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Evil's eyes glinted. "My, my, aren't we the aggressive one?" She said as the Adjucha charged at her with a Cero. She simply raised her own hand at it, briefly charged her Black Reitsu there and fired a Reido at it. It hit the Hollow dead on, disintegrating it from the chest upwards. The glint in her eyes flickered for a moment.

"Is everyone alright?" She yelled.

Although Mari had seen through the Ryan imposter, Tansen had still achieved what he had hoped for. The female espada's love of talking was about to become her downfall. "....With light, divide this into six. Bakudo number 61, Rikujokoro!" Instantly, six golden bars of reiatsu formed around the Mari and lodged themselves tightly into the quinta espada's midsection to prevent her from moving while he finished his plan. The dummy that he had placed before Mari wasn't just to distract her. The inside of the young captain's creation was filled to the brim with gunpowder that had taken him a couple of minutes to transmute from the elements in the air. You underestimated me and then left me alone for far too long a period of time with no way to see what I was up to...That combined with your overconfidence is what caused your defeat here. Goodnight, Marisarin Histale. Tansen then stabbed his sword into the ground and begun his next incantation.

"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! hado number 31, Shakaho!" A large ball of fire erupted from Tansens hands and shot quickly through the floor above him towards the dummy in Mari's hands, leaving a trail of crimson in the sky behind it. When it made contact, there was a moment where things seemed to move in slow motion, and the fire reacted with the gunpowder inside the doll and created a large inferno of flame in it's wake. Tansen shunpo'd up onto the top floor and felt himself drop to his knee in exhaustion. Damn...Taking all of the elements for the gunpowder out of the gasses in the air so quickly took a lot of reiatsu out of me...But at least it's over... Feeling lightheaded, Tansen looked out to where Mari had been standing and looked to see what had happened to his opponent.

"THANK THE GRIM! Oh, thank, thank, thank the Grim for its kind, wonderful and somewhat sexy Captains! THANK YOU!"

Nicholas looked as if he was about to kiss the good Captain that had saved them (despite the fact that he was wearing a mask), but was restrained by what was left of his sanity.

That and he looked like he was on the verge of collapsing.

"Jeez, Hollows, Smoke Bombs, Crap Loads of Traveling, Gillians and more spanishy stuff I can't pronounce...when I signed up for the Death God class, I thought I'd get to pester the living, not do this stuff..."

An excited tone returned to his voice "Nevertheless, this was insanely fun..."

He pointed at his companions "Some day, I'll surpass your FWOOSHness! Some day! I'll have my own shikai! And a boatload of Shinigami Magic! And a hit broadway show about 2 Star-Crossed Lovers caught in the plans of an insane genius. SOMEDAY!!"

"But first, training! Or a shower and drycleaners..." he looked down at his robes, covered from head to toe in blood and dirt and soot.

"Don't know which one takes the highest priority at the moment..."

((I have the urge to go insane for my own entertainment...This is pretty tame for me...))

As water swirled around Cresan, he watched his former Vice-Captain, current 8th Squad Captain, fight the Espada Mari. In the corner of his eye his own Captain was fighting some fiesty Adjucha. It seemed like she had gotten rid of them all, but this battle wasnt just over yet... There were going to be more.

Knock on wood, as many would say.

Out of nowhere, as is the nature of Hollows, a giant wasp-like Adjucha came soaring down at Cresan. He felt its reiatsu before he even heard its ominous buzzing, so he sent the water from his left hand straight at the Wasp Adjucha. His heart was thumping like crazy; man-eating Hollows he could handle, but a giant wasp? It was too much.

The Adjucha got up from the ground, and came zooming at Cresan. Its speed was close to sonido, but it was still visible in travel. It had two scythes for its two front legs, which sliced through the air as Cresan dodged every move. His fear of the wasp kept him going, but he knew he had to attack back at some point.

With his right hand, Cresan threw all of his water at the Adjucha, sending it flying back towards where Tansen was fighting. Teal reiatsu appeared in his left hand, and formed into his Chaos Staff; instantaneously the air around the double-pronged top of the staff became warped, and Cresan shunpo'd up to the Adjucha.

Cresan sent three razor-sharp arcs of Chaos Water at the wasp, and it got hit by two of them, one in its mid-section, the other just below the first. A little low... Darnit. It snapped back, and came down on him with both of its scythes.

Cresan, wide-eyed, flipped his teal Chaos Staff into his right hand, and quickly drew his zanpakutou to parry the onslaught. The three blades clashed, screeching against one another, until the Adjucha raised one of them, and slashed at Cresan.

A foot-long gash reaped through Cresan's left stomach muscles just before he was able to get away, sending blades of water at the Adjucha. He cursed under his breath, and teal reiatsu formed around his gash. That would keep it from bleeding, holding back the blood by using the water inside his blood.

Cresan gritted his teeth, and raised both hands. He inhaled sharply in pain, and all of the water from his Summons raced towards him. At the same time, the Adjucha had been preparing something of his own. "Cero." As the red beam came rushing at Cresan, he knew he didn't have time to avoid it. So, he tried to match the force of this Cero.

Water and red reiatsu clashed very uncomfortably close to Cresan... It was at least 5 yards away. He thrust the water through as fast as he could, recycling the water that sprayed over to the sides. He strengthened the rush of water, and prepared to leap to the side. He built up some Chaos Water, and sent it shooting at the Cero along with the real Water. In an instant, Cresan had shunpo'd off behind a ruined wall, focusing on numbing his wound. He could hear the Cero crash into other parts of the hospital ruins, and he winced. I really hope no lower-ranked shinigami got in the way of that...

[[EDITED]] ((Sorry about the easy-kill. I had forgotten just exactly how high up the Adjuchas are among Hollow.))

(( scream scream I have been posting at the town place for three days now and no one has replied to. they ignored my posts, they ignored kiba's post. I can understand not replying imidetialy but tthey just preteneded we didn't exist. It pissed me off))

At the sight of the fifth espada still alive, the expression on Tansens face turned very grim. Dammit! I thought I had her... At the words of Mari and the appearance of Rose his expression soon changed however, not into an expression of despair or hatred, but one of pure shock. "No..." That's...That's not possible! How...Why is this happening?! His fighting instincts were screaming at him in the back of his mind to take his sword and prepare to fight the new opponent, but Tansen was completely paralyzed. "Rose?"

((Yea, who taught you? If its just getting passed around then someone needs to share...))

Rhia appeared on the outskirts of the battlefield. The ruins of the hospital had long since been reduced to rubble and the low outlines of what might have been rooms. Several battles raged. Captains with espada, seated shinigami with hollows.

"Sing, Seikka noh Shirakeiji," Rhia muttered sullenly. Her phrase had no enthusiasm. The butterflies that represented the spirits of her zanpaku-to whirled around her, seeming to chastise her. Her blade didn't respond to her command. She hadn't really expected it to -- her heart wasn't behind her invocation.

"Fine, be stupid. I don't care," She drew her sword, anyway, resigned to fighting with a sealed blade. Her main problem was that she wasn't really interested in fighting. It was just an irritating necessity. She'd much rather be fixing things with Feiy, instead.

But she has to apologize first, she thought stubbornly.