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Post by Karzan Zaraki on May 11, 2012 14:23:32 GMT -5
Karzan sat on his throne, listening to the sounds of Hollow making war in the Fissure, and the dull thud, and light patter of foot steps in the halls of Las Noches. Two Hollow would be out in the hall, summoned by the Lord of the Deep. One was a loyal servant, the other, a pet left behind by Karzan's predecessor; Anubis. They were powerful in their own rights, but with the exception of the dragon, they were not very useful to him. Nero Metora, Karzan's draconic steed, and Slyx Zythen, a wily fox-like Adjucha whom he had disliked since their first meeting, were to become Arrancar...freely or otherwise. While the novelty and appearance of power having a dragon as his steed was appealing to Karzan, Nero was far too noble and powerful to continue to subjugate in such a way, and his loyalty thus far required a reward. Changing Slyx would likely appease any dislike she had for her Lord, and still create a useful soldier even if it didn't.
"Welcome," he said quietly when they finally arrived, "I have been waiting...it is time you joined the ranks of Las Noches as true beings...to shed the hunger that plagues you and gain true power...to remove the masks that hide your truth."
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Post by Nero Metora on May 11, 2012 20:05:46 GMT -5
Nero walked on all fours into the throne room, having received the summons from a courier arrancar a few moments ago. He bowed before his master and sat, listening to what he had to say. "Remove my mask...." He spoke out loud. He had never thought of having it done to him before now. "Is such a thing possible with adjucha such as I? I thought those of the Vasto class were able to do it alone."
He was taken aback a bit by this proposition. He sought to gain strength and power all of his lengthy life but never had he thought of attempting to become an arrancar... at least not before becoming a Vasto Lord first.
(Sorry for the short post. busy getting ready for the wedding tomorrow. ^_^)
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Post by Slyx on May 13, 2012 19:10:16 GMT -5
Slyx was in a cave like structure that she was using as her home since her last one was destroyed. Her eyes was on the arrancar that approached her and relayed the message before her of her summon's to the Throne room. She'd nod her head and stand up, stretching her sleepyness away. She'd sure enough make her journey to Las noches, where she'd find out what he wanted of her. From her running, sand was shooting up behind her showing the straight line of where she was coming from. And when she got to the great building of the arrancar, she'd stop at the main doors as the sand rolled in behind her, slamming against the wall's and doors, covering her approach of which way she wanted to go since there was many places she could enter from.
But surely, she'd open the massive doors and walk in. Dust shot in as the doors closed behind her and she'd follow her nose. Picking up the scent of Nero, she'd follow it to see if he was going to the same place and sure enough, he was. She'd see his tail going through the main chamber door for the throne room. She waited alittle and followed right after him. Walking on all four's she felt....Small compared to Nero. She was more likely to be stepped on by Nero then greeted by the massive Giant of an Adjucha.
"We all grow up so fast, I accept your offer Lord Karzan...but one question before we start...is this going to hurt like hell?" She'd tilt her head a bit, standing on her hind legs and shrugging.
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Post by Karzan Zaraki on May 14, 2012 22:30:43 GMT -5
"The level you are as a Hollow has no relevance to your ability to change...if you have the will and the determination it can be done...it is normally only the Vasto Lordes that have the presence of mind to know themselves well enough to remove their masks...but I can show you who you are."
Karzan's response to Nero came just as Slyx entered the room and spoke. "Physically it will hurt for mere moments," he replied, "but it is no easy thing to face yourself." Stepping down from his throne, the Lord approached the two Adjucha, looking at Slyx and coming to a stop in front of the fox Hollow.
"Are you read to know yourself," Karzan said he touched his index finger to the Hollow's forehead, "and to reveal your truth to the world?"
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Post by Slyx on May 14, 2012 22:45:40 GMT -5
She'd slowly bow before Karzan as he placed his index finger on her forehead and would simply reply to his question. "I am my lord, show me the way to reveal my true self. I'm ready for the trial's ahead of me." Keeping her head down in respect to the Lord of the deep. She didn't know what to expact now.
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Post by Nero Metora on May 15, 2012 0:06:39 GMT -5
"As am I... my lord." Would be Nero's only response to Karzan, even if the lord of the deep only meant to question Slyx alone. The great dragon was to become arrancar... he was about to step into the highest echelon of hollow there was and it all started to sink into his mind.
"What must I do?" He posed the question to Karzan as he watched him walk up and poke the mut adjucha in the head. Perhaps he wouldn't have to eat Slyx after all."I am ready to serve, my lord."
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Post by Karzan Zaraki on May 15, 2012 10:18:10 GMT -5
"I am only the instrument Slyx...you know yourself by your own power."
As he spoke, Karzan's contact with the Hollow fox would let him seep into her mind, and begin extracting her thoughts and memories, all of them coming to the surface as they flooded his own mind. Then, when he knew all that she knew, and knew that which she hid from herself, he poured it back. All of her darkest secrets, every memory stored in the souls that made up her being, and of the soul that maintained her core personality, taking over her mind. When the flood of memories was at its peak, he gripped her mask, and tore it from her face, and her Reiatsu exploded outward, only to be sucked back in. It surrounded her, kicking up dust into a cloud that hid her from view.
"And so by knowing the truth of yourself you have transcended Hollow," Karzan said as he stepped back, "the knowledge of your truth will fade with the pain...but now you have reasoning, to discover yourself again, more naturally."
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Post by Slyx on May 15, 2012 10:30:16 GMT -5
She would watch the memories flash through her mind. She'd feel his hand on her mask. Rip. Her reiatsu would explode around her as she'd begin to yell at the top of her loungs as she'd begin to change form. Nero would have to take a step away from her while in this meer state of her's.
"YYYYAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!"
Everything would stop as a thud was heard. Slyx would be on an knee looking down, breathing heavily. She'd open her eyes and see her hands different. They weren't paws anymore, they looked, Human. She'd stand up with her Zanpaktou forming on her back. She'd blow heavily, making the dust shot away from them. She now stood at 5'10. Her eyes looked around every where.
"...I feel...alive again..."
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Post by Nero Metora on May 15, 2012 18:36:32 GMT -5
Nero looked on as Slyx's mask was torn from her and her figure becoming more human. He now understood the process... however a giggle escaped from Nero's throat at the thought of Karzan trying to pry the mask from the dragons face. It might pose a problem... what with its size and all.
(OOC: Short and sweet... my turn)
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Post by Karzan Zaraki on May 15, 2012 20:28:20 GMT -5
"Do you think that little of my strength?" Karzan said with a smile as he guessed the reason for Nero's snort of laughter, "besides your mask will come easily enough when you understand what's underneath."
Stepping on the reishi in the air, Karzan walked casually up to Nero's head, looking his loyal servant in the eye. "Know yourself Nero," he said as he made contact just as he had with Slyx, "feel for a moment the pain of your souls, just as I feel mine."
And so the torrent of memories began again, flooding back and forth between the Lord and his servant. In it he mixed his thoughts of his dream for the Arrancar...to free them from what they had become. In Nero he hoped to create not just a servant but perhaps the first true 'friend' he would have since Abel departed...the first step to building the world he envisioned, and the 'family' that Rose was looking for.
"Will you help me?" he said just loud enough for Nero to hear, as he gripped his mask and tore it off with ease. Stepping back as he had before he brought himself back down to the ground, and once again waited for the smoke to clear.
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Post by Nero Metora on May 15, 2012 21:06:05 GMT -5
As Karzan floated back down from the head of the dragon, Nero was rendered speechless. His mask had been torn viciously away but he was in another world. A world of memories recent and long lost. He was back in his glass cavern, being awoken for the first time... impaling an adjucha and devouring him. He was back to when he first formed the cave, torrents of fire burrowing into the sand, turning it into the glass cave. Then he went back further to the battle with a spider adjucha.
He relived his whole life as a hollow within mere moments... then he had visions... his point of view saw his hands but in human form. He saw dead bodies... carcasses rotting in a ditch while healthy humans looked down upon him. He felt... hatred. Immense hatred... hatred so intense it felt like it was the first time experiencing the feeling. Nero's eyes widened as he stood upon his hind legs before Karzan and Slyx but his memories continued regressing further into the past. Memories of him stealing food to survive... breaking into dwellings of others... being alone... then it ended in a flash.
At the end Nero roared as the full extent of his reiatsu and fire exploded, enveloping the area around him. A roar louder than anything he's ever released escaped his mouth and echoed loudly throughout Las Noches, shattering any window the boom came into contact with and being released into Hueco Mundo as he himself was enveloped by his own fiery reiatsu which had combined during the process to form a silver firestorm. This blocked onlooker's view of him completely. The energy shot out and upward, it's leading edge moving skyward in the rough shape of a dragon which blasted a hole in the ceiling and escaped into the night sky. The roar kept continuing as if Nero were fighting with an opponent beyond comprehension... as if he were in pain beyond that which anyone had ever known. And then the energy... the fiery dragon came crashing down which resulted in another, much larger detonation. Nero's roar subsided but the sound of the explosion replaced it, threatening to overtake Karzan and Slyx.
Then it went silent... dust having been kicked up an enormous cloud that refused to reveal Nero. When this dust cloud began to slowly subside it would reveal a glass crater with electrical energy crackling around and within its perimeter. Then the center was revealed... as was Nero's new form... a surprisingly small humanoid form who's face held a blank expression. His eyes scanned over the destroyed portions of the throne room, then to Karzan and Slyx... then to his new hands, body and newly formed zanpakuto. He moved his fingers and squeezed his hands, getting a feel for his new form. He then lowered his hands to his side and looked to Karzan as he simply said "My sword is yours... my lord." He was now an arrancar... and even though his sealed form was small and lithe.... there would be something about it that was unsettling about him.
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Post by Slyx on May 16, 2012 20:31:08 GMT -5
She stood up as Nero was going through his transformation. She had to jump out of the way to stay out of the blast radius from nero. Her eyes stayed on him as he was going through what she went through. Her hand went up to block most light from the explosion that went off. But once everything was calm and settled, her attention went back onto Karzan and bowed once again. "As is mine my lord..." Her new form felt different for she came acustom to her walking or even running on all fours. Now she was standing upright, like a human again, like the rest. She was now part of the family as well as Nero.Walking back to where she was which was near the creator that nero made in the throne room. "How does this feel for you Nero? By the way...you got a massive mess to clean up." Her head would tilt his way and her eyes once again on him. She looked him over and saw his Zanpaktou beside him. She'd grab her sword's handle and unsheath the long sword of hers and looked it over. Slyx would swing the it one handed as if it was like a feather to her.
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Post by Karzan Zaraki on May 18, 2012 14:56:22 GMT -5
Karzan backpedaled away from the intense blast of silver fire, settling down at a safe distance to watch the proceedings. He couldn't help but let a smile cross his lips as Nero's form was revealed from the ashes of his Throne room. "I will need much more than your sword my friend," he said as he walked toward the newly formed Arrancar, "we have much work ahead of us."
Stepping carefully so as not to step on any sharp debris, Karzan finally stopped between the two new Arrancar. "Go and accustom yourselves to your new bodies," he said as he looked first at Nero, then at Slyx, "Primera and Decima...I place Nero on top and Slyx on the bottom...my first attack and my last line of defense...Nero is also to be the leader of the Exequias, while Slyx will be in charge of the Serpientes1 both of which are now resurrected."
((Note 1: Serpientes translates as Snakes, and is the new name for the Stealth Force.))
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Post by Nero Metora on May 18, 2012 16:48:15 GMT -5
Nero looked at Slyx while she spoke, the question she posed coupled with her reaction to her own transformation... slightly disgusted him. "It is just a transformation... I still am who I always shall be." He then looked at Karzan as he spoke, proclaiming him Primera and leader of the Exequias as well as giving Slyx the rank of Decima. Indeed he was this... as he shifted the left collar of his uniform a bit he saw the number 1 tattooed on his chest, just to the left of where his heart was located.
He fixed his collar before he spoke again. "As you command, my lord. I shall return once I have become acquainted with this... new form." Even with the incredible boost in power he had obtained, he couldn't help but feel... squishy. "When I do return... I shall wish to inspect the Exequias under my command promptly. Until then, I bid my lord farewell." Once he finished he'd bow his head, then glance over to the other arrancar. "Slyx." He then used sonido to exit out of the hole in the ceiling, his destination was a mirrored cave he heard about.
Watching Nero sonido after just having become an arrancar along with the violent nature of the transformation... it all would reveal that, even though he were weaker than Karzan or Kyoshin currently, he became an arrancar at a much higher power than any other had when they first transformed into the humanoid form. It revealed his frightening potential.
(Exit)
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Post by Slyx on May 18, 2012 22:33:04 GMT -5
Slyx didn't say anything as she stood there and listened to what Karzan had to say and what Nero said as well. Her number formed on her throat as she sheathed her Zanpaktou on her back again. It was an honor to be the leader of the Stealth Forces. She'd bow her head to Karzan. Seeing Nero leave they way he did, she shrugged. 'As if there isn't any doors you could have taken.' But this was a different feel for her and she would have to get use to being upright again.
"Thank you lord Karzan." She'd turn away and walk out of the Throne room unnoticed by the other Arrancar that was nearby and head for the ruins of the old mightly castle of Hueco Mundo. She'd also begin to talk to herself once again. 'It seems Karzan has Nero as a friend...must be nice...looks like I'm a loner still...better get training and also get use to this new form.' Once outside, she'd begin to Sonido to her destination. When she got there, she'd exam the area to make sure no one followed her. She'd leap to the tallest tower.
[Exit]
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Post by Karzan Zaraki on May 22, 2012 10:23:19 GMT -5
"I shall also have to train," Karzan said after the two Arrancar had departed, "because I don't think Kyoshin will remain apathetic for very long...I must prepare for when he regains his will to fight."
And so Karzan too left the throne room, going off into the Moonlit Sands of Hueco Mundo, both to train, and to search for new recruits. He needed to surround himself with powerful allies, and this time he would carefully select them...only those who shared his dream would remain in Las Noches some day, but until then he needed to protect himself, and the dream he harbored.
[Exit]
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