With the Captains suffering casualties and heavy injuries on their side, all hope seemed to be lost... until Shinji Hirako appeared, along with the rest of the former Shinigami. Though the aid of the Vizards certainly helped to draw the battle in their favor, it seemed Aizen's power alone proved too much for them.
"Bakudo number eight," Sanmaru recited, "Geki." He held out a hand for the kidou to form in, blocking the girl's kick that way. However, in that briefest of moments, he lost his grip on the kidou binding Kaki. The girl freed her arms, and suddenly gained an idea.
Acting sure could come in handy. She didn't have to change her expression, only her voice. The second she was free, she started to cackle like a hollow and she lunged at Hotaru, tackling her, despite whatever protests her sister might give. Kaki was the one with raw force, even if Hotaru should have been stronger.
She pushed Hotaru down towards her cave, and leaped down below her to stop her from falling. From this angle, no way would those two see them. She had to stop Hotaru long enough to speak to her.
"Hotaru," she whispered, her voice doubled over by the mask. "I have an idea. They won't hunt you if you're dead. But they may look for a body. So we won't give them a body. Give me three seconds, I can tell you my plan. You'll hide your reiatsu, and I'll pretend that I lost control and ate your soul."
"If it works, you can kill me afterwards. If it doesn't, I tried. Which bakudo was it? Kyako? I think you can use it to hide. Just... this isn't time for fighting between us, Hotaru. Please just go along with it." She waved her hand over her face, revealing a pair of pleading crimson eyes. "Please. Trust me just this once. If I'm going to lose another family member, it should be because I died, not because you died."
Character List "Let's eat, Grandma!" "Let's eat Grandma!" Commas save lives.
Daigoro stood there, silently watching the man as he changed into a wolf-like form. It... appeared that he was encountering another being with a wolf form. Which meant that he could go all out on this guy... He sighed, and laughed softly.
His eyes then suddenly opened, as he was tackled down by Samyeru from behind. He had a quick Sonido, that was for sure. He slid along the ground, and rolled back up, red hair flowing behind him. He slid on his feet, and turned to face the "man."
"You turned into a grey wolf? Really? Interesting... Then I shall show you the true form of my zanpakuto. As your form interests me, I shall simply reveal it to you..." The Shinigami smiled, and held his zanpakuto up in front of his face, the tip pointing skywards.
"Ban..." Daigoro flicked his zanpakuto down to his side.
"Kai!"
The blade suddenly doubled in length once more, making it a total of four feet long. He grinned, and a cone of Reiatsu flew from the doubled blade, covering his torso, bleaching his hair pure white, and making his features more like that of the wolf.
"Runa Ookami." Daigoro stared at the wolf-man for a few seconds, and smiled.
"Time to put our wolves to the test..." Daigoro drew a circle in the air next to him, and etched the kanji symbol for white into the centre of it. The symbol glowed, and a howl erupted from the middle. Slowly, but surely, a large white wolf, twice Daigoro's height, stepped out of the circle, and onto the battlefield in front of the now white-haired Shinigami.
He grinned, and waited for Samyeru to make his move.
Hotaru was surprised when Kaki tackled her and started to drag her away. "What the hell? Let me go." She protested struggling to get out of Kaki's grip, but it was useless. While Kaki was wearing that mask, she was far stronger then she normally would have been.
She was reluctant to hear out Kaki, but seeing that she wanted to get those Shinigami off her back. She nodded to listen to Kaki's plan, thought her face was in obvious was didn't want to.
Meanwhile, Samyeru was distracting the stronger of the two Shinigami with some quick movements and the occasional hit. It was after a tackle that Samyeru witness Daigoro's activation of his Bankai. He was impressed, to say the least, and would have complemented Daigoro if he wasn't on the clock.
Samyeru eyed the wolf like it was a rival in his territory, he took a defensive stance, and stared him down. "Howl, Lobo Dios!" Once the words escaped his mouth, silver aura began to surround Samyeru, and took the shape of a wolf's head. Within the aura Samyeru's fragments disappeared, armor like material began to materialize on parts of his body.
His head gained a helmet the shape of a wolf''s head and a crescent moon on the forehead , the front two legs gained gauntlets each with a different phase of the moon on it, and a torso protector with a fur aligning the edges appeared on his chest. His armor wasn't the only thing that changed, his size nearly doubled, and his fur was longer and wilder. He gave Daigoro a look with his animal like silver eyes, and opened his mouth charging a silver ball. Once the Cero was fully charged, Samyeru fired the silver beam at Daigoro.
Inside the cave Hotaru finished hearing Kaki's plan and had to admit it was a clever one. "As long as I get to kill you without interruption, it's a deal." She said, then she started to chant to incantation of the bakudo spell. "Bakudo 26. Kyakko." With the spell done, her presence was completely hidden from anyone you would want to find her.
Samuii had been napping at the base of one of the many mountains in the area. Causing mayhem and havoc on the population could get so tiresome at times. For some reason, the arrancar managed to sleep through the entire ordeal on the mountain, until she felt large, consecutive bursts of reiatsu from the mountain top. Her eyes snapped open, and she grinned. One of them was an obviously familiar signature. Goro-goro-kun...[/i]
She took the scarf that she used as a pillow and wrapped it around her neck, before sonidoing up the mountain, quickly arriving in the middle of two ungoing battles.
"Oh look, the party already started!" she muttered, taking a spot behind a rock wall. She would've liked to join in on the fun, but that would be too much work. She'd just watch and wait until someone killed someone else and made her life so much easier.
When the vizard girl suddenly tackled Hotaru, Samuii's eyes grew. Woah.
"Well, did we have fun today?" she said, appearing behind the bespectacled shinigami, "I mean, come on! Two girls at the same time? Guys like you love that kind of stuff!"
Turning to face the new creature, Sanmaru blindly slashed at the girl, flinging a portion of acid off of his blade and at the arrancar. He was taking no chances here, and anyone who smelled like a dirty hybrid would be treated like a hollow. That's how Sanmaru decided to do things.
"Hollows," Sanmaru muttered in a monotone, "should be dealt with as hollows."
They were to be eliminated. Sanmaru didn't care who they were, if they were a threat to Soul Society, to Sereitei, they had to be eliminated. That was the system that had protected Sereitei for many years, and would continue to protect Sereitei for many more years.
Kaki, meanwhile, nodded in relief to Hotaru. "Thank you, Onee-san."
She turned, drawing her mask from thin air once more and leaping back up the mountain. Time to lose it, she thought. This wouldn't be too hard. No facial expressions, just laughter. She started to laugh as though she had done something wrong, she let her reiatsu run wild. She would be exhausted after the fact, but she had to hold on just a little bit longer.
She jumped at the acid-using shinigami from behind, throwing a kick for his head and then a second strike for the back of his neck. Neither kick connected, as Sanmaru turned his head to the side to avoid it, and spun to avoid the second.
"What's wrong, shinigami?" Kaki cackled. Inwardly, she prayed. She prayed that this would work. "Can't take on a normal hollow?"
Character List "Let's eat, Grandma!" "Let's eat Grandma!" Commas save lives.
Daigoro grinned, and simply stood there as the wolf bounded around his body and stopped the attack from the Arrancar. But it was a powerful attack, and Ookami's body was shrinking rapidly. Something had to be done - and Daigoro knew what he had to do. He stood up straight, regained his composure, and used his zanpakuto to trace a cirle in mid-air next to him. He smiled softly, before etching the kanji symbol for black in the centre of the circle. The symbol and circle began to glow, and Daigoro shouted,
"Black Moon, Attack!" The symbol glowed with a deep black glow, and a black light covered the wolf, which howled and grew back to it's original size. It's fur turned a deep jet black, and it's red streaks turned white. It then howled once more, turned into energy, and forced itself into Daigoro's zanpakuto, causing the blade itself to glow black. Daigoro grinned, and jumped right up to the Arrancar. He pulled back his zanpakuto, was about to strike Samyeru, when he noticed it. Out of the corner of his eye.
No! Fuck, no! Not her, not here, not now! Daigoro was thinking to himself when he saw Samuii. He couldn't attack her, he couldn't fight her. But if he didn't, Sanmaru would call him a traitor, and most definitely report him to Soul Society.
One thing at a time. This guy first. Daigoro thought to himself, and went to attack Samyeru, realising that he wasn't in front of him anymore. Daigoro sighed. He'd missed. He landed on the ground, turned around, and went in for another attack, trying to hit the Arrancar.
Samyeru watched Daigoro's wolf take the hit from his Cero, which was surprising. It was far ore durable then he thought, but he noticed that it shrank some, which must mean it wasn't as strong as he thought it was. However it seemed that he couldn't test the strength of the white wolf, as Daigoro changed his attack.
The wolf changed from white to black and retreated back into Daigoro's Zanpkauto. Something was different about this attack, the black blade came at him, but for a second Daigoro got distracted. It was just the chance that Samyeru needed and sonided away from the black blade. However, he was hit by the tip of the blade, feeling a small portion of his reiastu being drained from his body.
That blade was needed to be avoided, so as he came out of his sonido he stood in his human form. Looking like an armored warrior with a wolf tail, his right foot began to glow. He kicked forward in a mid sweep, the glow on his foot extended the full length of his kick, and it formed a large crescent shape energy slash.
"Luna creciente barra!" At the release of his kick, it moved toward Daigoro at incredible speed. He then took a defensive stance, waiting to see what Daigoro would do next. It was about then he smelled the other Arrancar, he spotted her messing with the other Shinigami.
It relieved Samyeru that he didn't need to fight both him and Diagoro. However, something was off when he couldn't feel Hotaru, distracted he sniffed around trying to at least find her scent. He smelled a faint part of Hotaru in Kaki's cave, which gave Samyeru some releif, but his concern for her caused him to get distracted from the fight.
Samuii laughed and did a back-flip in mid-air, dodging the shinigami's sword. "Seriously? Not even a tiny reaction? Are you gay or something?" she asked lightly. Obviously, she didn't really care about the seriousness of the situation, because in reality, she was only in it for the kicks.
Now that she thought about it, she couldn't feel Hotaru's reiatsu anywhere anymore. When the vizard child, the one that Hotaru wanted to kill, appeared and cackled like a crazy woman, Samuii had a feeling that the poor shinigami was mauled to death by her sister's inner hollow. How ironic.
Well, since Hotaru was probably dead, she really didn't have any business in the fight anymore. And if she fought against this weird shinigami, then there would be a chance that she would have to fight against Gorokii if that other arrancar died. She couldn't just attack him, for some reason unknown to her, it would feel wrong.
But maybe, if she finished the fight, killed the shinigami quickly, and then flee, she wouldn't have to go against the (other) redhead. Yes, that would be the easiest way. Besides, she had an out-of-control vizard on her side (...probably). It should be quick enough.
Unsheathing her sword in one swift move, Samuii pumped her reiatsu into the blade, making it glow a dull red. "El Pulso," she said as she charged towards the shinigami and swung the sword at his mid-section.
It was damn-near painful for Kaki to continue on like this. The mask wanted to shatter, but she had to bullshit it. She couldn't reveal that she was bluffing--not yet. The arrancar seemed to be an ally for now, attacking Sanmaru and landing a reiatsu-charged blow on his sword.
Sanmaru said not a word as his fight proceeded. At the moment, he could power over this one. If she used her hollow form, he would be in trouble. The man wasn't about to lie back or stand down, however. He still had a bit of kidou on his side.
But for now, his sword would suffice. This was a bad situation; the hollow child needed to be eliminated, the arrancar needed to be eliminated... So much to do, and only one person with the gall to do it.
"Sanseiu," blandly said Sanmaru as he swung his sword at the arrancar, aiming to sink the blade into her arm. He took into account that another few seconds would be needed to create the acid--that was dangerous.
He would have to fight with a handicap until his acid came back. However, he didn't seem to remember that Kaki was still there, still behind him, leaping up onto his shoulders and hooking her legs around his thin neck, whether or not the attack had hit.
She tried to cut off his air--just long enough to make it look like he died. She was going to make all sorts of trouble for these two, in any desperate attempt to save Hotaru--even if it was at the cost of her own life.
Sanmaru choked slightly as he tried to throw the girl off of him. She was too strong at the moment, and he wasn't having any of it.
{Note: Sanmaru's current tier level is mid average, due to not having his acid. Kaki will remain at mid weak until the end of the plot, as she obtains shikai due to the ending of this plot.}
Character List "Let's eat, Grandma!" "Let's eat Grandma!" Commas save lives.
Daigoro grimaced as the attack came for him. It was quick, and he was unable to hit it to absorb it in time. So he moved out of the way, as quickly as he could. Not quickly enough, it seemed, as Samyeru's attack brushed his left leg, and he hit the ground, rolling along. He went a while longer, and slowed to a stop.
"Ow, ow, ow..." The Shingami pulled himself up, and sighed. Seriously, what was this guy's problem? Daigoro spent more time on the ground than he did attacking, and that in itself, was a bad thing. He was beginning to falter slightly, but Daigoro had to finish this. He grimaced, and flash-stepped in an attempt to directly attack Samyeru. His right arm was already beginning to get some armour, and he was starting to slow down slightly. Daigoro came, closer, closer, and flash-stepped around the man, faking the attack.
He grinned, turning around and slashing, metal hitting metal, Daigoro's zanpakuto cutting into Samyeru's reiatsu, and the Shinigami jumped away, landing a good 10 feet from the Arrancar. He sighed, and moved his zanpakuto so that it cut the Reiatsu bond that was sucking some of Samyeru's reiatsu away. He sighed, and the armour grew up his arm to his torso.
Alright... Then he noticed the girl strangling Sanmaru from behind. He looked back at Samyeru, and saw that he was distracted, but Daigoro decided ot help his comrade first, and flash-stepped behind both of them, attempting to force his elbow across the side of the girl's head. The moment he had done that, and with a fleeting glance at Samuii, he flash-stepped back behind the still-distracted Samyeru, and attempted another attack.