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Mock plunged his nodachi into the the rocky ground, and it stuck there vertically, much resembling an "excalibur". He was perplexed at such requests, and his demeanor revealed it to be so.

Are you both insane??? You interrupted this spar to ask "that"?!?!?! He let out a sigh as he closed his eye and lowered his head for a moment. Then, as he raised his head once more, he revealed a warm smile across it, from ear to ear. I'll have to say no to both of you! How can I become something to you that I am already??? Silly-kuns!!!

Taking a bow, he continued I've always considered myself as your guardian, and your mentor. At least I try to be so. I see it as being my duty as Captain, but I don't do it merely for it. I do it because it gives me much pleasure to help others in the same way as I've been helped in the past. I'm just carrying the legacy!!!

Rising as he removed his blade from the rock, Mock uttered some last words. But if making it official is your desire, so be it.

I'll be honored to become your sensei!!! Thank you!! And let us all do our best!!!

Now... First lesson... is that of survival!!!

Strike!!!

(( lol! Funny! I was listening to Returns A King dramatic music before I even read your posts. xD Then all came this talk about Exalibur and round tables and such! xDD Actcually Mocka, your post went extremely good with the music!! XDD ))

Hatsume::. The kitsune continued to express her face nervously, Mockadash's own expression made her even more so. His carried voice caused the already nervous and anxious fox to jump into a immediate flinch. ><;;
As his head lowered her eyes opened once again from their former winced postions... His continued words left her ears pinned back, seeming to not fully understand all what he had spoken. "I- I under.. " But then it finally caught on, wait, did he..? "Wait.. huh..? Y-Y.... .huh..? She was left with is odd-ball expression on her face. "B-bu... Uhh. My head feels dizzy." She rubbed the left side with her free hand in a attempt to recover from so easily being overwhelmed.
She paused and continued to listen on, his speech seeming to help her come over that small bit of bewilderment. And as it ended, she quickly returned a bow. "Thankyou... Sensei!"

With that she returned a firm grip on the handle of her blade, and she pulled forward with speed, her blade crossing her own chest as her body attempted to swiftly make it's way to curve behind Mockadash as Mashiro was going at the front. If she succesufully made it pass him, her blade would be pushed outwards in a attempt to make a deep slash for his mid-back. The pheonix which burned brightly at this point fluttered upwards just above them for now; least till he saw a opening to correctly go in for, or perhaps for other reasons..?

(( Its ok, Sensei. It all happens to us.))

"Buakudou #4, Hainawa." Mashiro shouted as he pointed both his index and middle right fingers. Mashiro knew that all it would do is hold the Captain's attack off by a few seconds, but that is all he needed. Jumping backwards Mashiro could see Hatsume begin with her attack on the Captain, but she was in trouble. Mashiro had to think of something... and fast. Suddenly the voice of Jou-shirû poped into his head again. Mashiro, Your Twi And La... Mashiro was confused but hat soon changed. Almost as if a "How To Do" video magically appered in his head, Mashiro lifted his blade. As he brought the finger guard to mouth level he said " Write, Jou-shirû... Shuukai Batsû." Suddenly as Jou-shirû was being released the four ribbons around the finger guard wrapped around the falchion blade. With one horizantle swipe in Hatsume's direction, a mass of pure red kidou went to her and surrounded her. Before the Captain's dark wave couold do any damage, Mashiro erected a shield. The shield took the shape of a round disk with kanji writting on it. The shield stayed in place and was backed up by the mass of pure kidou which was still flowing from Mashiro's blade. " Its ok, Hatsume I got you. Now make your move." even as he said this the shield splintered and shreded to pieces. As this happened one of the red ribbons aronud the bottom of the hilt shreded like paper. This made Mashiro wonder at his new found ability.

(( If this isn't ok then I will change the post ^_^))

[OK. I assume you both want me to help you with actual RPing right? Rather than simply being a teacher IC. Anyways, sorry if I'm presuming too much. Here's some tips.

@Mashiro: You should detail the consequences of your actions further. To make it more clear what it is you're doing, and that way allow the person/s you're RPing with to get a better grasp of their surroundings. I get the feeling you're struggling with Godmoding and autohitting. I may be wrong because I'm taking a guess here, but it seems that sometimes you try to describe things with great detail and you end up somewhat autohitting and puppeteering another RPC, and other times you try to refrain from it, only you do it to much and end up sounding inconclusive.

I'll give you an example. In your post you just mentioned that you cast bakudou #4 - and bakudou was misspelled btw, you need to check your spelling Mashiro-kun! - but you've failed to describe how it was that the kidou disrupted my attack. You could've described how it did so, and that wouldn't be puppeteering. Instead, if you went to the point where you also described how the hainawa and the itsuryu also (for example) hit me, now that would be autohitting.

Rule of thumb: RP your opponent's attacks and what happens to them. Don't RP what directly happens to your opponent. I hope I'm being clear enough.

@Hatsu: It's amazing how your RPs have changed! The length of the posts, the style, the descriptions. I don't know what brought this change, but do keep it up!

Unfortunately, such drastic change is bound to bring some problems. I suppose you're still not used to the new style you're using and you're trying too hard. Some passages are too confusing to read, mostly due to everything being so clustered. My advice: Try to organize your ideas. Keeping clean paragraphs is a good way to start!

I hope my advices will help you become even greater RPers than what you already are! xp ]

The way Mashiro chose to avoid Mock's blade and the subsequent dark reiatsu emanating from it, surprised even the Captain. He still wasn't able to figure out how was that a simple low-level bakudou single handedly negated his attack. Certainly, his Zanpakutou is kidou-based. Since his kidou expertise has seemed to improve slightly. the Captain thought. The reiryoku comprising the Hainawa was able to withstand Mock's attack's reiatsu, just enough time for the Shinigami to be able to avoid it - both the blade and the dark wave.

After it, Mashiro cast a protective barrier, that prevented Hatsume from being hit by Mock's Itsuryu. The dark wave coiled around the surface of the barrier and eventually faded to nothingness, just before its power (or Mashiro's dispelling of it) caused it to shatter. In presuming that his students were underestimating him, MockaDash himself seemed to have underestimated these two. The time for fun and games was over!

At the time, Mashiro no longer posed as a threat, so Mock turned to deal with the hyperactive kitsune. Shitsune! the man roared, and a pillar of flames erupted from beneath him, completely engulfing in its fiery red the flames that Hatsume's "phoenix" had sent towards him. The pillar spread to all sides and burned brighter and hotter, gradually shifting in color from red to light blue as it pierced through the clouds above.
This fire was meant as protection, but it was still fire nonetheless. If caught in it, the unseated Shinigamis would most certainly get some burns. Fortunately for him, Mashiro was far from the range of said pillar of flames. But Hatsume was approaching Mock, so she would probably have to deal with it.

The kitsune struck, first with her sword and then with her clawed foot. Mock parried her blade with his own. He allowed some of its dark energy to be released, countering whatever fiery energies Hatsume was releasing from her Zanpakutou - with the help of the fire pillar that was still surrounding both. But the Captain was not about to stop there. Moetsuku. he uttered, and out of nowhere, all around the probably unsuspecting kitsune, a medium-sized explosion engulfed her small body within, as she was attempting to kick him. The explosion would not harm Mock, since it was originated by the ash of his katana that was spread across the battlefield. Some of the ash had gathered around Hatsume and ignited into a fiery blast, and that fire was actually of protective nature to Mock, but "aggressive" to everyone else.

The fire pillar faded, and MockaDash would turn to Mashiro, had the young kitsune been knocked away by his attack.

(( Ya, I have been struggling with that. It is just a little hard for me to write something so that I am not dominaiting the rp, a.k.a godmodding and autohitting. I will be working on that through our trainning.
And that was a slight typo on my part. I am going to be rereading and spell checking for now on instead of trying to rush through it, I think that is also part of my problem. But I did mean for you to be both mentor in OC and IC. Anyway, back to the fight....))

Mashiro could do nothing but watch as his kitsune friend was engulfed in the fire that Mock-Taichou had summoned. Though only a few seconds went by it seemed as if several years where passing by. Each mili-second was passing day by day and this made Mashiro nervous. He could have tried to put another shield around her, but even Mashiro knew that it would have been too slow. Not only that it could very well hit Hatsume, instead of help her. So what was Mashiro to do? He was good on the defensive, and with Shuukai Batsû it was even better. However, he was now faced with fighting the Captain himself.... without aid.

Mashiro went into a deep calculation on everything that could happen, and each calculation ended with either permanent injury or failure. Each time he tried to think of something it ended this was. So, Mashiro decided to.... wing it! This was something that he had never done before. Each and every time he was in a battle there was a plan that he followed. This made the Blonde Shinigami think that, that was the reason he was failing. When something went off plan he would have to break off and try again. So this was the perfect plan out of all of them.... wing it.

Mashiro lifted the blade forward at the Captain. The four ribbons hung from the finger guard and apparent to everyone that he had called off Shuukai Batsû. Then, without saying anything, the blade grew a bright red as Mashiro started to write Kanji in mid air. The symbol he wrote represented a kidou spell. " Write, Jou-shirû." When Mashiro said this the tip of the blade, where Mashiro was using as a pen, grew a pale blue light. " Hadou # 4, Byakurai!" Suddenly the pale light shot out at the Captain. The beam was the width of a base ball, which was pretty big for any type of kidou below 10. If it struck the Captain no one, not even he Mashiro, would know the end result.


(( Is this any better? As far as the autihitting, godmodding, and everything else? lol ))

((Sure thing! x3 Tehehe! It's kinda funny... my's brother's game music is almost fitting this RP. o----o;;... LeftFourDead. ...... Explosions, Fire, Madness, etc; lol! XDD!))

†»‡«Hatsume»‡«† Ablaze, the inferno haloed her body from behind, growing and becoming larger in it's mass as she finally stood with her slightly scalded body. Pain numbed up as if she was adapting to the burned feeling, either that or she was shutting it out as a defensive protection in her body/Brian. No, she was adapting quickly- it's been a long time. The more she played with elements the more her body would be prone to them; just as long as they didn't kill her first. The dark reiatsu tendrils reaching for Mashiro caught her attention, the Captain was focusing on her battle partner; her friend and brethren. Seeming to keep her at bay with no current interest since his last demonstrative attack.
Her left scalded ear shifted back in a quick flicker of a movement, gathering split second information on how she should act on this. MockaDash was no fool, and wouldn't ignore a oppentment on accident because of a assumption of defeat or so. She also knew he wasn't diddle-dawdling around with them and Mashiro could be in terrible danger, so what action should she take? Help counter his attack or go in for Mocka himself?.... Her inferno would be manipulated, as it swiftly carried across racing at Hatsume. The firebird seemed to camouflage itself within it temporary...
Time was out, MockaDash had already begun and set out his cross slashes at Mashiro, where Mashiro set out his counter/attacking white lightning. The light flashing from the large spark filled the area, nearly distracting the fox's eyesight. She was so easily pulled away by movement and light from the corner of her eyes it was hard to focus her sights directly on Mockadash.
The surge of what could be mistaken as a wildfire pushed through and pass Hatsume, covering her as she finally hid herself within the high density of reiatsu of the flames. The phoenix seemed to once again perch on her back as it swiftly made through waiting for the moment to act.
The kitsune would purposely manipulate her inferno in a charge at MockaDash, Faking her direction and hoping to draw away attention to her true area of place within the flames. Attacking from behind on his right side. The 'inferno' was spread about at 6-7 having grown in mass due to burning of the tree, and reached in heights of just about 4'5'' or so-- enough to cover over the shorter female shinigami.
If the Captain should turn his attention and strike at the fire with his blade or dark reiatsu, the swift readied vixen would push and roll sharply to the left to escape the wrath of deadly attack; if he didn't she'd strike her blade in a quick cross slashing motion to his feet, hoping to distract him from continuing any further attack on Mashiro... thus haul ting the entire process of the 'big boom' . But If she distracted Mocka before so and he struck at her and continued his attempt, she'd react in to different ways after hopeful dodging...whatever was /would be to come. One; the phoenix from her backside would gladly release itself once more and swiftly fly in the protection of the flames before zipping out, carrying with him a small part of the inferno, Ame heavily ablaze as he rushed towards Mashiro- The flames filled of Hatsume's reiatsu of her shikai would cause somewhat barrier protection. The long tailed bird would attempt to tackle Mashiro. @0@; His long legs clinging onto his shirt, sharp claws probably poking through into his chest as his over layered flexible wings spreaded over his forearms. His head arching over Mashiros as his large and amazing tail fanned out to it's full extent to embrace the shinigami in a protective layer of fiery feathers. >,..,>; The force of the blast would do more damage then the actually fire, concerning the phoenix was engulfed. So why didn't it burn Mashiro..? Perhaps Hatsume's reiatsu only acted aggressive (burned/attacked) those who she targeted, or posed as a threat? =/ Hrrm, ..

For now, brain-dead causes this post to stop. ><;

((Hatsu, if you want my advice, try not to give so many alternatives to your actions. Explain the possible outcomes, yes. But don't stray to far as to actually puppet your character's actions in the next post according to what I'm about to do in mine. I dunno if this was clear. ))

Mock's attack on Mashiro was powerful. Not the most he could do, since he wasn't trying to kill his students but only shake them a bit, but it was powerful nonetheless. The fact that Hatsume's power was able to counter it, showed great promise on the kitsune's behalf. Mashiro himself, was using his abilities with ease and skill. What he lacked though, was determination behind his strikes. And alas, this particular "trick" of his was not going to work on Mock. No matter how many times he tried.

Still holding the nodachi on his right, the Captain stretched both arms away from his body and raised them until they were parallel to the ground. Standing sideways to both contenders flanking him, he pointed each arm at each one. The right hand was pointed towards Mashiro, and the blade was held vertically, forming a 90º angle with his arm. The left was aimed at Hatsume, with the palm open wide.

Sprinkled on the bones of the beast! Sharp tower, red crystal, steel ring. The Captain began chanting. His relative skill with kidou - not with kidou in itself, but his proficiency to gather and master reiryoku as well as reiatsu - allowed to cast most demon spells with relative ease, without the incantation. In those times where he said them, the power of the spell was truly exceptional for its kind. Move and become the wind, stop and become the calm. Hatsume was closing in on Mock, and so were the bolts of kidou released by Mashiro. The sound of warring spears fills the empty castle! Hadou # 58 -- Tenran! Hadou # 63 -- Raikouhou! Two spells were cast at once. The incantation belonging to the Raikouhou.

From Mock's right hand, a tornado of spiritual energy was released from his nodachi and averted all the bolts produced by Mashiro's Zanpakutou, continuing to make its way towards the caster. The deflected bolts struck several rocks and trees around them, throwing dust and debris into the air. None struck MockaDash or posed a threat to either Hatsu or Mashiro. And the full force of the Tenran was about to strike Mashiro.
From the Captain's left hand, came the enormous surge of yellow reiryoku, shot forward like a beam of lightning with a wide radius, as it spread like a cone from Mock's open palm. The Raikouhou was heading towards Hatsu with incredible speed and force. Not only was its power great, it was not the kitsune's apparent innate element. If she was previously able to counter Mock's fireblast due to it being fire, this time she would have a harder time doing so, since it was pure energy that was coming at her.

Show me some backbone! I don't like to feast on easy prey!!! Mock said to Mashiro, only a couple of meters away from him. Not waiting to see the results of the kidou he shot at him, the Captain had shumpoed to his student's proximity, and was swinging his large sword at him. This close attack would struck him immediately after the Tenran.