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 Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 3:45 pm
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[ stamina: xSlightly below Freshxxxxhealth: xSlight burns on one arm. Slightly scalded lungs.xxxxshikai status: xReleased: Post: 4 ] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╮xx★xx╭━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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“A trap!”
“And we fell for it!”
Dawn watched as the explosion came closer. She looked around to find a safe place to flash to. Her eyes fell on Enryo. For a moment Dawn didn’t see the Third seat of Squad Thirteen and she was entranced.
“Dawn!”
That moment cost her. She couldn’t get away. She simply didn’t have enough time.
Dawn swung Fuyunohi out towards the blast, “Hi Tōketsu!”
The freezing blue fire crashed into the explosive red fire and created a burst of scalding steam. Dawn breathed in several lung-fulls as she darted to hide behind a tree. Dawn cast out her Reiryoku to search for Enryo. When she didn’t find him she brought her Reiryoku in as tight as possible.
“He must be using Kidō to hide.”
“That’s why he’s so out of balance. He’s a master at Kidō but he can’t use his Zanpakutō properly.”
Dawn ignored her Zanpakutō as she called out, “You remind me of someone.”
Dawn became lost in memories, “He was the best man I ever knew dead or alive.”
Remorse filled her voice, “It’s my fault he’s dead.”
Dawn fingered the knot in her green cape. “I’m sorry I destroyed your fireworks. I really mean that. It wasn’t right of me to destroy your life’s work.”
Dawn readjusted the grip on her katanas, “I’m sorry I yelled at you too. If I hadn’t we might have become, well not friends. I haven’t had friends in forever but something like that.”
Dawn kept on her toes, “I really do like fireworks; just not when they’re exploding right above me.”
Dawn became quiet, “I guess it’s too late now. It’s hard to be something like friends when both people are trying to kill each other.”
Dawn looked up at the stars, “It’s a shame. I would have liked to have something like a friend. It has been so long.”
Dawn gave her head a shake, “Anyways. It’s your move. I’m not completely stupid. I’m not going to attack you when I can’t find you. It’s clear your Kidō skills out match mine.”
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c r e e p i n g x s l o wxxxx
y o u ' r e x a t x p e a c e x b e c a u s e x y o u x k n o wxxxxxxxxxxxxx
i t ' s x o k a y x t o x b e x a f r a i dxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxd a w n x n o i rxxxxxxxx
t e n t h x d i v i s i o n , x t h i r d x s e a t
t h e x b l a c k x s u n r i s e OOC |xxxxxIt's alright. I think it was my fault anyways. : P you can fly. you have begun.
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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 7:59 pm
  xxxxxn o x m a t t e r x h o w x m a n y x t i m e s x t h a t x y o u x t o l d x m e x xxxxx◀
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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂[ location: seireitei proper - testing groundsxxxcompany: dawnxxxmood: exuberant ]
[ stamina: greatxxxhealth: decentxxxshikai: released ]
where did you g o? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxas days go byxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxthe night's on fire
Enryo remained hidden, listening to Dawn pour her heart out to no one but the night air. The man for whose death she'd been responsible - what had she meant by that? The crushing loneliness in her voice reminded him of something, but he couldn't quite be sure of what. It took him a moment of deep consideration before it dawned on him.
That hopelessness reminded him of when he was just a child, still alive in the Land of the Living, if you could call his existence back then 'living'; of the long days of lying in bed, dying, and waiting for Michizane to return to tell him of the world beyond the walls of his little room. A bleakness crept back into his heart that he thought he'd banished some thousand years ago, like an insidious, all-consuming darkness.
He'd known this pain long ago. It had almost sent him down a different path entirely - a path that he'd spent the last millennium trying to fight. The path of a Hollow. It seems she hadn't quite been able to get over it like he had.
He rose to his feet, Shiranui blazing in his hand. When he spoke, he projected his voice outward, so it reverberated off of all of the nearby buildings, obscuring his location.
"You know, Dawn, you impressed me just now. Reminded me of something I forgot long ago, and for that, I thank you," he called out. "After this is all said and done, whaddya say you and I start over? Who knows. Maybe we could still become friends."
"But you are a shameless optimist, aren't you," Shiranui said with smug confidence.
'No harm in asking,' Enryo replied coolly. With a quick flash-step, he was standing right behind Dawn, his sword to her neck. Releasing the Kyokko, he instantly re-materialized. Shiranui's lukewarm flames licked across her paper-white skin.
"You've probably noticed by now - my Shiranui doesn't do anything. His flames are tepid and can't burn anything. I know he's not actually a Fire-Type Zanpakutō - but he won't show me what his true powers are. We hate each other, me and Shiranui. Have for the past seven hundred years. I rely entirely on Kidō and my swordsmanship to win my battles for me. I have to say, I'm envious of someone like you, who seems so well-connected to her swords. Just remember that despite not having a useful Zanpakutō, I still managed to make Third Seat of my Division."
A warm grin spread across his face, and he burst into raucous laughter.
"And yet, this... this fight - I've had fun! For the first time in a long time, I've had fun! It's been so long since I've had to strategize like this - to think on my feet like this. Not since the feudal era! I'm not even mad that you blew up my fireworks - they went of spectacularly all the same!"
He released his blade from her neck and flash-stepped to the roof of a nearby building.
Strategically, he always preferred to have the high ground. He threw his arms wide, as though soaking in the rays of the sun, in the dead of night.
"So then, Dawn Noir, the Black Sunrise - show me exactly what it means to have a Zanpakutō at your disposal!"
The smile never left his face. A genuine smile, the likes of which hadn't graced his features in centuries.
ExxxNxxxRxxxYxxxOxxxxxxSxxxUxxxGxxxAxxxWxxxAxxxRxxxA
菅xxx原xxxxxxのxxxxxx炎xxx遼
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xxxxxxxxxa n d x a x r i o t x a b o u t x t o x e x p l o d e x i n t o x f l a m e sxxxxx◀
where is your g o d?
xxxxxx▶xxxxx[ f i n a l x t h o u g h t s :xxxx'let's put this to rest.' ]
xxxxxx▶xxxxx[ o o c :xxxx'fixed now, so all's well that ends well. c;' ][ so let it bleed, let it fly, let it go | let it fall, let it crash, burn slow ]
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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 8:49 pm
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╯xx★xx╰━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [ location: xSeireitei Proper - Testing Groundsxxxxmood: xHappy Confusionxxxxcompany: xEnryo Sugawara ]
[ stamina: xSlightly below Freshxxxxhealth: xSlight Injuriesxxxxshikai status: xReleased: Post 5 ] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╮xx★xx╭━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxw i n t e r ,xxxs u m m e r
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“Maybe we can still be friends.”
Dawn felt her eyes go wide and then she felt Enyro’s blade on her neck. The flames that coated his Zanpakutō didn’t even tickle. Fuyunohi had been right; the flames were harmless. She was even more surprised when Enryo leapt to the roof of a nearby building.
“This is good! This is good. This is extremely good!” Natsunoyu was positively ecstatic.
So was Fuyunohi but for a different reason, “He left himself wide open. I don’t think he’s seen my attack yet. We can still win this.”
“Shut up Fuyunohi! We’ve already won!”
“No we haven’t!”
“Yes we have!”
“No we haven’t!”
“Yes we have!”
Dawn was used to the bickering. Fuyunohi was cold logic. Natsunoyo was heated emotion. That was one of the reasons Dawn went from detached coldness to explosive anger soon quickly. The reverse was also true.
Not right now. Right now Dawn felt a cross between lost and numb. She wasn’t sure how to describe it. Her hands reflexively gripped Fuyunohi to Natsunoyo tighter. Dawn hadn’t moved since Enryo’s blade had been across her neck. Now she tilted her head towards him.
Her voice was barely a whisper and it turned the statement into a question, “Maybe we can still be friends?”
“And that’s how we’ve won! It has been over 400 years since Dawn has had a real person be her friend.”
“We’re her friends!”
“We’re her Zanpakutō. It’s not the same thing.”
Then something penetrated Dawn’s confusion, “So then, Dawn Noir, the Black Sunrise - show me exactly what it means to have a Zanpakutō at your disposal!”
Dawn turned to look at Enryo. He was smiling again but it wasn’t predatory. Dawn felt her face mirror the expression. She had no idea what was happening. All she knew was she didn’t want to stop it.
Dawn stood with her feet apart and planted them. She held her Zanpakutō out to her sides. A slight wind had picked up and tossed her braid about. The last traces of smoke and steam dissipated. She was still smiling like a maniac.
Dawn bowed slightly, “As you wish Sugawara Enryo, Field Test Director and Chief of the Blitzkrieg Operations Squad. As. You. Wish.”
Dawn swung Fuyunohi at him, “Hi Tōketsu!”
The arc of blue fire swept out. Natsunoyo had been right. Dawn had already won. Fuyunohi had been correct as well. The Black Sunrise had a reputation to uphold.
“Wait! If he’s our friend, I can’t kill him!”
Dawn snickered, “Yep!”
“Damnit! You’re lucky I like you!”
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c r e e p i n g x s l o wxxxx
y o u ' r e x a t x p e a c e x b e c a u s e x y o u x k n o wxxxxxxxxxxxxx
i t ' s x o k a y x t o x b e x a f r a i dxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxd a w n x n o i rxxxxxxxx
t e n t h x d i v i s i o n , x t h i r d x s e a t
t h e x b l a c k x s u n r i s e OOC |xxxxxAm I doing alright so far? you can fly. you have begun.
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:01 pm
xxxxxn o x m a t t e r x h o w x m a n y x t i m e s x t h a t x y o u x t o l d x m e x xxxxx◀
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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂[ location: seireitei proper - testing groundsxxxcompany: dawnxxxmood: frustrated ]
[ stamina: greatxxxhealth: right hand sore, left immobilexxxshikai: released; shiranui dropped ]
where did you g o? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxas days go byxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxthe night's on fire
Enryo snickered. Driving Shiranui into the rooftop beneath him and raising his hands, he began channelling his reiryoku to his palms.
He said he wanted to see what it was like - the power of a real Zanpakutō, that is; not get turned into a Shinigami popsicle.
"Bakudō Thirty-Nine: Enkōsen!"
As soon as the pale-yellow shield began to form, he knew something wasn't quite right. He'd cast this one before, and something was off. He had a history of screwing up Kidō, but now of all times? What had gone wrong? Too much reiryoku? Not enough? Had he misspoken the name? He'd have to wait and see.
Sure enough, Hi Tōketsu crashed against the barrier, and it shattered almost instantly. The flames washed over his hands, encasing them in a thick layer of ice. Enryo hissed, dropping down off the back of the building he was standing on. He needed to buy time while he figured out a way to free his hands.
He hid in the shadows behind the building, trying desperately to chip away at the ice by slamming his hands against the wall.
"Alright, alright, I admit - that was a bit more than I was expecting," he called out into the night air. "But don't think that I'm done yet! I still a few tricks up my sleeve..."
"Shame your sleeves have been tied around your waist this whole time, then," Shiranui muttered. His voice was faint, but his biting sarcasm came through loud and clear. "Because you're doing so well thus far."
'Do you ever have anything nice to say?'
"Of course I do. Just not to you."
Frustrated, Enryo slammed his right hand harder against the wall. He cracked the wall, hurt his hand, but broke the ice. His left hand still remained imprisoned. He sucked a breath sharply through his teeth and cursed quietly in a dialect of Japanese long gone from the world; the words of the Heian period. Shaking off the pain, he waited quietly to see Dawn's next move, while he planned his own.
ExxxNxxxRxxxYxxxOxxxxxxSxxxUxxxGxxxAxxxWxxxAxxxRxxxA
菅xxx原xxxxxxのxxxxxx炎xxx遼
s q u a d x t h i r t e e n ' s x t h i r d x s e a t x | x f i e l d x t e s t x d i r e c t o r x | x c h i e f x o f x b l i t z k r i e g x o p e r a t i o n s
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xxxxxxxxxa n d x a x r i o t x a b o u t x t o x e x p l o d e x i n t o x f l a m e sxxxxx◀
where is your g o d?
xxxxxx▶xxxxx[ f i n a l x t h o u g h t s :xxxx'derp' ]
xxxxxx▶xxxxx[ o o c :xxxx'so far so good! the only advice I can give thus far is to be careful about how often you're dodging an enemy's attacks. the only time I've been able to catch you in an attack thus far is when I set up a situation that would be almost impossible for you to escape from, and even then I was probably overstretching the boundaries of what I could reasonably do as a roleplayer controlling enryo. remember that your character is, for all intents and purposes, immortal; the only time your character will die is if you set it up with whomever you're battling outside of the RP itself, and all parties are in agreement that this fight will spell your character's doom - it's part of the rules of this guild, and most combat-based RPs in general, really. feel free to let them take a bit of punishment to raise the tension, for both sides - for you, because your character's in a tight spot, and for your opponent, because it makes them think they have the upper hand. losing a fight can (and often does) develop a story as much as winning one will. I'll be honest - I never had any intention of letting enryo win this skirmish, but he's gonna put up one hell of a fight on the way down.' ][ so let it bleed, let it fly, let it go | let it fall, let it crash, burn slow ]
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 5:06 pm
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╯xx★xx╰━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [ location: xSeireitei Proper - Testing Groundsxxxxxmood: xHappiness bleeding into Anger.xxxxcompany: xEnryo Sugawara ]
[ stamina: xSlightly less than Freshxxxxhealth: xSlight Injuriesxxxxshikai status: xReleased: Post 6 ] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╮xx★xx╭━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxw i n t e r ,xxxs u m m e r
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Dawn watched as Enryo cast a Kidō and scoffed. She should have seen that coming. Then she watched as the Kidō fizzled. As Hi Tōketsu crashed into it the shield shattered. The blue fire covered Enryo’s hands and froze. Enryo darted of to hide.
Dawn burst out into laughter and the sound filled the area.
“That’s sounds good. Really good.”
“I told you we won.”
Dawn wasn’t sure when she had laughed like this last. It felt ridiculously good. Dawn watched as the building started to shake. Enryo must be trying to get the ice off of his hands.
Dawn laughed again, “You should have kept your shirt on.”
Dawn looked up and saw something. Shiranui had been abandon on the top of the roof. Dawn scoffed again.
“Don’t criticize! You’ll be friendless before you officially have a friend.”
“But he just left his Zanpakutō up there!”
“As much as I hate to say it but, Natsunoyo is right.”
“Just get back to winning. At least I think you’re winning.”
Dawn snapped, “Fine!”
Dawn knew that Enryo was hiding behind the building. He probably had broken free from the ice. Dawn supposed she could light the building on fire but, but that would be bad and get her into trouble. The same was true for freezing it.
Dawn sighed and then yelled. “I’m no good at this Enryo. I go in, I kill people, I get out. Since I’m no longer trying to kill you my default strategy is ineffective. Since the odds of me coming up with something else is slim; just come out.” Dawn smiled and declared, “That way I can swing my swords at you.”
“I don’t think that’s going to work.”
“It might. If he is an idiot.”
“And since we know he isn’t it won’t.”
Dawn began swinging her katanas up and down, “I’ll give you a free move. Please Enryo. Please come out. And grab your Zanpakutō. I’m not criticizing.”
“Now it will really work.”
“You’re being sarcastic brother.”
“Both of you shut up!”
“We would if you meant it. But you don’t.”
“So we won’t.”
Dawn groaned in frustration as she waited to see what Enryo would do. One good thing about the way the night turned out was that she had someone else to talk to. Dawn started bounce on her toes as her attention started to wander.
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y o u ' r e x a t x p e a c e x b e c a u s e x y o u x k n o wxxxxxxxxxxxxx
i t ' s x o k a y x t o x b e x a f r a i dxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxd a w n x n o i rxxxxxxxx
t e n t h x d i v i s i o n , x t h i r d x s e a t
t h e x b l a c k x s u n r i s e OOC |xxxxxGreat! I'll keep that in mind. I didn't realize I was doing that. you can fly. you have begun.
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Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 10:29 pm
xxxxxn o x m a t t e r x h o w x m a n y x t i m e s x t h a t x y o u x t o l d x m e x xxxxx◀
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[ stamina: decentxxxhealth: left hand bleedingxxxshikai: released ]
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"I'm no good at this, Enryo. I go in, I kill people, I get out. Since I'm no longer trying to kill you, my default strategy is ineffective. Since the odds of me coming up with something else are slim, just come out. That way I can swing my swords at you," Dawn called. Enryo chuckled.
'If she thinks I'm that naive, she's outta her pretty little mind.' Raising his one good hand, he tossed out yet another Kidō. it was all he had going for him at this point.
"Bakudō Twenty-Six: Kyokko!" he hissed. Within moments, he disappeared into a rippling void in the air. Quietly, he flash-stepped back up to the roof of the building, where his sword was. He made nary a sound as his feet touched down lightly on the slick black tiles. Creeping forward, he crouched about four feet from where Shiranui was planted.
"It's about time, you dumb brute!" the spirit barked. Enryo rolled his eyes.
"I’ll give you a free move. Please Enryo. Please come out. And grab your Zanpakutō. I’m not criticizing," she called out. Enryo outright laughed, despite his attempts to the contrary.
"Aaa~" he croned, his voice reverberating off of the walls. "That's sweet of you, to take my thoughts into consideration. But you should be careful. If you're too nice..."
He dashed ahead, pulling Shiranui from the roof with his forward momentum, still invisible. In a flash, he materialized no more than a two feet in front of Dawn, his blade crossing with Fuyunohi and deflecting it.
"...it could leave you wide open."
He brought his left hand, still trapped in its frozen prison, close to Natsunoyo, hoping the sword's blazing aura would soften the thick layer of ice. He wiggled his fingers free and grabbed the blade bare-handed. His blood trickled down into a small pool by his feet, staining his white tabi a dark crimson.
Of course it hurt. But it didn't matter - the heat of the blade was enough to give him some mobility. A wide grin spread across his face.
"See, I generally try and keep my distance in fights and lean heavily on my Kidō, since my Zanpakutō is useless. That said, where I really excel, and what got me my position as Third Seat, is my ingenuity. It goes a long way, in a Division full of engineers."
He drew his hand back along the blade, releasing it at the tip and jumping back a few feet. He flicked his blood across the ground in an arc, then tapped the back of Shiranui's hilt on the ice gently. To his relief, it cracked off, like a shell off a boiled egg. He chuckled, placing both hands on his sword's handle, wincing a little bit at the pain.
"Now, then. Let's put an end to this, shall we?"
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where is your g o d?
xxxxxx▶xxxxx[ f i n a l x t h o u g h t s :xxxx'tch.' ]
xxxxxx▶xxxxx[ o o c :xxxx'Ffffffff. Let's try this again. (/o Ao)/ ||_______|| Anyway, yeah. I wouldn't worry too much about it - there's really only two "problems" that you could run into as a first-time combat RPer, and it's either auto-dodge, or auto-hit. And honestly, I'd rather have somebody dodge most/all of my attacks than automatically hit me with most/all of theirs, because then at least they're not taking control of my character. xD ' ][ so let it bleed, let it fly, let it go | let it fall, let it crash, burn slow ]
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Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 11:12 pm
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╯xx★xx╰━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [ location: xSeireitei Proper - Testing Groundsxxxxmood: xHaughty/ Sure of Herselfxxxxcompany: xEnryo Sugawara ]
[ stamina: xSlightly less than Freshxxxxhealth: xSlight injuriesxxxxshikai status: xReleased: Post 7 ] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╮xx★xx╭━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxw i n t e r ,xxxs u m m e r
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“Not true. We know where he is now. And he took the offered free move.”
“He still has the advantage sister!”
“His ingenuity.”
“Dawn?”
Dawn smirk a dangerous smirk as she looked up at Enryo, “Which one of you wants to stay behind?”
“Kendo! I love Kendo!”
“I’ll stay. But only because Natsunoyo couldn’t bear staying behind. But you both owe me one.”
“I love you Fuyunohi!”
“Thank you Fuyunohi.”
“You’re both lucky I like you.”
Dawn turned her attention to her fellow Third seat, “I have a ridiculously bad feeling that you stand out in your Squad. Not me. I’m average.” Dawn became haughty, “But I’m still an Officer of Squad Ten. The Third seat. Recruited by our Lieutenant himself.”
Dawn swung Fuyunohi at him, “Hi Tōketsu!” As quickly as she could she swung Natsunoyo as well, “Moeru Kōri!”
Dawn took advantage of the resulting steam. She sank the tip of Fuyunohi into the ground. Dawn removed her green cape and wrapped it around the hilt of her left katana. The cover wouldn’t last much longer so Dawn flashed away.
Dawn used Shunpo to appear behind and above Enryo. She took Natsunoyo in both her hands. She raised her blade above her head. She swung her blade down as she fell towards her fellow Officer. She fully expected to lock blades with Shiranui. But that didn’t matter because:
“And we of Squad Ten are experts at sword work!” ╭━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━xx
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t h e x b l a c k x s u n r i s e OOC |xxxxxI'm not entirely sure what the difference between Squad 10 and Squad 14 is but, I figure members of Squad Ten needed to be good with a sword. you can fly. you have begun.
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Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 1:05 pm
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[ stamina: decentxxxhealth: left hand bleedingxxxshikai: released ]
where did you g o? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxas days go byxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxthe night's on fire
"We of Squad Ten are experts at sword work!" she called, swinging her blade down. Enryo reacted swiftly, drawing Shiranui's sheath from his belt and parrying the incoming attack with his left hand. His blood smeared across the opalescent white sheath, standing out vibrantly in the moonlight made hazy through the clearing steam. Enryo sucked his breath in through his teeth.
The pain was bad, but not the worst he'd ever felt. His peripheral vision caught a glimpse of the ragged scar on his shoulder. Now that was pain.
This? This is what it was like to be alive.
"A sword master, eh. Then I might finally get a challenge for a change!" he barked, laughing. "My Squad? We love making weapons. Doesn't mean everyone knows how to use 'em properly. Hell, my Captain? Her Shikai is guns. GUNS. How am I supposed to counter that, mm?"
His mind wandered for a moment, back to when he was first recruited into the Thirteenth. Or, rather, when he'd first begged to join the Thirteenth. He'd never imagined that it would turn out like this; that he'd be the Shinigami with no Zanpakutō. A seated Shinigami with no Zanpakutō, no less.
It was true. His ingenuity had indeed been one of the primary reasons for his promotion. That, and his mastery of swordplay. But Dawn didn't need to know that. Not yet, at any rate. For now, he'd play coy. He crouched down and leaned forward, letting his sheath fall to the ground. Dawn's forward momentum, combined with gravity, brought her down on his back. He then stood up quickly, flipping her off his back and onto hers, face-up on the ground. His foot found the wrist that held Natsunoyo and pinned it in place. Not hard enough to hurt much - she was a woman, after all, and Enryo fancied himself something of a gentleman - but enough to keep her from moving around.
He found himself laughing uncontrollably. Maybe it was the sort of half-lost, stunned look on her face. Maybe it was the fact that he couldn't remember the last time he'd done this kind of thing. He was having fun, for a change. Not quite the same kind of fun he had when he was blowing off fireworks, but it wasn't unpleasant by any means. It was nice to be around someone who wasn't directly related to him, like Yuè or Yuzuki. Didn't piss him off, like Finn. Or confuse him half to death, like Kaoru. Or make him feel so wholly inferior and unnecessary that he questioned his reason for being a Shinigami in the first place, like the bulk of his Squad.
He'd joined the Gotei Thirteen to have fun. To alleviate the thousand years of endless boredom he'd suffered through in the Rukon District.
He might not be a fighter, but he was no farmer, that's for sure.
'You remind me of a firecracker,' Yuzuki had once said to him. 'You burn bright and loud for a short while, and then you're gone. You're gonna burn out someday if you keep this up, Enryo.'
'I know that, Yuu-tan. I really do,' he mused. 'But I can't sit idly by and while my days away doing nothing. I'm not like you or Yuè in that regard.'
"My sister once told me that I was like a firecracker. She meant it as an insult, saying that I'd get myself killed if I continued to be so reckless. But I like that about myself. I can't ever picture myself going out in a slow burn. I've been bored for so long, I'd forgotten what it's like to have fun. That's why I joined the Gotei. What about you, Dawn? What's your reasoning? Why do you fight?"
He stood above her, looking down. Shiranui sat loosely in his right hand, poised to strike or defend himself if necessary. His left continued to drip blood into the dirt. The white flames danced in the darkness, flickering and playing in the mist.
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xxxxxx▶xxxxx[ f i n a l x t h o u g h t s :xxxx'dunno how much longer I can keep this up.' ]
xxxxxx▶xxxxx[ o o c :xxxx'Fourteen are, for the most part, bloodthirsty and always hungry for battle. They do indeed specialize in combat, but nobody trusts them, as they're not one of the long-established Thirteen Court Guard Squads. Members of Ten all use dual Zanpakutō, which is a rarity, and thus excel specifically in swordplay, if I'm not mistaken. TL;DR: Ten excels in swordplay, while Fourteen is highly proficient in combat in general. From what I gather, anyway. You might confirm it with your Captain / Captain of Fourteen / Tsuna-tan to be sure.' ][ so let it bleed, let it fly, let it go | let it fall, let it crash, burn slow ]
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Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 2:08 pm
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╯xx★xx╰━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [ location: xSeireitei Proper - Testing Groundsxxxxmood: xHard. Calm.xxxxcompany: xEnryo Sugawara ]
[ stamina: xSlightly less than Freshxxxxhealth: xMassive bruise on back. Whole body aches.xxxxshikai status: xReleased: Post 8 ] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╮xx★xx╭━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxw i n t e r ,xxxs u m m e r
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Dawn considered that as she observed the smoke filled air. Her plan to engage in combat had failed. He really was smarter than her. Still he wasn’t too smart. She looked at her right wrist where his foot was; Dawn could barely feel it. Luckily she was still holding Natsunoyo. However she had to force down her panic; she couldn’t see her scars and in the past that meant only one thing.
Dawn whispered her answer, “I come from the outer Rukon. It’s so far from here that I never bothered to find out what the district number was. It never mattered; the Seireitei didn’t exist there. Just the cartel.”
Dawn’s next moments were a flash. Her left hand reached out and wrapped around the young man’s ankle. She didn’t care to hold back and squeezed as hard as she could. She yanked with her left hand as her right hand pushed up.
The motion upset Enryo’s balance. Dawn got up a quickly as possible. She didn’t even bother to look at her opponent as she swung her katana at him with all the force she could muster. She could see the blood flick out as she finished her swing.
“Gentleman didn’t exist there and for a while I belonged to the cartel.”
Dawn flashed to stand next to Fuyonohi. Her back was a massive bruise and her entire body ached from her fall. She liked Enryo, she really did but, she would not lose. Dawn used her left hand to swing her cape back on her shoulders.
Dawn yanked Fuyunohi out of the ground with a sharp jerk, “The truth is, Enryo, you’re smarter than I am. You can adapt.” Dawn let out a harsh laugh, “I can’t; I don’t know how.” The only word that could describe Dawn was hard, “But I don’t know fun. I fight to protect those who can’t defend themselves. I fight to survive. You may be smarter but, I guarantee that I am harder.”
Dawn held her left hilt in front of her face. Her right one was by her right leg. Fuyunohi and Natsunoyo were parallel. She shifted her weight to her back leg. She was done wasting time.
Her voice was harsh, “I doubt that I’ll win this. I know I’m not trying to kill you. Still, I will not go down until the very end! One last piece of advice; I am not a girl. I am a survivor. I suggest you remember that.”
Power began to race though Dawn Up until now her Reiryoku had only been released to let out blasts of red ice and blue fire. Now Dawn turned it loose. It materialized as shards of blue ice and streams of red fire.
“Thank you Enryo. It is so rare that I have balance.”
Dawn soared towards Enryo. She swung Fuyunohi at him. He brought up Shiranui to block the blow. Dawn countered by swinging Natsunyo at his exposed legs. She let out a hiss of pleasure. This was new. This was good.
One thought raced thought her mind as she spotted her green cape whip around both of them, “In all the years I’ve known you I’ve learned one thing about you Dawn. You’re a survivor. That’s why I’m doing this. Because after everything you’ve seen; you’re eyes aren’t dead yet.”
Dawn spoke to her long gone friend, “Not dead yet.” ╭━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━xx
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t e n t h x d i v i s i o n , x t h i r d x s e a t
t h e x b l a c k x s u n r i s e OOC |xxxxxSo mini-flashbacks for the both of them. Edit: Wording change. you can fly. you have begun.
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