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 Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:21 pm
Tsai finally decided what he was about to do. "Tunnel two," he muttered to himself as he slowly walked over to the dark hole. Tsai had no light and no idea what was down there. His bet was Hatred but if it wasn't he'd be in trouble.
He jumped down and it suddenly became a rollercoaster. Tsai was now on a slide moving through what seemed to be the same green sludge from before. This must have been where the sludge went after the chamber above was full of it. But would it lead Tsai to Hatred?
Tsai continued to slide down the pipe at high speeds until he flew out of the sewers into a swamp in the middle of nowhere. He was still in Soul Society but where was he? Tsai got up from the sludge and tried his best to get most of it off of him before he got onto solid ground.
Tsai then looked forward and there it was a huge temple like structure. Black reiatsu was flowing from it. This was definitely the place where Hatred resided. The black reiatsu, the rattling chains, the moans, this was Hatred. Tsai proceded walking up the stairs as he felt chills go down his spine as if someone was watching him. And little did Tsai know he was being watched by three seperate eyes on the temple.
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:29 pm
Tsai soon reached the top of the temple and walked in. It was well lit with torches unlike the sewer he walked through. The place had a very eerie feeling but Tsai wasn't scared. He couldn't die in this world but he could feel pain. He held his zampakuto tightly as he saw a coffin infront of him heavily chained to the wall and the floor. The chains were also bound to the walls and floors with bolts which seemed to be imbued with Tsai's own reiatsu. The coffin rattled back and forth making the chains rattle a bit. "AhhHHhhHhhh!" the coffin shouted as Tsai approached.
A black aura began to engulf the coffin as black-tailed spectre-like hollows appeared. This was probably not the work of the old man but the work of Hatred who was currently locked up in the coffin. For Tsai to rid himself of Hatred he would first have to release him. He began to think thoughts about people he hated at times and people that he still hate.
What Tsai was doing could easily be called suicide. He was giving an already powerful enemy more power just so that he could release himself. This was the only way Tsai knew of to release something that was bolted down by countless chains and bolts.
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:34 pm
"Ohh I think the little Hero here is getting angry with us. I think he needs to be put back in his place. I am just the clone for the job."
Karite turned around and sheathed his blade. He took some cloth from his belt and began to wrap it around his eyes. "You move fast and the sight of you makes me sick. So you move much like Tsai yet you fight like Kaosu. If that is the case then let us fight, but you will nto decieve me again. For my eyes may lie but my ears are never changing."
From inside Konpaku layed watching the fight unfold. "If he iss to be my weilder he must learn much more then he already does, but he is good for being so yound in the ways of soul society."
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:37 pm
The coffin then bursted into many pieces as a pale version of Tsai came out. He looked exactly like Lust and Tsai except for the gi and his zampakuto. His gi was black with the red kanji character "death" written on it. His zampakuto was much more different than Lust's or Tsai's. Instead of the jian shape that Tsai's zampakuto took shape as. Hatred's zampakuto looked more like a black giant scimtar.
"Well, well Tsai, how nice of us to meet again!?" Hatred said his voice echoing throughout the temple. "Welcome to my home, the Realm of Sin!"
The chains that were once bounding Hatred began to move as if they were snakes and encircled Tsai. The sludge outside began to fade and a patch of ground began to reveal itself. The temple itself began to shake and then rise from the ground.
"I hope you aren't afraid of heights Tsai, because we are going up," Hatred commented as he pointed up. "Kaosu would probably be pissing his pants right now.." Tsai joked as he bent his knees making sure that he didn't fall as the temple continued to rise.
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:37 pm
Karite tied the cloth around his eyes and made sure it was tight. Soon he ripped the blade from his sheath again and looked into the darkness infront of him. "Come at me, I dare you."
The clone cocked his head to the side and looked back at the black one. He too was looking in aw at such a strange tactic. He looked and shurgged his shoulders. "Let the kid have it, if he is ready to die."
The clone wasted no time and once again speed off behind Karite. Except this time Karite heard every foot step. As it touched he quickly followed it not with his eyes, but with his ears. Soon he knew exactly where to strike.
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:42 pm
Karite quickly spun slashing upwards with as much force as possible. As the blade went up the wind around it scliced so smoothlyy it left the blade virtually untouched.
The red clone looked down and saw the blade coming trying his best to dodge it he quickly began turning to his right with the blade spinning around.
As he moved his feet Karite heard his every move and continued to follow him. His blade circling touching every snowflake. His feet crunching every bit of snow caught under his feet. Till finally a connection was made with his blade and the clones shoulder.
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:48 pm
The temple soon stopped shaking and rising after a few seconds. They were now a good 200 feet in the air suspended by a single pole coming from the bottom of the temple. It was made from rock combined with Hatred's reiatsu which was a copy of Tsai's.
"Tsai you wanna know one thing I am disappointed of from you? You have so much reiatsu but you never know how to use it, I mean look, you could be rising temples and supporting it with what you got, but you don't even try to do it, instead you focus it on repeative tasks like using kido or doing things like increasing your speedl," Hatred lectured. "You could be destroying things, killing people with it. Doesn't that sound like more fun?" Hatred asked.
Tsai was getting ticked off, Hatred was a sick b*****d, he drew his zampakuto and pointed it at the man or thing standing infront of him. "What I do with my reiatsu is my own decision, even if I do have a high amount, don't you think that there are other people with higher amounts? Some may choose the path of destruction and others towards a brighter future. I choose the brighter future!" Tsai replied.
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:55 pm
Tsai began releasing his reiatsu which seemed to have been replenished from his last battle. A yellow aura engulfed Tsai. Hatred laughed. "Well if you want, but I'm telling you, what your doing now won't get you anywhere".
Hatred also began releasing reiatsu, a black aura engulfed him and his scimtar-like zampakuto. "Well what are you waiting for? Come at me!" Hatred shouted. Tsai bit the bait and charged forward kicking forward with the balls of his feet for more power along with the reiatsu he had released. When within proximity with Hatred, he feinted a slash and stabbed at Hatred's gut.
The pale-looking shinigami merely just smiled as the chains that once bound him came and wrapped themselves around Tsai's zampakuto stopping his attack from even connecting to Hatred. "I'm telling you Tsai, if you don't resist me, I can make you more powerful then what that old man has to offer and me and you, oh we can make people cry, we'll rule Soul Society, only if you let me help you," Hatred said trying to persuade Tsai.
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:02 pm
The clone backed away from the attack but with a deep gash to the shoulder but blood did not spill from him. Reiatsu quickly began spilling from the wound healing him but leaving a black mark on him.
The clone stood once again looking at the boy in dismay. He could not understand how such a weak boy could hit him so quickly. "Well since Runt hit me I guess its your turn now."
Karite still could not see but the crunching of snow made him assume that they were switching targets.
"Its about damn time. It took you long enough. I was begining to wonder if he was weaker then you." The clone said bypassing his sword. "Kid you might want to take that off. Its hard to hear a attack coming at you from the air, escpically when its my fist."
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:07 pm
"I'd rather eat a shoe," Tsai replied as he tugged at his zampakuto and stabbed it forward again, the chains tightened. "But Tsai remember your battle with Chimitsu, what happened? You lost your arm, you were beaten to a pulp, without me do you think you'll ever defeat her? Do you?" he asked while the chains continued to bind Tsai's zampakuto in place.
"I'll do it with old man zampakuto-san, anything is better than making a deal with you," Tsai replied gritting his teeth trying to regain control of his own zampakuto. The chains eventually broke as Tsai fell back and then quickly got back on his feet. "Then I have no choice Tsai, I'm going to have to beat some sense into you," Hatred smirked as he bent his knees. Then in a split second, he was infront of Tsai with his Scimtar-zampakuto overhead with both hands.
Tsai doved to the side as the floor cracked where he was once standing. Hatred was not there again. "Behind" Tsai muttered as he turned around with his zampakuto infront of him as he blocked the slash that Hatred delivered with one hand. It was a powerful one pushing Tsai back several feet. "See the power I have? All this can be yours if only..." Hatred said before he was interupted by Tsai.
"No!"
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:10 pm
Karite took the blade and stabbed into the ground as he realeased the hilt some blood fell from his hand and into the snow. As it happened they where no longer in the medow with the snow but in one of the classes in soul society.
"You see kid it may be your mind, but we are in control. We are what you make us. Emptiness and Blood crazed. We are what make you."
Karite looked around at the padded walls and the matted floors. The only thing different about this place was it wasnt in soul society. It was on a pillar like surface. There was nothing around them excapt darkness that seemed to stretch out forever.
"Where are we?" Karite said looking over the edge in total shock. He couldnt belive that single drop of blood did so much as to change an entire place.
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:40 pm
The clone simply looked at the boy and smiled. He found it funny that the boy could not even tell he was in his own heart. The clone turned his back to the boy and slide off his robes to revel his martial uniform much like the one Karite trianed in with his grandfather. On his wrist where steel rings, which were used by masters of the iron palm style.
"Kid, we are in someplace very dear too you. We are in your heart my friend. I am Emptiness I live in your heart. While my fired up blood thirsty friend over there is Blood. He lives in your mind so to speak."
Karite looked around and was not pleased to know all this, but he would ask his questions later. Karite removed his robe and let it hang around his sash.
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:48 pm
Tsai was beig overpowered no matter what way you looked at it from. The environment element that helped him in the first two battles would not help him anymore, closing his eyes would be suicide and Tsai wouldn't be lucky enough to watch Hatred kill himself like Lust did. Tsai had no more options, but to stand and fight to the best that he could. Hatred stood where he was with his zampakuto to his feet. "Well Tsai, this is my final offer, you either give up and let me be for more power, or you try hopelessly to beat me and will probably end up hurting yourself, what will it be?" Hatred asked.
Tsai needed a plan he was now given several options he paused and looked down. "Alright, you win..." Tsai said as he lowered his zampakuto. "Haha, I knew you'd break through eventually," Hatred walked over to Tsai. When he was close enough, Tsai striked. This was the oppurtunity he was waiting for. "Brain over brawn" Tsai thought as he raised his zampakuto and stabbed it into the chest of Hatred.
He smiled. "Ohhh crafty, much like Lust except the thing between me and Lust..." he kicked Tsai back removing the zampakuto piercing his chest. "Is the level.." he finished off his sentence as his wound miraculously began to heal up.
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 4:00 pm
Lust emitted fumes from his wounds and Hatred regenerated them much like Tsai's left arm. "See here's the thing, Lust is very much like you in the way he thinks, he is smart but he is also weak. I, on the other hand, am probably a stronger version of you in the near future. See, if you can become me, think of all the foes that you would have dominated and destroyed. Two-faced and Chimitsu. You would have brought that hollow or that woman down if only you would let go of your 'I'm a good guy' act".
Hatred dropped his zampakuto onto the floor with a thud. "But I guess you don't listen to reasoning Tsai, it's a shame.." The man disappeared only to reappear on the ceiling with his knee's bent and ready to launch himself at Tsai. "Come on.." Tsai widened his stance embracing for impact and held his zampakuto with both hands infront of him.
Hatred came down from the ceiling with amazing speed, no faster than a teacher-level shunpo but fast enough that it gave Tsai a serious hard time to see as his blade clashed and pierced through Tsai's zampakuto by just a bit.
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 4:08 pm
"Your level right now is not too shabby, a bit better than the average shinigami student but nonetheless it has potential," Hatred complimented as he tried to add pressure using his arms. Tsai smiled and pushed back his reiatsu flowing through his hands now. "Thanks!" Tsai replied now gaining the advantage of the draw and eventually pushing Hatred back.
The pale-looking Tsai-look-a-like flipped in mid-air before landing on both his feet with his scimtar on his shoulder. "Tsk," Hatred began to swing his zampakuto around and around. "Sorry there Tsai, I thought my zampakuto got lighter if you were able to push me back,"
Tsai saw weakness in Hatred when he spoke those words. "Maybe the guy isn't all that afterall," Tsai thought as he changed from playing defensively to offensive. Tsai charged head on, he with his left foot he pivoted on it to change the direction of where he was moving until he was at the side of Hatred. There, he swung his zampakuto diagonally downwards. The strike pierced Hatred's gi and his skin, causing blood to squirt out but as it did, it also began regenerating. "How do I kill something that keeps regenerating?" Tsai wondered as he backed up waiting for a counterattack.
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