Stranded (DE, R, Closed)

[Asen Mahawa]

"Alright just watch your step out there." Asen said to her before she turned to head for the jungle. He's certain that this place is safe, but he's also certain that the real threat is waiting for an opportunity to strike. In any case none of them shouldn't let down their guard. For he can sense Reiatsu, but those who's good at hiding their Reiatsu could easily get pass his senses. That would end badly for certain because he focuses more on sensing rather than relying on his eye sight or ears.

While Hotaru headed for the jungle, he takes another look around for any potential places that they can take shelter in. There were some shady spots, but he didn't want to get the shelter too close to the shore because of the tides. However he doesn't want it to be too far from the shore either. So he had to look for the right spot that would be good for shelter. Its not just the distance and tide he's looking for, he's also looking for any strategic spots in case they get attacked by something. Which he hopes that they don't get attacked, but he has to take the necessary precautions for its better to be safe than sorry.

This was a bit after Hotaru went into the jungle as Asen walks around the clearing of palm trees here and there. After he did a look around in the area, he couldn't help but notice that being out in this clearing with a fire of any sort could be seen all around the jungle like a beacon. So after he finds a suitable spot where two palm trees about ten feet from each other along with a small hill behind the trees. He designated that this spot was good for both shelter and would be good to hide a bit from the jungle if he plays this right. Though it would have a good view of the beach and the ocean, they would be able to keep an eye out on the jungle as well. To make sure nothing tries to sneak up on the two while they try to sleep.

Now that he found the designated spot for them to camp, he now searches form something that could shield their heads from any sneaky clouds in the night. The first thing he thought of was to find a way to get those tall palm tree branches down. He could climb it no problem, or at least he's confident that he could. But one thing that's preventing him from doing that is he doesn't have anything sharp to cut the bloody things down with. So he's looking up at the palm trees around the designated spot and ponders on what could bring those branches down in one piece.

He has a hunch on how to get these things down without doing anything necessarily stupid. To test his hunch, he aims his index finger of his right arm that's held up by his left arm treating his right like a rifle. When he thinks he has the target, he fires a Byakurai to pierce right through the part close to the tree of the branch. The flash of pale blue lightning pierced through the wood and caused the branch to fall to the ground. He used Byakurai two more times to cause two more branches about the size of his height to fall down.

Then he piled the three branches in between the two trees of the spot which could serve as a type of roof or just have it set to be leaned into the ground and serve as a hybrid wall and roof. Asen wasn't sure yet as he just sets them on the ground and brushes the sand off his hands on his pants. "Now i just need something to bind these three." He mumbles to himself as someone was humming a lovely melody inside his mind. Asen slightly smiles as he knows that its both Augatsol and Nardras.

"What brought you two in such cheerful moods?" He asked his Zanpakutous both mentally and physically as he starts to make his way to the jungle. Along the way he picks up a thin, flat stone in the midst of the vegetation that could be used for cutting at least. 'Well its not like we have anything else to do. Besides everything in here looks lovely and it would be a waste to ruin it.' Augatsol answered mainly because Nardras is the quiet one. Asen just raised his brow as he gets to the jungle where he could find some vines. "Can't deny that." He admitted to himself and to his Zanpakutous as he crudely cuts the vines off with the edge of the flat rock.

He kept cutting until he had fifty feet total of binding material. Then he ties knots on each separate piece of vine together save for two ends to form two twenty five feet of binding material. Least to say that it should last a storm to an extent. He hoisted both rope like vines and started to make his way back to the beach. It didn't take him long for he was walking pretty fast because he wanted to have a place with a roof over their heads before it gets dark.

While he was walking back, he picks up a few dried sticks that can be used for both fire and serve as a support on what he has in mind. When he gets back to it, he has an armful of twigs and sword sized sticks which he dumps next to one of the palm trees and dumps one of the 25 foot vine with it. He sets two of the branches about ten feet and used some of the sticks to support them as they were bind against the trees while the branches hang over the spot which the branches would be propped by the sticks. Now that that's done and over with, he goes around and starts to pick up shells and rocks to help dig a small hole where the fire can be built. Which he does just that, making a five inch deep hole while having piled over it. The pile would be small though.

By rubbing two sticks together hard and fast, he makes enough heat to where after a while the sticks would slowly catch the heat and a small bit of low flames came forth. Of course the fire pit wasn't underneath the branches for he doesn't want to burn it down or anything. By now the sun was down just over the ocean's horizon and Asen was pretty much sweating mainly from the sun. His entire torso, arms, and face was red from sun burns. Granted its nothing serious other than his upper body looks like a red lobster. That was when Hotaru had come back stumbling a bit due to exhaustion he reckon with a deer over her shoulders. He gets up to his feet and jogs towards her for he was going to help her out until she slings the deer off and she passed out on the sand. Of course he wasn't concern about the deer, he was concern about Hotaru as pretty much slides in the sand to reach her. He turns her over having one arm over her upper back and checked for a pulse on her neck by placing two of his fingers. Relieved that she had pulse though it was beating rather fast, he would check her heart but he already has a general idea on how irregular her heart is beating from pushing herself beyond the limit it seems. He smirks at himself as he picks her up in his arms and brings her back to camp. He lays her down underneath the branches and against the bottom of the small hill. Then he runs back towards the deer and couldn't help but feel a heavy sense of guilt towards it. It doesn't stop him from grabbing onto its head and drags it for he can't pick the bloodie thing up without snapping his back in two. As he was dragging it he kept muttering "I'm sorry" to it, for he couldn't help but feel sympathy for it.

Thus while Hotaru lays asleep under the shade, Asen concentrates on trying to skin the poor thing. Though with what he wasn't sure for he doesn't have anything that necessarily sharp that doesn't use Reiatsu. Sure he has a flat rock, but that's not even going to cut through the skin without bruising the meat underneath. He sighs as he knows one thing that's relatively sharp, but it'll be completely wrong to use somebody else's Zanpakutou. Of course he knows how to clean it and everything, but its just be the fact that he's dirtying someone's Zanpakutou that gets him. Now he wishes Augatsol and Nardras was at his side. Reluctantly, he walks back to Hotaru and just about every fiber of his being was telling him how wrong this was. But he slides her Zanpakutou out from her sash and holds the sheathed katana over his lap. He's not trying to commune or anything that deals with communication, he just can't believe he's doing this. However the moment Asen touched the Zanpakutou, that spirit would be able to see and hear all of his memories and even how he felt in those moments.

He stands up to his feet and walks back to the deer. Meanwhile the spirit would be able to view at one memory in particular where it contains the deepest of his pain and what originally drove him to become a Shinigami. It was dark and raining on a gloomy day. He and a girl of his age, for this was back when he was alive... And his last moments. The girl was named Yukari, and from preserving all of his previous memories, she was his best friend and even his beloved. But they were walking down the street when suddenly Yukari asked him out of the blue. "Hey Asen...? Was i really born... just to get eaten...?" She asked me out of the blue. I was surprised, but she has been pretty distant over the past week. "Eaten? Like a monster from a horror film? You need to not watch those so much or else you'll start seeing things." I half warned and half teased her with a grin on my face. Her face just grew pale, as she looked down at the ground.

"I wish it was just a movie... but it's my mother..... she's come back...." She mumbled. I tilted my head to the side and wandered just what she meant by 'her mother came back.' "Uh... i thought she'd cross over by now. Or at least that's what i believed anyways. Besides if that was the case, what business would she have with you?" I asked her while rubbing the back of my neck. All of the sudden i'm getting a bad vibe, and i could sense bloodlust radiating very strongly from Yukari.

"Quite simple actually..." She slowly lifted her head up and what i saw wasn't Yukari that i knew. "I'm going to kill you... Asen Mahawa..." Her words echoed in my mind as it took me a second to process what she just said. "Yukari? Quit messing around, you're acting like you really meant it." Oh, if only she was, things would've been completely fine. But that wasn't what happened. Her eyes were pitch black and her skin as gray as the clouds above us. It didn't take me long that she was being possessed by some entity. Looming over Yukari's body was a huge creature that I had never noticed before, and it had a white mask with large teeth and a big hole in it's chest. I could feel fear and panic rising up my throat. I wanted to scream and run like a coward I was, but I just froze in my tracks.

Yukari raised her hand which slowly formed into a fist, and quickly falcon punched me in the chest with such force that I was sent flying into the concrete wall. Miraculously, I was still breathing. But I'm sure I heard a couple bones broke as an overwhelming amount of pain surge through my body all at once. My ears were ringing pretty loud and high pitched while my mouth tasted like iron.

"Still breathing I see. You're pretty sturdy for a Human to withstand such strength." The thing with the mask commented me as I fell to the cold, wet ground with the rain pouring down on my body. "Asen.... please help me.... I don't want to.... die..... was I only born.... just to be devoured by a demon...?" Yukari pleaded with tears in her black eyes. I wanted to somehow free her, wanted power to defeat whatever this thing was. But I lacked in power, and I watched with my own eyes as that masked thing chomped down half of her body and ate the upper part of her body. Only her legs remained and they fell to the ground like sticks falling from a branch.

I was shocked, I was hurt. But most of all, I was pissed. Trying to stand on my feet with tears rolling down on my cheeks and bitter hatred towards that thing. Only to be weighed back to the ground face first. Looking up at the mask creature, I witnessed it devoured the other half of Yukari and heard bones crunching while hearing meat and bone mashing together. Cursing my weakness, and I desired power. Power to kill that thing, but I was just a human being. Blood dripping from it's mouth, it's yellow eyes gleam with satisfaction.

Those are his memories that the spirit would see as he neatly skins the deer off and afterwards he takes his shirt and wipes as much blood off it as possible. He tested its keen edge by slicing his index finger without putting much weight to it. He uses his reiatsu to stop the bleeding as he drenches his shirt in clean fresh water by cracking a coconut on a rock and uses one half of it to pour on the blade before he wipes it with his shirt again. If anything at least her Zanpakutou is no longer tainted with blood. With Augatsol he can never tell if its blood or just her blade. Then he sheathes the Zanpakutou and lays it down next to Hotaru as he goes back and with his hands tears out the muscle tissue. His arms and even legs were crusted in deer blood by the time he got enough meat to put on two sticks and place it over the fire which is steadily alive still.

[Hotaru Kuchiki-Masurao]

When Hotaru reached Asen and passed out, she felt like she got transported. When she awoke, she was back near a beach. She slowly got up from the sand and looked out over the ocean. She thought that she had just woke up back in the spot that they were at. But, she looked around and noticed that there was no deer to be found. She thought that was weird. She knew for a fact that she had indeed went out to hunt and caught a deer. She dragged it back to the ocean before collapsing in front of Asen. It didn't make sense that now, the deer was nowhere to be found.

But, this was a beach. The only real difference is that there was no sunlight glaring down on her, and there was a nice breeze. It was very comfortable weather. She could picture herself just sitting around here, enjoying some time off while swimming in the ocean. It was then that she looked up. She saw something that she couldn't really make out. It was large, that much was for sure, but it was liquid-y, she saw it move across the sky. The colors changed to a myriad of colors. She had no idea what was in the sky, but she thought that it might be the thing that herself and Asen were actually looking for.

So, she decided to follow this beast in the sky. While she was running, she noticed that the landscape changed. The beach gave way to a nice green meadow, with trees and flowers in bloom. It made her stop and look for a minute. This meadow was like one straight out of her childhood. She walked farther and saw the dogwood and cherry blossom trees she would sit under as a child with the same exact bench. While walking to the bench, she saw the beast in the sky come down to land. When she sat on the bench, she saw something start to walk towards her.

She saw living quarters next to her bench and then there was another building next to it. "The building you are looking at, Hotaru, is the dojo. You can come here and train with me to your heart's content." She looked towards the figure and she immediately smiled. She knew who that voice belonged to, because there was only one person that had that voice. She looked and ran towards him. She jumped up and hugged him. "So my dear Rivu~aiasan, this is what you look like. I approve!"

He looked to her like a normal dragon, except walking on two legs. The scales were a pretty, deep amethyst color and his eyes were a beautiful contrast of light blue. He did have wings, but they were made of the liquid she uses in Shikai. He looked magnificent and she was so happy that they were to be together. He gripped his side and she looked with concern. "Someone else is using me at the moment. I believe it's your comrade using me at the moment."

It made sense to her. She brought back a pretty huge deer and he would need something more than a sharp rock or his kido to skin the deer to get to the actual meat of the animal. "I'm apart from you right now, but since you're in such close proximity, most of me will remind here. You are asleep, by the way. Sorry I didn't mention that sooner. But, I assumed that you would've figured it out by now. I'm starting to get images from Asen though." Since Hotaru was touching Rivu~aiasan, she saw the images as well.

She saw Asen walking with someone that she assumed this girl was a friend, or maybe even a best friend. But, with the emotions that she was feeling from this memory, she was very dear to him, meaning that she was probably the one he cared about over all the others. They were walking and it seemed that she, Yukari, was having some problems that Asen was privy too. After awhile, Yukari struck out at Asen. It seemed that a hollow had possessed her. It's not unheard of, just rare. The hollow then ate her and she assumed it then went for Asen.

She just watched Asen's last moments alive. When Rivu~aiasan looked less in pain, she figured that he was back by her side. She didn't know that she could see the memories as well, or that Zanpaktou spirits could feel the emotions of others that actually wield them. It was an interesting concept that she would have to keep in mind for the future. After he was put back and they got to talk about the inner world, she felt a pull. She looked scared but Rivu~aiasan just smiled at her.

"You are waking up young one. It is time for you to go back. But, now that you know of this place, come back whenever you want." While she was getting pulled back, he smiled at her and the liquid for her fire surrounded him and took him up into the air. She watched the liquid surround him and help him fly across the sky. He started to shift through colors again, but purple was still the most dominant color. It made her smile and when she finally woke up from her slumber, she was still smiling.

She slowly got up from where she was. It looked like Asen was busy while she was out. He had made something of a lean-to next to a hill. It seemed that the sun's bright light had gone down and bit and she wanted to hit herself for pushing herself too hard to get the deer, but they needed the meat. When she finally was sitting up, she looked down and saw her zanpaktou. It was just like Rivu~aiasan said. She checked her blade and it was clean. She saw Asen nearby with meat on the fire cooking. "Hello. Sorry about the passing out, I guess I went too far. I saw what Rivu~aiasan saw when you wielding him. I'm sorry." She stayed sitting, waiting to see what Asen would say.

[Asen Mahawa]

Asen glanced over to her as she started to stir awake, he was glad that she was alright though he fails to show it. His mind had been drifting in and out on his memories that he barely realized what he was doing. Not that he is worried about it for his body knows what he needed to do and it was getting the food done. Every now and then he would come back to his senses to check up on the meat to make sure it wasn't burnt like charcoal. Everytime he thinks about his past he just reminds himself how he became the man he is now. Its what reminds him on what the reason why he's so determined to get stronger.

He had accidentally burnt off one of the chunks of meat because he was too deep in thought to pay attention and it winded up catching on fire. But he put it out by throwing it out into the ocean and let the fish have it. Thankfully he had two good chunks of meat on sticks cooked to where it looks appetizing enough to eat though it lacks the seasoning. Either way it was edible at least. He preserved those two for them but he didn't eat either of them because he wanted to wait to make sure that there wasn't anything wrong with Hotaru. Sure he made sure that she had pulse, but he didn't dare check for anything else so he couldn't tell if there was something else going on. He figured that she might've passed out from both exhaustion and the sun bearing down on her back which was why he put her under some shade.

When she said she was sorry he looked a bit confused for he didn't have a clue on what took place. "Sorry for what? If you were exhausted then don't worry about it. I mean that's what friends do after all, and here." He hands her a cracked coconut that had half of the water still in it. He conserved it for her to drink when she woke up. On the outside he doesn't look like something's bothering him, his eyes had a little sense of determination but he still has sorrow hidden deep within them. Then he'll hand her one of the sticks that has one of the cooked deer meat on as well. "It might've been because of the sun, but just in case try to stay hydrated." She probably already knew that, but he feels better about himself by showing that he's concern about her.

[Hotaru Kuchiki-Masurao]

Hotaru listened to what he said and it seemed he didn't know what the sorry was for. So, he had no idea what had happened when he took her Zanpaktou. The look of confusion on his face passed after about a minute and then he told her she shouldn't be sorry, she was just exhausted and that's what friends were for. Thankfully, he gave her some of a coconut so she drank the rest of what was there. She was thirstier than she thought she was. She thought back about what she saw and she was curious if she should even bring it up to him or not.

Before she could really think about anything else, she got shoved a piece of meat. She assumed it was from the deer that she was able to capture earlier. She took the piece of meat and smelled it. It smelled good to her empty stomach. He then said that her passing out could've been from the sun and that she should stay hydrated. She nodded her head in agreement while she ate on the deer. While eating, she contemplated on what she should say to him about what she saw, if anything. She looked up at the sky and tried to figure out what to do about it.

She couldn't hold it anymore. So, when she finished with her meal, she put the stick back in the fire and looked towards Asen. She took a deep breath. "Asen, I know that you took my Zanpaktou to skin the deer. I don't care that you did that and thank you for cleaning him after you were done. But, I was in my Inner World when you unsheathed him to use him. I was able to see what you were thinking of when you held the sword. It was the reason I said sorry before. I saw everything Asen. I'm sorry, but I just had to tell you. I couldn't keep it from you." She waited to see what he would say.

[Asen Mahawa]

He was in the middle on eating his piece of meat when she told about that. He listened to her though his eyes were trained on the flames and didn't show anything out of the ordinary. But when Hotaru mentioned that she saw everything that he was thinking about he kind of froze as his teeth accidentally crushed the rib bone to marrow. The marrow does not taste that great i can promise you that as he just sat there. Then he lets out a sigh as he pulls the meat out of his mouth.

"Then you know on how i died." He finally spoke as he peels the cracked rib off the meat so that he could eat the rest of it. It wasn't much left anyways as he finished off the last of the meat he tosses his stick into the small campfire. "It's alright i guess, its not really a secret i just never brought it up to anyone. Besides i'm pretty sure they didn't want a whiny ass cry baby as their officer, and i'm also sure that some had a much more gruesome death or something similar." He admitted as he kind of chuckled while he was talking about the officer part. Surprisingly he's not all that upset nor does he appear to let it bother him.

Then he turned his attention to Hotaru with a smile on his face. "Speaking of which, i'm sorry for using your Zanpakutou. I know some people who are very sensitive and can drop the F Bomb if someone else messed with it. But i did my best to clean it to the way it was if not better which i doubt it for i don't really have the materials for it." He adds a slight bow to her as he was apologizing and he sat himself back up as he was continuing to speak. Then that's when he starts to hear something. "AAAAssssseeeeennnnn!!!" Augatsol suddenly yells in his mind as he feels her mentally going into a chibi form and gnawing on his head.

It's annoying to him because he can actually feel small teeth gnawing on his head and he shows it on his face by having his right eye twitch which happens only when he's annoyed. "It's about time you said something, i mean i didn't think you were even capable on being silent for so long." He tells his Zanpakutou mentally as he physically rubs the back of his head where he feels Augatsol's tiny mouth gnawing at him. To him it'll be such a pain if Augatsol managed to manifest into this world. "Hah! Proved you wrong genius. Anyways what the hell were you doing with another Zanpakutou?! I thought we had a bond or whatever you called it." Asen let's out a sigh as he starts to chuckle. "Well it's certainly a pleasure to talk to you too. Keep your skirts on sheesh. What else was i supposed to use? My teeth?"

[Hotaru Kuchiki-Masurao]

Hotaru watched as after she talked, he froze for a minute and he crushed a rib bone that was in his meat. She felt bad about that, but he just sighed and pulled the meat out of his mouth. She felt bad but she didn't want to hide that from him. He was a friend, and she didn't like to hide things from anyone, especially people she considered her friends. She felt a warm feeling and knew that Rivu~aiasan felt the same about it.

He then said she know knew how he died. He started to get the cracked rib out of the meat so he could finish eating. She just looked at him as he continued talking, saying that it was alright he guessed. Asen said that it wasn't really a secret but he never brought it up to anyone. It said to her that it was a somewhat secret to him. He continued, saying he was sure no one wanted a whiny crybaby as an officer and that others had a more gruesome death or similar to him.

She was sure that was true too, but it didn't change the fact that she saw something he didn't openly share. But, before she could say anything, he smiled at her. She returned the smile as he said that he was sorry for using her Zanpaktou and that some people are very sensitive when others mess with it. He did his best to clean it better than most would, but he didn't really have the materials for it. He leaned back and she unsheathed her Zanpaktou.

He looked clean, but out of habit, she started cleaning the sword. "Like I said, I don't mind that you did, because I know that if you had any other option, you would've used it. I knew using Rivu~aiasan was your last choice, so in that regard, it doesn't bother me as much." She watched as he started to rub the back of his head with his hand. "Are you okay Asen? You look like you're in a little bit of pain." She looked at him and was actually worried that he had done something to hurt himself. She hoped that wasn't the case. 

[Asen Mahawa]

He continues to rub his head as he can still feel Augatsol's teeth as he listened to her speak that if she knew that if he had any other option he would've taken it. So least to say that she accepted his apology about using her Zanpakutou. Still if he did had any other option he would've taken it, so he's relieved that she believes in him. Augatsol stops gnawing on his head but still mentally remains in her chibi form as she listened on the conversation as well. "You do know that its considered rude to be eavesdropping on someone's conversation right?" Nardras stated to Augatsol who got the chills as Nardras is pretty much Augatsol's older sister, but when it comes to power alone Augatsol beats her on that field.

"Hey! I'm allowed to listen to what Asen is talking about." Augatsol protested, but Nardras grabs her by the ear and pulls her off Asen's head. When she asked if he was injured or something because of him rubbing his head he kind of chuckled. "Nah, just my Zanpakutous being a little overdramatic. One of them didn't like the fact that i used another Zanpakutou, so she kind of bit me." He makes it sound like its no big deal in a bad way, in fact he seems rather glad that his Zanpakutous said something for once. Not that he could blame them for in their eyes he pretty much abandoned them. But he's missed his Zanpakutous since he's departed from them. "I'm more loikely going to need my Zanpakutous back by the time we get back. It sucks not having them around." He finally admitted and both of his Zanpakutous were filled with joy and mentally hugged him.

Then off in the distance there was low rumble that could be felt among the sand as the palm trees slightly tremble. This alerted Asen as he suddenly senses multiple faint tainted and corrupted sources of Reiatsu. "Hollows... Go figure." He mumbled as Augatsol's sadistic aura comes out of his soul chain. "Awww... If only i was here you could give me their blood. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't mind a blood donation." Augatsol spoke as he kicks the sand into the fire and dowses the small flames. "Sis i don't think now is the time to be losing brain cells to your sadistic desires." Nardras scolded Augatsol who barely heard her as Asen was already trying to confirm how many sources that's out there.

[Hotaru Kuchiki-Masurao]

Hotaru watched him continue rubbing his head and she was just concerned to make sure that nothing was going wrong. After about a minute or two, he answered, saying that his zanpaktous were being a little overdramatic. She knew that you could have dual zanpaktous, but she had never heard of the dual zanpaktous could have individual spirits. It was a really interesting concept and she would have to ask about it further.

He continued saying that one of them didn't like the fact that he used another zanpaktou, so she bit him. She didn't even know that zanpaktou spirits could actually effect a shinigami like that. She thought that it could be possible, but Rivu~aiasan never did that. It was interesting that his spirits did that, but she had never used another shinigami's Zanpaktou, nor did she ever want to be put into the situation where she would be without hers.

He then said that he's more than likely to get his Zanpaktous back by the time they got back to Seireitei because he didn't like having them around. She would have to agree with him on that one. After he said that, she looked down towards Rivu~aiasan. She could never just put him to the side like it seemed Asen did. But, she was glad to learn from him that he was ready to take his Zanpaktous back. In her opinion, he never should have gave them up in the first place.

Before she could say anything to him, she was the palm trees tremble a bit and felt a rumble in the sand. She couldn't really sense too much of anything, but a very slight blob of reiatsu off in the distance. She couldn't tell what it belonged to. She looked to Asen to see if he could sense it and he said that it was hollows. "Of course hollows would show up here. It's not like we're completely lost and have no idea how to get back to Seireitei, now we get attacked. This is just great."

[Asen Mahawa]

Asen smirks on Hotaru's remark as his gaze was trained on the looming forest that's a little ways away from them. He honestly doesn't know what to expect except they're about to get swarmed if they don't move. His eyes immediately grew cold and really focused as well as his senses as well. He can't get a good measure on how many there is on this island, but he certainly doesn't want to find out either. After looking around though, he lacks any decent spot for them to hide in. Especially with their Reiatsu out and he can't hide his Spiritual Pressure. It's not massive or anything, but it'll still attract hungry beings like he's bait.

"It seems we're cornered here, for i can't pick up any signs of us leaving this place." He admits as he takes a deep breath and due to the fact that he's no longer under such influence his strength flows out of him more properly. It's not the physical kind of strength either, it's the spiritual type as the area around him suddenly gets pretty heavy than normal. He's not using Gravitational Pressure or anything like that, its just his Reiatsu Strength. Honestly the strength felt good in his veins, it felt like he had power now and not helpless. When he does this his ability to sense energy broadens and becomes more clearer now.

"So far i've detected up to thirteen of these Hollows that's coming in our direction. Each one is either weaker or more powerful than the other." He informs Hotaru as he tries to think of a way to handle this. The trees would've been good, but they'll be sitting ducks and that would end badly for both of them. One thing for sure they couldn't take them all on. At least not all at once, in Asen's case that is. Of course he knows a certain Kido that might do the trick, but he's never used it before so he's not sure how it'll end and he doesn't want to use a Kido that he has no idea how it'll react to him. "Think we split up and hope to divide them up? My Spiritual Pressure is higher than yours is no offence. But that just makes it like a bullseye on my forehead. So i'm more likely going to draw more attention no matter where i go."

(Go ahead and update your stats after that training match.)

Strength: 133(45)
Speed: 133
Spiritual Pressure: 225
Reiatsu Strength: 362(543)
Instinct: 133(45)
Senses: 100
Energy Sensory: 260(390)
Healing Expertise: 25(8)
Total SP; 1,384 Points

[Hotaru Kuchiki-Masurao]

Hotaru looked out into the forest in the same direction that Asen was. She couldn't sense as well as Asen could, but she could feel a big area of reiatsu in the forest, coming their way. It was times like this that she really wanted to be able to just snap her fingers and get the hell out of this place. She was starting to not like this area anymore and was ready to get out. She really wanted to take a nice, long, hot shower or bath right when they got back. She hoped they would get out of here soon and the mission would be over soon after that. 

She started to look around this area for any good place they might be able to hide. She couldn't find any and it seems that Asen was doing the same thing and he couldn't find any either. This was not a good spot for them to be in. She then hears Asen pretty much tell her the same thing. He says that they're cornered and he couldn't pick up any signs that they're going to be leaving this place. She was just thinking to herself that this day just couldn't get any worse. She thought this mission would be easy too.

She looked over to Asen and she could feel that he had gotten stronger since getting here. Honestly, she had too. It was nice to feel stronger. But, she had to deal with the hollow now. Asen told her that he's felt thirteen hollows coming in their direction, all of them being about the same level, with some variations between each one. If the hollows got out onto the sand, they would have the advantage with their numbers. She was sure that they could still handle them. But, they needed all the advantages they could get.

She thought that the best way to deal with all these hollows would be to actually get them in the forest. In that way, they could separate the hollows into some smaller groups that they could handle a lot better. The only thing with that plan was that they needed to split up. Asen was thinking the same thing, saying that they needed to split up to divide them. He then said that he would probably attract more because of his higher Spiritual Pressure, adding no offense. "It's no problem, Asen. You're just telling the truth.

But, I was having the same thought as you. The forest would be the best way to give us the advantage and to separate them into groups that we could actually manage. You will draw more hollows to you because your pressure is stronger than mine. I like to think that it's not all about the strength of the spiritual pressure, but how you use what you actually have. I'm going to go to the right, you go to the left. Don't attack until they come to your area. No need to waste extra energy." She nodded towards Asen and ran to the jungle. She walked for awhile, making sure that she was a good distance away. She then climbed a tree and waited.

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{New Stats}
Strength - 200 (150) Points.
Speed - 250 (338) Points.
Spiritual Pressure – 270 (203) Points.
Reiatsu Strength – 250 (338) Points.
Light Aura - [70] Points
Dark Aura - [30] Points
Instinct - [100] Points.
Senses - [100] Points.
Energy sensory - [50] Points
Healing Expertise - [0] Points
Total SP = 1120

[Kyomei Kuchiki]

This is being graded as a Joint Training Thread due to the content that is less an adventure and more training. This is more beneficial to you based on the difficulty of the thread and the fact that it ended without mission resolution. In the future, please post Adventures in the Adventure section with the proper template.

+960 TP to both participants