No Masters [JT w/ Teresa]

[Alacrán]

Alacrán, getting used to his newly acquired form, was flying overhead the rolling hills of the vast white desert. The transformation from Gillian to Adjuchas was a weird and somewhat painful one, his massive form having been condensed into something so much smaller. There was an upside to this however, as the voices had finally quilted down now but he knew they were still there. It is why he wasn't just using this time to fly around and readjust but to also hunt for any possible signs of other Hollows that he could feast on. Or better yet, some weaker Arrancars. It would seem that luck is on his side as he spots a gathering of several Hollows, all seeming to be of Gillian class or stronger. This isn’t what catches his attention however. No, what caught his attention and has him descending down to join the gathering is the trio of Arrancar standing above them.

Just as he lands, one of them seems to be addressing the group of Hollows with some kind of proposition, ”You’ve all done well to reach the strength you all have currently acquired. Truly impressive and remarkable specimens all of you. However, I promise you that you can become even stronger than what you already are. Exponentially so for some of you. Join the ranks of our ruler, the King of Las Noches, Souken Kohai and you can have this power. Who will join?” A silence follows as the Arrancar poses this question, the Hollows all looking among each other, waiting to see who would step up to either take up their offer or speak out against them. Alacrán's tail twitched as their offer pissed him off and he was also waiting to see who would take up their offer so he could strike them down.

[Teresa]

Moving across the white sand once again was a plague to the Antlered one. Coming back here meant she had to feast on the flesh of the repugnant, she had to choke down the foul meat of her kin. If that wasn’t enough the constant cold heaps of the sand around her feet, the clinging chill of the air that ran along her spine, this world was one of darkness, one without depth as everything felt the same, everything tasted the same, everything to her was as void as the sky and yet to make things even worse it had been claimed by someone that the void itself hadn’t forged.

Moving throughout the dismal environment Teresa lamantent her current state acknowledging that her evolution hadn’t prepared her for everything and thus she’d believed herself more competent than she had been. The scar of her recent loss was the missing section of her body, her right arm almost completely gone as it had been cut off from the bicep down by a Shinigami that continued to prove speed was a weakness Teresa would have to overcome. For the moment though she’d have to figure out how to overcome her handicap.

Coming to the top of a sandhill Teresa could see off several hundred feet a small group of Hollows gathered. No buildings like the sort that she’d found during her last time in this forsaken world. What caught her attention though wasn’t the other Hollow, but the look of what seemed to be Humans. Three of them standing in front of the Hollows and speaking to them. Beginning to approach from the left side Teresa would get close enough that she’d just barely be able to make out the words being spoken when the world of cold became red.

“Join the ranks of our ruler, the King of Las Noches, Souken Kohai”

The only thing she heard and all she needed to hear as Teresa’s rage boiled over immediately guiding her body. Her golden reiatsu bright like the sun burst forth as her left hand held out expels a beam of reiatsu similar to a cero yet with a twist of her wrist the beam twists responding to Teresa’s actions. It’d seemingly happen in an instant as the Arrancar who’d been speaking finds themself with a hole through their chest from the left side to the right nearly separating his body in two.

“More hounds of a false King.”

Remaining Reiatsu: 3910/4310
Cero Traladora: (-400)

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Strength: 50
Speed: 50
Spiritual Pressure: 345 (431)
Reiatsu Strength: 325 (406)
Light Aura: 15
Dark Aura: 85
Instincts: 150 (112)
Senses: 150 (112)
Energy Sensory: 0
Healing Expertise: 0

Anti-Stealth: 2
Battle Focus: 2
Illusion Resist:2
Pain Tolerance: 2
Battle Analysis: 2
Strength of Will: 2[\spoiler]

[Alacrán]

Alacrán hadn't noticed Teresa's arrival although he wouldn't have even recognized her if he did as her appearance as an Adjucha was different enough that Alacrán would have trouble recalling the royal Hollow. He does take notice of the sudden feeling of hostility coming from her direction as the Arrancar finished speaking however and before any of them knew it, the Arrancar had found itself with a decent sized hole in it's chest which caught it and the rest of the gather Hollows off guard. All eyes were on Teresa as she spoke, "More hounds of a false King."

The look of pure fury in the Arrancar's eyes would have burned holes into Teresa if they could as they stare down what the Arrancar deemed to be a lowly cretin, "You dare question the capabilities of His Majesty?" The other Hollows quickly begin to back away from the Adjucha and the Arrancars, leaving an decent amount of room for them to settle whatever was about to happen. Alacrán was the only one who didn't budge from his spot as he saw the one of the other Arrancars pulling out their sword.

It seemed these weaklings weren't keen on respecting the rules of a fair fight. So before they could move to join their comrade, who leaped at Teresa with decent speed, reaching out with their hand to try and grab her, Alacrán also leaped at the second Arrancar who tried to join in. Before they could realize what was happening, Alacrán was speeding towards them from merely pushing off the desert floor, leaving a crater about three feet in diameter where he was. He lands on the Arrancar, who had a more simian look to their appearance, and hooked one of his scythe-like limbs into their shoulder as he continues moving and dragging them along as he does.

He brings himself to an abrupt stop with his wings, which were beating quite fast now, and throws the Arrancar away from him as he then points his stinger at them as they recover and begins letting off a rapid fire of four Balas, trying to measure their strength as he knew his Cero and Bala were on the weaker side compared to others. He was surprised to find that they had rather dodged out the way of his Balas with impressive agility and speed rather than try and take him on. It seemed that Alacrán had his work cut out for him as he would have to deal with a speedy opponent.

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{Reiatsu Pool 2500/2700}
-200 Bala x4

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{Stats & Skills}Strength - [400] (50% multiplier) 600
Speed - [200] (-30% multiplier) 140
Spiritual Pressure - [216] (25% multiplier) 270
Reiatsu Strength - 150
Instinct - 100
Senses - [134] (-25% multiplier) 100.5(100)
Energy sensory - 0
Healing Expertise - 0

Anti-Stealth 1
Battle Analysis 2
Battle Focus 2
Calm Mind 1
Damage Recovery 1
Focused Eye 1
Pain Tolerance 2
Stealth 1

[Teresa]

So this was the response that she was given huh. A simple beam of her tie Atsuko with a twist of her hand and the chest of what was supposed to be a mighty Arrancar no longer was present. Although she hadn’t been a Hollow long she knew enough and had heard that Arrancar was vastly more powerful than Hollows. They were the ultimate stage that a Hollow could obtain even beyond Vasto Lordes. The only way to become an Arrancar with guaranteed power was to serve Kouhai, such a false statement. That thing was anything other than powerful, a foe of a Hollow that had put the leash around his own neck and now that dog had been put down.

One little Arrancar dead and all of a sudden everyone got scared except his little group of fleas who thought they came prepared. The Hollows in the area already were starting to back away not knowing which side of this conflict to join. A little bit of screaming met with the antlered ones finger being raised like a frustrated school teacher dealing with students. “No, I'm revoking his position. He can take his claims and all his weaklings back to Soul Society. I’m sure you’ll be considered pure there you dumb piece of waste.”

Arrancar just like Shinigami relying too much on their swords, rushing in with no actions taken against Teresa to keep her occupied. “Oh I do believe they think I’m crippled . . . How ignorant.” Teresa grins while pointing her left hand out channeling another cero. Obviously she had to pick one of the Arrancar rushing her which would give the others a chance to cut her down. “Split off to hit them all.” Teresa speaks quietly as the low thum of her Golden cero being fired washes over the area. Instead of a single thick beam of reiatsu Teresa’s cero splits off from her hand into multiple beams each heading straight for the Arrancar that stood against her. At the same time though Teresa spotted someone familiar with a Hollow she hadn’t seen in quite a while who was proving once again they had the steel to deal with struggle.

Remaining Reiatsu: 3660/4310
Cero: (-200)
Propósito de Influencia: (-50)

[Alacrán]

As Alacrán faced off with this simian Arrancar, in the midst of trying to come up with a plan of attack against the speedy opponent, both he and the Arrancar are caught off guard as the latter is struck and caught in the golden light of Teresa’s Cero. Alacrán quickly whips around to watch as the other Arrancar that had been struck by Teresa’s first Cero had already been dealt with by the antlered Hollow quite quickly but what was even more surprising was the fact that the third Arrancar that had been with this trio held up their hand and caught the golden Cero and seems to absorb it before they begin to charge their own Cero and blast it right back towards Teresa, it’s power now twice that of a normal Cero having been boosted by Teresa’s own Cero.

Alacrán didn’t get a chance to see how Teresa fared in taking on this odd Cero as his own opponent had rushed him while his attention was pulled off of the Simian Arrancar. Their appearance had seemed to change to become much more monkey-like, growing two long non-prehensile tails and tufts of fur growing around their face as they had released their resurrección. Attached to the ends of their arms seems to be two solid, three and a half feet long poles like appendages, which seem to have the air around it swirling around on them, that they swing down on Alacran with.

While Alacrán wasn’t even able to detect or dodge the blow, his Blindado had no issue taking the blow although it does leave behind a small dent in the bone-like armor which does cause a spike of pain to shoot through Alacrán’s body. Alacrán’s tail then twitches and whips to wrap around the smaller Arrancar as a red orb begins to charge at the tip. As he charges the Cero, he swings his body around and aims his both pincers at the Arrancar, where Balas begin to form along with one in between his mandibles. The Simian Arrancar manages to dodge the tail but as they land they only end up hearing the boom of the Cero which causes them to preemptively dodge once more without looking to notice the Balas.

They end up getting struck by one of the stray Balas but it doesn't end up damaging them too badly. They growl and turn their attention towards the winged scorpion Hollow but don’t see them anywhere in sight and by the time they realize what he had done, Alacrán was already barreling down on them as he exited the Ulcera he’d stepped into. As he lands on them, he drives his scythe-like limbs straight down through them, their Hierro proving too weak for his superior strength.

As the Arrancar's now separated halves fall apart and into the sand, Alacrán returns his attention to Teresa and the last Arrancar that had been with this troupe. He didn’t know what it was, but there was something oddly familiar about the antlered Hollow so he’d hoped that they’d be able to handle themselves although if they needed it, he was ready to step in and help as something about this last Arrancar seemed off to Alacrán. He also took a moment to glance around and noticed that the other Hollows that had gathered here were still there although they had backed up considerably now that Ceros and Balas were being thrown around.

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{Reiatsu Pool 2075/2700}
-75 Ulcera
-150 Bala x3
-200 Cero

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{Blindado Drawback}
Speed - 140 (-25%) 105
Reiatsu Strength - 150 (-50%) 75

[Teresa]

Well at least one of them seemed to be more than just basic talk. This was utterly ridiculous so far and not in a good way. Teresa had faced down quite a few remarkable foes in the short time she’d been a Hollow yet these Arrancar were just piss poor. Although she was aware of her own growth as a Hollow in the last year these self proclaimed warriors were barely above the benchmark. It was so disappointing that Teresa actually began to believe there would have been a better fight for her when she had just started out.

Out of the few though one of them managed to grab her cero, channel it and then send it back at her obviously more potent than what he’d handled. Thankfully though Teresa could see right away that the cero coming back towards her wasn’t anything exceptionally above her own. Still evading it with her own natural speed wasn’t likely as such a pair of small golden bursts of reiatsu come from the bottom of her feet propelling Teresa upwards in the air above the cero. A very useful technique that Teresa had only recently acquired known as the Luna Paso Cero.

Getting up to about ten feet Teresa gazed down to see the male Arrancar with a club of long length with several spikes along its body. Holding it above his head all she can hear is him scream. “Crush all, Ira!” A large pillar of brown reiatsu springing up from the Arrancar only a couple seconds afterwards when Teresa lands back on the ground for the Arrancar to step forward revealing his entire body looked to be formed from stone. His size was much larger, no longer just a big male, but now towering over most at a height above twelve feet. Teresa remembered hearing stories about things just like this. . . A golem.

Remaining Reiatsu: 3610/4310
Luna Paso Cero: (-50)

[Alacrán]

Alacrán was definitely impressed by Teresa's combat prowess and ingenuity, never having imagined using Cero in the method that Teresa had displayed. His attention is drawn back to the large Arrancar as he screamed at the sky with his spiked club, "Crush all, Ira!" He watched as the Arrancar was enveloped by the pillar of reiatsu only for it to then step out, now a massive towering monster made of stone.

Alacrán was caught off guard and somewhat impressed by this Arrancar's release form. He'd only seen a few in his time, usually killing most of the Arrancars he'd encounter before they could unleash their Resurrección, so the few he had seen had never really impressed him. Yet now a truly strong and imposing looking Resurrección stood before him and it seemed like it would not go down easily. Hopefully.

He joins Teresa as she lands, hovering just a few feet off the ground with his wings, and begins to speak, his mandibles clicking in between every other word. Watching him talk was also quite an unsettling sight as his face looked as if it shouldn't be able to produce words, let alone speak coherently, "Not sure 'bout you, but ah don' thank dat thangs gonna be going down as easy as the otter two did. Ah'm usually not one fer it, but ah thank it be best if we both take a go at 'em 'fore he can do anythang. Hm?"

[Teresa]

Definitely not something that Teresa was expecting or even really thought possible. This Arrancar turning into what seemed like a literal stone Boulder in the shape of a man was both surprising and confusing. His potential power and threat wasn’t the confusing part to her though. Instead all Teresa could ponder at the moment as Alacran makes his way over to her is. “How does he breathe? Does he have blood or is it sand now?” The fact Alacran had come over to her meant that he remembered her and how they worked together in the past, at least that’s what she believed.

Not giving any sort of physical reaction as an answer to his question Teresa stands with her eyes focused on the golem walking towards them both. Each of his footsteps were shaking the ground beneath her feet as they sank into the road. It was as if this Arrancar now walked through a river with the ground offering no resistance to his body. “I don’t see a reason why I need to do this myself now. I’m unsure I can even eat him the way he is now. Which means he’s not prey, he's just a target. So throw everything you’ve got at him.” Keeping a calm head and moving forward as best she could Teresa realize something as she felt her stomach growl. She was getting hungry.

Extending her left arm out once again Teresa begins to channel her reiatsu knowing that she’d have time to cast off one of her techniques should this guy not enhance his speed. By the way he was moving though she was getting the sense he was the overconfident type. Something that she was going to use to her advantage. While she had a few different ideas this one was something she’d been working on for the last couple weeks and hadn’t gotten to use on anything yet. Her Golden reiatsu appeared in front of her fingers in the shape of a large orb. A moment later eyes and a mouth seemingly appear on the orb and then it’s fired while biting through the air with the intent of chomping down on this golem.

Remaining Reiatsu: 3610/4310
Sonriente Bala: (-150)

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Technique Name: Sonriente Bala (Proficient)
Class: 4
Technique Type: Hollows/Arrancar
Usable By: Hollow Races
Technique Element: N/A
Technique Description and Effects: Following the standard practice of channeling reiatsu to a specific small point on the body the user forms this bala. This one though immediately sets itself apart from the typical by being condensed into a physical form, turning solid and losing its ability to burn and explode. Two sunken sections near the top along with a large wide jagged smile cause this bala to resemble a smiley face. Once fired the mouth of the bala will bite constantly tearing through anything in its path that doesn’t have the durability to handle the bite force equal to the user's Reiatsu Strength. The bala is roughly the same size as a basketball.

How to use technique: Same as the typical.

Technique Drawbacks: Costs 150 reiatsu. Can only travel one hundred feet before dissipating.

[Alacrán]

Alacrán nods although he wouldn't have gone so far to say that the Arrancar was no longer prey. They would just need to tear the rock off it's exterior and surely there'd be plenty of flesh for them to consume and seeing as how most of the Hollows that had gathered here had begun to start fleeing as soon as the large golem had appeared, it would surely be more than enough for the two of them to feast on.

He hangs back for a moment as Teresa moves forward and fires her odd Bala at the Arrancar, who made no effort to block it. It makes contact with the massive foes skin and began to chew on the rocky armor that was his skin now but it seemed like the Bala wouldn't be able to get through it as the rock was much tougher than what the Bala was able to handle. This gives Alacrán a moment to pause and contemplate what was going on here.

He'd heard of how the Arrancar's skin were naturally tougher, possessing some sort of ability that makes their skin as strong as steel, he assumes that that must be what's going on here. This golem's massive rocky armor must be acting in the same manner as this skill that Arrancar had possess and it seemed like it had carried over into his release form as well. If that was the case then perhaps he had just the thing for it.

Alacrán darts past Teresa and just skirts by the imposing Arrancar, who tries to swat at him as he flew by and nearly catches him as the scorpion's body was in a lot of pain already due to the pain his nerves sent throughout his body. He takes off into the air way above the two of them, acting as if he was flying away from this fight. The golem seemed to take notice of this and turned to continue his march towards the small, antlered one.

Alacrán glances back down, now roughly twenty or so feet in the air, and notices that the Arrancar had ignored him. He halts his flight and begins hovering where he is as he does his best to aim his tail, which hung below him now, at the back of the giant Arrancar. The familiar sound of a Cero charging can be heard as one forms right at the tip of Alacrán's tail, just on the stinger which begins to leak it's venom inside the core of the red Cero.

The Cero with it's purple core becomes fully formed and then without a word of warning, he releases it towards the golem who'd turned around as soon as he heard the sound of the charging. He grins as he watches the Cero charge and fire at him, once again doing nothing to defend himself against and not even trying to absorb the odd Cero. This would prove to be a mistake, which he finds out as the Cero bathes him and the purple core makes contact with his armor which causes it to begin to melt and break away, becoming weaker as the corrosive property of the Cero becomes obvious.

Alacrán begins to lower himself out of the air rapidly, whether or not this had weakened the Arrancar enough for Terresa to make a move against it that would be effective in bringing it down, as having released that Cero for the first time was a lot more taxing than he'd expected. On top of that, he'd also ended up using a lot reiatsu to do fire that Cero, more so than he was used to. So it wasn't a stretch to say that he needed a moment to rest real quickly and he couldn't do that very well in the air.

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{Reiatsu Pool: 1475/2700}
-600 Cero Corrosive

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{Cero Corrosivo (Corrosive Zero)}Class: 4

Technique Type: [Hollow Technique]

Usable By (Technique is available to which races?): [Hollows]

Technique Element: [Acid]

Technique Description and Effects (Explain appearance, powers, and effect):
Alacrán has learned how to infuse his Veneno into his Ceros, causing them to become extremely more corrosive and acidic compared to your average Cero thanks to the toxicity of Veneno del Hombre Muerto. These Cero appear like a normal Cero but it instead has a purple core that can be seen through the red orb. While still bearing the same destructive power and speed of a normal Cero, due to the nature of Alacrán's Veneno, these new Ceros are extremely effective at breaking down or through Reiatsu. When this Cero collides with defensive or reiatsu based techniques of equal class or lower, it reduces the overall effectiveness of the opposing technique by 50%. If the opposing technique is of higher class, the overall effectiveness of the said technique is reduced by 25%.

How to use technique (How is it activated?):
In order to use this technique, Alacrán first aims his tail at the target and then begins forming a Cero at the tip. As the Cero is forming, he must also activate Veneno del Hombre Muerto, injecting the toxic reiatsu it into the core of the Cero for him to then fire at his target.

Technique Drawbacks (Limitations, repercussions for use, etc):
As previously stated, in order to complete this technique, Alacrán must activate Veneno del Hombre Muerto therefor paying the activation cost of that technique. On top of that he must also pay a reiatsu cost of 200 even though this technique is class 4.

Made By: Alacrán

Reserved?: Yes

[Teresa]

Watching her Sonriente Bala collide with the arm of the Arrancar yet witnessing it do very little to the stone monster. She had to ponder whether or not this Arrancar really did have a defense strong enough that her smile couldn’t devour him or if she had perhaps not finished crafting the technique. She’d made it with the intention to kill all with just her smile yet it seemed perhaps she hadn’t put enough intent into that smile. Either way though it kept the Arrancar busy long enough for Alacran to make his own move.

A cero that Teresa hadn’t seen before was unleashed behind and in that movement, Teresa took the chance to prepare herself. “Protect me.” She speaks as another orb of golden reiatsu is formed this time though not at her fingertips but at the top of her head between her horns. A basketball sized orb of golden light moving downwards to her mid section that begins to circle around her. The next moment Teresa felt a hard impact against her front knocking her to the ground.

The golem Arrancar while taking the onslaught of Alacran’s cero slammed his fists together after having them extended away. The result was a sort of wave from the ground. The ground around the Arrancar in all directions raised up then moved outwards like an actual wave of water reaching high enough upwards that Alacran’s tail would be knocked away. Teresa was hit by the wave knocking her backwards a couple of times until she was about fifty feet away.

In that time the Arrancar shoved his right arm into the ground, pulling out a large club like his zanpakuto just formed from the earth itself. “Bugs should be crushed.” Swinging over to hit Alacran in the chest. It’d feel comparable to a small child being hit with a baseball bat by a grown man. A massive amount of strength that would send Alacran backwards with quite a large amount of damage positioned right at his center. As for Teresa getting back up to her feet she’d witness her ally being hit.

Holding out her hand to fire off a Bala the Arrancar turned and threw his club like some sort of pillar to be thrown. The cero she’d just ordered to protect her moves forward going off and clashing against the club. A large dust cloud is the result as the club and cero counter one another and neither continue to the originator. The next moment though Teresa felt a massive hand squeeze her right ankle snapping it immediately. All Teresa could do was scream in pain while the golem pops up out of the ground.

“Loud mouth bitch. This all you can do and yet you were talking all that shit a second ago.”

Lifting her up by her broken ankle and throwing the fifty feet to Alacran, Teresa felt the impact of the ground against her knocking the air from her body. This Arranacr’s physical strength really was insane and if she took a hit right on then she wouldn’t survive. Sadly it took a moment or two for Teresa to get back up during that time she felt the constant rumbling of the ground. Alacran had time to do something if he could manage to fight through the pain.

Teresa hated that it took her almost the entire time to get up into a sitting position. The golem almost right on them again as she tried her hardest to fight the pain across her body now and yet that wasn’t anything she was good at as a Hollow. Ten feet starting down at the two of them now with a big smile across his face. Teresa knew she only had one option if nothing else she had could harm him. It was time to use her strongest technique. Channeling her reiatsu into her index finger as she extends her left arm out pointing at the golem’s chest.

It’d take a bit of time, a fact that the Arrancar made more than apparent as he mockingly yawned. The fact he was allowing her to do her attack was one of pure arrogance yet she knew this and was more than willing to accept it. She’d never seen someone so sure of themselves though as the golem vanished causing her to panic for a moment only to reappear in the same spot with a bigger grin. So he could dodge at any moment, but was so sure of himself he wouldn’t bother. The stone body that had been whittled down regrew once again as the Arrancar seemingly absorbed the stone from the ground below his feet.

Finally Teresa had enough time turning to Alacran for a moment he’d hear her say faintly. “Get away.” In the next moment Teresa released all the reiatsu she’d been channeling into her finger tip at the Arrancar. Instead of some massive wave of reiatsu like a cero though, what came out was a tiny little orb that moved through the air like some sort of slow bubble. Teresa would vanish as she uses Ulcera in order to appear at the top of a building roughly one hundred feet down the street. The Arrancar continued to grin as he pounded his chest.

The moment of impact though and the Arrancar didn’t even have time to realize his mistake. The compressed orb of reiatsu blew on contact with the Arrancar’s chest enveloping him entirely in a pillar of golden reiatsu. Rising up above the buildings of the street Teresa watched with pride as her technique stood out like a sign from God. A beautiful attack of pure destruction that almost no one would ever take seriously. Little did Teresa know though that she’d just used a technique that could kill even some of the mightiest which meant it wasn’t unlikely that others would feel it. A couple of full seconds of splendor and then the pillar died down leaving Teresa with a large smile across her face.

Remaining Reiatsu: 3060/4310
Bala Gatear Abarcar: (-400)

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Technique Name: Bala Gatear Abarcar (Crawl Embrace) (Learned) 14
Class: 3
Technique Type: Hollow/Arrancar
Usable By: Hollow Races
Technique Element: N/A

Technique Description and Effects: Taking the principle of bala in the opposite direction. What is normally a sphere of reiatsu with high speed meant to cause minor damage over a small area has been rearranged into something completely new. By sacrificing the speed bala is known for Teresa has funneled the power of this technique into pure destruction. Taking on a smaller size than most, this bala is only about the size of a marble and moves at the leisurely pace of 10 speed. Once it makes contact with something though the bala immediately will explode resulting in a large column of reiatsu with 3x the Reiatsu Strength of the user. The potency of the explosion is astronomical as every bit of potential has been put solely into this one aspect.

How to use technique: Must channel for a couple seconds then fire.

Technique Drawbacks: Requires a 2 round cooldown. Incredibly easy to avoid due to travel speed.
Made By: Teresa
Reserved: Yes

[Alacrán]

Alacrán was surprised to see the Arrancar slamming it's fist together and find an explosion of a shockwave barreling towards him, yet he couldn't move or pull away from it, lest he ends up misfiring the Cero. So he stay in the air where he was and sets off the Cero just as the edges of the shockwave threw off his tail and also his balance in the sky, causing him to plummet to the ground much quicker than he had anticipated.

As Alacrán pulled himself up to try and recover he managed to catch the golem speaking and he didn't like what he had hear, "Bugs should be crushed." The Arrancar's reach was much greater than Alacrán had judged, not being used to fighting individuals larger than himself, and he was also in to much pain to dodge quickly enough. So his side is met with the end of the large club that the golem was using to try and squash him.

Alacrán was very accustom to pain by this point, always having to experience it anytime his armored exoskeleton came under the stress of battle, so he had no issue dealing with the pain as the Arrancar caught him as he was recovering. What did surprise him however was how weak the blows from this golem's club felt, hardly doing any damage to his Blindado. It was weak enough that even the pain that wracked his body from the nerves wasn't even that great or uncomfortable.

He still ends up sending Alacrán sailing away however, as the golem was still much taller and larger than the scorpion. As Alacrán hits the sands and goes rolling he folds his wings in so they don't get too damaged and digs his claws into the ground to try and stop himself. Once he comes to a stop, he slowly gets up feeling very dizzy and shaking off the sand from his form. His mandibles begin clicking rapidly as he grows irritated with this Arrancar but before he could fly back to reengage the giant golem Teresa is flung and lands in the dune next to him.

As Teresa recovered from being flung like a ragdoll, Alacrán turned and watched as the Arrancar started to make his way towards them, a malicious and arrogant grin on his face. This causes a spike of anger in Alacrán as he then opens up both pincers and his tail and aims them towards the Arrancar as small, basketball sized red orbs begin to form at the ends of each pincer, the tip of his tail, and in between his mandibles. He then unleashes two rounds of Bala from each point, although he knew that they wouldn't have much affect against the golem as he watched it's armor repair itself.

He curses to himself as he stops with the assault and glances over at Teresa as she seemed to have recovered somewhat and was beginning to charge some strange orb. Another skill that he wasn't familiar with, it intrigued him greatly as he watched the Arrancar seem to taunt them. His mandibles clicked together irritated once again but then he catches Teresa whispering to him, "Get away."

Usually Alacrán wasn't one to listen to someone to tell him something simply out of pride but he got the feeling that he should this time with that odd orb she was charging. So without another word he turns and takes off, disappearing inside an Ulcera just before she releases the orb. Soon the pillar of golden reiatsu catches his and the fleeing Hollow's attention, all turning back to simply stare in awe.

As the pillar subsided, he watched as the Arrancar's rocky form stepped out, completely scorched from head to toe and took a couple steps forward towards Teresa with one hand out, almost as if it was trying to grab and strangle her with what little strength it had left. Yet it would never get that chance as it falls and crumbles before her after a few steps forward. Alacrán and several Hollows rejoin her as, the former landing next to her as he stares at the Arrancar's corpse, "Damn. A bit overkill no?"

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{Reiatsu Pool 900/2700}
-500 x10 Bala
-75 Ulcera

[Teresa]

What Teresa saw was beyond anything she’d seen in the past even though in truth she’d seen it once before while testing the technique. Only once prior and yet still to her view now in this bleak desert the pillar of gold was beautiful. The mere fact that it had to die down, weaken and then eventually disappear was a tragedy. She was truly proud of the technique she’d developed not just as a Hollow but as an individual. This was the first time in her entire existence whether it be as a human or Hollow that she’d made something and she could really look at it and know it was exceptional.

A wide smile across her face and her chest for the first time in months overwhelmed with warmth she felt whole. This wasn’t like the joy she felt from eating nor from victory. This was something else, something more than anything else and yet she couldn’t figure it out nor could she hold it for more than a couple seconds for when the Arrancar stepped out it vanished along with the body of her work. The emergence of the Arrancar brought Teresa to a rage, one that led to her slipping through another Ulcera back within a few feet of the Arrancar with her jagged teeth on full display.

What walked out though wasn’t the same thing that had been hit by her Bala, she could instantly tell that his body, although it had survived up to this point, it’d suffered immensely. This was an almost perfect response to her actually using her new technique as it had brought down perhaps the strongest foe she’d come across so far. His arm outstretched Teresa was surprised with how resilient this man truly was and felt a twinge of respect for his power yet it couldn’t make up for his downfall. This was all his fault in the end as he was more than capable to bring her and all the other Hollows here down, he simply got too full of himself.

As he crumbles to the sand below only a couple feet from Teresa she grins. “I won’t let you make that mistake again.” She speaks as she steps forward until she’s right in front of his body. Alacran makes himself present by asking his question Teresa turns to look him in the face and simply smiles. Turning back to look down at his body Teresa points with her left hand. “Bring it all to my mouth.” She orders the sand which begins to seemingly crawl across itself and the body then raises upwards and pushes the remains into Teresa’s blender of a mouth.

“Strange to see you again so soon.”

Devoured: 1 Class 3 Arrancar

[Alacrán]

As Teresa gave him the odd smile and then began feasting on the remains of the former giant Arrancar, using an odd method to do so, Alacrán moves towards the Simian-esque Arrancar he'd been fighting and drags it's corpse over to the first Arrancar that had foolishly assaulted and began feasting on their corpse's, feeling as though Teresa would be more than well off with large golem's body.

“Strange to see you again so soon.” This causes Alacrán to pause in the midst of his feast as he turns towards Teresa and gives her a confused look, although it doesn't translate well with his arachnoid mask. He tilts his head to the side as he tries to recall where they might have met before. He'd made a note of it before but now that she was closer he had definitely found something oddly familiar about this Hollow and he really had trouble determining what exactly it was.

He finishes of what was left of the Arrancars before he turns back towards her, still giving her a confused look as he tries to puzzle out where they'd previously met, "Again? Ah'm not sure aye know you as aye haven' met many Adjuc'as tha'd servive a mee'ing with me. Did we meet 'fore you were an Adjuc'as?" He continues to wrack his brain with where she'd come from and something about the horns was starting to bring up old memories.

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{Consumed}x2 Class 5 Arrancar

[Teresa]

Over the next couple of minutes nothing of notice was really eventful as the two Hollows that had just decimated the Arrancar recurring group ate the group. Teresa wasn’t all that pleased with the taste of the flesh in her mouth. It wasn’t anywhere near as bad as tasting the flesh of a Hollow yet it wasn’t really good either. Thick blood that clung to her throat that only had a mild taste. It was almost like a bad milkshake. She wasn’t sure how she felt about devouring Arrancar now that she’d tasted one although one thing was certain still, Humans tasted the best.

Alacran though seemed as if he was confused. Teresa knew that her physical form had changed yet to her it was almost like she hadn’t changed much at all. Almost exactly like how she could still tell this was Alacran despite the minor changes in physical appearance that he’d undergone. So when he turned his head slightly she could tell that perhaps she wasn’t recognizable anymore . . at least not to Alacran. “We met in the human world several months ago, I think. Killed a few humans, special ones in an alleyway.”

[Alacrán]

“We met in the human world several months ago, I think. Killed a few humans, special ones in an alleyway.” The red, soulless orbs that were Alacrán's eyes narrow as he recalls the Hollows he'd meet in the Human World and slowly nods as this last bit of information helps him finally figure out why the horns had seemed so familiar, "I do recall mee'ing uh horned Hollow like yerself 'while back. Uh don' think we said much ta each o'her did we? I surly don' recall yer name."

As he continues speaking, he glances around to notice that most if not all the Hollows that had gathered here had finally left, leaving just the two victors of this battle behind. Whether this was a good thing or not was yet to be determined as he wasn't sure what Teresa's intentions were, even if they had worked together to score a meal in the past especially after the display of power she had shown just a while ago.

There was also the fact that he wanted to know why exactly she attacked these Arrancars. He was no fan of them and while he it wasn't his first time fighting against Arrancar, Alacrán wasn't a fool to underestimate their strength which he was shown to be right about with that last foe. So to attack this group without the reassurance of back up nor of knowing how strong they were, it seemed foolish to him and they only won due to their foe's arrogance.