Homecoming (Event, all Shini must post)

[superstar]

Well, Yukino was focused on getting a defense in the safer, better districs but, what good was a defensive if no one was going to attack? "Yukino! You're in charge of directing Squad 2's tactics! Focus on crowd control!" Soifon commanded Yukino. And like a puppet, she focused one thing, and one thing only, Nibantai's tactics. Yukino nodded at Soifon spled with Hikaru. '' Onmitsukidô! '' Yukino said, in a commanding voice. When the words escaped from her lips a bunch of men in black. ''Your only job is to assisinate all enemies. Don't be a coward and only attack people weaker than you, and don't be a fool, dont attack Aizen.'' She said in a rather soft voice.

Yukino was extremely calm, a factor which most shinigami needed during battle. The group of men in black nodded and flash stepped to the ghouls. The number of them was simply enormous, but the Omnisukido was skilled in asasination, nu matter what squad they were in. The number of the ghouls was slowly decreasing, but it was better then nothing. Yukino's shikai went back into its sealed state and she put it back on in her case.

Yukino wasn't in the 2nd division for a reason. She was a skilled hand to hand combat shinigami, even though she didn't use it alot in battle. A bunch of ghouls were starting to surround her, it wasn't a problem though. One of the ghouls foolishly decided to to jump on her, Yukino pointed her fingers at his neck, when her fingers and neck came into contact Yukino fingers simply penetrated his neck. More and more ghouls were coming she was killing and critically injuring them one by one with kicks, punches, tiger fist, and palm techniques.

She was killing so many, it wasn't even funny. But the number of ghouls kept on coming, its like Aizen was having birth to ghouls each time a shinigami killed one. Yukino was just about to take out her zanpakutou when- ''Dentatsu Shimasu , OijiroiSenritsu.'' An unkown voice said. As her zanpakutou glew and turned into a Guqin hybrid. She pulled the strings on her hybrid and swords molded from pure sound and spiritual energy flew at all of the ghouls attacking Yukino killing them.

Hikaru landed, as her shikai turned into her zanpakutou once again. '' State yourself. '' Yukino demanded, this wasn't anytime to play games, this girl could be an enemy, and her shikai proved to be deadly. '' Hikaru Kuchiki, Kido Corps. '' She said with a smile. '' Call me Sumairu [smile{s}]. '' Yukino didn't wonder why that was her nickname, she saw the everlasting smile on her, it was annoying. ''Watcha' name?'' She asked. '' Yukino Asahina, Nibantai Fukataichou, Nibantai Taichou Onmitsukidô. '' She stated.

''No time for talkin' we got ghouls to fight. '' She said with her smile still reaching her ears. Yukino didn't want to fight with her, but at a dreaded time like this she had no other choice.

[Ai]

Thousands upon thousands of brilliant pink sakura pedals of surrounded Rukia shielding her from Lucia's unqiue Cero, and as a swirling wave the sakura pedals they shattered its ice effect with ease. The countless numbers of sakura pedals flowed and receded almost like wild oceans waters back to their source, Byakuya Kuchiki. With placid stride and ever so serene gaze and overall disposition as he walked beside Rukia standing side by side with his sister.

The immense masses of sakura pedals swirling around both of them protectively ready to shield them from another possible incoming attack. Which assuredly came within the next instant as a massive ball of fire - a great wave of sakura pedals erected batting the ball of fire away and dissapating it into nothing more than fiery shards hailing back down to the ground below. Never looked to see whom the attack came from but he preceived it well-enough.

Who launched the great fire ball was the little pink-haired Arrancar, Vaaz, who stared at Rukia and Byakuya with those unblinking blood red eyes. She did not even look at the other Arrancar or the 3rd Espada and her Fraccion as she stated with her tiny voice, "I will help you... These are strong Shinigami... and another is on the way..."

Meanwhile, fighting off ghouls that ripped apart the defenseless fleeing citizens of the Rukongai, Sayuri darted her way over to help a group of citizens attempting to runaway but only to see them spliced open with one grand stroke of a halberd-like weapon with a mirrored crescent shaped blade at its end. Its wielder an incredibly tall, lanky black haired Arrancar - laughing like a sadistic maniac as he spotted more helpless citizen fleeing - he stuck out his tongue - bright yellow Cero begun to take shape its tip. From where Sayuri was she could see the number 5 tattooed on his tongue. Having read the reports - she knew him to be the 5th Espada, Nnoitra Jiruga.

Before the Cero could launch, Nnoitra's eyes popped open wide in painful shock as a sudden flying kick struck him square on the chin shutting his mouth and causing the incompleted Cero to explode within his own mouth. His head was rocked backward as he staggered a few steps back on his feet. With an enraged grunt he swung his massive weapon at who kicked in the face. Stopping the blade in mid-flight with bother her feet planting on its blunt edge, Sayuri rebounded off of it into a standing one-eighty twist blackflip landing in a three point stance a few meters away from him.

Nnoitra's eyes narrowed as he sneered at the little kunoichi before him while sneering at her in an enraged vexation, "Fuckin' little bitch...", he snarled and charged right for her swinging his blade at her once again. She leapt in the air to side over the attack - but the backside of the blade narrowly caught the bottom of her foot knocking her off-balance causing her to hit the ground with a little bit of a tumble. The gargantuan blade then stabbed at the ground where she was barely dodging its strike doing a backhand spring.

With a quiet inaudible mumble Sayuri recited, "Badou No. 26 Kyakko...", the light bent around the little kunoichi as she vanished from sight while the spell masked her presence and reiatsu.

"What the fuck--", grumbled Nnoitra, "Where'd the little bitch g--", but before he could finish a slash with blinding speed behind it ran straight across his back knocking him a step forward, but only for a knee to suddenly smash right into his face in the next instant. Backflipping back into a three point stance with her zanpakuto drawn Sayuri's eyes narrows slightly at the sight of Nnoitra... he was not even phased - his Hierro withstood her slash easily and the knee did not seem to do anything either. He grunted at her with an annoyed smirk, "No little girl's pigstick is going to cut me, little bitch.", he grunted unimpressed.

Sayuri's expression remained calm and humorless as she rose to a stand, showing no visible emotion as she surpressed them to keep her cool and focus in battle. She swung her wakizashi zanpakuto out to her right side - it begun to glow intensely bright icy cyan hue, and with a swing of her right arm as though she were cracking a whip or swinging a flail of some kind - the extended into a winding serpentine like length before revealing itself to be a kursarigama. Holding the chain of her Shikai kursarigama in both hands as she twirled its sickle end, Sayuri stared back at the Espada ready to fight another round.

The 5th Seat found herself in a direct confrontation with the 5th Espada...

[Lilly]

Lilly stopped attacking the zombies for a second and looked around. everyone had taken up battle with stronger foes and had released their zanpakuto's. She really didn't want to hurt the people, but there were captains out here and she couldn't dis-obey them.

"Burst, Uota Kin!"

Her sword bursted into water as it assumed its new appearance a pithfork-like blade with red fur around it, and an arrow head at the bottom, along with a small shield. She began cutting down more of the zombies, until she got to the end of the line she was cutting in. She blinked and turned around, she sent several of her watter bullets at the ghouls without even blinking. They punctured the bodies of them, and she closed in as she cut them down. The ghouls weren't strong but they had numbers, and numbers could defeat strength. She looked around even Unohana-sou taichou had arrived to fight.

The arrancar's were putting up a pretty good fight though she decide dthat she'd take the fight of hers somehwere different. She taunted a whole lot of zombies then ran through the forests ending up, at a baron land-scape with a lake in the middle. She stood there near the lake waiting for them to come. When they did the water rose and was sent in a giant wave cutting them in half then returning to the lake. She didn't know how she had missed it the first time, but she noticed an arrancar's rei signature. She stood in her battle stance ready to fight, yet hoping they weren't stronger than her.


Stepping out from the trees he looked at who this giant group of zombies were going to. They were slowly being cut down, by a weak llittle shinigami girl. He smirked then walked out, blending in with the rest of the zombies depite being tall. When she was nearing the finish of them he reached over and punched her in the stomach, throwing her into the lake. He sighed and turned around, it wasn't that much of a challenge for him. Barragan-sama would be waiting, he told him not to die again and not to disgrace him.

He would find that bald little punk ,that had shown to be no challenge, and that foul dog who had slain him the first time. First he'd beat the bald one again and toy with him a little. Then he'd find the dog, the 7th squad Captain as he had called himself. He'd make him pay, oh the ways he'd make him pay. He was going to punch him into little dog bones and take his skulls to Barragan-sama.

[rivalcycle18]

Beck dashed along the chaotic battlefield as fast as his legs would carry him, carving through undead, as they became obstacles in his path. The young Shinigami was heading in the direction of his captain, Kenpachi Zaraki, knowing that going to the source of the man’s recognizable reiatsu would surely lead him to a fight much more interesting than hacking away at mindless undead.

He soon arrived at the scene where the Shinigami and Arrancar were doing battle, attempting to catch his breath. This was surely no place for an unseated rookie, as he was among two Captains and six Arrancor, including a former Espada. Their power was intimidating; Beck would not let this stop him. Engaging any one of these opponents might as well have been suicide. The odds were only stacked further against him, as judging by his appearance he had been engaging the mindless souls of the departed for some time before this. His Shinigami uniform had several tears in it and a stream of blood ran down his face and over his closed right eye. If he had been injured in the fight against Aizen’s undead, how could be think to stand against an Arrancar?

The young Shinigami momentarily scanned the battlefield, there looked to be a possibility of three or four open opponents. The first opponent he locked his eyes on was the newly arrived Arrancar who had just attacked Captain Kuchiki, Vaaz. With little thought and regard for the fact that he was getting in over his head, he leaped into the air, drawing his zanpakuto as his feet left the ground. The reckless fool was not even going to release his Shikai to engage the Arrancar.

“You, Arrancar! I’m your opponent now!” he screamed, swinging his sword diagonally toward Vaaz with one hand as he closed in on her with increasing speed.

[taki]

Seki darted about the battlefield via shunpo trying to cut down as many of the opposing undead as possible and freezing others. She then sensed a familiar reiatsu and saw the beautiful petals and knew Byakuya-Taichou had arrived on the battlefield and with him several other captains had arrived. She smiled momentarily before returning to battle. She knew she was no match yet for the arrancar here especially the espada or the traitor captains. Due to this she decided to focus on cutting down as many of the undead as possible. She thought about which kidou would be best suited for the task and nodded.


She focused on her reiatsu and then palced her palms in front of her aiming for a large amoutn of the undead. She mumbled an incantation beneath her breath before declaring.

"Hado 54: Abolishing Flames." From her palms was launched a large blast of purple spiritual energy that incinerate multiple of the corpses. She took a few deep breaths and shunpoed out of the main battle for a moment to recover. The kidou had taken a lot out of her. She looked over the battlefield in distress. Despite the captains presence and the multiple shinigami the two sides were in a stalemate. She looked about. Several squads were still missing including the kidou corps.

It was then she heard a voice speak from behind her. "Storm the gates, Hauringuookami." There was a sudden burst of spiritual pressure and someone leapt over her. They glanced back at her. "Nice job with Hado 54." She said before jumping into the fray. The uniform this woman wore was not shinigami at all. In fact it was the robes of a shinto priestess. The woman herself had white dog ears and a white tail.

After observing the battle for a while Ikazuchi Raikou had decided to jump into the fray She had watched her fellow shinigami perform quite a difficult kidou to take out a few of the corpses, but it still wasn't enough. Ikazuchi had not drawn her blade despite it being in shikai. Her blade was not needed for her strongest ability. "Senkouboruto." She stated holding both her palms out. This generated a huge cero-like golden laser blast from each hand that launched through the corpse's. Some of the corpses's dodged the blasts however .They were not complete zombies it seemed. No wonder the battle was not going well. Even with such high power from the shinigami captains there were still hundreds of corpse's to destroy before they could get to Aizen and the main enemies.

She focused and drew her blade. It was a silver long sword with a black handle. She pointed it at a large group of enemy zombies. She did not speak the name of the attack this time, but a single bolt of gold lightning shot out from her blade hitting one of the undead in the head. As it did however lightning shot out from it at two other zombies causing 50% of the damage. This chain carried on till there was no more energy left.

[genjiblackstone]

genji he was sleeping on a building at the time the fighting with the ghouls and all the other things were going on he was practicaly in the middle of the battle field ghouls dying shinigami's getting hurt all around him it was rather surprising that no one even found him shinigami or otherwise and he was having a lovely dream but that all ended when he woke up.

having just woken up he wasn't in the mood to do anything but the fact that he was in the middle of a battle field scared him so he was going to get out of their but then he felt a familiar reiastu and then quite alot of some unknown ones the familiar reiatsu was he friend dai but then the unfamiliar ones were the four arrancar overthere with some one reiatsu which genji knew would be shinigami and they were rather high so then there was a captain or two but genji was still deciding wheather or not to help his friend dai or go to the major fighting

" hmmm whats should i do hmmmm..............i could go that ways towards dai-san but then i would not be able to identify those other but that reaistu is really strong they should be able to handle it but if they can't i willl fell so guilty for leaving them stranded but dai-san might need my help not what am i saying he doesn't need me at all so then its decided that i will go to the mass of reiatsu which is probably a bad idea but what can ya do huh whats that? "

as a pillar of ice burst up from the ground then was hit and then fell on to some of the buildings and a cero was fired as well at someone genji didn't know who it was being fired at but he knew he wouldn't need to help at all but knowing genji he had to help everyone else genji draws his zanpakuto and started to move over to the fallen ice collum

[Ai]

The Two Fifths: Sayuri the 5th Seat vs. Nnoitra the 5th Espada

A grand explosion suddenly crashed down upon Nnoitra catching him by complete surprise - the result of two great Ceros colliding with his tall, lanky form. Sayuri's eyes darted up to its source seeing it having come from the former 3rd Espada, Halibel and her three Fraccion. Her eyes darted back to Nnoitra, she could see his silhouette struggling to a stand through the smoke, "What the fuck was th--", before he could finish his words - Sayuri whirling the sickle end of her kusarigama at the end of its chain. An opening was created, Soifon's words echoed in her mind, "...Don't step between them. Take the enemy down from behind...", in a sense with being disoriented from the Cero blasts dealt to him, his back was now to her - now was her chance.

The sickle end of the kusarigama launched for the daze 5th Espada, the blade sinking into his side and hooking him. He let out a roar of pain as Sayuri with astounding speed shimmered past him with Shunpou dragging him along, and abruptly stopping using the momentum of her Shunpou she flung the Espada around, yank on the great extended length of her kusarigama's chain sending him crashing into one of the shabby row houses of the Rukongai. But the little kunoichi's eyes widened when the Espada grabbed hold of the chain of her kusarigama's chain while pulling the sickle out of his side and flung her around and slammed her to the ground. With a cloud of dust kicking up upon her hitting the ground a small crater formed around her lithe little feminine frame. She coughed harshly panting heavily from having the wind knocked out of her.

Sayuri maintained her death grip on her Shikai as Nnoitra kept his hold on the chain end of the chain ready to swing the little kunoichi about once again. However, with a swift inaudible mumble she recited, "Hadou No. 11 Tsuzuri Raiden...", an stream of golden hued lightning bolts shot up the length of a chain as though it were a conductor - the charge of electricity struck Nnoitra knocking him a few feet backwards forcing him to lose his grip on the kusarigama's chain. The great length of the chain receded back to its normal length as Sayuri rose back to her feet as did Nnoitra.

Sayuri whipped the sickle end of her kusarigama at Nnoitra, but with his massive haldberd Santa Teresa he batted the sickle away before it could reach him. With static-like sound he vanished from even her sharp eyes - scarcely she caught sight of him fading back into sight to her left from his Sonido, while backslashing the gigantic halberd at her. Barely backflipping over the immense blade - he redirected the attack to strike her with back of the blade of the huge crescent moon shaped blade of the halberd. The back end of the redirected halberd blade struck Sayuri square int he mid-section. Her eyes went wide as every shred of air in her lungs was deprived of her. Nnoitra swung the end of the staff of the halberd around striking in the head sending the little kunoichi flying in the opposing direction she initially was from the initial strike she suffered.

The girl tumbled and slid violently across the hard, dirt ground of the Rukongai district she fought the 5th Espada within. She coughed harshly trying to catch her breath after the hit to her mid-section, blood rang down the left side of her face from a small cut just above her brow from the hit she took to the head. Appearing unconscious for a moment as she lay there, Nnoitra thrust his halberd down at her to deliver to deliver the coup de grace, "No fuckin' woman is gonna' defeat me, little bitch...", he muttered with a smirk, but his eyes went wide in surprise as his blade is stopped by Sayuri hooking her his blade with that of her sickle of her kusarigama and strong enough to hold it back from striking her as she was now sitting up some from her laid down position she was earlier.

Sneering in vexation at Sayuri's still able to fight back, he stuck out his long tongue preparing to fire his Cero down upon her. But within the next instant the weighted end of Sayuri's kusarigama Shikai smacked him square on the jaw having launched it with her free hand while the other held back Nnoitra's sickle with her sickle, successfully interrupting the Cero for a second time. The hit caused him to stagger backward, enabling Sayuri to back-hand spring away from his blade. As she landed on her feet while whirling the sickle at the end of its chain, bolts of cyan hued lightning charged and gathered on the sickle blade. Yanking on the chain and pulling the sickle back into her hand she pointed it at Nnoitra as he came charging right for her. A blast of icy cyan lightning bolts fired from the end of the sickle striking Nnoitra, but rather than shocking him it encased over half of the lower half of his body in place. But as the ice locked him place he hurled his halberd with tremendous speed and power at Sayuri as she quickly attempted to jump back to avoid it. It was all for naught though as part of the large crescent moon shaped blade at the end of the halberd cut deep into her left side.

She cried out and cringed in agony as she fell to a knee the second she landed on both her feet cradling her left side. Nnoitra snickered mockingly at her as he pulled back on the large loop chain of his halberd pulling it back into his grasp. Though unexpectedly for him Sayuri had already whipped the sickle of her kusarigama Shikai at him - its slashing deep across his chest. His eyes widened in both shock and rage as he demanded to her, "How the fuck is your blade cuttin' through my Hierro, little bitch?"

"To wound your enemy just depends on your desire to kill them and how sharp you make your reiatsu, 5th Espada.", Sayuri answered as she rose to a stand, "I'm an assassin... naturally... my desire to kill my target is immense... and my strikes are bent on precision, thus the reiatsu I imbue into my blade is exceptionally keen. Besides, I have read the reports on the Espada of some time ago during Aizen's defeat... and what it takes to cut through their Hierro... Most importantly, though - as to why I can cut through your Hierro... I'm stronger than you."

Nnoitra's eyes flared open wide - nearly bug-eyed with even greater rage as he sneered out of venom and hate with Sayuri's last statement - igniting a seeded nerve and seething insecurity that rotted from within him, an aspect of himself he could never overcome, "Ain't no fuckin' woman stronger than me, bitch!", she snarled as he built up his reiatsu shattering out of the ice that trapped him forcing his way toward Sayuri, charging right for her. With that she waved her sickle in her right hand in front of herself while reciting in a quickened pace with a quiet almost inaudible mumble, "Hadou No. 58 Tenran...", a powerful swirling tornado-like wind blew into Nnoitra, and while it slowed him in his steps, with an enraged growl he back-slashed his halberd at the strong swirling winds as he exerted his reiatsu disapating the winds of the Tenran as he continued to sharge right for Sayuri.

Her eyes widened taken aback by her Tenran having been nullified - Nnoitra swung the massive halberd at her as did a swift standing one-eighty front flip over him; while reciting in her silent mumbling near inaudible tone, "Hadou No. 63 Raikôhô...", just as she landed in a three point stance a few meters behind Nnoitra - a massive column of bright yellow lightning bolts fell from above on top of the lanky Arrancar. The powerful surge of electricity shot through Nnoitra's body as he cringed and grind his teeth under the pressure of it.

It was then Sayuri decided to unleash her finisher, her strongest Hadou spell - she quietly mumbled the words for its incantation as Nnoitra was reduced to being on one knee from her previous spell. His body smoking from the immense amounts of electricity that shot through his entire body, Sayuri watched him slowly rise to a stand as she finished the incantation and uttered the spell, "Hadou No. 90 Kurohitsugi...", pure dark reiatsu begun to rise from the ground surrounding Nnoitra as it took the form of a large rectangular box surrounding and encasing him within it. As it the darkness enclosed him within itself, Nnoitra's eyes fearfully looked about his surroundings as he was sealed inside. A trice later blades of darkness burst from the large rectangular box of black reiatsu.

Though within the black reiatsu she heard Nnoitra's voice utter, "Inore.", her eyes narrowed but then begun to gradually go wide in dismay in utter shock of what she saw as the black reiatsu encasing Nnoitra receded revealing him once again - only in a different form and completely healed from all wounds inflicted upon him. He now stood with two pairs of arms, and each one carrying a great scythe. Growing out of his temples are a pair of crescent moon shaped horns. He stood with a malevolent sneer directed at Sayuri as he muttered, "Ain't no fuckin' woman gonna' kill me..."

Once again he charged right for the little kunoichi slashing his four scythes at her, moving as fast she could despite her wounds, she evaded the attacks as much as she could. Flipping to either side of him while rebounding off of the ones that slashed at her while she was in mid-flight. Weary from the fight till now, her movements begun to slow after each evasion until one of the scythe blades caught her right thigh just barely, but with the size of the blades the cut was still harsh enough. As she landed on her feet she sumbled. Before back-flipping away from all for scythes as the struck at the ground where she was - she saw it as an opening as she was about to launch her sickle at his head as he now appeared defensless.

In that second another pair of arms sprouted each shooting out a scythe to wield as the simultaneously slashed at her in her now near defenseless disposition. She spun around through the air evading one of the scythes but the other caught her slicing acrossed her back. She cried out in pain from the vicious cutand stumbled and rolled to the ground. Panting heavily she slowly brought herself back up ther feet. Nnoitra absolutely livid as he grinned wide bearing those oversized uppercase teeth of his, brought back all six of his scythes and motioned to strike with all of them at once to attempt a coup de grace upon Sayuri for a second time.

But all of that was halted the second she uttered, "Bankai...!", her reiatsu soared as she exploded with spiritual pressure knocking Nnoitra flying backward away from her. Her kusarigama Shikai transformed into a blinding icy stream of cyan light that wrapped around her right arm covering her arm from her hand to her bicep. The spiritual pressure radiating from her continued to increase as the blinding light became so intense she could not be seen. A wintery wind with snow and ice particals swirled around her where she stood condensing and focusing upon her person. A trice later the winds burst with hurricane-like strength. The abandoned and ruined row houses around them of the Rukongai district she and Nnoitra fought in turned gained large, thin sheet blotches of ice. The air was even a cold - Nnoitra could see his own breath. Sayuri stood now no longer with her kusarigama, but instead a strange but very ornate azure hued very light armor gauntlet that went up to the bicep covering the very light white clothe gauntlet she wears on her right arm. Armor covered her middle and ring finger of her right hand, though its form looked like a pair of serpent fangs only jointed so she can move those fingers - the other fingers had no armor covering them at all.

Seeing Sayuri's change Nnoitra more than unimpressed by the sight of her Bankai begun to laugh mockingly at her, but it was quickly silenced by her uttering one word while gracefully sweeping her right hand in front of herself, "Kaze...", a tremendous explosion of incredibly powerful wind roared into existence ripping apart the fragile wooden row houses in the area of that district blowing any of them in its path, as well as picking up Nnoitra off of his feet and throwing him numerous meters back. As he crashed and tumbled for several more meters, he eventually regained his balance getting back up on his feet as he slid backward for a couple meters more on his feet facing forward believing that is where Sayuri still was. Dispelling that belief however Sayuri fanged gaunlet slashed across his back, its frost bite effect causing him greater pain as she cringed under its having cut deep into him.

Spinning around he slashed his scythes at her but with her increased reiatsu from having released her Bankai, her speed was astounding and he sliced at nothing but the cold air at which she once stood, "Sui...", he heard her voice mutter from behind once again. As he got halfway around to face her three two mete long ice spikes hurled right at him at speeds he could not keep up with, each striking him - though they did not impale him - instead molded onto him freezing him in place. He thrashed about but this time the freezing effect of the ice that trapped him is far too great for him to break free of through raw strength alone.

Mumbling quietly an incantation as she walked up Nnoitra, her words could scarcely be heard until she calmly recited, "Hadou No. 88 Hiryugekizokushintenraiho...", in that very second she thrus the fangs of her gauntlet straight into his chest, the gargantuan power of the spell exploding straight into him - but even compounding the power even greater she uttered, "Gan Raikou...", the surge of electric power only soared to further to seemingly unimaginable extents as it was all being imbued straight into the Nnoitra's body. His eyes about ready to pop out of his head as he roared out in agony. Abruptly the an explosion of blinding pale blue light surging with gigantic bolts of lightning bursting from all around the massive explosion - the result of two exceedingly powerful Kidou spells being combined together and condensed straight into the 5th Espada's very being. The result being Nnoitra screaming out in agony as he was gradually vaporized into nothingness. The immense size of the explosion leveled everything within over one hundred meter diameter within that district area of the Rukongai - at it's focal point stood Sayuri.

As the dust settled Sayuri staggered on her feet falling to her hands and knees out of exhaustion while heavily breathing with beads of sweat dripping from her brow with the blood that ran down the left side of her face. Taking a moment to regain her composure, catch her breath, and focus her reiatsu once again - she slowly rose back up to her feet. Ignoring the pain of her wounds and pushing herself onward, she vanished from sight with a flash of speed.

Catching up to her Captain, she flashed up beside her following along with her as she reported in a quiet tone while panting a little, "Nnoitra Jiruga... 5th...Espada... Eliminated... Captain...", she seemed to pay no mind to the harsh slash wounds on her left side, across her back, and right thigh that still bled as well as the blunt wound that ran blood down the left side of her face from just above her brow; not to mention the other numerous scrapes and bruises she may have suffered as she looked fair scuffed up.

[Shinigami Kyra]

The Vizard watched in horror as her own blast was turned against her. She had barely any time to react as the wave of spiritual energy that far exceeded the attack she had launched, approached her at a far greater speed. Her eyes could only widen as her body seemed to move in slow motion. Her head cocked back to Momo, who looked almost equally as horrified. Kyra tried to move her arm out quickly, but it was as though she were moving through some ridiculously dense fog. She knew that even with her Vizard abilities, she would be devastatingly injured, but not dead... Momo, though... her lips parted to speak, but the oncoming blast seemed to almost mute her voice as her body was completely consumed.

"Hadō 1, Shō!"

Momo felt as though she had been physically struck and was launched several meters back, out of the range of the oncoming attack. As soon as she regained her composure, her eyes shifted back up, attempting to spot Kyra... the blast had completely consumed her. Momo's eyes went wide as she shouted out for her friend.

"Kyra!" Momo cried out. As soon as the blast dissipated, she spotted a figure falling several hundred meters away. The brunette ignored Aizen for the time being and like she had with Rangiku, felt the sudden responsibility to do everything that she possibly could to make sure her friends were safe.

"Bakudo 37; Tsuriboshi!"

Momo felt her mind flashing back to that horrible winder as she launched her spiritual energy outward, this time catching a near-dead Kyra in a safe net rather than Rangiku. The crimson haired woman's mask was completely gone, her eyes almost faded completely from existence. She was panting heavily with only brief pieces of her black robes remaining, luckily covering over the most crucial areas. Severe burns were heavy upon her skin. Momo had sensed that even she would have been killed by such a blast... had it not been for that hollow mask's abilities, the Lieutenant feared there would have been nothing left for her to rescue...



Rukia's expression hardened as the very ice pillar she aimed to catch the Espada and her underlings in became the very source of their next attack. With a quick retract of her Zanpakuto, she shot out a single hand, index finger pointing out.

"Hado 4; Byakurai!" And with that, a blast of bright blue energy shot from the tip of her extended finger, exploding outward in a lightning-like manner, and smashed into her own pillar of ice. The structure then shattered from the impact, with the countless pieces of element dissipating back into its original form of spirit particles. Not even waiting for a moment to catch her breath, the Shinigami began chanting. "Ye lord! Mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! On the wall of blue flame, inscribe a twin lotus. In the abyss of conflagration, wait at the far heavens."

A single hand moved into her side as she cradled what appeared to be a large portion of spiritual energy that seemed to be gathered from all around her figure. A bright blue light shined from her hands as the spiritual pressure began to increase with each and every words she chanted. As soon as she finished, she launched her palm straight up toward the group of women, the collected sphere soon erupting within her grasp.

"Hado 73; Sōren Sōkatsui!"

[kenpachi]

With a cero fired at him as such a close range, the man never got the chance to avoid it; however, he had no intention of doing so. The blast of pure spirit energy hit his blade head on, causing it to explode and errupt about him.

When the smoke cleared, he was unfazed. But, she had managed to slow him down. He didn't have enough time to notice a large piece of ice coming at him, knocking him off his feet and throwing him backwards, sliding across the floor of ice and through the wall of a building.

Grumbling a cursing, the infamous captain was quick to recover, blowing another hole through the poor wall and emerging from it before dissapearing from sight, at least from the sight of any normal pair of eyes. In truth, he just zipped across the ice so fast that when he finally appeared in front of the espada, the traction of his feet made a minor explosion in the ice, throwing dust and ice into the air.

He growled at the underhanded trick and turned his attention to the Espada. She really seemed to look like she was somewhat disinterested. Well, he would have to change that.

"My name is Kenpachi Zaraki, Captain for the 11th Squad, what's yours?" He asked, allowing his spiritual pressure to flare as he stood before her. Apparently he was the only one that was really free to confront the Espada, as everyone else seemed to be preoccupied at the moment.

He turned his blade, ever so slightly, perhaps he was going to have some fun after all. With that, the large man known as the demon shot forward, moving at speeds almost incomprehendable to the naked eye.

With a flash, he swung his sword in at her form, attempting to slice her side.

[temple]

Hikaru leaped over building after building, his sword slashing out to burn down any ghouls in his path. Fushichou's shikai allowed him to absolutely incinerate every zombie he cut, ensuring that they couldn't be brought back again.

He could feel Aizen's immense reitsu suddenly jump a notch, as he was then rewarded with the limp and falling form of Kyra directly in front of him.

"Fuck!" he cursed under his breath, his icy blue eyes narrowing. He had to force down the urge to rush to the shinigami's aide, and pressed forward, calling out his bankai as he ran.

The buildings around him erupted into flames, the fire wrapping itself around his body. His body quickly became encased in hardened glass, the armor protecting his chest, shoulders, legs, and arms. Twin birds wings of blue-white plasma sprouted from his shoulder blades, propelling the 9th Division Captain forward in a blazing burst of speed.

His zanpakutou disappeared with his transformation, instead giving him the ability to use its plasma creating powers anywhere on his body. Charging up a large sphere of the ionized gas in each hand, he vaulted over the last building, preparing to rain hell down on the old 5th Division Captain.

Only to be met with a silver arc of life controlling energy. The only thing that saved him was the wall of plasma he slammed into the attack. But even that wasn't enough, as the force of the reitsu still carried through, tearing a massive gash from Hikaru's hip, across his chest, and ending at his right shoulder.

His armor shattered, and only the hilt and guard of his reformed zanpakutou remained. Blood spurted from the grievous wound.

The sweet bliss of unconsciousness tugged at the Captain's dulling mind, and before he knew it everything went black as the pain overtook him.

One captain incapacitated. In one hit.

Aizen barely suppressed a chuckle as the new 9th Division Captain fell to the floor in a bloody heap. He could sense that the Captain was still alive. Barely. But alive. He could deal with the wounded later, and he doubted the dying Captain would even be alive by the time this demonstration was over.

Turning his burnished yellow eyes towards the fleeing form of his old pawn, he turned to Gin.

"Don't look like she's comin' Cap'n."

"No it doesn't. Kill her."

In a whisper Gin vanished, only to reappear a scant fifty yards away from the Lieutenant. Aiming Shinsou, he launched the wakizashi towards the young woman, attempting to skewer her straight through the heart.

Aizen flicked Jurei, and in seconds the entire Fon family appeared before him. Every single one of Captain Shaolin Fon's family, that she had known and had died, appeared before him. A venerable wall for the Captain to beat her head against.