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Hakumen was surprised by the young mans courageous words, he wanted to prove something, a trait that wouldve been almost admirable if Hakumen had been anykind of caring, but such was not the case. hakumen Barraged the kid with blow after blow, grinning more and more as sprays of blood left his torso, arms and legs, where Hakumen had struck glancing, but painful blows. the kid had to be feeling it by now, that sting of steel, and the slow ache that followed, along with the bleeding. Again and again, the heavy blade rained down on the young man that was doing his best to keep up his defense, and his stamina, he could see was already starting to flag.

Just then, Hakumen felt something hard slam into his body, the young mans raven haired compatriot had thrown herself into the fray, and seemed to be targeting her ally, not just the arrancar. this was the kind of thing he liked, the boy would likely have reservations about causing harm to the girl, but the arrancar himself, held no such fears, she would just be one more to die today. She clearly wished it upon herself, hakumen told himself mentally.

Blow after blow fell upon the two, tearing into flesh with no hesitation, and the arrancar couldnt help but smile to himself.

" How noble, and how foolish, you both are. you boy, are going to die first, I want to see the fire leave your eyes, and then, you girl, are going to feel the full tang of my steel."

then, with a quick Sonido, the arrancar was behind yaro, and made a heavy handed thrust at the young man's exposed back, faster than the young man could have ever turned...

Yaro was tiring, and his vicious heat did not seem to effect the arrancar anymore, and again and again, he felt steel bite into his flesh. It was all he could manage to keep the mighty blows from cleaving his limbs. the blood did not even have a chance to stain its way down his body before Hito-Furukizu dried it, leaving great brown marks across his body, that looked horribly like burns. at that moment, the worst thing that couldve happened to yaro did.

Suzuran had flung herself into the ringing steel chorus, slamming hard hitting punches into both of them. this action had rung Yaro's Death Nell. even in the most frenzied of states, he could not allow his steel to harm another soul reaper. he was forced to recoil from her punches, Unable to defend against both her and the arrancar at the same time, his wounded body was now becoming battered by the violent tempest that had entered the ring.

Under one last recoil from One of Suzurans furious fists, Yaro had failed to notice the Arrancar dissappear, or where he reappeared. it was only when he felt a sharp ache in his stomach, just below his sternum, that he realised what had happened, as the long black blade protruded from his stomach for a split second. when it had retreated from his body, Yaro collapsed to the ground clutching the afflicted area as blood began to flow freely, his surprise had caused his Zanpakuto to seal, and normal tempurature to return. but now his problems were just beginning. Yaro's body had grown accustomed to the intense heat, and the sudden presence of the normal air was like a freezing gale to him, dropping his body heat quickly, causing him to shiver uncontrollably. blood sped from his now increasing heart rate, and he bled that much quicker.

Echigo smiled, for he knew his zanpakutou's true power and if this arrancar thought his armor would be impossible for his soul cutter to rend, maybe a different tactic should be employed. when released, his weapon would become less of a sword, and more of a claymore, able to crush its way through most of the thickest substances one could think of.

" you leave me no choice then, Arrancar, I will show you what its like to be crushed inside of your armor. Illuminate my path by night, Shigemitsu." Echigo chanted the release phrase, as the blade shimmered and morphed, with a silent fluid grace associated with moon like quick silver.

Sai's eyes went from a look of boredom to a look of joy. It looked like Echigo was finally ready to fight for real. This was just what Sai had been waiting for. Finally the fun would start; however, how long it would last was yet to be seen. No one looking at him would be able to tell but Sai was now concentrating more then a little bit. He was making sure he was ready to send a surge of electricity Echigo's way no matter where the shinigami hit him.

“Yes, Yes, Yes!! Please show me what it's like to be crushed. That is, if you can anyway. Please don't disappoint me shinigami! Come on, show me your bite is as bad as your bark and attack me!”

Sai couldn't help but lick his lips a little. He was once again picturing how the blind shinigami would look when he had electricity shooting threw him. Sai could only hope it would look as great as he was thinking.

“Well shinigami, what are you going to do? Will you attack me like a man? Or maybe you'll chicken out and run away? That would be the smart thing to do shinigami; although, I don't know if your that smart really.”

[[Wow, crap, sorry this took forever! I've kinda been neglecting my guilds lately, really really sorry! I didn't see there were new posts here. sweatdrop ]]

Rin's eyes narrowed in annoyance- she was seriously starting to get frustrated with this guy. As if he weren't bad enough before ... this persona of his that called itself 'Grimmkitty' was worse. Taking a long, deep breath, Rin tried to calm herself down- getting frustrated with this .... child-like Arrancar wasn't going to help her now. In fact, in a situation such as this, it would really only make her situation worse. her fists were clenched, though, nails digging into her palms to relieve some of her frustration before she lost it.

Now, normally, Rin was not the type to get distracted in a battle. And nor would she in this case, had her trained ears not picked up the sound of another Garganta opening. Wondering how many more there could possibly be, she glanced quickly in it's direction, more fully distracted when she heard whatever-it-was screech the name of her opponent- though it didn't seem as if it was heading for her fight. As of now, it wasn't a threat to her, but she kept flags up in case it realized that Grimmjow- or rather, "Grimmkitty" was in her vicinity.

"Look, Grimmkitty, is it ... ? I'm not quite in the mood for your little games." she growled threateningly, a small fraction of her annoyance seeping into her voice.

Despite the Cero Espada's cursing and screaming, Soren took no notice. But he did realize that the body he clung to was much too small to be his beloved Cuarto's. Sitting up on Pandora's back, the little Arrancar tilted his head as he looked down at his squirming seat. Blink blink, went his big childish eyes.

"You're not Grimmjow-sama." His tone was slightly surprised, but also disappointed. As if this wasn't already apparent. As he looked around, he also stated another obvious thing as he exclaimed, quite happily, "Oh, there he is~! Ah, it's Kitty-kun~! Kitty-kuuuun~!"

And as if Pandora suddenly didn't exist, Soren promptly hopped off him, not realizing his slobbered-all-over lollipop had glued a part of itself to the poor Cero's hair as the Fraccion had landed on him. When he vanished into a Sonido, his partly-eaten sweet stole a couple of strands and left a sticky patch.

Soren was within Grimmkitty and the little girl Shinigami's airspace in a heartbeat. Floating upside-down in the air, grinning like an idiot, he waved his non-lollipop-occupied sleeve at his Espada's feline persona.

"Hai Kitty-kun~" This was followed by a string of giggles. "You look like you're having fun~ Don't worry, Pen-Pen won't interrupt Kitty-kun's playtime. Grimmjow-sama's being nice today, isn't he~?"

All the while nibbling the edge of his yummy sugary snack. He'd step in only if he was needed. Not that either Grimmjow or Grimmkitty needed the help. But who knows? Maybe one of the Shinigami might free themselves up to take on the penguin Arrancar in hopes that he'd be easy prey. A faint giggle at the thought. Silly, silly people for thinking that. Oh well. It's not like he'd tell them, right~?

The moment the stifling heat disappeared, a small scrap of Suzuran's not-so-pugnacious mind returned to her. Grey-flecked brown eyes stared as Yaro dropped, his body shivering, blood splattering to the ground. The one wound that hadn't been sealed by the heat; seeing the long rusty marks all across his body, knowing she probably looked the same, though on a rather reduced scale as she had only caught the outliers and glancing blows. Her mouth curled into a grimace as she ground her teeth together, partly in guilty frustration, partly in anger.

"F--k. Baka Yaro . . ."

A short Shunpo to his side. Using a bit of reiatsu to create a cushion, she hooked a leg under the fallen Sanbantai sanseki and bunted him, aiming for the air beside Mikoto.

"Vooooii, M'koto! Git'cher idjit outta 'ere. I'mma deal wit' this one."

At this, a smirked grin spread over her features. A reckless, dangerous smirk. Eyes shining the battle-lust that one would only find in a Juuichibantai, she turned full attention to the Espada.

"A'ight, ye big ugly batturd. Yer next." That battle-hungry grin grew wider. "Lessee if'n yer wor'the lamearse title yer f--knut bosses gave ye."

Parrying the raging Espada’s blows, Megami’s twin blades shook in his grasp, angry that her wielder couldn’t make a counter-attack. Sanzo’s arms felt like they were going numb from Pandora’s assault and he made a disgusted face at his words. “Che. I’m flattered in a weirded-out kind of way that you think I’d taste good, but I’m not about to let you make a snack outta me.” Once again, the Espada took the stance of a lifeless doll and the Soutaichou went even more on-guard, knowing what happened the last time and not wanting to take any chances. “I don’t think you want me to be one of you. Just the thought of that makes my blood run cold.”

On guard, waiting for Pandora to attack and bracing for his next flurry of attacks, Sanzo had Megami raised to defend. Within the next fraction of a second, the Cero was effectively restrained, head in the dirt- but not by an ally. Violet orbs laced with bewilderment watched as a very hyper blonde went nuts and launched himself at the other for a..hug. His deadpan stare never left the duo, though the Soutaichou never let his guard down. The whole situation was just awkward. He went on high-alert however, when he noticed the Cero’s eyes were trained not on himself, but in the direction of another fight. The blonde did not like the ravenous look Pandora wore.

Ritsuka watched dumbfoundedly at the disturbance of the newcomer and his best friend’s sudden burst of energy. He looked frantically between Ryusei and the hollow that stood a few yards away. For some reason, hearing the Espada speak made his chest tighten. The Juunibantai shook his head. ‘I’m being silly..It must be the effect of his reiatsu.’ It had felt for a moment that the other’s presence was familiar, but he knew that wasn’t possible. “Ryusei. You need to stop and let Shihei-kun take you back to my lab or you’re going to go into cardiac arrest. Let me take care of this so we can make you better.” He spoke to his best friend in his no-nonsense tone. Standing to his full height, the pink-haired man withdrew his zanpakuto, ready to stand guard and fight.

Baltazar, who had been scanning the area for the Hougyoku shard, whipped his head around to face Llevon, his eyes going wide in alarm. The shard that he had been sent to collect rested within the grasp of one of his least-favorite Espada. “..Llevon,” the Trecera regarded him with a curt nod, holding his hand out like he wanted the shard placed there. “I was not aware that Aizen-sama instructed you to come..If you’d be so kind as to give me the shard.” It was more of a demand than a request, but the way that the other had suddenly gotten what he had been searching for unnerved him, and he made to sonido in front of the Segunda. If anything, he was hoping that his height would intimidate the other enough for the shard to be returned and he would remain in Aizen’s favor.

Echigo could only smile at his Opponent's moronic bravado. this arrancar was fighting a captain, and daring to lecture HIM on Smarts? This almost seemed like some kind of twisted joke. Now, Echigo was not one for putting his enemies down, or taunting them, but this joke was too funny to him. There had to be a comment made to foolishy over confident Espada. He needed to come down a peg or two.

" Why would I even want to run? Your armor will act only as the Carapace of an insect, when I smash it in with my Zanpakutou." Echigo Informed his opponent, before stepping into shunpo without another word.

From there, the captain of the Kyuubantai unleashed an absolute furious slurry of blows with his weapon. they were not byu any means heavy handed strikes, more like light little flicks, but one of these "flicks" had the same devasting effect as a compacter on a junked car. the espada could not take this opponent lightly, or he would suffer masive damage to both his pride, and his armor.

Hakumen could only laugh as Suzuran kicked the Burned out and bleeding Sanseki away. It was partly her fault that the young man was now in the horrible shape he was in, and Hakumen intended to play that on her like it was his trump card. he would weaken her with guilt, and then end her like he had cut down the young man.

" you know, Its your fault Hes going to die. he recoiled, because he was afraid of harming you. Either he was not very intelligent, or you meant something to him, but either way, I dont give him more then three minutes. Now, I wanna see how much Ive angered you, I just killed your friend, does that fill you with rage? fear? hatred? Show me with your fighting, itll make it so much more interesting!" Hakumen shouted.

He lunged at Suzuran, making broad sweeping strikes at her bare arms. Hakumen, if confident he could win, loved to soften up his victim, by practically cutting them to ribbons, to watch them fade as they bled more and more, and now that the wretch and his blasted Heat wave were gone, this girl was going to bleed...

Flashes of conciousness. that was what Sanseki Inazuka was experiencing. one moment, hed be awake, aware of his dire situation, then nothing. He wondered,' Is this what its like to be dying? am I going to watch what happens now?" the thoughts made him cold, as though he were now a mere stones throw from Death's gates.

Airborne. Suddenly, yaro was in the air, and he had no real idea why, but then suddenly something caught his eye, and it filled him with more fear than dying could ever do. He was being flung towards his taichou. The one whom in all the world, he just wanted to make her see him as usefull. and he had just failed. Infront of her, and now, he was being passed off to her like some kind of bloody rag doll.

Now the only thing ringing in Yaro's mind was the word "Failure." He wanted some how to change his flight path, to alter his trajectory, but he could barely move as it was, and there was no escaping it. Yaro was flying straight into the gaping maw of his worst fear, and it was eating him alive...

Baltazar regarded the Segunda espada with a heated glare, hissing lowly in fury. "You dare disobey Aizen-sama so openly? We were given an assignment and you were left behind for a reason. But clearly, Aizen-sama's word does not mean anything to you." Baltazar was showing all the control he possibly could until Llevon let it pass that he was not returning the shard to him, lashing out and groping for the neck of the smaller hollow. "Hand over the shard before I get nasty.." Hissing, the Trecera bared his many fangs at Llevon, grip tightening on his neck. He knew, of course, that he stood no chance in a battle for dominance with the Segunda, but his desperation to return the Hogyouku shard to Aizen was overpowering his thought-process.

Standing with his zanpakuto in hand, the Juunibantai taichou looked between the two Espada with uncertainty. He had meant what he said about protecting everyone, but taking on two (and by the looks of them, highly-ranked) espada was an entirely different story. So for now, he sat watching every move they made against one another, making a mental log of their mannerisms that may lead to a weakness. 'I've just got to distract them long enough for everyone else to get away so I can go back to Ryusei..I only hope that they keep on fighting each other instead of myself.'