Painting a boomerang (NDE) (PG-13)

"Nyaaaaaaah double baconator with ice cream......" was what Ray said as he scratched his belly in his blissful sleep. Raygin Kawada, 3rd Seat of the 13th Squad of the Gotei 13, was napping on his job. He was sent to do some patrols on Karakura Town; kill Hollows, perform Soul Burials on Pluses, be on the lookout for anything suspicious. You know, regular Shinigami stuff. But Ray wasn't doing that right now. He was on top of a building in the industrial district of Karakura Town catching some needed Z's. The Shinigami spent most of his time training or pulling pranks on his fellow Shinigami that he never really got any good amount of time to sleep. So, what better way then to take advantage of this patrol mission? He hadn't been asleep for too long. Maybe about thirty minutes. Not long enough to go into Stage 4 sleep, nah he was still in the transitional Stage 3 sleep.

Luckily for him he didn't enter Stage 4 or he would have been very grumpy when he woke up. Ray woke up when his ability to sense energy kicked in. Normally, subtle things wouldn't even phase him but the combined reiatsu strength of three hollows was more than enough to cause him to open his eyes. The young man sat up and rubbed his eyes a few times. His mind was still a little fuzzy but he could still feel the Hollows. He wasn't able to pinpoint them just yet but if given a few moments Ray would be able to locate them with no problem. So in the meantime he leaned against the buildings railing and closed his eyes to focus.

Ask a person what sensing energy is like and they will usually always answer differently. If you asked Ray what he thought the ability was like he would say it was like your mind was a sonar. The best way for Ray to describe the feeling of reiatsu was like fuzzy feeling in his head in the direction of the source. But it was more than that. It wasn't just a fuzzy feeling. This would be the point that Ray would begin to babble and not make sense. He would lose focus and shut down.

Ray shook his head clear of his drowsiness and focused. His minds eye depicted three large hollows. Each appeared to his mind like a mass of light, being brighter if they were stronger. The Shinigami decided to go deal with them as he placed his foot on the railing to kick off of it. But something happened that caught him off guard. A new source of energy that made Ray blink. This source had reaitsu stronger than the Hollows. Ray couldn't see the fight but he could tell the Hollows were losing. One by one the Hollow reiatsu vanished until all that remained was the fourth source. "Whoa! That was pretty good. I wonder who that was?" Ray asked himself as he leapt from the building. He fell for about two stories before activating air ground.

Ah air ground was such a useful ability. Too bad Shinigami couldn't fly. That would just be cooler. Ray dashed towards the source creating a road of solid reishi below his feet so he didn't fall. As Ray got closer the unknown source of reiatsu began to feel...odd. It didn't feel like a Shinigami at all. No, this reiatsu felt....alive? Not only that this reiatsu felt like a Hollows. Did Ray such feel a Hollow fight? One Hollow eating three? Considering the strength of reiatsu Ray was feeling from this source he could be heading into a dangerous fight.

Ray stopped his run when he felt he was right over the unknown thing. Ray still hadn't figured out what it was. It felt Hollow yet at the same it didn't feel Hollow. Rays sensing abilities were going crazy. Ray lowered himself onto the ground and looked over at the warehouse he felt the energy from. He stepped inside carefully nervous of some kind of ambush. Ray could still feel the source of energy in the warehouse and then laid his eyes on...him?

It was a human? The source was coming from a human? Wait, that had to be wrong maybe the Hollow had taken a human form? Ray bonked his head a few times to try and fix his senses. But no, the energy source was coming from this human? But how? Humans weren't supposed to have this much spiritual power. Then the human spoke to Ray, and frankly it wasn't a very nice thing to say. "I’m not in a good mood, I’m in a very bad mood! Unless you want a beating by me you better clear out now!"

Ray frowned and raised a eyebrow. "Hey! Pull the stick outta your butt and calm down. I aint here to fight I came here because I felt Hollows, which I see you took care of. Thanks for doing my job! Makes my life easier and I get easy money." Ray chuckled. "But how did you take care of the Hollows? Are you a Shinigami in a Gigai? Or are you a Hollow in a human form? You feel like a Hollow to be honest, but you don't seem like one..." Raygin said. He then noticed something behind Kennon. "Are you a painter?" Ray asked the Fullbringer.

"Well? Are you gonna clear out or not? I don’t wanna fight but if I got to I’ll fucking pulverise you!" "Hey! Quit being so butthurt! There is no reason to be saying fuck. Fuck aint a nice word so don't say fuck okay!" Ray shouted back at Kennon. Seriously, what was this dudes problem anyways? Ray hadn't done a single thing to make this guy mad for once. Ray kept his hand on his Zanpakuto as he looked back at the canvas. Suddenly that little thing in his brain that caused Ray to troll came to life. It wormed its way into every part of the brain and took over. "Oooooh I get it. You're mad because you suck at your art? Is that it? There aint no french girls you can paint? I bet you like to draw boobies." Ray teased with that dumb grin of his. He snickered as he looked at Kennon to see his reaction.

Remaining Reiatsu: 3000 / 3000

Raygin blinked when he saw Kennon react just like he wanted. Kennon was angry and raging, just what a troll like Ray wanted to see. But when Kennon activated his fullbring Rays smile vanished and turned into a look of surprise. "Paint...bomb?" what a silly name. His knife turned into another knife and not into a bomb. So why was it named Paint Bomb? Besides, what was it that just happened? Kennons reiatsu flared up as the fight began and Ray noticed the reiatsu coming from his weapon. His knife had changed shape and was now a magical weapon.

Wait! Ray was piecing it together. Hollow like energy, a huamn who could kill Hollows, a shapeshifting weapon. Ray figured it out. This guy was a Fullbringer. Ray felt incredibly stupid that he had forgotten what he had been told about these guys. The Hollow like energy should have clued Raygin in, but it hadn't so now Ray was here fighting one. Brain! Why did you make me piss this guy off!? Because trolling is fun! Not when it causes things like this to happen!! Remember what happened to the Kuchiki, that didn't end well!! It was still fuuuuuuuuun Ray and his trolling brain argued as Kennon released his paint wave.

Raygin used his superior speed and the distance between them to dash to the left away from the paint. He managed to avoid it completely and looked at it. "Paint?" Ray asked himself. Suddenly Kennons energy was moving causing Ray to look in his direction. Kennon was fast and was going in for a close ranged attack. Maybe Kennon would have been able to sneak up on Ray if it hadn't been for the fact Ray could sense Kennons reiatsu. Kennon proceeded to perform a front flip right in front of Ray. Did this guy really think the Shinigami would just stand there in awe? No, Ray used his superior speed to side step Kennon before he began his lunge with the knife. Ray stopped moving away when he was about ten feet from Kennon. He aimed a finger at Kennon and said the spell "Hado #1 Sho!". Since Kennon would have to land and regain his balance he would easily be struck by this instant cast Kido. Even with a 100 difference in Reiatsu Strength the spell would still send Kennon flying backwards and into the wall of the warehouse.

Whether or not the attack hit, Raygin didn't stick around. This guy had a liquid like attack and being in a confined place like a warehouse would not be a good thing for Ray. He would have dashed from the warehouse but noticed that the paint that Kennon had thrown earlier was in the way. It may have been paint but Ray didn't trust it. Plus, Ray could detect reiatsu inside of it. How was he going to get out? The Shinigami smirked and jumped backwards towards the wall to his back. Instead of striking it he phased right through it like a ghost. Being made of reiatsu had its benefits, like being able to ghost through solid objects not made from reishi. Now that he was outside Ray went up utilizing air ground to get about four stories above the warehouse. Here he drew his Zanpakuto. He could still feel Kennon and waited for him to come.

Remaining Reiatsu: 2975 / 3000
-25 for Sho

As Raygin waited for Kennon to finally exit the warehouse he ended up starting a conversation with his Zanpakuto. Ever since Raygin had unlocked the full power of his Zanpakuto, Zero popped out a lot more often and seemed to enjoy talking with Ray a bit more than he did. "So, Zero, what do you think of this guy? Think he can give us a good workout?"[/i] Ray asked through thought as he looked to his left. Floating beside him was a large white wolf. The wolf had a pair of hawk feathers tied around his left ear and marking running under his eye. Zero also gained a few new features since Ray last saw him such as a pair of wings growing out of his forelegs. The wolf had popped up since Ray was waiting.

The wolf shrugged, as much as a canine could do, and looked over at Ray. "Perhaps and perhaps not. You've gained power but don't get cocky pup. You don't know the full extent of this mans powers. Stay alert. He doesn't seem to be like the last human you fought though so be relieved about that." Zero responded. Ray nodded and remembered the last human he had fought. The man with the gas mask. The Shinigami shivered with a bit of fright when he remembered how Pavel had transformed like he did. But Kennon didn't seem to be like that. This made Ray realize that Fullbring powers could be as diverse as a Shinigamis. Ray yawned before he felt the energy source inside the warehouse move.

Zero vanished as if expecting what was going to happen leaving Ray alone in the air. He looked down to Kennon and couldn't help but feel a bit...divine. Raygin was a Shinigami, a God of Death, and here he was looking down on a human. Raygin finally drew his Zanpakuto and looked it over. His sword retained its usual look and customizations. Three red lines covering the faces of the blade. Hawk feathers tied around the base of the grip. Ray smiled as he looked down to see what Kennon was doing now.

The human had made his way out of the warehouse and was looking around for Ray. This made the Shinigami chuckle. He felt like he was playing hide and seek with Kennon. When the human looked up all Ray could do was shout "You found me!" When Kennon shouted up at Ray about him hiding the Shinigamis eyebrow raised. "Me hiding? It's called strategic positioning" Ray responded. Being up here meant Ray had the advantage of....well being up high. Having no walls, or floor, or ceiling meant whatever effect Kennons paint had would be useless. That paint though. Thinking about it just made Rays eyes narrow. That weapon wasn't just going to be using plain paint. It would make no sense. If it had just been regular paint then why had Raygin sensed reiatsu in the first wave of paint? The paint did something. It was more than it appeared to be.

It could paralyze me. Weaken me. Keep me from casting Kido. Poison me. Cause me to see illusions. There are any number of things a liquid based ability can perform. Either way, it seems he needs to get it on me...but I shouldn't risk even getting near it. It could explode![/i] Raygin snickered to himself Exploding paint? That's a good one.[/i] Rays snickering turned into chuckles. Thats when he saw Kennon suddenly running up at him. This caused Rays laughter to be cut short as he blinked in surprise. "You can use air ground?" Raygin asked Kennon in surprise as he got ready for Kennons attack. The human swung his knife twice and released even more paint.

More paint![/i] Raygin thought to himself as he ducked beneath the first wave and used a Shunpo to avoid the next one. Raygin reappeared a good twenty yards behind Kennon. Ray wasn't be cowardly he was being careful. Just like last time Raygin felt reiatsu in the paint causing him to grow nervous of it. The 3rd Seat wasn't stupid, despite his actions, and was not going to rush in wildly. His actions might piss the human off, but it didn't matter. The angrier that human got the more he would try to attack Ray. Kennon was fast, not to far under Rays own max speed, but Ray was still faster. He had the senses of a normal human but with his training in Energy Sensing Ray could work around the weaknesses of his eyesight and hearing.

He was trying to get that paint on me...[/i] Ray thought as he looked at Kennon. Another reason why Ray wanted to keep his distance was because he didn't know physically strong Kennon was. Raygin could easily tell how powerful his reiatsu was, which was something that made Ray even more worried, but so far Ray didn't have a technique to gauge a enemies strength. While Kennon may have had stronger reiatsu, Raygin had more than Kennon. The Shinigami needed a plan. There was too many what-ifs right now to actually attack. But perhaps attacking was the best way to figure out what he had to do. Rays eyes settled onto the knife Kennon had and came to the conclusion that the paint came from that. Fighting with a knife meant you had to get in extremely close. Using a Zanpakuto meant Raygin had the distance advantage with the two weapons but then Kennon had a ranged attack as well. Damn, the last time Ray fought someone with a knife it did not end well. Ray decided the best way to attack now was to use a tactic that was working. "What did the fat painter say to his wife? I wanna go to the paint shop I can get thinner." Ray told a terrible joke.

Remaining Reiatsu: 2925 / 3000
-50 for Shunpo

Well crap. Turns out that the paint did in fact explode. Ray would have cursed his bad luck but unfortunately the resulting explosion over his head caused him to become quite stunned. Ray was not able to cope with the pain so he fell straight down. The ringing in his ears, his throbbing head, and the confusion of the situation all combined into a daze that cursed Ray. The Shinigami fell straight towards Kennons incoming wave of paint. The Shinigami managed to get out "Your art still...blows." before he succumbed to unconsciousness.

The explosions as well as the fall would hurt Ray quite a bit but in no way where they fatal. He would be out of commission for awhile and most likely receive a scolding from his Kawada higher ups when he recovered, but he would live and learn from this. Next time though, Ray would be ready and he would know. Kennon revealed his attack to the Shinigami while Ray did not reveal his.

Remaining Reiatsu: 2925 / 3000