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It is in a crisis when the true test of character happens. Only when lives are on the line does the core of a person show. Now, amidst a sea of chaos and the very real chance of death many students are running like mad. Hard pressed to hold their own, the trained Shimigami cannot stop their defense to do much more than shield the initiates. Wave after wave of death is coming- and they must hold it in check.

Not all of them are running, though. A small pocket of resistance is forming on the ground. Perhaps it is the presence of Kuchiki-taicho . . . perhaps not. Either way, that seems the most likely place to make a stand. Charles knows he cannot stay forever. With Aitourensa at shikai, it is only a matter of time before the tide moves against him. Unfortunately for him, a Hollow finds him before he can leave his terrace.

A monsterous roar alerted Charles to his left as the Hollow thought an easy meal was in reach. Narrowing his eyes at the sight, Charles didn't flinch. This isn't the time to fall apart he thinks. Instead, he thinks of a quick way to take this beast down. A malicious smile comes to his face as he begins a quick spin and launch of his weighted chain. Flying true, the weapon hits its mark- and the Hollow flinched for the impact. None came.

The characteristic hole in its chest was the target, and now the chain merely flies through unimpeded. Letting loose a laugh, the hollow begins to run towards Charles, further impaling the chain through its own chest. Charles smiled darker and gave out a war cry of his own.

"GATTAI-KYUUTEN!!! Suddenly the chain vibrates with power and glows with a silvery reiatsu. Following his partner's cry, the chain suddenly constricts like a snake around helpless prey. Surging with power, the chain acts of its own will and circles the Hollow without warning. Beginning from literally the inside out, the constriction begins to rip apart the beast, causing it cry out in agony. Arms pinned at the sides, the creature is defenseless against this ring of torture.

As the chain constricts, it also pulls Charles forward, and he leaps with that added momentum. The kama in his right hand, he gladly body rushes the monstrosity, blade leading through it's death mask. A fading cry of denial leaves the disappating shadow leaving Charles staring the same sea of chaos all around again.

Again, he chooses his weapon to aid him. Re-launching the weighted end, he calls upon another minor power that he didn't know he had. Speaking through his Shimigami, the sword itself calls out the name of another ability in an odd dual voice from a single mouth. "Kaze hochou!" The weapon's impact leaves a thick strand of silver thread, strong enough to help Charles pull himself into a mighty leap up and over the fight, and cover incredible distance.

Landing by the new group, he immediately puts his back to the group, taking a defenseive stance. The chain begins to writhe in his hands and he spins the weighted end ready for a heavy hit, his right hand equally ready to swipe or launch the blade when the time is right. Realizing he has no right to bark orders, or the wish to do so, he merely talks without turning to face his comrades.

"Whatever you are going to do, I have this end covered." His words are only disturbing because they are deathly calm. The patience of a predator waiting to strike.

Nirami had broken out in a sweat when the first set of hollows approached him. His face was close to breaking its' calm composure, and he knew he was shaking. He could hear the cries of other students and the shimigami as they battled the mass horde that literally fell upon them. It was confusing, at first, until people began working together. He saw shimigami do it first, and then noted that a few students who'd hung behind were doing it. He contemplated on asking someone to pair up with him for aid- he'd seen Yuki work into the mass- but the approach of a massive hollow halted that thought for a moment.

Palms sweating more then his face, he wiped one off on his hakama, and switched Homura to his other hand to do the same with that hand. He was partially ambidextrous, but not enough for it to be efficient in battle. The hollow charged him as he switched hands again, and he barely had any time to react. A flick of his wrist and the flaming whip in his hands was back, and then forwards, lashing against the hollows' shoulder, but not wrapping around anything. He heard the urge to pull back from his manifestation, and so he did, working to bring it back to the circles around his head. The hollow howled in pain, and then rage, and attacked again.

Nirami's heart was in his throat, and he tried swallowing the lump as Homura flew towards the heartless mass of rage in front of him. He'd flicked again, a gravelly lizard voice instructing him in his head; it was the only reason why he hadn't entirely lost his composure... yet. He managed to get the lump down as the trail of fire wrapped around the Hollow's throat. He heard the command of 'Pull!' and so he did, tightening the noose and further harming the beast. He managed to defeat his first hollow, before a second one side-swiped him and gouged a hole in one of his shoulders.

The second one ran off, howling, as Nir's reflexes blinded it with Homura's flame. The second-year crumpled slightly, close to closing his occupied hand over the wound and avoiding to after the shout of 'Keep swinging, you fool!' echoed through his head. 'One down, mostly less then others, and I'm already injured.' The ebony-haired male sighed in his head, and decided to work with his agility more, to at least do damage, rather then distracting himself and focusing on killing each one. The others could defeat the weakened ones he provided.

Moving forwards, pain throbbing in his shoulder and adrenaline now in his system, the Kane began moving speedily between fighters and hollows, working to injure the enemy as much as he could while he went, and trying not to collapse from pain, fear, and coming exhaustion.

(( Heyo ^-^ ))

Nirami hadn't seen the hollow... Obviously not, as Homura growled at him for not checking all of his blind spots. He growled back that he was already injured, close to panicking completely, and was quickly becoming tired after using his shikai heavily after releasing it for the first time. The armoured lizard said nothing in reply.
When the shout of 'Get DOWN!' was yelled at him, Nir instinctively ducked out of the way. He paused to watch an odd pink-haired girl take down the Hollow that had been about to attack him, before quickly turning and lashing out at a Hollow that had moved up behind him. His arm was going numb around the area of the wound, so he swore when he couldn't use it to switch Homura into his other hand to wipe off the sweat on his palm from nerves and the heat from the flaming whip.

The hollow he was fighting was deterred and headed in the direction of Hans, to which the response of Nirami was to growl lightly at the annoyance. "Hey! Get out of the way!" He called a warning to the shorter female as he gripped tighter on the handhold of Homura, and lashed out to wrap the whip around the creatures' neck. He missed, but when he tried again, he got a better vantage point- the whip wrapped around and through the hole in its' chest. Gritting his teeth, Nir finished off the Hollow.

Nirami narrowed his eyes slightly at the question of him needing a hand. It could've been a joke... it could've been a sincere question. Regardless, the ebony-haired male would've responded 'Yes' if the large Hollow hadn't come at them. He nodded to Hans when she headed forwards to become the 'ankle biter' of their duo. Wondering slightly what class year she was, he began working on either getting Homura wrapped around and through the hole in its' chest, as there wasn't much of a neck on this one.

Nir missed the first time through, and he squinted his eyes to aim right while the Hollow focused more on the pink-haired female that was cutting at its' legs and feet. After two more tries, he finally got it through, and worked on helping finish off the large creature. However, it didn't seem to react in the same way as the others', and it soon turned to face him, and tried grabbing Homura with a clawed hand. A cry was let out as the flames burned it, but it soon ignored that and grabbed the whip and began pulling Nirami towards it.

(( Can't make everything so easy... He's only a second year, after all. ))

Nirami let out a breath as Hans went for the Hollows hands, and then sucked it in again as she was batted away from trying to go for its' head. His whip was released somewhat, and he worked to take advantage of it. The other hand was still holding onto Homura, but Nir worked it into a way to defeat the beast as he quickly moved forwards, shifting to wrap it around the hand and pull. The whip cut into the flesh, and eventually went through, causing the Hollow to cry out and become more enraged.

The other hand grabbed the whip again, and pulled heavily. Nir was thrown off his feet and he landed on the ground at the Hollows' feet. Working to catch his breath, as the wind had been knocked out of him, Nirami felt that he no longer had Homura in his hand. The whip was once again a blade and was laying a few feet away from him, while the Hollow picked him up with its' remaining hand by his injured arm. Nir growled out in pain and managed to catch his breath again. Ignoring the possibility of breaking his arm, he began swinging and kicked at the Hollows eyes.

Being dropped was not a pleasant experience, but Nirami moved as quickly as he could to take Homura in his hand again and move over to Hans, making sure she would be protected when the Hollow recovered from being kicked in the eyes. He was shaking heavily now, and his arm hung useless at his side. He wasn't sure he could release his Shikai again, and Homura wasn't speaking to him at the time being.

Nirami wasn't entirely focusing on everything that he should have, at that point in time. He had been watching Hans go for her sword and only blinked as she wound up cutting off the remaining hand of the Hollow. It seemed as angry as it could get, and it was soon charging at them again. Nir heard Hans' wheezing, and frowned. He pulled her into his good arm, carefully avoiding harming her with Homura's blade, before jumping away from where the Hollow did a full body slam where they had been standing. For the next amount of time while he worked on thinking of what to do, he moved them quickly from place to place to avoid danger.

"Are you strong enough to finish it off?" The ebony-haired male asked the female he carried, keeping his eyes out for the Hollow he was running from swiftly, and for any others that might want to attack them. This was a good way to gain time to come up with a plan, and although it was tiring, Nir was used to moving around so fast so much. It was what he worked on the most when training his skills. "Or... will we need to retreat and hope someone else can kill it off?" he was panting and the ache of his arm was starting to get to him.

Nirami stopped when told to, keeping an eye out while Hans finished off the Hollow. When she came over to examine his arm, he said nothing while picking her up again and dashing away from where a smaller hollow had been about to hit her. "No time." he grunted, setting her down again when they were in a safer area. There were more people around them, now, and he could see the area where he and Yuki had been staring at the sky at.

Wavering on his feet slightly, Nir looked around for any other people that they could work near in case another large one attacked them.

"Agh!" Her eyes went wide as he picked her up and ran to another area. She quickly put a few feet between them looking at him with an annoyed expression as her Zanpaktuo went into its normal form and she sheathed it. "Okay...next time, warn me before you touch, now c'mere" She said gruffly, yanking at one of the 'tails' on her belt she came forward and picked up the useless arm and place it on her shoulder and began to wrap around it so as to help with the pain and blood. "It looks like it might be pulled out of socket, and I'm not strong enough to pop it back in, and I don't think you'd be able to take my doing so at the moment...." she wasn't trying to be rude, just straight forward. As she worked and gave him something to lean on she kept glancing around for Hollows coming near them. "By the way...my names Hans." she said with a smile.