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Post by Yoruichi Shihoin on Mar 31, 2016 20:11:15 GMT -6
While inside the makeshift hospital the able bodies where up running around as word of trying to unblock the escape tunnel from the Ayakashi’s first attack was floating around lifting hopes of the ones trapped in the hideout. Other able bodies were up gathering supplies and materials helping the wounded so to move them as soon as the tunnel was capable to travel through.
Yoruichi zipped past Tessai as he set in the center of the floor, his eyes closed and rambling off chants for the reinforcement for Kita’s shield. Kita fighting with keeping hers strong so to protect the ones she had endangered with leaving Las Noches.
As a cluster of more bombs went off above the hideout the ground quaked and trembled under their feet. The wounded and able bodied panicking again as chunks of earth fell around them in the unstable areas tucked in the cliffs of the village. Tessai chanted faster reinforcing his spell as he saw Kita start to falter and fold under the earth that was threatening to cave in on top of them.
“MOM!!” Sojiro screamed for her as he watched her waver slightly under the weight of her own powers of the shield.
“STAY BACK SOJIRO!!” Kita yelled at him.
“The escape tunnel is open!” A voice of a male Soul Reaper cried out over the panicking masses causing all eyes to turn to him.
Across the room, Yoruichi turned and looked at the man then back to the wounded and the others. “Gather as much as you can. Do not leave here empty handed. We have to get the wounded out that can not fend for themselves.”
As Yoruichi demanded order and for everyone to be thoughtful of the wounded, Kita looked to Sojiro as he held his little brother close.
“GO!”
Sojiro’s head shook, “I won’t leave you!”
Kita looked to him with narrowed eyes. Just then, Yoruichi walked up to him grabbing his arm tugging him with his little brother along behind her.
“I am not leaving our mother here alone!” Sojiro bellowed. “Let go of me!”
Yoruichi looked back at the boy as she pulled him along. “You will and you are. And your mother is not alone. Tessai is here with her.”
“I promised dad I would look out for her!”
“And your mother asks you to protect Kadaj. Staying here in the center of danger is not doing that.” Yoruichi informed him.
Sojiro looked back to his mother as more bombs went off above them and she wavered again. “Mom!” Sojiro’s voice but a whisper but she looked his way a bright smile across her lips.
“I will see you soon I promise. Take care of your little brother” She whispered to him.
A single tear rolled down his cheek as he turned away from his mother as his Aunt tugged him forward toward the escape tunnel. "Your mother is strong, Soji. She will be back with us before you know it."
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Mar 31, 2016 20:52:18 GMT -6
As the earth trembled under their feet the escapees rushed around gathering the wounded and supplies the room starting to slowly thin out, but there were still wounded that needed to be moved. She still had to push forward. She had to protect the ones that have fought so diligently to protect. To protect. Their comrades, their friends, their family. The innocent.
Kita’s eyes closed as she dug deep into her reserve and pushed her powers forward. The shield had to remain. It could not fall. Not yet. Not until they were all safe. She had to keep them safe. With or without Sumi’s help. Even if she was human. She knew she could do this. Too many counted on her. Too many still believed the Goddess was still with her. Even if it meant she would be trapped under the earth until she was dug free. She would live on. Vale made sure of that in asking the Soul King for her mortality to make her immortal.
She would live on. She had to make sure they were all out, including Tessai.
“I have never asked you for anything. Nothing at all.” Kita prayed in thought, “but by the Gods, give me the strength I need to keep this shield strong so they can escape.”
Digging deeper finding she was at her end she started to fear the worst as the voice of the Soul King rang out in her mind.
“You do not need the Gods. Nor did you ever Miyamoto, even though you are only human you were chosen. You have the healing power of the Gods and a shield strong enough to stop the strongest of enemies. You are immortal. Your power comes from within. Not from the Goddess you leaned so hard on. Listen to your Masters. The ones who have truly created you. Urahara, Ichimaru, Tervaden and Aizen. Along with all the other Masters that have trained you through the decades. Hear their words of wisdom and you will find the strength you so badly seek.”
As the voice of the Soul King fade from her mind the voices of her Masters echoed in her thoughts. Her heart and mind filled with the courage and confidence she thought she had lost. No. She never lost it, just missed placed it with the drama going on in the last twenty-four hours. She took a deep breath as the ground quaked again as loud thunderous footsteps shook the earth.
Tenken. She was sure of it. She had never see Sajin’s zanpakuto spirit, but she had heard enough to know the movement of the ground was from something large. Not from the explosion of bombs. She pushed her shield further taking it to a point where she and Tessai were both holding the earth at bay. Tessai’s eyes opening wide as he looked her way and smiled brightly.
“Welcome back Miss Kita. I knew you could do it.”
Kita smiled warmly at him as she looked at the ones still in the room. They nodded grabbing the last couple of the wounded up and skirted out of the room. She looked to Tessai once more when in a flash she was grabbed up and whisked out of the room.
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Post by Sada Teruo on Mar 31, 2016 21:24:48 GMT -6
"Come out, dearie~! What are you afraid of? Has Tervaden made you so weak, you hide in the shadows?"
Teruo grunted, raising a hand as a clone of the Shopkeeper appeared in front of the Shinigami. "Fear? Fear is something that I simple can not experience. I am incapable of such a thing."
"Really?" Shinsou ripped through the crowd of clones, only for them to dodge the coming blade. "From here, it appears as though you are too afraid to face me or anyone else here!"
Teruo growled, as the Shopkeeper's clone raised his blade toward the Shinigami. Suddenly, the Shinigami was wrapped in chains and pulled into a blood filled coffin. Chains wrapped around the coffin, as the Shopkeeper's clone placed a hand on the coffin then vanished with it.
The Lieutenant's clone placed her hands to the quaking ground, and began chanting. Her chanting erected walls of barriers that pierced the ground. The barrier would go deep, slicing into the pathways beneath the hideaway.
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Post by Urahara Kisuke on Mar 31, 2016 21:46:47 GMT -6
After getting Kita and Tessai out of the hideout and Kita hid away somewhere safe, Kisuke joined the fighting out in the village. He joined just in time to watch the clone of himself take Gin within the coffin and disappear with it. He grinned madly.
"He's not getting out of that anytime soon." He looked back across the fighting his eyes spotting Sada. His eyes narrowed as he adjusted his hat over his eyes and disappeared from his location. Sada his new target. Appearing in front of the demon Ayakashi his blade drawn he came down on top of the demon. Their blades clashing as the steel cried out in impact.
"I am really tired of seeing your ugly ass. Why don't you die already?" Kisuke growled at him as Sada pushed back against his blade causing Kisuke to slide back from him a few feet.
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Post by Sada Teruo on Apr 1, 2016 6:22:26 GMT -6
Teruo said nothing to the man, only tilting his head to the side as he looked at him. Raising his hand, Teruo snapped his fingers. In an instant, a clone of his Master stepped forth. Behind him, a smaller clone formed.
Drawing his blade quickly, he released his zanpakuto power. "Shatter." An, odd shimmer of light appeared between, lingering for only a couple of seconds before fading.
"You'll have to do better than that, Teruo." grinned Kisuke, adjusting his hat as a strong wind blew. "My brother's zanpakuto creates an unbreakable near perfect illusion. So, what makes you think that you can even come close?"
Teruo's maniacal laughter filled the air, as the sky grew dark around them. "Because, this near perfect illusion is damn near perfect. Your brother would be proud."
As the Shinigami drew close, his Master's clone released a wordless kido. A black box of light formed around the Shinigami before hundreds of black daggers made of light pierced the box.
As the box around the Shinigami fell, Shibungoretsu wrapped around the man's neck and head. A quick twist of the hilt sent barbs stabbing into the man.
As Benihime was used in an attempt to rip the whip from around him, Teruo sonido'd toward the Shinigami and buried his teeth in his neck.
A fire sparked around them, as the petite Captain woman's clone appeared. The air heated around them as she plunged her scorching blade through his chest.
Kisuke's grunts of pain mixed with laughter. "This is the illusion, Teruo." He spat on the woman's blade.
"Well, yes. Acknowledge it. Then, die from it. It is still unbreakable." Teruo's voice echoed in the darkness. He laughed at the Shinigami's narrowed eyes. "Oh. No. Don't tell me you really thought you had me?"
Kisuke swung Benihime, tearing through the clones surrounding him. "I had hoped it would be that easy." His eyes narrowed further at the sight of a second, third and fourth Teruo stepped forward.
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Post by Yoruichi Shihoin on Apr 1, 2016 8:58:14 GMT -6
While deep in the tunnel, the ground shook as the group stopped moving forward. Yoruichi looking around to find out what was going on, fearing the worse she looked to Sojiro.
“Stay put I am going ahead to see why we are not moving.”
Sojiro nodded as panic echoed in the small confines the escapees fled down to their new location of freedom. “Be careful.” Sojiro told her.
Yoruichi smiled warmly and nodded at the boy, a tender hand going to his shoulder. “I will, but I want you and Kadaj against the wall. Not out here in the center.”
Sojiro nodded as he started toward the wall his little brother in his arms.
Yoruichi turning as she moved toward the front of the tunnel.
It was about twenty minutes later when Yoruichi returned. She looked thoughtful as she walked down the center of the tunnel. People moving out of her away as she walked along.
Quickly Sojiro made his way toward her. Remaining quiet until she spoke to him first, he just followed along behind her as he heard what he thought was counting from her beneath her breath. When she stopped at was at a barrier that separated them from a group that was following behind them.
Yoruichi hummed softly as she touched the barrier wall.
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Post by Sojiro Ichimaru on Apr 1, 2016 9:04:47 GMT -6
“Barriers?” Sojiro mumbled as he looked at iridescent coloring skin through the invisible force. “Is that what has us at a stand still?”
“Yes,” Yoruichi answered him still thoughtful as her hand came to her chin her eyes cast down. “Lieutenant Ise’s.”
She looked back down the way she came then back to the barrier they were standing in front of. “Knowing this power of Ise’s, each section is a hundred yards in length. However-”
“How do you know? And why would a lieutenant trap us in here?” Sojiro asked.
She looked to Sojiro. “It’s not actually Ise. I am sure it’s one of that Bastard Sadas clone’s.”
Sojiro nodded as he hummed softly as Yoruichi continued.
“As for the size of each section, Ise’s powers are rather like her. Perfect. So since the section we are trapped in is a hundred yards. It would only go to suggest the others are the same.” She looked around again. “The million dollar question now is…” She looked to Sojiro. “How many are there?”
“Is there one ahead of us?” Sojiro asked. He held Kadaj closer to his chest as the his brother squirmed at the anxiety around him. "Can we go around?"
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Post by Yoruichi Shihoin on Apr 1, 2016 9:19:00 GMT -6
“No we can't go around and no, it is open in front of us. One of the men went and checked while I waited. Its one of the reason it took me a little longer to get back.”
Just then, the panic level climbed as the earth quaked again. Children started sobbing causing little Kadaj to cry as well. This, causing Yoruichi to look at Sojiro as he cuddled his little brother closer to comfort him. She sighed rubbing her temple in thought. Finally, an idea came to her when she remembered feeling Tessai’s reiatsu enter the tunnel.
“Calm down! Everyone!” Yoruichi called out to them through the tunnel her hand going to Sojiro's shoulder to comfort him as well.
“But we are going to be buried alive!” One of the women called out as the earth tremble again beneath their feet.
She turned to the group behind her. “Listen to me.” All heads turned to her, or at least the ones close enough to hear her, turned to look her way. Even the ones in the section behind them. She turned and looked to the ones standing behind the other barrier. “I need a person in your group to pass along a message to the end group, or to Tessai at least.” They looked around at one another and nodded as one of the men stepped up.
“What do you need it to say?” The man asked her.
“First off explain to each messenger we need to know how many sections there are and to make sure their section is as large as this one.”
“And how big it that?” The man asked her.
“The section we are stuck in is a hundred yards. So start the message like this and keep it word for word. Nothing extra.” The man nodded as Yoruichi continued. “Tessai this is Yoruichi. I am sure you have figured out we are stuck in one of Ise’s barrier walls. From the information I have collected on this end the first section is open to the end of the tunnel. The second section which Sojiro and I are stuck in, is a hundred yards in length, which is also the first sealed section. There seems to be ‘x amount’ sections.” She looked to the man. “The ‘x amount’ is where you would add the new section number. So when you deliver that message you would say. ‘There seems to be two sections'.” The man nodded. “Make sure they are in understanding that this message is word for word. No extras and the count on how many sections and the size of their section is very important.”
“Yes ma’am.” The man replied bowing to her. “Anything else Lady Yoruichi?”
“Yes, tell each messenger that after they deliver the message to stay put. I am sure Tessai will send a return message.”
“Yes, ma’am.” The man turned and started a path toward the end of his section staying thoughtful in how long his section was.
Yoruichi turned back to Sojiro and smiled warmly. "Now we wait to hear back from Tessai. If anyone can get us out of this mess it will be him."
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Post by Tessai Tsukabishi on Apr 1, 2016 10:17:45 GMT -6
The message seemed to travel rather quickly finding the ears of Tessai as he turned to the woman that delivered the message to him. “Thank you.” Tessai looked around the section they were standing in as he went into thought. After a few moments he looked back to the woman.
“Do you have a return message for me, Sir?”
“No. I can deliver the message myself. Thank you.” He looked to the ones standing around him. “I need everyone to stand back. Please and thank you.”
Slowly everyone back away as Tessai then nodded. His sleeves were drawn up as he bit down into his thumb. He started reciting a spell, as he drew specific markings on his arms. “Black and white net. Twenty-two bridges, sixty-six crowns and belts. Footprints, distant thunder, sharp peak, engulfing land, hidden in the night, sea of clouds, blue line. Form a circle and fly though the heavens.”
The markings on his arms became animated by the spell as he started to speak. “Yoruichi, I got your message. It would seem you were right. Each section is a hundred yards in length and from the message there are six sections which would mean I need to break down seven barrier walls to free us.”
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Post by Yoruichi Shihoin on Apr 1, 2016 10:19:30 GMT -6
Hearing Tessai voice Yoruichi chuckled. “Now why didn’t I think of that?” Sojiro smiled at his Aunt shrugging his shoulders.
“It’s good to hear your voice Tessai and I am glad I was right about the length of the sections. So can you take them down?”
“How is mom Tessai? Is she alright?” Sojiro blurted out before he could stop himself.
Yoruichi chuckled at him, her hand going to his shoulder grasping it firmly. “You’re just like your mother.”
Sojiro rubbed the back of his neck and smiled wearily. “That’s funny ‘cause mom says I am just like my father.”
Both Yoruichi and Tessai chuckled at the boy as Yoruichi asked again. “So Tessai, are we getting out of here any time soon?”
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Post by Tessai Tsukabishi on Apr 1, 2016 10:21:26 GMT -6
“Yes ma’am. I can take these barrier walls down with ease. And Sojiro. Your mother is fine. Kisuke took her some place safe so Sada could not find her. You just make sure you take care of that little brother of yours while she is away.”
“Yes sir,” Sojiro answered.
“Everyone hear me. I need you to get out of the center of the tunnel. Get against the walls and get down on the ground. I am going to break down the barrier walls that have us trapped. If you are close to the barrier walls move away from them as far as you can. You will know when it is safe to move about once more. Until then stay down and out of the way.”
Tessai could hear the people agreeing as he watched his own section clear the way like he asked them too. He gave them all some time to maneuver the injured and the women and children into place. After a few more minutes had pasted he asked them. “Are we ready to do this?”
From the far end of the tunnel Tessai heard everyone cry out the word ‘YES’. With that he dropped the Tenteikura and drew his hand in front of him his palms out toward the barrier in front of him.
“Hado 63, Raikoho.”
Down the center of the tunnel a wave of yellow energy shot at the barrier walls. As each barrier wall was destroyed you could hear a loud popping and crackling. When everything settled, cheering and laughing echoed through the tunnel. Tessai opened the Tenteikura once more.
“Everyone alive and well up there?” More cheering sounded as Tessai chuckled. “Well then lets get out of this tunnel.
With that everyone picked up and started moving quickly forward. They wanted out of that tunnel before something worse took place.
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Post by Urahara Kisuke on Apr 1, 2016 13:54:42 GMT -6
Kisuke sighed shaking his head as he watched the clones form around him. "Two... Three... Four... Five..." He looked to Sada and pointed Benihime at him. "One. I only want one. The real one. Are you so afraid of losing to me you have to sick your clones on me to try and wear me down first?" Kisuke shook his head again. "Tisk tisk."
He stepped toward Sada and grinned. "At this rate my daughter has more balls than you do."
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Post by Sada Teruo on Apr 1, 2016 18:45:16 GMT -6
Teruo laughed, grinning as poison flowed from his mouth. "You couldn't handle me, Shinigami! I am terror! A blemish on the face of peace. Even if I choose to bore myself engaging in battle with you, it's not very likely that I would lose."
Kisuke laughed, shunpoing toward the growing number of clones. Benihime tore through each one, as they made no effort to stand against him. As all but one clones fell, Kisuke's eyes locked onto the one standing beside the clone of his brother.
"Grow a pair, Sada! And, face me!"
Again, Kisuke lunged toward the lone Sada. "Fight me!"
A shield appeared between the man and Teruo, stopping the Shopkeeper in his tracks. A clone of the Miyamoto stepped out from behind the clone of Aizen. She held a hand up, holding the shield steady.
"You see, U...ra...har..RA... I have the advantage here. I...have all of you." Teruo's grin grew wide as he stepped from the shadows, revealing himself. He raised a hand, pointing toward the Shinigami. "Here I am."
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Post by Urahara Kisuke on Apr 1, 2016 19:29:46 GMT -6
Kisuke grinned madly as he looked on at Sada. “Really? I don’t see anything but a bunch of empty shells that hold powers that don’t belong. Your Army lacks, and it lacks in a way that will put you on the losing end.”
He looked Sada in the eyes still grinning. “And you might be here, but you hide behind empty shells. You hide behind others powers in fear that your powers are not good enough to face an opponent you know can destroy you.” Kisuke paused pointing Benihime at him.
“FACE ME COWARD!! WITH YOUR TRUE POWERS SADA TERUO!! NOT THE POWERS OF THE ONES YOU HAVE STOLEN!!”
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Post by Sada Teruo on Apr 2, 2016 6:10:38 GMT -6
"What would it matter?" said Teruo. "You are still trapped in an illusion. You could very well be having a conversation that is not truly taking place. You will not treat me as you all treat Tervaden; disregarding his illusions and power."
Kisuke growled as the world shifted around, a blinding white light erasing all else around him. "I've grown annoyed with you, Sada. Shut up, and fight!"
The grin on Teruo's face grew as he shook his head at the disgruntled Shinigami. "I am fighting you." Teruo vanished.
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