Aevus vs Tsukuyomi

[Tsukuyomi Kawada]

The pitch black fire that layered the great sword in the right hand of Tsukuyomi's demonic persona was something that this Shinigami would truly need to take precaution against now. If someone were to listen closely to it they would be able to hear the sound of the fire actually burning the air itself as the air flowed over it due to Tsukuyomi moving forwards at an incredible speed. This was the power of his demonic heritage something that only he possessed or perhaps his father had the same ability. The only thing for certain was that this Shinigami was reaching for his zanpakuto and Tsukuyomi was right upon him now bringing his sword down towards him vertically.

In the next moment though the dark haired Shinigami flipped over him maneuvering just enough that the demonic sword and the fire layering it missed by the smallest of margins. The arc that Tsukuyomi had swung his blade in didn't stop and the crescent arc of black fire that had been instinctively prepared to send off was in fact still flying through the air now. Just as the sound of shunpo was present the sound of the crescent arc of fire cutting into the trunk of a tree followed. From this point onward the sound of the trees body burning was going to be a constant if the two remained in this area.

Now the Shinigami was gone from sight Tsukuyomi had heard the sound of him preforming shunpo and now looked around the demonic blade now longer lit with the black fire. The blade found itself rested on his right shoulder just as it had been when he first stepped forth from the pillar of fire. It was a about two minutes later when the Shinigami reappeared. Tsukuyomi over that time had been standing there like nothing was going on just starring at the sight of the tree burning up and dying. When the Shinigami spoke that's when Tsukuyomi attention shifted toward him again.

The Shinigami gripped his zanpakuto and the demonic nature in Tsukuyomi that ruled over him right now seemed to take that as a challenge. His right leg extended backwards gliding across the grass getting into a different position. The sword was lifted from his shoulder and then held up perfectly horizontal and parallel to his mouth or well where his mouth would be. The blade was pointed right at the Shinigami and that's when the blade once again suddenly burst with black fire.

Tsukuyomi suddenly thrust the sword forwards in the direction of the Shinigami and the fire started to shoot off the tip of the blade flying through the air like bullets aimed right for the body of the Shinigami. The bullets traveled at a speed that most individuals wouldn't be able to keep up with let alone the fact that there didn't seem to be an immediate end to the onslaught. Tsukuyomi kept aim and continued to fire off bullets of fire. If the Shinigami moved so would his blade making sure that the Shinigami was going to burn for eternity.

Remaining Reiatsu: 150/700
Hell-Fire Bullets: {-100}

[☾ Aevus | Umbra ☽]

That damnable bioluminescent setting had grasped his soul once again. The varied hues meandered around his dark lit form as he found himself roaming through a narrow glen. A cyan stream fell through the middle as Aevus sauntered across its make. His black sandaled feet passing through the beautiful well lit stream rippling with each single step. A reflective brilliance shone above him, the twilight of Lumina Umbra was a marble of worlds. The two moons shimmered gently passing that pale sparkling light through the cracks of the branches.

The aurora borealis a curtain of varied hues cast across the sky. Twas but another symbol of light in that world where shadow and luminance reigned over everything. The twilight of Lumina Umbra a fitting name. He held the injury on his arm, the burn thusly causing him to wince in pain. It had seemed in all his efforts that he had been struck by the demon, there was no getting around it. It was beginning to get to him, the setting as well as that pesky injury. The sleeve of his right arm burned off to a singed crisp from but a single nick of the black bullet.

The pale skin of the man a darker hue of its regular palish color, it would heal but well he would have to burden the pain for a time. The heat had left a burn and with that had left its mark. This creature, this damn demon was nothing to be trifled with. His assumption that he’d charge had left him with this injury. He had ran along the fast moving projectiles, his body seemingly gliding across the very dirt but yet still he had been nicked. To try and predict the actions of a monster how impractical and questionably stupid of him.

He deserved it after all. He had been ignoring his spirit and even now he wanted nothing to do with the likes of the moonlit wolf. Her forlorn expression hauntingly breached him even now. That silver lupine visage settled into him and he would slip against a set of smooth stones causing him to stumble and fall into that stream. Deep dull voided blue eyes sheltered into that cyanic water, his expression had been blanketed with contempt for his clumsiness. A fist full of dirt clumped in his hand shook as he rose to one knee from the sheer agony of falling on his burnt arm.

He even would grit his teeth, even in this world dirt felt the same as it did in the real world and so did pain. Heh the real world, what made this place any different than there? This place sure felt real, Aevus would pounder as he felt the dirt slide like mud from his hands. It stirred in the stream shortly before dissipating into that cyanic luminance. A sigh fell loosely from the pale faced reapers lips as he readied to rise to his feet but a shadow shifted amongst the pine before him stopping him in his trial.

[smear:#008B8B]“Well, what have we here?”[/smear:00FFFF] A familiar yet sinisterly sly voice rang thusly reverberating in his inner ear. the voice was feminine, intimidating and slightly eerie. His pained expression would change to one of confusion from that familiarity and yet strangeness of that very voice. A shadowy vulpine slithered into view, cyanic marking similar in appearance to the wolf's black markings of fate covered her silhouette. Thin lined irises of a teal hue narrowly set on but prey reflecting the faintest of movements.

The curling of black lips that could easily form into a snarl, revealing startling needled teeth, The flattening of ones ears bringing forth ones natural instincts. “You aren’t her.” The shadowed vulpines head would turn ever so slightly as it kept its visage on the man.[smear:#008B8B]“Disappointment or is that a hint of reassurance I hear? Curious ever so curious who is this “her”?” [/smear:00FFFF] Aevus would keep his ground his fingers slowly grazing to the handle of his Zanpakuto as he slowly murmured her name. “Lumina Umbra...”

With that the fox's ears would flicker faintly from that very name. Those strange irises of hers beating into him with keen precision. [smear:#008B8B]“Light’s Shadow. My what a title, who is this "Lumina Umbra" ?”[/smear:00FFFF] Aevus would not answer the vulpine instead he would ask a question of his own. “ Who are you?” He would eye the creature but yet he would not get an answer at least not from the fox. The cold eerie aura of the forest shifted as a familiar form fell thusly into view.

“A cunning trickster.” A wolfish grin followed as the snow blanketed wolf of fate meandered into the glen. Her coat shimmering under the luminance of her domain, her silver speckled eyes gleamed forth from the moonlight.“You dare show yourself to this one?” Aevus would eye the wolf as her tail swayed past him much like a banner carrying the colors of winter within her very form, gently touching his very chest as passed him. [smear:#008B8B]"Oh “This one." Curious oh so curious who might “this one” be?”[/smear:00FFFF] The shadowy fox's silhouette seemingly danced as the creature began to circle its surrounding.

That wolfish grin would fade into a faint growl, the barring of fangs drowning out the shallow whispers of a creature not meant for this world.“I am one with the soil upon which you stand, the air that you breath, the light and the shadow that blinds and binds you to this place, this one is Lumina Umbra a wolfish spirit of this eternal twilight.” The wolf's tone shifted ever so slightly and so did her stance. She seemingly seemed almost proud in a sense as she took pride in her name and the twilight she resided. It wasn't a selfish pride either, there was a fondness and an ever growing respect in her very tone.

The fox would move ever so closer, her shadowy lithe form leaving black wisps in its wake with each careful step.[smear:#008B8B]“A twin to a realm that you have been bound and imprisoned too. Inside the bloodied blade that this boy so happens to shelter.”[/smear:00FFFF]The fox would eye Aevus shortly before returning her teal gaze to the white wolf, a sly voice slithering forth from those umbra tinted lips of hers.[smear:#008B8B]“And you~”[/smear:00FFFF] The fox’s voice became darker.[smear:#008B8B]“You are but a faithful hound in service to an unworthy master. You carry yourself poorly might I add. Reminiscent, no exactly like a mere mistreated bitch.”[/smear:00FFFF]

"Silence! You know nothing of our relationship!” That faint growl would turn into a fierce snarl as her gaze fell over the shadowy vulpine. Furs tinted of pure silver rose gently against the backdrop of meandering serene light as needled teeth sheltered within her very maw glinted in the night. A foreign carnivorous silver lined glare delve into the teal lined visage of a lithe vulpine who spilled forth venom yet seemingly seemed deeply unaffected by that surging anger within that moonlit coated wolf before her.

[smear:#008B8B]“Silence, curious can you hear the “silence”? You must be used to the utter quiet where all but the pulse of your heartbeat keeps you within rhythm.”[/smear:00FFFF] A single paw forward would cause the wolf to snarl even louder, humming in that silent air around the three.[smear:#008B8B]“That reverbrating deafness of being ignored slowly ticking away at your inner psyche where you wallow in that pitiful stream of consciousness. Like fleas digging into your very skin it eats away at you slowly whenever your dear master turns his back on his "poor helpless" lapdog.”[/smear:00FFFF] She mocked playfully at that last note, a hint of glee falling from her silver tongue.

“Hold your tongue or~” yet the wolf's words were snatched thusly from her very maw like that of a nobles gold purse from a slippery thief.[smear:#008B8B]“Or you’ll force me to leave? Pity for I cannot~”[/smear:00FFFF] There for a moment seemed to be a solemnness to the vulpines voice before settling to narrow on the wolf. [smear:#008B8B]“Yet neither can you.”[/smear:00FFFF] Her voice fell hollow as her clean incisors flashed in the glimmering light. Another step to the side, rippled the waters underneath her small blackened paws. She was getting closer slowly yet with another pitched snarl she would stop short.[smear:#008B8B]“Or will you rip open my jugular? I wonder if you’d even try.”[/smear:00FFFF]

“Do not tempt this one.” The wolf snapped her silver lined irises narrowed on that black coated vulpine.“This is Lumina's home. This one does not wish to leave but you are certainly not welcome.” She would snap once more, her heart beating out of her very chest as she cast herself in front of Aevus. The fox would stop in her advancement, licking her now wet paw in a similar fashion to a cat. With one paw held up she would continue, her teal eyes slowly glancing back up to the wolf from her paw.

[smear:#008B8B] “A home with no sun to warm you. A home with no one to keep you company, my how lonely you must be.”[/smear:00FFFF] The fox preyed deeper, her triangular ears twitched lightly as she adjusted herself accordingly and the white wolf would remain narrowed in on her position.[smear:#008B8B] “Within a permanent twilight you roam, forever cast between dawn and dusk. Forever cast aside from even time and even your unworthy master, yet you wait even with the knowledge that time does not move here. Stagnant in shadow yet you wait. It is like waiting for the light of day.”[/smear:00FFFF]

She would eye the sky shortly, her teal eyes reflecting the faintest of light from the aurora above.[smear:#008B8B]“Waiting, forever waiting for the needles of the sun to kiss your moonlit silhouette.”[/smear:00FFFF] Her teal lined irises would slowly falter to the wolf once more.[smear:#008B8B]“Yet you shall never leave, for this darkness will never waver for the likes of you. One cast in an eternal twilight, for you sadly like I, are but a prisoner to it."[/smear:00FFFF] The wolf's silver eyes fell to her paws, the cyanic water rippling. Aevus spotted it, he saw it almost immediately “But...this, this is Lumina's home." Doubt shone clear as day and there was no hiding it even in this darkness.

[smear:#008B8B]“You pitiful mistreated pup. Caged forever in a prison that you were born amidst with zero hopes of escape and seamless ignorance that it’s even a prison it seems. I will tell you now to save you from the grief, there is no key to that chained leash around your neck, for you Lumina Umbra will forever be but a shadow reaching for light.“[/smear:00FFFF]Aevus would rise to his feet at that, his eyes narrowed on the strange fox. “What exactly do you want better yet what are you?”

The fox's ears perked at that as she cast herself fairly closer to the two but another snarl brought her away. [smear:#008B8B]“What I want and what I am are two very different things.”[/smear:00FFFF] She would than turn her head as if inspecting the pale faced reaper. [smear:#008B8B]“Well I do suppose just one of those would answer both of your questions at once wouldn’t they? It’s freedom.”[/smear:00FFFF] Without warning Lumina thrust herself from her reflection rushing forward and skimming through that water on all four paws. Her silver eyes sheltered the dark form of a fox as she cast herself after the fleeing vulpine into the thicket.

[smear:#008B8B]“A hound without a leash is similar to a blade without a sheath, wouldn’t you agree?”[/smear:00FFFF] Turning around he would spot the same fox that had just fled.[smear:#008B8B]“I can tell you’re surprised, that was but a reflection a mere shadow.”[/smear:00FFFF] She would giggle at that.[smear:#008B8B]”I would never have ran from her otherwise. Your pet was becoming a bit troublesome. Had to give her something to chase, might has well been her own tail though.”[/smear:00FFFF] Her silver tongue danced from her umbra tinted lips as her teal tinted visage now centered on him and him alone.

Aevus would stand his ground, his sandaled feet brushing aside the mud underneath as the vixen began to circle him. Without Lumina there was nothing between the two and even with the vixens small stature he didn’t feel comfortable lowering his guard. “You said you wanted freedom but how does that answer what you are?” The vixen would shift her stance ever so faintly closer as she encircled the Shinigami leaving only about a foot between the two.[smear:#008B8B]“The mutt caught on, curious how you’re still in the dark.”[/smear:00FFFF] There was a hint of disappointment in her tone as she stopped before him.

[smear:#008B8B]”But alas.”[/smear:00FFFF] She would sigh.[smear:#008B8B]”I suppose, it can’t be helped for I could be one of many things.”[/smear:00FFFF]Settling on her very haunches she would go on, her teal lined eyes clinging to the man.[smear:#008B8B]”I could be a cunning trickster. a silver tongued thief, a shadow, perhaps even a poet or~”[/smear:00FFFF] she would soon launch herself forward at full sprint. Aevus would stumble shortly before catching himself as the vixen changed before him, a lithe form danced as a toe sent ripples through the cyanic waters. A silhouette of a woman would erupt from the shadowy wisps that encircled her previous vulpine form.

Long dark hair fluttered behind her as the vixen caught ground. This all had caused Aevus to become caught off guard, her shadow silently enveloped him as she fell towards the man. Non the less she would put her hand on his chest to keep her balance, glancing up at him with a strange hunger biting her bottom lip. Leaning in to his ear she‘d whisper seductively.[smear:#008B8B]“I could be yours.”[/smear:00FFFF]Her hot breath hitting against him, his mind raced as he felt the heat of her body against his own.

He didn’t know what to do, he was wide open for attack yet her expression would change to surprise as she gazed upon him. She’d soon dart backwards though, casting herself away from the pale faced reaper in her vulpine form, but it was to late. Lumina had already appeared out nowhere between the two catching her by the scruff of the vixens very neck, pinning her to the murky ground.[smear:#008B8B]“....Clinging to him like you were his shadow...I shouldn’t be surprised, i’d bet you’d raise a tail for him too like a bitch in heat if he’d only issue the command....”[/smear:00FFFF]

The wolf would bite down harder, her incisors pinching beneath the vixens neck causing her to wince in pain. 'When did she mark me?’ It would hit him, the moment she appeared the wolf's tail had just faintly brushed his chest.“Look at its reflection.” He could hear her manage in a muffled growl still biting down upon the fox. A narrowed gaze fell upon the moons reflection within the very water. Three silhouettes danced under its make all reminiscent of their forms above except for one thing.

Aevus’s grip tightened on his blade, as his darkly blues fell to the golden visage of a hollow. Everything fell silent around him as memories of past familiar dark whispers slithered throughout him. Soon that world would fade against the backdrop of a darker world. Lumina’s grip fell away from the beast as a shadow fell forth against the murky ground revealing the vixens form but again.[smear:#008B8B]“Alone again.”[/smear:00FFFF]She would taunt.[smear:#008B8B]“But yet again I don’t have to tell you that now do I?”[/smear:00FFFF]

Lumina would snarl shortly before shaking her head, her visage capturing the dark vixen before her.“It doesn't matter, he knows what you are now. There is no flashing your silver tongue to get out of that truth. You will just be but another monster in his eyes.” The vixen would giggle once again her teal eyes fading to that of a hollows. Possessing those infamous golden irises, black sclera and pupils.[smear:#008B8B]“Perhaps he does but I wonder how he see’s you.”[/smear:00FFFF]The wolf would snap her silver hairs standing on end.“Silence!” Another giggle would follow that as the vixen would step back into the darkness of the forest.[smear:#008B8B]“I’ll leave you to that silence.”[/smear:00FFFF]

Aevus was still moving but now he was clearly even more distraught than before. His zanpakuto shook in his very hands as he led himself narrowly drifting against the dirt beneath him. He couldn’t think, not clearly not now, not in this place not after what he had just seen. He was almost hyperventilating as he’d shunpo to the demon before him. His blade would slam into the creatures right shoulder if he even hit him(413 Strength). He had aimed for its gut but in his state he couldn’t even see clearly.

A hint of darkness fled from his cold visage hinting at possible hollowfication as he would kneel above the demon if his attack had landed. Breathing heavily, he had awoken to the world in a cold sweat and he was still not completely there. His hands shook as he held the blade into the creature, twisting it just to keep the thing there and cause it pain. “Don’t move demon or i’ll make sure you wont live long enough to regret the decision.” He would heavily sigh as if he was about to collapse.

“Whisper Sof~" But he would stop himself before he could finish the phrase, he honestly didn’t know what he was doing. Sure he had the reiatsu but he couldn’t release in this state, he refused to call upon her in fear of calling that other thing within him. His blue gaze adjusted to the armored monster before him. But yet again who was really the monster in this situation? There was a hollow inside of him and that made him an enemy to Soul Society an enemy to the people he stood to protect.

Reiatsu
2279/3380
Entei - 88
Shunpo - 50
Instant Jinzen - 100

[Tsukuyomi Kawada]

The demonic form of Tsukuyomi kept still and silent as the hell fire bullets flew from his broadsword. Moving his sword ever so slightly to the side as the sound of the Shinigami moving across the surface of the ground kept Tsukuyomi in the loop of knowledge. The Shinigami was sacrificing his stealth for the speed in order to evade the barrage of hell fire. Tsukuyomi kept silent though and then all of a sudden the sound of the Shinigami vanished. All around him now was the sound of everything being engulfed in flames.

The grass was covered in black flames as they spread almost instantly just burning into nothing but ashes. The bases of the trees and the bark as well was now alight and while the bark was thick and normal fire would take awhile to set the giant's of nature to a sentence of death the black fire seemed to just burn the bark itself off within a few moments. The armored skin of the trees were reduced to ash as the flesh began to sizzle cooking to the point that in a few minutes only ash would remain of everything on fire. The sleeve that had been caught on fire suddenly almost right after the Shinigami managed to rip it off burst into flames and like everything else was reduced to smoldering fragments of ash.

It felt like a full minute passed while Tsukuyomi stood there awaiting the attack of this Shinigami. Yet nothing was coming it was as if that single attack had been enough to kill him. The demonic side of the small boy was irritated that such a thing had been short lived. Now it was time to find something else to kill. He was just about to utilized shunpo in order to get from the forest actually planning on attacking Rukongai when the Shinigami suddenly made himself apparent due to the sound of shunpo displaying him. It came from right in front of him and Tsukuyomi knew that this Shinigami was going to strike him.

In the next instant the zanpakuto of the Shinigami found its mark and Tsukuyomi's black armor that layered his right shoulder was shattered. The zanpakuto had penetrated through the armor of Hell as that happened Tsukuyomi shrieked at an incredible pitch. It was one of anguish mixed with fury while it lasted for a few moments. It was when the Shinigami twisted his zanpakuto that Tsukuyomi suddenly stopped shrieking and his head moved downwards from facing upwards while he shrieked. The black helm's eye holes gazed downwards into the blue eyes of the Shinigami.

In the next moment the Shinigami would feel Tsukuyomi's right hand move upwards and grip the hilt of his zanpakuto. Tsukuyomi's armors hand moved over the Shinigami's as he starred into the partial black eyes of the Shinigami with a low eerie grow coming from Tsukuyomi. It was then that Tsukuyomi's body would suddenly burst with black fire overlaying his body. The hand that was over the Shinigami's would burst with fire and alight his hand. Just as he burst with flames though Tsukuyomi shrieked again and thrust his face forwards in an attempt to bash his helm into the face of the Shinigami.

Saisei Oni: 3/4

Remaining Reiatsu: 50/700
Hell-Fire Body Layer: {-100}

[☾ Aevus | Umbra ☽]

[smear:#008B8B]“My such a spirited young demon, why didn’t you kill it?...More so why did you hesitate to do so?”[/smear:00FFFF] Aevus swiftly jolted away launching backwards at that just barely dodging the black flames as they spread across the demons armored form, a golden visage drowned into his very mind under the moonlight of a prison made for two. [smear:#008B8B]”It’ll kill you, if you don’t end it soon...”[/smear:00FFFF] The surging black flames leapt around the two clad in black as he fell to the ground his heels digging into the forest floor beneath him.

His fingers tightly wrapped around his damn Zanpakuto as he let loose a hefty sigh tapping the handle from repetition alone. A hazy gaze befell him as he breathed heavily as the black blaze swept forth against the backdrop of the greenery around him. The inferno leapt sweat thusly from his brow and kept him ever so on edge. [smear:#008B8B]”Simply drive your blade forth through its heart, it’ll die like anything else....easy prey."[/smear:00FFFF] The voided hollow eyes still clung to his very visage only partially fading from existence as he attempted to regain composure of himself.

In his condition he could barely even see in the heat let alone calm himself. Yet he stood like a man barely clinging to life, his feet nearly buckling underneath him from the heat alone from the fire that swept around him. [smear:#008B8B]“Perhaps is it that you want to die here...?”[/smear:00FFFF] The mental anguish of finding a monster residing within him was pinning him, yet the voice of that hollow vixen rang familiar to his very ears and that concerned him even more. It was all to much for the pale faced reaper as he kept his ground.

Almost tripping over his own two feet as he shifted his position just faintly in that burning forest as he attempted to fend off the creature in his head while at the same time fend off the fiery demon before him. [smear:#008B8B]“Is it that you truly wish to die here...or are you frightened?”[/smear:00FFFF] The flames seemingly danced around the two as he stood there eyeing the creature through a smokey fog of ashe and fire. The demon, its body armored in more than an unquenchable flame but also thirst that couldn’t be described. [smear:#008B8B]“It’ll tear into you with no qualms or remorse of its deeds driven solely by instinct and unbridled rage alone.”[/smear:00FFFF]

[smear:#008B8B]“What’ll remain after its killed you...?"[/smear:00FFFF] The hollow eyes still beat against him in that inferno attempting to persuade him to end the life of the demon before him. [smear:#008B8B]“Is its life worth more to you than your own?...surely it cannot...can it?”[/smear:00FFFF] The distraught reaper clenched his blade at that. “Shut up.” his eyes still hazy from the flame and ashe around him as he whispered the words thusly from his very lips. The forest stayed silent for a time, the fire in the air singed his darkly hairs as he stood motionless before the demon.

[smear:#008B8B]“Worth more to you than that mistreated she-wolf who still clings to you like she were your shadow?...surely she must want to wallow alone in her prison just awhile longer.”[/smear:00FFFF] Aevus would bite into his bottom lip at that before uttering the same phrase in a hollowed whisper. “Shut up...” That foreboding gaze delve deeper into him preying further into his very mind. [smear:#008B8B]“Surly it can’t be worth more than that silly child’s dream you hold ever so dear... can it?"[/smear:00FFFF] Silence fell at that and the rising inferno seemed to disappear alongside the demon and the gaze of a silver tongued hollow.

All that remained....[smear:#008B8B]“Can it?”[/smear:00FFFF] was silence...... “SHUT UP!” Aevus leapt upon his toes, his form danced sluggishly in the dirt as he dove forward with one last shunpo, his blade held outward reverse gripped against the darkened black armor of the demon as he attempted to sever forth its blade and arm from the joint that held it in place as he utilized karin to speed his very attack while also using Shindōyoku (1425) to cut into him. [smear:#008B8B]“I thought not...” [/smear:00FFFF]

Reiatsu
1829/3380
Shunpo - 50
Shunpo Karin - 100
Shindōyoku - 300

[Amagai Kuchiki]

440 TP to Tsukuyomi
880 TP Aevus