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Post by Captain Juushiro Ukitake on Jul 20, 2016 18:26:34 GMT -6
"Marked for Life and Death":Juushiro set his quill pen down as Rukia knocked on his office door. “Come in,” he called. She entered with a tray of sandwiches and tea. “You need to stop for lunch,” she murmured. Juushiro chuckled and shook his head. “I’m sorry. I lost track of time again, didn’t I?” He smiled slightly. “I apologize for worrying you. I got lost in work.” Rukia nodded. Hesitated. and then slammed the tray down on his desk. “I don’t mean to be rude, Taichou,” she stated boldly. “Especially when you’re one of the best people we have with us. But sometimes you’re an idiot.” She straightened. “And sometimes I wonder if you chose the best officers. You did better with the chaos of Sentaro and Kiyone-chan. Even when you were worried.” Juushiro passed a hand over his eyes. “Maybe so. But no one can be expected to take another’s place and fulfill the role in the same way.” He picked up his tea. “Don’t underestimate your fellow officers’ abilities because the dynamics here have changed. It is good for the division in its own way.” He took a slow drink and sighed. “Now the division needs a steady hand. Riruka-chan was a good choice - for as long as she wishes to learn here.” His mind turned once again to Yumiko's quiet melancholy. He set the cup down. “Thank you for checking on me, Rukia, but I know you have a lunch date today.” She folded her arms. “Renji is just as worried,” she muttered, glowering now. Juushiro smiled quietly. “Thank you both for that. And it will help.” He paused. “Rukia, I don’t want this problem to weigh on you like this. I am alright. It’s just something that won’t go away easily. Please go have a good time. That is the best thing you can do.” “Are you sure?” she asked, letting her arms down. “Yes,” he replied. She was silent for a few minutes. And then bowed. “I will see you later then, Captain.” Juushiro watched her leave and then picked up his pen again, making a note on a piece of scratch paper before setting it aside once again. Reaching for a sandwich. He rarely asked for much. But right now, he wished there was an easy solution to at least one of the dilemmas facing him.
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Post by Sada Teruo on Jul 20, 2016 18:53:02 GMT -6
"From you beginning, you've started again...Unleash hell..."
"Tell me, Captain Juushiro Ukitake..." Teruo's voice echoed from the shadows. "Why haven't you died yet? Succumbed to the burden of bearing the mark of the gods?" The room made a horrid creaking sound as a shadow grew, blocking out any bit of light.
"Do you know what it is like to feel death, Captain? To feel a blade run through your neck? A fist through your chest? Do you know what it's like to have your very being plunged into a darkness that can not be lit?"
Teruo's eye's glowed brightly before vanishing in the dark. "Chaos and destruction course through my body as blood runs through yours. So, that is not a fate I wished to face. Do you, Captain? Are you prepared to die?" |
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Post by Captain Juushiro Ukitake on Jul 20, 2016 19:05:08 GMT -6
Juushiro’s eyes narrowed and he set a hand on his zanpakuto. “Sada Teruo, it seems you are as difficult to finish as ever. Do your words merit an answer when you defy any rules set out before us? Those who serve the greater powers or work to better themselves through mortal means?” The sword clicked as he unlocked Sougyo no Kotowari from their scabbard and he cut his finger on the steel of sliver revealed. A swirl of his reiatsu wrapped around his still sheathed blade. “I have too much to do to die at yours or any other hand.”
A whirlwind of light lashed out at the darkness. “Ten Thousand Blades of Light!"
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Post by Sada Teruo on Jul 20, 2016 19:29:00 GMT -6
Teruo laughed from the shadows. "Release all the power you wish, Captain. But, I am not the beast you remember and have fought before. My life has been restored by a goddess. And, she instructed only one thing of me...To unleash hell."
"Not today, Sada Teruo."
"And, just who is going to stop me, Captain? You?" Teruo chuckled. "No one knows I am here. And the darkness that has filled this room, it's covered you as well. Consider your rise in reiatsu a plume of smoke on a dark cloudy day."
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Post by Captain Juushiro Ukitake on Jul 20, 2016 19:42:08 GMT -6
The spirits of Sougyo no Kotowari pulsed in their sheathe in response to the beast’s words. Juushiro himself didn’t like the fact that a goddess had brought this one back either. But it didn’t mean he would change his stance. “Do you think words like that are going to dent my resolve, Teruo? I have lived a long time, and your formidable power is just another face of what I stand against.” He gathered his reiatsu back inside himself. “And I will stand against that kind until the the Soul King deems my work finished…. and perhaps even then.”
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Post by Sada Teruo on Jul 20, 2016 20:07:45 GMT -6
Teruo laughed again. His eyes glowed brightly, as he sonido'd toward the Captain. One hand found its way around the Shinigami's neck, as the other stripped away his zanpakuto. "The Soul King. The fragile entity that governs all the realms. How menacing is such a creature that hides behind the doors of a palace?"
The captain's eyes were hard and steady. "How menacing is a man who will do anything until he gets what he wants but will never be satisfied?" he retorted. In the next instance, he seized up as his zanpakuto spirits blasted a piece of their inner realm and Juushiro felt blood fill his mouth even as the pain radiated from him like live whips and slashed at his opponent. He broke his grip and stood back as the forbidden kido rippled around his body. He gathered a fistful in his trembling hand.
Teruo grinned wide. "I must say, you are quite the stubborn one, Shinigami." Sonidoing over to the blade resting on the floor, Teruo picked it up. "Fragile things, zanpakuto are." Teruo held the blade to his mouth, allowing his saliva to pour from his mouth onto the blade. After a few moments, Teruo took the burning blade in his other hand, and snapped it in two.
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Post by Captain Juushiro Ukitake on Jul 20, 2016 20:44:12 GMT -6
Juushiro swayed as his the twins of his blade screamed out and the fistful of pure energy ripped at the tendons of his arm. Only centuries of his own brand of pain kept him upright. Skin losing color, he flung the energy and blood into the center of his study and ripped a deep fissure into the earth, sending up a flare of lava in the beast’s face and barely missing his own arm. He coughed, pain ridden, and glared at the beast. "You will learn your lesson!"
He needed to crack that darkness....
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Post by Sada Teruo on Jul 20, 2016 21:05:30 GMT -6
Teruo licked at the blood running down his face. "Do you feel death at your door yet, Shinigami? No? How unfortunate." Teruo sonido'd over to the Shinigami, driving a fist through the man's shoulder. With his other hand, he palmed the man's face. He forced his head back into the wall behind him.
Terou's fingernail grew slightly, digging into the face of the Shinigami. Blood began to run down the man's face, as Teruo slammed his head into the wall again. "You are aware of who the goddess renewed. But, there is one you know nothing of."
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Post by Captain Juushiro Ukitake on Jul 20, 2016 23:33:25 GMT -6
As the demon's poison ate at his body and blood bubbled up past his lips, Juushiro's tenuous hold on the raw streams of power broke. His limbs quaking even more from releasing the abnormal bursts of energy evoked by that side of forbidden kido. Another deep cough tore through his throat. He heaved a breath even as Teruo's words echoed around them in the baking, vermillion room.
His vision wavered and his consciousness flickered.
He was tired. But as the slow heavy pangs of the worry wracking his soul joined with his lungs struggling through another painful gasp of breath, his ire ignited.
"The gods tell no one their plans...even their servants...but there is- balance. If my death... brings about your weakness... then...then..."
His words caught in his choked passage and he hacked up phlegm and more blood. Was he really accepting death?
He closed his eyes.
"Then so be it. There. will be. an end. to this destruction."
Please don't let them be left alone, Soul King.
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Post by Sada Teruo on Jul 21, 2016 9:52:18 GMT -6
Teruo grinned, finding delight in the blood that was being shed. His eyes glowed brightly and his skin blackened as he shifted in form. His body grew slightly larger, more muscular, more beast like. His nails and fangs grew longer, as he belted out a hoarse chuckle.
Teruo gave a deafening growl. He opened his jaws wide, before clamping down on the Shinigami's neck. Blood poured from the wound, as Teruo lifted his head. Snatching his hand from the man's chest, Teruo began to claw and tear at the man's flesh. A bolt of kido rips through Terou, only to have his body heal before the kido passed through him.
Flesh was torn from bone and blood poured from the Shinigami's body. Limbs were ripped from their places and devoured. The Shinigami's beating heart became visible, as did his spine. Teruo grabbed the man's spine, ripping it from his body as the Shinigami gave an agonizing scream.
"Die, Shinigami!" growled Teruo. "Die!"
With his free hand, Teruo took a hold of the Shinigami's heart and tore it from his body. His glowing eyes narrowed at the Shinigami, whose body lay in a puddle of his blood. A muddled hiss came from Teruo as he squeezed the heart until it burst in his hand.
"An immortal life, taken." Teruo laughed. He turned and looked out of the window, as his shadow began to fade. "Captain Commander Shunsui Kyoraku. You. Are. Next."
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Post by Commander Shunsui Kyoraku on Jul 21, 2016 13:29:37 GMT -6
"Sickening Surprise" (continued):He arrived at the office scarcely moments later but didn't even get past the door. He couldn't. How in all the realms... His reflection blinked from within the crimson pool that covered the room. The walls. And even the ceiling. But- Shunsui's hand ripped the door frame from the wall. "It's not possible," he croaked. He knew the chances of his friend dying before him was quite large. His cough and the blood that always followed attested to that. But- Someone screamed behind him and Shunsui's eyes squeezed shut, throwing an arm out and catching the poor officer's face. He silently cast the spell of sleep on her. "This is not real," he hissed. Juushiro wasn't supposed to go like this. "Why..." He didn't want, couldn't, look at the place again. Not that it erased the acidic wave that assailed his nose or the hollow dripping from the crimson liquid that had spilled over his desk. Even that cup he favored. That soaked into the window seat and coated the cabinet of books. He took a step back and slammed a hand into the wall, breaking something. He didn't see. Just cast another kido, slowly banning entrance for anyone below lieutenant class. "Would that I were blind than to see this...." As the blinding seal hummed around him, Shunsui clenched his bleeding fist and opened his eyes. "Yama... please let there be something..." But he couldn't take the step to look. The scraps of clothing and shards of bone.... Was even his haori intact? "Not this please...." Then his eyes found the head, a long veil of white near the entrance to the garden, the face was turned from him, but not the gaping chord of his spine. "Why couldn't I stop it?" He sunk to his knees, not caring how much of his kimono fell into the blood. "Yama...." The office collapsed under a great fist of pain and fury. Shunsui stood up.
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Post by Iseri Yukio on Jul 21, 2016 15:42:09 GMT -6
In a streak on white light, Iseri sonido'd through the crowd grabbing the one he needed. With his blade in hand, he tapped on the right wrist of the woman in his grasp, sealing her reiatsu vents. He quickly sheathed his blade and grabbed her free hand, as she reached for her own.
"No. No, my lady." he said, taking her zanpakuto and placing it at his waist. "No need for such things. I just need you to answer my question. Where is Sousuke Aizen?"
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Post by Lt. Nanao Ise on Jul 21, 2016 17:42:10 GMT -6
Nanao glared past her spectacles at the beast holding her and slammed a foot into his shin, wincing as she stubbed it against the damned hierro. “As If I am telling you!” she snapped. “What did you do to Ukitake?!” she demanded, head up and eyes vivid with dangerous intent. She yanked at his hold on her, trying to get free. To get to Shunsui. And zap the intruder. "You know what? It won't matter. You'll pay!"
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Post by Iseri Yukio on Jul 21, 2016 18:03:47 GMT -6
"I did nothing to your Captain Commander." replied Iseri, with a smile. "Unfortunately, this level of brutality can only be dealt by one Sada Terou. It seems that the damned has risen from the dead."
Iseri grinned as the woman in his grasp glared at him. "So, please answer my question. Where is Sousuke Aizen?"
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Post by Lt. Nanao Ise on Jul 21, 2016 18:46:46 GMT -6
Nanao clenched her hands. "And you seem to be deaf. I am not telling you anything. So let go!" she slammed her head into her opponent's. Eyes watering at the hardness. "I have something I MUST do and you're in my way!"
Damn why couldn't she reach her kido?
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