Nicias Askani

Bleach: A New Dawn

Gio spent the rest of the day lazing around. He felt bad for Kurisa's kid but the kuchiki clan had a strong legacy so he figured he'd be fine. It was his own squad that occupied his thoughts. He knew that he would trust and follow moks training regiment so there wasn't much to worry about. If juki called him in to be a captain he must know what juki expects from the shinigami. In truth he really couldn't do anything until that got sorted out. Technically he had asked for a couple days but it seemed evident that 1 was all he was going to get

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After taking a minute to gather 11 of her butterflies Sinai and Alucard were off in hot pursuit. The coward who ran away had gotten pretty far, but he was still within range. Normally she wouldn’t be able to sense him but because she had planted a butterfly on him when Alucard bit him, it was like had a honing signal to follow. It lead them to a cave behind a waterfall, how cliché. Somewhere in there was the boss of the bandits. She had no idea how many could be in that Cave, or how far it went but she had to go in now. Crouching low she entered the cave with Alucard right on her heels. Slowly they ventured into the depths of the cave. Around a corner she could see a flickering light from a flame. She moved to a rock to hide behind as the holder passed by. She jumped on him. Butting him in a sleeper-hold with practiced perfection. Alucard even caught the torch before it fell to the ground. She took it from him and set it on the rock so it would continue to burn. The continued onward into the darkness.

Sinai peeked around the next corner and found several souls gathered together. At first glance she counted four, but then another joined them from an area beyond.
“boss is Pissed,” the new comer explained to the other four. “and Clint is saying some little girl and her dog jumped them. We knew he wasn’t going to last long.”
As the others talked quietly amongst themselves Sinai had to come up with a plan. She had been quiet up until now but there was no way she could get past all five of them quietly. Even if she managed to sneak past them, they would be blocking her exit on her way out. So she had to deal with them now. After coming up with a plan she reached into her shikhakusho and touched her butterflies. She kept them in there so the wouldn’t be seen. She could only shift to at a time, but one was on the otherside of this crowd already.
The butterfly shifted into a small ball in her hand, as did the one attached to the coward that ran away. Sinai chucked the one she was holding around the corner and two small explosions went off. The weren’t enough to kill anyone, but it could create mass panic.

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Several minutes later Sinai and Alucard stood over top of 4 unconscious souls and one genuinely terrified one. She held a hatchet to his throat just as he had done to her not too long ago. For a group of bandits they weren’t all that great. It was clear they were using the fear they invoked to do their job without resistance. “I am going to ask you this once, if I don’t like the answer” she raised her arm and brought the hatchet down right next to his ear with a loud thud “I move to my left.” She didn’t bother to ask if he understood. If for some reason he didn’t understand, he soon would. “what do you do to the children?” Sinai asked
“uh um uh” the man stuttered which only caused Sinai to raise her hatched arm “no no no no! boss like them. Boss likes them” he answered frantically but her arm continued to rise “no no its not like that. Not like that he doesn’t like them like that. He keeps them…most of them “
“what do you mean most of them?” Sinai asked leaving her arm raised
“h-h-h-he. S-s-sold a c-c-couple. To rowdey... I swear we never kilt one. “
“how many have you taken”
“uh 16!” he yelled as Sinai swung the axe down half way to scare him.
“is this boss of yours the one who told the townsfolk to start sacrifices?”
“I don’t know nothing b-b-bout that. Swear. “
Unfortunately she was inclined to believe his ignorance. She swung on him anyway, the hatchet skinning his ear. She took a step back “your boss, is he The Evil One?” she asked him in a dark quiet tone. He nodded as a light wafted over them. Some men from the town. She looked at them as they held their torches “do you recognize any of these men?”
“no” they all answered
“good. These are the ones that have been stealing your children.” She said as she turned and started walking away
“where are you going?”
“to put an end to this.” She retrieved her Zanpakuo from Alucard before they both Shunpo’d off in pursuit of the one that got away

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“Alucard, Alucard” Sinai called after the dog as it bound off away from her, with her zanpaukto. He led her towards what they had both sensed. “come back Alucard” she cried as she got closer to the location. Then She tripped and Alucard dashed away. Sinai curled up in ball on the ground and started crying. “Alucard…come back” she repeated over and over again until her heard something. When she looked up she genuinely screamed. A hollow like mask was right in her face. It took everything in her not to swing. Instead she tried to back away but backed into something else. “no!” she screamed trying to get away while one grabbed her arms, attempting to force her to be still. It wasn’t until a blade was put to her throat that she shut up. With wide teary fearful eyes she looked at her would be assailants. 6 figures, souls, in Large hollow like masks and cloaks. “please no” she wimpered. To them she looked like a harmless girl, they probably thought she was one of the residents of the town. They thought she was easy prey.
They circled her, seeming enthralled by her fear, until one of them screamed out in pain. All of the masks turned in unison to see the furthest soul Trying to shake Alucard off of his/her arm. Everything went according to plan, with all eyes off of her, she made her first move. Grabbing the arm that held a hatchet to her throat with one arm and pushing it down she elbowed the soul in the throat. She then moved behind him taking his arm with her and bending it painfully as she dragged him head first into the floor. It was right about now that the would be predators figured out they were actually the prey. One of them broke off running away as she opened a fresh can of Whoopass. But that was ok, one of her butterflies had already been attached to that one. She could track it for a couple miles. But first she had some light work to handle

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So kurisa should I assume the answer is no?

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i need opinions.. I have finished writing out Sinai's side mission. i can break it down into about 9 more posts...or one really reallly long one. which should I do?

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As Sinai examined the body she noted that some of the knives were not precise punctures. To her that meant some of the people stabbing weren’t used to stabbing. Some of them however were very precise. Every wound had avoided major arteries, which prolonged the suffering. On top of that there were no wounds that didn’t have a knife sticking out of it so bleeding out was slow. It had to have been a slow and painful death, but for what? Why sacrifice the men, if the beast devours children? And the method, the cult like methodology and belief that it works. It didn’t fit together.
Sinai left that building as silent as she had arrived. She kneeled down beside Alucard “do you smell that Spider hollow anywhere around here?” she whispered and the dog started sniffing around. There was no evidence that it was here, no way it could get into any building and not leave damage. Her suspiscion in that regard was confirmed when Aulcard whimpered softly. She took that as a no and stood back up. With that out of the way Sinai moved on to other homes. Likewise they were empty, she figured that all the residents gathered together for safety. Whatever was going on she could believe they were terrified. But nothing explained the bloody scene Haruka had found outside the town.
Suddenly she sensed something, Just the same Alucard’s ears perked up. Something was coming from the south west. It wasn’t a hollow, she could tell that much. She looked down at Alucard with a devilish grin “how good of an actor are you?”

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Sinai looked down Alucard. who had shrunk again. there were far to many questions going on in her head to even begin to address but so help her god if he started talking. It would be good to have the canine with her though, her tracking skills weren't half bad but nothing beat the nose of a dog when dealing with regular souls. The two of them made their way back to the village " ok Alucard, here's the plan, im going to spread my butterflies around the village, they can act as sensors but since the souls around here dont have much spiritual pressure they will only be so effective. but you got a nose and ears that work 100 times better than mine. so let me know if you smell or hear anything out of the ordinary"

once they arrived the village was dead quiet. Sinai took out her Zankaputo "spread your wings. Cho-Seji" a dozen pink butterflies fluttered out from the light and scattered across the village. Sinai would be able to know if they found anything, but wouldnt know what it was until she checked for herself. There were no signs of a hollow attack so Sinai returned to the building where they had first encountered the residence. instead of checking the hidden door they had dissapeared behind she silently checked the 'sanctuary' where the body of the sacrificed still laid, impaled multiple times with blades of different sizes. She knelt beside the body looking closely at the knives without removing them. she wasnt sure if she should be relieved or troubled by what she found.

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how the hell is dropping it going to help figure anything out? Sinai asked herself. Presumably their mission was over with the death of the hollow. thinking back on the entire event the mission had required the intervention of both the lieutenant and the captain to complete so perhaps Sinai should just be happy to have survived. But she wasnt. earlier Haruka had found a bloody scene and suggested the culprit was either a messy eater, or had a lot of teeth.

instead of arguing with Haruka Sinai just nodded "and i agree, someone is pulling strings. I'd just like to make sure they aren't our strings ma'am. I'm going to go back to the village and at least make sure they weren't raided in our absence. I'll let you know what i find out." she began walking back toward the village but stopped "and i promise i'll be nice this time" she told Haruka before continuing

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"But Dont you think there were too many fancy things left behind. And very little damage. That's large a hollow wouldn't have been able to fit in the homes to steal or devour children. Seems like the hollow and what ever else was going on there were separate events. " sinai offered her opinion. There were too many unknowns still. Too many loose ends. All they could do now was go back and see what happened. Hopefully this spider was the hollow plaguing them and they had fixed one of the villages problems. But there were other matters that concerned her. Like what the truth of the entire situation was. Haruka probably thought sinai was thinking to much about it but she was just being thorough