SOS Means HELP!! [Ryo/JT]

[Ludwig Verrlicht]

Once Ludwig got over his high from finally being at his pinnacle he simply smiled. But the smile was anything but kind of normal. It was honestly sort of sinister and held nothing good for the hollows. This was the most easily seen as Ludwig simply stepped behind the single headed dog and punched the head clean off of it's neck. Ludwig though not physically strong had long since figured he could simply apply a sho to the end of his fist and make a cheaper, and occasionally weaker pseudo shockwave. But given it was backed by 1400 RS it was anything but weak. Even stranger was that despite having almost literally exploded the head there wasn't a stain on Ludwig because even the blood had been repelled elsewhere on the ground. "Normally I'd prefer to use a less lethal method for canine companions. But let's be fair you were a bad sort before you dared attempt being a canine companion. So, sorry but you just got in my way. Now onto another BAD DOG. 



That's when Ludwig glanced with a sort of twisted glee to the two headed canine. "Bonkers please take care of our guests . They're so eager to meet us as it is, it'd be rude to do anything but lay out the red carpet for them." Bonkers seemed a little unnerved at the request but simply nodded and ran off towards the sacks the two headed canine was guarding. Emphasis on was because Ludwig without missing a beat had shunpo'd again and quite literally slapped the hound away with a frying pan no less. One backed by a show. The canine was launched almost 100 feet away and violently so. Hell it had a new body marking from where the frying pan had hit. But it wasn't a pack leader for nothing it had managed to survive the attack despite how much power had been behind it.



That wouldn't last. Ludwig had in the meantime started cooking a fireball. Having even pulled out a chef's hat and a cartoonish salt and pepper vial. The pan was right before him and currently "sauteing" the fireball as he spiced it up. Ludwig even managed to take a spark and taste it. Obviously burning his tongue and frowning. "Ugh, I burnt it again. One day I'll get this right. Ah well I can always give it to the family pet. They always want the tablescraps anyway." With that said ludwig flipped the fireball into the air and then slammed the fireball like it was a tennis ball and his frying pan was a tennis racket. The hollow didn't stand a chance. There wasn't even ashes once the explosion was done. It was simply gone.



As for Raph the cat mercifully decided to leave Raph's shoulder. It however did not look happy about the fact and thus seeing the spider it decided who it was going to take it's anger out on. Thus it ran after it and mauled it to death with it's fiery claws. To Raph's horror it was like a hot knife through butter. Quick, painful, and the smell of burning flesh was actually awful. Even if said flesh was dissolving from the hollow dying in the process. A couple moments later and the cat was satisfied with itself. It's flames actually managed to go back to the light orange-yellow it was prior. Without Raph's consent it decided to return to it's rightful place, on his head. It was warm but nowhere near as smouldering hot as it was prior. Within moments it had returned to it's catnap.



As for the fullbringer and the shinigami managed to deal with the remaining hollows the two trapped in the fungal sacks finally managed to rip their way out. With Raph's help no less. The rock had managed to impale one of sacks but it hadn't harmed the individual inside given just how surprisingly thick the sack had been. And worse yet unlike the hollows these were intelligent enough to cut a hole in not only their own sake but their companions sack. This allowed the two to dropped down to the ground. And it was immediately apparent that whatever they used to be, neither were able to be salvaged. They could only be given the mercy of death and spared from whatever existence this was.



The fullbringer looked like your everyday business man albiet his clothes absolutely degenerated. Shoulder up he was just a bed of fungus and lower down his clothing was torn, eaten at, and thinned in various places. Hell even his arms had some small signs of more fungas trailing down and intermingling with his muscles. It was utterly horrifying, especially if Raph noticed that he could see the fungus move under the skin and the body following shortly after.



It "glanced" around but once done it immediately used Bringer Light to step within 30 feet of Raph and then stomped on the ground with it's right foot. Within a few moments 4 tendrils of fungus rose out the ground and immediately shot out towards Raph. Though the fullbringer was possessed there was no denying how potent this man's soul command had been. The tendrils were strong (800 os) having been dominated by the fullbringer and moved at 600 speed towards him all coiled together to ensure if they hit, they'd kill.From there the fullbringer simply walked around the tendrils and pulled out a police baton. Keeping it at the ready in the event Raph tried to come at him.



As for the Shinigami what remained was barely "humanoid". It'd been cut nearly in half prior to being placed in the sack. And the flesh that would have been open to the world was covered entirely with fungus and mold. In fact their entirity was fungus and mold. The only thing that wasn't covered in this old and fungus was it's legs and it's cleaver for a zanpakuto. The remainder of the body however was covered in growths. No inch of flesh spared and it was so bad that the original gender of this individual could not be known anymore. And aside from the zanpakuto the only thing that told anyone it was a shini was the shikasho that remained around it's waist as a kilt. Torn, faded, and all but hanging by threads now.



It immediately went after Bonkers and began cutting away him with more speed and presicion than anyone present would have thought. Ludwig however simply watched. No intent of joining in until Bonkers had either killed the "man" or been killed. Bonkers on the other hand was currently flexing itself nearly full body to avoid taking any lasting damage. But the problem was the shinigami's speed was still leagues higher than his own. Quite literally doubled. And then it happened, the shinigami took a moment to flip his cleaver to it's backside and within moments use a technique that even Ludwig had never seen. The blade was then thrust with some flames spawning around it. And upon landing on Bonker's arms sent him flying backwards 30 feet before falling on his ass. While he didn't have a hole through him bonkers arms were heavily damaged and the large amount of disgustingly colored swelling. Hell the skin atop the brusing looked burnt from the flames that had surrounded the blade at the time. Once it "breathed" the shinigami shunpo'd and went right back at it pinning Bonkers yet again.

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{Remaining Enemies}1 possessed fullbringer
1 possessed shinigami

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{Reiatsu}-62 for the cat
-93 for Bonkers
-25 for Sho
-100 for Shunpo x2
-50 for the frying pan
-50 for the fireball

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{Possessed fullbringer reference}

{Possessed Fullbringer stats}Strength: 100 (55)
Speed: 300
RS: 400 (800)
SPPR: 200
Instinct: 300 (195)
Senses: 100
ES: 200 (400)
HE: 0

Skills:
Battle Analysis: 2
Soul Command: 2
Pain Tolerance: 2
Bleeding Tolerance: 2
Acrobatics: 2
Analyzing: 2

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{Possessed Fullbringer reiatsu}-50 for bringer light
-150 for Soul Dominance for fungus tendrils

2,000 - 200 = 1,800 reiatsu remaining

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{Reference for Possessed Shinigami}

{Possessed Shinigami Stats/skills}Strength: 400 (600)
Speed: 400 (800)
RS: 50 (25)
SPPR: 100 (50)
Instinct: 250
Senses: 150
ES: 50
HE: 0

Skills:
Weapon: cleaver 2
Battle Analysis: 2
Bleeding Tolerance: 2
Pain Tolerance: 2
Damage Recovery: 2
Poison Tolerance: 2

[Raphael Laurent]

The fullbringer had freed itself, despite his best attempt at wedging a rock into it, and then immediately freed the shinigami that had also been trapped. Well, the worst possible situation had just revealed itself. But, as he’d told Ludwig, he wouldn’t hesitate to kill another fullbringer, if need be. Raphael readied himself for an attack of any kind. What he’d been through so far he felt fairly confident in his own abilities. Yet, when it moved, it was fast. It looked like a mushroom-headed businessman, almost something out of a fairy tale, anime, or perhaps even game. It was practically on top of him in seconds, but Raphael took a steadying breath and, right as it released its attack, he moved back with a quick command of bringer’s light at 2000 speed. The tendrils stopped just before reaching him and he took a second, steadying breath.

He’d managed a good sixty feet from the damn thing, but he would he be able to really combat it? Just from the strength of it controlling those tendrils, Raphael got a fairly good idea of how strong it was. Add to that, the fact that it didn’t seem concerned, the way that it was holding that baton made it seem like it could’ve had some kind of answer to close quarters combat as well, which eliminated any advantage he thought he could’ve had. Life was always a puzzle, it seemed. But, as always, Raphael had an idea on how to deal with even this. With any luck, he could out last the fullbringer. He didn’t need flashy movements, he didn’t need any big attacks. He smiled just a bit, and held out his right hand. What started, at first, was a small sphere that quickly grew into a large disc. Raphael then threw it, sending it past the mushroom-headed fullbring man, it slammed into the ground not too far behind it. If it wasn’t familiar with the technique or didn’t know what was going to happen next, then the explosion would catch it, if not, just another way to make it waste some more energy. He had to be conservative with his own stamina, though.

He breathed in and out evenly, calming his rapidly beating heart. He wasn’t used to major combat situations, but in all things, he could find a way to prevail. The first way to do that was to have a cooler head than the other guy. If he could accomplish keeping himself calm, then held all the keys to victory and could easily win the war of attrition. Yet he kept in mind that he’d have to keep tabs on his own stamina. While the hollow seed technique was no longer taxing to him, he’d have to large avoid using Bringer’s light, with the exception of evasion.

3360 - 400 for hollow seed rank 3

2960 - 50 for bringer's light

[Ludwig Verrlicht]

Though it's ability to think was limited the fungal fullbringer wasn't terribly surprised Raph had dodged. Bringer Light was "basic" as far as it could recall. At least for any decently powerful human. That led it to believe that Raph actually had a good bit more power backing him than perhaps he'd let on. Which meant that if it was to complete the orders of it's master it needed to use it's own abilities as well. Thus while Raph condensed and prepared Hollow Seed the fungal human released his fullbringer to which the police baton simply became a surprisingly nice set of black gloves. The only thing about the fullbringer that could even be considered nice.



From there it simply waited for Raph to make his move. And once Raph did became incredibly clear to him that the attack itself wasn't aiming to land home. Thus he didn't move, letting it go past him. That however is when he made his move. By using soul command to make a sizeable breeze appear behind him he allowed his right glove to touch it and the breeze became static. From there the fullbringer returned his attention to Raph as the explosion made itself present and splintered into various shards, none of which would hit him due to the air barriar literally stretching out and flinging all the shards back where they came from.



It then tilted its head at Raph as a form of wordess question. A simple one word question. "Really?" From there it slowly walked forward towards Raph. It was yet another silent communication but this time instead of a question is was a simple challege. "You can't hit me regardless of how close I get." The ball was utterly in Raph's court now with the fungal fullbring simply waiting to see what Raph would use next.



As for Bonkers and the shinigami that was a far worse situation. Bonkers had been managing little better and in fact was arguably worse off given that the fungal shinigami just continued to lay into him. Certainly his strength now equal to Ludwig's RS was impressive but muscles, especially damaged ones could only go so far. And even getting in an attack every now and again was making Bonkers have to choose between a risky attack and solid defense. Needless to say he had yet to get one attack off successfully.



In the meanwhile Ludwig simply watched from under the tree. He was honestly somewhat bored now that he'd finished off the last hollow. And it was starting to get to him. "Is it worth cleaning up after my helper? I admittedly don't really want to. . . but its not like I can assist Raph." Ludwig glanced over at Raph, his gaze taking on a more calculating look for the time being. " One, it'd just be rude since he's right in the middle of a pretty even fight. And two, it's a perfect opportunity to learn about his fullbring. Which admittedly it's also a golden chance for me to learn about them also. It's not like either of us are super knowledgeable about them. And with an experienced fullbringer being his opponent he stands to learn quite a bit about the in's and out's of fullbring by simply duking it out."



Ludwig groaned audibly to himself before going back to watch Bonkers. As much as he may want to help his own summon out he genuinely believed Bonkers had this under control. Never had any of his summons legitimately failed him. If anything they'd served to shore up any holes or weaknesses in his defenses. And now wouldn't be any different. Or at least it shouldn't be. . . but then again he wasn't facing the shinigami with him was he? And that certainly would make the difference here given Ludwig had a good bit more at his disposal than his summon who simply had the brawn to ensure he damn near killed anything that came in contact with his fists or hammer.



Ludwig chuckled to himself as a speech bubble appeared. "Guess this means I have to help doesn't it?" Quickly paying off the reiatsu Ludwig's speech bubble would break and drop several strange text symbols. A crescent moon, an umbrella, a cloud, and an X. He chuckled as he held onto all of them and stowed away two in his haori. Ya never knew after all when you'd need some random as hell bombs. The other two, the X and moon he held seperate in each hand and waited for an opening to exploit. Once he saw the shinigami try to pull the same thrust technique he fired out both symbols via Sho. Before the fungal man could even try to finish the thrust attack he was suddenly pelted by two point blank explosions from behind that threw him directly into Bonkers.



Bonkers finally getting an opening smiled menacingly with glowing red eyes as he readied up his hammer. And then swung it with all the revenge and anger from being hit several hundred times over by this point. Hell the damn thing even managed to ignite flames for one reason or another. And upon coming in contact with the fungal shini yeeted him directly into what remained of the tree's trunk. He now had a lovely star shaped burn on his chest and if it's face could contort would have shown pure malice. That malice was aimed directly at Ludwig who was now only 10 feet away from him. "Of all the places. . . Ugh. Of course he lands next to me."

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{Possessed Fullbringer Reiatsu}
-350 for Fullbring level 1 at class 3
-50 for Soul Command battle use

1,800 - 400 = 1,400 reiatsu remaining

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{Ludwig Reiatsu}
-62 for the cat
-93 for Bonkers
-50 for Sho x2
-100 for 4 symbols

9,292 - 305 = 8,987 reiatsu remaining

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{Release info}
Class 3

Shikai

9/17 posts used

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{Enemies remaining / status}
Possessed Fullbringer - Still in good health

Possessed Shinigami - Hurt but pissed off

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{Fullbring ability - Possessed fullbringer}
What it boils down to is anything that they touch is able to be made highly elastic. Think Gentle Criminal from MHA. Thing is though this is only through his hands. Can affect all states of matter, with plasma as the exception. Doesn't cost any reiatsu and lasts for 2 posts. (including the post it's used it.)

Elasticity can be beaten however by higher OS. Or multiple attacks that are total stronger than his OS. Attacks reflected use the OS of the original attack. This includes spiritual or physical attacks.

[Raphael Laurent]

Raphael watched as the opposing fullbringer activated his own fullbring and sent the shards of his hollow seed technique away with a gust of wind. Fascinating… That was obviously what this other fullbringer could do. But…he wondered if this fullbringer had enough stamina to match him. He only had to exert a bit of effort while keeping tabs on himself. He watched the creature tilt its head to the side. It was mocking him. So intelligence, or at least meager pride, was still there. Was anything left of this man’s intellect? Deciding he didn’t want to find out, Raphael stood there as he pondered his next move. He could just as easily use large attacks…but what good would that do, if the man could avoid him? Maybe…he could just wear out this other being? This other fullbringer was stronger and more practiced but…

Raphael winced as he heard the monkey get hit again. That was one of the worst parts about this was that he knew that Ludwig’s little creation wasn’t faring much better, though at least in Raph’s fight the only unknown was the fullbring and that was already used now. There were, more or less, no surprises that this thing could throw at him that Raphael hadn’t already seen, at least, he hoped. But how best to respond to this…provocation? He could feign being angry, but that wouldn’t matter. This thing didn’t have intelligence enough to try and take advantage of such an opening.

Raphael would simply have to create his own opening; or at least pretend to being trying to make one. If it still had the intelligence to be cocky…it might mistake what he was doing. Raphael realizing that this was less about power for him, and simply outlasting the other guy, smiled. What else could he do with what was around him…? What craziness could he cook up? Raphael allows himself a momentary scan of the forest around him, since the guy didn’t seem to care what he did. As he did, the world seemed to light up blue and the things that he saw stayed in his vision, even once he wasn’t looking at it anymore. Even some objects that were far away. He reached out, pointing his hand towards the fungal fullbringer with his glove and following some unbidden hand of guidance swept it in front of him. In his vision the world looked blue and something blue, and fairly large, had wrenched itself out of the ground and had come flying at the man from behind. Somewhere off in the distance, Raphael could hear crashing and smashing. He focused his left eye on the blue and could just barely make out a shape: he’d wrenched a boulder out of its normal place and had brought it barreling towards the man like a freight train!

2960 – 200 (fullbring lvl 1 use) -> 2760 reiatsu, pulling object from 50 feet away for 600 speed on attack
Ability: draw in objects, the further away the object the faster it goes at 200 speed nearby, increasing to 400 at 20 feet and 600 at around 50 feet away

Fullbring posts 3/10

[Ludwig Verrlicht]

This fight was certainly getting interesting in more ways than one. Ludwig would now have to deal with the shinigami. And the sad thing was, bonkers was not going to get close fast enough to stop the fungal abomination from coming after him. Especially not when said shinigami decided to combo a shumpo and swipe at him with shunpo karin. Full intent on bisecting Ludwig horizontally. His options were limited, his physical prowess not enough to enough to help defend himself in any circumstance even if his pencil were more than an equal for this mans weapon. There was only one thing to do then. Danku.



Due to no less than Ludwigs immense mental capacity the attack was stopped with only a few inches to spare from Ludwig's body. And that was solely due to the transparent wall about 3ft by 3ft coming into existence and halting the blade dead in it's tracks. There were several cracks that had formed but none of which were deep enough to actually threaten the wall with shattered, just a display of power that was put behind this shinigami's weapon. This however was when it looked at Ludwig and found anger itself looking back. "So come after the summoner right? Summoner must be weak yea? Well I hate to tell you bud, I'm *not* weak. And you're about to find out why." Without a moment of hesitation Ludwig did a couple things at once. For one allowed his pencil to grow to the length of a full sized longsword, both edges, hilt, and handle included. And from there he applied a Sho blast to the underside of his blade forcing him to swing it upwards with far more speed than Ludwig would otherwise be capable of. And even faster than the fungal monster could see.



Thus when the monsters right arm was cut cleanly off and it finally looked down realized the loss Ludwig smiled menacingly. "I'd say that attack of yours cost you an arm and a leg. But I haven't taken the leg just yet. I'll get back to you on that." The abomination however had gotten smart and shunpo'd back just as Bonkers finally managed to catch up to Ludwig. Ludwig groaned to quietly as he used his right hand to rub his left shoulder. It wasn't shunpo karin so his muscles weren't terribly prepared for the sudden 0 to 60 high speed attack. He'd need to let them rest for a bit before attempting that again. Still at least he now knew he could mimic another shunpo technique via Sho. With a quick nod to Bonkers to go after the shinigami Ludwig stepped back a few feet to catch his breath and allow his pencil to return to it's normal form.



Bonkers on the other hand went head first after the shinigami fully intending to wail on it with his hammer as he transitioned into a low spining attack like he was a human sized fidget spinner. The shinigami who at this point was still reeling over the loss of his right arm only had a moment to lower himself and place his cleaver in front of him to block the repeated hammer attacks. Bonkers all too happy to ensure he'd get several whacks into the zanpakuto before letting him off.





As for Raph and his resident abomination things were going a good bit different. For one thing it noticed that something was going on with Raph as he had raised his arm and made a gesture. Still it wasn't like it was going to get injured, it still had it's elastic air barrier behind it. Granted it was nearing the end of it's short life but that would be something it could worry about later. For now the question was how to handle Raph. Unfortunately for it the mental orders were getting more aggressive and overwhelming. The hason was not a patient sort after all. Thus he needed to try and end this if only to stop the constant badgering. Raph would be able to tell that he was at least suffering from some kind of migraine given the fungal monster was holding onto it's head and swaying some for a few moments.



When the barrage of orders and pain left him the fullbringer was now standing up straight, no longer slouched and relaxed. The gloves were coming off, methaphorically. From there he disappeared into Bringer light until he was 5 feet in front of Raph, then disappeared again behind and to his right of him, following him if he also chose to step away. This was followed by a final step to his behind him and to the left at 5 feet. Once he was at his desired spot he immediately jumped up onto the air, used his fullbring to make an elastic platform and then used that as a spring board to launch himself over Raph.



Raph might not have realized it at first glance or even the second step but there was a reason that the fungal monster had steped around him. The reason was simple it was using Soul Dominance at the end of each step to ensure that some of the roots from underneath would shoot up and then weave themselves with the roots from each other stepping point. These roots would rise up to be 20 feet tall and leave a 5 foot wide opening above Raph where the fungal abomination would be at. While up here the fullbringer using the last of it's reiatsu would start to crackle and pop but not like the cereal.



Instead there would be olive green electricity sparking and exploding around him, specifically his right hand. And once the prison was set up and he was above Raph he'd fire it down towards Raph. Several streaks of lighting that were arcing to and fro with 2 of them even hitting the prison itself while the other 3 entered said prison and would strike Raph like a thunderbolt from god above. Assuming he had no counter play. The ball was in Raph's court now and it was do or die. Because even Raph could tell that after this attack there would be nothing the fungal fullbringer could do to combat him.

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{Ludwigs Reiatsu}
-62 for cat
-93 for Bonkers
-25 for Sho
-600 for Danku

Total used: 780

8,987 - 780 = 8,207 reiatsu remaining

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{Possessed Fullbringer reiatsu}
-350 for 3x Soul Dominance
-350 for Bringer Light x3
-400 for Electrocution x3
-50 for Combat Soul Command

1,150 reiatsu used

1,400 - 1,150 = 250 reiatsu remaining

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{Possessed Shinigami}
-100 for Shunpo x2
-100 for Shunpo Karin

200 reiatsu used

450 - 200 = 250 reiatsu remaining

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{Enemies remaining / Status}
Possessed Shinigami: Down an arm and general damage from Bonkers initial slam attack. Will likely die upon taking another direct attack.


Possessed Fullbringer: Incredibly fatigued from constant high level technique use, no current damage aside from some mental anguish from the hason

[Raphael Laurent]

Raphael watched, a bit confused and no less concerned as the fullbringer held its head and swayed to and fro. It was almost like there was something burning in its mind or was causing it extreme pain. When the creature stood back up to its full height, Raphael got the feeling that it didn’t want to play around anymore. The moment that it disappeared using bringer’s light and was in front of him, Raphael knew that he was right. This thing didn’t want to play around and was going to try and finish him off. While he prepared to guard against whatever it planned, he blinked as it warped again, going behind him this time.

What in the world is it up to? he wondered to himself. But when he looked up and around him, he began to realize that the roots that had been underground had been pulled up using soul dominance and had formed a cage around him, with a hole of about perhaps five feet in diameter. Above him, the fullbringer was beginning to channel electricity, and Raphael knew that if that lightning connected it was going to hurt, if not outright kill him. He had to do something to at least lessen the impact of the electricity. While his vision was still focused on the large boulder coming their way, now barreling towards them like a freight train, he leapt to the side and used soul command. No longer under the hole, a pillar of dirt four feet tall rose keeping him above the blast radius and wrapped around his legs to insulate him.

The boulder was nearly there, though, and Raphael gave a flick of his wrist upwards, the boulder speeding towards them suddenly curved up and right towards the fungus man. Here it had a few options, it could dodge but it would waste the electricity that it had been building up along with the energy it had gathered. It could turn and shoot the boulder, but that would also cause it to lose the lightning. It could do nothing and even if that barrier still held, its attention would still divert, albeit momentarily and it could still get hit by a part of the boulder and then fire the lightning off elsewhere into the world. Raphael prayed that it decided to the do the last option, but he’d mostly wrapped this thing into a corner.

2760 - 50 for soul command - 200 for fullbring lvl 1 changing direction
2510 reiatsu remaining

[Ludwig Verrlicht]

For as chaotic as things were this was the endgame for both sides. Neither fungal shinigami nor fungal fullbringer could really continue on much longer. Granted both had different reasons for such but that didn't change the point that the constant and aggressive egging on by their hason master did not help them any. The fullbringer in particular who had been egged on and aggravated by their master more so than their companion was suffering the worst of this. Had it been more akin to it's former self the fullbringer likely could have made a strategy to come up with Raph's distraction. In addition to having not immediately taken the first opportunity to trap and use an end all be all attack.



However just because it was now possessed did not mean all of its faculties were gone. And thus it did notice the boulder that had been barreling elsewhere had been shifted to come after him. This meant 9 out of 10 times he was going to get hit. And it wasn't going to be pretty considering how fast and large said boulder was. So the question was did it full send the attack at Raph or did it try to save itself? If it was going to be hit regardless then it was going to attempt to take down the fullbringer with it. And thus it did one thing just before releasing the electricity it'd been building up. It used soul command again to make a breeze and then created a 5ft by 5ft elastic barriar to ensure the boulder would not only hit him but also be redirected back at Ludwig. With the barrier made and the choice to tank the hit made it steadied it's arm via the other hand and fired off the bolts of spiritual electricity.



Before the attack would even have a chance to hit Raph the smell of flesh being cooked, the fullbringers specifically, would hit him. And with the fungi interwoven into it's body the smell was anything but pleasant. It'd arguably be the worst smell Raph had ever had the displeasure of experiencing. Still having been brought 4 feet closer via the dirt pillar and now not within the relative "safety" of the dome it was nigh impossible for him to dodge. Especially given he'd anchored himself down prior to the earth pillar. Thankfully however Ludwig's precautions came in handy here. The cat had one job, keep Raph safe. Sure it occasionally meant throwing out a fireball or blinding enemies. But it also included ensuring that lethal hits were not dealt to him. Thus the cat jumped off Raph's head and started to glow brightly. At it's stomach was where the energy was collecting and Raph would easily be able to see this. Within a moment the lightning struck it and subsequently detonated the cat. The explosion however shielded Raph from the lightning and made certain that the fullbringer was cooked from the intense flames and heat.



Sadly though Raph, having been effectively locked in place also took some of the explosive force. Not as much however given the cat made certain the majority was aimed towards the fungal fullbringer. Enough however that Raph's skin would feel like it was going through an intense sunburn and the actual shockwave from the blast would force his pillar to crack and ultimately cave on itself. Thus putting Raph back in the dome until he yet again pulled himself out. With the fire cat gone, the fullbringer having been singed to hell and back via immensely close explosion one would assume said monster was gone for good. Sadly that was almost the case but not quite. A quick use of Soul Dominance had ensured that there was an air barrier between him and the cat's explosion.



This mitigated the damage but still meant it was effectively heavily injured. . . Until the boulder finished the job. Fun fact it's elastic barrier was damn close to the cat and the cat's explosion was by far stronger. Thus in an effort to defend itself it had forgotten to check on it's last saving grace. And without it the remainder of it's bodily functions ceased. And it along with the boulder went god knows where into the forest. The last thing Raph could hear and see would be the immense amount of crunching and a good bit of blood splatter from above him.



As for Ludwig, bonkers and their armless compatriot the curtain was also being drawn for him as well. The shinigami did it's best to continue to weather Bonkers attacks yet not that the tables were turned the difference in strength was obvious. Bonkers in only 3 attacks had managed to start cracking the zanpakuto of the shinigami. And on the last swing of it's fidget spinner attack it utterly shattered the blade while launching the shinigami into the tree it'd come from. 1 arm down, weapon gone, and probably a pretty immensely injured spine and it was safe to say he wasn't getting up anytime soon. Still Bonkers hadn't gotten enough satisfaction from the numerous cuts, bruises, and even the broken bones from it's thrust shockwave. Thus as a final "Fuck you" to this thing Bonkers spun around again, got the hammer to light on fire and then flung the thing at the shinigami.



Needless to say. . . it didn't survive. Life without a brain is hard enough. Life without a head? Impossible. And thus the fight between the specialty minions was finally over. With a quick nod from Ludwig Bonkers finally retired and shattered like glass. Ah yes, general populace slain. Minor threats eradicated. Now all that's left is the big cheese himself! The question however is where is he hiding. . . Ahh right there was the spider hollow that had been running from just south of here. Well let's get Raph patched up first and then we'll go after the hason. Speaking of wh- Once Ludwig actually took a moment to look around he had to admit that it was sort of obvious where Raph was. If the dome of roots didn't scream "SOMEONES TRAPPED" then nothing did. Especially not the damn near fungal ceiling. Still with nothing around Ludwig simply took his time strutting over. No reason to be concerned afterall. He could still sense Raph was present, maybe not conscious but he was very much alive.

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{Ludwigs reiatsu}
-63 for cat
-92 for Bonkers

Total: 155 reiatsu used

8,207 - 155 = 8,052 reiatsu remaining

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{Ludwig Release info}
Class 3 Shikai

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[Raphael Laurent]

He’d miscalculated this time; sure it was quite possibly the last time that he’d be able to say that, but that was how shit happened sometimes. You roll the dice with your decisions and see what happens. He’d hoped to get above a splash zone of the electricity, but instead had gotten a little too close to the top and was now within nice “frying” distance and he cursed his own idiocy. The lightning would come down, fry him to a crisp and that would be the end. Worse still, he’d then end up as a hollow or a Shinigami; it couldn’t be worse!

The smell of the fullbringer’s flesh beginning to cook due to the electricity being used was terrible, and when combined with the smell of the fungi boiling combined, well, Raphael wanted to puke. Yet, even as he stood there, wanting to vomit, and cursing his own inadequacy, something unexpected happened. The little cat that had been protecting him the whole time, suddenly leapt into action, literally leaping off of his head and it started to glow, faintly at first but quickly growing brighter. The only thing that he could think was about to happen was an explosion and, at this distance, the heat would still cook him a bit. Slightly panicking, he tried his best to rip the jacket from him, but only got one arm out and grabbed it with the hand still stuck in the jacket and shielded the rest of himself and his head with the cloth.

He heard the kaboom, felt the blast and the heat on his exposed hand, even felt the heat through his jacket, the hand that was still holding the jacket felt like he’d been outside in the sun for days… To make matters worse…he felt like he was falling; no he was literally falling back into the dome as the explosion had cracked it and he was going down…down. And he was buried beneath the rock that he’d hoped to use to shield himself with. He lay there, panting and breathing heavily. Yet, there was a twinge of disappointment in his thoughts: he’d always heard you saw your life flash before you die and he hadn’t seen shit! He felt gipped.

His face was still uncovered though, and he looked up at the fungal fullbringer from where he lay, expecting another attack until he saw something round come flying out of nowhere. There was an audible crunch and some blood splattered down onto the rocks that covered him. He heard the sound of something going fast far away and that was that. He laid there, listening to whatever was going on with the drawn monkey and Ludwig, the adrenaline of such a battle finally leaving him. What in the world was this feeling? It wasn’t an elation for combat, nor was it a fear. It was a quasi-anxiety that was hitting him.

He tried speaking, as the sounds of battle died down, but he found himself unable to do so. He couldn’t even find the strength needed to use soul command to get the stone and dirt off of him. Instead he simply focused on breathing, a constant flow of deep in and deep out. It was keeping his focus on that and not on the burning sensation of his hand. It felt like he’d been in the sun for so long and just moving it was horrible; it was burning so badly. He needed to keep his focus on something else, to keep from getting sick or worse. He only hoped Ludwig could get him out before he puked.

[Ludwig Verrlicht]

With the fights over Ludwig had to admit he was curious of what was going to happen next. They'd killed the specialty minions. They'd killed the stock standard minions. And now there was only the big man himself, the fungal hason. Still he had to wonder where it might be at. The thing hadn't revealed itself but it was going to have to now that everything it'd worked towards was destroyed or otherwise taken care of. With a quick mental casting of Sazanami he put up the radar just in case. With the incantation he'd have it on him for a little bit which would ultimately ensure that the two could take a moment to breathe in peace. Hopefully. Possibly. Maybe. Speaking of two individuals Raph was sorely needing his help at the moment.



With a large smile he finally finished strutting his way over to Raph and looked over the situation at hand. Poor gent, he's buried. And it looks like without my pet. Can't say I'm surprised really, I did say to save him and it did just that. Ah well he's still in one piece so it can't be too bad. Sho. With a couple blasts of a carefully aimed and controlled Sho the rubble was everywhere else but Raph giving him all the freedom and space he had prior to fighting the monsters. Ludwig then bent down and reached out to him. "So you can throw the terrain around eh? I'm impressed you've made the world into a VERY deadly game of whack-a-mole! Hahaha! If you're clever that's going to serve you quite well. Oh, and this gauntlet is new, is this what you'd call a fullbring?"



Ludwig would wait until Raph reached out or if he didn't he'd take a moment to make sure he could stand up and then pull him up to his feet. Regardless he'd then glance over at his gauntlet in quiet curiosity. I wonder if perhaps he can pull things from underneath the ground. If so he could impale the hason with his own fungal tendrils. I'll just have to see how he describes its abilities. Sadly all I saw was a boulder flying. And that's not all that special even in the Soul Society. Still it'll help and that's all we need for this waste of space. Oh! Speaking of wastes of space it seems the beast itself has finally arrived! With a light chuckle Ludwig would dust himself off and smile at Raph again before motioning to the entrance to this fungal prison. "Dust yourself off Raph, we can't have our host see us in tatters now can we? Especially after all the "events" he so generously provided."







A few minutes earlier . . .







The hason in question was destroying his hideout in anger. He could feel the minions he'd gathered getting killed one after another. And it wasn't slow either the two fucks he'd seen just a short time ago had decided to kill all his help. Especially the good help he'd been cultivating! He roared out in anger ran out after having nearly collapsed the cave upon itself with the amount of spores and fungal roots wriggling around the enter thing. "I'LL KILL THEM. FEAST ON THEIR INSIDES AND ENSURE THEY GET THEIR SOULS REPLACED BY SPORES!! AND THEN I'LL INCINERATE THEM IN THE FIRES OF VIOLENCE!! PREPARE YOURSELF CAPTAIN ARAGHHHHHHHH!!!!!"



The hason ran as fast as it's legs would allow it. Dodging and bashing through the various trees, plant life, and corrupted spores that were littering all over the place. Thankfully for him he was able to have a sort of "sixth sense" of what existed within his domain of spores. So he knew that the two hadn't moved from the tree. He'd also known that they'd killed everything there. And his blood boiled at the prospect of having to find more beings spiritually potent enough to withstand his spores again. It'd taken months given the spores themselves damn near killed any normal person on contact. Any god help any lesser spiritual being that also happened to come near him. They were effectively consumed given enough time. No he needed strong souls, those that would succumb but ultimately be resilient enough to be manipulated.



AND THE TWO HAD RUINED THE ONES HE FOUND. When he finally stepped out from the shadow of the fungal covered trees he was 80 feet away and he was livid. Veins were pulsing, he was panting heavily, and his energy was damn near explosive from how much he was radiating off. It was a good thing he didn't possess any energy sensing capabilities or he'd realize how fucked he was in the situation. Since he didn't however he didn't even consider that the captain was not the same as their first interaction. Still when he saw the smug smile and heard Ludwig talk about him he almost lost it again right then and there. The ONE thing that didn't make him explode right then and there was the fact that he saw Raph in a much worse off state than before. And if nothing else it meant he was more than capable of being used if he just infected him.



Thus with this plan in mind he just needed to figure out how to split the two. The easiest way would be to call forth the tendrils below and have them start producing more spores. Especially around Raph. Before Ludwig could get in another word the Hason flexed his reiatsu and caused a series of fungal roots to spawn up from underneath the earth each tendril rising up 10 feet in the air. These tendrils wriggled around and continued ot shoot out upwards in 4 moving lines. One aiming for Raph, one aiming for Ludwig and the other two that was aimed for each side. The goal was to create a distinct area they couldn't leave while also slowly encroaching with more tendrils that could produce spores. For now though he simply needed to get them closer since his tendrils were moving at 400 speed and the two on either side had passed both Raph and Ludwig within a few seconds.



Ludwig in the meantime grabbed Raph by the hoodie and stepped over about 30 feet before letting him go. The tendril waves missed but given the external tendrils they were now both stuck within the "zone" created by the hason. Well assuming they didn't just jump in the air. But given the main reason for this fungal wasteland was here, that might not be the smartest move given the ceiling and what was covering it. Ludwig in the meantime simply chuckled. "Make sure your hand is ready Raph. It's time to play whack-a-mole again, but now with more fungus and a terrible color scheme to boot!" Ludwig in the meantime simply started doodling away a few images in his notebook. Making sure he was ready for the hason to make his next move.

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{Release count}
Released at class 3

12/17 posts used

[Arantima Kawada]

Paragraph counts Baybee!

141 paragraphs - Comes out to a whopping 700 tp for both of you!