Canon 5 Branch: Hokori vs Deadly Duo

Hokori sighed, it seemed lady luck didn't have his best interests at heart. The arrancar became blood thirsty, the taller green haired one taking a few steps towards him. Reiatsu began to pour out, from each arrancar and began to buffet him. In response, acid green liquid began to froth and spread out washing out to the two arrancar. The Green Haired Arrancar would feel the sensation of liquid on his feet but nothing would come of it. Bazz however would be a different story, He'd feel nauseous, as if he'd downed a gallon of battery acid. The nauseous feeling was of course something mental, but spoke volumes about the malevolence that was pouring out of the shinigami. They smiled and charged their reiastu and he answered in kind, he wouldn't be intimidated by the likes of them.

At the outburst of the Green haired Arrancar, Hokori answered in a low tone. It was cool, collected and razor sharp. "Oh, you've proven yourselves smarter than what I assumed about five seconds ago. But it seems, you are both still too weak to deal with the likes of me separately." He listened again to the arrancar telling Bazz that he would lend him assistance this one time, this could be troublesome Hokori thought to himself. Reiatsu swirled around the zanapakutou of the Arrancar. Ressurection...! The exclamation of his release blew away the acid illusion of Hokori's reiastu. However, Hokori didn't sit idly by during the Arrancar's release. He was not foolish to think he could take on a released Arrancar and another Arrancar without his weapon so he murmured, "Inscribe, Wan Shi Tong."

His Sword exploded into shards of green reiastu before flying together and dimmed to create a thick tome. This Tome was something to look at. Metallic looking covers and a Spine, pressed into the front cover was Kanji that if looked upon read, "The Road to absolute power is Knowledge." Seals blazed on Hokori's palms. The book appearing with its pages facing down a stream of liquid acid green in color began to shoot all over the floor. This stream was being propelled out of the book at a speed stat of 600. By that time the smoke and explosion of reiastu had cleared showing the Arrancar's Resurrection. it was an Iron Maiden? A statue made of Seki Seki Stone? Or perhaps he was just a stone beast? His first guess was closer to the truth as he split down the middle. Allowing Bazz to step inside, the resurrected Arrancar snapped shut, Hokori's eyes going wide to analyze it for weak spots immediately.

From what he could tell, only it's eye slits were the opening parts. Hokori could feel that his ink was ready. there was enough that it was close enough to almost touch the solo duo, and ankle deep where he was standing. Come and get me... As the Arrancar now clad in his brethren began to move and speed towards the shinigami, Hokori had his ink in front of him suddenly geyser upward in a huge wave of ink to blind and distract them. They would have noticed the ink that was nearing them suddenly retract with senses high enough to follow it. But at that same moment he had the geyser shoot up, Ink pressurized under his feet and shoot him backwards at a speed stat of 600 keeping contact with the liquid tentacle jets to his feet. He used his mastery of acrobatics to keep his balance in this maneuver and was able to do so with almost no effort. He kept his eyes on the upward thrusting ink. his left hand while he jetted backwards out of the attack zone reached for his pages and grasped a hilt. A solid ink hilt appeared to rise out of the pages, he grasped it and pulled out a four foot long leaf shaped blade. It was identical to the blade that was the shikai that a former captain of the eleventh division used.

The ink geyser however would be the start of the duo's problems assuming that they were quick enough and smart enough to cleave though the wave of ink separating it enough that it wouldn't get on the green haired Arrancar's Resurrection, that would place a seal on the back of the neck of Bazz, who's Zanpakutou had touched part of Hokori's release. But if they were going to try to shoot their way through, he had his jets of Ink to step off of using shunpo. But furthermore either way, since there was no Air ground in Hueco Mundo. they could not use air ground to stop themselves from landing within the large pool of ink that was still spreading around now that the wave had fallen back down. They'd have landed in it, and while Bazz would be unaffected, the green haired Arrancar would not. Some how some way he still had a consciousness, this meant his mind was functioning somehow. Which meant this stone was his skin, not only was a seal placed but he'd feel the trickle of a fogging sensation on him. Ink was on the armor Arrancar's feet. What was more, it was raising up the pair's body. covering it.

Hokori's ink rose over his own body, like a river branching out over his limbs and even his face except his eyes. As it did so part of the Ink that was on the ground not covering himself or the arrancar from the feet up shot out in a needle like fashion looking to get into the eye slits of the armor. and Bazz would have to act quickly to stop them from piercing his eyes. covered himself in a owl style armor. It was a replica of a suit of armor that Wan Shi Tong had in his inner world. One that completely changed his appearance. It was completely covering him in a mere second or two helping due to the fact it's ability to be replicated first as a liquid and then solidified by a pulse he sent out a moment later. He when finished lowered himself back into the pool of ink and his Tome opened once more and began to pool more ink all over the floor. Sword in hand, Tome spewing ink in the other he had the Ink latch itself to the Arrancar's body however it could. It would be at least stuck to his feet my Hokori's mind for the moment, but for now he was in Hokori's territory.

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The Kuchiki noted the comment that Bazz made, it seemed that the Green haired Arrancar didn't need to speak aloud to communicate with those it was protecting. That could be stressful for Hokori, as he couldn't use their verbal team work to predict them. Nor could he still try to turn them upon one another, or at least it would be more difficult, he could however still try. "Naive? Me? I think you'll find I can be well informed. Just now I learned it takes two privaron espada to take on a single captain." He spoke from the as his ink prepared and he waited, it was a simple act to wait. Something he was groomed to do, the patient won in games like this. You couldn't rush it. Otherwise you died.

Hokori watched and Hokori waited, he was still of course a little over zealous. It was to be expected, he was still young and in his prime of being in the fight. There was the unmistakable boom of static that meant that an Arrancar was using Sonido. Hokori's ink was not disturbed which meant that he was in the air. Since he wasn't anywhere within line of sight, Hokori could assume that he was appearing behind the captain along with his energy sensory to pick up on the vast amounts possessed by the released Arrancar. Hokori's ink jets pushed off to the left shooting him in that direction allowing him to avoid the first slash. Hokori immediately noted strength of the slash; it had created an air current strong enough to cause the Ink below to ripple. This meant that Bazz was of course physically strong. More so than most, he would be on par with Kaen or perhaps Irudai Izumi even. This made him even more dangerous.

He arced over Hokori's original position, Hokori while out of the range of the first strike had to act quickly to evade the second horizontal strike now coming his way. The Geyser that he had created stopped descending began to shoot upwards once again. The jets that were keeping Hokori afloat upon his ink simultaneously propelled him backwards. Away from the incoming strike, the strike missed him but he felt the force of the air against his armor. Using his skills in acrobatics once more, he torqued his body on the ink jets to keep his balance. Time slowed around the captain and Hokori's mind even while racing fell into the past.

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A boy with black primped hair, glasses, and Neon green eyes watched Sozen Kuchiki demolish the Rogue shinigami lieutenant. It was the third division's lieutenant. He watched as tears formed into the garb of the rogue shinigami's eyes. The fear sparked within them. There was no hope, no saving him now. Hokori's face contorted into a chilling smile, it was clear that the Kuchiki was enjoying watching Sozen butcher the shinigami. He in truth was watching the inevitable; he was watching someone of common blood fall to the future head of the Kuchiki. It was to be expected.

Hokori noted the flowing fighting style at which Sozen used. He was always better with his blade, Hokori's smile turned even more frigid. He hoped Sozen finished this quickly. He noted that they had hit the two minute marker in his mind, and then he make a snorting sound. Sozen was prolonging this, just like he always did. He should have finished him already, the shikai of the Rogue a series of pink needles of reiastu. He obviously needed to work on his zanpakutou's strength some more. It was pathetic honestly. Sozen easily deflected such weak attacks and lashed out once more striking the lieutenant on his left leg. Hokori watched as they turned a cold smile also on Sozen's face.

Hokori shivered, he knew that smile. It was the smile of a baby angel, a baby angel who smiled as they lit the wings of butterflies on fire and watched him burn. Hokori and others watched as Sozen's blade turned a sinister red, his sheath on his hip doing the same. Suddenly, blades erupted from the little cut on the Rogue's leg. More and more formed, Hokori's jaw tightened and his eyes widened. He felt a shiver pass down his spine as he watched this happening, before his very eyes the Shinigami lost both his legs to a large pile of mush.

He walked over and smiled speaking to the traitor, murmuring something softly. He then handcuffed the half dead man, and stood holding him. The other two exhaled and turned, starting to walk away. Hokori however had watching Sozen in mild shock and admiration was the blades that sprung from the red blood the Kuchiki's release? Hokori noticed Sozen's face change and he side stepped. A large lance of red reiastu flew past the Kuchiki. His cousin shouted his name in warning and Hokori reacted instinctively. The younger Kuchiki's reiastu flooded and he activated his speed hana, there was a flash of bright red light and shouts as the other two shinigami were sent spiraling down into the city roof tops below. Hokori appeared ten yards left of his original position, focused and alert now.

His energy sensory was going haywire now that he was paying attention to it, One.., Two...,Three..., Four..., Five, There were five signatures. They appeared altogether in a phase of shunpo. They looked to be shinigami but garbed in human world clothes, Hokori's eyesight tinted with a haze of crimson upon seeing them. The one in the middle left was holding a Niganata that was smoking and surging with red reiastu around the blade. He was smiling, "Not much to the other two, but these noble brats have some spunk." The one in the middle, the oldest by far looked to his right "Don't underestimate the Kuchiki." was all he said.

There was a girl, she had a ponytail of black hair and a scar on her lip curled with a sneer. "This pipsqueak isn't anything compared to the other." She gestured at Hokori; she drew her blade and began flying at the younger Kuchiki. "Yumi…wait!" The guy next to her short and burly, with dark ebon skin reached out to try to grab her. But she was too fast for him. She was closing the distance rapidly with a smile on her face. "He's mine!" Her arm swung outward in a wide arcing motion, it was clear to be a powerful strike. But at the cost of an opening, an opening someone was about to exploit. There was a blurring shadow, and the girl's arm disconnected from her body at the elbow.

There was a gush of blood and a scream as her arm fell to the city below as well. She fell sobbing clutching her arm, to a rooftop below. "Get him!" Three of the remaining four, save the seeming leader blasted off with shunpo appearing around Hokori as he came out of his own shunpo. He was faster, and his swordsmanship was far better even being younger, but he was losing to the numbers. He clashed blades with the first rogue's blade, and then was forced to show his hand. The ebon guy's blade came low at his hip. His knee came up as if he was going to touch his knee to his chest and there was a grinding sound as blade met cycling reiastu. The ebon rogue's eyes widened as his blade met the force, it didn't give way but he didn't stop pushing. Neither did the other one. Hokori gritted his teeth and snarled, "Filth...”

There was a red glow on his back overshadowing him. "You're young and arrogant; it’s too bad you'll never learn that those qualities can be quite lethal if you don't get them under control." His head turned to look with one eye at the blonde haired shinigami behind a few feet with his Niginata exploding with reiastu around the blade. I won't make it in time... The lance began to fire off bathing all four of them in a brilliant red light. Hokori's green eyes turned red in a flash....

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The Arrancar was falling, mere inches from ground. The ink on the ground beneath him erupted into another geyser, but at the same time. The first geyser exploded into a wave arcing over the Arrancar, shading him. He now had two different attacks to contend with, being mere inches from the ground at 600 speed stat; Bazz had only a fraction of a second to contend with it. But if he did he'd get washed over in the wave coming over his entire body, it was a choice. Hokori took a defensive stance, his free arm out at chest level and his blade resting flat on the armor His helm lined up allowing him to line up his blade with the current position of the two. He was a distance away now. His tome on his free hand's palm still pouring ink onto the floor, adding to the wave of ink. There were rapid ripples, crisscrossing all over the floor. This was accompanied by a grinding sound.

Hokori watched and waited to see the outcome of such a counterattack. He expected bala or cero, though. Due to the speed of his attacks and the proximity he was guessing bala. Though there were also other possibilities in his mind. He made sure to breathe deeply and calm himself; this was a two on one after all. And he was going to be pressured using only his shikai; he wasn't sure how though this Arrancar's armor faired against his Ink. He'd just have to find out.

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OOC: Hey just a reminder since you told me in PC to remind you, don't forget Bazz's Remaining reiastu for that Sonido and Green Hair when he burned for the duo Cero since bazz is a fighter. So we're all not confused . Also, where's your music boss man?)

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Again with the shock waves, it was annoying. But it did show that he was able to tell that Ink was directly above him and below at the same time. This was problematic, for it meant that sneak attacks weren't a possible avenue of attack. Bazz began to descend, and what could only be described as cero jets blazed from his feet. The impact caused a hiss and steam to pour from the ink on the floor below. He was causing it to evaporate by hitting it with Cero, though cero were hot. As his Cero vaporized the ink in a path to get to Hokori. He was changing it's chemical composition, turning it from a liquid to a gaseous form. Hokori had no way of doing this himself in shikai, but he did have a way to do so in bankai. However he had theorized that this would be possible, the gas floated around the both of them filling the room.

If Bazz wasn't holding his breath, through the eye ports and down into his nose it would go. Though this was a pretty big if, not only that. It wouldn't last but for a little while until it thinned out. But it would be a start, Hokori however needed how to focus here. It was key that with the reiastu strength of the armor and ability to use reiastu attacks at great strength, and the enormous physical prowess of Bazz. He had to stay razor sharp against the duo, Hokori waited until the last moment, that he could and shot left once more on his jets of ink. The right jet actually separated from his foot on this maneuver and he tried to twist on the left jet to make sure he could see the Arrancar, suddenly there was a falling motion.

Something had knocked out his ink jets and caused him to start falling, He reacted instinctively. His gladius exploded, Ink in a quantity of 10 feet in total height and twelve feet total width shot not forwards but backwards onto his own body and armor completely encasing him in a tidal wave of ink. It had the volume of a swimming pool. As it encased him, his body pulsed again instantly hardening all ink within 10 feet in all directions of his person. The wave was misshapen and imperfect. But it had effectively become a giant shell for the captain. A shell that Bazz sent flying with his immense strength, over and over the captain turned he willed the ink to change shape and it did. rounding as he flew away from the impact. The Sphere in mid air separated, revealing six foot long wings around five feet from apex to wing tips. They were not thick either, as soon a spiked tail of ink lowered behind the captain to a length of eight feet.

The thickness of the ink prevented any real damage, and to the naked eye the shinigami was fine. Under his armor, Hokori exhaled deeply from the concentration. He'd barely spent any reiastu, but he had been controlling his ink very carefully with his mind and it wasn't without effort. He was far from exhausted, but he was showing sings of slight stamina drain. Also it was a little from the nerves, that was a close one. His wings continued to flap, gaining altitude until he was higher than the maximum that he had seen Bazz propel himself using shock waves. He surveyed the area, The floor underneath Bazz's feet had a few deep gouges from his inks handy work and a rounded indent from the cero impacting it. There was still a moderate quantity of liquid ink on the floor surrounding Bazz only around an eight foot gap between the two larger pools.

The captain shot off using his wings to close the distance, he got to the point Bazz had started to jet with the use of the Duo cero, a buffet of wind slowed him to a halt, allowing him to land, his arm extended forward. The blade in his hand fired outward at a speed stat of 600 thinning out and becoming like a needle, with Hokori's senses and skill with his release it was easy to aim for Bazz's right eye. Hokori's tome had stopped firing ink and was open in his right off hand. His attack was very straightforward, almost insulting. Hokori was waiting for it, waiting for the reaction. He could almost visualize it now.

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Hokori's eyes adjusted to the light and noticed the change in color of Sozen's shinigami robes. With an acrobatic twist he struck out with both blade and foot at his two attackers. Both ducked back to avoid the blows, and in that moment Hokori whispered his release. Being so close, Sozen in that moment would hear it and know now that he was not the only one who had unlocked the first tier of the shinigami's true power. "Inscribe, Wan Shi Tong." His blade gained a divot and ink began to pour off of it. His sheath changed into a thick black tome that opened above his off hand's palm. His sword arm flipped the blade in a reverse grip and in that single motion he tapped his blade against his Cousin's sheath.

He hypotisized that Sozen's powers had to do with the color red. Why else has his sword and sheath turned that color. Furthermore, it appeared that his sword could turn what it touched red. He then could attack from that red, Hokori then hypothized that his sheath could probably do the same when it came to the color change. Why else would it also change color? He was rewarded with his Ink and blade both turning red in his hands. He wasn't the biggest fan of the color red, it was the color of fire, and fire destroyed books. Books were keepsakes of knowledge, but it would have to do. Hokori was still under the effects of his speed hana. His motion blurred into a black and now red form.

He appeared in front of the ebon skinned man, who swung down vertically. Hokori's elbow came up in that same fashion as before with his knee, reiastu swirled around his elbow and a screeching sound was heard as the rogues blade was caught once again. The third rogue attacked, He brought his blade in for a straight stab. Difficult to block in his current position, but that was merely with a generic sword. Hokori swung his blade releasing a shower of Ink upon the man. Red ink engulfed him, which was punctuated by a form exploding out of the wave a moment later. The man was covered in red ink, it blotched his skin and stained his clothes. Even his fair white hair had turned crimson red. In that moment of retreat Hokori brought his sword arm around in an attempt to take out ebony skinned rogue. He used shunpo, disappearing and reappearing back by the larger, older individual.

Hokori's eyes caught sight of him, and in that moment the ebony rogue died as lightning pierced his skull. Reiastu had stopped cycling the shinigami's hand long enough for him to fire off a byakurai at the ebony rogue's skull, augmented with speed hana it was over the speed of sound in terms of maximum speed. and it pierced his brain before he had even a moment to come to terms with what had happened. The ebony rogue feel forward dead as Hokori heard a scream behind him that was obviously the third rogue, no doubt that Sozen had seen him and unleashed whatever form of attack seeing red gave him. The corrosive powers of Ink were not fast enough for the death he and his kin were giving them. He looked at the oldest one, the only one remaining for Hokori to fight. "You look like an extraordinary specimen, I look forward to breaking you."

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Ah Hell....

Keeping his composure was one thing, but in this moment. Hokori was in trouble, Nothing in his personal arsenal had the strength to deal with such an assault. The brute strength was so strong that it shattered his reiastu enforced solidified ink. That in of itself was actually no small feat, but he digressed that this was going to be difficult in quite a few ways. He wasn't able to shunpo, or manuever in any normal move. But luckily he wasn't alone in this fight, which was to say preparations had been made. Mentally willing the kidou to activate was simple as it was already waiting for him to do so, the ensuing shockwave was enormous and blasted out in all directions. He of course was referring to Hado #53: Surasorutoiera (Area Thrust). There was a great amount of cracking as he was blasting up and away from the arrancar.

Bazz lacked the necessities to be unaffected by the kidou, however the suit he was clad in did. So Hokori was unsure of how it was going to play out. But he did know that the spell was going to be fast enough to take him out of harms way for this one use only. Furthermore, with the weaknening of repeatedly taking damage from the strong Cero and his earlier intended damage using his ink to gouge out the floor. The strength of this almighty push was the last straw and he saw as a large section of the Room's floor began to fall away down below. It was opening up the room even more and causing massive destruction. Things were getting to be too much, he was being pressured and as much as he hated it. He was going to need to use it, this fight had traveled beyond a scope of his hope and planning.

"Bankai..."

As he flew towards the ceiling, another explosion of reiastu rocked the area bathing it in a sickly green glow of reiastu. The reiastu receded, twisting and turning as it turned began to form into Ten thousand papers. The ink on Hokori shattered into liquid and flew around him as his body began to glow. It was encased from head to toe in a new set of armor identical in form to the first however this one was black was apparently made of some kind of metal. Across the chest and wrapping around the limbs were kanji which translated to 'the road to absolute power is knowledge.' Seals blazed on his hands, which he clenched into fist as wings on ink once again formed on his back slowing his fall to a halt. The papers however split into two sections.

"Kyousei No Sousho, Wan Shi Tong."

Five thousand papers spiralled down engulfing the arrancar, they were all around him, and formed a cocoon of paper which moved wickedly fast. what was more is that at a speed that was even faster than what Bazz had shown capable of swinging ink began to rain in a staggered machine-gun fashion from the papers. They were going to coat him from head to toe, another thing was the ink that had be turned into a gaseous state by his bankai. he would have to work fast to avoid the ink and air toxin. Hokori was waiting to see his response, his bankai was a whole different fight from shikai. He just needed to see whether or not he could finish up and re-join the others, by now they must have reached the throne room. This was stressful, Hokori felt the extreme urge and need to be there with family. To be there, to support them, to help them. But for now he'd just have to deal with the cards he'd been dealt.

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