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II Palmtop Tiger II Vice Captain
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 Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:03 am
 I like to pick interesting places for these things. xp LocationStonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) west of Amesbury and 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones. It is at the centre of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.BackstoryWhile visiting England, both on duty and for pleasure, Nanashi had taken to visit the famous monument, Stonehenge. It was here that, after realizing that he was going to be late for the festival, he carelessly and absentmindedly left his Zanpakutō sitting atop one of the stone slabs. Nanashi has returned to retrieve it, but something else other than his weapon is lurking here as well...ExplanationThis thread is part of the Main RP, yet separated from it at the same time in order to avoid confusion in members who might be reading it. That is to say that if it had been kept in the other thread, someone might think that it was happening close by and be able to interfere. This thread is only to put into small detail how and when Nanashi dies at the hand of the Primera Espada, an act which is witnessed by Ashley. From there, their mini-story will unfold. No other RPC may show up here at all unless given permission by myself.
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:08 pm
1363  ┏──────────────┓ xxΖenos Λthanasius xx[Immortal Stranger] xxxxαπό το έδαφος ┗──────────────┛ Primera Espada
While Zenos should have been in Hueco Mundo at the time, he had chosen to escape the suffocating presences of the other Espada. He felt fleeting regrets for joining the organization every now and then, as they liked to talk and apparently thought he did too, which made him whisk himself away into the shadows and disappear from Hueco Mundo as often as he could to escape. This was one of those times, and he had chosen to come to Stonehenge in South West England so that he may marvel at the structure of the large stone slabs that had been artful arranged in this peculiar fashion. However, while he was leaning against one of the upright slabs and silently minding his own business while watching the occasional human come and go, he felt the presence of a Shinigami. The idea in itself was not so surprising considering that there were Shinigami stationed all over the world to serve as protection against the very kind of hollow he had evolved from. What Zenos had not anticipated was that the level of Reiryoku he had found radiating from the Shinigami, who was still approaching, with his Pesquisa, was of Captain-level, which he could tell despite the fact that the Shinigami had his Gentei Reiin on. Silently, as he melted into the shadows for the time being, he wondered why a captain would be here. It was impossible for him to have been found by the Soul Society since he had his Reiatsu completely erased through his own power.
As the Shinigami approached, he soon found his answer when out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glint of something gold sitting atop one of the horizontal slabs that caught the light as he moved his head in the slightest degree. Zenos quickly cast his Pesquisa onto the object and used the sonar-wave generated from his enhanced version to pick up on it's rough-shape, which he recognized as a sword. The Shinigami had left his Zanpakutō in the Human World, right here at this very spot, and had come to retrieve it. It was not hard to deduce that after putting two and two together, and with that realization, Zenos was once again reassured that his stealth techniques were still working at top capacity. Shifting his feet, from which came no sound due to yet another technique of his, Zenos quickly entered the first stage of his Resurrección without drawing the dagger that was sewn into the inside of his jacket, just above his right breast. Contrary to the other Espada, his release did not change his outward appearance, nor did it cause an increase in his Reiatsu, allowing the transformation to go undetected as he took a few steps to the side while remaining in the shadows. The fingertips of his right hand suddenly began to turn silver in color, which in turn began to spread all the way up his arm as a silver-colored layer of Titanium spanned the length of his right arm, over his shoulder, and across half his chest, visibly and non-uniformly terminating diagonally across his neck, just past the collar of his jacker, adding to his already formidable defense.
With the Shinigami closing in on the area, Zenos held his position until he saw Nanashi come to a half-stop at the base of the three slabs that his Zanpakutō was lying upon, then take the step to jump up to reach it. In a split second, Zenos vanished as though he had teleported and abruptly appeared in the Shinigami's way, dropping his foot on top of the saya of the golden katana at his feet. Just as soon as the Shinigami looked up in astonishment, likely stalling because he had not felt or sensed Zenos in the slightest, Zenos lifted his other foot and rapidly drove it into his stomach, using his overwhelming strength to knock the Shinigami some several hundred yards away. Once more, with a Sonído so quick that it was nearly impossible to track, Zenos caught up with the airborne Shinigami captain, or more precisely, moved to a point behind him and came to a halt, planting his left foot on the ground while turning on his heel and bringing his right foot back and up into the air. Just as the Shinigami captain had passed under his foot, he brought it crashing down into his chest, sending him falling to Earth while Zenos righted himself. Zenos watched silently as the Shinigami captain shook off his shock of being intercepted by Zenos, got his feet, and vanished with a Shunpo in order to retrieve his Zanpakutō. For a few seconds, Zenos merely stood with his hands resting inside their respective pockets while he shut his eyes, allowing his other senses to take over. Vanishing yet again, he reappeared on top of the katana, his left foot anchoring it to the stone while he brought his right hand across the Shinigami's face the instant he reappeared, back handing him toward the ground where he created a sizable crater with his impact.
At his feet, the stone slab began to turn to sand, creating thin tendrils that began to throw themselves over the Shinigami's Zanpakutō, pulling it into the rock as the sand shifted to make room for the invading matter. By the time Zenos had effectively trapped the Zanpakutō in the rock, the Shinigami was just getting up and performing a Shunpo to get up to Zenos where he stopped mid-air and pushed forward on ball of his left foot and prepared to deliver a punch to the Primera's face. Zenos responded by quickly batting his wrist aside with the back of his hand, which created the sickening crunch of a bone being broken in half with the impact of the Shinigami's fragile body against Zenos' metallic skin. Zenos watched wordlessly and emotionlessly as the Shinigami took a shocked expression of pain, stumbling backwards and dropping to his knees as the pain of having his wrist broken rocketed throughout his leg and send screams of alert to the rest of his body, which quickly reacted as well by causing him to break out into cold sweat and for his breathing to become labored. Their eyes met past the captain's olive bangs when he looked up to face his attacker. He shouted something desperately, but Zenos did not catch it, nor did he care to catch it. Instead, he lifted his left hand and demurely extending his index finger, firing a beam of light from the tip of his finger that struck the Shinigami's arm and instantly turned it into stone, much to his shock. Choosing desperation over tact, the Shinigami bounded backwards, arriving at a point a few dozen feet away, trying to put distance between himself and his obviously more powerful attacker.
Zenos, however, had other plans. Shuffling his feet, he stepped forward and vanished again, only to appear to his back right, holding his hand up in the air as Nanashi's right arm fell apart from the impact created by Zenos's arm, which had been so fast that it was missed and noticed only after it was completed. A single spinning back kick and a Sonído later, Zenos was standing in front of the Shinigami, holding him to the erect slab of stone by his neck. Zenos looked coldly into his eyes as he struggled against his strength, then cocked back his arm, flattened his fingers and pressed them together, then snapped his hand forward, using his strength, skin, and nails to drive his hand through the captain's heart and into the stone behind him. The captain coughed up blood and was no more, falling limp against Zenos' arm and hand just before the stone slab splintered and fell apart, bringing the rest of that stone trio to the ground. Zenos pulled his arm away, then flicked it to the side, slinging the Shinigami's corpse into the short green grass a ways away. Cracking his neck, the Primera exited his Resurrección and glanced to the side at the destruction he had caused, feeling slightly bad about it now. ...and thus the world is petrified. ►Translations◄
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II Palmtop Tiger II Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 6:47 pm
XA S H L E Y ★__________________XXXXXXXX - " I've touched the cold, dark fingers of 𝕯𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍... "┏━━━━━━━━━┓
► | こうきょ - じょしん| ◄
┗━━━━━━━━━┛ " So fragile yet so 𝖉𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖔𝖚𝖘 "XXXXXXXX_______________________XXXXXXXX ☠→→⋯ Upon leaving the Main Event back in the Seireitei, Ashley first arrived at the Tenth Division. Not looking for Nanashi very long since she couldn't sense his reiatsu anywhere close. There was a sense of a trail from which she could follow the faint appearance of his reiatsu. It led Ashley to have to go to the real world though. Why would Nanashi need to go to the Human World? Suddenly it felt more like she was spying on him rather than catching up with him so that they could talk. But anyways, Ashley would press forward in her pursuit to meet up with her little admirer. What the trail brought her to, was a large field, far off in the distance she could see the famous monument known to the humans and "Stonehenge". Squinting her eyes a small amount, she could see a figure walking through it. Knowing this was Nanashi, a slight smile escaped her.
But soon after, there was another figure, one that was unknown to Ashley and from the looked of it unknown to Nanashi also. A sudden rush of shock confronted Ashley though, because Nanashi was being attacked. Her eyes widened a bit as she started running towards Nanashi and his attacker. Using Shunpo she arrived quicker to one of the few men who actually showed interest in her. But it was all for naught. With her making her appearance, the only thing she could do was witness Nanashi being held up and stabbed through his heart by the unknown man's mere hand. Instantly she recognized the man as an arrancar because that kind of kill tactic was popular to them. Her eyes were widened in horror as to what she just witnessed. "Nanashi!!" She called out to the the olive haired man as he was tossed to the side like trash. Dropping the same bear that was given to her by the man she wanted so desperately to save, she used Shunpo to get to him as quick as possible.
She caught Nanashi just before he hit the ground completely ignoring the fact that the very being that killed Nanashi was just yards away from her. Ashley ripped out her Zanpakutou and stabbed it into the ground next to her. "Recover, Shizenchiyu." She called out in a shaky and desperate voice. Already she was going to try her strongest Shikai ability. "Gokurakuoujou!" She said just before thin red smoke started to pour out of her pores. Ashley then placed her hand over the hole created by the unknown arrancar to hopefully heal Nanashi and bring him back to health if there was a single bit of life still in him. There was no sign of anything getting better, the hole wasn't healing which meant...
Ashley had to face reality, and quick or she could be killed too. Still holding the limp body there was mixed emotions flowing through her: Sorrow, anger, confusion, and now, vengeance. Gently setting down Nanashi, her head slowly turned back to the arrancar, her eyes were wide with anger. Not only was she getting the anger of the arrancar murdering Nanashi, but flashbacks of her dad being slaughtered by an arrancar when she was younger came as well. "I-I'll ki-kill you..." She said in a low tone choking on her words from the overwhelming feeling of anger. Ripping her zanpakutou out of the ground she stood up and exploded off the ground towards the arrancar. She couldn't control her actions, and now there was no turning back. "I won't rest until you pay for what you've done!!" She said screaming at him which was rare for her. Bringing her zanpakutou up in front of her as she was speeding towards him she pointed it towards him to attempt to stab the arrancar through the heart and hopefully kill him the same way he killed her admirer.
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:43 pm
516 ┏──────────────┓ xxΖenos Λthanasius xx[Immortal Stranger] xxxxαπό το έδαφος ┗──────────────┛ Primera Espada
Although Zenos was not ignorant to the commotion caused by Ashley, who was sobbing over Nanashi's body or something- he couldn't really tell as he wasn't really paying attention-, he pretended as though it didn't concern him and kept his head turned away. The fact that the Shinigami male had been weaponless was what had prompted Zenos to attack right away before he could retrieve it and pose as an actual threat to him. This was not to say that Zenos feared fighting a captain who was armed to the teeth, but rather he preferred to get it done and over with as he liked the resulting bloodshed far more than he enjoyed the battle. With Nanashi's weapon out of his hands, the captain had been a piece of cake to take out, not that Zenos' skills didn't factor in. It was for this reason, along with the fact that he had already been seen by Ashley, that he had not immediately gone after her once she had gotten close enough.
His sensitive ears alerted him to her low-spoken words, as clear as if they were said by someone speaking in his ear. The very idea that someone was going to kill him was amusing in it's own right, which caused him to casually slide his head to the right, looking at Ashley with a wide-eyed expression, though this was one of interest and not shock. Parting his lips, he allowed an amused breath to roll past his lips as he turned to watch the female Shinigami propel herself towards him at sub-par speeds in comparison to his own, holding her sword's kissaki out like she thought she had a chance at piercing his body. As she approached, Zenos used his Pesquisa again to determine her relative level of power, which he found was around the same level as the male's, which certainly matched up with her attire. Two captains in one day, it was a lot of work, but it least it got some opposition out of the way.
In the midst of his amusement, Zenos snatched her bare blade out of the middle of the air, catching it between his thumb and index finger while applying fair amounts of pressure to it so that she may not pull it free. Obviously she had the option of abandoning her katana, but that would be a foolish move for any captain to make. Without a hint of noise or motion, Zenos suddenly appeared to her back left while his afterimage turned it's expression back to normal. Zenos pulled his arm forward, then snapped it back to bury his elbow into the area between her shoulder blades to swiftly knock her down to the ground. Once this was done, he dropped his arm and folded his hand back, pointing an outstretched index finger towards her, then charged and released a dull-grey cero from his fingertip in little under a second. Vanishing on the spot, the Primera appeared atop one of the stone slabs, and brought an open hand to his mouth, tapping his lips as he yawned. ...and thus the world is petrified. ►Translations◄[Ugh... Short. -.-]
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II Palmtop Tiger II Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:02 pm
XA S H L E Y ★__________________XXXXXXXX - " I've touched the cold, dark fingers of 𝕯𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍... "┏━━━━━━━━━┓
► | こうきょ - じょしん| ◄
┗━━━━━━━━━┛ " So fragile yet so 𝖉𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖔𝖚𝖘 "XXXXXXXX_______________________XXXXXXXX ☠→→⋯ As the Arrancar caught her zanpakutou, her eyes widened a bit in shock. How did he catch her blade so easily? What kind of power did did this man have? She didn't have time to think before she felt his elbow drive into her back causing her to hit the ground harshly. Her head snapped back the moment she heard a cero charging. She gave a slight "tch" before the massive explosion engulfed the entire area around her. Smoke covered the entire ground just under the top of Stonehenge, and lasted for awhile. Where Ashley was, the ground was untouched. But all around her, in a perfect circle created a massive crater and a small pillar under where she was laying. Suddenly it crumbled from being so weak and Ashley fell down to the bottom of the crater. She barely survived that cero, at the last moment bringing the point of her zanpakutou to the cero to cause it to hit everything around her.
The explosion though, took a lot out of her, her clothes were burnt and ripped up and her breathing was already heavy. This wasn't good, and all she could think about was that she couldn't save Nanashi. Standing up slowly and barely keeping her balance, she raised her reiatsu up causing a small shock wave to disperse the smoke all around her and give her a clear view between Ashley and the Arrancar. She was giving him a deadly glare, and if looks could kill, Zenos would be ripped to shreds. Fortunately for him, that wasn't the case. At this point Ashley didn't care if she destroyed this special monument of the humans, she didn't even care if a few humans were killed in the process, the only thing she wanted right now was Zenos dead, and Nanashi back. She leaped up, feeling the pain of her entire body with every move she made, and jumped off the air towards Zenos.
Before getting to him she was using Shunpo everywhere in front of him to throw Zenos off. Her emotions were still getting the best of her, so strategy wasn't something she was thinking right now. In fact, she could barely think of anything at all except Nanashi and what she was going to have to tell the other Captains later on. Back when Ashley was talking to Ichibantai Taichou Adachi, she even told him that the day was too perfect, it was like something could happen at any moment. Like all the other hunches she has had in the past, she was right again but it didn't come to mind that it could be this bad. Unknown to what sort of ability this Arrancar had, she had to try to clear her mind and think of a plan or she was as good as dead. Ashley wasn't going to take such a beating from this arrogant man, the fact of how calm he was angered her more. It seemed anything right now would toy with her emotions when on a normal day nothing would. It would be obvious to say this wasn't a normal day, but it wasn't, something had to be done quick.
In a quick motion she spun her zanpakutou as she was hurdling towards Zenos. "Shugotenshi!" She called before eight bright rose colored tentacle sprouted out of her back. They all directed themselves towards herself, and stabbed through her back from upper to lower. Thus doing so created a perfect flow of life force through her for her next move. As she got close to Zenos, with her images appearing in front of him still, she used Shunpo behind him with her zanpakutou pointed straight down. She brought it down to stab Zenos through his leg and the ground in an attempt to keep him in place. While doing do so she called out her next motive. "Hado Number 90! Kurohitsugi!!" Like it was said before, this wasn't a normal day. And on a normal day she never used Hado, but now she was. Of course the Black Coffin formed around the both of them. She was using herself to hold him down to make sure he was hit. The tentacles that was sprouted out and stabbed into herself would make sure she wouldn't commit suicide. But that didn't mean she would come out of this unharmed.
The problem was this could go three ways: One, they could both get hit, both take massive amount of damage and hopefully level the playing field so to speak. Two, they both would take damage, only he wouldn't be very effected by it, thus could mean the end of her life. Or three, he gets out of her grasp, and she looks like a fool and do more damage to herself than he has done to her so far. Either way she was going to get hurt badly doing this, and she was taking this chance. Right now she was just trying to survive, which is why she hasn't gone into Bankai yet. Once she activated her Bankai, she has no way to keep herself healed and have energy. If she gets to the point where she feels safe in using Bankai, she will. Until then she'll have to try to just keep herself alive until the Arrancar retreats or someone comes to assist her. Chances are, nobody is coming, she's alone fighting Zenos.
OOC:// Sorry for the long wait, I'm kind of going on and off my computer :/
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:28 am
1000 ┏──────────────┓ xxΖenos Λthanasius xx[Immortal Stranger] xxxxαπό το έδαφος ┗──────────────┛ Primera Espada
After his yawn that had stemmed from nothing short of unmitigated boredom, Zenos had glanced to the side to see how the female had fared against his admittedly insignificant counter-attack. After the smoke had cleared from a burst of Reiatsu from the female Shinigami, the terrain had told him all he needed to know in regards to her decided method of confronting his retaliatory Cero. He couldn't be completely sure what she had done, but from the looks of it, he narrowed it down to a barrier of sorts- likely a Bakudō if this was the case-, or she had used her katana to redirect the Cero's energy around its tip. Either way, it was commendable that she was able to do such a thing, especially given that she was already breathing heavily as though exhaustion had set in. Watching her leap up, he kept a watchful on her at all times as she moved about with Shunpo in an attempt to confuse him; unfortunately for her, he was able to smell and hear her quite well, so he knew where she was at all times despite her best efforts. As she moved, Zenos noticed that she had used some sort of ability to create several whip-like tendrils-or something close to that effect- that proceeded to stab her back. On one hand, while he was slightly surprised that she would attack herself, he was wholly indifferent to what she chose to do, so he found himself brushing this aspect of her attack to the side. Remaining unaffected by her barrage of images created by her Shunpo, Zenos was not surprised at all when she chose to show up behind him and raise her katana in an attempt to impale his leg on it.
Unfortunately for Ashley, despite being frighteningly strong and impossibly fast, Zenos was primarily known for his tough Hierro, which was just the tip of his defensive iceberg which was only enhanced once he had entered either stage of his Resurrección. The sound of metal on metal came as the tip of her blade connected with Zenos' iron-like skin, throwing up sparks as the bladed weapon raked across his leg and ripped open his pant leg. He perked up when heard the female utter the name of the high-level Kidō that had been used against him multiple times in the past, all to the same end. Taking note that she had opted for Eishōhaki rather than utilizing the full, space-bending effect of the powerful torrent of gravity that was known as Kurohitsugi, he came to the conclusion that her heart was not in the right place as she didn't seem to be thinking this one through. This of course would make this fight all the more easier for him, however, especially if she was going to attempt a suicide attack against an opponent whose abilities she had barely seen. While it would have been child's play for him to simply open a Garganta and escape this one without being harmed, he decided that it would be far more amusing to take the attack alongside the Shinigami to show her just how powerful he actually was. Just after she had called out the name of the Kidō, Zenos slid his right foot forward and leaned over quite far while whipping his hands behind him with his arms straight while he extended his index fingers into her face. Just as he did so, three glowing, dull grey lines of Reiryoku that were evenly spaced apart, converged onto the tip of the nail of his right index finger, giving shape to a spinning ball of Reiryoku of matching color. The same effect happened simultaneously at the tip of his left index finger's nail, and once the Kurohitsugi was ready to pierce the both of them, Zenos released both Cero to her face at point blank range.
Kurohitsugi was on a level separate from a simple thrust with a blade, and as such, not even Zenos' basic Hierro could stand up to the head-to-toe lacerations from the Kidō. Zenos, however, had quite a high threshold for pain which allowed him to take the multiple stab wounds without even batting an eye. As the multiple purple-tinged, black energy spears punched through his Hierro, Zenos held his ground while he calmly accepted the damage from this most potent of Hadō. Once the black box created by the Kidō had dissipated, Zenos emerged with tattered, blood-stained clothes, but otherwise looked okay which was evident by his face, which held nothing but indifference that bordered on boredom. Taking a step forward, Zenos turned around to face the Shinigami and ripped his jacket from his body, baring his blood-stained torso. Zenos wrapped his fingers around the sheath of the dagger that was sewn into the inside of his jacket and ripped it free from the fabric, tossed the jacket onto the ground, then stuck the dagger in his back pocket so that the two protrusions that acted as the dagger's tsuba would hook on the outside of the pocket, creating a weave effect. By this time, Zenos Iron Regeneration had already taken effect, causing iron whiskers to seemingly form out of nothing and stretch across his wounds, taking the place of skin, tissue, and muscle in order to seamlessly heal his wounds while but leaving grey "scars" in their place to serve as markers for where his skin was now harder than his Hierro. Reaching down, Zenos pinched the ripped edge of his pant leg between his thumb, index, and middle fingers, then applied a small amount of force to finish the rip and subsequently tear the hanging portion of the fabric off and then tossed it to the side. Now that he had removed his jacket, his torso was now bare, which included his left shoulder where the number "1" was emblazoned on his skin, indicating his rank amongst the Espada; in other words proving that he was the Primera- the strongest of them all. ...and thus the world is petrified. ►Translations◄
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II Palmtop Tiger II Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 4:21 pm
XA S H L E Y ★__________________XXXXXXXX - " I've touched the cold, dark fingers of 𝕯𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍... "┏━━━━━━━━━┓
► | こうきょ - じょしん| ◄
┗━━━━━━━━━┛ " So fragile yet so 𝖉𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖔𝖚𝖘 "XXXXXXXX_______________________XXXXXXXX ☠→→⋯ Ashley noticed her zanpakutou failing to pierce through the Arrancar's leg, yet he stayed in her Kido. Why did he do this? The answer was simple, he was just toying with her. As the black box was starting to shape around them, a dull gray light shined in her face. Ashley simply watched the three cero shaping in front of her, before using Shunpo out of the way but being forced to stay within the Black Coffin. They were both then completely consumed, everything went dark before Ashley could feel multiple piercings throughout her body. Due to her extended life force and Shugotenshi replenishing the life force she was loosing right away Ashley was about effected by it as much as Zenos was. Looking back at him she noticed he was ripping his jacket off, and the wounds she caused where stitching up with metallic like wires. Jumping forward and spinning her body around to face him and get some distance between them, she noticed the number that was tattooed onto his left shoulder.
"1". Her eyes widened a bit with some shock but then realized that it didn't surprise her that much. No wonder Nanashi fell so easily spare the fact that he never got his Zanpakutou. Poor b*****d never had a chance, she saw this as a cowardly move, forbidding your opponent or victim a chance to fight back. But Arrancars never really had the sense of dignity did they? Certainly none that Ashley has experienced, they were always arrogant and blood thirsty. "So... You're the Primera..." She said closing her eyes, taking in the fact that she was facing the strongest of the Arrancar, strongest of The Espada. She took a long breath, revealing herself of all of those emotions that were controlling her awhile ago. Opening her eyes again at the Primera she felt a long sense of relief now that her thoughts have gathered back up and her heart stopped pacing. With that her breathing stopped being heavy, this fight was just getting started.
With every second the Primera wasted, Ashley's Shugotenshi was healing her little by little. With anyone else she used this technique on it would heal them a lot faster than herself. Reason was because she's using her own life force to heal with these tentacles. With them stabbed into herself, all eight of them are circulating her life force in and out of her body so that it would be easier for her to create more on it's own. Simply put, she was regenerating, in fact the wounds that she inflicted on herself started to slowly close up with every second. Ashley calmly lowered her Zanpakutou in her hand down by her waist. Looking at the exposed Primera, her eyes squinted into a glare. Her Shikai gave no offensive power to her, it was all defensive which won't help her very much against the Primera Espada. So she needed to resort to pure on her expert hand to hand combat abilities and swordplay. She had nothing like cero and yes she did have Kido, but it couldn't do much to him.
In an instant Ashley was right in front of the Primera with her right foot extended to kick him in the side of the head. Following up on her first attack she would continue spinning but drop down to kick him off his feet. Continuing her relentless attack Ashley pressed her body up with her hands and did a somersault kick to just under his chin to hopefully raise him off the ground a bit and give her time to finish with a drop kick to his abdomen. If this all worked out as she plans, she would jump back a few yards to maybe get some distance and see how he reacted or if she did any damage to him at all. She may not be able to slash him to pieces with her Zanpakutou, so hopefully brute force would do more damage to Zenos.
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 1:56 pm
240 ┏──────────────┓ xxΖenos Λthanasius xx[Immortal Stranger] xxxxαπό το έδαφος ┗──────────────┛ Primera Espada
Zenos thought it to be superfluous of the Shinigami to bother making a reaffirming statement about Zenos' rank. She had already seen his tattoo with her own eyes, so that should have been enough; he saw no need for meaningless words to be spoken. As a being of few expressed emotions and even fewer spoken words, Zenos responded to Ashley's ridiculous statement with a small, barely noticeable nod of his head. Watching with an indifferent expression set on his face, Zenos kept his gaze on Ashley as her foot attempted to connect with the side of his head.
As lackadaisically as possible, Zenos tipped his upper body back so that the bottom of her foot came within a centimeter of his nose. Following this, he followed her body's movements to track where she was going this time around, and as he noticed her foot coming around to kick his legs, he lifted his foot and brought it swiftly down on top of her ankle to both snap the bone and pin it to the ground in one quick move. Just as quickly as he had done so, he shifted his weight onto this ankle and brought his other foot to the pit of her stomach, using his frightening strength to deal heavy damage to it, as well as push her torso away while keeping her foot in place which, if successful, would cause her leg to pop out of socket. ...and thus the world is petrified. ►Translations◄[Bleh... crying ]
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II Palmtop Tiger II Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 3:30 pm
XA S H L E Y ★__________________XXXXXXXX - " I've touched the cold, dark fingers of 𝕯𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍... "┏━━━━━━━━━┓
► | こうきょ - じょしん| ◄
┗━━━━━━━━━┛ " So fragile yet so 𝖉𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖔𝖚𝖘 "XXXXXXXX_______________________XXXXXXXX ☠→→⋯ Nothing was going the way Ashley was planning, she was practically underestimating the Primera using only simple ideas that spark in her head as she moved on. As her first strike missed, she was shocked to see the Primera catch her leg judging by how fast it was moving. She could hear her ankle shatter, and the shock of it caused her to almost scream out but she did so with her mouth closed gritting her teeth, yet it could still be heard. She could see her foot bent in a way that it wasn't supposed to, which she's had worse, but the fact that he was pinning her down with his foot that caused even more pain. Ashley could feel the shards of bone ripping and stabbing through the muscles around her ankle, and she could not get free.
She noticed the Primera's other foot raising up, which wasn't good at all. He attempted to kick her square in the abdomen, but she caught it quickly before he could make contact. His foot was still pushing her top half up though, and she could feel her leg slowly parting from her pelvis. Just before her bone snapped out of the socket, she wrapped her arm around the Zenos' foot and raised her other hand towards his face. "Hado number 88! Hiryugekizokushintenraiho!!" Her elegant voice called out, the light blue shine covered her hand, she clenched onto the Arrancar's foot more as the "Flying Dragon-Striking Heaven-Shaking Thunder Cannon" was fired from her hand and directed straight to his face.
OOC:// Me too D;
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Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 3:48 pm
391 ┏──────────────┓ xxΖenos Λthanasius xx[Immortal Stranger] xxxxαπό το έδαφος ┗──────────────┛ Primera Espada
Now that she had successfully managed to catch his foot, a feat not all that amazing, Zenos surmised that she must be feeling pretty good about herself at this point given that rather than trying to push him off her ankle and finding a safe to hide or try to escape, she tried to attack him with yet another Kidō. Or perhaps she was just stupid. Regardless of the reason, the act made Zenos inwardly shake his head at her and then set himself for the counter-attack, this time getting a little more serious than before. As the light blue light shined at her palm, Zenos lifted his closest hand and placed it directly in the center of her palm, charging and releasing his very potent dull gray Cero at the same time her Kidō was released. Granted, his Cero did not have the same destructive power that her Kidō did, but it was not too much less and it was enough to quell the majority of the blast and redirected the rest of it onto his hand and arm, both of which sustained decent enough burns.
Just after he had released his Cero to counter her Kidō, his left hand flew to his back pocket where his fingers grasped his Zanpakutō's hilt. In one swift move, he pulled it from his pocket and brought it to her wrist to lop off her extended hand. Not only would it cut right through her wrist, but it also turn the wound to stone. His Αρχαία Γοργούς had a special power that was not a part of his Resurrección, which was that any wound the dagger made would instantly turn to stone. Unlike his other abilities that involved petrification, this stone would not be removed when his Resurrección was sealed, and would have to be removed with surgery. After finishing his swing, he pushed with his foot once more to continue popping her leg out of socket, then stepped off her ankle and vanished with a Sonído that put him to her front right, but facing the same direction she was. With a little spin into his body, Zenos whirled back and brought his left foot to her chest in a hard back kick to send her flying away, then pocketed his dagger as he turned to face her once more. ...and thus the world is petrified. ►Translations◄Αρχαία Γοργούς - Ancient Gorgon
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II Palmtop Tiger II Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 6:03 pm
XA S H L E Y ★__________________XXXXXXXX - " I've touched the cold, dark fingers of 𝕯𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍... "┏━━━━━━━━━┓
► | こうきょ - じょしん| ◄
┗━━━━━━━━━┛ " So fragile yet so 𝖉𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖔𝖚𝖘 "XXXXXXXX_______________________XXXXXXXX ☠→→⋯ Ashley growled a little big as the smoke caused by her Kido and Zenos' Cero completely covered the area around them. They could still see each other considering they were right in front of each other. Everything she was throwing at him, he just brushed it off. And yeah she was getting some hits on him, but they didn't seem to be doing any damage at all. Before she had more time to think, The Primera pulled out his zanpakutou, and in a blink of an eye, her hand was gone. The wound also closed up with some kind of stone, making it obvious that it wasn't going to be easy to regenerate it back if it was even a possibility. He pressed against her with his foot again, and since she wasn't pushing back at the time her leg snapped out of the socket making it completely numb and unusable now. Her eyes widened with shock by everything that was happening, and before she could do anything about it, the Primera was already off her ankle and to her right kicking her deep in the chest. Her body was thrown back by the force and hitting the ground causing explosions of rock and dirt cover the trail from which she impacted the ground.
Nothing was coming back from her as the smoke began to clear. Until finally when visual of her was almost clear, Ashley started to get up using only her right arm and left foot she had left to use. She was looking at the ground trying to breathe, she was a bloody mess and it felt like her lungs were collapsing. She lifted her Zanpakutou the was stabbed into the ground to help her up, and pointed it towards Zenos who was about a hundred feet away. "Bankai..." She started between breaths. "Munashii Senjinnotani..." In that instant the ground around her in a six feet radius disintegrated and the entire ground turned into a massive blight, when someone steps upon these grounds they would feel naucious and sever a massive headache. The life taken from the ground was given to her but could not regenerate any missing parts. She grabbed her leg and popped it back into the socket giving off a loud snapping noise, the bone shattered in her ankle healed back and she snapped that back into place with the same noise being given off. She may not have her left hand still but she didn't need it.
Giving one last breath Ashley was suddenly gone in an instant, she appeared high above Zenos with her arm back to swipe her hand without her zanpakutou. "Kurokemuri Sazanami!" She called out as her hand swiped towards Zenos' direction. Thick black smoke would cover the sky above Zenos, it moved fairly quickly at him. Anything that touches the smoke would suck the very life out of it to the point that whatever touches it will subject to nothing but dust in the wind. Her zanpakutou would be spiraling towards Zenos faster than a bullet from where she used to stand when she summoned her bankai.
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:46 pm
667 ┏──────────────┓ xxΖenos Λthanasius xx[Immortal Stranger] xxxxαπό το έδαφος ┗──────────────┛ Primera Espada
Zenos looked on indifferently as he saw that Ashley had taken to point her blade in his direction and uttered the word 'Bankai', and this indifference remained as he felt the power shift that was created when she utilized that form of her Zanpakutō. His hands had already returned to his pockets by the time she had started healing herself, which indicated he was still not treating her like a real threat to his own existence. He glanced upward when he felt her reappear above him and watched on as she spoke a command and emitted a black smoke form her palm that she sent towards him with a wave of her hand. It was one thing to deflect or repel physical attacks, which was an easy task for Zenos, but it was another to return or do away with something like smoke. If it had been anyone else with his powers, they might have been unable to avoid this attack, but fortunately for Zenos, he was quite bright and knew how to get rid of such things without too much of a problem. Undoing the seal he had placed upon his own body, he released the full might of his Reiatsu upon the surrounding area, causing a pillar of metallic silver Reiryoku to amass around his body and shoot towards the sky, pushing the smoke away from his body and into the atmosphere.
With the release of his debilitating Reiatsu came the special effect that tagged along, which was that it felt like dust that filled the air to choke and gag all those who breathed it in while around him. Without sparing her flying Zanpakutō a glance, his hand shot from his pocket and snatched the blade out of the air yet again, catching it by the tip between the length of his index and middle fingers. Putting his free hand to his forehead, Zenos slicked his hair back, an act which did absolutely nothing as his hair quickly fell right back into place, and then moved it to the base of the blade, just above the habaki where he put his thumb underneath the blade and rested his index and middle fingers on the top. With a simple twist of his hand, he was able to snap the blade clean off and separate it from the tsuka, which dropped to the ground with a clatter. Zenos released the blade for an instant, adding a bit of spin to his release so that the blade flipped over, allowing him to catch it by the broken end between his fingers just as before, and then pulled it into his grip.
Vanishing on the spot, Zenos seemingly teleported to Ashley's location and his arm appeared to disappear as he thrust the broken blade toward her gut and released it on contact as he had no use for the broken blade to begin with. Pulling his hand back, he curled his hand into a fist while keeping his index finger extended, then snapped his arm forward to stab his finger into her body with ease. Following this, he repeated the process many times over in short amount of time, his goal to fill her torso with holes. Drawing his hand away, Zenos bent down on his right leg, took his left foot and slid it behind Ashley's left leg, then pulled his leg towards his own body, aiming to catch Ashley's leg and trip her. Simultaneously, he brought his extended arm and brought it down upon her neck. The two actions coupled together had the sole purpose of throwing her balance off and knocking her to the ground in both a fluid and powerful way. After he was to connect, he vanished and appeared to her back with his left leg planted firmly on the empty air as he arced his right over his head to connect with her back to knock her away and possibly cause enough damage to her body due to the force of impact. ...and thus the world is petrified. ►Translations◄[._.]
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II Palmtop Tiger II Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 1:53 pm
XA S H L E Y ★__________________XXXXXXXX - " I've touched the cold, dark fingers of 𝕯𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍... "┏━━━━━━━━━┓
► | こうきょ - じょしん| ◄
┗━━━━━━━━━┛ " So fragile yet so 𝖉𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖔𝖚𝖘 "XXXXXXXX_______________________XXXXXXXX ☠→→⋯ What the hell is he... The thought ran through Ashley's head as she watched the blood drip from her own blade to the ground below. The blade of the zanpakutou ran through her abdomen and pierced out of her back. She held her posture as the Primera jumped back, her back arched up and her head facing towards the ground. Her hand slowly raised up to the blade, and she started to slowly pull it out of her abdomen. The pain was intense, but she was more insulted than hurt due to the fact that it was her own zanpakutou she was stabbed with. When the tip of the blade left her body, she dropped it to the ground with it stabbing into it without another movement. Just as she looked up the Primera was already back in front of her, before she could react Zenos was stabbing into her body with his index finger. Each jab pushed her back from the force like a rag doll with her eyes widened from the shock. When he stopped she started to fall to the ground, but he caught her leg, faced her towards the ground, and his heel smashed into her back sending her body into the ground with a cloud of dust and dirt covering radiating off of the crater that was created.
She lied there, at the bottom of the crater, for moments that seemed like hours. Her head slowly moved over to the right seeing the handle of what was her zanpakutou. Her bloody hand staggered over to it and wrapped her fingers around it. She didn't need her blade, right now she needed to keep moving. There was a pool of blood around her back and abdomen as she lied there looking up at the smoke all around her. Anyone else would be either dead or unable to move right now, but now with the extended life force that she possessed. Almost forcing it she got up slowly, just as she stood up, the clouds of dirt and rock still covering her image, the area where the blade of her zanpakutou should be was replaced by a thin line of black smoke that resembled a blade. Radiating off it was the thin smoke that causes aging to occur. The tip of the blade touched the side of the crater and sliced through it without any effort whatsoever.
Ashley raised her sword straight forward and swiped it to the right. The cloud of dirt, dust, and rock was then instantly replaced by a larger cloud of black smoke which made the crater become a bigger hole in the ground. The cloud began to fan out, and open like a giant mouth, but Ashley was still completely covered. The smoke raised up, and the open portion started to surround Zenos, taking shape into a giant skull and giving out a loud screeching noise that would make anyone nearby deaf. Ashley's eyes started to bleed black due to all the smoke being created. The cloud of smoke covered half a mile in circumference and the screeching skull would, without warning, start to close it's mouth at a very fast speed ending it's elongated scream.
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Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 11:25 pm
745 ┏──────────────┓ xxΖenos Λthanasius xx[Immortal Stranger] xxxxαπό το έδαφος ┗──────────────┛ Primera Espada
As Zenos looked on at Ashley while she released yet another cloud of the black smoke, he quickly decided that he was ready to end this. He was going to kill her, then take both her and the other Shinigami back to the Soul Society, strictly as a warning- to say to them "This is what I am capable of. Be aware of my existence and fear it." As the smoke neared him, Zenos swayed forward, bending slightly at his waist before drawing both of his hands from his pockets and promptly vanishing from sight, only to dive head first through the cloud of smoke while using his massive Reiatsu to stave off the cloud from his body. He reached Ashley's fallen form in no time flat, dropping towards her like a stone while drawing his fist back, and once he landed on the ground next to her, splintering it where his feet hit, he drove his fist towards the pit of her stomach, while creating a shock wave from the point of his punch's release. On contact, his punch held the destructive power to heavily debilitate her, if not kill her right away, and also to crater the earth beneath her body in the culminating follow-up force.
Getting to his feet, he glanced to the side and saw that his right arm was deteriorating quickly, and it was already gone up to his elbow. It appeared to him that he had gotten hit by the smoke, despite his efforts to drive it away. His pain threshold had prevented him from noticing right away, but it was no concern to him. To remedy this issue, he gripped the top of his arm with his left hand, and ripped the rest of his arm right off his with a sickening noise that filled the air. It was of no consequence to him, not in the slightest, as his Iron Regeneration would rebuild his arm in no time at all. In fact, a few seconds had passed while he tossed his arm onto the ground below, and iron whiskers had already started creeping out of the wound and whipping around while reforming his arm. Cracking his neck with a roll to the side, Zenos kept a keen ear on Ashley, waiting to hear her last breath before she died. While he waited for his arm to reform, Zenos whisked himself away to the stones that he had knocked over and stood in the middle of them.
Zenos was distant, not an a*****e, so he felt slightly bad about destroying this monument, and seeing as how stone was his area of expertise, he could fix it. A minute or two passed and his arm was brand new once more. Now, with no movements or words being spoken, or even a draw of the dagger in his back pocket, he entered his Resurrección form and recalled the state of the area before he had destroyed most of it. Upon releasing, his priorly dull grey arm, as a result of it being regrown, turned back to normal, as did the gray scars left behind from his wounds he had sustained. Lifting both of his hands, he reduced each rock to a fine sand, causing the slab holding Nanashi's Zanpakutō to spit it out onto the ground. Then, directing it with his hands, he manipulated the sand to rebuild each stone from memory, which his was somewhat frightening. Once this task was completed, he moved each slab to it's rightful place, then extended a finger and shot each sand slab with a beam of light that instantly turned it back into stone. He could do nothing about the vegetation, however, as his abilities did not govern plants. However, he could at least pull up the craters he had caused by loosening up the dirt within and fluffing it back up to flat ground. Once all was normal in his eyes, save the crater where Ashley was, Zenos ambled over to Nanashi's Zanpakutō, picked it up, and brought it to the captain, slipping it into his hakama where it belonged. he did something similar for Ashley, though for now he only retrieved her broken blade, and repaired it with makeshift forging technique. It wasn't perfect, but he didn't care. Once he was done, he dropped the repaired katana onto her stomach and stared down at her as he returned to his sealed state with the same lack of words as before. ...and thus the world is petrified. ►Translations◄[FALCON PUNCH! scream ]
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II Palmtop Tiger II Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:01 pm
XA S H L E Y ★__________________XXXXXXXX - " I've touched the cold, dark fingers of 𝕯𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍... "┏━━━━━━━━━┓
► | こうきょ - じょしん| ◄
┗━━━━━━━━━┛ " So fragile yet so 𝖉𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖔𝖚𝖘 "XXXXXXXX_______________________XXXXXXXX ☠→→⋯ Ashley's eyes slanted a bit and she showed for teeth in a flinching like motion, she was actually giving off a small smile as it looked like she got the Primera. Her body was starting to feel the effects of her multiple stab wounds in her abdomen. More tears of black blood ran down her cheek, along with the taste of blood in her mouth. Suddenly Zenos was right in front of her, the shock in her eyes gave off the astonishment from the sight of seeing him still alive. Without skipping a beat Zenos drove his fist once again into her abdomen, but due to the multiple stab wounds he gave to her previously, his fist was forced straight through her body and out of her back. Ashley bent over his arm and vomited blood all around their feet. Her posture remained over his arm until he left her to die in her place.
Without paying any attention to where Zenos left to, Ashley took a few steps forward holding her stomach over the hole the was made. Her eyes became hollow, and she started coughing, each cough made more blood come up and run down the corners of her mouth, which met the black tears she had from using so much power all at once. Her eyes closed little by little as she made her way out of the crater. At the edge of the crater she had to use her hands to prop herself up, but even that little bit of work took three times more effort than usual. That's when Ashley's legs gave out. She fell to her knees, holding her stomach again to stop as much bleeding as her hands were able. Her body started to fall forward and she was forced to have her arms leave her wound and catch herself up. Doing so made blood rush up her esophagus causing her to start choking. The blood finally came out and spilled onto the ground, her vision started to fade, and her body went limp and fell to the side.
She rolled onto her back to look up at the night sky, her hollowed eyes didn't move and remained open. She slowly turned her head over to see something she almost wished she didn't. Laying on the ground just a few feet away, was the teddy bear Nanashi-Taichou gave her before leaving the Seireitei. Her eyes closed a little more as nothing but the feeling of sorrow filled her head. Next thing she knew her own Zanpakutou was lied on her stomach, She winced a little bit from the pain of the katana hitting her wound. Zenos was the last thing she saw, before her vision blurred up and everything became black...
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