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Post by Karzan Zaraki on Jun 6, 2012 10:20:41 GMT -5
This place was a blight on the already barren landscape of Hueco Mundo...areas of the desert sand were cratered and glassed from the intensity of the energy that had been unleashed here by Karzan and Clyde. The stone trees that came up from the Menos Forest were shattered and scattered across it, as the strange aura that enveloped the fissure attracted Hollow from all around.
Karzan looked on in disgust as the Hollow devoured one another...so glad was he to be free of the hunger that had plagued him back then. All the power he had now was finally his own, not merely borrowed from those he had eaten...every bit of strength he had gained since changing into an Arrancar was earned and belonged to no one else.
"But for what reason did I gain this strength?" Karzan said aloud to himself as he gazed at the horde of creatures, "I decided my goal was to take all of Arrancar-kind with me, away from the path of the beast...but perhaps that is not my path..."
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Post by Nero Metora on Jun 6, 2012 10:41:54 GMT -5
"Isn't it funny..." Nero would appear behind Karzan and to his right, cresting the dune he stood upon. "We spent most of our hollow lives in a trivial pursuit of power. And now that we have it..." He would scoop up some sand in his hand before letting it slide slowly out and into the wind. "...we do not know what to do with it. Gain power only to now seek its meaning... what will happen when we gain meaning? What will we have to search for then?"
Nero bowed to his lord before he continued. "Perhaps that's the meaning behind it all for us my lord... a never ending search for that which we will never have. An abysmal thought... but a possibility nonetheless."
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Post by Karzan Zaraki on Jun 6, 2012 11:13:47 GMT -5
"The meaning of power is simple enough," Karzan said dismissively, "what I seek is much more than that...I seek my reason...for everything...my raison d'etre, my 'reason to be'. My goal is to remove our kind from our Hollow roots, just as the Shinigami have removed themselves and Hollow from their Human roots...but perhaps my method is flawed."
Karzan turned to look at Nero, his eyes glazed over, deep in thought. "I sought to free myself from the path of those beasts, and now I seek to free others...but I had beasts behind, snapping at my heels every step of the way...but I have removed them from this motivation..."
Karzan's eyes suddenly cleared, and he looked Nero in the eyes, his face stoic. "You said that you would follow me as your lord...would you follow me still if I appeared to abandon this world we call home? If I made the Espada my enemies?"
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Post by Nero Metora on Jun 6, 2012 11:36:42 GMT -5
Nero walked slightly past Karzan, his eyes looking over the distant dunes... over the hollow feeding on each other. "I have lived for a long time... walked the dunes... ate hollow... for a long... long time." He turned to Karzan again and looked right into his eyes. "Then you came along... you who proved that you would die for your beliefs... to die in achieving your goals."
He took a knee before the lord of the deep before he continued. "You have proven yourself to me long ago. For that I will follow you into the depths of Hell itself if need be. That is my purpose and I accept it."
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Post by Karzan Zaraki on Jun 11, 2012 14:14:02 GMT -5
"How lucky for you," Karzan said with a smile, "to have your purpose and path laid out so easily before you...the luxury of the servant is to follow his master, but the master has the task and curse of choosing the path that they both must walk...so be it."
Cracking his neck with a quick twist to either side, Karzan readied himself, letting his pent up frustration loose with a sigh, his Reiatsu expelling at the same rate as the sigh, scaring away the Hollow that littered the area around them. "Then you and I shall walk the path of the beast once more friend," Karzan said with a fierce grin, "we will push these sordid fools until they despise and shun us...you and I shall be the beasts snapping at their heels!"
As his speech reached its climax, Karzan charged at Nero, fist drawn back, a feral snarl twisting his features. When he closed in he would released the punch, bringing it down and up in a swooping punch aimed for Nero's stomach. "So we will need every bit of strength we can muster, for all of Hueco Mundo will be our enemy!"
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