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Ezekiel's trance was broken by the thudding of feet, scrambling about, kickint up puffs of dust. He started moving against the crowds, his arms thumping into shoulders of faceless people. A panic had started out, and from the screams around him he could tell that a man came from the darkness.

An abnormally large man thumped into Ezekiel's muscular frame, sending Ezekiel spinning into the crowd. It was a Chaotic mosh pit. Of course, the peace just couldn't last. There's always something running amuck. He thought, as another man bumped into him. However this time Ezekiel had returned the shove, and they stood locked for a moment, befor the man spun."Sorry." Ezekiel said, though his apathetic voice was drowned from exsistence.

Growing board of the masses of flesh pelting into his every side, Ezekiel hopped onto the shoulder of a woman, about 5' 5", shorter than he, but he did so in such a delicate manner, she hadn't noticed. Another moment later and Ezekiel was running towards the Hill Top. He hadn't noticed so many people beside the damn tent when he was sitting there earlier. In a quick flash, the Taicho's blade gleamed menacingly as it sliced through the air. A stream of white flittered from the blade's tip as he ran, his sandels 'tak'ing on the invisible platform separating the common souls from himself.

As Ezekiel drew closer to the comotion a voice started to speak to him. But it had no body, nor source. "Ezekiel....Ezekiel..." she called to him...It had to be a she. Who are you? He asked the dark confinments of his Psychie. But there was no answer from the woman....

The air around him chilled, and darkened. The short 16 ft stretch between his destination and himself became 16 meters. The ground speeding beneath him, slowed, until he could see each face pass under him... And then darkness consumed him.

"Yes, my child...The Dark Mother commands you now...Kill the Traitors. Kill your Shinigami." The woman commanded Ezekiel. Who are you? He asked again, and for a moment the light silhouette of a woman flashed across his field of vision, "Shiva" echoed through his ears...His blade was ready for blood...The blood of his Shinigami, I will follow Shiva.

And then the world was moving again, zooming past as Ezekiel entered a Shunpo. The dust below him, and the crowd below him shuffled as he dashed forward, disappearing to all around him.
As Ezekiel ended his Shunpo, his body appeared as an After image first, and then a solid figure 3ft above Shizuka. I must kill the Shinigami? He thought, but then the Espada was noticed, but an Espada....I-I... Ezekiel's thoughts became jumbled, so much so, that Shiva's voice couldn't be heard....

Z E T S U M E I XXXX
XXXXXXXⅫ Junibantai Taichou





┄⊰ As soon as their "tango" started, Zenos lost interest, that or he was annoyed that Zetsumei wasn't taking him seriously. Oh well, he got that a lot anyways, but usually that would make his opponents angrier which was to his benefaction. Anyways, now that the Espada was preoccupied by the other Taichou, Zetsumei could finally get that sample. He walked past Unohana, Ashley, and Yukimura and headed straight to Nanashi Taichou's body. He was in no hurry, he was aware that nobody was going to disturb him, besides, he was moving the body away from the destruction anyways. Picking up the limp body with both of his arms, Zetsumei Shunpo'd not too far out of the area. Finding a secluded location where the body would be undisturbed, he would lay Nanashi out on his back again. Sticking his hand into the inside of his Taichou Haori, Zetsumei pulled out a peculiar device that was no bigger than the palm of his hand. He bent over where the open wound was and set the device inside. After a couple moments Zetsumei took the device and placed it on top of Nanashi's head. Three small claws would dig into the body's skull and pull a few samples of brain tissue before detaching in Zetsumei's hand. He gave a slight grin before throwing the device into the air, from which it soared off in the Junibantai's direction.

Now getting what he wanted, Zetsumei looked down at Nanashi's body as a ribcage like coffin sprouted from the ground around Nanashi and covered him completely in a perfectly sealed, practically indestructible case. After doing so, Zetsumei left the scene to go back to the arena, the body will stay safe until the Espada leaves or all of this clears up. He didn't take long to come back, in all time he took maybe ten minutes at the max, and through that time it seemed a lot was happening between the Taichou and Zenos. For now, Zetsumei will watch, right now wasn't a good time to jump back in to the fight and there was no such thing as Zetsumei getting in the way. His eyes peered over at the small grouping of Ashley and Yukimura Taichou, and Ashley's third seat Unohana. Feeling the want to go over and making sure she was going to survive, a voice struck his mind, this time it wasn't Shizuka's.

They don't appreciate you... Zetsumei let out a small "hmm?" as he looked to the side where nobody was at. They plan to betray you, stop your work, they're afraid it'll overcome even them... How did they kno- No, that's impossible. Zetsumei made sure nobody knew about his experiment, not even anyone in his division knows about what he's creating. Who is this... He thought back hoping to get an answer. Your Dark Mother, Shiva. Now's your chance to get the other Taichou for your work, especially the one you want the most... Something was overcoming him as her words clouded his mind. Tricky b*****d, using his obsession for this experiment to make him want to betray the Seireitei. But it wasn't that which was making him wanting to, some kind of mind control so powerful to overcome even him. Zetsumei's facial expression changed by the slightest, but it was very devious now. Now go! Zetusmei took a step forward watching Unohana take Ashley and flee the scene away from Jushiro. "Yes..." He said lowly to himself in a very dark tone.

Just as he spoke, his image was instantly gone, the only thing left is a crater from where he was just standing. It didn't take long to catch up with Unohana and her giant creature of a zanpakutou. He completely bypassed Jushiro, and appeared onto of the creature calmly behind Unohana. "Give her to me..." He said looking down at Unohana with his zanpakutou already out and by her neck. If you knew Zetsumei enough you'd notice he wasn't himself because he never brought out his zanpakutou out first. He stomped on the creature a few times but not hard enough to damage it, just get her attention and make her hurry if she was comply. Right now, the thought of killing Unohana instantly hit his mind. But Zetsumei's superior mind capacity allowed him to at least keep his calm and elegant nature. He wasn't going to wait long for an answer, if she didn't move or give an answer right away, he was going to slash away at her neck, if she fought back he was going to kill her and take Ashley and cage her in The Skeleton's Key. One place you most definitely do not want to be on the wrong side of the bars in. Who knows? Maybe Zetusmei will do Unohana a favor and instead of killing her, use her for experiments too? Only time will tell...

OOC:// I've been waiting to use Zetsumei as a villain for awhile~

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xxΖenos Λthanasius
xx[Immortal Stranger]
xxxxαπό το έδαφος
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With Yukito's sword now gone from his head, Zenos was free to repair his body with his Iron Regeneration. Of course, since Yukito had managed to remove the sword without tugging it out, he had left his eye still in the eye hole. After his healing was over, the Iron had covered up the stab wound in his eye, leaving behind a gray-colored vertical "scar" over his right pupil, giving the effect of a cat's pupil being laid on top of his own. It was an odd sight to see, but all it had done was diminish half of his eye sight. Unfortunately for the Shinigami, his nose and his ears combined were a far better asset than his eyes were. Zenos watched as Yukito pitifully tried to attack him once more, to which Zenos responded by reducing a section of one of his Iron Pillars to sand, and utilizing that sand for a rapid, high-density sand defense that navigated non-uniformly around his body, catching Yukito's blade before it could strike him. Sure, he could have used his Piel Titanium, but at Yukito's speeds, he would have had to use the full body covering, which would have begun to drain him of Reiryoku. Using the sand was a considerably smaller drain of his reserves.

After watching Yukito retreat, he glanced back as his arms were bound in spiritual fabric after hearing Akusuna speak. Just after the fabric bound his arms together, iron shafts were soon to follow to complete the Bakudō and hold him even further. However, the shafts would never reach their target, stopping inches from his body before dropping to the ground and effectively halving the power of the Bakudō itself. A similar fate befell the iron pillars that were intended to strike him and bind him; all five halted in mid air before they hit him. From there, Zenos used the Gochūtekkan to defend against the remaining two Kidō after judging his location based on his scent and the sound of his voice. The three Kidō collided in mid-air, and burst in a culminating explosion from the Senjū Kōten Taihō, which the Primera held at bay with a barrier of sand. Just after, and a few seconds before Akusuna approached, Zenos moved the sand to his arms, and used a high-speed blade-like attack on his arms to cut right through the fabric and free his hands.

Akusuna approached fast; He had not intended to pursue him any longer, but the opportunity presented itself well. With the knowledge that Akusuna more than likely had to be solid to attack him, Zenos timed his counter to the strike of his sword. He tilted his head slightly to the side, and in the instant Akusuna's blade struck the side of his face, Zenos' closed fist would connect with the Shinigami's stomach. He had done to Akusuna what he had done to Ashely, which was a high-speed snap of his arm to bury his fist into his stomach to not only bruise him severely and to damage his insides, but to sending him flying away. In Ashley's case, that was how she had gained a hole in her stomach. Zenos already know he outclassed him in both speed and strength, so all had to do was wait until he could lure the Shinigami into being solid at close quarters, which Akusuna had just done for him. After his punch, he was gone, vanishing solidly from where he had been standing, only to arrive a ways away from Shizuka while she was preoccupied with trying to mind rape Ezekial. As soon as she touched his head, a swirling dome of dense sand surrounded all three of them, and Zenos pulled his dagger from his jacket. Lifting his own sword arm with his dagger in hand, he twirled the blade in his fingers, and then dropped it into the ground. The blade struck the ground, embedding itself within the dirt, and from there, the ground petrified. The petrification expanded in a circle up to thirty feet from where he had dropped it, and eventually it came to a halt, but at different distances from the blade so that a perfect circle of stone ground was not formed. Before, he had spoken in Greek, both Ancient and Modern, but now he spoke in a language they could all understand.

"Resurrección: Segunda Etapa." As the words fell from his lips, his form began to shift, thought this did not stop him from closing the small gap between himself and Shizuka, whom he was initiating paralysis upon by concentrating his vast Reiatsu in that area. His eyes lightened, his nails extended their length and gained a metallic lustre. His Hollow hole widened slightly, a symbol stretched across his back, his injuries reverted and his body returned to its normal state, even his formerly iron eye. Above all, by the time he was within ten feet of the annoying mind reader, he was now ten years of age, but still just as terrifying to behold. In an instant, he pulled his right arm back and let Piel del Tungesteno encompass its entirety before he shot his hand forward to bury it in her back- just at her right lung-, skewer her body, and continue on to stab Ezekial in the left lung. The end result would be two Shinigami speared like yakitori.




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[I'd much like it if no one tried to run in and save Shizuka before Angel posts and I post again. I put the barrier up for the purpose of both warding others off and hiding his Segunda. So yeah. = 3=]

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xxΖenos Λthanasius
xx[Immortal Stranger]
xxxxαπό το έδαφος
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After watching his strike to her lung land successfully, Zenos swiftly removed his arm from her body and took a minute to lift his blood stained hand to his mouth. He looked at the rivulets of blood running down his hand before opening his mouth and extending his tongue to lap up a bit of her blood. It was bitter, like he expected from such an infuriating woman, and the taste was enough to make him spit it back out on the ground. After he dropped his arm and cracked his neck, he looked towards Shizuka and cracked a small grin while tapping his index finger to his forehead. "Stay out next time and we won't have a problem." As he watched her sink to the ground, he sealed his Resurrección, returning everything- even his clothes- back to normal. Now he had no physical anomalies, aside from his bloodstained right arm- sans his clothes-, and the only thing wrong with him was that his Reiryoku was at about half, maybe a little lower; he didn't really care. Seeing his Zanpakutō, he bent down to pick it up and returned it to it's sheath in his jacket. A minute later, his barrier fell away, blanketing the ground in sand for a dozen foot radius around him. Now that the annoying mind reader was down, he could open back up to his thoughts once more. Though he wasn't really concerned, he was at least mildly curious about the reason of these other attacks. It seemed the Shinigami were going on a rampage of sorts and talking crazy about Shiva. Since he was alone again, he was subject to the crazies, one of which tried to pounce him, only to have his face caught and his skull subsequently crushed in the palm of Zenos' hand.




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It is through skill that we fight

Panting heavily, Yukito managed to catch his second wind, which was quite a task seeing as how he only had one functional lung at this point. Looking back towards Zenos, Yukito caught a glimpse of the Espada’s eye, the one he had impaled with his sword. Noticing it was still intact, though still quite damaged, this left him with a feeling of dread as the man seemed to be unaffected by this, something Yukito had a hard time believing. Recollecting what happened during his last attack; Yukito remembered how Zenos was able to disintegrate one of his iron pillars into sand, before using it as an impromptu form of defense. This meant the Espada had more in his arsenal than what he let on, though Yukito consoled himself with the thought that his petrifying attack was perhaps his strongest.

Noticing the emergence of Akusuna’s Bakudo spells, Yukito could only watch as the Captain made his move. He was in no position to assist Akusuna, because of the fact that he was still fatigued from his exchange with Zenos, and because of the fact that he couldn’t even if he had wanted to. Watching Zenos defend himself against Akusuna’s kido, the two were blocked from his line of sight by the explosion of Akusuna’s kido and Zenos’ sand. By the time he was able to get a clear look at the fight, it was already over as Zenos sent Akusuna flying with a powerful punch. Not wanting to waste stamina by shouting, Yukito bit his lip as he readied his blade, he thought that Zenos would come after him next; he was sadly mistaken as much to his shock he appeared dangerously close to Shizuka.

”Captain Hatomi!” yelled out Yukito as he sped towards Zenos to intercept him, but was blocked by the sudden emerge of Zenos’ barrier. Knowing full well that Shizuka had been trying to probe Zenos’ mind early on, Yukito was fearful that in doing so she had left herself wide open. Clutching his blade, Yukito struck the barrier, causing the barrier to repel it due to its high speed rotation; clutching the grip Yukito struck it once more, at a rate of ten strikes in the blink of an eye. It created a small, yet respectable gash in the barrier, but this disappeared in a second, Yukito ceased, knowing full well that he would only consume needless amounts of stamina in pursuing a task. ”What?! You’re giving up?! I never liked her, but we can’t just leave her there!” reprimanded his zanpakuto spirit ”It’s out of our hands, Kasumi.” replied Yukito ”But--“ ”Get ready. Once the barrier is gone, we strike.” with that the zanpakuto spirit fell silent as they waited for the outcome.

While waiting, Yukito felt the information Shizuka had gathered enter his mind, initially he was surprised to have such thoughts enter him all of a sudden. But this surprise was soon replaced by dread, knowing that if Shizuka had resorted to sending them incomplete information, it meant that she was on the verge of falling before Zenos "Shizu--" he whispered, before stopping himself, this was no time to become unfocused, and though he wondered why he didn't refer to her properly, he deemed now not to be the best time to think about it. Browsing through the information for a bit to see if it contained information on Zenos, Yukito found it was to no avail. Realizing that it was best for him to read it on a later date, Yukito stored it in the back of his mind while he waited once more. However, since Shizuka had retracted her mental shield before she fell, Yukito soon found himself being subjected to Shiva’s powerful mind control.

”Yukito.” spoke the goddess, much to Yukito’s surprise ”Help me. It’s cold, so very cold. And I’m so alone, so very alone in this darkness.” whispered Shiva, sending chills down Yukito’s spine. ”Who are-- no, you’re Shiva aren’t you?” replied Yukito clutching his zanpakuto, knowing that if he let his guard down he could be controlled ”Shiva? No, of course I’m not.” whispered Shiva once more, slowly dulling Yukito’s mind, causing his Silver Mist Fang to disappear, as the two wolves began to reappear ”Then, who are you?” asked Yukito, unknowingly being brainwashed by Shiva ”I am your Mo--“ ”Argh!” yelled out Yukito, as the two wolves removed their fangs from his forearm ”Snap out of it or I’ll have them bite you again!” scolded Kasumi, as she managed to avoid Shiva’s control. Smiling a bit, Yukito thanked Kasumi before reactivating his technique, just in time as he felt his right shoulder slowly revert back to flesh. The initial relief was soon overloaded by an extreme amount of discomfort and pain in the area; though he was thankful he could at least move it once more, though a bit slowly at first. As Zenos’ barrier fell down, Yukito launched into another attack without a second to spare, coming closer, he noticed that the was absent of any injuries and his reiatsu seemed to be far less potent. Not entirely sure as to the reason why this was so, Yukito decided those question would have to wait. As Zenos crushed the skull of one of his assailants, Yukito was upon him in an instant, reappearing behind him aiming cut him down from left shoulder. As was the case in his previous attack, two more images of Yukito appeared, to Zenos’ far left and right, waiting for Zenos to move.

Yokozuki Nekkyo

Sanbantai Taichou

Yokozuki had been completely knocked out by this power, in his mind he was consumed by an odd cold darkness. Even though Shizuka had taken him into her dimension before Shiva had fully occupied his mind, she was still there, and thus, it was too late for him to resist her. He was struggling with this woman that had appeared before him. "You want me? You want me to do what exactly?" "I want you to fight for me, in a holy war against the shinigami, the undeserving shinigami, you are one of many of my special children, unbeknownst to the shinigami, but most of the human world is already aware of presence, all functions in that world have ceased, I have given them special powers, as will I give you." Shiva's power was amazingly strong and Yokozuki couldn't put up much of a fight for he had given into his own curiosity. "Welcome home, mother." He bowed to her in his mind before coming to in Shizuka's world. He looked around in a daze before ripping his way out, he appeared in the grounds behind Jin, glancing back to him his eyes narrowed like a predator on prey. A sword plunged into his gut, in the blink of an eye, Yokozuki gave out a loud hellish laugh, his mind had been completely consumed. Sighting Akusuna, who was laying there, Yokozuki walked towards him, ignoring everything else around him, his sword laying by his right leg, covered in Jin's blood. "Too feeble to fight eh, Akusuna? Well, I'll fix that right quick." Rushing towards him, Yokozuki appeared more of a Kenpachi type character at this point, mad with power and hungry for death.

[Sorry for the small post, not amazingly inspired]

Captain of Squad Five

The Third Squad Captain had appeared, and Akusuna could recognize the madness in his eyes. It was clear that he had succumbed to this Shiva character and was openly hostile. As the crazed man approached, Akusuna cursed his injuries, preventing him from fighting too much. However, he was far from weak, even like this.
"You forget who you face, Foolish one." Akusuna said, as the Captain charged him. Lifting a few fingers, Akusuna cast, "Bakudo 21: Sekienton"
The smoke burst around Akusuna and filled the area. He couldn't move much, but he read rapidly through incantations before casting his next spell at where he knew the Captain would be. "Bakudo 61: Rikujōkōrō"
His gut lurched with the cast, causing Akusuna to flinch a little after the spell. He coughed again, spitting more blood upon the ground. He would have to end this fight with the Captain quickly, lest he would die from internal injuries before the Captain could even touch him. Even though he expected the spell to hit, Akusuna began preparing for his next series of casts.

Akusuna Myori

Z E T S U M E I XXXX
XXXXXXXⅫ Junibantai Taichou





┄⊰ As Zetsumei waited for an answer, the moment he heard his Fukutaichou's voice he looked over calmly. He did not move, or even block Zen's kick, he allowed his body to fall back getting distance away from Unohana with the precious Shinigami he wanted. Catching himself in the air, he didn't look back up at Zen, but as she called out to him, he moved his hair out of his face and gave her a deadly look. "Fukutaichou, you've always been on my nerves..." He said in a low tone calmly before leaping back up to get on the same level as her and fairly closer. His eyes pierced into hers as his reiatsu started to get heavier. "Getting in the way of my experiment? You should know better than that." He said raising her zanpakutou up and pointing it at her. "Rot. Kikan Kushaku." As he spoke his words, he released his Shikai. The blade of his zanpakutou doubled in length, the tip of the blade stopped growing dangerously close to Zen's eye.

Not only did have an undesirable feeling to kill Zen, a small part of him said no. "Don't kill her!" the voice said, "She'll make good for an experiment. Zetsumei gave a small "hmph" to himself before he gave a small swing straight across Zen's abdomen. He expected her to dodge of it, the point was, it was the start of this battle and to show he wasn't who he used to be. He wasn't going to go easy on her, even the normal Zetsumei didn't show mercy, and the fact that she was his Fukutaichou made this battle much more interesting. Now it was time for her to prove herself and show that she deserves the rank of Fukutaichou for one of the greatest Divisions the Seireitei has the privilege to have.

( Meh post :/ )

The foolish 𝕯𝖊𝖒𝖔𝖓, XX Who does evil deeds...XXXXXDoes not know his Lord and Master.
XXCall him a 𝕸𝖆𝖉-𝖒𝖆𝖓,XXXXXXXXIf he does not understand himself.