Field Experiments [Camila/JT]

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Grasping at her shoulder upon landing that strike against Raphael, Camila smirked to herself. She was rather proud of herself for landing such a clean strike against him, blissfully unaware of the fact that Fullbringers were absolutely still human; the didn't have the natural advantages of being spiritual, they took injuries somewhat harder than she was used to. Still, she paid it no mind, completely forgetting the fact when it boiled down to it. Thankfully, she'd be able to heal him later on if need be.

As he cleared his distance from him, Camila watched closely, unsure of what he was planning on doing on the side of a building as far back as he was. She squinted down in his direction, trying to get a good look at him with her sub-par sensory abilities. Sure, he was a ranged fighter, but what exactly was he looking to do? Catch her off guard with something? It was ultimately hard to say. She wasn't sure of what to do for the time, but ultimately decided to let him take the actions he wanted to.

That said, to say she was caught off-guard upon seeing some sort of beast emerge from what looked like a simple disc was an understatement. As this dragon began to form, Camila immediately went on guard. She was by no means ready to deal with something that seemed as physically imposing as this thing was. That said, she wasn't going to let this thing stomp all over her, either. While she wasn't going to go all-out, that wasn't going to stop her from taking action against this thing. At a certain point, something in her sort of snapped.

Holding her weapon out, and forcing her reiatsu around it, Camila eyed down the beast violently. If only looks could kill. Swiftly moving her hand to the blade, her hollow reiatsu began to coat her immediate area. "Make them Bleed, Gouge de Sang!" She shouted, running her palm across the blade in order to draw blood. With that final action, her blade began to coat itself in reiatsu, and ultimately transformed seconds later into her signature broadsword.

With the dragon taking a step forward, Camila grew ever fearful of any other action the dragon might've taken, and wasn't going to let it attack her if she didn't have to. Conjuring four blood-red spikes of reiatsu that hovered at her sides, Camila launched each one straight for the beast's eyes one by one. It wasn't anything amazingly potent, but she'd look to get the job done here if she could help it. She wasn't looking to take any chances. As the lances aimed to reach their mark, drops of liquid reiatsu akin to that of what would be expected from blood dripped as the girl entered a defensive stance.

[Raphael Laurent]

He’d mastered this a long time ago, though he’d never been sure when to truly test it and how to test it. It’d nearly been field-tested once, a long time ago, but this was the first time he’d ever used it in something that felt like real combat and, even as he did, the energy that it took to make it, alongside the blow that he’d taken earlier, had already done a bit of a number on him. His hand was still even crackling with the hollow energy he’d used to craft the blasted thing. There was a ton of energy in it and he wondered how she was going to respond to it.

At the very least, she seemed completely caught off guard by what had happened and was, for a few moments, not sure how to respond to it. He watched, almost entranced, as she drew his weapon and shouted something. Hollow energy wrapped itself around the weapon that she had in her hand. She sliced her own palm with the weapon, and blade began to slowly run down the blade and suddenly it had transformed into an enormous broadsword. He gazed transfixed at her as she brandished the weapon, it was an amazing power, this shikai. Yet, at the same time, it wasn’t much different than the power of his own fullbring.

As it took a step forward, ready to launch into an attack, Raphael watched as she conjured four crimson spikes of energy that hovered around her and then launched each one at the dragon’s eyes. The creature took another laborious step in her direction before the four lances struck. While it reeled back it began to glow a bright crimson red and Raphael willed the bricks from behind him to surround himself in a sort of makeshift barrier, trying to simply shield himself from what he feared would come next. To matters worse, he was right.

At the time of her strike, it had taken another step towards her, and then the lances struck. For a few seconds, Raphael almost felt like he could see the creature smile maliciously as it began to glow. He panicked momentarily, as he gathered more bricks around him, covering every layer that he possibly could. It was a second or two that he felt like he was in a brick blanket, though he hadn’t realized that he’d pulled half of a wall apart to protect himself. Then came the boom and, while he couldn’t see it, he felt the power the energy he’d used to make this monstrosity, followed by the heat as the explosion tossed the bricks and himself, through the wall entirely. He opened his eyes for a second and felt dazed with his hearing ringing like he was in some sort of old movie that he’d seen in the past and not passing out was quickly becoming a struggle.

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As her lances made contact with the dragon, Camila couldn't help but watch in caution as the beast quickly began to glow. She was far from comfortable with what was going on, but she couldn't say that she was sure of what was going to happen at all. She'd quickly made notice of the fact that the Fullbringer was beginning to use a wall to cover himself up, but by the time she'd taken the time to pick up on that, it was too late for her to have an opportunity to be able to react. As the dragon had detonated, releasing tremendous amounts of reiatsu, heat, and concussive force over a rather large area, Camila found herself quickly blasted through the air.

Flying at speeds she'd been far from comfortable with, she was quickly rocketed into a solid wall, causing tremendous damage to both herself and the wall. Immediately falling to the ground and trying to catch her breath as her body had been absolutely wracked with burns, bruises, and a few broken ribs, Camila forced herself onto her hands and knees. Wow. That was... something, to say the least. She took a moment to try to force herself up further than that, but to no avail; she wasn't in the physical condition at the moment to be able to actually do that. She'd need to heal before anything else was done. Though, if she'd suffered that much damage, she'd need to check up on Raphael right after.

Taking a few seconds to focus reiatsu through her body, her own spiritual energy quickly washed over her own body in order to repair her injuries and wounds. Within a few seconds, she was in much better physical condition, though quite a bit tuckered out. She'd need to take the opportunity to leech some life energy off of someone if she had the chance; even a normal human sufficed. Now standing up with much more ease, Camila took the time to look around the now decimated area, and within a few seconds, picked up on the wall Raphael had been standing on originally. She'd need to make her way over there as fast as she could.

Closing the distance through a few uses of Shunpo, Cami immediately took the time to look around for the Fullbringer. "That was one hell of an attack," she shouted with a playful tone, "something like that could take out quite a few people if used properly. Good on you for having something like that in your arsenal!" Scouting around the area she'd expected him to be, she took a few moments to locate the Fullbringer. "Here," she said, "let me take care of that for you; I think that's enough for a warm-up, yeah?" With that, she chuckled.

Placing her hand on Raphael's shoulder, Camila allowed her reiatsu to wash over him, much like had happened to her not a few minutes earlier. Within a matter of seconds, he'd find that all of the injuries he'd sustained up to this point, as well as any bodily issues like headaches, dizziness, et cetera would fade away rather quickly. He'd been effectively restored to peak physical condition, aside from however his stamina had been doing at the current moment. Unfortunately, she couldn't exactly restore that at the moment. "That was certainly a fun exchange!" she said, giving him the time to recuperate a bit, "gotta say, you're certainly interesting."

[Raphael Laurent]

Raphael blinked a few times, his limbs failing him. He reached down and touched at his side and felt a bit of blood, part of the brick had probably cut him; he could also feel, worse, something hard in his side. Immediately this set off the thought process of a floating rib and both adrenaline and panic began to set in. He took in a deep breath and focused his mind as best he could, but he could still feel his breathing get a bit more ragged and shallow and he had to focus hard on his research. It was horrifying, this kind of pain; he’d never gotten hurt this badly before. He couldn’t move very well, his limbs felt heavy…

That was when he heard her shouting around in a fairly playful way. He couldn’t understand it. An explosion like that, at point blank range, and she was perfectly fine?! How fucking durable were shinigami?! He coughed a bit, pushing himself up into a sitting position. Plus, the way she was talking, she definitely wasn’t a normal shinigami. She talked about how good of an attack it was and that it could take out a bunch of people when used right. That wasn’t, precisely, the point of the attack, but he was glad that she appreciated it nonetheless… He blinked a few times, trying to get his vision to focus on her.

When finally she’d found him, she placed a hand on his shoulder and he could feel energy flooding into and over him. Quickly, he began to feel the wounds and damaged that he’d taken fading away, the arm she’d slashed no longer bleeding and the pulsing dulling to a mere ache. He reached up with the same hand and held his head for a few seconds, feeling the headache and the daze passing as well. He shook his head a bit, put his hand on his neck and craned his neck around a few times.

“I’m glad that you found it so thrilling. Ugh, you’d like my friend Luca, if you like to fight this much. He does too. I’m not much of a fighter, at least not in the sense you’re probably used to. As much fighting as I used to do in Chicago it was nothing like that.” He got to his feet slowly and shook out all his limbs, feeling like he’d just run a mile or two before he’d gotten his powers. “Geez, if gang wars were half that bad, I don’t think anyomne would have one again… Regardless, what I’m developing will be worse than that, in a way. I thank you for the combat experience, as well. I’ll need more of that, if I’m going to prevent more fighting between hollows and shinigami while they’re on Earth.”

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“I’m glad that you found it so thrilling. Ugh, you’d like my friend Luca, if you like to fight this much. He does too. I’m not much of a fighter, at least not in the sense you’re probably used to. As much fighting as I used to do in Chicago it was nothing like that.” Camila couldn't help but chuckle at his words. She'd met Luca once before, though her memory of the encounter was hazy at best. She'd have to meet with him again if he enjoyed fighting as much as she did. Just the thought of that grew to excite her.

Though, there was one thing about his words that had caught her off-guard; he'd mentioned Chicago. From what she remembered, that was a place in the United States. She hadn't exactly heard pleasant things about it, but she wasn't the type to judge. After all, she actually had the option to visit at some point now that she wasn't held down by some organization. There were so many places in the States that she wanted to visit, and realizing it now, she had the ability to do so!

“Geez, if gang wars were half that bad, I don’t think anyone would have one again…" Welp, so much for the idea of visiting Chicago. "Regardless, what I’m developing will be worse than that, in a way. I thank you for the combat experience, as well. I’ll need more of that, if I’m going to prevent more fighting between Hollows and Shinigami while they’re on Earth.” Camila simply smiled with his words. "Yeah, not a problem," she said, "I'm glad to have gotten it in. Fullbringers are definitely a force to be reckoned with, if the lot of them are anything like you in terms of ingenuity and raw destructive capability. I look forward to being able to fight alongside ya!"

Looking around, Camila chuckled. "Well, uh, looks like we've caused quite a bit of damage," she said, scratching the back of her neck, "what do you say we leave the area and get back to focusing on that technique of yours? I'm sure after something like that, there's just got to be either Hollows scouring the area for freshly deceased people, or Shinigami patrolling to take care of whomever the fuck just caused that much damage. If we're lucky enough, even both of 'em."

While she wasn't particularly fond of the idea of beating up on lesser hollows, it wasn't something she'd put passed her, given that so long as they weren't killed, she could just heal them. In thinking about it, that was something she'd keep in mind. Being able to continually heal someone like she could definitely had its benefits. For one, that meant they'd have what was effectively an indefinite test subject to force this technique upon, so long as they didn't just die.

[Raphael Laurent]

He chuckled, watching her and rubbed his shoulders and rolled them a few times, just to make sure that everything had healed back correctly. Thankfully, everything felt like it had rolled back into the correct area, so he just stretched a bit more and listened to her. Yet, at the same time, he couldn’t help but feel a bit embarrassed when she talked about his ingenuity. That was something that still bugged him. He couldn’t take compliments that well. Whelp… Guess that’s one more thing that I need to add to the list of shit that I need to fix about myself.

Raphael followed her eyes, wincing just a bit at what they’d done and realized that his new technique was set to be even more destructive than that one. He nodded looking around. “I can’t deny, I wasn’t expecting that the dragon would explode like that. I’d never field tested it before and, unfortunately, I’m not all that strong, yet.” Yet he couldn’t help but nod as she talked about leaving the area and working on his technique.

Raphael had too many ideas for how to do this, and yet he was so unsure. The amount of damage that they had managed to cause was quite significant, after all, and he couldn’t deny that she was right. After what had just happened, there would most likely be both shinigami and hollows searching the area. Despite his fears that a fullbringer or two would suddenly arrive, Raphael hid nearby, and took a few deep breaths. He knew that he’d set up a small warning system around Tokyo. As if on cue, his phone began giving a constant notification sound. Several spiritual signals…

“At least one hollow and two shinigami have recently entered the area. None of the three are particularly strong. Which one would you prefer to hit first?”

[Jeff Franklin]

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