MockaDash's Reveries

[MockaDash]

~ Yamata no Orochi ~

~ First Instance: East God ~

It was a boring day on Seretei... The kind of day MockaDash had learned to like!...
It was not cold, but not quite hot either... There was a light breeze that kept the air fresh but did not scale up to a gust of wind... There were some clouds in the sky, not rain clouds, but the enough amount to cover the sun from time to time and create a cozy temperature...

MockaDash was done with his duties for the day, so he thought of taking a stroll by the gardens on the outer regions of the court of pure souls...
He found a quiet place to rest, next to a tree, and sat there with his legs crossed...

Mock closed his eyes, and entered the inner regions of his mind...

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Who are you??? MockaDash asked to a strange azure dragon...

What a strange question to ask yourself... the creature replied, with a voice almost undecipherable...

...ask yourself??? What do you mean by that??? Inside his mind, Mock was sitting in the same place and in the same manner as before, but with his eyes opened to the different reality of a world tainted in purple... Strange wisps of brilliant lavender smoke similar to ignis fatuus were fluttering in the air, as if joyfully dancing to a silent melody... The dragon was accompanying their waltz, but with much graceful movements, as his snake-like body continuously twisted around itself and his hairs like clouds dispersed on the air...

This aura... Do you meant to tell me that you... are... me??? Mock concluded Where's Byakku or Suzaku???

The time has come where you need to face your own self in order to attain greater power!!!!! You cannot remain divided between personalities forever... Not if you want to gain more power!!!

The power is there for you to take it, MockaDash!!!... What you lack, is wisdom of it!!!...

Wait!!! Are you trying to say that you are both of them united???

It saddens me that you are still incapable of even hearing yourself!!!...
I don't remember saying that I'm other than you... So why do you insist in making ridiculous assumptions such as that???

MockaDash was indeed confused... He have dealt with three different "Zanpakutou souls"... Two of them have revealed themselves to him - one as a fiery phoenix-like bird and the other as a white saber-toothed tiger - and the third has yet to do so... MockaDash always thought of them as personifications of his Zanpakutou, so how could it be that a personification for his own mind also existed???

You seem confused... the dragon appeared to read Mock's mind I'll explain things in a way that they are clear to you...

But first of all, let me introduce myself...

I am Seiryuu!!! The Azure Dragon God!!!!!

But that's not my real name... That's the name I choose for this form... This name and the body that accompanies it, are nothing more than a part of your own self!!!... As your Zanpakutou is also a part of your soul, and always has been!!!

You cannot achieve further power while your mind is shattered into four different entities, each of them as distinct as the four cardinal points!!!!!
That's what the "faces" you have come to know mean... They are merely representations of a secluded part of your personality... And, until you are able to bring them out into the light and merge them into one, you can never reach your full potential as a Shinigami!!!!!

I see... Although I find it hard to believe that personalities as different from one another such as Byakku and Suzaku are part of one and only major personality... I understand what you are trying to say... But I never thought possible that what I always had considered as my "own real self" is nothing more than a fragment of it...

So, my "normal" state - sort of speeching - is represented by you??? So, when I talk... Is actually you that's doing the thinking???

Not quite MockaDash... It's the other way around... We are reflections of a certain trait of your personality... We exist only to remind you that "that part" of yourself exists!!!

Think of us as alter egos!!!...

So... How do I unite you... me...

How do I unite myself?????

The dragon emitted a weird cackling sound, almost as if he was laughing...

That's for you to find out my friend!!!
One cannot teach certain things...
The important lessons in life are not taught, but learnt through experience!!!!!...

Having said that, the dragon vanished, as well as the world around him...

~ End of First Instance ~

 

[MockaDash]

~ Yamata no Orochi ~

~ Second Instance: West God ~

The purple world had turned cold and the will-o-the-wisps had frozen in place... The ground was covered by a white mantle of snow that was falling from the skies, filling the air with a mist of white ash...
The leaves on the trees were frozen and looked like crystal versions of the real thing, as stalactites were hanging from the tree's branches...

MockaDash's breath was visible as if smoke was coming out of his mouth and nostrils...

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The Great White Tiger stood there, in front of Mock, like a chimera surrounded in haze... As if the haze itself, was a part of him ...

So... I guess it's your turn to show up now...

As always, you are good at perceiving the obvious, MockaDash-san... The tiger spoke, with a voice as cold as the ice itself... I am Byakko... The God of the West... Lord of the ice and storms...

You were the last personality - let's call it that - to reveal itself to me... Nonetheless, you were the first one to reveal a corporeal presence... Intangible how it might have been, however...

Speak of your justice...

What is it you want from me?...

As straightforward as always, I see...
I heard from Seiryuu that it is possible to merge all of you into one unique entity...

How exactly should I do that???

The tiger stood silent for a moment... His form ever eluding, as the outlines of his body were constantly turning to mist, and in turn, the mist was turning into him...

You must find the link between us all...

MockaDash could not hold back the surprise on his face... Is it that simple???... he asked... Not to the tiger, but rather to himself...

Simple has nothing to do with such a hard task...
And that is only the beginning of your endeavor...

Then please... Tell me more!!!... MockaDash beseech of the Ice God... Please...

I must go now...
No other shall come after me...

What do you mean by that???

The beast released a gush of powder snow from his nostrils, freezing the ground beneath him, as he let out what seemed to be a long sigh...

Despite all the effort we've put on you... And all the information that we've granted you...
Is it still not enough?...
We just ask one little thing of you... That you connect the dots...
And yet... You are to lame to search for the answer yourself...

You are purposely wasting our time...

Comprehension over some thing does not come on a silver platter...
Until you are capable of understanding that one little concept... Your progress is at an halt...

The tiger began to fade, and the pale blue world began to melt into the harsh reality like mist blown by a gust...
MockaDash was reflecting over Byakko's words...

I understand... I deeply apologize for my behavior... From now on, you can trust me to act according to what's expected of me!!!...

The tiger seemed to smile, revealing his large tusks, upon hearing Mock's final words... The God then, disappeared...

~ End of Second Instance ~

 

[MockaDash]

~ Yamata no Orochi ~

~ Third Instance: South God ~

Suddenly, several bursts of lava erupted from the ground, setting fire to everything! The land was scorched and the trees stood in flames as pyres!... Cracks on the ground released their sulfur into the air and tainted it with foul stench...

The world blazed in bright red and orange, and the landscape was reduced to burnt ashes, dark as the darkest of moonless nights!

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A flaming bird came bursting through the ground, enveloping everything in searing flames! He almost seemed to have been birthed from the ashes of the wasteland, and brighten this vicious world like a sunbeam escaping through heavy clouds!!!...

Did you summoned me, MockaDash-dono??? The bird spoke, with words that resembled fire crackles...

Yes I did, Suzaku-san... I've been thinking, and I believe it is time to take a more incisive course of action!...

I do not understand what you talk about, MockaDash-dono...
Why is my presence needed here?

Indulge me please... Tell me your name...

The Bird God kept hovering in place, flapping his heavy wings from time to time, each of those times smoldering some more embers...
He spoke with eminence in his voice...
I am Suzaku! Lord and sovereign of the everlasting flame of life and death! I am the South God!

Mock stood silent for a couple of seconds, as if unaffected by what he had just heard, or by the way he heard it... That's what I thought... So there is only one cardinal point remaining... he said out loud, talking to himself...

You seem to be making some progress... But whether your efforts will come to fruition or not, it is yet to soon to know, MockaDash-dono!

Yes, I understand... But I think I'm closer than ever, to an understanding of your reasonings!...

I recall Seiryuu mentioning that his semblance and title was nothing more than an option of his... I believe now, and quoting Seiryuu himself - or myself, for that matter - that each personality is different as the four cardinal points... And each of you, entities... Is being represented by one of these directions... As if you all are pointing at different goals, or paths for me to take!...

Very good, MockaDash,sama!
But you are merely pointing out the difference in us, instead of what makes us the same...

Yes... and, NO!!!!!

Like I said... Your looks and names are nothing more than a representation of what you mean to my mind... They are ways for my memory to respond to you as independent manifestations of a whole!!!...

There is no Tiger, no Dragon, and no Phoenix!!!... There are no "Cardinal Points Deities"!!!...
I only depict you in that way, because of the innate apartness that I create among you all!!!!!

Suzaku was silent once more... He then spoke... Yes... You have come to realize that... But what then, MockaDash-dono?

Now... I demand to see "him"... The one whom refuses to show himself to me... I know him to be within me, so I can summon him with same ease as I summoned you!!!
The thing that was lacking in me, was just this tiny piece of acknowledgment!!!...

I demand that you show yourself to me, "God of the North"!!!!!

~ End of Third Instance ~

 

[MockaDash]

~ Yamata no Orochi ~

~ Fourth Instance: North God ~

As the bird vanished like a fire extinguished, all the flames vanished with it...
All that was left was a decadent landscape of ash!

An earthquake was felt and fissures were formed, as if the ground itself was tearing open large scars, that devoured the ashes... The clouds dissipated and gave way to a brilliant blue sky, as plants and grass began to grow in the matter of seconds! everything was covered in verdant green...

A last tremor ripped a hole in the field, several meters away from MockaDash, and a giant turtle came from within the earth... The blue sky turned dark and a blood moon rose on the skies...

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So you finally show yourself to me... KetsuekiZenchou!!!!! Mock said...

The God remained silent...

MockaDash stood up and wiped the dust off his clothes... he raised his head to meet the turtle's crimson eyes... What's this form's name???
Again, the turtle remained silent...

I demand to know!!!!!

The creature roared ferociously and stomped the ground with his right front paw, the ground shook and Mock almost lost his balance and fell...

Why do you keep hiding yourself from me??? We could work together, instead of against each other!!!

The beast finally spoke... I am Genbu!!! Master of the Earth and God of the North!!!

I do not submit my will to another's!!!...

You will to me!!! Mock promptly replied... You're no God!!! You're nothing but a fragment of my own self!!! I will not lose control to this dark side of mine!!!...

Genbu cackled... Do you really think so??? Yes, I am a part of you... But that alone doesn't give you control over me!!!

I'm your Zanpakutou!!! We're like symbiotic beings... Both don't necessarily have to take benefits from this relationship!!!

And you should know... You cannot tame me by words!!!...

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!
This was Mock's response... This were his "taming words"...
He aimed his right hand at Genbu and finished the incantation...

Hadou # 31 -- Shakkahou

A large red ball of reiatsu was sent from his hand and exploded when it collided with the Turtle God's head...
Smoke and debris were thrown into the air... MockaDash knew that he wasn't going to be able to convince Genbu by any means other than brute force!... That was the only thing that the beast respected and recognized!...

The smoke vanished and Mock could witness that Genbu was completely unaffected!...

So be it, little one!!!...

Now you are talking my language!!!

If you want it so badly, I'll give you a chance to obtain it!!!...

It'll also be a good chance for me to get a final grasp over your body, and leave that weak thing of yours, that you dare to call a soul, confined forever to this oblivion that is now my home!!!!!...

~ End of Fourth Instance ~

 

[MockaDash]

~ Yamata no Orochi ~

~ Fifth Instance: Tsukuyomi ~

What once was Genbu, was now becoming a beast with 8 heads and as many tails. The initial head sprout out of the giant turtle's shell, and the long neck that was thus being formed divided itself and a reptilian head emerged at each neck's ending. The original head belonging to Genbu also changed form and its shell turned into the same scales that covered his remaining body, now green in color.

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The creature spoke to MockaDash... Is that the best you can do???

I am Yamata no Orochi!!! You won't be able to defeat me with what you've just done... Using lower-level kidous against me... Pathetic!!!

MockaDash had actually used the strongest hadou he had learnt so far, and released it after chanting the incantation. Demon Magic, however, wasn't his best edge. Nevertheless, for such a spell to be countered this easily, he figured he would have a tough time dealing with this "monster".

Looking at his right hand where his favored nodachi would be, Mock frowned, for he did not see it there. Raising his head to glance at the towering beast in front of him, he figured that since this 8-headed serpent, was a manifestation of KetsuekiZenchou, that Zanpakutou would be working against him...

Having thought of this, actually brought a new idea to Mock's mind... He smiled at Orochi.

Opening his right palm, ash started to appear from nowhere, and gave form to a katana in there. Have you forgotten, that you don't hold all the power? You share it with two others at least...

I would like to introduce you to a sibling of yours... This is KajinKami!!! Say hello to your brother!!!

MockaDash jumped into the air, until he reached the same level of height as one of Orochi's heads. He held the katana behind his back, in a battoujutsu stance. Aiming to slice the head in half, two other heads of the beast came at him from each flank. Mock placed his left arm stretched in order to hold the snout of the beast's left head, so to not let it dig his teeth on him. His right hand that was griping the sword, held vertically, was rammed against the other head's teeth.
Mock stood locked between both heads - left hand and foot on top of the left head's jaw, and katana against the right head's teeth. He looked to the head in front of him (the one he originally intended to cut) and saw as it came at him, with his jaws wide open!

Unsan!!! Mock yelled, releasing the katana, that once again turned to ash. Since there was no sword to block the right head's thrusting force, it came at Mock. The Shinigami made use of the support he had from his left hand and foot, to perform a backflip on Orochi's left head. The three heads, having no time to pull back, collided against one another.
The ash from Mock's Zanpakutou had been left hovering in the same place as it was, meaning that it was now inside those three heads of Orochi.

A fourth and fifth head came at MockaDash, that was still on top of the creature's long neck. Shitsunen he said, and a blazing pillar of fire erupted around him, repelling those heads away. As the red flames grew hotter and began burning blue, they "melted" through the beast's neck and Mock landed on the ground.
However, before he did - while he was falling - he pointed his right hand in the direction of those three initial heads (that were still recovering from the blow) and clenched his fist while muttering... Moetsuku.
The residual ash spread throughout those heads had entered through nostrils and mouths into their throats. The ash burst into small explosions, that acted like a chain reaction, destroying the heads from within.

Upon landing, Mock looked up, and saw that three heads have been literally blown apart! Only five remaining... He thought.

Orochi twisted on himself, to make possible for some of its tails to attack Mock. He started to repeatedly plunge half dozen tails at Mock, as if they were spears. The shinigami was continuously trying to dodge them as they come at him. While doing that, Mock was summoning the ash from the Zanpakutou to his side. Small dust-like clouds began to emerge from the cindered remains of the burnt heads, and flew to Mock's side.

The ash gave form to a katana, once more, and Mock hacked away at the tails. From time to time, they would graze him, but he didn't mind. With a strenuous effort, Mock was able to slice through three tails, but they were all still coming at him, even the ones who ended in stubs now.
He realized he had to cut the heads!

MockaDash jumped high in the air, yet again. All five remaining heads charged at him, but now only one at a time, to avoid hitting into each another.

Charging reiatsu on his limbs (similar as to shumpo), Mock avoided the incoming heads in midair, by moving to the sides as he went up. After reaching the last and highest head, he pierced its right eye with the katana, causing blood to gush and the reptilian creature to roar in pain and anger. Resting his left hand on the remaining eye, Mock uttered with a grin... Hadou#1 -- Shou Pushing the eye through the beast's retina and back into its brain, the head fell to the ground, dead!
Mock continued floating on the air, be focusing reiatsu under his feet. The remaining heads came up at him...

~ End of Fifth Instance ~

 

[MockaDash]

~ Yamata no Orochi ~

~ Sixth Instance: Amaterasu ~

The four remaining heads came rushing towards MockaDash, who stood on air, above them. Pointing his left hand towards the heads, Mock casted a bakudou. Bakudo #4 -- Hainawa
A chain of yellow reiatsu jolted from the tip of his index finger, and constraint all the heads, locking them together when Mock pulled his arm up. With the other hand, the Shinigami threw his blade at the coiled heads of Orochi. While in the air, and as Mock muttered the command Ko Jin, the katana fragmented into ash that became a cloud of dust. the dust flew inside all of the nostrils and open mouths of the several heads.

Moetsuku Mock uttered, and the ash ignited inside the beast's body. Blowing up the remaining four heads to pieces.

While landing on the ground, Mock reshaped his katana, from the ash that was flying away from the burnt corpse into his hand. He had a bad feeling, but couldn't figure out why. Orochi had been quiet for some time, but nothing had changed. Not Mock's surroundings, not the ominous aura that hung around him...

Just to be on the safe side, Mock decided to chop off every head and tail (starting with the heads). As he was finishing cutting through the 4th tail, Mock found a sword's hilt in there. Pulling it from within the monster's flesh, he discovered it to be a nodachi. But not any nodachi... It was KetsuekiZenchou!

Holding the Zanpakutou in his left hand (the katana was still on the right) Mock heard a strange groan, and looked back to see where it was coming from.

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A fiercer and menacer Oroshi was rising behind him. All eight heads have been revived, and the body of the beast had turned into a somewhat amorphous mass of energy that swirled out of his body as if it were smoke.

Leaping high and backwards, as the beast charged at him, Mock brandished the nodachi in the air - with some effort due to it being on his left hand, and to the fact that he was holding another sword on his right. Nevertheless, the motion should be enough to achieve his intentions - releasing a wave of condensed dark reiatsu at his foe. It wasn't!
The attack Mock intended to do and acted accordingly to, almost instinctively, was not released. As he had thought, KetsuekiZenchou was rebelling!

As the hydra-like creature slammed into him, MockaDash had only time to shield himself from its attack, by crossing both blades in front of him.
The Shinigami succumbed under the flowing gathering of "dark matter".
An evil shrilling laughter echoed in this shadow world, inside Mock's mind. The evil laughter of KetsuekiZenchou's personification.

Suddenly, ashes began falling from above... Two of Orochi's heads looked up intrigued. A bright light irradiating from beneath the monster shove him aside, as a pale-eyed and gray-haired MockaDash emerged from within it.

Fu Setsu! Mock said, releasing from within him a wave of reiatsu that was as chilling as an arctic wind, and almost seemed to blew Orochi's essence away. The falling ash turned to snow and covered the ground with a white mantle.
Mocka had released KajinZenchou as usual, by joining the nodachi and the katana thus merging both into a dual-bladed naginata - with one dark blade and one white one.
Normally he's not able to release his fire-element Zanpakutou followed by his ice one, in a short period of time. But this was a different world, that abide by different rules!

This will be an instant kill!!! the Shinigami taunted, at which the beast merely replied with a bellow as he, once more, rushed towards Mock.

Itsuryu KaijinZenchou!!! He said, while plunging the white blade on the snow. The snow instantly froze in place, and the ice started to spread in a straight line towards the incoming menace. Tsurara!!! Several giant icicles shot out of the ice at close proximity to Orochi, similar to ice spikes, and pierced through its body. As it was ethereal however, no damage was dealt to the beast, since it simply twisted its forms around the spikes forming holes in itself, remaining unharmed.

A faint smile run across MockaDash's face, as he was happy to try out a new move he had long thought of... Ichibanmeshiro -- Koori Gokusha! [First Castle/White, Ice Prison]
The ice of the icicles shifted shape, spreading to all sides and collapsing on one another, quickly forming themselves into a large ice cube, hollow on the inside, containing Orochi within.
The creature savagely rammed against every wall to try and brake itself free from it's confinement, but to no avail.
But even if he could get out, Mock wasn't planning on giving it time to do it.

Nibanmeshiro -- Fuhen Gyokuei Denkaku! [Second Castle/White, Everlasting Crystal Palace] As Mock uttered those words, the walls forming the prison, changed shape once more, almost instantly "releasing" sharped spikes to its interior, that were coming from every surface. The spikes crossed in the center and, since they were actually longer than the height of the cube, they pierced through to the outside.
The resulting visual effect, was no longer that of a giant ice cube, but instead a crystalline and shimmering unorthodox castle - thanks to the several spiked structures that pointed out in every direction, building their way to the top of the structure.
The resulting effect to the one trapped inside, however, would be death from multiple stabbings.

Seeing that his foe was still showing signs of life, from within the "transparent chamber", but had become weaker, Mock gave the coup de grâce... Sanbanmeshiro -- Hyouki [Third Castle/White, Ice Age].
The ice on the structure, merged together, freezing the creature held within itself.

It was over. Or so did Mock think...

A surge of reiatsu could be felt leaking from within the ice. It shattered the ice prison, blasting ice in every direction...

The final battle was about to take place!

~ End of Sixth Instance ~

 

[MockaDash]

~ Yamata no Orochi ~

~ Seventh Instance: Susanoo ~

Coming soon!!!

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~ End of Seventh Instance ~