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The clone had hopped onto the cliff after several minute climb. "I'm back" it said as it's tongue came out. Instead of looking like a shinigami now, it looked like a hollow. But it didn't have a mask.

It's muscles could be seen bulging from it's gi and it possessed claws. This was not Tsai anymore, nor was it a hollow. It was a new monster that had been created by his zampakuto spirit. Tsai raised his hands and moved his fingers back and forth signalling for the monster to come at him.

Tsai was determined now to beat this monster. He gathered his reiatsu and began to release it. A yellow aura began to engulf Tsai. His eyes began to glow yellow too. The monster did the same thing releasing it's reiatsu. The colour was the same.

Maybe this was Tsai, a part of Tsai that he didn't know he had. A berserker side. Who knew? Tsai waited as the monster dashed forward. It looked like the creature had just performed a shunpo but then again Tsai could see it.

Tsai drew his zampakuto and cut right into the flesh of the creature as it began to bleed. The creature did not possess a zampakuto anymore, this gave Tsai a bit of an advantage, or at least that's what he thought. The claws of the creature were equally sharp as any zampakuto.

The beast clawed forward at it's prey who was inevitably Tsai for the time being. And to Tsai's luck, his zampakuto was stuck in the creature's huge arms which continued to grow with each second. He swung around the creature using his zampakuto as a sort of pivoting point and landed on it's back.

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Haro grinned as he felt his fist get caught by his opponent, it was a very good show of the strength that Kaosu posessed, and it was good that Kaosu didn't let him get a hat-trick on him, hitting him three times in a row. "Ahh, so you do remember how to stop a punch, I thought that you had forgotten there for a second." He said jokingly. But his stupidity and his cockyness would get him nowhere, and he learned that the hard way as he sammed forwards over Kaosu's leg straight into the dirt, smashing his face off the ground and feeling his lip begin to gush blood. He was in rough shape.

Even though he was hurting pretty bad, he struggled to his feet and he smirked as he stood there, wiping the blood from his lips. He took a deep breath and he laughed, usually, the taste of his own blood would innitiate a blood-lust...but he was holding it back. He stood there, relatively calm, knowing that the next hit on him could mean unconciousness...but he was not going to hold back in the least...he was going to try his damndest to dodge the remaining attacks. "This is the beginning of the end." He said with a smile. He tossed forwards a punch, but being completely surprised by his own weakness of body and mind, he merely watched as it sailed aimlessly and weakly through the air.

Dodge: +15 [25](hit)
Attack: +7 [8]

DAMAGE!

Hakuda damage @ Haro: 6-9

The thunder continued to encircle the two fighters. The creature had lost a tremendous amount of blood but for some reason, there were no huge flesh wounds. It was regenerating.

It had something that Tsai had except he could regenerate every part of his body instead of just his left arm. He was just wasting his time by trying to weaken it. Tsai began to back away slowly trying to position the beast as close to the field where the thunder was most powerful and frequent. Once that was done, Tsai could begin slashing and stabbing until the creature reached the range without Tsai being close to it.

The creature was slow when trying to keep up with Tsai but eventually Tsai positioned it where he wanted to. Another environmental kill for Tsai. "Alright, into the thunder you go!" Tsai said in his head as he drew his zampakuto charging forward at the beast. He swung his zampakuto down upon the beast as fast as he could trying to make the creature move back, but it wasn't working the creature was taking the hits but it's knees were bent. It had no intentions of going into the thunder field.

It wasn't dumb afterall. Tsai needed a plan B, he didn't have one. He would have to think of something quickly. He continued the wave after wave of slashes in the meanwhile.

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Haro's Hp: 0/30
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Haro smirked as he felt his fist batted away like nothing, because of his weakness. He was almost sure he was going to get some miraculous boost of energy, and be able to use it to leap into action and jump out of the way of whatever came towards him next...but it seemed that fate was not going to be so kind. He tried to hop to the side, using his snap-jab boxing skills still, but he felt the uppercut strongly impact the side of his jaw...he hadn't been quick enough.

He flew upwards into the air from the impact and he went a good three meters before beginning to decend towards the ground. The impact was not great when he hit the ground, it just caused a wicked *whump*. Haro was not moving. He merely lay there unconcious. Kaosu was a formidable opponent now...they were equals...but still, at this time, he was inable to claim victory, only luck could do such a thing....and luck seemed to be with Kaosu...THIS time.

Dodge: +15 [20]
Attack: +7 [void](unconcious)

The old man reappeared again. "I'm impressed, although you were toally overpowered in terms of strength, you managed to beat my challenge, a round of applause for you," he chuckled as he walked towards the stairs.

"Hey wait.." Tsai followed him. They began descending the stairs of Sokyoku Hill. They remained silent until they reached the bottom of the staircase and they began walking towards the place where the Tsai-look-a-like fell. There was a puddle of blood there still, no body. The body was probably still ontop of the hill. "Well are you going to say anything zampakuto-san?" Tsai asked being a bit more polite now instead of calling his spirit old man.

The blood suddenly began to dry up rapidly and disappear, the clouds began to disappear as the sun appeared. A table then magically appeared with tea and all. "Have a seat Tsai," the old man showed a cushion where they could sit to enjoy some tea.

The old man sat down first and poured three cups of tea, one for him, one for Tsai who was still bloodied up. The last one, the old man poured some powdery stuff into the cup.

Tsai sat down with a bit of hesistation suspecting that the third cup was full of poison, he waited for an explanation before he said anything.

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"One cup represents you, one cup represents me, and the third the one with the poison represents the poison inside of you," the old man explained. Tsai raised his eyebrow again, he did not understand.

"In this world there currently exist three entities. You, me and something that we will refer to as poison. The main point is that we need to get rid of this third entity if you want to unlock your shikai. But I cannot tell you what this third entity is.

Like these cups of tea, you would not knock which cup had the poison, they look exactly the same" the old man continued. "If you figure out what the poison is, and find it in this fake Soul Society, and then get rid of it by any means possible, I will reveal to you my name," the old man said before he and the table of tea faded. The thunder returned and Tsai felt somewhat lonely. He had just been beaten up, the old man could have at least healed him.

Tsai needed to rest a bit, even though this wasn't the real world, he felt tired after the last battle. "Poison..if he is being metaphorical.. that means there is something in this world..that does not belong that will or has already caused damage to me..but where is it?"

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