Requiem For the Innocent [Event]

[Rose Leocadia]

Rose gasped as the sudden speed of another shinigami caught her off guard, easily knocking her attack off balance and preventing her from finishing the warrior at her feet. This one appeared to her as an intense brownish-orange that raged like a wild fire; it would have been quite frightening for her if she had not seen strong reiatsu like it from people like Kyoshin and Lord Karzan.

Just when she thought things would get difficult with this knew opponent, a brief darkness filled her vision…Kyoshin’s darkness as he sonido’d next to her. Thanks to their training earlier, she instinctively knew that the commander had appeared before her and not only finished off her original opponent, but engaged the stronger shinigami as well.

It was…odd. She was gracious for the assistance but at the same time, this was battle! She could not have her arrancar brethren be coddling her during the middle of their war…she needed to fight too. Distracted by this confliction in her mind, she did not even notice the arrow of the quincy that nearly struck her if not for Brago cutting it down. Her head turned between the two a few times, before she gave a flustered, "I…I’m fine, Kyoshin!”

Keeping her attention towards the baby blue hue in front of her, the quincy, she saw a similar color of another human approach. This one attempted to attack all three of the espada with some sort of energy like attack. To Rose, it was impossible to distinguish what the human had done as it just appeared as one long line of “color” across her vision. But defense was not needed as Nero’s roar would disperse the attack with its destructive power. Rose’s own white hair flowed with the rhythm of the attack.

Now she felt truly ashamed, not only had she been protecting once, but now three times by her family. Was she such a burden on them? She could not stand for this; she needed to be able to hold her own. “Yes…I’m fine.” She repeated softly, “Please just focus on that shinigami, Kyoshin...” She lifted her sword up in an offensive position and began to trot in the direction of the two humans, “I’ll…take care of these two, I promise. I can handle them myself, so both of you please,” She said, directing her words to both Kyoshin and Brago, “Allow me to do this on my own.”

With that she would push off the ground and as quickly as she could fly towards the two human, firing a quick flurry of bala between the two, landing in the area they would most likely separate from. “I do not know who you are…though you both must be strong for humans to engage the espada so recklessly...” She began to say towards the two, her voice still soft and delicate, but a hint of cold harshness underneath. “But I will not let the others down. If you are enemies of Lord Karzan, than I shall eliminate you!” She declared towards the two swinging her sword across the ground, causing a section of it to uplift from the strength she held on her slim frame. With this announcement came the raising of her left hand, which charged with the energy of a cero. With a yell she fired the blast towards bluer hue of color, which was the female human. Her vision did give her one advantage...it was much easier to tell that the girl was had far stronger reiatsu than the boy, who's color was practically overlapped by hers. With that in mind, she knew which was the more dangerous.

[Slyx]

In the distance, an opening came in sight as one meer hollow walked out. The hollow and seeing the battles actually drawn her to it. She felt alot of power in this area.

"Heh, seems like no one can keep the noise down, but it seems to be the best time any to come in and try to give a helping hand, like it help at all hahaha..."

Her eyes glided across from building to building and began to rush to the scene of the fight. Her body went from running across the building and then began to leap to cut time down. Her eyes saw the sight of shinigami and thats when Slyx would be seen in the battlefield. Slyx dove off the building she was currently on and jumped onto her victim which was a meer underling of the Shinigami. The claws of the hollow dug in at the shoulders of her victim, taking a quick bite at the throat. She'd somersault off the now bleeding shinigami and tore out hunks of meat with her claws and landed behind him as the now badly injured shinigami laid on the ground bleeding to death. Blood ran down her jaws as her eyes were black for she was in the mood to kill.

"Ah, fresh blood to wake me up....lets get this party started hehehehehe"

[Sven Delacroix]

Sven's gaze was directed upwards as the silvered hair Arrancar's ears twitched slightly. So many sounds filled his ears, a symphony of miraculous noise that was able to be used to his advantage. The unmistakable roar of the arrived Nero broke the barrier, Sven smirking as the shards of glass showered down from the window panes on the buildings around him. It was about time for Sven to reveal himself from within the masses of his Hollow brethren swarming around him.

Trailing upwards, Sven noticed the faint blue reiatsu of someone who took to take advantage of his three comrades. But from his Pesquisa, the individual only seemed to be a remarkably high powered human near yet another one of the sort. Humans served no purpose to him, let the others deal with her. His targets were the Shinigami, he had no qualms with the other spiritual beings. His knees bending slightly, Sven pushed himself upwards towards the opposite direction of his fellow Arrancar, yet his platinum gaze remained locked on one of the Shinigami, the one who watched as Sven took on the wind wielding Captain. He also was a subordinate to the trashed mechanical Shinigami's master. He'll do nicely as a lure.

A static buzz and Sven was soon underneath the Shinigami distracted by the Adjucha pursuing him, his robe fluttering behind him in the breeze as his hand waved upwards, a silver light gathered across his palms. A quick chop towards the air sent a single Bala of pure white rocketing towards the Shinigami from below. Several more chops would send ten more Bala rocketing at a slightly different trajectory in case the Shinigami should move out of the way of the Adjucha's Cero and the first Bala.

[Heinrich Dieter]

“Kacke…” Henry muttered through clench teeth as his “branding” arrow was stopped by another arrancar. There were a lot of them…too many of them. Small beads of sweat gathered on the shot boy’s brow as he took a few steps back. This was a terrible idea and he cursed himself for it! Usually, Henry would have never done something so reckless, but here he was knee deep in hollow infestation. On his own he was no match for one of them let alone three or four. Just went it seemed like he might actually try and make a hasty retreat however, The girl he had bumped into at the high school arrived, sending a powerful attack towards the arrancar.

“Ack, Senpoy, from ze school!?” The german-accented boy stumbled back with surprise as the girl landed next to him, complete going by unnoticed by him until she had made her presence known. Her commands were simple but effective; any questions the boy would have thought to ask at that moment left his head completely as he formed an arrow in his left hand. This girl was confident, and looked to be very strong. Just standing next to her Henry thought they might actually stand a chance…if only for a second “Right, questions ah meaningless now; I’ll take vhatever help I can get. Heinrich, by the vay.” He introduced himself quickly just before she jumped into the air. He followed her attack, shooting a volley of arrows with incredible speed thanks to the expertise of with his bow…however the arrows seemed to shatter as a sound wave raced past them, shattering windows all around them.

Recovering from the attack, Henry raised his head just in time to see the flurry of bala’s being sent their way and managed to jump to safety just in time from Rose’s attack. “Whew! I think vee only managed to piss her off!” The quincy snarkily commented to the older girl, though his disposition quickly turned to worry as he saw the sheer amount of power the female espada had. “I don’t know vhether to be relieved or vorried that she wants to fight us by herself…” He added quietly, not intending either of them to hear him. When Rose lifted her hand and revealed a cero in it, Henry used the chance to create another branding arrow and fired it at the espada while she fired the blast at Miwa. Unfortunately the girl was on her own when it came to dodging that; Henry hoped she would so as not to feel bad for not really being able to stop it.

[Nonko Ryuuza]

"Oh the memories of battle." Nonko said as he continued to watch the conflict that took place. Nanako, who was still by his side, turned to him with a confused look on her face for a moment. "Nonko-sama?"

"When I took part in the Onigami war I saw many battles like this. People slowly pooling into an area that would be like an arena for combat." Nonko paused for a moment. Memories of a long time ago flashed in his head for a moment. "I hated then and I hate it now the same, but I can see what can be learned from this."

Nanako listened as Nonko spoke. He didn't make much sense to her, but maybe thats cause she wasn't a real shinigami like him. She had no real concept of war beyond whatever was told to her.

"The mistakes that can be reviewed and the information that can be gathered. With everything this kind of combat, this kind of battle, this kind of war can provide. I can learn much." Nonko reached for his sword and pulled it slowly from it's sheath at his side. He didn't hold it in any combat ready stance and he didn't flare up his reiatsu for anyone to notice. He only looked at the blade with a cold expression on his face.

[Azerik Zaraki]

Azerik hid behind his sword as the Adjucha unleashed the blast of energy. The blast raged around Azerik's sword, singing his sleeves and scorching the wood of his Vice-Captain's badge. The blast pushed him into a nearby building, causing the bala to fly by Azerik unnoticed. Azerik became embedded in a wall of the building on impact, which was thankfully devoid of windows thanks to the dragonesque Hollow's that had appeared moments earlier.

"Bakudou #63: Saju Sabuka!" Azerik shouted as he struggled to free himself from where he was embedded in the building. AS the chain like ropes of energy wrapped around the skeletal Adjucha, AZerik would pull himself free, and move to dispatch the Hollow.

"Inju Joukai," he shouted as a ribbon of Reiatsu burst from the tip of his sword. Using his Zanpaktou's ability, Azerik wrapped the ribbon around the blade, to augment his strike as he slashed down the middle of the Hollow's mask.

As soon as the attack was done, the reiatsu on his blade dissipated, and Azerik became aware of a static buzzing noise, and he looked down in time to see an Arrancar ascending toward him, and began to move his blade to a defensive position.

[Takehiko Rokujo]

Takehiko's eyes went wide as he sensed another presence appear near the Espada he had just blocked. He turned to see his comrades head crushed by the foot of an Arrancar who's skin resembled the pallor of a frostbitten corpse, cold and unable to rot. Anger appeared in the mountain man's eyes, which narrowed as a Gran Rey Cero was fired from the hand of the same Arrancar.

Takehiko slashed at the blast, seeking to set off its explosive nature early, to dull the potency of its impact on him, knowing he had no time to react differently. The chaotic blast of energy exploded as it hit the Shinigami's Zanpaktou, burning the exposed and already scarred flesh of the mountain man, and pushing him backward. The blast also had the fortunate effect of destroying the Hollow that Takehiko had been attacking, showing that this new enemy did not care for most of his comrades...only for the female.

"You fight well Arrancar," Takehiko said from within the smoke caused by the explosion,"but you have made a grave mistake by attacking my comrade in such a cowardly way...I had the courtesy to leave yours intact, so that's like spitting in my face."

When the smoke finally cleared, the Shinigami was revealed to be smiling, burn wounds on his chest and unarmored right arm bleeding freely, and his left eye blinded by blood dripping down from his scalp. This man smiled because in the heat of battle he felt no pain from his wounds.

"My comrades call me the Rokujo Mountain, what do they call you Arrancar."

[Anubix Haru]

Anubix decided to come out of his moment of meditation in the mountain's at Soul Society. He'd get his things together and got a portal ready with a handful of shinigami soldiers and went through. His right foot would step right next to Nonko. Dust shot out from his mask with his eyes looking over the battlefield, also avoiding Nonko's sword with it unsheathing.

"Woooaaah, watch where you unsheath that thing, you can poke someone's eye out with that."

The 6'6 captain would have his arms resting on his twin Zanpaktou's handles. The tall captain would watch most of the battles going on. In his mind they should be able to go Bankai with whats going on and how bad of a battle it is. He shook his head at the blood shed that is unraveling before him. But soon enough, he saw a dragon on the ground below, knowing it's a hollow.

"Well Nonko, better make ourselves useful"

Anubix would jump down unsheathing his Zanpaktou's. He'd land with dust and dirt shooting up into the air. He'd look for a nearby target and to be frank, there was plenty of it around him. So he'd start slicing hollows down, but would notice a Quincey who was fighting, but his gaze would go to an Arrancar that wasn't really fighting. So he made his way towards the one known as Brago, slicing hollow down two at a time. Blood dripping down his swords, and splatter across his clothing. He smiled a bit for it's been to long since he was in a battle. Brago would see the 10th Division Tachou coming towards him, just slicing hollows in his way.

[Kyoshin Oscuro]

"Rose..." While a bit of emotion bled into his voice, Kyoshin's cold expression only hardened as Rose reacted how she did, understandably indignant that she, the Tercero Espada, was being so constantly protected by allies. The young Arrancar knew he'd promised her he wouldn't keep her from harm's way, but now he knew he could never be true to that. This wasn't simply being hurt, she could be killed, just like the hollows being slaughtered all around them by these merciless Shinigami. What he couldn't realized was that right now, he, Kyoshin Agotar, was scared. For Rose, for himself. He'd always been strong, he'd never been concerned for the outcome of a battle, always sure in the back of his mind he could win, but now he felt truly frightened that he might never see her again, and he didn't know how to cope with it. "Rose," he said again, all tenderness gone from his words as he spoke to her turned back, "If... if I can't protect you, as... as a friend, then as you are an asset to the Espada itself, I shall not let you die here! I-I can't... I won't!"

However he did nothing to stop her as she walked to her newly chosen opponents, knowing their strengths through his Pesquisa and feeling they were adequately weaker than her in most respects, though he still couldn't stop fearing for her. But he had to take his mind off of her, at least for a moment, as the Shinigami he'd engaged finally beat his Cero, reprimanded him for killing his ally, and introduced himself with a nickname, probably meant to intimidate his enemies. Kyoshin regarded the man icily but with a bemused look in his eyes as he took his heel out of the corpse below him and took a step forward.

"There's no honor or humanity in battle, Shinigami, and you know it. There's death all around you, and no form of mercy to be seen. Fortunately so for your friend here, death simply means you Shinigami are reborn as humans. Death for me and my Hollows, we perish and the souls composing us and our former human identities are reborn as your kind, while we ourselves... are not." He became evidently furious and his voice suddenly fell to a menacing growl as he demanded of the Shinigami, "You honestly expect me to believe that you would have let my companion live, while you fell the selfsame Hollows we are left and right around her? Don't take me for a child... I do not blame you and your kind for purifying us, nor do I truly wish to annihilate you all entirely, as you play an integral role in keeping this world turning, but... Regardless of this war's end, you won't leave this field in one piece."


(EDIT: Forgot to control that Adjuchas, will put some wording in when I have time, but I got Midterms today, lol, so IDK when)

[Brago Kiryuu]

Brago slew a low level shinigami that wandered within his blades range. As the shinigami fell beneath the blade he looked up through the bloody haze and saw a shinigami moving towards him slaying hollows left and right. The shinigami looked strong and he was focused on him. Brago smiled his lips pulling up at the corners. He flicked his wrist the blood from the shinigami splattering across the ground. As he closed the distance he whistled and the hollows separated creating a large bloody circle around himself and the shinigami. What can i help you with reaper? If you wish to die that will be an easy wish.

[Redwinters]

***NEW CHALLENGERS APPEAR***

Kyoshin & Take:

"TAAAAAAAAKEEEEEE!" A booming voice yelled out from above as suddenly a huge anchor, resembling something out of a naval vessel, fell down in between both the shinigami and Kyoshin, causing a shock-wave that would most likely force the two away from each other BEFORE they could engage. The anchor was attached by a long chain-link that went up into the sky. Following the chain showed it wrapped around the right arm of a very muscular shinigami, who was just a few inches shorter than Take himself.

The man abruptly landed next to the shinigami, giving a both of them a better look at him. The man sported long blood red hair, as well as the typical shinigami robes. A scar running through his left eye made it obvious that he could only see from his right, but the man looked very skilled just from appearances. Calmly, the man looked over at Take, before delivering an annoyed kick to the man's backside. "The hell are you doing, running into the middle of the battle like this, mr.unseated officer!" He reprimanded the man, with a clearly irritated yell.

"Of our unseated your are one of the strongest, we need you to protect the back lines..." The warrior explained...or in this case, reminded, Take of how the battle should be fought, "you know how inexperienced they are in battles like this." He added, quietly. "I may not be as good as you...but I do currently out rank you. "Pending" captain, remember?" He said with a hardy laugh as he pointed his left thumb to his chest. Lifting his right arm, the anchor would lift up from the ground and the chain would receded around his arm, allowing the man to take hold of the narrow top to it before resting it on his shoulder. Holding it only expressed its size, which was nearly as big as the man was.

"Right now I need you to keep the others in check. I'll take care of this guy, don't you worry," He claimed confidently, eyeing Kyoshin down, "Or my name isn't Daisuke." After he made these words clear he lifted his weapon back up, clearly his zanpakuto in its shikai, and pointed the large end towards the arrancar. "You might as well forget about him, I'll be your opponent from here on out. Daisuke...11th division captain. Er, well, pending this battle anyway. Bah...Here I come!" He added the last part awkwardly before shunpo'ing towards Kyoshin, taking a downward swing at him with his mighty weapon.

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Reiatsu: 180
Attack: 200
Speed: 230
Weapon Skill: 220

James:

Just as James began to boast and taunt the other hollow to attack him, he would have his answer granted. Other hollow began to circle around him, hungry for the reiatsu they sensed in the human. However the spiritual pressure from another being seemed to scare them off in other directions...as if convinced to leave this one for somebody else.

Just when James would begin to wonder what that was all about, an arrancar smashed down at the concrete directly in front of the human. The first thing James would notice about this arrancar is that while she did look humanoid, it seemed most of her hollow features were still intact; indeed, she was not a full arrancar but a pseudo-one instead. On her back 8 long arachnid like legs sprouted down to the ground, 4 of them holding up her slim frame off the ground while the other 4 pointed themselves toward James. Her face was half exposed, showing a young face with purple hair hanging loosely; the other half had a mask over it resembling the skull of a spider almost.

"Quite the confident boy...you are." She said with a seductive tone in her voice as she licked her lips in hunger, "I'm gonna enjoy feasting on that soul of yours!" Not even waiting for the boy to respond her spider-like legs charged towards him, the four aimed at him taking turns stabbing towards him like blades. One look at them would tell the human that they were certainly sharp enough to stab into him!

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Reiatsu: 120
Attack: 80
Speed: 60
Weapon Skill: 80

[Miwa Kiyomizu]

"Damn it!!!!" Miwa's legs bent as she landed on the ground, absorbing the impact of the moderate height she had fallen. However, her outburst was more due to the fact that as her eyes shot past her shuriken, a shrill blast of a Hollow's roar caused her to cringe, as the shuriken above her exploded in bursts of electricity, as her Tesla Coils, glimmering a faint blue collapsed towards the ground. Yet there was one good perspective, she had managed to attract one of the Arrancar towards her and the Quincy's location, which meant her plan still could succeed. She hadn't expected the shuriken to hit, so it was of little concern even though she kinda hoped she got the first hit in.

Heeding very little attention to the Quincy she had once again landed near, she merely caught the name of the individual, replying with her own, "Miwa" indicating she had at least heard the individual as a quick nod of her head accompanied it. But now was not the time for idle chit chat as her eyes remained locked of the female arrancar, a barrage of Bala ready to rain down upon them as her reiatsu flared up, blue electricity engulfing her body, as her feet turned slightly in anticipation. The first Bala, moments before, Miwa's foot launched herself forward as the Bala collided into the earth behind her, propelling her into the air as she shot a livid look towards the other ones, her face breaking out into a malicious grin as her eyes briefly turned towards the Arrancar, as both of her hands began to glow more fiercely with electricity.

Her reiatsu, now directed towards her palms, was brought upwards with a wave of her hand, as a short arc of electricity made contact with another one of the Arrancar's Bala, cancelling it out with another explosion as Miwa spiraled downwards once again, her hair fluttering wildly around her body as her smile remained, her gaze still on the Espada. During her descent, Miwa called out mockingly in response to the Hollow, "I don't know who this Karzan individual is, but tell him he needs to train his pets better." Miwa was of course referring to Rose and the Hollows around them when she said pets, because honestly, she was expecting more. "At least, give me a challenge, you pathetic excuse for a Hollow."

Miwa's feet landed with a thud as she met the ground once again, as her eyes immediately darted to the glowing ball of reishi as her left arm shot up in front of her, a large voltage of electricity engulfing it as it slowly took form, a electrified circular disk growing in size as she ducked behind the forged defense, her voice shouting out frenzied towards the Quincy who she hope was still nearby, "Heinrich, now's your chance!!!" The Cero bore down upon her and her shield, the white light of the blast all around her as her right arm pressed up against the shield for support, as she felt the weight pushing down on her. Her eyes would slowly drift towards a fracture in the shield, slowly etching it's way across the barrier which defended her. She just had to hold on for a little bit until the Cero ceased. She just hoped the shield would hold, as she glanced at the singed areas of her flesh which became partially exposed to the blast.

[Nero Metora]

As he looked on at the carnage taking place ahead Nero formulated a plan in his head. He quickly began galloping down a side street that ran parallel to the major area of battle. After he had gotten up some speed he quickly took to the air... beating down with the unbridled strength in his wings but remained under the view of the rooftops at first... then gained altitude gradually elevating him into the sky. At the same time this was happening the 3 gillian he brought with him fired their fully charged ceros down the main street towards the epicenter of the battle. Two of the cero blasts tore through the sides of buildings on either side of the street where the shinigami were thick... causing the buildings to collapse down upon them. The third blast was aimed directly at Daisuke and fired right when he was in the middle of his downward swing of his zanpaktuo.

Meanwhile... Nero circled high above the battle area. He had a perfect bird's eye... err... dragon's eye view of the entire battlefield. From there he spotted a lone but strong shinigami perched up on top of a rooftop just on the edge of the field of battle. He would keep a mental note of this as his attention turned towards the adjacent side streets that surrounded the main road. While not having as many combatants... he could see crafty shinigami attempting to flank the Arrancar's position from both sides.

He turned... then swooped down towards the street he spotted the flankers on. Once he was at rooftop altitude and was flying above the street he let loose a torrent of fire from his mouth that engulfed and spread through the street entirely...flames lapping up the sides of the buildings. A glassing run which caught the shinigami off guard and would cook them alive in the inferno. Nero would swoop back up into the air again riding on the thermals and repeat this action to another side street... killing any and all shinigami... humans and hollow unfortunate enough to get caught in the firestorm. Nero didn't care... anger washed over him from a time long past... anger that took the form of fire... fire that now washed over and turned the streets into glass. Anyone witnessing this raging inferno would notice the fire also wasnt dying down immediately... in fact they continued to burn with immense intensity.

One thing Nero hadn't taken notice to though were the slight sparks that kackled quietly every now and then on the protrusions of his wings.... the static electricity his wings had begun to gather from the air whilst in flight.

[Rose Leocadia]

Rose’s “vision” was filled with white coloring as it splashed across the blue aura that represented Miwa’s shield. The girl’s reiatsu was strong, almost as powerful as Rose’s own, but far less refined. It made it difficult for her to visualize the girl’s appearance, but it did not matter to the female espada. She promised she would defeat them on her own, it did not matter how strong they were so long as she could beat them. She say that her cero was beginning to win out against the girl’s shield, before she heard the young one call out to the other fighter. Which easily caught her attention.

Rose’s head snapped over to where Henry was, her vision clearing up as it left the view of Miwa’s reiatsu. The boy’s reiatsu was much smaller but much better trained. It was clear from the feeling it gave off that he was a specially trained human; a quincy perhaps but she could not be sure as she had never encountered one before. She tried to use her vision to make out what it was the boy was doing, but his arrow had the same reiatsu as his body causing the projectile to blend in with him in the background. None the less, she heard the arrow being fired. Her left arm still raised towards Miwa, the white haired girl flung her golden blade horizontally in an attempt to knock the arrow away. Unfortunately, she missed and the arrow hit her stomach. Fortunately, her heirro easily protected any damage from the attack as the arrow merely bounced off body.

“You’ll need much more power if you want those kind of attacks to harm me…” She warned with a hint of coldness in her voice; she did not seem to realize the after effect of the arrow. On her stomach a brand of some kind seemed to appear, but her blindness prevented her from noticing it. Her cero having worn off by now, she would throw three more bala’s from the same hand at Miwa before she would grab the hilt of her sword with both hands and jump towards the quincy, swinging her blade down at him and the ground at his feet. When the blade would hit the ground it cut into a section of the concrete and using her strength attempted to pry it from the ground with her blade and fling it at the boy.

[James]

James rolled to the side of the sudden attack, his witty response lost before it ever had a chance and was quickly replaced with a gasp of pain as one of the legs scored a glancing blow on his arm. Without time to think or check how badly wounded his arm was he attacked while her offending legs were still full extended charging the girl's legs that were supporting her body closest to him in a attempt to either break them or knock her of balance so she would be that much easier to fight. Besides with the shear amount of energy being released around him it wouldn't take long for him to be able to fight at his best.

"Hey pretty lady, wanna wrastle"

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Reiatsu: 128
Attack: 104
Speed: 40
Weapon Skill: 40

[Sven Delacroix]

"Ah, how zweet. Iz zhat blade intended fur me?" Sven commented with a hint of sarcasm as his irises trailed lazily towards the Shinigami's poised blade. Another buzz and the image of the silverhaired Arrancar faded, his image reappearing on the Shinigami's level a few feet away. "How longz itz been, Zhinigami, sinz we lazt met? Now,now, monsieur, iz zhat all yu have to greet me with fur our reunin, a blade zhat juzt skewered my comrade?" Sven smiled briefly, his hands digging deep into the pockets of his uniform, a little too carefree given the situation. His goal was the Shinigami in front of him, as his Pesquisa gauged the reaper's strength, but it was incapable of gauging how much skill this one had. Even though it didn't appear as such, Sven's feet were positioned in such a way that he would be able to react swiftly to any manuever, Haciendose Viento hanging from his his uniform, within easy reach should need be. "Zo, Zhinigami, yu readi fur yur funerol?"

[Heinrich Dieter]

"She didn't notice the branding effect..." Heinrich noted to himself as the espada warned him of her heirro. As he observed her it was obvious why she did not see the brand as her eyes were bandaged up. What interested Henry was that, despite the bandages Rose seemed at least some what aware of Henry and Miwa, as she had successfully aimed attacks at them and, although failed to stop it, noticed his arrow flying towards her. Somehow, despite being physically blinded, she was able to keep track of them. Was it some form of increased senses...or something else? He wiped the beads of sweat accumulating around his brow as the espada send another attack towards Miwa. The Quincy used the time to continue examining his opponent, trying to understand her handicap and hopefully find a weakness.

When Rose turned her attention back towards him however, he nervously took a step back as she lifted her sword over her head. Watching carefully, he barely managed to dodge the sword strike, but was soon flipped over onto his butt when she ripped the concrete apart at his feet. "Oof!" He cringed at the bad fall on one of his legs. His eyes nervously tracked upward to the arrancar that stood above him...not enough time to scramble to his feet.

Knowing she would strike again, he needed to move fast. Lifting his left hand he called out, "Schreiend!" Suddenly, to Rose only, the brand would send out a screaming sound in her head that distract her or at the very least catch her off guard. With the effect in place he rolled backward back onto his feet before stumbling up into a standing position. He would continue to back pedal, preparing another branding arrow, hoping Miwa would act soon. If Miwa took some sort of action, he would attempt to fire another arrow, hoping to brand the arrancar once more.

[Shakan]

"This place sucks..." A man said to himself at a bar in the Spaztic Reality Club. He hadn't been in Karakura town long... having gotten thrown off a boat at a harbor near here for stowing away in the cargo hold. He had stumbled across this club which always seemed like a party was happening.

"Another shot buddy?" The bartender yelled as Shakan nodded. A shot glass filled with a blue mixed drink slid down the bar to him as the dance floor was filled with the twisting bodies of young drunk college kids partying up like idiots. Above from the speakers boomed "You got the moves like Jager! You got the moves like Jager!" The white haired visitor facepalmed then slammed the shot down... it was his fifth. "This place is garbage... I would love to smack the owner of such fail."

A few moments later he would be seen being thrown out of the front doors by two bouncers and landed on his ass with a thud. He stood up slowly and brushed the dust off his red coat... then he noticed the strong feeling of power nearby. "Holy shit... I've never felt such a concentration of power before. The hell is up with this place?" He began making his way to the area of the fight using bringer light to get there as quickly as possible. As he got closer he came across a few roads which were engulfed in flames which forced him to go around. Once he made it to the main street he saw a sight which baffled him.

A few blocks down he could see swarms of hollow. While he was familiar with hollow creatures... he'd never seen more than three at a time. What's more... he saw a few black robed people with swords fighting these creatures en-mass. He'd seen one or two before but only brief glimpses. He thought they were just spirits. "What the fu--" He almost got out before being interrupted by a hollow to the right of his position that lunged at him. With speed and motion much practiced he pulled his left sword out and impaled it into the hollow's face and down through its neck while it was in mid-air. When the body fell stiff to the ground Shakan pulled the sword out and swung it around to sever its head. The hollow fell apart and dissolved.

"What the hell!?" He was stunned at the sheer amount of hollow about. "Who the hell are these bath-robed guys?!" He referred to the shinigami.

[Kuro Akuma]

The battle had officially begun in the small yet active town of Karakura. The spiritual forces of shinigami and hollow alike flooded the streets of the active town causing many of the unaware humans to be slaughtered like the lesser beings they were. A few of the aware humans had come to aid the shinigami rather they agreed with them or not to stop the onslaught of hollow that continually rushed the scene from massive gargantas that hung over the town for those aware even the sight of which would give a feeling that this was a very dangerous situation.

Patiently a man waited amongst the high rooftops of a building that was towering over the battlefield below. It had been sometime since his presence had been known, and it would had stayed that way if not for the events that had began only minutes ago. His red hair swaying in the wind as the yells and screams of the innocent mixed with that of the fallen from each of the spiritual forces. "I can't believe he would slow allow such an attack knowing that he supposed allies called this realm their home." The figure would say to himself as the chaos continued, "Suppose people change.. I myself am a testement of such." The elder said as a hollow flew towards him yelling as if doing a bonzai attack. Placing his fingers together he would force reikei into the tips giving them a razor like effect thrusting his hand forward his fingers would slice through the mask of the hollow destroying it instantly.

Continuing to watch the events below scouting all the same Kuro would find that arrancar had began to engage both shinigami aswell as spiritually aware humans. For some time now Kuro had called the shinigami his enemies, but his time alone had given the one time ninth division captain an knew outlook he had been wrong for years and now his actions would show that he no longer would be any threat to them . His new goal to aid the spiritually aware humans in developing and controlling their strengths after all they only wanted to protect their realm aswell. The vaizards focus would lock in on that of a quincy and another spiritually talented human as they worked together to fight off one of the attacking espada. For now he would watch and not interfeer, but if the situation got bad for the two he would make sure their safety was promised.

Still he knew that the only way to help maximize safety was to help the shinigami stronghold and give the unaware and paniced humans a chance to exit the battlefield. Jumping from the building Kuro would open his right hand his sheathed zanpaktou appearing in his palm as he grasped it quickly and headed to the back line of the battle were he would begin to engage numerous hollow as the humans ran away tring to create a larger distance between them and the hollow.

[Azerik Zaraki]

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Reiatsu: 140 + 35 = 175
Attack: 190 + 35 = 225
Speed: 160 + 35 = 195
Weapon Skill: 140 + 35 = 175

Azerik looked at the Arrancar warily, keeping his sword in a defensive position, ready in case the enemy should attack. "To be fair, I didn't exactly skewer it," Azerik said with forced humor, "I just cut it in half."

Using one hand, Azerik pretended to adjust his glasses, pressing the button on the right side of the frame, and the projector for the left lens flickered to life, showing statistical readings for the Arrancar as they were analyzed. Azerik allowed himself a small smile as he saw his opponents strength...he could make this work, as long as he kept his enemy from using their full strength.

"Question is are you ready for yours?" Azerik said with bravado, "Because you're the one leaving here in a body bag."

Playing the part of an overconfident fool, Azerik charged the Arrancar, slashing at him, not using any of his abilities. If the Arrancar retaliated, Azerik would attempt to block, but try and make it seem like he was having trouble doing so...he was gonna play this up as best he could.