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.
Post by Shinigami Kyra on Jul 20, 2009 13:48:42 GMT -5
>>"Oh shit."<<
Without saying a single word, Kyra reached for the hilts of her blades and released them the moment they unsheathed. In a brilliance of cobalt blue reiatsu, flames of that respective color erupted before her, threatening to evaporate the water that rose around the area of the beach where they had just left. An Arrancar... that would certainly explain the mixed Reiatsu... but still... would she not have been told that it was an Arrancar? And if it was, why would they have sent a twelfth seat? Shouldn't handling an Espada-level Arrancar be the work of a Captain, or at the very least, more than just her? Just what the hell were they thinking!
That aside, the crimson haired Shinigami peered her vision over toward the newly arrived Arrancar, the long red scarf that draped over her neck fluttering wildly in the wind. She figured by the way the woman appeared that she wasn't here to chit-chat. Nevertheless, Kyra wasn't about to make the first move... unless the female Arrancar wanted her to.
"I don't suppose you came here for a swim at the beach," Kyra asked dryly, knowing that her sense of humor would probably roll right off the taller woman's shoulders.
Nina smirked sadistically at he shinigami's comment, her golden eyes narrowing even more.
"Oh I came to swim. But not in the water."
At that moment something strange happened. One of the shinigami on patrol in Karakura, managed to catch up to her, and as he reappeared from Shunpo, Nina's hand shot out faster than the eye could follow.
The appendage pierced straight through the shinigami's chest, and out the other side. With a merciless cackle, she pursed her lips and began to suck in air, the dead mans reitsu separating from his body and becoming one with her own.
When she was finished, she casually licked the remaining blood from her arm, and turned her eyes back to the pair.
Watching the nameless Shinigami be impaled through the chest by the Arrancar, Ai tilted her head a little to the side, her left eye closed while her right squinted a little with gaze as though she were measuring something or someone up. With a swift flip of her immense nodachi like Shikai resting the backside of the blade over her shoulder. Her squinting right eye side glanced at Kyra beside her feeling the immense reiastu coming from her and her blades of blue flame, then looked back to the Arrancar. Letting out an exasperated sigh she remarked quietly to herself irritatedly, "She's no 12th Seat... She did lie to me.", a massive, crude tear of darkness ripped right open into the sky a good forty or so meters to the Arrancar's right, "Oh what the hell now...", Ai grumbled with a vexed sneer.
Walking out from the swirling darkness of the abyssal throat of the Garganta maw is what appeared to be a young teenage girl with long flowing silky pink hued hair. Her white robe-like dress with black trim flowed in the oceanic breeze as she held her black wakizashi in her left hand. Those blood red eyes of hers constantly staring - never blinking - as they washed over the pair of apparent Shinigami as they stood beside each other. She then looked to Nina's direction and remarked nonchalantly, "They failed again... Just like with the hospital... Those two are both Captain-level...", her blood red eyes then turned back to Kyra and Ai as she casually inquired, "Do you plan to kill them both?"
Ai grunted in irritation as she her vexed sneer begun bear her teeth a little, seemed she got bored of thinking things over at this point. She turned her blade ever so slightly catching the moonlight and the glare of the streetlights of the road running along the beach, into the mirror shine of her blade. Imbuing her reiryoku and reiastu into the light gleaming off her blade. The blade glowing with an intense cyan hued light, Ai spun around fully as she back-slashed at the air in the direction of Vaaz. Glowing light of the blade launched off of the blade in the form of a crescent moon blade of cyan light flying right for Vaaz.
Vaaz arched a brow at the sight, just as the crescent moon blade of light reached her - she put up her left hand, slamming the back of it into the light blade. Focusing her Hierro to be thicker and denser to try to the resist the light blade, her left arm begun to strain under the pressure. With burst of strength and moderate increase of her reiastu she finally managed to disperse the blade of light. Though, she looked at the back of her left hand as it still held her black wakizashi zanpakuto. A large gash ran across the back of her hand bleeding heavily down her arm. In the next Vaaz's blood red eyes went wide when in flash Ai was right there in her face bringing her nodachi Shikai down upon Vaaz's head. Vaaz reflexively up her right hand utilizing her talented ability to manipulate her Hierro once again. The palm of her hand managed to stop Ai's blade, but Ai being more physically stronger than Vaaz begun to overpower her.
Feeling the blade sinking into her hand with a static-y sounding blinding burst of speed, a signature of Sonido, Vaaz reappeared several meters away from Ai as they both now stood around forty meters in the air above the beach. Vaaz looked at the palm of her right hand as it bled heavily from the large gash across it, she then looked to Ai and questioned, "Your zanpakuto... it has armor sundering properties?", Ai did not respond, only looked upon Vaaz with a dull gaze of irritation of her current situation.
An awkward silence passed between them for a moment, when suddenly Vaaz drew her wakizashi and stabbed the blade through her own neck. Ai's eyes widened in utter dumbfounded shock of the sight as Vaaz's blood spurted and sprayed out of her neck. Yanking the blade out of her neck she sheathed the blade back into its scabbard as Ai just stood there in wide eyed shock. But the blood did not simply fall the ground below them, it formed vertically in front of Vaaz into an occultic symbol that seemed to possess its own eerie, unwholesome, unnatural presence.
"Ai! Get out of there!", Keizen screamed within Ai's mind.
Ai till standing there perplexed despite her zanpakuto's warning, Vaaz then flicked the center of the symbol on her side of it. The small flick sent a ripple through the occultic blood symbol, Ai still did not understand what was going as she stood there, "What. The. F--", but before she could finish her eyes nearly popped out of her head as she understood Keizen's warning to her, for it was at that second the ripples created by Vaaz flicking the blood symbol reached its edges and the symbol abruptly exploded into a vile torrent of dark red spiritual energy that light up the sky in the area to be as red as blood while the massive red spiritual energy of Vaaz's twisted Cero engulfed Ai within it completely...
Post by Shinigami Kyra on Jul 23, 2009 1:19:38 GMT -5
Kyra was a bit hesitant at first after the Arrancar's invitation. Unfortunately, it seemed matters only became worse as a tear in reality appeared to the Arrancar's side, revealing yet another one. Could this day really get any worse?
>>"They failed again... Just like with the hospital... Those two are both Captain-level... Do you plan to kill them both?"<<
"Captain, captain, captain," Kyra muttered with obvious irritation as she shook her head. She didn't train to obtain power, she had trained because she enjoyed the time she spent with Momo. She had developed a great relationship with Kagutsuchi due to both their love for Kido. Everything had just come so naturally to her... without her really having a desire to move forward. Things just happened. Quite frankly, she didn't really care much for it... however, something deep inside of her did... there was something within her very soul that held a deep lust... a pure desire for power... and it was that very source that remained ever present in the back of her mind. "How many times do I have to say... I ain't no Captain... I ain't ever going to be a Captain..."
Ai and the newly arrived Arrancar faded from her vision, though those crimson hues remained locked upon the first arrival, the woman who had slain the poor Shinigami who had been unfortunate enough to follow someone of far too much power. Kyra knew that her Shikai alone wouldn't be enough to handle this woman, let alone, the other that was currently facing off against Ai. The girl would need her help. Despite not wanting the position or title, she understood that her abilities did in fact remain on par with some Captains. Hell, she even stood toe to toe with Captain Hikaru during their combat... well... before...
Her eyes sharpened, and her mind focused. No need to think of that now. Kyra produced her blades before her and began to spiral them slowly about. Her spiritual pressure began to rise to that of a weak Captain's level, but continued to rise a bit further as she attempted to call forth her Bankai.
"Bank-"
There was a sudden pain within her chest the moment she began to move her blades in the motion that produced her sword's transformation. Her entire body froze as she began to feel a dark grip upon her body, encircling her legs and hips and slowly moving up to grasp firmly onto her throat. There wasn't much time to waste, however, as Kyra was brought directly into a defensive state. The Arrancar, it seemed, would not allow her the time to even think of why she hesitated going into Bankai.
"Konpeki Kouen Maru!"
With a quick spin of her body, her dual blades produced a fiery ring of blue fire that exploded and forced the girl back a ways, allowing Kyra a moment to get her head back into the fight. Her breathing became quick and shallow. Despite the fact that the fight had barely just begun, she felt so exhausted. What the hell had just happened?
"Konpeki Shakkahō!"
With the Arrancar attempting to move in again, Kyra tried her best to keep the woman at a distance and fired off a modified Kido blast, erupting a fiery blue wave of spiritual energy with a swing of her Zanpakuto. The attack did little to subdue the powerful Arrancar, and again, Kyra found herself far too close to the lion's den.
"Bakudō 21, Sekienton!"
A cheap trick she had learned from another Shinigami, and rarely used by herself unless she found herself with reasons to escape. A burst of smoke exploded just as Nina was on top of her. With a quick movement of her hands, she began to produce another quick-casting Kido spell.
"Bakudō 26, Kyakko!"
With a burst of light exploding in front of her, Kyra attempted to flash step out of the way, using the binding spell to aid in her quick escape. Several hundred meters up, Kyra's body shimmered back into existence, sweat glistening off her forehead. Quick casting Kido spells while skipping the incantation... it was basic training for her. Still, there was something else... something else that seemed to be draining her spiritual pressure... or rather... draining her own consciousness, and fueling her spiritual aura even further... just like...
"Ye lord! Mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Inferno and pandemonium, the sea barrier surges, march on to the south!"
Her blades pulsed in accordance to the incantation as her aura erupted from around her. Spiraling blue flames encircled her wrists and flowed into the tips of her Zanpakuto.
"Konpeki Shakkahō!"
And with the incantation recited, Kyra launched a far more powerful attack downward, hoping to at least allow her a chance to get a hit in on the fast Arrancar. Nevertheless, as she felt that grip within her soul slowly beginning to fill her insides further, the whites of her eyes once again began to cloud over a dark black hue...
Nina took the kidou attacks with a smile. They did little more than put soot on her skin. Which was strange, because the girls reitsu would at one moment peak above her own, and the next it would dip below even a basic Hollows.
Grunting as another kidou spell slammed into her, and washed over her heirro, she laughed, closing the distance once again.
This time she was surprised by the young woman's clever use of kidou to hide her movements. Then again, if Nina hadn't been toying with her prey, none of the spells would have even hit her. Looking up to where she sensed her opponent was, she called out a taunt to her.
"This is it? Poor little girl thought she was in the big leagues," her golden eyes narrowed as her beautiful face quickly marred itself into a sneer "but you're nothin' but an empty uniform to me."
Unfortunately for the Tercera, she ate her words, as the fiery azure kidou slammed into her chest and exploded, burning her skin severely.
Now she was pissed off. That was a rookie mistake. She should have just killed the bitch flat out. Now the girl was going to suffer.
With a sonic boom, Nina took off into the air, and launched a flying elbow at her opponents stomach, using her Gamelo's Sonido to appear behind the 12th seat and slam her elbow into her back; the sonic force behind the high speed maneuver caused the after-image to transfer the force of the faux attack, earning Kyra bone crushing attack from two sides.
But Nina wasn't yet finished with her prey.
From her position behind the shinigami, she pulled her hands into a double hammer fist and slammed it down on top of the poor girls head, sending ehr careening down into the sands at mach 1.
Nina landed softly a few feet from the rather large crater, and noticed that the shinigami was still moving. Snorting in disgust as the young woman staggeringly stood back up to face her, she charged.
Sand sprayed up behind the Arrancar, and faint after-images traield after her sprinting form. A predictable attack, which Kyra used to her advantage.
The twin cobalt blades launched out in a vicious stab, which Nina barely avoided by twisting to the side, the edges of the blades slicing into her stomach and back. Using her new position, Nina used her feet to spring into an arial cartwheel, landing behind the shinigami on her hands.
Continuing her attack, the Arrancar spun on her hands, catching Kyra in the face just as she turned to face the nimble hollow. The kick sent Kyra spinning, which was followed up with a vicious uppercut to the shinigami's chin; which in turn sent her into the sky.
No longer giving the shinigami a chance to retaliate, Nina buzzed in front of Kyra and began to slam her fists into the woman's stomach at speeds approaching mach 1. After several moments of the vicious beating, she flipped over the shinigami, fast enough to deliver a reitsu infused drop kick, which launched Kyra through several buildings and back into the sand.
Snarling a curse under her breath, she held out her right hand, a violet ball of negative energy collecting into it.
"Die bitch."
The cero loosed with a deafening roar, the violet stream quickly becoming erratic and arcing off to the left, cutting through several buildings, before launching into the air, turning, and slamming down on Kyra from above.
She had been worried for a moment that her Cero would just miss entirely, as it tended to do when it was fired from any sort of distance. It was stronger tan most Espada Cero's, but it was impossible to aim, as its increased power caused it to move erratically. It wasn't unheard of for her cero to miss entirely.
Post by Shinigami Kyra on Jul 23, 2009 3:26:41 GMT -5
"...On the wall of blue flame, inscribe a twin lotus. In the abyss of conflagration, wait at the far heavens..." Kyra hadn't even waited to see if the attack had landed. She had already been in mid sentence of the next incantation. "Hadō 33, Sōren Sōka-"
The twelfth seat had no time to finish, however, as the Arrancar boomed out from the smoke far beyond what her eyes could manage to spot. Suddenly, she felt a devastating blow; two, in fact, seeming to be simultaneous in timing to her. Blood and saliva exploded from her widened lips as the air was forcefully crushed from her lungs. Her eyes went wide and nearly faded of life right then and there from the shocking blow.
The attack did not let up. Before Kyra could even blink, she felt a powerful blow, as if a thousand explosives exploded against her back with enough force to send her howling down toward the ground. She had never moved so fast in her life, as she landed with such an impact that a large crater had formed around her body. Twitching and forcing a large piece of Earth from her body in order to prevent it from further crushing her lungs, Kyra's body moved simply on its own to prevent itself from dying.
It was strange... she couldn't control her reiatsu... at one moment, she'd be able to launch an attack or prepare a defense... but now, she couldn't so much as preform a proper flash step if she wanted to... and right now... was certainly not the right time to be having this type of problem.
"Fuck..." Kyra spat blood out from her mouth, which only seemed to continue to rise up from her throat... lungs; wherever the hell it was coming from. With a blood-choked breath, she forced a burst of reiatsu to form around her body, which seemed a bit wild in accordance to control. She launched a bit wildly outward, head on toward the obviously far superior Arrancar, stupidly mind you; melee based combat against a faster, stronger being... it wasn't something she would normally do.
Still... Kyra felt strange. As she traded blows... or rather, received several during her blinded-by-frustration attack, she felt... strange. There wasn't really any other way to explain it. Things began to slow down all around her. Her body didn't seem to speed up any; in fact, it felt as though her body were moving through some sort of thick liquid. She would see an attack coming from a mile away, but her body seemed far too slow to block or parry. Soon, it seemed as Nina was the one delivering all the offensive maneuvers, and Kyra simply allowing her body to grow limp and receive every attack full force.
Again, she felt as though her insides were about to be forced up through her chest and straight out of her mouth as the woman delivered a devastating drop kick that rocketed her body through several buildings and forcing them to crumble due to the sheer force of her travel. Her body crumbled like a rag doll, first skimming across the sands, than rolling far beyond normal flash step speeds, enough to crush limbs if landing the wrong way. Kyra did, in fact, land the wrong way... probably over a hundred times before her body finally came to a stop.
Her entire body trembled as it began to roll from her side to her stomach, legs crumbled beneath her, and slowly attempting to pull herself to a stand. Those eyes... the entire time... had slowly become completely engulfed by a shadowy colored liquid. Her pupils vanished completely, and specks of white began to form around her face, seeming to materialize from out of nowhere. Of course, from far away, this would go completely unnoticed. Thus, the Arrancar prepared her final attack via a powerful Cero blast.
>>"Die bitch."<<
Her body just sat there, prone in the collapsed position, her hands holding her body up to a half sat, half laid position. Her chest heaved in and out, a cracked rip obviously forcing blood to trip heavily from the corners of her mouth. Her eyes were completely unfocused from the blast that would certainly end her life, but staring intently onto the sands beneath her. Suddenly, as the light of the Cero brightened to the point where it was just about to hit, her head cocked upward.
The Cero seemed to have been stopped by time itself, as there was no explosion, no boom, not even an expulsion of reiatsu. The beam collected mostly toward the end, where the heavier portion of the energy laid. Suddenly, parts of the beam severed from itself; countless cuts within the energy-based attack. More and more began to appear, and suddenly, the entire attack dispersed and exploded into a shower if simple rain-like drops of heavy reiatsu.
From the charred pathway that lead from Nina to the end of her attack, remained only a few meters to where Kyra now stood, crouched, and her head tilted down. Those long crimson strands rang out freely, wildly, and out of control. Like the severed strands of unraveled steel wires, her hair shot outward with razor sharp tips, seeming to have moved so hastily in severing through the heavy-based reiatsu attack. Slowly, those strands returned to their normal length and rested against her now straightened back. Her head began to til upward where a strangely shaped mask seemed to be half materialized, with pieces seeming to float on and off of it like liquid paper.
"Now..."
Kyra's voice seemed far darker, and almost doubled-over, as though there were two voices; her own, and one of a thicker, more huskier tone mixed in. Her expression was that of a sadistic, yet tired smirk, as her back arched forward, arms limp by her side, as though just waking up to greet the day.
"Don't lose that vigor..."
Kyra then shot her hands out by her side, raising them shoulder level. Long since had she lost grip of her dual Zanpakuto, but with a simple thought, the two cobalt blades returned by to her side.
"Bankai!"
She did not grasp those hilts, however, and as her hands lowered, the twin blades seemed to simply remain floating by her side. Flames erupted all around her, engulfing her body completely and forcing her reiatsu to explode with a forceful gust of wind and energy. Soon after, the flames began to dissipate. The half-masked Kyra now stood, her blades seeming to dance all around her, engulfed in flames and circling around her in a rather rhythmic motion.
"Konpeki-hi Kagutsuchi..."
Her tongue extended from her lips and attempted to gather the wet blood that trickled against the sides of her mouth, licking her wounds with a sick, sadistic pleasure, as though she enjoyed the taste. And with that, Kyra's body turned sideways, her right arm seeming to have changed slightly. Engulfed in what could only be compared to as Hollowfied skin from her elbow to her forearm, a dark gray casing. Her fingers became razor sharp at the tips, almost claw-like. Her index finger extended outward, then curled up a bit. She repeated the process, obviously antagonizing the Arrancar to come to her.
"God, Ai... you're dumb... if she were any stronger that Cero could have killed you...", Ai woke to Keizen's voice mocking her within her mind as per usual. Ai was rendered unconscious for a second or two, she found herself laying within the rubble of what had to be several beach homes she was sent flying through from being struck by Vaaz's twisted, vicious Cero. She could barely see Vaaz now well over a hundred meters away. Her vision blurred a bit, Ai struggled to get up - her entire body ached, she cursed herself for her utter carelessness.
"Almas sofrerão através de fogo.", she heard Vaaz utter from far off distance as Vaaz held out her black wakizashi. In that instant a gigantic torrent of blazing fire exploded around Vaaz, swirling as it roared while lighting up the sky around her a brilliant fiery orange. The blazing fires in the sky turning around on the axis that Vaaz survived within it, exploded into a massive column of fire reaching up to the sky.
The column of flame burst fading into nothingness as Vaaz was then revealed looking like a more mature version of herself, looking to be in her early twenties, and her hair black. Vaaz's right arm became a thick, heavy, dense skeletal arm up to the shoulder with razor sharp finger tips. A series of crimson and gold decorations hang off of the leather straps that covered her torso and clasped to the thick, heavy black clothe skirt that hangs off of her slender waist, but also hanging off the heavy black leather belt of the skirt is a human skull. Covering the lower half of her face is a mask that looks like a cruder, denser version of the lower half of a skull's face. In her left hand where her wakizashi once was, she now held a golden staff with a massive scythe blade. The large scythe she held choked up high on its neck for better control with its massive blade when wielding it with just one hand. Her complexion also become a corpse-like grey pallor, but Vaaz's unblinking blood red eyes, those never changed.
The skeletal right hand of Vaaz pointed a damning finger at Ai as she struggled to rise to a stand after having her reiastu drop sharply from taking the hit from Vaaz's Blood Cero. A bright red ball of spiritual energy formed at the tip of Vaaz finger. Finally standing on her feet by this time Ai's eyes widen knowing what this attack was, a standard Cero only at a far greater power level do to Vaaz's transformation.
"Whoa! The bitch transmogrified!", exclaimed Keizen sounding quite impressed, "Hollows really have altered their methods since you were last around to fight them on the higher echelons."
Wheezing a bit Ai scoffed in reply to Keizen within her mind, "Yeah... tell me about it... It doesn't help that I'm rusty as hell fighting at this level of strength..."
"You know...", Keizen was about to suggestion something, though she was quickly interrupted by Ai.
"Not yet, Keizen...", replied Ai, "I want to catch her off-guard before using... it..."
"Hmph... It'll be the first time I've used it outside of training - using it in a true fight...", commented Ai, "And right now I'm the worst for wear... I need an edge."
Ai simply stood where she was waiting for the attack, it was only a mere second later the bright red Cero launched as great wave of spiritual glowing red energy that came crashing down toward Ai. But within an instant Ai vanished before the Cero could strike her. The Cero exploded ripping a massive crater into the ground where Ai once stood. It was within that split second that Vaaz heard the word, "Bankai...", uttered in the sky near her, a great blinding cyan light burst into existence - the twilight sky around them seemed to shine around with its hues all the more as Vaaz narrowly blocked glowing violet blade of fiery light energy Ai now wielded within a new form as a feminine silhouette of luminescent cyan light, but her eyes - the whites of her eyes were now pitch black and her irises took on a kind of deformed look with a dark red hue, and on her upper back were an aura of shining reiastu wings.
The two locked blades their red eyes glared right into one anothers, "Your Bankai is strange...", remarked Vaaz, "It's more like a Resurreccion than a Shinigami's Bankai... It altered your very being, not just your weapon and reiastu."
"If you're saying my Bankai is more like your weird transformation, Hollow", Ai replied - her voice seemed to hold both her own and Keizen's speaking simultaneously as one, "That is likely because I was no longer a true Shinigami when obtained it...", Vaaz raised an eyebrow perplexed by Ai's statement, and the two pushed away from one another creating a far measure of distance between one another.
Ai spun around slashing her blade in Vaaz's direction unleashing a large wave of energy that thrashed like a wild oceanic wave at her. With a sweep of Vaaz's right hand a numerous formless tormented souls of the damned summoned before swirling about and condensing into a horrid glowing green barrier of souls screaming in agony. But were suddenly eerily silenced when the wave of energy smashed into it, the barrier dispersed into nothing but spiritual matter.
"What did you mean by you are no longer a true Shinigami?", Vaaz questioned out of curiosity.
"This...", replied Ai as she covered her face with her right hand and then looked as though she attempted rip off her own face, but what instead appeared was a featureless Hollow masked with exception to the eye slits and a pair of violet slash marks at the far corner of either eye. Ai's reiastu wings faded away taking on a form that looked more wraith-like black tendrils, even the silhouette form she had taken on faded away until she was more like dark feiminine silhouette. The appearance of her Bankai had altered with the mask it alter the very hues of her cyan and violet reiastu. But her reiastu was no longer anything like a Shinigami's, but instead held a kinship to that of a dark and vile Hollow, her reiastu held both and became horridly denser, holding more weight within its immense pressure as its strength continued to soar to greater heights.
Vaaz stood mesmerized by this as she had never seen or heard anything like it before, "What are you...?", she asked in dismay, "You're the opposite of an Arrancar, a Shinigami with Hollow spiritual pressure."
"Arrancar...", uttered Ai - her voice now held a third voice with her own and Keizen's - it is a dark, bloodcurdling, raspy voice - all three voices speaking in unison as one, "So that's what you're called... Yeah, we're the polar of you it seems, you're a Hollow with Shinigami reiastu... And I'm a Shinigami with the reiastu of a Hollow...", in that instant it was as if Ai no longer existed, she just disappeared to Vaaz, but her eyes went wide in horror when she then heard Ai's voices utter from right behind her, "They call us - Vizard.", a gargantuan violet wave of light energy exploded in that instant swallowing Vaaz whole as it illuminated the sky around them with a brilliant violet light.
Nina watched in contempt as her cero seemingly dissipated. That had never actually happened before, but then again, it wasn't exactly impossible.
Buzzing down to where her opponents body should have been, she was met with a startling surprise.
Kyra was standing before her with a look of malicious glee, what appeared to be a hollow mask adorning her bruised and beaten face, and deadly looking claws on her hand.
"What the fuck?" she snarled, drawing her sword and narrowing her golden eyes at whatever the hell she was looking at. It certainly was NOT a shinigami.
Dashing forward in a sprint faster than normal shunpo, she stabbed her blade out, aiming for Kyra's chest; but as she began the stabbing motion, she used her Gamelos sonido to appear behind the target, her deadly zanpakutou coming in with an overhead slash.
Post by Shinigami Kyra on Jul 24, 2009 0:39:50 GMT -5
The look of pure lust never left her expression as Nina charged toward her. Her tongue licked her upper lips as her eyes focused upon the woman's movements. When the image suddenly faded, her eyes shifted briefly to the side. The spiraling blades that encircled her body did well as a defense, as it instantly came up to protect its master, and parried the slash from the fast Arrancar. Her head cocked to the right as she viewed the woman out of the corner of her eye. That look of lust faded ever so quickly as frustration and a bit of disappointment became its replacement.
"This... won't do..."
Disappointed, Kyra's body turned to view the woman fully. With a quick burst of her still wildly uncontrolled reiatsu, she exploded forward with some strange form of flash step or sonido, with her knee raised up, aimed to strike the woman dead center of her torso. When the attack struck, she mirrored that double-fisted hammer strike the woman had delivered to her earlier, and with a powerful, over dramatic wind up, her fists swung hard against the side of her face, like a batter attempting to hit a home run.
The half-transformed Shinigami did not stop there. With another explosion of reiatsu, she launched her body forward, aiming to catch up to the now air-soaring Arrancar. With a motion of her hands, she launched the two floating swords spiraling around her body outward. The flame-engulfed blades then slashed against the woman's body repeatedly, the crimson haired woman's hands seeming to control the duel Zanpakuto's movements, as they seemed to attack from all directions. With a quick step, the Shinigami launched herself skyward, completely changing her angle, despite the incredible momentum, ninety degrees. After soaring several meters up, she curved her angle and began to fly downward, allowing gravity to guide her straight for the falling Arrancar.
Her body began to spin as her right leg tucked itself in. After a countless many spins, the gap between them closed, and the full momentum force of gravity and flash step, added with the momentum of her powerful kick, cracked dead center of the woman's chest, and forced her straight toward the ground. Still not letting up, the partially masked woman dove downward, her hair once again seeming to take a form of its own. Several strands locked together and hardened into sharp points. As she came down, her hair launched outward, extending over dramatically in length, and piercing the limbs of the Arrancar. She didn't want to kill the woman... she simply wanted to damage her. When she landed, she kept those strands pierced within the woman's body parts, digging deeper and deeper, before she finally withdrew, her hair returning to its normal length. That mask had started to form more fully around her head, taking up nearly three-quarters of it. More pieces of hollow skin had formed, now along her legs, and showing through the torn pieces of her robes.
Nina didn't even have time to comprehend what had just happened to her. She was supposed to be the queen of speed, and yet this shinigami, hollow, whatever the fuck just thoroughly thrashed her. Whatever those spines had been, had managed to puncture a lung, not to mention the blunt force that had broken most of her ribs, and pulverized her stomach; causing the Tercera to vomit up a pile of blood and bile as she struggled to her feet.
She was taking deep, raspy gasps, blood dripping from her nose, forehead, and mouth. One eye had swollen over, so Nina only had the singular golden orb to glare at Kyra's taunting form with.
Letting out a scream of indignation and anger, she drew her zanpakutou, her body remaining standing by sheer adrenaline and will power.
Holding the blade in front of her face she screamed out her release phrase. An Arrancar's Resureccion completely healed them, which was an advantage it had over bankai.
"DESGARRAR, RAPINA REINA!" (Rend, Raptor Queen!)
As the release phrase left her mouth, she jerked the katana up, her tongue running along its smooth side. The zanpakutou flashed a bright violet for a moment before it engulfed the Tercera in swirling purple reitsu.
Nina's legs became bowed and avian, her feet becoming large and sporting several nasty looking claws. Her fingers changed into mirror images of her toes, turning into lethal, retractable, scythe-like claws. A long white tail worked its way out from her lower back, thinning to a needle point as it reached the tip. Her entire body, from foot to neck, became wrapped in hard white scaled, reinforced heavily along her limbs. The small white ring around her forehead that made up her mask fragment changed into an ornate tiara.
Letting out a high pitched shriek as her transformation finished, she flashed the girl before her a sadistic smile, showing off rows of hundreds of needle sharp teeth.
"Don't-" Nina seemed to hesitate for a moment, letting out a small burst of reitsu. "Bli-" Came her voice from directly behind Kyra, the claws on her right hand coming around to slash at the woman's back, the appendage breaking the sound barrier as it came in. But as soon as the attack presumably connected, Nina was in front of the Vizard, her left arm barreling straight at her opponents stomach, it too breaching the sound barrier. "-nk"
