- Hari Clan Rebellion Part Two: No Going Back -
"What the-"
The ground beneath Ursula and Fumio shook violently, giving Fumio a chance to roll out from under Ursula's foot while she tried to regain balance. "What is the meaning of this!!" Looking around, Ursula spotted a Spiked hammer before noticing that it was Souta who caused this. With a smirk set upon her face, Ursula looked into Souta's angered eyes. "Do you really believe you stand a chance against me Fushimaru? Kazuhiko couldn't even scratch me so what makes you think you can?" Fumio lifted his head to look up at Souta, annoyed that he had gotten involved since he didn't want him to yet... "I don't give a fuck about Kazuhiko not being able to scratch you! I'm not going to watch any more of this shit!! Kazuhiko needs to realise that we work best together." Ursula couldn't help but chuckle at Souta's attempt to stop her, meanwhile Souta held his hammer up. "All Of This Shit Stops HERE!" Bending his knees a little, Souta jumped forward into a sprint in which Rio followed suit, both Zanpakutos drawn but still sealed. Souta slowed down a touch, letting Rio run in front while looking at her as she passed. She looked back at him before both of them nodded their heads and focused back on Ursula. Ursula, on the other hand, just stood still and watched the two with a smug look painted on her face, deciding to humour the two by giving them her attention. Fumio also watched Rio and Souta, his eyes slightly wide before concentrating on lifting himself off of the floor and trying to stand.
Once Rio was close, she jumped high in the air, gaining Ursula's attention as the woman continued to smirk. Souta then jumped and slammed his hammer into the ground with intense force, causing the area to vibrate rashly. This threw Ursula off balance again, but it also resulted in Fumio falling back down onto the floor. While Ursula was trying to catch her footing, Rio held both of her Zanpakutos parallel while flying towards Ursula. In one swing, Rio cut across Ursula's cheek, chipping away a little more of the crystal. Landing, Rio hurriedly released her Zanpakutos. Ursula glared at Rio, swinging her sword aimlessly to cut the girl, however Rio dodged by jumping out of the way and high in the air. This gave Souta the signal to jump himself and slam his hammer into the ground once again, this time in a different area than before to throw Ursula even more off balance. "Dammit..." Ursula struggled to stop herself from falling since she paid too much attention to Rio to even notice that Souta had moved.
While in the air, Rio held her Kunai behind the hole of her Ninja Star, creating a pillar of crystal that grew out of the other side of the hole before she released it, sending the pillar heading straight for Ursula who was currently kneeling on the floor to keep her balance. As the pillar headed for her, Ursula lifted her left hand, her palm facing the point of the pillar before she caught it. The pillar had completely stopped moving at this point so Ursula leaned back and kicked it, causing the pillar to shatter upon contact.
Shunpo'ing to the floor, Rio watched Ursula with her one eye but didn't show any shock or surprise, unlike Souta. Once the millions of crystal shards had landed, Ursula leaned back up before standing. "Are you two finished?" The woman held a toothy, devilish grin while chuckling as she slowly began walked towards both Souta and Rio, dragging her blade across the floor behind her. The two prepared themselves as she began closing in. "That was more of an annoyance than anything that could cause damage!" Yelling as she was getting closer, Ursula swung her sword up, about to bring it down onto the pair just as Fumio appeared in front of them, causing Ursula to pause before chuckling once again. "You just don't give up, do you Prince? YOU WON'T STOP ME!" Resuming her attack, Ursula swung her sword down onto Fumio, however the latter blocked it with his own blade. Once the sound of clashing swords was heard, Rio jumped up and over the two as Souta lifted his hammer. Fumio then increased the amount of pressure he was pushing against Ursula's sword, trying to hold her attention to distract her away from the others, meanwhile Rio swung the chain of her Shikai over Ursula's face, bringing it to her neck before immediately pulling back in a bid to strangle the woman with it.
Ursula only kept her eyes on Fumio, her sword held in place due to Fumio's force while the chain stayed around her neck. "Prince, watch this~" She suddenly spoke, holding a smirk which confused Fumio for a second, but then... she let go of her sword with both hands. As her sword dropped to the floor, Fumio fell forward, his eyes wide as he aimed to cut through Ursula's crystal-coated shoulder, however he was stopped in his tracks when Ursula plunged her right hand forward and wrapped it tightly around his neck. "UNG!" As she began squeezing Fumio's neck with her right hand, she moved her left to her neck and grabbed the chain before ripping it forward and pulling Rio along with it.
Everything moved too fast for Souta to follow, leaving him frozen and unsure of what to do. Looking at Souta while he stood there, Rio yelled as she was being pulled. "DO IT SOUTA!" Souta promptly snapped back to reality, quickly jumping into the air while Rio swung her legs forward to land on Ursula's back, wrestling with the woman to pull her chain back. Meanwhile, Fumio had lifted his left hand onto the hand on his neck, trying to pry it off as he the life chocked out of him.
Souta then slammed his hammer into the ground, hoping this would work... however Ursula jumped. "That won't work anymore." Smirking, she suddenly forced Rio's chain forward. Due to Ursula jumping, Rio lost balance instead, ending up smashing head-first into the back of Ursula's crystal-covered skull. Once she felt Rio's impact, Ursula swung the chain along with Rio's body up and over herself and Fumio, smashing Rio straight into the floor. "H-Hue... ro... na" Fumio chocked out as Ursula landed onto the floor softly. Bringing Fumio's head closer to her's, Ursula looked him in the eye before using her free hand to once again grab and pull his hair, she knew he hated the feeling of getting is hair pulled since she used to do it alot. "She's nothing more than a traitor Kazuhiko. I told you, forget about her, forget about the both of them.... You should of obeyed me, then they both wouldn't of had to die." Taking her hand off of Fumio's neck, causing him to gasp for air, Ursula held him up by his hair alone. "You should of done as I said Princ-NN!" A sudden kick to her face made Ursula release Fumio. As the latter dropped, Rio caught him, looking up at a Crystallised Souta. "ENOUGH!" Souta yelled as he landed while Ursula rolled across the floor. Souta only stood there and watched her roll until she stopped; crystal spikes covering parts of his body, his eyes a cloudy silver and his voice gaining a demonic undertone.
Ursula leaned up on both of her elbows, not recognising the voice. Lifting herself to her feet with a straight face, she dusted herself off before actually looking at who interrupted her.... Visibly, her eyes widened from the sight but soon shrunk back to normal. "And what is this monstrosity?" She asked with a look of disgust before smirking in amusement at Souta's new look. Souta wasn't amused in the slightest, which showed when he didn't answer her question and just looked at her with anger. Within the next second, Souta abruptly sprinted for her, shunpo'ing left then right then left again before appearing right in front of her and throwing a crystal-covered fist towards her face, which she blocked with her left forearm. Souta then pulled his fist back and proceeded to throw fast punches at Ursula, with her blocking and dodging all of them. This only made Souta angrier, increasing his speed and extending small spikes out of his knuckles. Eventually, Souta managed to land a spiked punch on Ursula's stomach, cracking the crystal a tiny bit. Never lighting up, Souta started to throw spiked kicks to her stomach, landing the first one which caused her stomach to crack a little more before she jumped out of the way, avoiding all of the other kicks he threw, however he never stopped, only continued to get fast and stronger while adding more force to each and every movement, managing to get a few more hits in but not enough to start actually effecting her.
While Souta was holding his own against Ursula, Rio looked at Fumio who landed on her back when she caught him. Sitting him down gently, Rio turned to face him. "You Okay?" She asked as Fumio rubbed his cracked throat, the crystal that covered it had began falling off, revealing his bruised skin underneath. "I'm fine, thanks" Rio observed Fumio a little longer with a quiet grunt before looking at her Shikai, choosing to seal her Zanpakutos. 'She is crystal, therefore only stronger crystal attacks would effect her.... There's no point in relying on mine.' Looking back up, Rio noticed Fumio's eyes widen. Raising her eyebrow, she looked in the same direction as he did. "Oh no..." She gasped. "SOUTA!" Fumio yelled just as Rio took off, leaving him behind.
Ursula and Souta had continued to exchange blows and block each-other before Ursula unexpectedly grabbed under Souta's right arm, avoiding the spikes that lined the top as she sent a punch to his face, one with enough force to send him flying back. As Souta flew through the air, Ursula ran beside him, lifting her right elbow before elbowing him hard in the stomach, causing him to crash down in the floor. A crater formed under Souta as rubble covered his body. Ursula had jumped into the air and landed once the crater had finished forming, walking over to Souta to grab a handful of his fruity-coloured hair. She then threw him out of the crater, only to walk back over to him and grab his hair once again before lifting him up and wrapping her left arm around his neck to choke him, being mindful of the spikes that covered his back.
Instinctively, Souta raised both hands up, grabbing onto Ursula's arm to try and pull it off, however this was proving difficult... even more so when Ursula grabbed one of the spikes on his back and broke it off. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Souta screamed, making Ursula chuckle before growing intrigued. She originally snapped off the spike because it was too close to touching her, but it seemed Souta could feel these spikes. "Oh so that hurts? Hmhmhm~" Hearing Ursula's voice made Souta squirm, attempting to wriggle his way out out this hold, but then Ursula grabbed another one of his longer spikes and snapped it off. "FUUUCCCK!!! STOP!!!" Souta growled, continuing to yell and scream as Ursula continued to break off more of his spikes one by one which was excruciating to him... All the while, Ursula couldn't help but chuckle darkly, enjoying the cries of pain coming from Souta.
"Let him go." Rio appeared in front of Ursula and Souta, narrowing her eye dangerously at Ursula. Ursula looked up at her, moving her arms and hands from Souta's body before grabbing his hair and standing. Souta was unresponsive at this point, all of the pain throbbing throughout his whole body. "If you insist traitor~" Ursula then chucked Souta's body so he landed near Fumio, which Fumio then hurried to his side. Ursula would of been lying if she said that she wasn't having fun with these three, which is why she did as Rio said. "I guess I can prolong his death, after all, might as well deal with the weakest first~" Ursula chuckled before continuing to speak. "Your parents were cowards, weren't they~? But I must say, I would of thought they'd raise you with enough sense to know not to return here~ You've literally walked right into your death~" Rio didn't care for anything Ursula had to say and so ignored her, shunpo'ing before reappearing right in front of her face. Rio then kicked her right across her face, landing to Ursula's left. The woman turned her head to look at Rio with a grin before throwing a punch at the girl, in which Rio retaliated with pointing her right index and middle fingers at Ursula's hand. "Hadō #4. Byakurai!" Just as the pale blue orb charged, Ursula opened the palm of her hand, creating a crystal ball within the second Rio had fired, absorbing her attack. Rio wasn't shocked at this at all, in fact, she expected this reaction and so released her Zanpakutos quickly before standing still, completely still. "Ahh, I've been waiting for one of you idiots to fire something~ Here, have it back Umeko" Rio didn't move an inch as Ursula jumped back and threw the Hado orb at her. Seeing this, Fumio stood but then saw Souta's Crystallised form retract within his body. Souta wasn't able to move due to the pain, eventually passing out. Gritting his teeth, Fumio started to run towards the pair but it was too late to stop the orb.
Once Rio was hit with the orb, a large explosion consumed her whole body. This made Fumio halt his running, watching in horror. "AHAHAHAHAHAH!!! You're an idiot Umeko!" Ursula laughed at the scene, until a voice from behind her made her stop instantly. "Oh am I?" Rio was stood close behind Ursula, her right middle and index finger extended once more but this time pointing to Ursula's back, preforming a Tsukiyubi on her. Once Rio's fingers had made contact, Ursula went flying forward through the air with tremendous force. Immediately, Rio shunpo'ed into the air, an eye on Ursula's moving body while she spoke an incantation. "Ye lord! Mask of flesh and bone, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Truth and temperance, upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws. Hadō #33. Sōkatsui!" As Rio spoke, she held out the palm of her right hand, both Zanpakutos sealed and sheathed, aimed at Ursula as she generated a torrent of blue energy. Ursula's body had already rolled across the floor to a stop with her laying on her back, facing up to a large, pale blue torrent held by Rio before the woman fired it. Ursula watched Rio's attack close in, laughing madly.
Fumio had returned back to Souta's side and continued to watch Rio fight, however when Ursula began laughing as the Hado was fired at her, Fumio couldn't help but be confused since he knew that this attack was too strong for her to absorb... or more it used to be. "I WAS RIGHT THE FIRST TIME! YOU REALLY ARE AN IDIOT UMEKO!!" Ursula yelled as the Hado hit her, however instead of exploding, her whole body seem to of adsorbed all of the Hado... This made Rio's eye widen dramatically while Ursula continued to chuckle, still laying on her back while glowing a bright blue. "YOU DIDN'T THINK THAT MY BODY COULD ABSORB SUCH A STRONG ATTACK WITHOUT EXPLODING, DIDN'T YOU? AHAHAHAH! I'm at my peak! The most advance level of Crystallisation one could only ever dream of getting to! Hence why I'm stronger than you ALL!!" A layer of Ursula's body began pealing off, bending inwards and forming a medium-sized, glowing blue ball hovering over the middle of her torso. "HERE! HAVE IT BACK!" The ball shot at Rio, too fast for her to evade so instead Rio lifted up her arms, blocking her face with her forearms.
Rio was hit head-on by her own Lieutenant level, with the incantation boost, Hado which, as to be expect, caused a horrifyingly large explosion in the air... After some time, the explosion had expired, leaving behind a huge, thick cloud of smoke. Shooting out of the smoke clouds was Rio's body, falling and crashing into the floor. Instantly rocks and ruins around her fell on top of her.
After watching Rio crash into the ground, Ursula stood up, a toothy grin on her face as she stepped out of the hole her body had made. Making her way over to Rio, Fumio ran in her way. Ursula then stopped walking, her grin disappearing as she looked at Fumio. "Move." She commanded while staring straight into Fumio's eyes with an intimidating expression. Fumio only ignored her, his teeth grit and eyes glaring back at her as he lifted his sword, swinging it toward her chest. Ursula simply jumped back, dodging his further swings before sending punches to his already cracked torso. Growling, Fumio swung at her head, which Ursula dodged by ducking before grabbing his right wrist and swinging his body over her head then straight into the floor.
Fumio's back whacked the floor hard, however Ursula didn't let him go, instead she grabbed his sword with both hands, holding him down with her left foot on his right shoulder. Fumio tried to ignore his pain and moved his left hand to grab her foot, attempting to pull it off of his shoulder. "I've had enough of your misbehaviour. At first it was enjoyable, but now it's just annoying. You'll have to pay for your insolence with the deaths of Fushimaru and Umeko. Once they're dead, I'm going to start from the very beginning with you and permanently change you into what I want my personal guard dog to be." Ursula then began pulling, causing Fumio to grunt, trying to grip his blade's hilt tighter. Ursula only continued to pull, eventually breaking the sword out of Fumio's hand, which was joined to his body through a crystal casing over his hand and the hilt of the blade, practically fusing them together. Tossing Fumio's Zanpakuto aside, Ursula moved her foot from his shoulder to hover it above his stomach. "Learn from this Kazuhiko. You will learn from the deaths of your friends, just like how you learned from the deaths of your parents." With that, Ursula pounded her foot down, shattering the crystal covering almost instantly before her foot embedded itself into Fumio's stomach, causing him to cough up quiet a bit of blood. Ursula then proceeded to repeatedly stomp on Fumio's stomach, kicking him in the face every now and then. Blood streamed down the corners of Fumio's lips as well as more down his forehead.
"Remember Prince, you are under me and will always be under me. I'm giving you this one last chance. Disobey me again and I will not hesitate to kill you." Ursula kicked Fumio one last time in his right side, sending his body flying before it skid across the floor, stopping near Souta. His body was curved inwards when he had stopped skidding.
"... K-Kazu...hiko?" Souta whispered, opening his eyes. His vision blurred at first but soon focused as he looked over at Ursula smirking at someone beside him. Looking to his right, Souta found that she was smirking at a beaten and bruised Fumio. "Kazuhiko?!" He exclaimed in a panicked voice, dragging his body towards the guy.
"Well, now that he's been put down and I don't expect for him to get up again, time to dispose of the pest~" Ursula looked over to where Rio had landed, noticing that the girl hadn't gotten up yet, however she was moving so Ursula had to get to her soon before Rio had a chance to regain her energy. While walking towards Rio, Ursula held a smug smirk.
Rio groaned, pushing the various rocks that had fallen on her out of the way as she lifted the top part of her body. "Dammit.... I didn't know she could do tha-Unn..." Clutching her head with both hands, Rio was suddenly struck with a headache, her worse one yet... 'Fuck...' Throughout the three months, Rio's headaches continued to gradually grow stronger and come more frequent, however she managed to ignore them or atleast not let them effect her... Although this one wouldn't be so easy to shrug off... And before she could even try, Ursula's leg was heading right for her face. Reacting quickly, Rio jumped out of the way, glaring at Ursula as she launched for the woman when-"U-U... N-nn...".
Souta watched, eyes wider than ever before as he saw blood pour down Rio's body and onto the floor. "Huh?!... HUERONA!!!" He yelled from the top of his lungs.
"Having a rest, were we~?" Rio looked up, glaring at Ursula as her own teeth were grit. It turned out that when Rio launched for Ursula, aiming to kick her cracked torso, Ursula pierced her left hand into Rio's stomach. Rio lifted both of her hands and grabbed Ursula's to stop her from moving her left hand any further, coughing up quite a bit of blood in the process. Ursula just looked at her, moving her right hand to Rio's neck and squeezing it tightly before ripping her left hand out of Rio's body. Rio tried her best not to let any tears fall due to the pain she was put in, not to mention her headache growing even worse due to all of this movement.... Ursula only continued to watch Rio with a grin before turning around to face the other two and turning Rio in her hand so that the girl faced them also. Looking at the two boys sprawled across the floor, Ursula began walking towards them, holding Rio in place while the girl grabbed her hand again to attempt to loosen the hold while silently whimpering.
Ursula stopped walking once she had reached her blade, picking it up with her left hand before speaking to the two boys. "I think it's time to make an example out of the traitor, wouldn't you two agree~?" Souta only glared at the woman, his teeth grounded together with pure rage, meanwhile Fumio didn't response or even twitch. Ursula continued to grin regardless. "Heh, I'll take the silence as a yes~" Ursula squeezed her hand tighter around Rio's neck, causing the girl to struggle even more for air.
Ursula then lifted her blade up, the cutting edge eye-level with Rio. She titled the blade so that she could see Rio's reflection. "Ohh, I didn't even notice that your eye-patch is missing~ So that's what you've been hiding underneath it. Fushimaru's too soft to stab a crystal in your eye sooo~" Ursula looked up to Fumio. "I can only see Kazuhiko doing such a thing~ I would of been happy if he had finished the job. Looks like I'm going to be the one doing that." At this point, Rio couldn't struggle anymore... She let her body go limp in Ursula's hand, but she wasn't dead yet just trying to conserve as much energy as possible.... She refused to accept this as her fate. 'No... I must... find a way out of this.... K-Kaizo.... I have to complete the mission.... I have to see Kenta again....'. "K-Kai...zo... K... Ken....ta.... I... .... I'm... so... sorry" Ursula titled her sword again, ready and waiting to close in on Rio's face. "The traitor has friends huh? I'll remember that." Rio didn't stop her tears this time, letting both clear and bloody tears fall down her cheeks....
"...S-Souta" Fumio suddenly whispered, coughing up blood as he opened his eyes and looked at the guy. Souta moved his head to look back at Fumio, a faint smile on his lips. "Kazuhiko, you're alive, good.... but... Huerona" "I know.... I heard... Souta... my time has come" Fumio smiled weakly at Souta, however the statement confused the latter. "....What do you mean by that?" Raising an eyebrow at Fumio, the latter simply continued to smile weakly. "Kill me Souta... " Hearing this shocked Souta... Both of his eyebrows shot up before they dropped as he narrowed his eyes. "No." Souta's response was stern, straight to the point... Although Fumio continued to smile. "You have to Souta.... It's the only way... to save Huerona... and.... I want you to..." Souta shook his head. "Shut up! I'm not doing it, I'm... I'm thinking of something so don't distract me. I'll save her... somehow" Fumio chuckled before coughing a little more. "... You can save her by... killing me and taking my power.... You know that's the only way.... So choose Souta, me.... or Huerona...."