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"Impressive." Maniak said, looking at the handle he held in his hand.

He counted up four fingers as he raised his other arm to view. Then, he pointed with only his index finger at the handle.
The crossbones around the skull suddenly removed themselves, and floated in the air in front of Maniak for a spilt second, before suddenly flying at Daven.

"But ineffective... Exponer." Maniak said, waving a hand over his former weapon, and the skin under his full-mask darkened, as the weapon's blade reappeared.
Maniak's release was different than any other Espada, and instead of transforming, his form stays the same, due to his unusual spirit-pact with his zanpakuto.

Instead, the weapon now appeared to be thicker, and made of solid white, suggesting hierro. Maniak's reiatsu was more free-flowing now, and his body seemed weightless under his hierro skeleton. "llegar a los huesos garra" he said quietly.

A small black portal, resembling a garganta appeared in front of his projectiles, swallowing three of them. They reappared around the other 3 corners of Daven, as all four advanced at the speed of sonido from different angles, in a four-pronged attack as Maniak watched, ready for Daven's response.

"Hhhmmm, do not tell me that this is what Aizen has been preparing us for this entire time..." Maniak said, waving a hand over his zanpakuto as shadowy figures resembling the bones that were just destroyed appeared on his hilt where the projectiles were before. The shadow disappeared and the bones were in place like nothing occured.
Then Maniak himself faded from sight, appearing to dissolve into shadows himself.

"Well well, there we are.." Maniak spoke to himself. He was within she shadow realm, an action made possible by his zanpakuto.
He released the effects he had on the Labyrinth, returning it to light as he concentrated on his own existance in this realm again. In terms, now that he was not using his shadows in the Labyrinth, in his shadow realm he can focus there and found Daven's location.

Again the hallway dimmed, and Maniak's figure appeared, as the shadow surrounding him fell like sand to the ground. He was now looking upwards at the shinigami.
"Very good, I am ashamed that I had to do that publically. But you are indeed a very tricky shinigami.." Maniak's words trailed off.
He opened his mouth, and began inhalingwhile still staring at Daven. The bland reiatsu feeling of Las Noches itself began to dissapate, giving off more of a signature of Daven Moto again. Maniak was gathering spirit energy from the entire room, from shinigami, arrancar, everyone. Because there were multiple fights going on with high-rankd shinigami, it was not long until Maniak had apperantly gathered enough energy, and swallowed it. "Estruendo Destructivo," Maniak explained.
He then opened his mouth and regurgitated the continuous blast of combined energy at Daven, resembling that of a Double Cero. Though a separate stream came out of the back of Maniak's head. This was coming from his telltale, and when the blast seemed to have sustained critical mass, Maniak reached behind his head, and broke off the tube of reiatsu, wielding the pole in his right hand, awaiting Daven's next move.

The moment Daven's stance was set, he was showered with embers of reiatsu as Maniak tested his stability by showering Kidorui Genso with a barrage of attacks from the left arm. He spun and twirled the reiatsu-staff in every possible angle with just one hand, trying to get a rise out of him.
Obviously the shinigami was not scared of idle threats, and did not respond to the attacks. Maniak grinned and brought the staff above his head, letting it slide down his bones until he hooked the end on the inside of his elbow. Wrapping the arm around the staff, he gripped it halfway down its length, keeping his wrist angled so it would stay straight.
He brought the weapon down between Daven's ears, the reiatsu pole flared as it infused with Maniak's reiatsu. He charged a cero in his arm, and let it travel through the weapon, shooting a cero slash directly at Daven before the pole even connected its blow.
With his left hand, be turned the blade sideways, and made one easy slice at the Captain's face, cranking his bony wrist in a ninety degree angle.

As Maniak watched the shinigami dodge, the kitsune made movements to take Maniak's feet out from under him. With a clatter of bones connecting with eachother, Maniak begin to fall, but this time a larger shadow-portal appeared under him, allowing the Espada to disappear before actually hitting the ground. He reappeared directly behind where he was standing before he fell. This time he did not have the pole anymore, which was a shame because those tended to explode after use, and though the cero might've been ineffective, it would have made an acceptable distraction.
Maniak held his zanpakuto out in front of him, and moved the tip of it in a circle, at the edge shown a red glint, that traced a glowing circle where he drew his circle with his sword. As he lowered his weapon, the circle seemed to be moving, and was in fact spinnign as red turned to black.
"devorando la oscuridad" he said, as a horizontal black tornado formed, and attempted to suck Daven into the shadow realm.
Chunks of Las Noches that had been blasted off the Labyrinth in presious fights began flying towards and past Daven as they were viciously sucked into the tornado of shadows.

As the projectiles neared Maniak, there was a spike in his reiatsu as the now enhanced boulders flew at him. Maniak's figure faded, and the tornado dissapated, slowing the chunks of wall and Labyrinth as they passed through Maniak. He now seemed transparent, and looked like a 3 dimensional shadow.

He shook his had and pointed at Daven. "Very well, very well... Perhaps Aizen was right about you, but do not think you'll live forever Captain, everyone has their day.."
The shadowy form of Maniak stood ther unmoving. His stance seemed defensive, suggesting that there was something up his sleeve; but no reiatsu change was made at all.

The reido passed through Maniak's whispy figure, as the Espada chuckled and faded into the air, his echoes remaining...

"Just a shadow puppet, my dear Captain... You will see me again, I promise this." he said as Daven turned around and continued his path.

The shadows along the cracks and corners of the walls vanished confirming that the Espada had finally relenquished his presence in the Labyrinth.

[Exits]

He hadn't done this in many many years. Using his stealth took him back to a time when he didn't have this responsibility on him like he did. Just sneaking and skulking gave him a visceral thrill.

He moved from one chamber to another, and he saw potential opponents waiting for him, but he was able to pass them by as he hid.

There was one that tried to find him, and Daven moved even slower and quieter. But this hunter was good, and Daven was close to being caught.

So Daven pulled another trick. He got into a place where he could strike easily and let the hunter find him. It came closer and closer, and Daven knew that it would be very "interesting" if he were caught. But since it was hard for this hunter to find Daven, he simply stayed there like he was trying to hide. And when the hunter almost literally walked into his paws, Daven struck and struck to kill.

The dust blew away in the passage of Daven's shunpo away from that area.

((OOC: I guess... that's that? -_-))