Sentio-Rise

His blade had also missed Shin'ya, but not entirely for as the torrents of reiatsu were released Artori thrust his blade once and then retreated back in a normal shunpo. This action caused a drill of reiatsu to pierce the spiral and head towards whoever it could hit....

Resu-fu, Aria

Watching in silence Resu-fu felt tears form in her eyes and a voice begin to call louder than normal...but still too quiet to hear. Why was it she felt so...disconnected?

[Ganryu]

Aaron Flamberge

Aaron Flamberge slowly started to stir on the couch he'd been let down on.

"Uhg.....Feel like a bad hangover....."

He looked at his fingers..... they looked oddly dainty.

"What?"

He sat up, and felt a jiggle in his chest, and after a minute of groping.

"I'm not quite sure whether to be amused or horrified."

It took him a minute of sitting to realize it was a gigai, and he let out a sigh of relief.

"Well, I'm alive at least.... thanks to whoever-"

As he moved his head up to look through the house, he saw Kagura and Sakei.

"OH HELL NO!"

His outburst was the first of his to be noticible through the house.

"Kagura Hirenka, Sound Queen of the 12th Division."

He had a few flashbacks to his days as a brash youth in the Soul Society. Mistaking the newly appointed captain for a cheap hooker in a bar was not a good way to start off a professional relationship..... especially when he had kept that part of his personality secret from the entirity of the Seireiti, save for the 2nd captain, who he never really had a love for either. 'Twas even worse in the fact that he too was a brand new captain at this point as well.

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Universe- Kai-Asa

Running up to Kai-Asa, a bloodied shinigami screamed.

"You're a shinigami, help us! There's hollows everywhere that way! They won't last much longer against them!"

He pointed to where he had just run from, a fair distance to the East.

Ever since the Tenebrae incident 50 years ago, hollow attacks had been on the rise. With less shinigami, they could afford less shinigami to patrol, and with that, the number of hollows continued to increase as souls couldn't be guided fast enough.

It seemed an uphill battle against them ever since that time.

In the distance, the cries of many hollows, enjoying a bloodbath, sounded.

Universe- Base of Tenebrae

Inside the base of Tenebrae, in the 66th district of the Rukongai, many complex figures seemed to dance real-time.

The man who called himself god had set up kido to monitor the world itself. They mapped out areas of high concentration of reitsu, showing it almost like a hologram combined with what looked similiar to a heat sensor, designed to show power.

The only thing binding the Army of Heaven together was power. Each member had a different reason for being apart, but the one thing they all had in common was their insatiable pursuit of power. It seemed only natural that they should seek out areas of high powers.

The kido monitor was currently displaying the events in hell, as that was where the current highest show of power was.

However, the particles started realigning themselves, a rather high pitched sound going throughout the base to alert as such as it recreated the events of another area.... Hueco Mundo.

With the burst of power from 13, and presence of Ambrigio and the Espada, it quickly became the new hotspot.

Outside, the alarm was quick, but noticeable. It was set up to gather attention, but not to be annoying.

Tomas Wyvern

Tomas sat regaining his strength atop this throne. It wasn't as much he didn't move, as he couldn't. He was sapped beyond compare.

Dead silence.

All of his servants had fled at his command, and that accursed voice was no longer sounding in his head. It was nice.

He hadn't heard the sweet sound of nothing in a surprisingly long time.

It gave him time to think.

The Espada are gathering under a new leader.... but what now? Do we continue our eternal feud with the shinigami? Hmpf. So long as I can leave my legacy on the world, and everyone can recite the name Tomas Wyvern, I will have left this world in peace.

What more is there?

That question ran perturbing through him.... what more was there? Had be been limiting himself. He thought back to Ambrigio's guiding words to him.

"Tomas, say what you will, but I see good things ahead of you. You, and your glory. You need only open your eyes to the possibilities."

It felt like it was eating away at him.

Open my eyes to what possibilities.

His brow furrowed as he thought of it. The silence was much appreciated, as he had time to organize his thoughts, but the more he thought, the more confused he became.

Tenebrae Metus

Tenebrae was almost taken aback when Naratsu shattered Tenebrae's sword.

If it wasn't for his experience past of battles, the mighty Tenebrae would have fallen then and there.

But something of his reflexes of the past caused near immediate action, through his kido, he still had an escape. An incoming blade was a smaller target than an incoming drill.

Sajō Sabaku would no longer suffice as a defense, but would make a nice clog for, say, a drill.

And so Tenebrae changed direction of his spell from wrapping around his chest to flying forward into Naratsu's spinning blade, working quite well in some respect.

The chains jammed into what was the drill, stopping it cold, and wrapping the blade mostly in chains, making it unable to cut.... but in Tenebrae's haste, an oversight had occurred.

The fast rotation of the blade has sucked the chain in faster, and but doing so pulled faster towards his chest, the tip at least not covered.

A line of blood fell onto the ground below as the tip glanced Tenebrae, making it a good inch into his chest, and cutting horizontal across his chest, leaving a profusely bleeding wound. It wasn't fatal, but it was a wound nonetheless, inflicted on one-on-one combat against a man whose might shook the earth.

"To touch a god...? Tch. JUDGEMENT!"

Tenebrae cupped his hands in a desperate counter, gathering the reitsu from the air in a burst.

The amount gathered was beyond even Tenebrae's control, destabilizing and bursting almost instantly from being gathered, causing a massive explosion to rock both back, gathering distance between the two.

From the dust of the after burst, Tenebrae panted. The black mist around him faded as his bankai ended. Whether he had let it go or it had dispersed was a mystery in itself.

Burns covered Tenebrae. It had blown his robes off his body, leaving his chest and torso explosed, revealing the sculpted body underneath.

It took him a minute to regain his composure, the regal air around him that had seemed a constant was gone, and his hair blown frizzled from the blast. Burns covered his body. And he barely was catching his breath. He looked.... mortal. On the bright side, the burn cauterized his cut.

"Naratsu Seionyou..... a name to be feared. Very well, I shall mark this down a s defeat. I will meet you in full form next time I fight you. It is no longer a battle of immortal vs. mortal, but immortal vs. immortal. You could very well join me with such strength like that."

With that, Tenebrae seemed to blur and disappear as he used Asase to escape the battle, leaving the likely equally injured Naratsu at the bottom of hell.

Tenebrae appeared on the 1st level, where Shin'ya continued to have his fun.... that is until he seemed to lose his handle on things, it appeared to Tenebrae that he had rather damaged himself as well in his torrent of energy.

"Bakudō #77. Tenteikūra"

Tenebrae used kido to sound himself to Nox, the shinigami around him.

"We have lost it seems. The shinigami are worthy of praise from the gods it seems. Shin'ya and I retreat now, you have battled us and won. It seems you are strong afterall, the only interest to me. Perhaps you all are stronger than the generation before. I would certainly hopeso."

Tenebrae held his hand out, still breathing hard as he opened a portal to his side.

"Shin'ya, we're leaving."

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Seionyou, Naratsu-Victory?

Burns having engulfed most the upper half of his body, Naratsu was panting, obviously tied out by the whole ordeal. Yet, Tenebrae still stood...that had been lucky, if whatever that attack had been had been allowed to charge he felt that he would be more than just burned at current point. Then, then tenebrae admitted his defeat, but only of the battle...not the war.

Attempting to rush, Tenebrae vanished into thin air, leaving Naratsu on the lowest level of hell where who knows what dwelled. He did not like it, but he needed a moment's respite before he could travel to the aid of his comrades. The Captain Commander was tire-...no exhausted and he needed rest, hopefully for once hell would be gracious enough to oblige.

(Shin'ya)Nox and The Lords of Night-Pain and Disappearance

As his hand, wrist, and the majority of his forearm was ripped from his body, he winced in stark pain. Pain...he had not felt pain for a long time, he could barely remember the last. Then, then Tenebrae arrived but he had not spoken until after Shin'ya's nect actions.

He shot downwards, rending apart the threads and linking them with his reiatsu. He made contact with Ran and the pain would be so heavily inflicted upon her that she would likely collapse. Then he let go, he had taken nothing from her, or had he? He vanished again, but this time he did not seem to reappear. Tenebrae would have his reply, it was in Shin'ya's actins...nothing more, nothing less.

Damein would also find himself aching...all but the rookies would find themselves damaged by the incredible level of shocking pain so deep that it literally pierced the soul itself, what had he done? In he ears of all surrounding, the word that would touch them to their soul would be this "Weep."

Lariel Quin

Hearing the beckoning call, Lariel turned to look towards the base and frowned, using his speed technique to arrive within promptly. It was there that he surveyed the kido map. "What..." he said his eyes widening as he realized the significance of this change. "...the consequences to this could be, catastrophic." He shook his head, frowning at this new occurrence, things seemed to be going downhill...fast.