Hell in the North [NDE, Medium, R]

[Jak Halcom]

"Alright. You may stay with us. But that does not make you one of us." For as wise as this Queen was supposed to be, she did assume a lot thinking that Jak had any hopes of being a part of their little group to begin with. He fallowed the four here on a whim, and a hunch that he would learn more about what was going in in Russia, which he has. His business was done with the blades, though he would not object to them helping him get back to his companions, and or help fight these "ghosts". "Asya, form up a team. We're going to try and hit the Ghosts from behind while they're busy fighting the Police." Jak did not care for back dooring the enemy like that, but he figured that he didn't have much of a say in the situation. 

As Asya began picking members of this team, Jak was busy stretching and mentally preparing himself for the upcoming battle. Most of his fights were one on one, or at least only consisted of small groups. This would be the first time that he had fought a large scale battle like this, with the possible exception of fights with hollows. Once the group was ready, Jak would also be ready. He wanted to get this fight started. He wasn't able to show his full strength the entire time he was in Russia. He was getting antsy to fully flex his muscles. 

[Kyomei Kuchiki]

As Gaara, the Bount Commander's sand doll was pierced by the shuriken, his arms were severed and dissipated into ash as he used Nebel on just the severed limbs. When they reformed they were going to still be detached from his body though, so he needed to find some way of healing that damage. There weren't enough spiritual beings in the room for him to use Immortality Drink to heal, and there was the problem of the powerful Uzaki Enterprises employees that could kill him if he tried to do too much. So he opened his mouth. Blood started to drip from his eyes and from his lips as he uttered words in a language that couldn't be understood by anyone in the room.

A pentagram opened up underneath him, measuring a meter in all directions from the Bount. Light shone upwards from this pentagram, forming a cylinder that went upwards even through the ceiling. Takara's shuriken were repelled from this area, falling useless onto the floor just outside the area of the rune on the floor. Gaara reformed inside the area of the circle, half the size that he used to be but still functional. The Bount pointed at a soldier on the floor that was trembling in fear. "That one." Gaara left the protective circle to grab the soldier and pull him into the safety of the pentagram where no one could penetrate.

Another infernal word, followed by more bleeding from the eyes and mouth, and the Soldier started to convulse. He shook and suddenly the room was filled with a very strong spiritual pressure. His skin started to crack and glow as the soldier was forcibly filled with reiatsu and quickly formed into what was known as a failure. Water poured from his hands as his Flood manifested for the first time. The Bount wasn't done with this man though. Placing his forehead to the new failure's face, carefully, the Bount Commander began to feed off of his essence using some variant of Immortality Drink that did not require the victim to be pierced physically but rather spiritually.

The essence of the failure flowed into the Bount as his arms reformed and reattached to his body. The wounds were just gone as if they had never existed. Even the blood from his eyes and mouth seemed to dry up and flow backwards back into his body. And he was completely healed, like nothing had happened to him. "Who's next?" The feminine voice of the man caused one of the soldiers to chuckle. The Commander was extremely unhappy with that, and directed Gaara towards the offender. The sand filled the man's mouth and expanded his body from the inside until all of his organs were mush and leaking out of his eyes and rectum... An extremely unpleasant way to die.

Only after that did the protective barrier fall, leaving the man once again open to attack...

Meanwhile, Jak was now arriving at the back of the Bount Army. Asya whispered to him, asking what he thought was the best course of action. A direct assault? Guerrilla style warfare? They were 10 fighters and the Bount force was easily in the hundreds. For a small tribe such as the Bount, these Fangs were very powerful. They must have found a way to convert others to their kind, else there would be no way that they had so much of a physical presence. Regardless, the plan was being left in Jak's hands. He had proven himself to the Queen and the Quincy and the fate of the 9 others were left in his hands...

[Takara Takeda]

Takara watched as the shuriken that she had manifested form the Omega Arsenal were pushed back away from one of the Bount that were attacking the police station. She had been able to inflict some sever wounds upon the entity and the options available to it at the moment at least to her knowledge were rather limited. That's why when it began to speak in some strange tongue that something unknown to her was starting. Just as she had predicted reiatsu from the Bount began to glow and as her shuriken were repelled backwards Takara knew that something potentially bad was going on.

This Bount had just turned his severely damaged arms into the black smoke that seemed to protect their body from harm yet made it virtually impossible for them to do harm to others as well. It seemed that inflicting damage to the Bount at the moment was next to impossible from what she was sensing of this strange reiatsu that had formed into a protective barrier around the Bount. Takara wasn't the type to mindlessly attack the barrier in the hopes that it would go down so she decided that if the Bount was going to hide behind a barrier she was going to use her time more effectively.

So her attention was split now down the middle. She had been giving the Bount in the police station already the majority of her attention and yet now if she sensed movement or saw it or heard it she would know something was going on and could refocus to it in less than a moment. What she was able to focus on more accurately though were the soldiers outside of the station. She had manifested weapons already and had been firing out at them more in general than anything else. Now though she could more accurately pick up the positions of them based on their noise and when she did bullets would be fired directly at those who chose to make noise.

Witnessing the Bount forcibly turning a normal human into a Failure of all things was something that Takara and the majority of other spiritual entities would have thought to be impossible. So when she actually saw him accomplish this many new ideas began to rush throughout her mind on what she might be able to accomplish herself. It was quite easy to make out that this Bount was using the Immortal Drink ability of the Bount to heal from the wounds that he had suffered. As his barrier came down and he was once again able to be harmed and in that moment both shuriken that had already been manifested yet reflects backwards were launched towards the Bount. In horizontal positions one low set to cut through his legs and the other high set to bi-sect him at the chest. Takara was getting tired of toying around with the Bount.

[Jak Halcom]

Once the team was put together they all set out. There were only ten fullbringers with them, which made twelve including Jak and Asya. It was not quite the force that Jak had expected, but at least it was better than him trying to hit the bount army by himself. He was sure that if Asya chose them for this mission, they would be able to hold their own in a fight. Asya asked Jak how he wanted to proceed with the fight. With only ten of them, a direct assault seemed unfavorable even with the element of surprise on their side. That was how he prefered to fight his battles, but this also wasn't just his fight. These people were fighting for their homes, and were putting their faith in him.

"Well I think a mix of both is in order." He said trying to think of a way to elaborate. "I do have a technique that could possibly take out most of them in a single go, but you guys would mostly likely have to protect me while I charged it." When Asya looked to ask for how long he would immediately continue barley letting her get the question out. ",for five minutes, and since we are facing an army...eh I think you guys can handle it." He smiled a little cocky smile "With any luck they will be too focused on the police station to notice us, so that will give us a bit of time." They would set up in the abandoned apartment buildings across from the police station.

Jak would look out seeing the hundreds of bounts massed outside. He didn't think he was so many spiritual beings all in one place before. To be honest it was a bit intimidating. He looked to his comrades and clapped his hands. "Well lets get the ball rolling." He made his way to the roof of the apartment building and lifted his hands up high. He called upon the energy around him gathering it all into one place. The ball of reiatsu would start out small and start to grow as time would pass. It would grow foot by foot, turning into yard by yard. He didn't know how long they will likely have, before the giant ball was noticeable, he just hoped that his little brigade didn't abandon him.

[Vesta Zweig]

Vesta watched, with Zorn near her side, as she watched the damaged Bount try to use Nebel to escape. At least, that's what she thought. With Nebel, it would be extremely difficult to actually hurt him as smoke. She had no idea what she could use as an attack and it seemed that Takara was at a bit of a loss as well. When the dome formed, she knew that attacking it wouldn't be worth anything. She had Zorn protect her back as she watched what happened in front of her.

What he did next appalled her. He took a normal human and did something.....vile to him. The reiatsu of the human exploded, changing him into something that she had never seen before. Then, the Bount took the human and sucked him dry of something. Reiatsu maybe? Not really knowing all the details of what was happening before her, she got angry. Angry to the point that she felt Death prickle in the back of her mind. The anger of watching him turn the human into a husk of what he was.

Her dam exploded. That was enough. While the Bount was reforming his limbs, Vesta changed. Smoke enveloped her and her skin turned white and the black scrawl started across her face. When he was done, Vesta was gone. Death was all that was left. Three orbs of Nether circled around her and if anyone was observant, they would notice that Zorn changed as well. He was now black with yellow stripes, growling aggressively at anything that came close to him.

She would sneer at the Bount and when the shield around him started to lower, she would reach into the closest orb and pulled out an unformed rod of Nether. Death didn't get to see much action, so she was going to relish the fact that Vesta let her out. When she saw Takara's weapons fly towards the Bount, she would shoot the orbs out at the Bount at the same time. The orbs would turn into three spears flying towards the Bount, hoping to injure the man.

Remaining reiatsu: 300/1000, -300 for Primera Etapa. Release posts: 1/4

[Kyomei Kuchiki]

Smoke filled the area that the Bount previously possessed. The shuriken and the spears hit nothing but air as he disappeared using the Bount stepping technique Rauch. The smoke drifted towards the back of the room, but a second puff of smoke from the back wall showed that he dodged backwards, hit the wall with his feet, then pushed off of the wall with a second step in order to be a surprise as where he would show up next. And his intended target was directly behind Death. He then activated Dritter Staat, the Third Form, to launch a rapid attack with his second doll.

A very large gauntlet reached out to aim at Death from behind while her nether orbs were on the other side of the room. If she was surprised by this and hit, bruises would form all across her back and potentially crack a rib. This was all done very quickly due to the step technique and rapid attack that required no vocal command like the first and second forms did. All in all, a dangerous attack but due to the weakened nature of the technique it would have a lot less power than if the Bount had managed to fully release his doll and strike Death. With this technique, the fist had none of its abilities, thankfully. It was, however, a pretty large gauntlet that was striking out. It could do some serious damage just on its own.

Meanwhile, the Bounts hadn't noticed the large orb gathering on top of the building just yet. They were intently focused on the police station and the fact that their commander was fighting inside. They were itching for a fight, while also dealing with the tear gas and volleys of bullets that were thrown onto their front lines by Takara. For now, there wasn't something to interrupt Jak's large chaos bomb technique, but that would change soon as the mod soul became a bigger and bigger beacon to any spiritually aware bount with decent Energy Sensory. Soon, they'd start coming for him. But the fullbringers and Asya were ready to defend Jak. They didn't know what this technique was going to do, but it looked pretty impressive.

[Jak Halcom]

Jak continued to focus his energy into the growing ball of crimson energy high above him. He would occasionally dart his eyes down to the throng below him to see if any of them noticed him yet or not. For the most part, it seemed that they were too focused on their primary target to care about anything that was going on above or behind them. That was good it would give him more time to stabilize the bomb. The two phased technique would be great for dealing with a large amount of targets like this. It seemed that some of the throng had decent levels of energy sensory, they were starting to show signs of noticing the bomb and by extension him. 

"I think they are starting to catch on. Hold them off as long as you can, hopefully not too many would notice before it is done."

[Takara Takeda]

Takara continued to stand in the police station watching everything that was unfolding the best that she could while dealing with the Bount leader that was attempting to eliminate or at least distract both herself and Vesta. The young Bount female that had been sent here along with Jak and herself had released utilizing her Hell heritage to change her body and obtain a different type of ability that seemed to be able to reduce most things that it touched into nothingness. It was quite the destructive ability and perhaps it'd come in handy with dealing with so many Bounts outside.

Speaking of which while this Boutn inside remained in the smoke like form that prevented Takara from causing him harm physically with any of her weapons to her knowledge her main attention shifted. While she still knew the location of the Bount inside by sensing his reiatsu constantly and listening to his movement Takara looked out at the Bounts that were slowly trying to get closer to the police station. Concentrating suddenly there would be three land mines manifested from the Omega Arsenal that would now be only two or three feet in front of the front line of Bounts.

That wasn't all however as Takara manifested a Bazooka above the machine guns that she was utilizing to lay suppressible fire down on the front lines. In an instant the missal from the bazooka was fired off aimed to hit the middle of the advancing force to cause the most damage to their numbers. The explosion from the bazooka held a offensive power of 800 and would cover an area of ten feet. Each of the land mines when they would explode would possess an offensive strength of 400 while covering three feet. While her attention wouldn't completely deal with them it'd definitely be worse than it had been since the attack had started.

Remaining Reiatsu: 1710/2640
Land Mines: {-300}
Bazooka: {-100}

[Vesta Zweig]

OOC: Sorry it's taken me so long! My work leaves me crazy busy and crazy tired when I get home. I'm going to try my best to start staying more active!

IC:
Death watched as the spears that she hurled towards the other Bount seemed to be ineffective. She growled low under her breath, getting agitated by the current predicament. The weapons didn't work and now the Bount was turning to smoke. She knew that technique, since she herself dabbled in it. She also knew the best way to kill this Bount was to get some sort of sunlight on him directly. He was in a weakened enough state to injure him pretty badly.

But, before she could do that, she needed to think. The only other Bount that she had fought at this level was Jin, so she figured that she needed to treat the Bount like Jin. She needed to assume that he had a great deal of experience fighting other races and his dolls were extremely powerful. She needed to make sure this idiot didn't hit her and she needed to try to stay on the defensive.

So, once she saw the smoke and it started to travel, she knew she needed to give herself some space. The orbs were starting to head back to her, but even then, there would be a bit of a lag for them reaching her. She immediately started to move to her left, trying her best to keep an eye on the smoke while she moved. She figured that even a glancing blow would be better than getting hit full on by any attack from the Bount.

By this time, the orbs would have made it back to her and start to hover around her in a tighter circle than they were before. She saw the huge gauntlet that was behind her and took a deep breath. This fight was going to get interesting. She looked at Takara, who really wasn't doing anything. She would shout at Takara, "HEY YOU!!! WILL YOU HELP ME AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS STUPID BOUNT?!" She growled it out while she sent another orb towards the Bount, shaped like a barrage of bullets, while Zorn kept attacking the ground troops.

[Kyomei Kuchiki]

Death nimbly dodged out of the way while she pulled her nether back towards herself, narrowly avoiding the giant gauntlet despite the speed of the step technique fueled attack. But still the Bount had to commit to the attack that he had initiated, swinging the giant gauntlet forwards and striking some of the nether surrounding Death as the dodge had been so close. The gauntlet absorbed most of the blow, but the rot seeped through and affected the Bount's arm as well. He felt his connection to reiatsu just up and die in that arm, canceling the summon of his Doll with Dritter Staat. He was now completely open to attack as his body reformed from the pain and the severance of his reiatsu flow. The rot didn't stop there, though, as Death flung bullets of it in his direction, piercing through his body and cutting off most of his reiatsu abilities completely.

This time, he'd have no way of invoking his demonic energies...

Meanwhile, Jak's giant orb of destruction was catching the notice of the Bount army. A group of ten of them started to rush towards Asya and the Fullbringers. "You best know what you're doing, Jak... I don't see this going down without a casualty..." The Quincy readied her bow and the fullbringers all released their fullbrings. The time for silence and secrecy was over as they rushed into the fray. The earth manipulator Fullbringer from earlier started by summoning cover for the group, while Asya rained down deadly accurate arrows. The initial ten Bount were down before they could even reach the building's cover, which was good for the group. Unfortunately, the rest of the army of Bount were now privy to their location. Jak should act fast if he was going to save all of the squad from certain doom...

[Jak Halcom]

Jak watched the orb of energy grow larger and larger finally reaching its desired size. Jak glanced down seeing the mass of bounts at the rear turn themselves around and start to charge their position. It seems that the audience have finally taken notice of the show. "You best know what you're doing, Jak... I don't see this going down without a casualty..." Jak smiled watching his small unit start to engage the vanguard of the incoming bount hoard. "Hold on, I just need another few seconds." Just about when he finished his sentence the ball was finished. "Nevermind." He shouted "Hold on to your butts!" He called out throwing his arms down and sending the ball down. 

the ball starting to accelerate down from the sky. At it's current trajectory, it would land right in the middle of the army. Yes it would have decimated the army, but the size of the blast would also damage if not destroy everything around them. He would defiantly have an earful from Kazura if he accidentally killed and injured his allies. Luckily for him, he had a plan to avoid that. He looked up at the ball descending down upon them. He fired a quick spirit bolt from his fist into the exterior of the far larger ball. With the stability of the large sphere compromised, it would burst into two thousand smaller orbs falling even faster into the hoard. 

The blasts wound home in on individual targets, but each individual blast was strong enough to take out a few bounts between the power of each bolt, and the fact that they were packed in so closely together. The bounts would suffer mass casualties no doubt demoralizing their moral. The sounds of explosions and screams of the dying was defensing. The bolts continued to rain down Jka watching the destruction from his vantage point. Sure that technique was powerful, but it had one hell of a start up time. He wondered if he would be able to find a way to shorten it. He shrugged making sure keep an eye out for his allies both outside with him and inside the station. The last thing he wanted was friendly fire.  

[Takara Takeda]

Takara while she was unleashing wave after wave of bullets towards the oncoming swarm of Bounts that were seeking to attack the police station knew about the leader that had been inside who she had been fighting alongside Vesta. However, it seemed that this hybrid had forgotten such facts as she screamed for Takara to aid her against the leader of their enemies because she had gotten hit. Takara could easily see that despite getting hit Vesta had managed to presumably defeat this Bount. His body was reforming right now and he seemed open enough as he displayed expressions of pain.

Very well though Takara supposed it was better to simply finish him off as swiftly as possible so that he couldn't reveal yet another remarkable ability such as the last. So strengthening her connection to the Omega Arsenal even more Takara manifested a long thick javelin that shined from what seemed like nothing even in all of the smoke as it's golden body thrust forward from behind the Bount towards the center of his mass. If he did nothing the chances were leaning towards this javelin skewering right through his chest and more than likely eliminating him once and for all.

Remaining Reiatsu: 1675/2640
Javelin (Class 4): {-45}

[Vesta Zweig]

Death had yelled at the other woman to help her, since it was obvious that she wasn't really doing anything to help, hoping that she did something. While yelling, she watched as her bullets hit their targets. She grinned evilly and raising her arms up to shoulder height for added drama (think bent arms in the old fashion evil cackle pose), summoned more Nether around her. It seemed like her rot was taking hold in her enemy and now was the time to go in for the kill.

As the Nether appeared, she formed it into more bullets to shoot at him. She watched in evil glee as her attacks went after him again, hitting their mark like before and killing the man. At least, she assumed they would hit like last time. She would cackle loudly at her good fortune and watch while her Doll was taking down some of the lower leveled enemies. This was the most fun she's had since she first sprouted from Vesta. Vesta definitely needed to get out more.

She would glide close to Takara, hovering inches away from the woman and watching the goings on. She would completely ignore the enemy they had fought, since she was so sure the attacks hit and he was dead. "Alright woman, since we have him defeated, all we have left is these stupid soliders right? Ooooo this is going to be a fun time for sure!" She giggles out the last part as she hovers, ready to jump down and get into the thick of the fighting if needed.

OOC: Release 3/4

[Kyomei Kuchiki]

Wounds riddled the Bount Commander as a javelin pierced his chest and more Nether bullets were sent into his weakened figure. Collapsing, blood poured from his mouth as he coughed and sputtered. No more infernal words were uttered, no more tricks up his sleeve. He was completely dead. Upon death, a red glow filled the police station. Wind started to pick up from nowhere as well as a fog that was pouring from the corner of the room behind the dead Commander. The wall shifted and changed into a dark gate that even the spiritually unaware humans could see. The gate to Hell. The Commander’s body was picked up and drawn into the opening gate which quickly shut and disappeared.

This Bount must have done something incredibly foolish to have a gate such as this appear upon his death. Whatever dark energies he had been messing with had caused his soul to be marked as particularly evil and worthy of Hell to the point that even the spiritually unaware policemen could see its opening. Shaken to their core, the police began to lose their resolve against this horde of enemies. At least, until they looked outside. Two thousand spiritual bolts rained down on the Bount army, each bursting with enough force to turn bodies into messes of limbs and gore. The army had been cut down in size severely, and their ranks broke and scattered due to the assault from Jak.

The army broken and shattered, and the ground scarred from the thousands of explosions rippling through the street, few enemies were left standing and willing to fight. It appeared as though the Fangs were completely destroyed by the two pronged assault coming from Takara’s Omega Arsenal and Jak’s Spirit blasts. There was little left to do especially as the rest of the army was up and running away. There was but a single figure left on the battlefield, an old looking Bount walking with a gnarled cane. Completely unharmed from Jak’s Spirit bomb, this Bount was different from the others…

The blood, gore, and shattered limbs of the a[rmy began to rise up and conglomerate into new bodies. Whole bodies, unscarred and unscathed, with glowing green eyes and glowing green tattoos. ”Death is nothing but a new beginning… Continue the assault.” These newly resurrected Bount weren’t particularly tougher than their former counterparts, if anything their bodies were weaker and without control over any Dolls. But these new creations were hardy, and could take a lot of punishment and loss of blood before they would die a second time. Bullet wounds could be shrugged off, loss of limbs could be ignored…

This war became much more nightmarish than before…

[Takara Takeda]

Everything that was happening on this assignment from Kazura was starting to get a little much in Takara's eyes. She had been here in the cold for far to long and this battle against a race that she didn't have any ill will against was starting to become disheartening. If all these Bount were Mod Souls Takara knew that she would be furious that so many of them were now dead. All she could think about for a moment was how eventually she might be seeing this from that point of view. If she went against Soul Society with all of her people together she was sure that they could inflict untold damage to their structure, but how many Mod Souls would it cost.

The appearance of a Hell Gate was something that Takara hadn't seen in the past and although she didn't hold any love for the Bount leader that they had just killed knowing that his soul was now going to be trapped in the darkest most evil dimension in all of reality caused a twinge of fear. She had already been comparing this Bount assault to her plans for the Mod Souls against Soul Society and what if she had just been given a preview of her own fate? Would she be killed by them like so many of her people? Had she already done so many ill deeds that she would be brought to Hell upon her death? She had to shock her head to fight off the grasp of these dark thoughts.

It looked as though the day was won as she gazed upon the scene and saw so many Bounts deceased. However, she sensed something first and then searching the battle field where her weaponry had torn so many apart she saw him. An older entity far older than herself with the spiritual prowess that Takara would expect from one of the Captains in Soul Society. Then she felt something different than anything else she had ever felt before. It was something wicked something that felt dark, something that actually caused a shrived up her spine as she saw everything begin to glow green and the bodies of the Bounts began to rise up. "Well this isn't going to be nearly as easy."