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Post by Karzan Zaraki on Nov 13, 2010 18:31:26 GMT -5
"Do you doubt my acceptance?"
As Karzan spoke, he would use Sonido to make his way toward Nero's forelegs, which her would jump onto. Once he was on Nero's hulking body, he would use Sonido again, to climb higher, making his way toward the spike's on the dragon's neck.
"Be warned though my friend," Karzan said with a smile, "I'm much faster than I look."
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Post by virgil on Nov 13, 2010 18:39:47 GMT -5
Virgil decided to leap back a safer distance from the little challenge Nero had set up for the lord of the deep. Once he felt he was at a decent enough distance to watch he would sit rather lazily upon the ground, yawning out as he did. "Take your time..." He said towards his lord as another yawn escaped his mouth. The outcome of this little event seemed to matter very little for him, most likely cause he believed Karzan would win. Probably.
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Post by Nero Metora on Nov 13, 2010 19:22:23 GMT -5
(Song to go with the battle-http://)
The moment Karzan disappeared, Nero swiftly hopped backwards and unleashed a torrent of fire from his mouth at the ground where he stood. The dragon was huge but he was surprisingly fast and agile for something his size. He felt Karzan grab onto his leg."As am I!" Nero would roar out. The moment his back legs touched down from his jump, he dug them into the sand. He then unleashed a roar louder than anything previously heard (Roar of the Grand Dragon.) The sound was loud and ferocious enough to shake the sandy terrain under the arrancar's feet and it traveled a great distance.
The dragon, using his hind legs and wings in perfect unison, lunged forward at incredibly high speed straight ahead and flew just above the sand...right where the sands were set ablaze. By this time, Karzan had managed to get to the small of his back. The was an attempt to keep Karzan where he was, hanging on to the small of his back, near the base of the tail. If he were to try and sonido now, it would mean him getting falling off the dragon at high speeds. Nero entered the blazing inferno, aiming to set himself and the Lord of the Deep on fire and hurt him but it would also work to kick up a giant dust cloud and spread the flames out further.
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Post by Kyoshin Oscuro on Nov 13, 2010 20:36:52 GMT -5
Kyoshin regarded the ongoing struggle with detachment, not really caring about the outcome. He assumed Karzan could best this Hollow, but it wasn't causing him any distress. Part of him was still irritated by Virgil, but he tried to ignored that. His mind was wandering... There wasn't a way he could slip off and get something to eat, was there...
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Post by Karzan Zaraki on Nov 14, 2010 16:13:58 GMT -5
Karzan gripped the spikes nearest him with all his strength, as Nero flew and dived through the air. As they passed through the flames, Karzan would charge and fire a Cero, turning as the blast was fired, to sweep it in a semi circle beside him to scatter the flames and keep them away from him.
"Are there any limits to what I can do besides not trying to crush you with my reiatsu?" Karzan shouted over the roar of the wind, "because I can think of a few things that would make this more interesting."
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Post by Nero Metora on Nov 14, 2010 22:03:50 GMT -5
Nero spun around upside down and began skimming the entire length of his back against the rough sands without breaking his speed or pace, trying to cause enough friction damage to Karzan to get him to fall off. Then after that, he smashed full speed, back first, into a large sand dune. The weight and speed of Nero caused the dune to burst apart but the impact would surely cause significant damage to the lord of the deep if he were still on the dragon's back. After the impact, Nero recovered quickly and landed on all fours and shook off the hit, awaiting Karzan's next move.
Meanwhile, Virgil and Kyoshin's boredom would soon evaporate. In the distance, movement was starting to stir...hordes of Gillian and normal hollow were starting to enter the area. The roar that Nero emitted had called in these hollow but additionally, it had also attracted the attention of a few adjucha that were moving along with the flow. All of them were hungry and starting to converge on the two arrancar's position as well as a couple stragglers heading towards Nero and Karzan's position and were coming from all around the area. The sight of a couple red dots could be seen...it was cero's charging from a few of the gillian.
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Post by virgil on Nov 14, 2010 22:44:08 GMT -5
Virgil moved himself upward when he noticed the approaching hollow towards their position, his lazy attitude seeming to disappear instantly. A grin crawled across his face as the side of him that sought battle was getting excited, they may be weak but at least there was enough to hold his attention. He unsheathed his blade with his tail and moved himself into a position in front of Nero and Karzan, but at a distance that would not interfere. "Continue your contest," He spoke back to the two as he charged a cero within his right hand. "The commander and myself shall prevent these hollow from interfering!" The arrancar would jump into the air and fire his cero at a group that had been preparing to fire off their own cero's, hoping to meet them halfway. As he came to the ground, he would charge forward with his sword held forward, preparing to slash at the closest group of hollow.
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Post by Karzan Zaraki on Nov 14, 2010 23:47:24 GMT -5
Karzan clung to the spike he was gripping as Nero turned upside down and skimmed the desert sand, the coarse sand shredding his coat and shirt, and scraping patches of skin from his body and arms. Just as Karzan thought he would soon let go, Nero smashed into a sand dune, applying enough force to keep Karzan in place, just long enough for him to shift his grip, getting a better hold on the spike, but causing him to gain a huge bruise on his back, and one of the scrapes on his left arm to open up into a gash.
As Nero landed on all fours, Karzan barely registered Virgil speaking, as he steadied himself on the dragon's back. "You aren't shaking me off that easily,"Karzan said as he made a dash to try and make it farther up Nero's back, closer to his neck, where there was a slightly smaller spike, that would be easier to grip. As he was running, he would charge a Cero in his injured left arm, and fired it at the back of Nero's head which reared above him.
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Post by Kyoshin Oscuro on Nov 15, 2010 10:20:43 GMT -5
Kyoshin tilted his head to the right, then to the left, looking at the approaching horde of Hollows contemplatively. He grinned. It was funny, Karzan and Virgil would always tell him off for eating Hollows, but now, it looked as if he would have to do just that. Conservatively, of course. Not killing too many, just getting the message across to the others that they weren't meant to interfere. Exactly.
He bent his knees, crouching a bit as he watched Virgil start taking slashes at the Hollow with his sword. "What a waste," he said aloud with disdain, leaping high above the white sands and heading strait for one of the Adjucha, which he tried to take down with the force of his landing and began to eat it. Not incredibly flavorful, but there was no such thing as a bad-tasting soul, he thought to himself. Still, he had to be careful, or he might start a feeding frenzy. Or, maybe, that's exactly what he should do...
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Post by Nero Metora on Nov 15, 2010 12:04:38 GMT -5
Nero began to spin rapidly to the left in circles with his head going first. The cero fired from Karzan brushed against the side of his neck and tore away a sizable wound. Nero would brush this off however and kept up the pace, unleashing fire at the sands around him as he went. After completing two circles, he would abruptly stop. The sheer force of this action would cause Karzan to get flung off his back and likely into the fiery sands, since he wasn't holding on anymore and trying to run up his spine. Nero himself would then enter the fire, allowing the flames to cover him. "I can keep this pace up all day Lord of the Deep...can you?" He would roar out, making sure he would be heard by his opponent, wherever he was at this time.
Virgil's cero slammed into a couple of the ceros shot by some of the Gillian, resulting in an explosion which took out a group of the smaller hollow on the ground. The moment he landed and charged, portions of the hollow group began splitting up and running at him from different directions, attempting to swarm him. As Kyoshin was finishing up an adjucha, the first of the normal hollow entered his vicinity, one arachnid type hollow jumping on his back and attempted to take bites out of him with a few more hollow coming up quickly to assist. During this, the Gillian began firing cero's at them indiscriminately, uncaring if they hit the smaller hollow that got in the way.
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Post by Kyoshin Oscuro on Nov 15, 2010 14:08:22 GMT -5
(Nero said I could disrupt the post order since Virgil and I aren't fighting together right now. Basically, three different fights are going on right now, so I'll post in response to Nero's Hollows, and we start posting in the usual order once we're fighting together. If you guy have problems with this, I can delete this post and repost it once you've done yours.)
Kyoshin almost giggled as the Hollows tried to bite into him, their jaws unable to pierce his Hierro and leaving him unscathed. Grinning with his previous meal was still evident on his teeth, he reached around and crushed the spider-Hollow's neck with one hand, doing the same to another of his attackers. Knowing the Hollows were still alive, but doomed to die, he tossed them both towards the swarm of hungry Hollows, hoping some would fear Kyoshin's strength and choose rather to satisfy their hunger on some of their fallen comrades.
Looking up at the descending Cero, the Second in Command fired off a few Bala at the Cero aimed at him, knowing the Cero wouldn't be stopped entirely by the weaker blasts but that it would buy him time to move. Dashing through the Hollows, Kyoshin would indiscriminately reach out and maim or dismember one of the weaker Hollows, trying to incite the others to begin feeding.
"Chaos," he laughed, "is the Law of Las Noches. The strong must eat the weak and so become stronger. The weak shall perish, but they fulfill their purpose in giving the others strength. Sadly, our Law has been disobeyed. The weak continue to thrive, and the strong dwindle in number. This, I shall not allow. These Hollows will learn the Law." With that, he started destroying the Hollows around him, leaving them just barely alive so the other Hollows would have time to eat them. A feeding frenzy was starting.
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Post by Karzan Zaraki on Nov 15, 2010 19:54:48 GMT -5
Karzan was flung from Nero's back, but he did not fall prey to the burning sand that lay below him. As he flew through the air, he would charge and fire a Cero at an angle toward the ground, slowing his decent and keeping him aloft for mere moments.
"Destello-Colmillo."
Karzan's reiatsu would burst, as black armored Hollow skin covered him from the neck down, and a collar of bone white armored skin formed around his neck. Bearing his fangs in a wide grin, Karzan extended the claws on his armored right hand to their fullest length. As he did so, he would fire another Cero, using its energy output to move himself close enough to Nero's body, to allow the claws to penetrate the great dragon's scaled back, keeping Karzan up.
"I will keep up this pace for as long as I need to," Karzan said as he swung forward, snapping the claws and landing on Nero's back once more, "I am Lord of the Deep Halls of Las Noches, and I submit to no one."
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Post by Nero Metora on Nov 16, 2010 12:55:06 GMT -5
"The Lord of the Deep has revealed himself! Good! Submit to no one!" Nero roared in excitement as he felt Karzan hop back on his back. He began to beat his wings ferociously but remained stationary on the ground. This caused the flames he was standing in to become much more fueled, causing a wild inferno to spread and burn out of control both on him and completely around him. Most of the dragon was now covered in white hot fire...all but small portions of his back and neck were ablaze. Karzan was now trapped within this firestorm, left to having dodge random jets of flame that happened to shoot his way as well as staying on the dragon, trying to move up to the crest at his head, which would be difficult since the motion caused by the beating of the wings maintained an unstable walking surface, pitching from side to side. While all of this was happening, Nero brought his fiery tail about and began to quickly whip it at Karzan. While the armor on Karzan would protect most of his body from the blade at the end of the tail, the whipping damage would cause much pain as well as catching the lord of the deep on fire wherever the tail struck.
The feeding frenzy attracted most of the smaller hollow but a few that were closest to virgil and Kyoshin still came at them in a blind hunger. The gillian maintained their cero fire upon Kyoshin as well as a few Adjucha who were moving closer into his range. The first began to charge its own powerful cero while the other two began charging at the arrancar. As soon as Kyoshin would move, the first adjucha would fire his cero at him, attempting to predict where he would move too. Then the other two would pounce.
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Post by Karzan Zaraki on Nov 16, 2010 13:29:09 GMT -5
Karzan ignored the flames around him as Nero shook beneath him, and watched with a grin as the dragon's tail whipped at Karzan. Rather than foolishly try to dodge the scything tail blade, Karzan grabbed it, and held on with all his strength as it lifted him up into the air. AS Nero whipped the tail forward again, Karzan would release his grip, using the momentum to send him toward Nero's neck.
As he was falling, he would charge a Cero in each hand, and fire them at the area he intended to land, scattering the flames in his way, and doing some damage to Nero in the process. When he landed, rather than gripping one of the spikes along the dragon's spine, Karzan extended his claws again, and stabbed them into the scaly hide, all the way to the knuckles, to get as secure a grip as he could.
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Post by Kyoshin Oscuro on Nov 16, 2010 16:50:20 GMT -5
Kyoshin had one hand in the air, firing Bala to stop the descending Cero and make them explode in air, while charging a Cero in his other hand. He saw the three Adjuchas advancing, and leapt high into the air, countering the Adjuchas' Cero with his own. As he descended to the ground again, he aimed his two fists at the pouncing Adjuchas, colliding with them and bringing them back down to the ground under him. He began to devour the two Adjuchas, knowing that the Adjuchas were very few and there were hardly enough of them in Hueco Mundo to be eating such precious resources, but not caring much.
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Post by Nero Metora on Nov 18, 2010 11:20:27 GMT -5
Nero roared as Karzan dug in near the crest on his head. He knew that he was too dug in to be shaken off now. "You are the persistent one...but you are about to be tested. Failure now will result in your death." The dragon before it lifted off out of the firestorm he created. The fiery dragon took off and gained forward momentum, gaining incredible amounts of speed. Once he was satisfied with this speed, he descended, flying just above the sandy surface. Nero then spun upside down and flew straight. "Hang on...Lord of the Deep!" Instead of trying to brush Karzan off his back like he did earlier, fire shot out of his mouth ahead of him. The flames arched down and landed on the surface as Nero penetrated them. The entirety of his back was smothered in a constant volley of fire. This would ensure that, even if he fired off a cero or two, he still would be engulfed. This was the test...to see if Karzan was strong enough to endure the worst as well as the best of being a leader...of being the Lord of the Deep.
(Now starts your countdown Karzan. Hang on for 3 posts!)
As Kyoshin began to feed off the two adjucha, the third that fired the cero pressed one of its palms against the sand. A long, sharp tendril shot into the ground and attempted to impale the arrancar from underneath him. All the while, the sight of a fiery dragon with Karzan on top could be seen, igniting the night sky and placing an eerie light upon the mass of swarming hollow in the feeding frenzy.
(You may post at any point Virgil.)
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Post by virgil on Nov 18, 2010 13:07:14 GMT -5
As the hollows moved around him in an attempt to pincer him the chimera would breath his fire from the back of his throat outward and at one side of his incoming enemies, spreading outward in a twenty foot spread. He then changed his direction towards the other group jumped directly into them, using his strength to bring down a larger hollow he had landed on. He would swing his sword with all of his might to severe the ones that approached him in half. "You may still cling to life if you leave and allow our contest to continue..." He offered, knowing full well that they wouldn't leave, but it would be nice if they would not so mindlessly let themselves be killed. The circle of their lives, he supposed, they existed to increase Virgil's strength.
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Post by Kyoshin Oscuro on Nov 19, 2010 12:54:48 GMT -5
As the tendril shot up to impale Kyoshin, it struck against his Hierro and was unable to puncture his skin. It managed to lift him off of the Adjuchas he was eating, and bruise him slightly, but was only a minor irritation. In response, Kyoshin charged and fired off a Cero at the offending Adjuchas, then he got back to his meal.
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Post by Karzan Zaraki on Nov 21, 2010 14:29:35 GMT -5
Karzan growled as the flames engulfed him, cringing at the searing heat, but this served only to tighten his grip, tearing deeper into the Grand Dragon's flesh.
Loosening the grip on his left hand, Karzan cracked off the claws and had them fired deeper into the dragon's hide, burrowing into its flesh to do some damage, then as the claws regenerated, he would tear fresh holes with his hand to grip the beast.
Now, Karzan opened his mouth, and unleashed a loud eerie howl, hoping to paralyze Nero to gain some respite from the flames, but as he did so, he would charge and fire a Cero from his left hand, nearly blasting a hole through the dragon's back because of the close range.
"I'm ready Nero, but are you?"
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Post by Nero Metora on Nov 21, 2010 19:30:16 GMT -5
Karzan's cero shot into the back of Nero's neck, blasting a sizable hole into his flesh however the most effective action performed by the lord of the deep was the howl... for reasons unknown to the dragon, it paralyzed his muscles, resulting in the dragon to twist and crash into the sand with a giant plume of the sand erupting into the air. Fire stopped erupting from his mouth but he and Karzan were still viciously ablaze....this fire was sticking to whatever it touched, sands, dragon and karzan, resulting in a continuous burn.
The dragon struggled to get up as Karzan re-doubled his efforts and gained an even deeper grip. After 15 seconds passed, the paralysis did as well. Instantly, the giant adjucha got back up on all fours and roared ferociously. Even with all of the damage the arrancar had done to him, his toughness and perseverance kept him going, ignoring the injuries he has taken up to this point. Nero unhinged his jaw, braced himself and began breathing out an even larger volley of fire straight down at the ground beneath them while he flapped his wings. The flames quickly spread out in all directions and crept up the dragon's body again. While he had done this earlier, the unhinged jaw made his mouth larger. The fire spread and overtook everything in the vicinity at an extremely rapid rate, spurred on by the beating of the wings.
(You're at post 2 Karzan)
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The hollow's assaulting Kyoshin and Virgil's position finally stopped and begain to double back from where they came, spreading out in the process. A few stragglers ran at the two arrancar as well as some of the gillian that continued to shoot ceros at the two. The hollow feeding frenzy continued though and would continue for a while, totally unconcerned about the events unfolding around them.
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