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((Woo YAY! First! and I'll actually get to RP this time I'm quite sure!))

Gaius appeared at the bottom of the high cliff face, having exited from a well camofluaged door, and began slowing stepping towards the frosty adamantium disk nearly half a mile distant. Snow eddied about in the air, performing it's own sick little celebration to what would likely soon be a veritable bloodbath. The temperature didn't nearly bother him, he didn't so much as shiver, this might as well be Hawaii compared to the kind of thing Brutus brought about.

He was about halfway to his destination when the wind picked up blowing a wall of snow into his face. He walked through it and hunched his shoulders to prevent snow from getting inside his collar. A few minutes later he reached the edge of the platform. A quick glance around didn't reveal his opponent so he drew in all his ambient reiatsu and hunched his shoulders as he squatted down, leaning back against the cold metal as he waited for the shinigami he had been brought to fight.

He inhaled deeply and slowed down his breathing, relaxing his muscles. As the frigid air touched the tissue of his lungs he thought, Well, one thing to say about this, at least this time the enviroment is on my side. With that he closed his eyes, letting his reiatsu sense alert him if his adversary appeared.

Another gust of wind kicked up, making him appear as little more than a silhouette for a few moments.

Gaius had almost fallen asleep when he ascertained the presence of the shinigami. That he was several thousand feet in the air was irrelevant. He calmly waited, still half asleep, for the man to decide to come down, and come down he did. Moments later a short shuffling sound told Gaius the man had finally landed. He took a deep breath and opened his eyes.

Gaius shortly stood up to his full height and reached his hands up, standing on his toes as he stretched. His back, neck, shoulders, and vast majority of other joints cracked and popped in quick succession to one another. He yawned and placed his left hand back onto the platform. With a short jump he was standing on the frosty metal gazing at the shinigami.

His eyebrow raised slightly at the steaming circle around him, immediately causing him to assume a firey reiatsu. A moments more inspection revealed it to be electric instead. He inclined his head slightly keeping his eyes on the man at all times, "My name is Gaius Septimus. I am a Raven and Bount and fought for the Roman Empire in it's glory days."

His polite introduction finished he calmly began walking towards the shinigami, his extremely dense and well defined muscles slowly tensing and bulging in anticipation of combat. He was taking his time, studying his opponent, and readying himself for anything that may be shot his way.

Once withing striking distance his right leg whipped out as his body twisted and his arms came up in a loose boxing stance. He was aiming for the side of the shinigami's left knee. No tricks, no deception, but with all the muscle Gaius had behind that strike, if it hit in the slightest it could deal considerable damage. If for some inconceivable reason it hit without being blocked or dodged in the slightest it could very well turn his kneecap to dust. Right as the kick would be about to connect he spoke again, "Everyone thinks it, so try not to, I am warning you, A Doll is nothing to be trifled with."

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Gaius had fought shinigami in the past, not many, but enough to have an idea of what they were capable of. Gaius heard him cast the Kido, but it had been so long since he had fought a shinigami, he didn't put two and two together until it was almost to late. Seki... he thought, running through the possibilites of what it could mean, thinking it a reply to his statement. An instant after the word was spoken, and an instant before his kick landed, a small orb of energy bloomed by the mans knee and exploded with a repelling force.

He wasn't able to completely save himself from the Kido, but that instant's warning saved him from being thrown backwards. He stopped the kick and began reversing the direction while twisting about, skipping backwards from his previous position, surprisingly light on his feet considering his bulk. The maneuver carried him a few feet back, and would have been much harder, if not impossible, to pull off without the assistance of the blast from the shinigami's Kido.

His eyes quickly scanned about once he was more steady. Gaius locked his gaze on the man right as he was speaking, "...Thirty one, Skakkahou." A red orb grew in his hand and launched towards Gaius. That was one thing he did remember, if the full incantation wasn't performed the spell wasn't at maximum power. He grinned and ran toward the blast of heat bringing back his fist for a blow, making as if to endure through the pain and heat and strike after emerging from the other side.

Right as the heat began to blister and burn his skin Gaius gathered a plane of reishi beneath his feet and Blitzed to the side, out of the way of the fiery heat, appearing as little more than a flicker, then back in front of Kiisho, his fist crashing towards the man's chest as he appeared. His skin was pink and his arms and face were burned clear of hair, but other than that and a few minor stinging burns from passing a bit to close to the Kido, he was fine

He wasn't expecting the attack to connect very well, and was guaging Kiisho's reactions. With how erratically he had behaved, making as if to brave through the Kido, dodging it with something akin to shunpo, and then not attacking from behind as seemed customary among shinigami, his final approach should be very difficult to predict.((2))

((I feel like an idiot, I spent ten minutes thinking you had just mistyped and put Seki instead of Sho...lol))

Kiisho was faster than him to be sure, but speed wasn't nearly everything that mattered in a battle as he was sure the shinigami knew. He felt his fist connect with the man's chest the moment before he once again flash stepped out of sight. He knew there hadn't been enough contact made to do serious damage, but even that small moment had surely transferred enought force to badly bruise the man's chest. Bakudou? Damnit! All this man's dodging about and blasting strong energy every other second was getting annoying... The pillars of energy crashed into him, immobilizing him almost completely. He couldn't move his legs, and so couldn't change his position, but his torso was quite free of restriction. He drew the gladius from between his shoulder blades. The blade flashed out seeming to leap from the scabbard of it's own accord. The silvery arc the blade made in the air was aimed to slice Kiisho's hand slightly in the process, the chance was quite slim as he couldn't see his actual postion, but it was worth a try.

Then, right as the shinigami was finishing the incantation to strengthen the Kido his other hand flashed up, briefly touching the pommel of the short heavy blade, and then back down a ready position by his side. A cool beautiful blue jewel arced high into the air above the center of the arena. "Zeige Dich." His last motion before being completely stilled was to bring the pommel of the blade crashing onto ont of the golden pillars cracking it, slightly weakening the strength of the Kido. With the Bakudou strengthened he couldn't speak and could barely force his lungs to expand to breath or his eyelids to raise and fall to blink. He heard the man speaking another incantion from farther away and recognized it as a highly destructive spell. He knew he couldn't dodge, he knew he wouldn't be able to escape the worst of the blast, but who said he had to? He began softly glowing as the nearby reishi in the air responded to his call and began gathering into glowing pieces. Ready to respond to his call when he needed it.

Meanwhile as the shinigami incanted the blast of blue fire Brutus was awakening. The blue sapphire over head sent out a strong pulse of reiatsu, cooling the entire area by several degrees instantly, a palpable change to both combatants. This elicited a small smile from Gaius. The jewel soon began letting off a freezing mist, followed by several more pulses of cold reiatsu as it cracked, small plantlike tendrils making their way out, waving about as if confused to not find solid earth surrounding them. Within moments, right about as it reached apogee, it exploded into motion and growth, icy vines and roots spiraling out into the air seeking something to anchor onto. The cold writhing mass fell towards the metal plate below. It was about the size of a basketball when it hit the ground, and instead of bouncing, like it seemed it should, it simple flattened, growing even more quickly. It's cold reiatsu sent out pulses almost constantly now, lowering the temperature a few degrees each time. Small rootlets covered in small thorns and icy armor soon found the edge of the platform and gripped it, burrowing into the earth at it's base moments later. Several of the roots twined their way around the base of Kiisho's feet searching for the earth, luckily they weren't violent at this time, focused instead on explosive growth. This continued right up to when Kiisho released the spell sending more heated destruction towards Gaius. The snow and frost evaporated from the radiant heat, but almost instantly refroze back into snow from a very strong pulse of freezing energy from the plant which now blanketed much of the adamantium disk. Then a ripple of motion passed through all the vines and roots, moving from the outside in, and a large pillar of frozen plant matter, covered by extremely hard and thick icy armor rose behind Kiisho. Brutus quicklly grew to about 20 feet tall. The temperature in the area was now well below zero, somwhere around -30 to -40 degrees. An icy mask condensed from the icy air, a winking eye, and a smile quickly formed on the surface of the thick plate of frozen water. The sapphire that had housed Brutus formed the other(open) eye, it constantly gaving of a freezing cold mist and small tendrills could still be seen emerging from the jewel. The area was now covered a very thick layer of frost and ice. Brutus roared his joy at being out in the world, lacking a mouth it issued forth as a horrendously loud and horrible grinding sound.

((profile does say negative 20, but that is for normal situations, normal battles, as it is already at least at freezing temperatures it made sense to lower it even more, I generally think of it in around 70-80 degrees, so an extra drop of 10 degrees doesn't seem too bad. ))


The blast of fire hit Gaius, it burned like Hell, no far worse then hell, this just plain HURT. He could feel his skin cracking and burning, the oils in it boiling, he was being roasted alive. At the same time, right after a patch of skin was blackened and burnt, the cooling salve of healing reishi rushed to it to heal him whole once again. He couldn't move through the whole ordeal, but the Bakudou holding him was being weakened greatly by the destructive fires as well. He felt like he was going inside, intense heat would incinerate him, then he would feel cool and refreshed as the skin was healed, and then it would begin again. It felt like the inferno blazed for hours, but it was most likely just a few bare seconds. When he could be seen again his clothing was almost completely gone and he was hairless, his skin pink and a few burns still quickly healing. Once the burns were healed his hair quickly came back and his clothing regenerated as well. "Erneuern Sie." Gaius whispered as his skin took on it's original dusky tone. He knew he presented an impressive sight emerging from that attack relatively unscathed, but it had cost him a good deal of energy, he couldn't perform a large number of fast large scale healings like that, but he also suspected Kiisho couldn't fire off that Kido, or others of it's strength, very often either. "This is Brutus, my Doll."

Brutus roared once more, this time more quietly. Dozens of small rootlets that coated the frosty metal surface, providing traction on it's normally slick surface, twined towards Kiisho's feet. They were to small to carry thorns like the rest of Brutus, but they could still quite easily freeze his feet off if allowed to contact him for too long.

((3rd))

((My bad, bad bruising statement officially retracted, I misread.))

Gaius held his gladius in a relaxed position as the man released his Shikai, it was only polite after all. It was impressive, it truly was, lightning, loud noises, a pleasant blue color. Oh, and gloves too? Well he certainly was the height of fashion. "Gauntlets? Really? They are horribly overdone lately aren't they? Far to many shinigami use them, it gets tiring it truly does." He decided to play along with the man, keep up a seemingly pleasant conversation while they attempted to maul eachother into unrecognizable versions of themselves. "Weather? No I actually quite enjoy it..." An expression of mock horror and dejection dominated his face as the lightning arced into the sky, "Oh, see, now that was just plain rude." He shook his head in dissapointment, "I enoy the cold, it suits me." His eyes widened imperceptibly as Kiisho shot a bolt of electricity to the metal disk, heating it up and searing it clear of ice and Brutus' small tendrils for a moment. Gaius, was of course safe from the violent energies. All the man's theatrics and the nature of his reiatsu had already given him an extremely large sight into his abilities and power, so when he spun around and gestured at the arena floor Gaius raised himself off the surface of the metal several inches with a platform of condensed reishi. He collapsed it a moment later, acting as if nothing occured. And it may as well not have.

Brutus had grounded himself to the earth below, quickly passing what little energy reached him down below safely, the destruction of the rootlets meant nothing to him, he didn't even feel their destruction. The temperature continued cooling, albeit at a slower pace, as the Doll's naturally cooling presence sucked what little heat remained in the area into itself. A bare moment later the platform was back to it's freezing self and the newly made steam and moisture in the air had refrozen, falling again. This time, just as Kiisho was settling back down onto the ground, thicker and larger roots, with some protective icy covering and studded with sharp thorns twined their way over the surface, coating it once again, these were more durable and would take considerably more energy to destroy than their threadlike companions before.


"I will admit, your Shikai is impressive, very theatrical, I must agree, but think of this, and answer if you feel driven too. Which of us has been expending energy at a higher rate?" That was the moment Kiisho chose to speak again and fire another destructive spell. The size and speed of the spell was greater, and the factor by which it improved slightly surprised him, but it wasn't enough, Gaius had guaged the man and found him skilled and talented, but noone had survived Gaius and Brutus' own personal war of attrition, it was the way they fought, they didn't seek to win and destroy quickly in one giant game-finishing move, they forced the enemy to whittle themselves down by wasting energy, keeping themselves warm, and wasting attack after attack on a target that refused to take a true hit, Gaius, or a target that could withstand nigh on anything, Brutus. He stood still, readying a Blitz to move out of the way should the need arise, but otherwise he appeared to be quite relaxed.

Just as the firey spell drew near enough for the heat to start becoming uncomfortable it was swatted aside by a large mass of icy vines originating from Brutus' main trunk, behind Kiisho. A large hiss gave out as much of the ice on those vines vaporized, exposing a soft and slightly vulnerable section of the cold appendage. It quickly drew back, retreating back into the Doll's main section to regenerate more quickly, the charred vines had been largely protected by their armor, but they still suffered some damage.

He glanced up at where Kiisho had reappeared above him and saluted jokingly, "I beleive I kindly warned you to not underestimate my Doll, he get's frightfully angry." As if on cue a lound grinding sound sounded out loud enough to cause a slight and inconsequential headache, while noticable, to all those who heard it. The horrible sound akin to glaciers breaking apart rapidly almost completely drowned out the sound of the tornado Kiisho conjured up. Still looking up Gaius closed his eyes, while keeping his reiatsu sense trained on Kiisho should he try anything, tensed himself slightly against the extremely powerful winds as they buffeted against him, without the flames and heat provided by the previous Kido it was hardly a danger. The strength of the wind did almost lift him from his feet but a slight modification to the reishi in the air around his body kept him firmly anchored anchored to the ground. He opened his eyes and sighed happily, partaking of some of Kiishos theatricalness. "Done?"

Without waiting for a reply Gaius quickly shot into a Blitz behind Kiisho and swung his gladius worth disabling speed and force to hamstring the shinigami. At the same time Brutus had his roots and vines growing and twining themselves at extremely high speeds towards the man in black. The thorny and icily armored roots sought to wrap themselves around his legs, and immobilize him, poisoning and freezing him with contact. The vines, much more mobile, though not carrying as much protective ice, twined through the air in the dozens, trying to wrap around his torso, shoulders, and arms.
A moment before the slash from Gaius would connect, he'd Blitz, but not to another position to complete the slash, but instead forwards, setting his shoulder against the shinigami's back and shoving. The Bount's natural extreme strength and speed coupled with the short but blindingly fast movement of the Blitz should put him successfully off balance for a successful dodge or Shunpo.

((Temperature: app. -22 degrees.))

((4th post))

((I realize I'm not the best Rper in the world, and I enjoy it I really do, but lately it's been boring with so few people active to Rp with regularly, but this is FUN. Thanks man!))

Gaius righted himself in the air as he flew back from the force expelled from Kiisho's Shikai. A swift thickening of the reishi behind and below him slowed him down quickly and hovered him calmly a few feet over the surface of the disc.

A slightly annoyed look flashed over Gaius' face, "Me? You...are calling me arrogant? Sir, I admit I don't know as much about energy as you, but do not think! to assume you know how much it took me to heal myself, and you have absolutely no understanding of cold if it thinks it does not effect you. Even now, more of your reiatsu and energy is spent keeping you warm, add that to all the excessive jumping and running about, top it off with the constant blasting of high-level Kido, and you sir, no matter the benefits you Shikai provide you, will weaken, slow, and succumb to the slow painless end we provide." Shadows were cast strangely throughout the area as Kiisho brightly lit a circle of energy around him.

Gaius stood calmly simply looking at the silhouette of the shinigami in the bright light, "Even now, you waste energy with these bright and pointless displays, no matter the amount you have, the thoughtless waste you are and have been exhibiting will be why you lose this match today, your own arrogance in thinking you can squander that which keeps you alive." Gaius watched as he continued his incantations, he was slightly confused at first, but after a moment he realized he was utilizing to Kido at once, both powerful blasts of reiatsu, both extremely destructive, and both predictable. He subtly gathered reishi to put to his own use when the moment struck, and it most literally would.

Brutus had meanwhile received a mental cue as to what was about to transpire from Gaius. He knew that such a blast would damage him greatly, so he did the one thing he could, the one thing he had never been able to do...He moved. Normally Brutus was quite stationary, rooted deeply into the earth. However now, the Doll only stayed steady and in place because it's roots gripped the metal plate, he was holding on, not firmly attached to a piece of the earth. With great effort he began slowly shifting himself. From the time Kiisho became little more then a shadow in the glowing ring about him, to when the inverted pyramid formed he was slowly dragging himself to the edge of the platform.

"Danku. Danku. Danku." Gaius heard as he saw, and felt three of the immensely powerful barriers snap into place, he shook his head in dissapointment, "Still more is lost that can't be regained." He continued standing gathering still more reishi to himself, he hadn't given it something to do, and so instead in such a concentrated form it elicited a very slight glow Kiisho would be unable to see among the glowing radiance he had brought about. Goodbye? Ok. He thought. "Well, I truly hope this works out for you." Gaius spoke even though he knew at that distance, and with all the noise from Kiisho and Brutus dragging himself he wouldn't be heard in the slightest. Gaius arubtly formed the large amount of reishi he had condensed into a Blitzing platform beneath his feet and dissapeared from Kiisho's sight. At that very moment Brutus fell to the earth from the adamantium platform like a tree felled by a lumber jack. The earth shook at the impact during the time it took Kiisho to announce the pyramid Kido and his "light Cannon". Quickly the entire mass set to squirming about, an utterly sickening sight as every last tendril burried into the earth around the platform. All that remained above ground was the perpetually smiling mask as it's one eye stared at Kiisho.

Light Cannon? Must be from his Shikai. Gaius had rightfully judged that with the mass amounts of reiatsu being expelled from his body, followed by the incantions, whatever Kiisho brought about would be horribly destructive, easily capable of injuring him almost beyond repair. So he had moved far far away, from his previous position. Bringing his reiatsu so low to the point where unassisted sensing would have absolutely no chance of divining where he was, and even Summoning the Tracking Sparrows would fail to provide an exact location. He had taken the position he found most safe in the area at the time. And so Gaius watched from behind Kiisho, gazing through the three Splitting Voids the shinigami had erected, as a glowling pyramid enclosed almost the entire giant metallic target he was aiming for. He winced slightly in sympathy as he saw a section of Brutus cut off and removed by the forming Bakudo, soon to be incinerated and utterly destroyed. He watched as it exploded with violent energies, the Bakudo containing the blast collapsing almost immediately. He saw the glowing platform, and felt it's heat even from the distance he was. Though even now, Brutus' influence beneath the ground was quickly cooling it, absorbing all of that wasted energy into his freezing heat-sink of a body. He watched as Kiisho crashed through the first two Danku's and heavily damaged the third, of which Gaius was standing on the air but a foot and a half away from. Still, completely and utterly undectable by Kiisho in the current situation.

A large section of roots rose from the ground, supporting the mask, and assumed a roughly human shape. One 'hand' rested on it's 'stomach' and the other pointed at the battered Kiisho. The whole badly made shape bounced up and down as the earth shook grinding loudly in a way slightly reminiscent of mocking laughter.

Gaius thrust with all his might into the biggest crack Kiisho had made in the Danku. The gladius passed through with difficulty, shattering the Splitting Void into pieces, "I warned you." Under any other circumstances Gaius wouldn't be able to break it with such relative ease, but with all the damage it had already sustained from Kiisho's own collision with it, it was possible. The blade passed through and skewered the area Kiisho occupied. If he somehow didn't dodge the attack, or block it in someway, despite the fact it would be nigh on impossible for the shinigami to know he was there, that he was in his blind spot, and Kiisho had just suffered a good amount of damage to himself, the strike should at the least moderately injure the spell chucking soul reaper.

((App. Temp: -26 degrees))

((5th))

(( biggrin I'm sorry man, I don't mean to be mean, taking a vertible strike from god away from you like that, I had to though. The incantations, everything, all the signs were there saying, "Get him out of there NOW" and I was reading to be sure I understood what the Light Cannon was, got caught up, read the section on how Kido is strengthened, and then read how you advised dodging, so well, I dodged.))

Something was terribly wrong, the man shouldn't have been able to sense him...his reiatsu signature was closed down, he had flashed out of his sight and should have been covered by the glare of the bright energies Kiisho had brought about. What had gone wrong? Gaius saw it in the slight tenseness of the shinigami's shoulders, a slight rippling of cloth as muscles and tendons shifted slgihtly allowing a small movement. Then he saw his jaw working and knew another Kido was on it's way. Gaius knew he was predictable, he knew and acknoledged this, he didn't in the least consider himself a great strategic mind, but his skills at observation and high reaction speed kept him alive when he failed to plan his way through a hazardous situation. He jerked back his feet Blitzing him backwards mediocrely out of instinct in reaction to the shinigami's movement. His blade followed for an instant before it caught in the weakened Danku and stuck. Rather then let it slow him he released the blade and continued his backwards movement.

Brutus had another point of view, he could perfectly view Kiisho's front and saw exactly what he was doing, he saw the hand twitch and the words for a Kido form on his mouth. He barely saw the miniscule shunpo. It was his first instinct, the thing he was created for. Before the thought had even formed in his crystalline plantish mind, roots were speeding through the ground at breakneckroot speeds to intervene. He'd had enough time and had grown enormously, much like a glacier, the vast majority of his mass had remained and grown beneath the ground, now with only a small fraction of his body above he permeated almost every inch of the earth around the adamantium disk to almost the cliff-face. The sped the last few feet needed and massed beneath the two men under the ground.

The red light had flashed over the gladius and caught Gaius freezing him in place. He quickly focused and felt the chains of reiatsu binding him in place, effectively paralyzing him for the moment. He was already pulsing reiatsu out arubtly at irregular intervals to weaken the Kido, but it would take longer than he had to shatter it. His quick action normally saved him, and in this case it was only helping, almost immediately after he was engulfed the red restraining field began cracking and weakening, allowing brief and small muscle movements. Not fast enough! Damn! Gaius hoped and prayed Brutus would be in time to help. Suddenly without warning masses of stone and rock hard frozen dirt exploded into the air, obscuring his vision and pelting the red Kido surrounding him. They dinged and bounced off the very slight shield. Well it was one thing, it seemed to mitigate very...slight amounts of force.

Brutus was angry. Noone, and he meant NOONE, hurt his Commander. The mass of roots, each sporting razor sharp thorns nearly the size of a katana and icy armor far thicker and stronger than Brutus had ever made exploded from the ground causing the shower of earth that had pelted Gaius right as Kiisho layed his first finger on the Gladius jammed in the Danku. Each of the six roots had smaller roots and vines twining about it, giving it even more protection, smaller thorns covering almost every inch of it, and each capable of unwinding and attacking at a moments notice. They exploded from the earth as one mass, firing rock hard debris in every which direction, colliding with the Kido frozen Gaius, the still barely solid Splitting Void, and firing up at Kiisho from below as well. The temperature dropped sharply as a blast of cold unlike anything either of them had felt this entire battle preceeded the exiting appendages of Brutus.

The sudden blast of strong freezing reiatsu completed the breaking of the Bakudo restraining Gaius. He blinked in surprise at the chaos unleashed by his Doll. The blink over and done with reishi gathered underneath his heels, and fired him skyward, the Blitz carrying him well over fifty feet up.

All of the immense roots dove straight for Kiisho. One of the deadly, thorn-tipped roots shot directly for his back, another from below. Two attacked from the sides, the smaller rootlets untwisting and taking a wider approach, creating two hemispheres each with a large spike in the middle, seeking to mesh and collapse in on the man who threatened Gaius. One remained behind, tearing apart the earth as it quickly circled the meyhem, waiting to respond and counter whatever maneuver Kiisho made. The sixth and final root of destruction Brutus had fashioned darted through the air like a snake towards the sparking electified Gladius. It reached the blade just as the Tsuzuri Raiden was released from Kiisho's palm. The electricity spiraled around the reishi reinforced blade(stated in profile, the reason it can survive such destructive battles). The small roots untwined from the larger root and wrapped around the hilt of the blade, gripping it tightly, and immediately lowering it's temperature to the point that flesh would instantly freeze to it. As it was in contact with the source of the extreme cold, it became greatly colder than the surrounding air. The Hado flew down the blade and the blast of lightning traveled along the collection of roots. The extreme heat of the lightning attack fried and blackened the vast majority of the smaller roots, leaving a bare few wrapping around the blade holding it in place. The tip of the large root itself was blackened, a good portion of the icy armor shattered off the the arubt increase in heat, the edges of it sublimating into mist before almost instantly refreezing a second later in the frigid air, and burnt and blackened streaks showing the paths the lightning took. The few small root lets left yanked strongly on the frozen gladius, intending to flip it up into the air back to Gaius. As they unraveled from the larger root to complete that task the damaged, but still very dangerous, spiky monstrosity leapt through the air, diving down at Kiisho from a slightly upward angle.

Gaius watched completely stunned, his feet sinking slightly into the pillow of air that suspended him as he lost focus. He'd never seen Brutus display that much violence and force before, the cold had never been so great he had felt it...this time he had. He was cold! He shook his head and watched in amazement as Brutus unleashed an attack of pure physical terror, strength, and bitter cold. He had been a fool. Ever since had had created and formed Brutus using the formula passed to all Bount-kind he had used him as no more than support, winning battles largely on his own. The universe had been screaming at how wrong it was, Brutus sole reason for existence was keeping Gaius alive, now the Raven finally heard and understood. He would support the Doll, not the other way around. He smiled in anticipation, this battle would change course, now, he was fighting as he was meant to. As a team, protecting and assisting one another to the fullest of their abilites. Gaius grinned in anticipation. The soft pillow of air arubtly firmed into something more akin to steel then feather and cloth.

((Temp: App. -27 degrees for entire area. About -40 for immediate vicinity, caused by blast of cold released nearby, will disperse soon.))

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