This is an area within the Valley of Screams where Blanks tend to congregate. No one knows for sure why this particular area seems to attract Blanks more, but it's a place for those who want to observe them... if they can travel here.
Posted: Thu May 28, 2020 5:30 pm
Ryuuka"D."Kyuubi
Upon leaving the Hunters Camp after her targets had fled. The berserk fox demon of a Hollow came upon this strange place in the middle of nowhere, well, nowhere being Northweald. It was strange as despite there being no prey in sight, something had drawn her to this place... and then it made itself abundantly clear. A larger crystal which was fragmenting petals and glowing dim as it's power waned. A remnant of a cycle long past that kept finding its way to those who were worthy. A Jokaisho Shard. It was then that Ryuuka reached out to touch it. Curiosity had overwhelmed her as it began to break down the barrier between Shinigami and Hollow. Purity and Unhallowed. She was becoming an Arrancar.
Her old Hollow form broke away like a shell and a more human-like Ryuuka stepped out of the remnants before dusting herself off. "Well well...Seems this little hole in the wall of spectral space has some secrets after all?", The newly minted Arrancar chuckled as she looked at the ground. Her Zanpakuto lay at her feet, and so she picked it up and affixed the blade to her hip. Now all that remained was to wait for Dead Eye to show himself so they could continue their path of destruction by eliminating this zone and anything that might have witnessed Ryuuka's transformation. She was keen on keeping the path to power a closely guarded secret, especially now since she knew what was needed to birth the Hollow race into a bright and shining empire once more.
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For a time the two hollows had split ways in the Valley of Screams after "The Hunter" driven to the very brink of her existence burning her very life force in exchange for power only to have her very essence crushed by a monstrous hand. As for "The Handler" that was the very reason for the split Dead Eye hunting down the woman who dared to scattered his pets ashes to the wind. Sure Black Bastion would recover in time as he always did the scraps of his meager existence reforming once more beneath the sands of Hueco Mundo, but the slight still stood. Prowling through the valley he could find hide nor hair of the blasted woman the trail of her escape just ending suddenly.
Growling he gazed around the immediate away his long tail swishing side to side in anger. Something caught his eye amidst some rubble it seems "The Handler" had left behind a bag in her escape. Prodding at it with the tip of his barrel just in case a trap had been laid upon it he eventually relented when he was certain it was safe. Yanking the bag up in his good hand he dumped the contents of the bag out onto the ground.The first thing to catch his eye was a strange scope made of strange materials much like what the two women had worn he immediately picked it up he could have use for it, but beyond that a strange shard tumbled at his feet. It looked much like the shard "The Hunter" had used for the burst of strength. Cocking his head to the side he bent down low to the ground scoping the shard up in his hand. Holding it up he looked at it curiously.
A rush of energy suddenly flowed through him his body wracked with such intense pain. Still clutching the shard in hand he dropped to his knees a soundless roar upon his lips. The energies of the Jokaisho Shard was forcibly evolving his body first into that of an Adjuchas, and then his body began to shrink in upon itself till he looked almost human covered in bone armor, the barrel of his siege arm extended out even longer as in mere moments he achieved the form of a Vasto Lorde. Still the shard continued working his body into an even further manifestation. Clawing at his hollow mask a sudden boom echoed throughout the valley the quickness of such rapid evolution finally catching up. An explosion of raw energy rushed outwards with such force it flattened everything around him. As the dust settled the hollow known as Dead Eye was no more instead stepping out with long black horns rising up from a mane of fiery hair the remnants of his broken hollow mask was the Arrancar known as Hadrian Garandger.
Closing his eyes he focused reaches his senses out all around him extending them further, and further until a similar pressure made itself known, but much like his own was radically changed seems he was not the only one who had made the evolution into Arrancar. Picking up his zanpakuto a short barreled rifle the grip fitting snugly in hand keeping a hold of it he began to move even in this new state he could still feel the uniqueness of his muscular structure. With a grin he kicked off the ground rocketing forward as if shot from a cannon. "Ah so this is where you ended up.....seems you were not the only one who found something to their delight" landing on the ground near Ryuuka he came to a sliding stop a big toothy grin on his face. Standing up straight he looked down on his fellow arrancar taking in the sight of her new form. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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〖Word Count: 632*3= 1896+14= 1910〗
〖Servant's Word Count:92*1.7= 157+223+686+290+483+663= 2,502〗
Ryuuka looked over what used to be Dead Eye, and tilted her head before a smirk graced her lips. The Arrancar seemed intrigued by the way that his mask fragments had formed before she reached up to touch her own that covered part of her face. It was a reminder that even now, as she felt perfect in her ascension, that she came from ruin and despair. "Yes, and now it is abundantly clear how the Arrancar in Las Noches came to be. We need to find more of these crystals and to build an army.", she said with a furrowed brow. "We need to build a force to protect our existence. The Shinigami would desire to send us to live as peasants in their Soul Society... but I reject that!", Ryuuka then growled in an elevated voice of anger before she aimed a hand out to the Blanks swarming mindlessly in the Valley below. She then halted her hand as she might have been preparing to fire a Cero.
In the moments she had been building up the energy to blast the pathetic souls below her, Ryuuka saw a fragment of herself. Crawling around, hungry for meaning, suffering from the agony of emptiness. Had this transformation given her a measure of compassion? No, but it did make her more pragmatic. "Though, before we burn this place to the ground...Let us investigate these creatures and see if they can be of some use? I'm going to be honest... It'd be a little over the top to just mass murder everyone. But! We can leave our mark.", she said as the foxy Arrancar then turned and aimed her hand away from the Blanks to burn and blast a huge chunk into the expended Jokaisho cluster. It was better to destroy the evidence that this place could likely harbor the secret to evolutionary change before anyone else but the two of them knew and capitalized on it.
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Hadrian raised an eyebrow as he watched Ryuuka there was certainly a change that had come upon her that was more then just physical, and in terms of power. He would not deny it he could feel a change within himself the act of removing the mask of taking a step towards evolution he felt less like a beast, though the thought made him chuckle as even in what fragments he could remember there had always been something bestial to his nature. Though compared when he had been just a hollow that nature felt far more tempered by rational thinking. Peering around he shrugged his shoulders stepping up on a point of elevation as he looked out across the land within the valley. "Perhaps you are right Ryuuka perhaps be learning more of these pitiful creatures we can learn more on what transpired with our own evolution....so we can as you say build an army." Hadrian relished the thought of an army to once again hear the marching of legions off to war.
"Though..." He starts to speak as his hawk like gaze scans the horizon. "Is it just me....or after all is said and done do I feel a bit more powerful then you." He cocks his head back to look at her a wide toothy smirk spread across his features. "Not that it matters...I stuck with you this long I'm not about to betray you over such a thing....I would make a poor soldier other wise." [/color] Bring his Zanpakuto to bare he jumped up to an even higher point of elevation. Taking a deep breath he aimed down the sights his body relaxing for, but just a moment as he pulled the trigger decisively. A rain of bone bolts fired from the barrel of his zanpakuto Hadrian taking quick aim of each target before firing one after the other in rapid succession. All around them the bolts blasted into large rock structures, spent shard clusters, and the strange trees that stretched out above them. The bolts while smaller then when he was a hollow packed for more of a punch leaving nothing but destruction in their wake as Hadrian made sure to leave the pitiful blanks alone. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
╔═════════════════════════════════════╗ ⊕SPD 10 | STR 196 | DEF 94 | STA 30 | INT 5 | SP 20 ⊕ ╚═════════════════════════════════════╝
"I don't expect loyalty, just cooperation. We're working toward the same end anyway...Preservation, survival, and evolution. Dead Eye seems so...unsuitable for you? What shall I call you now? My name in life was Ryuuka... and that is how I prefer to be named now.", she remarked as the nine-tailed fox Arrancar fanned her tails out and bala began to fire in a rapid storm, blowing away the remnants of the Jokai Crystal. Even amidst the chaos of their destruction, the concept of a name seemed trivial compared to how they never really bothered with such since joining together in becoming the team of destructive agents they had been. It seemed this transformation had allowed Ryuuka to think about things beyond just killing and destroying. It was an elevated existence.
"Besides, we are going to eventually return to Hueco Mundo, and those who witness our transformation will either seek to join us, or they will serve us as the mindless monsters they choose to remain. Ultimately...We are the pinnacle. Anything less is just inferior and by divine right, ours to command.", Ryuuka finished stating as she seemed rather pleased with the destruction caused here.
Certainly this had roused Blanks to their intrusion into this dimension, but hopefully the pink-headed ghosts knew better than to approach their superiors. The foxy Arrancar saw this realm as just a potential annex of Hueco Mundo. A place of forgotten souls as opposed to the realm of corrupted souls that they hailed from. Ryuuka then turned toward the Stonehenge Circle in the distance. With a finger extended outward, she pointed to it. "Let us go examine that place.", she said as if they might find something or somebody of use there. Clearly it was a construct of sorts. Something had to have made it at the very least.
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A name yes he had one once so long ago he had almost forgotten it until Ryuuka had mentioned it. Thinking on it more he settled down sitting upon his snipers perch the air rumbling with the sounds of far of explosions that was like sweet music to his ears. Still he needed to concentrate as he blocked out the noises so many names came to mind lifetimes worth mixing in a sea of the weak. Diving in deep cutting through the distractions he reached deep inside of himself for that which had always been his since times of antiquity. Yes there was his name or at least a part of it, and another stood out the two encapsulating who he was so completely no other name would have fit him except that one. Standing up he smiled stepping off the perch as he fell down through the air. Landing before the Fox he straightened up light glinting off his horns.
"You may call me Hadrian, Hadrian Garandger."
Speaking the name out loud made him stand up all the straighter a sense of euphoria rushing through him at the utterance of who he was. This was something he had been seeking for so long that which he had lost so many eons ago when he feel into the darkness of his own soul."Yes that is my name, and my enemies will grow to fear it again too frighten to even let it grace their trembling lips.....they will know only horror as they realize the futility of rising arms against such a name." He breathes in deep a shudder running through his body a fire burning in his eyes. "Oh by the vengeful Mars.....I shall reach new heights of violence....my very existence is now a weapon of war the pinnacle of it's existence....like Mars himself I shall be to the mortals like an avenging god reigning death from on high." Resting his zanpakuto upon his shoulders he looked down at Ryuuka. "Now let's go see those lovely stones of yours."
[Exits to Stonehedge Circle] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
╔═════════════════════════════════════╗ ⊕SPD 10 | STR 196 | DEF 94 | STA 30 | INT 5 | SP 20 ⊕ ╚═════════════════════════════════════╝
Upon leaving the Hunters Camp after her targets had fled. The berserk fox demon of a Hollow came upon this strange place in the middle of nowhere, well, nowhere being Northweald. It was strange as despite there being no prey in sight, something had drawn her to this place... and then it made itself abundantly clear. A larger crystal which was fragmenting petals and glowing dim as it's power waned. A remnant of a cycle long past that kept finding its way to those who were worthy. A Jokaisho Shard. It was then that Ryuuka reached out to touch it. Curiosity had overwhelmed her as it began to break down the barrier between Shinigami and Hollow. Purity and Unhallowed. She was becoming an Arrancar.
