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"Well, I'm on the other side. I am a Shinigami who can, probably, kick any Vizard's backside mainly because I'm powerful, and I earned it through effort, not shortcuts. That's what irritates me so much about the current crop of students. They think that they should be powerful because they want it, not because they earned it.

"Like now. I know absolutely nothing about this new power, except it reacts to Vizard/Hollow energy, it seems to be 'darker' some how than my normal power, it ups my senses and my reiatsu levels and seems to be centered around this Enochian Z seal. So what am I doing? Training to find out. Not just jumping in and using it.

"I tell ya... kids these days....."

Daven looked at his hosts wryly.

"So, what happened to Iu and how and why did he end up here?"

Daven was quiet for a while. He looked for answers in his mizo soup. He found none.

"Well, maybe he will find peace here."

He looked back up at Kazi.

"Well, since you seem to be the guy to go to for training, maybe you can help me train my new abilities. Before they get out of hand. I tell you, the Berserker is a nasty piece of work, and I'm not totally confident that I've contained him. I feel pressure at the seal all the time, and even more so now, in the presense of all this Hollow energy."

He stopped and looked a bit contemplative. "Maybe he's my version of an inner hollow? I haven't sought him out, but it would fit the facts as I know it. And hollow energy making him stronger, that would fit the little bit I know.

"So that would make the Warrior, kind of an anti-hollow. A hollow guard? Bah! I don't know..."

"I have no clue. That's what I'm here to find out. I mean, fighting fake hollows can do some and can be fun, but it takes real hollows, real danger to force a power to manifest for real."

"You know, it's a good thing I trust you. I might be upset if I didn't."

Daven closed his eyes and started looking at how the magicks wrapped around him, how they interfered with his reiatsu and his lifeforce. He noticed that the symbol on his arm was glowing even brighter, but the light was staying close to his skin.

"Someday. Right now, I'm going back to the wasteland so I don't wipe out your house when I destroy this seal."

Daven looked skeptical. "Okay, but I'm not going to hold back."

If Kazi responded at all Daven didn't hear. He had turned his attention inward to his own mind, soul and the æthers to see what was going on.

He saw that the magick was acting as a shield all over his body, holding and containing his powers, not necessarily sealing them off. But if he couldn't force the powers past this shell, it was effectively sealed off. So there were two ways he could break this seal.

He could overpower it with superior force, breaking the seal because it couldn't contain what was inside, or he could unravel it from the inside. All things considered Daven preferred to unravel a spell like this, simply because exact application of precise force is how he was trained. In most cases, applying the correct force at the right place could most often destroy things that were actually superior in power.

But since the point of this was to overpower it, Daven decided to take the unlikely path and simply blow this seal away.

In the landscape of his mind, Daven saw the seal on the Berserker, holding him in the ground.

He knew the seal holding the Berserker down was only temporary. But it was what he had for right now.

He could feel the curse weakening him, so he had to work fast.

First thing, he merged with the Warrior again, holding all the energy of them both and using it to put pressure on the Curse Kazi put on him. And while it did weaken and it did have an effect on the curse, it didn't break through.

Reluctantly, Daven broke the seal on the Berserker. He erupted out of the ground and was ready to fight. Daven/Warrior and the Berserker fought for some time, and he felt the energies breaking loose. He knew that there was enough power to destroy the seal Kazi put on him, but now it was a matter of harnessing it.

He worked the fight around again so that he had the advantage over the Berserker again, and he grabbed him by the throat, making him helpless for a little bit. He used the spirit form of Kidorui Genso to open a huge chasm under the mountain that was the Avatar of Kidorui Genso, and he hurled the Berserker down there at the base of the mountain.

Oh, yeah! THAT did it!

Daven watched as the power of the Berserker channeled up through the Mountain of Kidorui Genso, exponentially increasing the flow through the spirit of the Zanpakto. With a thought, Daven/Warrior jumped into the stream at the top of the mountain, and added their power to it.

The environment shattered around him. The Spiritual Power that exploded out of him dwarfed anything he had ever seen before, from Hollow, to Arancar, to Espada to Jan-san's bankai, to Daven's Bankai, to anything ever.

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He opened his eyes, and he felt the seal on his powers shatter, and it exploded around him, destroying furniture, knocking Kazi and his fiancé around, but the house contained it all. He took some time and looked around.

He could feel the power in his hands, the power black and hard. He looked at Kazi and could tell that his eyes were glowing from the shadows cast on the walls.

He should be afraid now, very afraid.

The amalgam that was Daven looked out of the eyes and saw all the Menos around. The Gillan were not going to be much of a problem, but the Vasto Lorde could be.

But whatever. He started killing. Not with the Sword, not with his bare hands, but with the glow that was about his fists. He knew that it was some sort of power that he had managed to harness from the combination of his Berserker side, Kidorui Genso, The Warrior and himself. All that power, channeled and working together, made this power possible.

He didn't know what to call it, but it felt like a sin. And suddenly he knew, somehow, that the name of the being he was to be a Zaigou, a Sin against nature. And continuing the theme, he decided to call this black beam of energy that he was firing all around himself a Reido, or Zero. This all fit together neatly.

He worked, he killed. He found that when the Gillan fired Cero at him, that his Reido canceled it out, destroying it and blasting through. The Vasto Lorde tried stopping him with higher level Cero blasts, and Daven the Zaigou laughed and canceled them with his Reido blast. He did have some trouble as their blasts were stronger, but the blasts didn't get through to hit him.

He discovered something as he used these blasts, firing them from one fist, then the other, then both, if he stopped and wrapped this strange energy around him, all the Cero blasts coming in from many different areas were negated. It didn't destroy the blast, or go through and impact the firing hollow, but it did act as a body shield and prevent damage to himself from them.

He felt like a one man wrecking crew. He was destroying these Menos Grande like they were regular hollows. It was incredible.

He took damage, he would get hit or he would get cut, but it was minor. He found that he could smell the Menos in this area. He could see them easily, and he could feel their reiatsu without needing a locater beacon. He kept killing.

Soon, the Gillan were running, and even the control the Vasto Lorde had over them couldn't stop the retreat. Some of the Gillan dissolved into individual hollows when Zaigou Daven came at them. It was like he was destroying whatever it was that kept them solid.

He drew his zanpakto out of its sheath. Time for another experiment.

His sword was powerful enough to destroy these beings when it hit them, but that wasn't what Daven was looking to test. He wanted to see if he could fire these Reido beams from his weapon.

And he found that he could. It was very interesting to watch the black energy come flying off the blade and attack the nearest Vasto Lorde. But at one point he heard something behind him and knew that another Vasto Lorde got the drop on him and that he was going to be hurt. He didn't have time to redirect his hands, but the tip of his sword was pointed in that general area, while his arm holding his sword was outthrust. He willed the Reido up the sword and to fire out the tip of the sword, taking the energy nearly 90 degrees from where it should be fired.

And it worked. The energy fired nearly backwards behind him and vaporized the major Menos.

Daven jumped off to another area. He had to take a few minutes to figure this out.

The combination of the Berserker channeling his energy through Kidorui Genso, into the Warrior and Daven combined put him into this Zaigou state and allowed him to have access to these enhanced senses and the Reido blasts. He could fire it from his hands, and presumably his feet as well, it was a distance weapon which he had been trying to find, not needing to be close to the target at all to fire it, shooting off like Iron Man's blasts did. He could direct it out of the Sword, and presumably out of the other forms of Kidorui Genso as well, from his Shikai and Bankai, to the chain in his Shikai form. That probably meant that there were some additional levels of this Reido he could use if he went into his Shikai release and then to his Bankai. Which would make things very interesting.

The symbol on his forearm was burning again, glowing with a black light. And he noticed that his eyes were burning again with that same light, as well as his tails. It was almost a violet or dark purple to black flame that was haloing his tails and limbs.

He decided to go all out. He summoned his Bankai release, he focused his reiatsu into the Flash Cry, and he summoned all his power as a Zaigou and put it into one strike that he used to hit one of the Vasto Lordes.

The devastation was immeasurable.

The Vasto Lorde vaporized, but the blast and shockwave from the strike washed out in a wave from him, taking the Reido energy with it, destroying everything in its path. It was definitely a wave of energy, and he could see the blast as it rolled through the ranks of the Menos Grande. He jumped high into the air so he could see where it was going, what it was doing.

He had to keep going up, because while he could see the wave of energy, it hadn't crested. There was a swath starting from where he had been standing that reached a width of about 500 meters or so wide. And the energy kept rolling.

There wasn't anything left in its wake.

Daven shunpoed to the wave as it rolled along, already better than five kilometers from where it started, and the wave was JUST now cresting. It looked like a black water dragon that flowed along and destroyed everything.

And when the wave broke and hit, it spread out even more.

Gillan and Vasto Lordes were gone. They had been packed almost cheek to jowl in this dimension, so close that they couldn't stand. Now, the area behind them was fused to glass and there wasn't anything left. No hills, no plants, no creatures, no monsters, nothing.

He jumped straight up again, and he could see, a swath of destruction leading six kilometers from where it started, and reaching to one and a half kilmeters wide at the end where nothing remained.

Good thing I can't do that very often. I feel totally fagged out. I'm completely spent. The Zaigou symbol was no longer glowing, nor was there any energy around him like before. He was spent.

Time to get back to Kazi.

He tore a hole in reality where Kazi had sent him to, and stepped through to the house again, where Daven, the most powerful Shinigami in the Sereitei, the leader of the Forces of the 13 Protection Squads, second only to the Central 46 and the King of the Spirit World, fainted dead away near where he had been eating at.