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"A spar?" Lerato seemingly appeared out of no where while Zeb had been immersed in looking at the grounds. "I don't know, we'll have to see when all this is done, shall we?" He chuckled, pushing off of column he had chosen to lean against. "So you're the new vice captain from squad twelve, eh? I wouldn't have pegged you for the science type to be honest. Enough of that though, let's get to the reason you showed up here." Walking behind the column again he brought forth a small duffle bag. "We'll start with the easiest of the lot." Walking over to the man he set the bag down and opened it. The only things inside were two lengths of old fashioned chain. "Alright. So as I'm sure you remember from the academy, kidou is all about manipulating ones' reiatsu into a tangible, useable form to either attack your opponent, bind them, or block an attack. The first kidou you will learn is for the first of those reasons." After handing one chain to the giant he took the other for himself and walked a few feet away.

"For this kidou I want you to concentrate on the catalyst in your hands because without it, this hadou would be impossible, understand? Any chain like catalyst will do, but if you wanna do it right, I suggest something conductive. It'll make it easier in the long run." Lerato's reiatsu flickered as he concentrated on the feeling of the cool links in his hand, letting his spiritual pressure bubble up inside of him before slowly creeping into the chain itself. "Next, I want you to force your reiatsu into the chain. I usually imagine an incomplete circuit. After that you recite the spell's name to activate it and, Hadou #11, Bound Lightning." Unleashing the spell he sent the chain towards one of the awaiting dummies. Moments later, his reiatsu dropped back down to normal, the chain dropping away to show a scorched marking. "Alright, now give it a try."

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Lerato laughed as he watched the first dummy explode from the sheer force of the demon spell, the second getting a rather large scorch mark on the side. "Indeed you did." He laughed, walking over to the other vice captain. Offering the man a hand he continued on, "I suggest that you reel it back some though. After all, you want to have the kidou under your control, not the other way around." After the man was on his feet Lerato began his little lecture on the demon spells again. "Alright. Now that we have that one out of the way lets move on to a few that don't require a catalyst to perform. The first one I will teach you is Red Fire Cannon. All in all, it's a well rounded spell with a lot of versatility and a fair amount of power for how small it is." Walking away from Zeb, Lerato took up a position in front of another dummy, glancing over his shoulder. "Please, for the love God, be careful."

Without further adieu he turned to the dummy, raised one hand and let his reiatsu spike slightly once more. "Alright, this is rather simple charge and release spell. I want you to gather reiatsu into your hand. The spell should be focused into a ball about the size of a softball, maybe slightly bigger. Recite the incantation, and release. Observe." Holding his hand out in front of him he let the well of energy inside him open once again, forcing some of the energy into a tightly formed ball of red fire. "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. Hadou #31, Shot of Red Fire." Rushing forth it became blatantly apparent why the he was so worried about the man attempting such a kidou. Even with the control that Lerato had over the spell it still easily blackened the entirety of the wood dummy, leaving it smoking in the distance. "Now, let me get out of the way and you can try." He laughed, joking to the side of the arena.

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Zeb sat down, and began to draw a few diagrams in the dirt. "From what I can tell, my affinity to fire made it so that I can control the basic trajectory of the ball. What I don't understand is the power output. From the amount of energy I input, it shouldn't have done more then chip part of it, but the output was higher then the input." The giant mused to himself as it began to click in his mind. Finally a light when in on his mind "My cross..."

Standing up again, and nodding to Lerato, Zeb spoke a few words to him; "Get back a bit more... I'm going to go bigger... and smaller." Clasping his hands together sharply he began to recite the spell. "Ye lord. Mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man." he paused as he began to let the energy flow out at an exponential rate; the small ball he had growing in his hands rapidly inflated to the size of a large beachball "Inferno and pandemonium, the sea barrier surges, march on to the south. Hadou #31, Shot of Red Fire." He finished the incantation as he began to push his hands together while stopping to flow of reiatsu to his hands "Flamstel Special." He added at the end as the ball condensed to the size of an apple and burned with a great intensity.

He then threw it at the dummy, and aimed it perfectly with his hands. It barely clipped the dummy, but the explosive power was so great, that nothing could be seen by either the caster or the viewer for a few seconds. Once their vision cleared, they saw a charred hole in the ground, about a meter across, and no dummy to be seen. "So how'd I do Lerato-san? I had more control, but the power is still to much..." Zeb looked crestfallen at the results of his own take on the technique. "What I need to do is meditate after this, so that I might control my energies more effectively and efficiently."

"Very well..." He sighed as he watched his peer perform the technique. After it was completed, he noticed how it moved and acted "So, in essence, the object of the technique is to cut with pure energy... The only problem with the actual technique that I see is that it is easy to jump over the energy..." Zeb analyzed the technique and began to think of counter measures. "The best way to maximize the technique is to stack it upon itself, and to put them at angles. This would ensure maximum coverage, while putting them at different heights..." he again sighed as he closed his eyes and began to form the image of the ball elongating into a wave-like blade of yellow energy.

Tapping into this reiatsu, he also drew his zanpaku-tou. "Slice to the core, burn the soul Eefret Hikanakon!" Zeb cried as his reiatsu burst forth until he could draw it in. Almost instantly the area around him became uncomfortably hot with the reiatsu burning off of him. "And this is why fire-type Kidou work for me so well..." he exhaled as he gathered the reiatsu into him further. Holding his zanpaku-tou out in front of him, the blade facing away from his person, he recited his own spell "Blinding light cuts thy souls with an indescriminate justice. Hadou #32, Yellow Flash Fire." He spoke calmly as the energy began to build in front of him with a steady pace, his reiatsu forming the ball of yellow fire, and then elongating yellow blade infront of his own blade.

The reiatsu began to mix in an odd way, with flames licking up from the edges of the blade. Noticing this, Zeb began to slow down the reiatsu at the wrong moment. As it began to fire, the energies blew up violently. "Gahhh!" Zeb stopped the technique just as it blew outward, and then inflated, barely moving away from him. And then it blew up. Fire raced around him, scorching his clothing, singing his hair, and lightly burning his body. And then suddenly, it vanished, and his reiatsu slightly spiked again, and then went back down. "GODDAMNIT! What the hell was that Lerato-san?!" He cried in anguish as he wiped the soot off of his face "It began to grow flames out of it... What happened there?"

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"I am overly cocky. And I never do ANYTHING half-assed..." Zeb rolled backwards, and jumped to his feet. Holding his blade upside-down, the the blade pointing away from him and his palm on the base of the hilt. "If you understand everything so well, you'll understand someone like me, with an ego like mine... Once I set on my path, I'll follow it to the end." And with that, he began the incantation, while letting more of his reiatsu out. "If I cannot control it, then I will push it off." His rage was obvious in his eyes, and contorted features, normally so happy, now filled with a blinded rage. As he inhaled, the rage seemed to mount, along with his reiatsu.

And then he exhaled. And in an instant, his rage had all-but vanished, yet the oppressive reiatsu lingered. In a calm, and collected voice, he spoke clearly, allowing the words to carry his reiatsu and to form the kidou. "Blinding light will incinerate thy soul with an indiscriminate justice. Hadou #32, Yellow Flash Fire." Zebediah then allowed the flow of the words to release the reiatsu, which still had the licking flames. "I fail once. And that is all it takes for me to properly learn the technique..." he muttered as the energy took shape into a ball, and then formed into a large arc-light blade, it seemed to burn like the fires of hell itself.

As he exhaled one more time, the blade shot forward, aimed not entirely at the dummies, but also at his 'sensei'. The blade of fire arced out, engulfing the entire room. "You forgot one point; if you do not force energy into the Kidou spell, and rather allow the Kidou to draw out the necessary power, it will go on without a hitch. The incantation gives it form. Which is why I always chant something, for it helps my mind to imagine the shape and power of the technique." Zeb smirked as he turned around "I am not one of those useless peons who would be shaken simply because you have drawn out a fit of rage. "And such tactics only enrage me further 'Sensei'." His tone was obviously bitter. "We will have that match later, and I refuse to do anything other then win..." A flicker of an image of a beautiful woman wrapped in flames and steel went in and out of existence behind him "Eefret is the same way. She told me to tell you that if you continue to insult us, she'll kill you. I have to agree with her."

He stood with his shikai slung over his shoulder and the image still flickered in and out of existence. Behind Zeb, 2 dummies were burnt to ashes, and the arc continued to leave a large scorched line embedded in the side of the coliseum. "I am not good at Kidou, and no, I never attended the academy. I was self-taught in Kidou for my Master never bothered to learn them. But what I did learn from him is that will power will always beat those with intelligence."

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