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 Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:03 pm
As one walked through the deserted streets, they find destruction everywhere. Some spots are better than others, but for the most part death is everywhere you see. Towards the middle of the Sereitei is the Academy, once a majestic place of awe and wonder. Now, however, it is but a shell of it's glory. Rusted metal support beams and splintered wood litter the area around the once serene building. The sun was high in the sky, yet dust that lingered in the air still made it seem like dusk. Tonight this once magical place was going to made into a war zone once again as Lerato and Zaine went head to head in their first spar since school.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:12 pm
Zaine leaned against a broken pillar, tapping his foot impatiently, his cross shining in the fading sunlight and his giant Zanpakutoh clanging light as he tapped it on the ground, stirring small clouds of dust up which blew away in the eastern winds, which were stirring his clothing and his hair. "Where is that b*****d?" he asks aloud, a wry smile on his face "Well he was always late, even back then." he says and continues his wait
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:30 pm
Lerato smiled, walking in from the distance. A small dust cloud rose as he came closer. "Yes, I know I'm late Zaine and I apologise. It took a while to find this place again. After all, it doesn't look like it before, does it?" He asked, looking around to the destruction of what was once their home. "It's good to see you again. How's life been treating you?" He asked as he shluffed off his robe. Folding it in half before setting it down to reveal a large pink scar running from his collarbone to about mid-bicept. "Shall we get this show on the road than?" He inquired, his voice taunting him as his right hand moved to the hilt of his zanpukato. Once he touched it a chorus of barely audible whistles and booms sounded. This would be the first time Zaine would have seen his sealed zanpukato.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:42 pm
Zaine grinned "Nice scar there, reckless as always I see." he says wryly "Good to see you got your Zanpakutoh." he hefts his own blade, holding it out in front of himself horizontially fully displaying its length and twin blades "Like mine?" he asks then spinning it adaptly he plants the blade in the ground and bows, "Good luck my friend, you have first strike."
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:58 pm
"Yes, well I never was one to pay attention to where I was going." He smiled, stretching before unsheathing his blade. "Well, it's big." He laughed, though he was truly amazed that his friend's zanpukato had decided to take such a shape. It was only when he started moving that it was made obvious why he was named one of the fastest in his class. "Lets see just how fast you can move that thing shall we?" He taunted once again. The chorus of booms and whistles sang loudly as he swung on a diagonal from Zaine's left shoulder to right hip. The little sunlight that made it through the clouds of dirt that hung in the air shattered once they hit his blade, making the metal a gorgeous rainbow of squelched titanium. "You shall be the one to need the luck Zaine." He laughed when he was close enough to whisper the sentence.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:08 pm
Zaine chuckled slyly "If you insist, I've gotten a lot faster than you remember, and better at this" as he finishes his sentence he releases a fairly powerful reiatsu blast from his blade, knocking Lerato's sword aside "Think fast." Zaine says before appearing at Lerato's side "Who needs luck now?" he says with a grin as he slashes at his friend's side with amazing speed.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:30 pm
He drops to one knee as Zaine knocks away his sword by releasing a reiatsu blast. Zaine's blade went flying just above his head. "Not bad," he started, performing a swipe kick to the back of Zaine's legs, "but not good enough.." After the kick he rolled backwards, pushing off with enough force to propel him up on top of a piece of scratch metal. Standing upright on the metal piece, he braced his left hand with his right. "Hado #4 White Lightening!" He called out his most proficient kido. The feeling of his reiatsu compress and focus inside his hand brought a large smile to his face. "I never get tired of this." He smiled wider as the beam of electricity shot from his index finger, making him almost fall from the beam. "You still need the luck my friend. Sadly, the only kido like ability you seem to excel in is that reiatsu burst of yours. I on the other hand can use kido with very little dangers nowadays." He laughed, recalling one of the times in which his 'thrust' sent him flying back into a wall instead of sending the clay ball across the feild.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:44 pm
Zaine winked at Lerato as he landed on the ground, rolling back he stood still until the lighting was almost upon him "True that my friend, however it's all I need." he says and sending a pulse of reiatsu from his feet, launches himself into the air, neatly evading the attack while in midair he begins to spin his blade, creating a disk "Told ya I learned some new tricks, still glad to see that the Kidou teacher's lessons finally stuck." he says evilly
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:04 pm
"Oh, come now, I wasn't all that bad back than. I mean sure, I blew some stuff up by accident but who didn't?" He laughed, watching as his blade formed a disk. "Oh boy, pretty shapes; does it do anything useful?" He wondered aloud as he lept from his perch. His sword was used as a deflection agent as he sped towards his friend. Locking his arm into place as he chanted the incantation of another kido. "Disintegrate, you black dog of Rondanini! Look upon yourself with horror and then claw out your own throat! Bakudo #9 Strike." His hands seemed to move on their own accord, forming the appropreit manuevers to complete the spell. When he was done with the incantation a bright red light shot forth towards Zaine, bent on paralysing him long enough for Lerato to be able to make his attack and get back into a defensive stance.
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:56 am
Zaine grins "Of course, I'm not one for useless flashy moves." he says and while still in the air he releases another pulse of Reiatsu sending him flying down to Lerato, blade still spinning during his descent he continued to evade his friend's attack with smal bursts to change direction "Ready or not, here I come!" he says
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:55 pm
Lerato smiles, standing in place until the last minute. At this point he rolls backwards, evading Zaine's blade by a hair. Rolling back into a piece of metal he kicked off, once again flying at Zaine. "This is going to get us no where. You realize that right?" He chuckled, their blades clashing for the first time. "You're right though. You've gotten much quicker than the days at the academy." He smirked and gave a powerful shove against his blade. In one swift motion Lerato jumped up and used Zaine's zanpukato as a brace as he jumped up and over him. Doing an aerial flip allowed him to land facing Zaine's back. In another swift motion he raised the tip of his blade to Zaine's back and waited. There was no way he could bring himself to draw first blood. "Have you shown your reiatsu bursts to your captain yet?" He asked. If he was able to create this strong of reiatsu blasts, it shouldn't be long before he was able to perform shunpo, even if it was to a lesser degree.
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:02 am
Zaine grins "Good, I had hoped you could dodge at least that." he says with an evil grin, "Well then, should we take this seriously then?" he asks answering his friend's question, Zaine chuckles as he feels Lerato's blade at his back, shaking his head he releases a fairly strong pulse into the ground kicking up a massive dust cloud. Making visibility near zero, "Haven't had a chance yet, she's getting married and we were freeing the Sereitei, It'll be a while I'm guessing till I ask to show her." he says, his voice somehow coming from multipul directions
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 3:52 pm
"Zaine, would you give me some credit please. A child could have blocked that." He stood stoic and unmoving. "Of course I want us to take this seriously. If we don't then what's the point?" He asked. He kept his blade where it was, the blast of reiatsu blowing air and dust alike at him. However all Lerato did was close his eyes and concentrate on Zaine's spiritual pressure. Where it was highest was likely to be where he was. "You haven't learned yet, have you Zaine?" He chuckled as he stood in his place. "If I can't see through the dust, then neither can you and while you can play with your fancy reiatsu bursts, I tend to use something a little more practical. I can detect where you are, and what your doing with that trick of yours." He stood still for another few seconds while he brought the image of the surrounding area to mind. A second later and he was sprinting, but it wasn't towards his friend, it was towards a rather large piece of metal. Once he had gotten close enough, he lept into the air, planted his foot on the metal and kicked off back to where his friends spiritual signature was. While in the air he began to swing this zanpukato in a large 'X' like fashion. Most would have been worried by the time he was in the air, but for him, it seemed natural. It seemed... right. Once he landed he took on a more powerful Kendo-like stance. Placing his left hand just under his right he took off again, his feet moving much faster than other unseated shinigami.
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:15 pm
"That's what you think, never were imaginative though." he says chuckling lightly, as Lerato reached an empty spot where his spiritual pressure had seemed to be coming from "Looking for someone?" Zaine whispers in Lerato's ear, sounding nonchalant as he puts him in the same posistion the Zaine had been in moments before
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:41 pm
"Imagination is for those without the ability to know the facts." He smiled while breaking his stance as he swung his left arm out to me Zaine's nose. Though it would make his swings weaker, it would allow him more maneuverability. His blade came whizzing around as it attempted to slash from his left shoulder blade to his right hip once again. "I never said it was perfect, but it allows me to see your actions while you are left in the dark about mine." Flipping back into the shade that the dust left he planned his next move. A soft padding could be heard from afar, something most would think was just the impatient tapping of a man waiting for the next more, but in truth he was searching for something. 'There we go..' He thought to himself as he rolled a sizable rock onto the flat surface of his foot. With a jerk he sent it straight into the air, only to be redirected with another swift kick which would split the rock into two pieces as well as send the two pieces flying towards Zaine. The only sound the rocks would have made as they came towards him was covered up however as Lerato took the offensive position again, the padding of his feet more then covering up the whistling that the rocks would have made. The rocks would reach Zaine just a split second before Lerato's blade, the chorus of his zanpukato quieting to a level that appeared to be playing only in the owner's head.
[I don't know if you're able to project reiatsu to a differant place unless you send out a blast of it. And even then, I think the highest concentration would be where you are. Just saying. I'm not sure, so we should ask a captain or something.]
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