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Mashiro saw the battle that unfolded before him. His dragon, teeth and all, fought with Hatsume's and Hinata's conjur of a phinex while Alder was keeping the women busy. This was exactly what Mashiro needed for his plans. Now they the women where busy he could act without worring where everyone was. [color=green]" Write...." Mashiro said as he jumped high in the air. Mashiro's blade shone with a pale blue light as he can paralel with the group below. As Rei's tree fell before the group was when Mashiro released his attack. " Disintegrate, you black dog of Rondanini, Look upon yourself with horror and tear out your own throat, Bakudou Number 9, Horin. Hadou Number 4, Byakurai." Two colors now filled the falchion that the Blond Shinigami weilded, Yellow/Orange, and pale blue. This was Mashiro's first time using a dule release of kidou and from the looks of it, it went quite well.

Mashiro's Horin went true to its mark and wrapped around Hatsume as the Byakurai flew out of the blade with a roar. As it hit the ground it relseased a large cloud of smoke that gave him cover. However, these where no ordinary kidou. These where Jou-shirû greatest skill that Mashiro has taken pride of. Its ability to strengthen kidou by 50% was more than enough to rival any kidou at their level, perhaps even a Captain's. With one yank of the blade, Mashiro pulled Hatsume up to him and looked in her shocked eyes with a cold stare. Without any speach Mashiro charged and conected his blade with hers. This attack was as daring as it was risky. He still had his kidou, which an ordinary shinigami could not break, connected to Jou-shirû and if it was diconected it could allow Hatsume to roam as she wished.

Rei felt Ame No Marukumo's talons closing around her waist and she shut her eyes tightly. Oh my gosh, I'm flying...... Rei thought to herself frantically and calmed herself by breathing in long strides of breath and gripping her zanpaktou tightly. She could feel the wind whistling in her ears as Hatsume's zanpaktou brought the female shinigami higher and higher into the sky, and Rei opened her eyes to an awing sight.
The battle was still raging on below her; black smoke and fire balls covered everything and if not for each shinigami's high spiritual pressure, Rei might not had even known that people were there. But never mind the view, Rei had a job to do.
Feeling for Mashiro's spiritual pressure and finding it right next to Hatsume's, Rei thought that this is a perfect time to attack, when Mashiro was being preoccupied by Hatsume and the bits of ember firing towards him. She can feel the pheonix slowly losing its grip on her, and Rei braced herself.
Suddenly and quiet quickly, the female shinigami was falling back toward earth and doing a somersualt in mid air so to dodge anything, including Mashiro's now humungous spiritual pressure, that might be in her way. Her sword at ready, Rei waited until Mashiro's spiritual pressure was strong enough and striked.

Alder leaped back from Hatsume's flames, only to find Hinata's needles from before. With the same speed as before, he deflected the crystals, this time hitting their fragile points to shatter them. Before Hinata fired the tornado, Alder had positioned himself in the trees behind her, therefore, was not affected by the tornado. He continued to move silently through the trees until he was directly behind Ame and Rei, with both their backs turned to him. He pointed his left index and middle finger right at Ame's back. "Hadou number four.....byakurai." He chanted silently, as a bolt shot from his fingers, heading with deadly precision towards Ame's unguarded backside, which, if it made contact, would hopefully disrupt Rei's attack. He moved again, so his spot wouldn't be given away, and waited patiently for an opening to arise again.

Seeing her crystals shattered by Alder's blade, Hinata gave up on maintaining them and let them dissipate into the surrounding air. Reiryoku that had been holding them together flowed back into her, easing the strain of having to control many crystals at once.

"Hmm, it seems he escaped my whirlwind- I wonder how the others will fare?" she remarked bluntly, using the extra reiryoku to intensify the whirlwind. She deliberately passed it over a large, mossy boulder on the edge of the clearing- fragments of rock were ripped from the ground, joining the tempest.

A mutter reached her ears- the wary shinigami whipped around to meet the sight of Alder, now positioned behind Rei, ready to attack her and Ame no Marukumo.

'Oh please. Not that AGAIN,' she thought exasperatedly, almost slapping a hand to her forehead. Alder might not yet have shikai, but neither did Rei, and that didn't mean she snuck around trying to hit people in the backs. 'He really ought to have joined the Special Forces if he's that keen on stealth. Hn. Either way, he's now becoming a potential danger if he's going to keep himself hidden all the time.'

Hinata turned again to concentrate on her main opponent- Mashiro's dragon conjuration. Having successfully freed its wings from the tornado, it now set about trying to attack her.

"Well, there's only one thing for it- I'll have to go in myself," she muttered, bracing herself. Jumped onto a springy branch, then used the leverage to leap into the tornado. She knew that the crystals and wind themselves would not harm her, but the flying debris were another matter altogether.

"Aha." The airborne shinigami created a small gap in the whirlwind- allowing her to slip in. Unfortunately, she was now heading straight for the dragon. She grimaced that she would now have to perform the inevitable.

"Well, here goes nothing. Let's match my spiritual energy against your kido, Mashiro-san."

With that, Hinata pulled her zanpaktou back towards her body, allowing reiryoku to be forced through the blade. Once she felt she could hold onto it no longer, she slashed it forwards towards the dragon's head. An arc of blinding green light shot from Harikaze, formed entirely of compressed spiritual particles.

(( One question, Mashiro- can your zanpaktou turn kido into anything? For example- when you turned it into glass, sure, it has the appearance and texture of glass, but is it actually transformed into glass itself, or is it just a kido-formed illusion (i.e. still has the properties of kido)? Similarly, when you formed a dragon from it, you didn't appear to be controlling its actions- did it actually turn into your dragon spirit? ))

Hinata's senses automatically went on red-alert when the dragon suddenly dispersed, forming instead many shards of glass.

'He sure likes to taunt me,' thought Hinata amusedly as she was attacked with what appeared to be her own crystals. The main difference being- of course, that they did not obey her commands.

Although it was not particularly easy to defend from such a large-scale attack, her current position had already put her at an advantage. With her own crystals circling her at a ferocious speed, it was then not difficult to pull them into a shield which protected her from most of the damage, while she dealt with the rest herself. Instead of retreating, she leapt straight into the attack, confronting it with a bombardment of blocks and slashes which effectively dispelled the glass in all directions. With her mind, she drew the crystals closer to her body, letting the whirlwind finally die out.

However, even with this combination of defenses, the shinigami did not prevent herself from harm completely. Some shards of glass, which had pierced through her crystal barrage in its weaker back side, had splintered, making small cuts up her left arm, which annoyingly oozed much more blood than was proportional to their size.

Without waiting for the bleeding to stop, Hinata immediately rushed to the aid of her comrades. Rei, having recieved a head-on attack from Mashiro's Shuukai Batsu, had now been separated from Ame no Marukumo. Darting in between them so as to divert Mashiro's attention, Hinata waved the stream of crystals over, splitting the flow in half. With the first half, she created a huge sphere around her adversary, which then attacked him. Jabbing her finger downwards, she ordered the remaining half to plunge into the ground, tunneling towards Mashiro. She was interested to see what her opponent would make of this attack, being truly covered on all sides.

Alder leaped off the tree branch, gripping it with one arm, and leaning against the side of the tree with his feet, still using his arm to hold himself up. He braced his feet against the tree, bent his knees, and fired himself like a cannon directly at Hinata, while her attention was focused on Mashiro. He landed about ten feet from her, and leaped at her, quickly, and quietly, aiming a slash at her right side, and following up with a powerful kick aimed at her foot, to try and immobilize her by damaging her tendon.

(( wow so many questions so little time lol. Ok First off @ Liani, My zanpakutou can create conjurizations of items and creatuse, vai the Dragon. What my zanpakutou animal spirit is, I am still thinking of that. Basically the dragon is a conjured creature from my zanpakutou that I can call and dismiss at will, however I do have a limit and I will expalian further down my post.

Now Shuukai Batsû is Mashiro's Mass Attack. It is his basic attack in combat, not only allowing him to conjure items and creatures, but also sending a mass of kidou at an enemy, similar to Getsûga Tensho but on a different level. I will explain more of this further in my post. However Shuukai Batsû is not a bakudou or hado power.))

Mashiro's attack seemed to work. We are able to injure Hinata, which was a first for him, but also take care of Rei and give a perfect opening to any attack he wished. However, even as he thought of his next attack nothing could prepare him for what would happen next. Hinata was able to send an attack at Alder at vary quick speeds. This was not what bothered Mashiro, because he knew what Alder was able to do. But he had to step in just to in the middle.

Flying down from his "Perch" in the sky to intersept Hinata. He was too far away to do Alder any good so he got an idea. Using his zanpakutou Mashiro gave it his all in this next attack. " Write, Byakurai" the blade once again gave off a pale blue light and shot a giant bold at the ground. Moving the blade, Mashiro as able to cut a line into the ground between the shinigami. Fire was left behind as Hinata still came at Alder. Her ice was more than enough to go through the fire and Mashiro knew this. There was simply nothing he could do.... except. "Shuukai Batsû" one of the many ribbons on the bottom of his hilt went rushing out around Alder. This caused him to seperate the fight that Rei was in with him. Becoming solid, Alder was protected and trapped in Mashiro's latest conjur.

As everything came to a pause in the fight attention was given to Mashiro's blade, which was now different that when the fight began. The six ribbons that lay at peace at the bottom of the hilt where now fewer in numbers, two remainning to be accurate. " I am sure you are wondering why this has happened. In truth I have not matured enough with my zanpakutou to use his abillites freely. I am limited to my charges that you see shredding like paper. It is not until I am full of power can I really last forever...." giving a pause, Mashiro lifted his blade to divide his body as if to realease a new ability. " Shuukai Batû, or Mass Attack, allows me to freely release large amounts of pure kidou at my enemy at will. I can not only attack you with it but also defend and nutrilize you with it. However, though its advantages in battle are many it is not my favorite technique to use. Pay attention Hinata because I will not repeat this again. This fight is now between you and I.... Alder you can take care of Rei for I feel yet another to join this battle."

" Hitsushiruyu Tsurugi..." Mashiro's blade grew a bright, almost royal, red color. The ribbons that had been on the finger guard since his release was now floating in the air. They spun for a minute or two then rushed in full force into his blade. Instantly the blade was covered in a dence coat of kidou, which was heavy by only the look. " This is my third ability with Jou-shirû. This attack allows me to use both my kidou and kendo abilities. Like the Special Forces know Shunko, my zanpakutou creates a lesser ability of that. Think of this as the HakeShunko "Blade of the Instant War Cry". However, do not think that this is what it is because it is far from the comparrison of the Captain of Squad Two. Now..... come at me and allow me to demistraight....."