Inner Strength [Training Thread, Open, R]

[Adrastos]

"There it is. Don't let it get away!" Lightening struck as flares of the inferno flames of the combined fires from the Shinigami stormed into a spiral of scorching heat. The beast continued to create distance as he stormed through the woods beyond Seireitei. The Shinigami became persistent after his departure from Rukongai. The mission to flee from Wycliff was successful, though carried with it the scars that was forced to persist, and lingered across the form of his body. A missing left arm, and muscles that were deeply scarred, with joints still recovering. Especially his legs. The ballistics of the Shinigami's Kido fractured much of the innards of his legs. He couldn't run at his top speed, and quite frankly caused him some discomfort. But this level he was accustomed to. He was a Spartan.

The trees were a nuisances to deal with. Baring his path every inch deeper into the woods, the Shinigami forces numbered in the dozens. Exploration teams mixed with a large number of their Defense Units if he had to really think about it as their numbers. Flashes of light struck the trees at his sides with his body jerking off course. Trees continued to fall in his wake as the King of Beasts stampeded without concern for the amount of noise he was causing. Seated Officers gave commands from the front and the center of the large pyramid shaped formation. Adrastos was in no position to fight right now considering the trees gave them too much cover. It didn't matter how many he would knock down in his rampancy, but with the thought of their being able to retreat and hide in their shadows, with much assistance from his partially blind eye, only made the task of getting rid of them much worse. He wouldn't be able to utilize his strength as he needed to in this scenario.

After digging into the ground, the Adjuchas nested for a time. A few days give or take, though no more than a week possibly. What energy that he managed to devour from the Shinigami before hand was utilized in restoring what injuries he sustained during his flee. He didn't know for how long he was gone, but during such time the Shinigami came to find the distant nest that the Hollow had made underground, and flooded it with Kido spells. The deep tunnel allowed Adrastos to remain safe for a time until they decided to venture further in. The tremors that their Kido's had cause striking surfaces within the tunnel. The consistent amount of Kido's shook the Hollow awake, stirring it from it's slumber, and clawing it's way away from the noise. The Shinigami pursued.

It was here that the Shinigami massed in larger numbers, reporting to those in the near by areas to aid in their slaying. They rushed to flank the Adjuchas. Both sides cut off by their numbers. "RRAAAGGHHHHHHH! the Adjuchas howled in rage. A single step he took carried emphasis of his full strength. The ground shook and rippled, causing a large wave of Earth to form and sway. The trees were uprooted from the ground as the surface cracked and split into large forms of debris. Their footing unstable as each one fell victim to the tremor. A single Shinigami stumbled out from the tree as his grip slipped from one of the branches. And through the heavy layer of dust and dirt, Adrastos had his bone mask open. Fangs drawn outwards, and snapped shut. Only the crunch and gnashing of bones within the jaws could be heard. Only one fell victim to the shocking strength the Hollow wielded, with only very few capable of matching it.

However, none of them were there.


1 Class 5 Shinigami

[Lisa Ko]

She felt the Earth rumble all around her. The cave vibrated heavily, and shaking her awake. Tremors, one after the other coming and going in short bursts. The song of the Hive was being disrupted and hindered. Lisa didn't like what was going on. She didn't know where the others were since she didn't see them in the cave. Maybe they went out to do something? Lisa didn't know what to think when it came to the new pack she resided with. The Spider, White Cat, and the Black Thing, she didn't really have much an opinion than what she had before. Probably because her opinion had not changed since their time of training together as a complete pack. Another tremor resonated into the cave, and forced the Hornet to pull out of the Cavern and investigate it.

Crawling along the surface of the hard rock of the cavern's exterior, Lisa proned and skimmed over the horizon to see if she could spot what was causing the tremors. Maybe something outside of their area would be making the tremors to happen. The first thought that came to mind was that of the Humans in Black Robes. They were usually the cause for anything loud that came around in the wilderness. It happened often with her other encounters with the damned Humans. Her crouched position shook again, with her sighting a large dust cloud out in the distance. It wasn't close by, but it still was a concern that could change, and come over to the new Hive. This forced the Bestial Girl to take flight to check things out to see what was the situation.

Large plumes of clouds tore into the air one after another. Bolts of light and fire whipped out from the sea of trees down below her. The whizzing of her wings carried her body toward the source of the fireworks and explosions. She lowered her altitude to take a closer look at the situation. She saw it. A large beast, mostly made of bone was rampaging through the wilderness with the Humans in Black Robes giving chase. Shinigami is what she heard one of the pack members called them if she remembered correctly. Still couldn't pronounce the name right now, but didn't matter as she knew who they were, and what they have done. Lisa wouldn't let them get closer to the new Hive. She couldn't let them. Even if she did nothing, there was the possibility that the larger animal could lead them into their direction. Immediately, Lisa's protective instincts kicked into overdrive, and ended up diving into the fray.

Lot of the Shinigami were sticking to the trees. Jumping and leaping into the thick brushes to keep out of sight of the larger animal. With it's size and narrow perspective, it would have a harder time in seeing them to fight back. One of the Shinigami leaped out of the brush, and darted to cross the back of the beast's body. It was vulnerable with that massive bulk. Lisa struck, diving down like a bomb, and spearing into the Shinigami's abdomen. Her lancers turned red as they were splattered with the Human's red fluids, and having the man's lifeless body fall to the ground far down below. She wasn't going to let the Humans get close to the Hive. She will not allow it.

[Rafael]

Hunting for enough food to feed everyone in their group was starting to actually get difficult. It was Rafael’s turn between himself and Zadora as it had been from the time that the two of them had originally come across one another and decided that together they had a better chance at not only surviving, but living more comfortably. It had been quite easy in the beginning, but now the pack was steadily getting bigger which meant they needed to find more animals. Sure the average deer was big enough for two days, at the start now though it was only enough for a single evening. If they were lucky there would be just enough for a small breakfast afterwards, but that didn’t happen to often.

He had to keep telling himself that it was necessary to hunt. He didn’t like the idea of killing them as he felt they were innocent and didn’t deserve to die. He had to make the tough call though and his animalistic nature helped him do that. He had once gone several days without eating and it resulted in him nearly losing himself to the hunger and attacking anything that he thought moved. It was difficult, but he couldn’t allow the others or himself to go hungry and if that meant killing, feasting and thanking the animal for granting them its flesh was necessary than he would continue. This was why he was out in the wilderness during midday with a small chain of rabbits held by his left hand. He had asked Lolth a few weeks ago to make a rope from her webbing and thankfully it was helping in carrying the food.

Moving through the wilderness Rafael picked up the sound of what he could now after several months that were filled with various convicts of the same nature, someone was fighting. Based on what he could hear though it was someone of immense size a bit of distance away. Nothing was more powerful than the curiosity of a feline. Choosing to see just what was going on Rafael rushed towards the sounds of conflict. It took him a few minutes but eventually he came across a very unwelcoming sight. There were a fair number of shinigami in the area and thus Rafael assumed they were hunting a Beast. Wasting no time the large cat jumped from the floor of the wilderness. Reaching high enough that he was just in front of the first shinigami and kicking the man horizontally across his torso with enough strength to send him flying backwards sustaining enough damage to knock him out while preventing him from continuing his chase yet not enough to kill him. Rafael would repeat this until he heard the sound of one of his own in the area. “Damn it Lisa. You better not be alone.”