The Night Begins
Sagamiyama - Sakuhana Park
Saturday Night
The sound of a horde was heard before it was seen. Hollow of all shapes and sizes came into view as the street lights illuminated them, an unseen army heading towards the park, and with intent it appeared. Why here? Why in such a horde? Their stampeding footsteps would be drowned out soon over the thundering lumbering steps of another behind them. Sporting a mask that appeared like a crown with two horns, and hair of red, billowing behind it like a cape... That had to be Regalhorn. Normally Hollow only had bone around their mask, but Regalhorn seemed to have armor-like bones growing at various spots on its body.
As the army of hollow came into view at the entrance of the park, they stopped. Regalhorn stood up straight and crossed his arms, looking upon the lowly Shinigami before him. He had to be at least a dozen feet tall.
"Gehehaha, it seems we have a welcoming crew, and a meager one!""Excuse our lack of preparation, but we weren't expecting you here tonight. Maybe come back in a couple more nights and you'll have a better welcome",
"Hooh, some bite on this one", the grinning mask of Regalhorn almost made it seem like he enjoyed this display of resistance. His golden eyes would look down upon the rough-house man.
"My lord, my lord, the ones behind him look tasty don't you think?" A smarmy rat-like hollow piped up, getting on all fours getting ready to pounce on the inexperienced shinigami.
"Yes yes! Easy prey! The big one of course is all yours-" This one, a hollow with an unusually wide mask would turn to see Regalhorn's fist crater through.
"No one gives my orders, do you all understand? I decide who eats who", the other Hollow keeled to him as they bowed almost in unison. As Regalhorn got back up, having had to kneel to kill his blabbermouthed subordinate, he turned to the group of Shinigami.
"Now then, I am not convinced anyone in front is worth my horns", he crossed his arms, a burst of reiatsu would emit from him as it did.
"You lot, have at them, let's see what they're really worth!, the horde of hollow cheered in glee as they without restraint dashed into the park, a large group would be upon them. More than a dozen were about to crash into them all at once. Even with their training, such a horde was but a wall of Hollow.
"Ride, Douroki Douji!" A crash of lightning would erupt right at the face of the Hollow swarm, thinning their numbers immediately as they were all caught in the electric crash. When the smoke cleared, Ouga was no longer holding a wooden sword, but instead, a spiked bat. The handle was adorned with the wrappings more typical of a katana, as well as a seemingly innocuous tsuba. Even though it was wrapped that way it seemed messy and haphazard.
The Hollow that were not caught in the blast though would run right at the other inexperienced shinigami, but they were much more manageable. What could have been a fight against four or five hollow at once per person, was now closer to one or maybe two. Now was the time to make use of their training and demonstrate their ability.
There were about five hollow that made it past Ouga, one that flew with a bat-like mask, two large humanoid types that were pretty typical, though one was hunched over and the other had larger arms than normal, one quadrupedal dog-like Hollow as big as a horse, and a lizard-like Hollow with claws and a tail.
The Shakkaho's inordinate power output caused a unique kind of misfire, where it could barely do it's job, but instead turned into a kind of flashbang. The blast itself was not strong, after all it was a binding Kido, but it's unstable output caused it to burst into light that lit up the entire street for but a moment and in that moment Sara would manage to turn the corner and out of sight.
"Ahhh, don't run my sweet... Embrace oblivion, and join with me...", realizing she was running, Veilcaller began to slip into the darkness once again.
"After all, the dark is where we both belong... Where all belongs"---
All would seem quiet for Sara for awhile, she had a chance to set
something up, but how much of a chance? How much time? It was certainly much shorter than what she thought. The Hollow had some interesting abilities, and given their nature it was likely this Hollow was quite old. Still that didn't matter at the moment, after all, given it was able to make her run in circles in a cloned neighborhood, what did she think simply running to get a chance to lay a trap would do?
From the shadows behind Sara, she'd hear it again, it's song. However instead of Veilcaller appearing first like before, cloth-like tendrils would shoot out to attempt to strike or grab at her.
The choice to attack first, it was hard to tell if it was foolhardy or smart, the line between both were razor thin at times and this was one of them. As Mitsuaki attempted to move behind the Hollow, it's own speed made evading his attempt rather simple. All it needed to do was move forward too, as the two glanced past each other. Now facing each other once again after arriving at swapped positions, the Hollow Aquafang would make it's move, initially charging forward at first, only to move to the side, disappearing from view as it slipped behind some of the playground equipment. In that moment of losing vision it'd climb up in a bound before pouncing from above, however it's leap was not a typical one as it began to spin in the middle of it while extending it's bladed fins, turning into a bladed drill as it came down upon Mitsuaki.
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