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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:56 pm
Entering a great room filled with pillars, they were standing on small platforms standing in mid air by some pillars, he waited to guide the newly arrived arrancar to her new duties.He had a couple of exercises in his mind that would help shape her both mentaly and fizicly.
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:24 pm
Sara followed the man the red-eyed woman has called Hielo into the room full of impressive-looking pillars. She pretended to be the wide-eyed, frightened girl he clearly expected her to be, but her eyes traveled over every inch of the room, absorbing, memorizing, cataloging. She hadn't forgotten her leg, nor did she forgive him for his previous behavior. If he thought she was weak, he had quite another thing coming.
And if that red-eyed woman-- so nice at first-- believed she could give Sara away like a possession. I belong to no one.
"What's an arrancar, anyway?" She asked, feigning the same innocence. "What's with the holes in everyone?"
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:41 pm
"An arrancar is the evolved form of a hollow" Raijin said walking in with a yawn, "I suppose I shall need to give you the whole story so that you understand what a hollow is and why they have the hole in them. Each human consists of a body animated by a spirit identical in appearance. In the unusual event that a spirit is separated from his or her living body, it is possible to see a connective structure known as the chain of fate, which attaches the spirit to its body and allows it to return to it. When a human dies or the chain of fate is broken by force, the spirit cannot come back and becomes known as a whole. If the whole has many regrets, or strong emotional connections to a location, object, person, or etc. he or she becomes attached to that location, object, person, etc. by the chain of fate. After some time, his or her emotions will eventually corrupt and gain control over the soul, which transforms into a hollow. Additionally, a broken chain of fate can eventually corrode completely, which also leads to the transformation into a hollow." Raijin said a bit surprised he got all that in with just a single breathe,
"Once a whole becomes a hollow, it gains a monster-like appearance, a skull-like mask, a large hole somewhere through its body, and an animalistic level of intelligence. Hollows crave other human souls, living or dead, to eat in an attempt to fill the void left in their hearts which is the whole" Raijin said now yawning a little bit tired from having explain so much, he stretched before waiting for their training to begin.
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:10 pm
"Very good Raijin but she was intrusted to me, now you little girl I'd like you to do a few things before you get any more explenations, number one get comfortable no one will hurt so stop being scared." Ice wasn't pleased by Raijin's interference with his bussines, he wanted to teach the girl a little different, "An arrancar trully is a more evolved form of and Hollow, there are 4 evolution there are the Menos, the Gillian,the Adjuchas, the Arrancar and finally the Vasto Lorde, you are an arrancar so you are above all the other hollows with a lower level of evolution then your."Ice though he had started off in a good spot,"But that's something which at the moment isn't important, if you want to be usefull to Jes-sama you must know the essentials first, number one our soul purpose as arrancars is mainly to obbey the superior arrancars, and you might be wondering on what the superior's arracars purpose are well the leader of Las Noches wants us to create ballance in the world between us and the shinigami, also we must rid the world of any exces species which tend to want to become stronger and throw of this ballance, another you must know there is no good and evil there is power and those who fear it.Now I want to test your powers." Out of nowhere appered a couple of adjuchas on a different platform.The one on which sara was standing approached the one filled with adjunchas."Kill them already scremed out Ice.
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:19 am
Raijin sighed hearing what Ice said. The sigh of course was too quiet for Sara to hear, Jes had entrusted her with ice so he figured he should respect her wishes by not correcting the idiot that lay before him. "She is not an arrancar you moron, and Arrancars come after Vasto Lorde. Jesus what does he think the espada are?" Raijin could not believe she was being fed these lies, he then watched as an adjuchas attempted to kill her. Why was he putting her into combat when he hadn't even explained how she could attain her zanpakuto? All these questions ran through Raijin's mind but he figured why not let it run it's course, worse comes to worse Sara dies then in turn Ice would be killed by Jes.
"She is a shinigami. Or rather a spirit that has not awakened it's latent abilities as one." Raijin had already concluded she was especially since Jes had said when she obtains her shikai. Meaning that there was no way she could be an Arrancar. You can't evolve a hollow into an arrancar that would never work, you would get a terrible excuse for an arrancar that would be huge stupid and slow, an abomination if you will. Raijin watched waiting to see how long it would take Ice to kill Sara or perhaps if the training succeeded the other way around.
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:14 am
Sara fumbled to keep up with Raijin's explanation. Souls, chains of fate, hollows, arrancar, what? It didn't make sense. If souls animated bodies-- that was a simple conclusion-- then was she a soul with or without a body? Where was this chain of fate Raijin talked so much about? Was hers broken?
"So-- am I dead?" She asked hesitantly, putting two and two together (mostly). "How did I-- Where's my hollow-hole?" She glanced at Raijin, splaying her fingers over her bare stomach in a slightly self-conscious manner.
But she really never got an answer to her question. Ice interrupted, adding to Raijin's explanation, but it was as jumbled as the first had seemed. He called her an arrancar. If her Spanish was up to snuff, that meant something like 'to rip/ tear out,' but then, her Spanish was rather rusty. Again, no time to mull it over. Ice's tone had changed to a sort of manic scream and dozens of weird creatures appeared all over the pillared room. Sara backed up a step, and her back foot slipped on the rim of the platform. The things were approaching quickly, apparently intent upon harming her. She wouldn't panic. She wouldn't give Ice the satisfaction of seeing her frightened again.
"Kill them?" Her voice came out a little strangled. Powers? What powers? Why did she need to kill these things to begin with? She circled away from the creatures, keeping her distance from them. They circled with her and she felt very much like a wild animal's prey. "Give me a weapon or something!"
((just a heads up-- it's barracks, not bararcks XD I'm sure you were just typing uber-quick 3nodding ))
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:44 am
((Jon just cause we're both online I'm going to answer her just to speed things along. When you get on it comes back to me going silent 3nodding ))
"Your soul has been collected so your chain is no longer there. You weren't dead long enough to allow your emotions to corrupt you so you have no hole meaning you are not a hollow or any variant of one" He said looking at her. "I believe you must look within yourself. You should find a weapon somewhere in there, if not you will die" He said being honest looking at her. Raijin had simply answered her question because Ice was busy directing the Adjuchas. It was understandable his methods, putting her in a life or death situation to allow her powers to activate.
"This may actually work not bad Ice" Raijin thought glancing over to him, he was hoping they were on the same page if not he hadn't a clue what Ice was doing. Though it didn't matter, Sara had been raised on fighting and crap like that so she had the natural instincts to defend herself he just wondered if she could figure it out before it was too late.
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:31 pm
"What the hell are you on about?" Look within yourself, Sara thought. What a load of Buddhist bullshit. She looked about, but there was no viable weapon. Going at this bare-handed wasn't exactly how she would want things, but it seemed like her only option. But these creatures were just so damn big!
Something that was all pincers and gnashing teeth lept at her like some monster from a manic Brothers Grimm tale. She dove out of the way, instinctively rolling to absorb the impact and receiving a skinning elbow for her trouble. The thing had a chunk of stone in its jaws. With a bit of effort, it shattered the stone and recovered with a snarl. Sara backed away, again, aware that there were now several beasts of varying bulk and nastiness eying her with new found interest. It seemed as though a meal they could play with was far more amusing than one who would simply lay down and die.
She slipped over some loose rock and went down again, elbow hanging off the edge of the platform. She scrambled up, picking up a softball-sized piece of stone. It was better than nothing... She hurled it at the massive eye of one beast, aiming slightly to correct her awful accuracy. Luck was with her. The stone sped toward the creature, fueled by strength born of fight-response adrenaline, and plowed into the big, shiny black orb. It exploded in a gory mess, causing the beast to roar in anger. Like some sort of trigger, the roar whipped all the creatures in the area into some sort of berserker frenzy.
And Sara was their target.
They lunged for her, scrabbling on legs of various sizes, mouths wide and gaping with rows of teeth and lolling tongues. In a split-second decision, Sara turned and lept off the edge of the platform. The ground, so far away, rushed up to meet her, and she hit it full force with a painful crunch of protesting bone. Up, up, up... Keep moving. She forced herself to her feet, body screaming its indignation at this treatment. The monsters were close behind, making their landings with considerably more grace and ease than Sara had. F***ing show-offs...
She backed up against a centralized pillar, feeling slightly more secure with something solid at her back. But the monsters were ringing her, and she knew she had no way to outrun them. The one with the oozing remains of an eye-- he had seven others, so he shouldn't have been so pissed off-- seemed to be the ringleader, and he advanced with his small horde, a barbed tongue curling languidly from its mouth.
"I need a weapon!" She yelled, furious frustration in her eyes. Was she going to die? Again? For God's sake-- did spirits die twice? She shivered, an odd feeling rising in her. It was like a tiny flame in her chest, like taking a sip of brandy but without the sting and only the warmth that followed after. She pegged it as some sort of weird adrenaline rush, but she focused on it, somehow comforted.
Inadvertently, Sara's reiatsu level kicked up several notches, though she herself was unaware.
((long and self-involved >< sorry!))
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:52 pm
"Better hurry, you won't come back this time" He said feeling the flux in reiatsu that she had just let out. He smiled sensing it, "Huh, well perhaps she'll be able to manifest it into something. Not really sure how shinigami get their zanpakuto's so I guess she's on her own with this one, maybe her spirit will help her here and in return she'll have to do some more work later" He thought mulling over how she'd escape. Raijin had researched up on shinigami when he first became an arrancar figuring he should know as much about them as possible in order to defeat them. Though there wasn't much information on the beginning's of a shinigami so this part was something he wouldn't be able to help her with.
He glanced over at Ice watching as he guided the lesson, "I'm impressed, your tactics are a crude I must admit but they seem to be working. So far Nee-chan will be getting a pleasant report" He said smugly. Raijin had no personal grudge against Ice, their personalities just naturally collided. Raijin being refined would of course not get along with someone who is more barbaric and anamalistic. Though as long as the common goal was achieved Raijin could easily endure savage personality Ice portrayed.
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:10 pm
Sara's heart lept to her throat at Raijin's words. These two psychos were truly trying to kill her! How could she possibly fight these huge things? The ringleader with his ruined eye alone would have been enough. With his sheer bulk and that slimy, spiky tongue-- no, wait-- the tongue was retracting, slipping back into that horrible mouth. It closed its jaws and its whole head began to twitch and burble, skin bubbling, ruined eye weeping blood and fluid. Disgusting. If she had a way to kill it she would.
It retracted its head, an action that made Sara think it might be about to vomit, and she pressed herself against the column with disgust. It jerked forward and Sara flinched defensively. The small movement rescued her from being pierced through the heart as its barbed tongue, now split into several prongs, launched from its maw. Instead, one impaled her shoulder, another chewed through her left side, a third pierced her leg, a fourth caught her right hand through the palm, nailing it against the column crucifix-style. The fifth, mercifully, plowed into the rock next her her neck.
Shock quickly turned to pain and Sara gritted her teeth, trying not to make a sound. A sort of strangled cry forced its way out, tears of rage popping into her eyes. The warmth in her chest was back, spreading and tingling. Her wounds were bleeding, throbbing. She couldn't focus, couldn't think.
Slipping into white--can't see.
It was her eyes that took on the white-blue glow first. Reiatsu pounded through her body, spilling from her irises and turning them from dark brown to a brilliant, glowing pale blue. The blood that dripped from her wounds was laced with the same white-blue incandescence. The hollows were crowding in, interested in the glowing morsel transfixed by their leader's barbs.
There was a falling sensation, like the whole world had dropped away, like she'd pitched over a cliff and was watching the small ledge falling upwards. Faster, faster. There's no end to this fall. Opens her mouth to scream, but there's no sound, only that burning white-blue.
Sara's reiatsu was skyrocketing, seeking release from its small, compressed shell, forcing its way from every pore and burning her skin a raw red as it did so. Even the adjuchas were taken aback, surprised to see such personal agony that they haven't instigated
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:56 pm
((Broke this up into two because they're getting long, cumbersome, and, if possible, even more self-involved. I shall end it! NOA!))
Sara had little control to begin with-- her power was bound merely because she was ignorant of its existance-- but when its last modicum of control had slipped, it was as if the floodgates of a river had suddenly vanished. The subsequent torrent of power originated from Sara's form and exploded outward in all directions, an expanding sphere that hungrily decimated the rough stone of the barracks floor and columns.
The adjuchas surrounding Sara were caught in the maelstrom before they had the chance to escape, and the flesh and bone was literally seared to ash. Sara herself was trapped by the power, unable to quench it, hardly able to move. It felt as though flames licked at her skin.
Just let go, Little Hawk. Sara had the sensation of a hand gripping the power thundering out of her and squeezing it off.
The energy blinked out abruptly, light fading away. Sara was alone amid the remains of the barracks floor, leaning against her battered pillar. Her skin was burned into shiny pinks and reds, ragged skin around her wounds cauterized. Her eyes were still a luminous blue. Then they went blank and she collapsed forwards, splayed brokenly amid the rubble, and there was no light at all.
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:20 pm
Raijin smiled seeing her latent powers erupt out in a fiery maelstrom of AWESOME. He felt her reiatsu a bit impressed with it's level especially considering how new she was. "Wake up sleepy head" He said poking the air, he focussed reiatsu making it so that it would feel like someone was actually poking her. "Come on I know that was a bit tough but you should get up, Ice won't like it if your sleeping on the job" He muttered poking her once more using his reiatsu.
He was quite surprised she killed them all with one attack, though she wasn't able to manifest her zanpakuto that probably would have been the best thing for her to do but her own method seemed to have sufficed. Still she's gonna need some more work before he could bring her back to Jes
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:02 pm
"Mmmh..." Sara moaned unintelligibly into the rock in which she'd done a faceplant. Ouch. Every inch of of skin felt like it was on fire. She moved slowly, planting first one hand on the ground, then the other, and pushing up, levering her upper body away from the ground. With a pathetic sort of half-roll she sat up, glancing blearily about. Her eyes stung and, though she couldn't see it, they glowed oddly.
"Ow," She said finally, surveying the wreckage. All the monsters were so much charred bone, and she kind of wished she was the same. That hurt, dammit. She rubbed at her eyes with the back of her hand, and that stung, too. Focusing for he first time, she discerned a hole in the center of her palm where the adjuchas had pierced it through. The hand was still, nearly unmoving. No surprise as the tendons and muscles were now non-existent. It was weirdly fascinating to look through the hole, though.
Using the crumbled pillar as support, she rose slowly, stiffly, leaning heavily against sorry-looking column. She fixed Ice with a baleful glare. "Do I get a weapon, now?" She couldn't keep the disdain from her voice.
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:21 pm
The doors slammed open and Ice enteres the room holding a warm cup of coffe on which it wrote #1 MOM,"Yeah you guys take care of yourselfs." he said to a couple of arrancars which followed him to the door.He then turned his attention to Sara,"What happened I didn't see anything." he realized that she was tired but was amazed to see no Ressurecion.He rememberd his first ever moment when we became an arrancar in the middle of the desert when he was attacked, he remember activating his ressurecion as soon as he was wounded, why hasn't she done the same."Okey you can get one." he pulled out his sword and threw it at Sara's feet and clapped his hand 3 times,"Let's do this.", and out of the shodowy corners of the barracks came out 2 Gillians preparing their ceros focusing it towards Sara.
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:07 pm
With a half-snarl of irritation, Sara knelt and picked up the sword, hefting it in her good hand. The weight felt wrong. Obviously. It wasn't like it had been made for her. She clasped the hilt with two hands and that felt a little better. Still off, though.
Well, what do you expect?
Oh, I don't know-- some semblance of normalcy? And then Sara pulled up short, oblivious to the enormous monsters she now faced. Because she hadn't thought that. She knew she hadn't thought that. So wait-- she was a schitzo, now? Some sort of freak who could hear things in their heads?
It's not your sword. Put it down, Little Hawk.
Imagined or not, it seemed to have some really awful ideas. Put it down? And defend myself with what, exactly?
Me.
Cute, really. Sara thought wryly. Is that metaphorical? What is it with people and transcendentalist bullshit around here?
Cut the crap and focus. The voice was clearly displease with her irreverent tone. What is it that you need?
A weapon. Sara looked down at the sword in her hands. A weapon would be nice.
Draw your sword.
Already got one, thanks.
Your own sword.
If I had a sword, I'd know about it. I don't exactly have a sleeve I can hide it in.
Draw. Your. Sword.
Fine. Sara threw the sword in her hands down. If I die, it's your fault.
Focus on the feeling from earlier. The voice ignored her quip. Draw your energy out and mold it.
Sara opened her left hand, the hand with the ruined palm, and focused on the warmth and the light. A small glow grew above her palm. It turned into a small orb that continued to grow. Instinctively, she closed her hand around it. She thought she could feel something solid inside. With her right hand, she grasped at the object and pulled.
A handle materialized in her hand. Continuing to pull, she exposed a blade from the white-blue light. A sheath began to manifest on the other end. By the time the blade was clear of the sheath, the white-blue light had faded and she held a katana, its black guard bound in dark blue and highlighted with silver accents. The base of the tempered blade she now held was etched with a riot of butterflies. The sheath, complimentary to the katana, was a simple affair of black lacquered wood bound with a deep blue sageo. Again, it sported carvings of butterflies inset in silver.
"That was unexpected," Sara said aloud, feeling the heft but instinctively knowing sword was her perfect match.
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