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 Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 2:19 pm
Xeion smiled at his little sister's cuteness and patted her on the head. The maids of the mansion agree with him -- Yuu-chan was truly a cutie through and through. "It's zanpakuto, not 'zanpakito', Yuu-chan; and yes, we'll start," said Xeion, motioning over to Yuu-chan to follow him out the door and into the central courtyard where they would have room to train in peace without having to worry about breaking something.
Once they were outside, Xeion turned back to Yuu-chan and began to instruct her. "Okay, Yuu-chan; let's start with the basics." Xeion held out his hand before him. "I want you to learn how to make a reiatsu ball. It easy," Xeion then said, trying to simplify the process so that a young girl like Yuu-chan could easily understand it. "You just think of happy thoughts and channel that happiness into the palm of your hands, like so," and as soon as Xeion finished saying that, a medium-sized ball of blue energy raised out from his palm and hovered above the two of them. "See? It's easy. It's because you make me happy," smiled Xeion, giving her a 'thumbs up' gesture. "Now you try it, Yuu-chan."
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Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:06 pm
As Yuu listened to Xeion's instructions. And strangely and easily, she made the little energy ball within five seconds. A big smile grew on her face, once the ball of energy finished taking form. It appeared to be a shade of light blue. "Look! Look Onii-san! I'm doing it!" shouted Yuu, as she hopped up and down, with the energy ball in her hands.
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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:00 am
While in the middle of their training, three new energy sources, arrancar energy sources, all of which are filled with malicious energy, appeared within the perimeter of the Bount mansion. The alarm sirens went off and the mansion's defense systems immediately identified the threat and began to open fire on the three intruders, but the three arrancar easily laid waste to the highly sophisticated defense systems which could have easily dealt with any normal hollow or low-level arrancar with ease. It was clear now that these arrancar were not your everyday, run-off-the-mill arrancar. It was obvious that these were strong arrancar and they were all looking in the direction of one particular shinigami. Xeion.
"Well...," said the first. "....it seems as if...," followed the second. "...you're the one with the strange energy," finished the third. Without much hesitation, the three of them withdrew their swords from their scabbards at the same exact moment as the other. These three were very synchronized with each other and it looks as though they were experienced at 3-man team combat, being as synchronized as they are. "You there...," "...why don't you...," "...fight us?" asked the three arrancar in a mocking tone of voice. "If you do...," "...we won't...," "...destroy everything here."
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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:47 am
[Event]
Rank Promotion Match ( Xeion Kuchiki vs. Arrancars (?) )
Objectives:
1. Try to defeat your opponents in 10 posts.
2. As always, you will be evaluated on the quality of your posts.
3. Upon completion, you will be granted the rank of "Radiergummis" and access to one of the abilities that comes with the rank.
4. Failure will result in you retaining your present rank until I have once again deemed you worthy of rank promotion.
5. Deadline will be on April 27.
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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:50 pm
Xeion simply looked at the destruction that the three Arrancar left in their wake. In just a blink of an eye, the weaponry and other machinery which composed of Ky's advanced mansion defense system lay in charred ruins on the ground, leaving only himself as the last line of defense against the three Arrancar threats which have appeared before him. "Fight? Oh man, how I do so hate fighting unnecessarily."
As soon as Xeion saw that the three Arrancar drew their swords at the exact same time as each other, a bead of cold sweat trickled down his face. He knew that he was in for a brutal match and was scared, but not of the usual reasons a normal man was scared to fight. Xeion was scared of losing without being able to protect the innocent lives that were at stake if he were to fail in this test. As such, Xeion vowed to himself, even at the cost of his own life, not to lose for the sake of everyone inside, especially for Yuu-chan, who had her whole life ahead of her.
Drawing Elena from her scabbard, Xeion shouted out, "Corrupt me now, Elena!" which transformed the zanpakuto into its shikai form. He then ran his palm on the blade and uttered the second-stage release phrase which further transformed Elena into her second stage shikai form -- a unique and beautiful sword which hides its deceptively deadly efficiency behind its mask of elegance, although Xeion himself would be proud to admit that this sword has only been used to purify those who have sinned in order to give them a chance to start again.
"I do not know what fighting means for the three of you, but whatever the case, I will protect those here in the mansion with all of my strength," said Xeion, going into his duel stance with the blade held before him, both hands gripping firmly on Elena's hilt, with one foot forward, like in a kendo stance, but with a little bit of English fencing characteristics to it. Xeion's duel stance differed with each and every opponent he dealt with. Usually, Xeion went for the duel stance which provided him with the best straightforward and linear trajectory attack style sword stance, emphasizing more on speed and coordination. This time, Xeion employed a more balanced stance which can be found in both the styles of Kendo and English fencing, both of which emphasize defense than offense.
While looking at the three, Xeion spoke, "Yuu-chan, please stay back for a while," requesting his imouto to step back a little so that she wouldn't get hurt and so that Xeion didn't need to worry about her safety. With a difficult battle such as this, he just couldn't afford any sort of distraction for if the three incredibly strong Arrancar were to catch him off-guard, it would be the end of him. Period.
"Come on, give me everything you've got and leave us in peace right after,"
[1/10]
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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:32 pm
 Whooo! A whistle rang out from a tree on the mansion grounds behind Xeion. Thats not something you see every day... An odd looking man sat twenty feet up on a branch, gazing down on those below. Well... you wouldn't really call it gazing. The man was wearing a long red blindfold, the tails of which blew lazily in the wind behind him. But he did seem to be focused on the three Arrancar before them. By the time most Hollow become Arrancar, they've eaten their partners... Odd to find three working together. The man dropped down from the tree, landing next to Yuu-chan. Hello there little one! Don't you just look cute enough to eat! He said, smiling down at her. His smile grew a bit as he opened his mouth, letting his tongue slide out in a somewhat sinister fashion, a large character meaning "Soul" marked the center of his tongue. Onii-chan, you really shouldn't keep your little sister out in the open like this, ya know? A youth like her, with her spiritual power! She'd make a nice treat for some curious Hollow. The man slowly walked around Xeion, circling him, thumbing a blade in a red sheath tucked into a sash on the back of his waist. I was quite curious when I felt yall's reiatsu, but I didn't expect to find a fully matured Shinigami. Now why would someone like you be in a place like this? The smirk never left Yuan's face. Did you step down from heaven for a little training?
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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:05 pm
Xeion, once he felt yet another energy signature from another Arrancar, was just about ready to attack once the aforementioned energy went near to where Yuu-chan stood. Luckily, the Arrancar simply teased him in such a manner that would provoke him to attack which could give the other three a chance to strike him from behind, ending the fight without a doubt. With Ky and the others gone, he is the only means of defense the mansion had.
The new Arrancar, unlike the other three, was somewhat wild in nature. By the way he dresses up to the manner he was speaking, even down to his mannerisms, it was clear that this one was as, if not more, dangerous than the other three combined. It was as though Xeion had been invited to an Arrancar party where he was the main source of entertainment. "Great," Xeion whispered under his breath, realizing that the situation became even more critical with the arrival of the fourth Arrancar. He knew that if all of them were to wish it, they could easily destroy the mansion in a flash. However, it seems as though they, or at least three out of four of them, weren't interested in the destruction of the mansion at all, but more specifically, in just fighting Xeion instead.
Once the strange man began talking, Xeion attention was focus shifted from each and every one there. The gravity of the situation with four Arrancar there made the actions of each and every single one of them there very unpredictable, Xeion included. The tension in the air was so thick that one could even cut it with a knife without a problem, but the tension in the surroundings couldn't be felt more by anyone else other than Xeion himself. The fate of the mansion, and all those in it, lay in his hands. "If I wait for them to attack, they may simply grow bored and destroy the mansion. I must focus their attention only to me, give them a reason to focus only on me and nothing else," thought Xeion, biting his lip until he made a decision. He didn't agree with his decision as it wasn't his style, but in cases like this, one can't afford to think of other alternatives.
In a flash, Xeion pushed off into a shunpo with his right leg, reappearing just in front of the three Arrancar before he immediately performed a circular slash, aimed for the three Arrancars' chests, before he switched targets and headed for the strange Arrancar. Immediately, Xeion unleashed a simple combo attack on the new intruder; simple in such a way that Xeion could ascertain his level since he already knew how strong the other three were. The simple combo started out with a vertical slash, followed by a horizontal crescent moon-shaped slash, then ending with a thrust to the chest. Of course, the combo was done simultaneously one after the other and was quick to execute, giving Xeion time to return to where he was a while ago, a safe distance from where he can see any and all aggressive movements that the four were to make which suggested an attack.
[2/10]
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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:43 pm
Yuan's sinister smirk never left his face. He backpedaled as the shinigami came at him with his rather elegant blade. Yuan's hands, crossed across his chest, didn't move as he gracefully hopped to the side to avoid the downward slash. He continued to backpedal as the blade came in the crescent slash. The man was testing him, to be sure. Yuan knew this to be true. As the thrust came, Yuan reached behind himself, grabbing the blade on his waist. It was an average-size katana in a bright red sheath with a black hilt. The guard was in the shape of a sun-burst. Yuan brought the blade forward, sheath and all. With his right hand on the hilt, and his left on the top of the sheath, he rotated, using the still-sheathed blade to deflect the thrust to his left side. As the blade bit into the red sheath, Yuan drew the blade out in a smooth, fluid motion, lifting it out of it's sheath and bringing it down to rest comfortably to the side of the shinigami's neck. This wont mean anything to you. But for my benefit, thats one. Yuan's smirk had never left his face. In fact, it had seemed to grow. Even though he couldn't see them, the shinigami would likely feel Yuan's eyes, as though they were boring into him.
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 6:51 am
((This seems interesting enough. I think I'll just sit this one out for a while and watch what happens.))
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:09 pm
((Umm, just so you know, Yuan-san, Xeion is already a safe distance away so can't really place your blade near his neck at that range.)) 3nodding
Xeion saw the smirk in the Arrancar's face grow when he received his attacks, dodging them as easily as Xeion had expected. It was clear that the guy knew how to fight, but the question was how well could he do it. Aside from his smirk which seemed to be mocking him, the man, although blindfolded, seemed as though he was staring down Xeion as if he could see right through the blindfold and straight into every fiber of Xeion's being. He knew this and knew this well as the man before him wasn't the only one keen on hiding his eyes. Xeion, too, hid his eyes behind the sky-blue shades; eyes that had a dark secret hidden in them.
"You're good. Darn good," complimented Xeion, now focusing his attention solely at the blind-folded man. Since he figured that the other three Arrancar that were there, still as silent as ever, remained non-aggressive for the moment, Xeion thought that it would be best to dispatch of the Arrancar as quickly as possible without really going past the limit of pushing him back as killing him would be a complete breach of Xeion's pacifistic and non-aggressive means of fighting -- a sword which only seeks to protect lives, not take it away.
Pushing off into a shunpo yet again, Xeion decided to test out how far this man could hold up to his attacks. His reflexes seemed to denote that he was a veteran swordsman without a shadow of a doubt, but so too was Xeion, who had been witness to many conflicts, both at an individual and massive scale. It was time to see just how far is the gap between their skills.
Once Xeion reappeared in front of the blind-folded man, Xeion stepped forward and brought down a powerful overhead slash in the shape of an arc. As soon as the slash was at the median of its arcing motion, Xeion swiftly tilted Elena, his zanpakuto, to the side slightly. Putting yet his other foot forward and taking a single step further, Xeion now spun in a 360-degree circle, the momentum of the spin giving more power to the next attack which came after the overhead slash -- a horizontal slash, aimed for the man's mid-section. He still wasn't finished, however, as Xeion, after executing the two consecutive attacks, tossed his zanpakuto up in the air after which he formed his hands into a fist and reinforced them with reiatsu. What came next was a series of unarmed melee attacks while Elena was still spinning up in the air.
The first attack was a series of quick jabs and straight punches, each one as powerful as the next, all targeted at the man's entire body, chest and all. In the next attack, Xeion began throwing a quick combination of hooks, palm thrusts, and elbow strikes at main points of the man's body so as to disrupt his energy flow mainly the solar plexus, left and right rib, lower abdomen, and collarbone. Finally, Xeion crouched down and executed a rising double palm thrust at the man then turning his body to the right in one fluid motion so Xeion's back was facing the man. Although this seemed as if Xeion was off-guard, this wasn't the case entirely as at the exact same time Xeion turned his back, Elena, after spinning in the air for a few second, returned into view. Just before it hit the ground, Xeion caught Elena's hilt then immediately swung his body around, sword in hand, into a powerful slash in an upward-diagonal direction coming from the left in the strange man's point of view.
This fierce combination, incorporating both armed and unarmed styles of melee combat, was done in a fast and fluid motion. Xeion's fast attacks and swift body movements made it hard even for experienced fighters to successfully dodge all of the attacks, if not only some. In Xeion's case though, this was still testing the man as to what extend his abilities are, although now at a much higher lever. Since Xeion still didn't incorporate more intricate moves into his line of attack as well as used his abilities as of yet, he was curious as to how the strange man would fare against his combo.
[3/10]
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:44 pm
Yuan's smirk drooped a bit as the man came at him again. He was getting bored. It seemed to be the same combo. A downward slash, which Yuan caught with his raised horizontal blade. A little more force this time, Yuan noted, but Yuan's Arrancar body had been tempered to be physically stronger than his shinigami counterparts. Then a horizontal slash which Yuan easily caught with a mere twist of his blade. Yuan was considering openly yawning to communicate his boredom to the shinigami, when all of a sudden, the shinigami's zanpakuto was airborne. Yuan was surprised to say the least as the shinigami came at him, fists flying. Yuan quickly pulled his arms in, still holding his blade and sheath, to protect his core. But it was only a matter of time before Yuan's unpreparedness would hurt him. Sure enough, a low punch hooked in beneath Yuan's defenses. His Hierro protected him from serious damage, but he instinctively buckled over slightly. The next shot hit him square in the side of the face. Rather than stand and take the beating, Yuan rolled with the punch, falling back and catching himself on the ground. Yuan rolled back several feet, coming up crouching, his blade held out horizontally before him. Yuan raised his index and middle finger from the hilt of his blade, pointing them out at the shinigami. A small red orb formed right in front of his extended fingers and grew rapidly, bursting into a deep red beam which fired off at the shinigami with a roar thick with bass. It was a cero. The smirk had returned to Yuan's face.
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 5:41 pm
Having seen the man take some form of beating from his combo, Xeion saw that the man wasn't as invincible as his image projected and in fact was susceptible to attack, like all the others. Now realizing that he had some sort of chance against the blind-folded Arrancar, Xeion knew that it was time to take this fight up a notch. The look in the Arrancar's eyes, too, was also saying that he was ready to be attacked.
As soon as the crimson-colored Cero shot out of the strange man's fingers, Xeion knew that it was about time for Xeion to show him his abilities as well. Extending his hand towards the oncoming Cero beam, the immediate fabric of the dimensions in front of him began to tear as a pitch-black void, pulsating with malicious-looking energy, appeared in front of the Cero and absorbed the said beam into it. This was Xeion's main ability and his shikai ability as well -- the manipulation of cosmic energy to bend the dimensions themselves to his bidding. It's most basic use was the thing the man had seen, absorbing his Cero into its darkness. This was Xeion's signature ability -- the Dark Mirror.
As soon as the entire beam was absorbed into the dark void, the Dark Mirror in front of him closed up. Instantaneously, several Dark Mirrors -- a total of eight -- opened up all around the man, covering him from every side, including above where a Dark Mirror also opened up. A split second later, several Ceros shot out of the Dark Mirrors, more powerful than the one that had been absorbed a second earlier. It was one of the Seven Dark Gifts of the Dark Mirror, 'Wrath', where everything that goes in becomes more powerful once it comes out of the Dark Mirror. In addition, using the principles of dimensional refraction, the very same Cero which went in multiplied itself to the number of Dark Mirrors open. Now, with all sides covered, the man would find it hard to dodge against the very same thing he used to attack with. Talk about karma.
[4/10]
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 6:07 pm
Yuan didn't know what to expect. He was shocked to see this shinigami's power in motion. He hadn't expected anything of this magnitude for a shinigami's basic zanpakuto release. A bead of sweat ran down Yuan's face and he quickly used "it" again. Yuan couldn't help but pant suddenly at what he now knew. His mind raced at incredible speeds. Suddenly, as the mirrors appeared to box him in, he smiled. He knew what he had to do. Yuan snapped his fingers as he disappeared from sight. Within the "box" of mirrors the ceros errupted in a large explosion. As the shinigami would move the mirrors, there would be nothing inside. Had Yuan been destroyed completely? Or was there another explanation?
((sorry, short!))
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 6:50 pm
When the smoke and dust from the large explosion caused by the impact of multiple Ceros against each other, Xeion saw that the man from before was gone, disappeared in a flash. Xeion, having seen this type of tricked pulled on him countless times prior to this meeting, already knew what to expect -- a sneak attack from somewhere that he wouldn't totally expect. That was the good thing about it though as Xeion most likely had the advantage in this situation.
Since this was the first time the Arrancar man and Xeion fought, both of them were fighting in the shadows of each others abilities. Nobody knew what the other was capable of and the only way to see that is when the aforementioned abilities themselves are implemented real-time during the course of the battle. Xeion still had a lot of things up his sleeve which he didn't consider using since he only planned on pushing the four Arrancar back into retreating of their own free will. In the same manner, the man he was fighting also had no clue as to what Xeion might try to do. In this case, Xeion thought that it would be best to put up a facade of defenselessness in order to lure out the man from wherever he is into attacking. But since Xeion didn't want to take any chances, he planned things out carefully.
Going back into the basic fighting stance from before, Xeion closed his eyes and began to breathe slowly, clamly, focusing on his entire surroundings for any signs of movement. To aid him in this, Xeion discreetly released cosmic energy into the surrounding area with the cosmic energy acting like a radar of some sort which would provide Xeion pin-point accuracy about an opponent's location, whether or not he was hiding in another dimension, underground, invisible, or whatever else, with an optimal range of effectiveness of 500 yards. Xeion slowly and surely scanned the area around him, looking for slight fluctuations in the cosmic energy particles as well as the dimensions, patiently waiting for the strange man to appear once again.
[5/10]
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:41 pm
An area a little ways in front of the shinigami would seem to buckle and rip open, revealing blackness, and Yuan standing in the middle. And thats number two. Yuan said, licking his blade. You b*****d. You were holding back! I have to say, I wasn't expecting you to possess powers so great. I have to know. Back up in "heaven", amongst your fellow angels, what rank do you hold? Yuan's sarcasm when referring to Sereitei as "heaven" and the shinigami as "angels" was apparent. He was poking fun at the shinigami, though in reality, he was impressed with the shinigami's abilities. They were unique, and highly dangerous. Yuan wondered if he had seen everything the shinigami was capable of. He stepped out of the Garganta and took a few steps to the side. It was obvious that he hadn't completely escaped the blast. His right side seemed to have dark marks in several spots on his skin. It didn't seem as though it had done any major damage, but they looked like burns, and he held himself slightly differently. I'd like to the name of the man I kill, and how he measures up to his peers.
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