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Continuing to slaughter, kill, take. Life is to constantly sin. Life is evil itself.
nezuel
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Post by nezuel on Sept 20, 2022 18:18:13 GMT -5
Reinforcing the Enemy
Type: PvE - Unique
Level: 1.
Description: While on a training exercise to the human world, several academy students and their instructors were ambushed by a large amount of non-menos hollows. While their numbers arn't much of an issue for tried and true shinigami, the tactics they use seem to suggest they fall under the control of a higher intelligence. Investigate the area and try to determine what is causing the hollows to be more organized. If possible, buy time for the shinigami to finish their retreat to Soul Society.
Nezuel saw them, tiny flames out in the darkness of this world. They were red, these souls, tied to one another by red ribbons that signified their connections to one another. Even as he looked on a black flame moved to one of the red, enveloping it and devouring it as the strings that once connected it to the others constricted upon themselves and quivered in fear...no, not fear. It was grief, he realized as he opened his eyes. For how long had he been here, killing and waiting for the hollows that always came for him...but they hadn't come for quite some time. He'd taken the chance to catch up on sleep, train himself, recover and figure out his next move...until he sensed them. Hollows coming out of kumon, many of them...and something more. They wern't hunting him, he realized...but a type of being he hadn't interacted with in quite some time...a shinigami. He moved then, kido and a rift in time and space letting him move to the location he felt them congregating quickly before anymore souls were snuffed out. He perched on a nearby rock as he observed the shinigami trapped in a human quarry, hollows surrounding them...quite a few but not an insurmountable amount...still while some of the shinigami wore the black robes of the soul reapers a few of them didn't, instead wearing an odd white outfit with either red or blue bottom and accents. One of the ones in white and red held up her hand and shouting something. The arrancar could feel the power form around her, the familiar energy spilling as she used an incantation, Kido. Yet the spell fizziled as she was unable to complete the spell, fumbling over the words as a hollow came closer. Inexperienced...a student? A black robed shinigami stopped the hollow and saved the woman...a guard perhaps? Looking around, he could see the other...students, doing likewise with clumsy swings and dodges. Ah...so practical experience, dangerous but he could appreciate the effort. Still...as his eyes moved up to the top of the quarry he noticed the sight there....and looking back down he could tell that the shinigami below didn't notice what else was coming for them. The enemies infront of them, it seemed, were simply a distraction. |
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Post by Lazarus Jeager on Sept 20, 2022 18:52:49 GMT -5
Lazarus would be getting out of work for the day, arms stretched over head, a yawn escaping him for what seemed the thousandth time today. He had found himself a good convenience store to get some quick grub at, opting to eat outside for once instead of bringing it into the library he frequented. The meal went down easy, but just as he was to go into the library and study up on the world, his phone vibrated in his pocket. With a raised brow he pulled it out and checked, groaning at what he found. There was to be an expedition to the human realm by the shinigami, something they often did with the rookies in training, and he was to go and keep an eye on things. apparently these little events had a habit of attracting less than stellar individuals of the hollow variety, and it was his job to babysit in case such a thing occurred.
A handful of minutes went by as he passed through the sky, going to the location in question, some sort of ravine or quarry to be specific. He'd keep his reiatsu suppressed to that of a normal human, landing and continuing at a brisk walk once he was within a hundred or so feet of the place. Keeping his senses open, Lazarus would feel out to see what might be going on, the feeling of a mass of shinigami souls causing him roll his eyes at the discovery. There would be a grouping of taller rocks that he would use as cover for the time being, eyes widening as he got closer and noticed the hollows surrounding the group. Either the shinigami had pissed off some other god, or the hollow were getting smarter in their attacks, whatever the case was, this looked calculated.
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Post by gran on Sept 21, 2022 22:17:02 GMT -5
Gran had been awoken abruptly from his peaceful dream by a cry of pain from somewhere. The arrancar looked around with panic in his eyes, thinking he was being attacked again, but quickly calmed when he realized it wasn't in this realm.
It was coming from the human world...
...Oh god, he was panicking again. He sensed Nez and Milo close to the area already, then felt a bunch of unfamilar souls, and then...the hollows.
Gran's memory of being one was essentially blank, but he did remember one thing and one thing alone. He remembered the feeling of being used and the feeling of loneliness. But...but this felt different, off even.
The arrancar moved up from where he was resting to open up a portal to the area in his senses. He emerged behind a tree near the quarry, making an attempt to supress his reiatsu--but people more experienced than him could tell it was a shoddy attempt at hiding himself.
He could see the formation of the hollows and feel the faint connection each had to someone or something, though when he arrived. He could feel it.
He was still afraid, although he did sense those that he recongized...
But who was controlling these hollows?
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I have nothing to say.
Milo
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Post by Milo on Sept 25, 2022 16:20:33 GMT -5
Milo had been exploring her new surroundings, eyes alight with childlike curiosity as she tried to figure out where exactly she was. Having been able to explore more of the world of the living had been insightful and even breath taking at the wonderful sights she was able to admire and keep to herself. Perhaps spending her time alone was helping her grow comfortable with herself.
While she knelt down to take a closer inspection of the delicate flowers before her, she felt a familiar reiatsu nearby. Her lavender locks flowed with her movement as she took a careful step away from the plant and quickly moved to where she could get closer to the reiatsu's source. As she got closer she abruptly stopped as she sensed a group of different radiating reiatsu sources that were unfamiliar to the arrancar. She felt tense as she tried to hide her own radiating source and move away from the nearby group that were most likely fighting a hollow.
As Milo tried to assess the situation from a safer vantage point, she managed to bump into something...or someone(?), resulting in her squeaking in surprise. The arrancar could only look up and almost felt her very life almost leave from her body.
"Nezuel???"
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Better Vamoose Outta Here
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Post by vance on Sept 26, 2022 13:16:40 GMT -5
NPC POST
The hollow scratched at the smaller hollow's small shaggy mane of hair as she finished stepping to the human world. She held up a hand as the light made flares dance across her vision, unused to the sun for the better part of a century if not longer. She, like the ones who had banded together, hiding in the furthest pockets of Hueco Mundo had been doing what many of the threats of the world had been up to in recent years, biding their time for the right moment.
The moment had come in a storm of shinigami actions, and had given her and her brethren an opening to carry out a plan they had been working on for the time they had been hiding. She, and her friends were not so useless they had to beg some non-hollow to tear their masks off. They were true power, true might, and not dick-riding some blue eyed bitch, as her friends had nicknamed the self-proclaimed queen.
She pulled a small item and with a single word of power, hollow began pouring into the world. The hollow had a target in mind, more specifically a few targets she was supposed to come back with and the poor little academy students would make the perfect cover. The hollow began converging on them in a terrifying assault of violence, the otherworldly bellow of the hollow, and terror.
As the hollow continued their assault, they were more prone to focus, surrounding the two teachers that had come with the students to block them off as the hollow seemed to focus on taking the asudachi that the academy students had.
The hollow, feminine in appearance, bearing a hunter's mask, and having a more humanoid appearance and what looked like a uniform over her body and a bone protruding outwards from her right arm, that would probably have gotten in the way normally once again scratched the boar-like hollow next to her. "Relax, once we get what we need I'll let you consume as many souls as you like." She told it and it snorted in something like approval.
She directed the hollow to continue their assault at a safe distance, hiding her power as she did so and humming some long forgotten tune.
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Continuing to slaughter, kill, take. Life is to constantly sin. Life is evil itself.
nezuel
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Post by nezuel on Sept 26, 2022 14:46:28 GMT -5
Nezuel's eyes continued to look down at the multitude of hollows as they approached the shinigami. Any subtly was thrown out the window, any sense of stealth given away to rage and hunger. Not that long ago he had counted himself one such being, how far had his own kind fallen to be such....how long had they not eaten? He supposed he couldn't blame them for their wants, their desires....the need they felt, but it still left an unpleasant taste in his mouth.
He turned as someone said, or perhaps shouted, his name. He was pleasantly surprised to see Milo of all people there, the newer arrancar he had trained and taken upon himself. He glanced back at the battle, trying to see if anyone noticed but it didn't seem like it, so he had some time. "Milo?" he'd ask, getting up and moving towards her. His hand came down ontop of her head once, twice, as he gave her a small pat. "Its good to see you but...nows not the best time, perhaps we can talk once we figure out what we're going to do here? I'm thinking of helping these shinigami against these hollows."
The teachers were surrounded, it seemed, and the other hollows weren't simply massacring the students but...waiting for something, perhaps looking for something? Whatever it was he had a choice to make, try to save the teachers or the students. All in all if he managed to help the teachers they may be able to help their charges...but it was likely that the older shinigami would hold more a grudge against his kind. Then again if the teachers were killed what hope did the students have of retreating safely?
With a sigh Nezuel gave Milo a wink before he used sonido to move towards the fighting. Appearing behind the hollows that surrounded the teachers and sending out rays of electricity at the hollows. The kido would wrap and warp with each beam, spreading out like a spider's web as the riatsu and reishi from the enemy hollows were absorbed by the arrancar, a combination of Hado 4 and 70.
With a few of the hollows taken care of he looked at the teachers. "I'm here to help you...how can I assist?"
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Post by Lazarus Jeager on Sept 26, 2022 15:25:13 GMT -5
It was starting to feel like Lazarus was some how bound to find himself in some form of trouble or another with Nezuel, because much to his own surprise, there the arrancar was, getting involved. He picked up on a number of other arrancar like reiatsu, not entirely sure if they were working with or against the group attacking the shinigami. While he wanted to help out immediately, his position would be compromised if he just went and started firing arrows or spells at the beasts aimlessly.
Keeping his presence hidden both in sense and sight, Lazarus would grit his teeth, a sigh escaping from behind them as he scratched his head. There was the chance that Nezuel couldn't hand a bunch of hollows by himself, but he needed to figure out what was really going on here, and that might require waiting for the ring leader to make an appearance. Peering out from behind the rocks he took cover at, his eyes scanned the sky for anything that might look more human than these hollows, squinting against the sun's rays. For the time being he'd have to let Nezuel be bait, not something he wanted to do, but for the sake of finding a more permanent solution it was what he needed to do.
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Post by gran on Oct 10, 2022 15:32:19 GMT -5
Gran's narrow eyes widened at the sight of Nezuel walking out into the crowd of shingami, a trembling arm reaching up to reach out to the arrancar. As if he was saying to stop, to not put himself in harm's way, to say that he could put himself in harm's way instead. But his body wouldn't, couldn't even, move. He still trembled as his arm lowered and he quieted, breaking his act of hiding himself. Now if anyone wanted to, he could be sensed and found out--but Gran wasn't thinking about that. He could still sense Milo, Laz and Nez--and he was scared. He didn't want them to get hurt, not here! He didn't wan't them to fall and get killed by either enemy, not here! He wanted to help, but he couldn't get his body to move.
"Nez..! Please, don't, please!" Gran's words almost died upon leaving his mouth, but were loud enough that the words could be heard by whoever chose to hear them. Gran was too weak to stand up to anyone else here most likely, but he still wanted his friends and the people he at least knew to be safe.
But as sudden as the outburst was, Gran's heart froze shut again as Nez ignored him, moving forward...
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I have nothing to say.
Milo
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Post by Milo on Oct 11, 2022 20:33:44 GMT -5
The lavender haired arrancar flushed at the immediate contact of Nezuel's hand rested and pat her head, a gentle reminder of one of many reasons why she cherished him...even if she wasn't to be the one to catch his attention. Milo shook her head gently as his hand moved away from the top of her head, her attention on Nezuel as he spoke.
"Well...if you think they need the help, then I will try and get an opening ready for them to escape." She softly offered, an open suggestion if any.
As Nezuel immediately left to help the shinigami and the students, Milo immediately used sonido to quickly find a safe escape route. Her reiatsu somewhat tangible with her usage of sonido, but she had faith in her speed and flexibility to escape whatever tried to give chase. As she sped around focused on trying to find an opening in the enemy's ranks, she immediately stopped as she felt a very familiar reiatsu flared up in an all familiar anxiety ridden being.
"Gran...!"
Milo turned away from her plans and rushed to be beside the white haired arrancar, her cherished and precious arrancar she had kept to herself. The closer she got to the other, the more her worry rose at feeling the poor man's fear. As soon as she caught sight of a familiar horn and figure, she immediately launched herself onto the taller male and wrapped her arms around him. The force of their collision made them hit the ground, a good way to keep the white haired male hidden from whatever may have seen him.
"Gran! It's so good to see you safe!" Milo worriedly whispered in a breathless mess as she nuzzled into the crook of his neck. "Don't be afraid, you'll be safe ok?"
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Better Vamoose Outta Here
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Post by vance on Oct 11, 2022 22:40:47 GMT -5
The hollow made a sound of annoyance as the Queen's little failed experiments got in the way of her attacks. The boar hollow looked up at her as she was thinking and she nodded at it. It was not really a good thing that the shinigami and the arrancar seemed to be on good terms. She would have thought that there was some hollow pride left in the Queens rejects, but alas, go searching for other power and become a moron, so the saying goes.
She sighed and directed another few hollow to staunch up the others as she looked down at the boar that snorted at her. "Oh, don't you get testy now too." She said as she resumed thinking. The others certainly would not like that the Queen and her S and M pets were now allied with Soul Society for whatever reason. The odd part was that she could also sense a Quincy, weren't they supposed to be lost? She let that stew as she looked at the bone protrusion on her arm.
The hollow, continued their coordinated effort to push the Arrancar away from the main group of students, so that the more stealthy hollow could steal the asudachi that the hollow had been after.
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Continuing to slaughter, kill, take. Life is to constantly sin. Life is evil itself.
nezuel
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Post by nezuel on Oct 13, 2022 13:30:49 GMT -5
Nezuel was being kept away from the shinigami, stopping him from talking with and perhaps explaining to the soul reapers why he was there. He wasn't sure what the shinigami would take away from the exchange between him and the other hollows but at the very least they should be able to figure that there were two sides. As long as the shinigami weren't too stupid of self righteous then they should atleast be able to leave Nezuel and his friends to fight the hollows around them.
With a wave of his hand Nezuel sent out a few more rays of lightning at the hollows around him. With a glance, he could see more hollows crowding around the shinigami students. Raising his other hand Nezuel made a far more concentrated effort of will and riatsu towards the students."BAKUDŌ #73: TOZANSHŌ" Four points of light would form around them, spiraling upwards to create a large inverse pyramid. Although there were quite a few hollows around the students the kido was sturdy and a high level so hopefully it should last a little while.
"Shinigami," Nezuel would say, trying to get their attention. "I am not your enemy today...please allow us to assist you!."
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Post by Lazarus Jeager on Oct 13, 2022 15:13:40 GMT -5
the situation was getting worse, and while he wanted to be careful about it, Nezuel seemed to be going in head strong and without much of a plan. The other arrancar that appeared would come as a mild surprise to him, though from what he would gather they were at least acquaintances to Nezuel, which made this easier. His eyes kept scanning the sky for a handful of seconds before cursing under his breathe, knowing if he didn't lend a hand then these hollows might get their way.
"Of all the jobs to be put on..."
While the outcropping of rocks worked for good cover, he knew that most any attack from the hollows would likely destroy them, so Lazarus opted to take to the sky. With a heirenkyaku he would find himself high above the group of hollows, standing on his reishi platform for stability as he summoned a standard looking longbow in his right hand. This was not only going to give away his position, but his race as well, but he didn't have time to think about saving face or hiding away, pulling back on the bow strong with a practiced focus. From this high up it was easy to distinguish the hollow from shinigami, his fingers loosing the arrows as he fired down onto the group, picking off the hollows that would be closest to the shinigami. He'd keep his senses open for any reiatsu not close to the fighting, still trying to find the mastermind behind this attack.
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