Reaping the fruits of others JT (Hollows wanted, ask if not)

[Astrid Vess]

Astrid smiled to herself as she was making yet another Lásabrjótur sigil in the ground. Upon looking at it without any reiatsu involved it would look like a simple circle cut into fourths and with small drawings inside each fourth. However, as Astrid made the finishing touches she added a bit of her own reiatsu to the sigil. The sigil, just like the other 19 she'd made across Hueco Mundo and the Menos Forest started to glow a light blue color. It was akin to the color of the sky in the middle of the day and thus would stand out to any individual hollow that was roaming around. And when she was ready and activated them? They'd produce a stationary entrance directly to the Human World. Still, she wasn't certain where to go yet, as much as she wanted to sow chaos and allow her brethren to feed as they desired to, she needed to make the decision.


Taking a moment to think, while she still could, it dawned on her near immediately. She could open the portals to Tokyo. After all she'd met Sonadora there and with her packmate present she'd likely be more than willing to aid her on this idea, right? Astrid frowned a bit . . . the more she thought on it. . . the less certain she was sure Sonadora would be ok with it. She was a thinker after all. Concerned about things Astrid couldn't really comprehend. Still, that meant she had a better grasp of the effects of what might happen should she open up these gates to the human world. Meanwhile Astrid had simply wanted was to draw Shinigami from their plane of existence and kill them to fuel her capabilites. Well, hers AND the other hollows that'd come through.


Afterall what was an attack on the human world if not for a large enough to gather a lot of shinigami attention? It wasn't like there were humans worth a damn after all. At least none as far as Astrid was concerned anyway. Though that would remain to be seen. Still all this thinking before acting made Astrid both hungry and certain she needed Sonadora's help. The latter was better at this "thinking things through" bit than she was anyway. Astrid was more of an action oriented individual. Consequences would be dealt with when they came up. Namely because consequences really didn't matter to one who just . . . respawned. Albeit in horribly painful ways but still. With that thought Astrid created a small sigil, sized up just for her so that she could go to Tokyo to find Sonadora.


Stepping onto her sigil the world warped and twisted until she found herself yet again in the evening skies of Tokyo. She smiled just a bit at the view. Humans were food first and foremost, but this sight was still good as far as she was concerned. Now came the hard part, finding Sonadora. Astrid was many things, but a tracker was not one of them. Hence why she had her spirits but even still Tokyo was massive. It was like the Suicide Forest but concrete and filled to the brim with humans that weren't yet condemned or immortal. So that would make finding Sonadora that much more difficult, especially since Astrid had very little in the means of actually finding someone without help. Still if she needed her spirits to find someone then she would find them without delay. Thus, she immediately dug within herself and brought out the spirits of five hollow chicks.


The wisteria blossoms on her tree bloomed beautifully before being blown away by a non-existent breeze. The petals afterwards formed them piece by piece until they were completely summoned. She looked at them, while she continued to stand on her sigil, and growled out an order to search the city for Sonadora. Namely by looking for her reiatsu. The chicks, given they were already familiar with Sonadora's energy, gave small chirps before flying off in different directions. Now all Astrid had to do was wait. In the meantime, however she could traverse the city using her sigil as the vessel by which she moved. Sitting down she started motioning her hand around, namely pointing down and forwards into the heart of the city. The sigil pulsed before quickly moving in the desired direction.


A couple hours later . . .


Astrid was in the middle of consuming a human in an alleyway, just a random individual who'd decided that they would use it as a shortcut. . . and instead found Astrid's gullet. It was here that she had her chicks return to her, all five, with one in particular chirping at her and desiring her attention. Astrid sighed as she'd lost herself in consuming the individual in question but then remembered her order to them and threw the body and its large hole in its chest aside. The hollow spirit chirped and tried its best to describe what it'd felt. Namely through using its little claws to explain what would otherwise be impossible via bestial speech and body language. In short, Sonadora had moved on. Her hunting grounds were no longer in Tokyo however someone that had her energy dwelling within and from the few moments the spirit had been nearby, had heard distinctly mentions of Sonadora.


Astrid immediately produced a teleportation sigil and stepped on it, motioning for the chicks to follow. This would be a far faster means by which to find this individual in question. Once all the chicks were holding onto Astrid, she motioned the sigil to go into the air at its full 600 speed. It didn't take long at all for the group to get to the skies of Tokyo again. From there Astrid had the chick that had found said individual lead them by pointing in the direction it came from. This took a few minutes at most but eventually the group arrived hovering just above the place. While Astrid couldn't read the signs, she knew what sort of place this was. A prison. For what and for who she didn't know or frankly care but there was no doubt that it was a prison.


It made her angry to have to be here, let alone that whoever was in league with Sonadora was here. Still there was nothing she could do about that. . . until she broke in that is. And thankfully that would not be the hardest thing to do here. With yet more direction from the chick, she managed to find the room that held the individual in question. Astrid immediately felt disgust again, the individual in question was actual filth. Balding, losing teeth, fattened up, and from the looks of it, he seemed to be anything but clean. Astrid really shouldn't have been terribly concerned about most of that given her appearance, but it irked her still. Regardless this thing had her energy. She would find out why and if it could help her. Thus, without delay she had all her chicks charge up and fire bala's at the wall before her. It could have held up to one, maybe two given how unnaturally thick and well made the place was. However, five bala? It never stood a chance.


Alarms went off immediately and Astrid had four of her chicks fly past the man and go into the hallway on the opposite side of his room. The screams that came shortly after made it very clear what they were doing. And thus, the man even in his deranged state could tell Astrid wasn't here for anything other than herself. She gave a low growl to the man in question before speaking. "You. . . Sona. . . Dora. . . energy. . . Why? . . SPEAK!" She let out a far louder growl as her patience was rapidly being spent dealing with him despite him not having done anything but wait for her to speak. After a moment of connecting the dots, he finally started speaking. "Y-you speak of my mistress. She has blessed me with a modicum of her power. And that power is growing within. Soon I shall join her in travels across the world as those who join her fold always know where their mistress lies. Who are you to her? You do not seem. . . hollow or human." His crazed eyes looked over Astrids form to make sure of his hastily spoken words.


Astrid however narrowed her eyes. She caught barely any of his words. Namely "With", "power", "Join", "Human", and "Hollow". It took Astrid a good moment to piece together the man's implications. She'd done something to him. "Blessed" him if that were to be believed, which may be true given he could see her base form. It would make some amount of sense given the chicks very clearly detected him because of the energy Sonadora had placed within. Supposedly. The of course she understood that he was attempting to understand just what she was. She wasn't going to elaborate on that, he wasn't worth the time or energy. However, what was worth it all was if she could be directed to where Sonadora was currently. And if he was going to "join" her then that meant he knew where she was. And that meant he had some use after all. She wanted to think a bit more on if she truly believed the individual in question however from the new sounds starting to become apparent, she didn't have much time. She'd have to use him.


With another growl she had the chick with her charge up a bala. "Where. . . Is . . . Sona. . . Dora? . . Take me. ." The man in question was sweating further as he didn't know the nature of this thing before him. However, he knew that either he'd die now, or he'd die by the hands of the officers and other security force members that would come his way after this entire endeavor. Thus, he decided he needed to take a risk. Uncalculated. Brash as hell. And frankly arguably more dangerous than anything he'd done for a long time. He immediately made way to grab a map of the world he had stored in a nearby drawer. With a shaky hand and his nerves near shot he opened it for Astrid and pointed at a red circle on the map. "S-she's here! Tsunagi! I-I don't know what my mistress is doing but it must be important! Please take me with you! I must see her again. I MUST. She's my guiding light in this world and the next! If I stay here, I'll die before I can do anything of import for her!


Astrid directed her attention at the map and where he was pointing. His fat finger was covering the red circle however him speaking the name of the city specifically aided her in finding it. She'd never heard of this city either. Humans and their fucking strange naming conventions. it didn't matter though Astrid needed to get there and with her sigil she could. However, from the pleading and groveling body language she knew his want was to bring him. So certain was he that Sonadora was in Tsunagi that he was begging to be brought before her. Astrid more than anything else didn't want to. She wanted to leave him here. . . However, if he was lying and she took him there, she'd be able to readily kill him. He may have been imbued with Sonadora's energy, but Astrid was not going to be used by others, let alone actual filth like this man.


Before she could answer, she heard a whirling sound and noticed that behind her was a helicopter. Eyes widened and she immediately had her spirit fire the bala at it. Even in the rush of her movement it'd managed to hit one of the blades and caused enough damage to cause the helicopter to need an emergency landing. She growled loudly as she didn't have time for this shit. She let out a roar, calling her spirits to return to her and immediately made the sigil to transport her to this "Tsunagi". Once it was ready, she grabbed the man in question, making sure his face was close to every chick. She then growled to him. "You. . . DEAD. . . she's. . . . not. . . there. ." The man simply nodded quickly before letting himself get placed upon the sigil with Astrid and company.


Within moments the world warped and twisted again before finally solidifying and showing the two of them within a dilapidated building. Astrid shoved the man in question aside, throwing him onto the ground and let out her loudest roar yet. "SONA. . . DORA!!! For a long moment it appeared to remain silent in the building, nothing happening aside from the man in question going into pray as he rambled on about something. In truth Astrid almost killed him on the spot before she finally saw movement in the darkness with her hollow spirits screeching and pointing in her direction. It appeared that Sonadora had changed significantly since their last interaction. She was far less humanoid and much more akin to Astrid actually. Open chest cavity, bones protruding at various points, the claws and her wicked tails or appendages. Astrid smiled widely as she took a long moment to go over her packmate's new form.


Astrid in the meantime visibly relaxed and let her joy at seeing Sonadora take over her expression. Before Sonadora could even begin to speak Astrid immediately spoke. "Sona. . . dora! . . You. . . not. . . Tokyo. . . why "Tsunagi"?" It was at this moment that Astrid shook her head refocusing on what she needed to ask her for. "Sona. . . Dora. . . need. . . you. . . I. . . sigils. . . Hueco. . Mundo. . bring. . . others. . Large hunt. . You . . join? We. . . make . . . strong . . . hollows. . Astrid would point to the sigil that was in the process of fading away to prove what she meant by sigils. The sigil in question was the means by which Astrid had come to where Sonadora was and given Sonadora already knew how Astrid's broken ass speech was, should have an easy enough time understanding that Astrid had other sigils ready in Hueco Mundo. And that she wanted to bring other hollows to the human world. Likely to Tsunagi given Astrid was not the patient sort.


This also made Astrid want to attempt an explanation to how she was even present before Sonadora. She frowned heavily, somewhere between a pout of sorts and disgust at the being behind her. With a quick motion to him Astrid spoke again. ". . . That. . . "human". . . spoke. . . you. . "helped" me. . .What . . . is? Astrid from this point on would be quiet and let Sonadora speak. Namely because she'd start to grab her throat as it was feeling very strange again from talking. She didn't realize immediately because she was excited to see Sonadora again but the more she spoke the more apparent that odd feeling became. And the more it bothered her. Still the remainder of her attention was at Sonadora and was, admittedly, hopeful she'd agree to help her out with this large-scale hunt.


After what felt like an eternity to Astrid if she did agree Astrid would smiled widely before immediately taking on a more malevolent look. However, this would be halted at the idea of summoning the hollows elsewhere. This was sort of expected though admittedly Astrid still wasn't the fondest of going somewhere else yet again. Still Sonadora had her reasons and Astrid was willing to trust they were there for a reason. She'd look a bit dissapointed at the idea but once Sonadora made mention and showed Astrid where she wanted them to bring forth the hollows at Astrid would nod. Then immediately after creating another sigil and focusing its destination to be Manila in the Philippines. Once it was set up Astrid motioned Sonadora to it and spoke up to give a quick explanation. "Sigil. . . good. . . Step. . . on. . . "Manila". . . go to." Once her piece was said Astrid walked on it to demonstrate how it worked and it was about what one would expect. Upon stepping on the sigil, Astrid's form warped and twisted into a singular point before disappearing entirely. It was up to Sonadora if she would trust Astrid and her sigil to take them to the specified location.

Astrid in the meantime appeared on top of a large building near the center of Manila and smiled as it was still evening here, though a good deal more humid. Unironically making her feel more at ease. She'd wait for Sonadora for a few minutes to make sure if she would arrive with her. Once Sonadora appeared Astrid would smile and clap her tendrils together. Across the city twenty different sigils would appear in the sky, in the alleyways, on buildings, all over the city. Standard humans wouldn't be able to see them but the hollows in the Menos Forest and within the sands of Hueco Mundo would be able to see them and specifically through them. Manila would be shown and all the humans on the other side of the portals. Needless to say, it did not take long for a large volume of hollows from strays to adjuchas to make their way to Manila and begin their own personal hunting sprees. Screams would start to echo across the city as its residents of all races would start to realize just what Astrid had done.


In the meantime, Astrid would prepare herself by releasing her infernus, something she hadn't shown Sonadora yet given she hadn't learned how to by then. If Sonadora thought she'd be the only one who had a change in form she'd be in for a bit of a surprise as Astrid's own form changed. She became something of a dryad with her tree melding into her backside and acting like a second spinal cord and shaping into veil around her shoulders and head. Meanwhile her overall form would grow to five feet even with her arms and specifically her tendrils acting as fingers extending until they reached down to her feet. She'd begin to grow more wisteria and sakura blossoms on her person with even a few mushrooms spawning on her physical person. But most importantly, from her tree would come another monster.


Samson spawned in segments from her tree. The nine-foot behemoth started by having his head jut out her back with more and more horns growing onto his skull. From there a set of arms reached out and started pulling himself from her. Then another set. And another set until finally it was his open torso and ending with him finally pulling out his legs one at a time. Once out Samson stared at Sonadora empty eye sockets that held no means of actually looking at her, yet all the same held weight to them. A set of arms went around Astrid's form as Astrid in the meantime smiled wide at her freshly spawned companion and her new form. She remembered how Sonadora wasn't fond of her prior form and while there was nothing that she could do about that, in any real sense, this one hopefully would make her more comfortable with her. Samson on the other hand. . . Well, that would be another thing entirely, but Astrid was honestly more focused on seeing what Sonadora had to say on the matter and what her plans would be for the hunt. No doubt, she'd have an answer to almost anything that could happen.

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{Astrid Stats and Skills}Current Stats:

Strength: 50 (35)

Speed: 300 (220)

RS: 50 (35)

SPPR: 340 (1020)

Instinct: 180 (126)

Senses: 180 (126)

ES: 0

HE: 0


LA: 0

DA: 100



Current Skills: (14/16)

Sigil - 2

Strength of Will - 2

Pain Tolerance - 2

Poison Tolerance - 2

Lack of Fear - 2

Damage Recovery - 2

Leadership - 2

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{Infernus information}Class 4

1/10 posts used

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{Spirit Horde stats}Strength: 400

Speed: 250

Reiatsu Strength: 0

Spiritual Pressure: 0 (immune to cutback)

Instinct: 150

Senses: 150

Energy Sensory: 100

Healing Expertise: 0

Durability: 600

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{Samson stats}Strength: 600

Speed: 300

Reiatsu Strength: 0

Spiritual Pressure: 0 (Immune to cutback)

Instinct: 200

Senses: 150

Energy Sensory: 50

Healing Expertise: 0

Durability: 3060

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{Reiatsu}-250 reiatsu for infernus
-50 reiatsu for teleporation sigil

300 reiatsu used

10,200 - 300 = 9,900 reiatsu remaining

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{Techs used}Teleporation sigil

Lásabrjótur, The Worlds Key

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{Teleportation sigil}Class: 7

Technique Type: General Hason Technique

Usable By (Technique is available to which races?): Hason

Technique Element: Sin

Technique Description and Effects:

For Hason they draw their strength the sin that damned them. Their damning sin is engraved into their very being from the moment they are dragged down to the depths. Because of this Hason have an inherent understanding of glyphs, sigils, and runes. That is where this technique was born of. With no means to step like other races Hason had to develop an alternate means of enhanced movement. Sigils takes care of this by creating a node where the user can "step" to so long as there is an alternate sigil. In reality this is teleportation so specified zones.

These sigils being that they are made of reiatsu can be placed almost wherever. In the air, on walls, on objects, and even on the surface of liquids. At creation the sigils can be as far away as 40 feet from the user. These sigils last for 3 posts and cost 50 reiatsu to make. From there as long as the user has two sigils created they can step between them at 12x their speed for 25 reiatsu. Sigils need to be within 60 feet of one another to teleport the hason. These sigils 1ft in diameter at their smallest and up to 2 feet in diameter at their largest.

At this level the user is only capable of creating the basic teleporation sigil in question. Upon learning the technique at this level the user can generate 3 sigils total. Upon reaching mastered the total number of sigils created increase to 4. This technique does not count against the hason's total number of non-release techniques.


How to use technique:

The user focuses their reiatsu into their hands. Then draws a circle while staring at the spot they want the sigil to appear.


Technique Drawbacks:

Sigils have a duration of 3 posts to start and cost 50 reiatsu to create a sigil. 2 Sigils minimum must be available to step. It's very easy to predict where the user will go.


Made By: Ryouzen

Reserved?: No

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{Lásabrjótur, The Worlds Key}Class: 7

Technique Type: Sigil

Usable By: Hason

Technique Element: Spatial / Cinematic

Technique Description and Effects:

Lásabrjótur is an interesting technique, that takes the idea of an Icelandic sigil and applies it's meaning almost literally. For Hason, the doors to Hell are permanently closed and unresponsive, unless of course one finds themselves outside of Hell. In which case they simply open up and consume the Hason upon their demise. This has been the rule of the realm for as long as Hell has been binding souls to it. That ends now, with the resurgence of a long long forgotten about Sigil. Given it's title of "The Worlds Key" it should be fairly obvious what this sigil intends to do. Simply put it creates a pathway that allows Hason access other planes of existence.

How it does this is what makes it interesting. Hason cannot summon up the Gates of Hell. Thus they cannot attempt to manipulate them in any capacity. Thus what this sigil does is attempt to replicate what Akki do, creating a portal or in this case a pathway out. Though in actual effect it's more akin to teleportation, as the sigil displaces the Hason to the realm of their choosing.

However unlike Akki this technique requires a material component, specifically an object of the plane the Hason wants to travel to. This is only necessary for the initial travel to a plane as the sigil itself doesn't change but needs to be "attuned". The sigil however has no limit to how many places it can be attuned to. (These would simply be listed in the Point Bank of the Hason.)Hason by their very nature do not require such materials for Hell as they are already intimately familiar with it. However the human world, Silbern, Hueco Mundo, Soul Society, and the spaces between all require components. These components are consumed during the attuning process.


How to use technique:

The user produces the sigil (either by summoning it, drawing it out, etc.) and places it on a solid surface. From there they fill the sigil with their reiatsu and name their realm of choice.

If the user is traveling for the first time, they simply need to hold the object over or place it in the center of the sigil. From there speak the realms name and fill with reiatsu. Attuning will take a moment as the object is broken down.


Technique Drawbacks:

Non-combative use. Needs an object from the realm the user wishes to go to.

Made By: Age old hason

Reserved?: Nope

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{Reference pictures}Astrids infernus form:




Samsons form:




Draconic hollow chicks:

[Akando Bena]

Starvation. This was the only thing Akando truly understands as he lives with it everyday. Not a normal type of starvation either as eating would usually quell the feeling, but not for him. To make matters worse he has gained a modicum of his mind back after losing it when he became a Hollow, apparently even while not in control his will was stronger than any other within the Hollow he became a part of. Becoming a Gillian allowed his mind to catch up with his changed form, fear of becoming a Wendigo no replaced by the fear of remaining weak and being unable to satiate his never ending hunger.



Moving from tree to tree rather quietly for something 15 feet tall and 400 pounds, Akando scans the Menos Forest below for prey to devour. While he may be smaller than the usual Gillian he is certainly not weaker. Using the speed his body was built for he moves quickly, able to play with his food if he ever felt like it. That's when he spots two Hollows on the ground, searching wildly for the threat they know must be around. They smell an odor that can only be described as death, the problem is the odor remains the same strength regardless of how close Akando is to them. When the smell first entered their nose they nearly vomited, which says a lot for creatures who normally thrive on death.



Using his skill with stealth, Akando moves in closer to the two unaware Hollows. One looks like a bear while the other Like a Wolf, they don't seem like complete pushovers but it was clear he had the advantage with power. Opening his voice while hiding behind one of the massive trees, Akando lets the voice he uses echo through the forest, "Food, Glorious food, we're anxious to try it!" The moment the tow Hollows heard this they panic, turning every which way to find the source of the noise. Clueless to how close Akando really is to them, saliva would begin oozing done his face from the anticipation of eating.



Dashing from behind the trees at a speed of 600, the Bear didn't even see Akando coming. The Bear Hollow was now looking down at the stump he now had as an arm, letting out a roar of pain mixeed with anger and fear. Unsure if it should make a run for it his fate was already sealed, crunching noises could be heard as Akando all but inhaled the left arm of the Hollow. Using the massive trees in the forest to his advantage the pair of Hollows wouldn't know where he hid to feast. When the sound vanished they understood he was coming back for more, tensing up with their hair standing straight from fear they listened for any sign of movement.



That's when Akando appeared before the two of them, showing exactly what he was. "WHY!? WHY WOULD YOU EAT US WHEN HUMANS ARE SO NEAR!? WE'VE SEEN PORTALS HEADING TO THE WORLD OF THE LIVING JUST OUTSIDE THE FOREST!!" Twisting his head to the left Akando would stare at the Wolf Hollow speaking before answering, "Don't... Care... Food... Now". With the response from that raspy voice the Hollows knew the were in trouble. Moving with a speed of 300 Akando would run up to them both, raising his right hand ready to strike. Both the Wolf and the Bear move, the Wolf going left while the Bear moves right. Boosting his speed up to 400 for but a moment Akando would catch the Bear before he moves to far, grabbing it by the neck and quickly applying enough pressure to break the esophagus.



Letting the Bears body drop Akando turns his attention to the Wolf. Snarling he lunges toward it at a speed of 300, letting his body rest from moving at to high of a speed. The wolf knowing the predicament it was in turns to run, beginning to disappear into an Ulcera in fact. In order to ensure his prey doesn't escape he moves at 600 speed, grabbing the leg of the Hollow before it could completely enter the Ulcera. With a strength of 375 Akando yanks the Wolf back out before slamming it into one of the many trees effectively breaking its spin. Letting the Wolf fall to the ground he turns back to the Bear. Now was the time to feast, ripping the bear apart and shoving it into his mouth Akando wouldn't even chew, only swallow. The hunger dissipating very slightly but immediately coming back the moment food isn't being shoveled down his throat.



With the Bear fully devoured Akando would move over to the still breathing Wolf. This was what he feared, becoming another's meal because he himself wasn't strong enough. No, he must become more powerful. He would use these two, as both a meal to help with his hunger if only slightly and momentarily, also as a way to further his power. Bringing his clawed right hand down on the Wolfs head, its life leaving it. Gobbling down the meal until nothing remained he could feel the hunger return with full force. Sensing the souls and wills in his body, he found the two Hollows just recently eaten. Focusing on their form he sends his aura through his body, capitalizing on the fact he rules the forest that is his body. After doing this he understands how to summon souls from himself in the form of the wolf and bear, them being able to harness a minor part of his power.



Remembering the words they spoke, Akando headed towards the outer edge of the Menos Forest. It only took a few moments before he spotted one of the portals, moving over to it he could see the humans swarming the city. Hunger and power, that's what he wants and this could help him with both. Stepping onto the portal the world changes around him, first disfiguring before becoming a fully different environment. He was now standing on top of a building, humans moving in the multitudes in the streets below. The animalistic mind showing itself still present, he lifts his head to the sky letting out a roar that sounds like any other normal Gillian, in fact it sounded exactly like them. The only difference is the volume as it left his mouth, breaking the glass on the building below him. With his presence a foul smell would follow, the smell of death and decay lingering 100 feet from where he stands. Somehow, the smells strength remains the same regardless of distance from him. Meaning at 101 feet everything smells normal, then the moment someone moves within 100 feet the smell assaults' their nose regardless of friend or foe. At least one potential alley would remember this stench, the question is would she remember who it belongs to?

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{Stats}Brave Type



Rank: 1





Strength: 300 (375)




Speed: 400 (600)




RS: 50 (25)




Spirit Pressure: 100 (50)




Instinct: 55




Senses: 50




ES: 25




HE: 0

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{Skills}Strength of Will: 1




Martial Art- Natural Weapons: 1 (When not using teeth or claws this Skill is treated as Street Fighting but at one point lower)




Bleeding Tolerence: 1




Stealth: 1




Anti-Stealth: 1




Focused Eye: 1

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{Akando's Appearance}

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{Consumed}Class 6 Hollows x2

[Sonadora]

Tsunagi, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. One of the many places where the people of Japan reside outside of the metropolis. At a first glance, and for all intents and purposes, it is nothing more than a typical seaside town with not much to speak for itself. Its population - a small one who barely surpasses 4000 - unsurprisingly specializes itself in fishing, and it has yet to show any particular endeavors to develop its town further through economics. However, upon further inspection, a visitor would rapidly realize that this place is one of beauty and history. Greenery surrounds the town, giving it a distinct natural look compared to the more contemporary styles of the greater cities, and a few historical monuments remain to remind all of the country's most ancient roots. These particularities has allowed the town to prosper in other ways, namely artistry, and its populace to adopt a welcome attitude towards strangers and other visitors.

But today, something was off with this quaint little town. What should have been an active summer day filled with enthusiastic artists from all across the country and hopeful fishermen having awaited the perfect day to go to sea was... quiet. The ports, usually rustling with activity, currently had none ongoing. There was no one at sea, not even a single boat, and the fishing trade appeared to be oddly dead. It was quite the strange sight for a place that was so renowned for its expertise in fishing. The town located further away from it did not fare any better. On such a sunny day of the season, you could see many a few vehicles passing by on the main roads under the sunshine, and you would see many of the locals passing by and meeting one another for a small chat. In such a small town, it was easy for the residents to do such a thing. However, now, it was as dead it could be, empty. At times, there would be a single man or a woman passing by on the sidewalk, but it would seem that vast majority of the residents had decided to remain inside.

It was unclear how long this silence has been lasting. Hours? Days? Weeks? It was doubtful anyone could tell. Maybe the town has always been this way, and all the information about the town that was publicly available on the Internet was nothing more than a sort of cover-up to make it appear as something it wasn't. Regardless, there was someone in the town today that did not fit in this terrible silence. He was a simple journalist, a worker who came from another prefecture to cover the newest expedition that was meant to begin at the Akasaki Elementary School at 6 PM. There was nothing exceptional about him; at best, he was a commoner, and at worse, someone who was overworked and underpaid for a job he never really wanted to get in the first place. This visit to this awfully-remote village so far away from home was nothing short of the perfect example for him to complain about in front of his wife once he would be done with the gig.

Unfortunately for him, the gig never occurred. The dilapidated school was closed. There were banners advertising the event he had come here to cover, but there was no one within or near the old building, and the doors were locked. With no way to go inside, the man would find himself waiting in the parking lot for a time. At first, he was patient, but as seconds became minutes and minutes became an hour, he would find himself huffing in frustration. "Hey! Hey, hello?!" He shouted towards the building, not even bothering to show any manners to anyone who may have been there without his knowledge. At this point, he firmly believed them to be completely undeserving of his nicer self. "I'm Aito Akihiro! From Kumamoto Katsudō Shinbun! Hey!" His voice was loud, far-reaching, enough so that it crossed the entirety of the school. Every room whose windows were open would allow his voice to echo throughout them. It was quite the racket.

Again, the man would wait after his callings. However, as to be expected at this point, nothing could be seen nor heard from the school. He could already feel the weight of time press further and further onto his shoulders, constantly bringing him further and further down. The weight would slowly become stress over his schedule. He needed to complete this article by the end of the week, and if this event was somehow cancelled, then there was no possible way he could write one. For a moment, he found himself patting his pocket, almost as if he was searching for something. However, by the time he realized there was nothing within the pocket, he would find himself clenching his teeth before he would let out a final huff and walk forward towards the main doors of the school. "Idiots. I'm surrounded by idiots! Like I'm not dealing with enough shit already!" Once he was close to the gates, he would raise his foot. "I'll do the event myself!"

A few kicks could be heard all across the area until, finally, the doors would give way. It was quite easy to take them off their hinges; after all, they were more than a dozen years old, and they have not been maintained ever since the school was closed. In normal circumstances, what the man had done here would be considered a crime against the equivalent of a historical monument. Unfortunately, it did not matter to him. If anything, seeing the doors fall down onto the floor and crash so loudly satisfied him tremendously. "Heh. Still got it after all this time!" He would congratulate himself with a hint of smugness as he walked onto the fallen doors, then proceeded inside the school with his hands in his empty pockets. Naturally, since there was no one around, he did not bother to act in a mannerly fashion. Why bother? That was too much effort. So he instead went on as he always has: casually, without a hint of care for what surrounded him.

The man traveled from hallway to hallway, observing the area with a resounding lack of care. As to be expected from such an abandoned place, these aforementioned were mostly empty. At times, he would see a sign warning him of a floor that could collapse underneath his weight, but for the most part, all there was would be a wooden floor and doors leading into classrooms. Since it was sunny outside, the windows illuminated much of the hallways; however, there were a few areas within the building which were located away from the light's grasp. Upon reaching these areas, the journalist would simply groan and pull out his cellphone before activating its flashlight feature. "They really didn't even bother to power the place before I came. Unbelievable," he would speak in a ranting fashion as he shook his head, seemingly unaware that that was simply not how the caring of ancient infrastructure worked. "These people... Ugh, I swear."

Unsurprisingly, the man was quite bored during his observations as he wandered the school. There was nothing for him here, and quite frankly, he could not believe that he even once believed that coming here was a good idea. Yet as he approached one particular hallway on the ground floor, he would notice something odd. Right there, in front of the doors that would lead him towards the gymnasium... there was a wall of fog. It was a most peculiar sight to behold, so much so that the rude man would simply stand there for a moment as he looked over it. "Huh...?" He'd let out quietly as he found himself looking towards a nearby window. There was no fog outside. The weather was still just as sunny as before. Being understandably taken aback by the presence of this white veil standing before him, he would look around to see if there were any pipes or ventilation grid. For all he knew, one of the pipes had broken and this was some kind of leak.

His instincts were telling him to get out of the building. He had his scoop now, and that would be enough to satisfy his boss. However, now that he was here, he wanted more. What was beyond this veil? What was responsible for it? That smoke doesn't even look physically dangerous to him, so hey, why not try to find the culprit and see where it goes? If he can find whoever's making that smoke and carefully omit his illegal entry into the building, he'll be able to write an article about it. Who knows? Maybe his boss will be able to give him a raise for putting himself in a risky situation. Hell, maybe he'll even get a promotion! It was thus with this mindset that the man decided to head onward into the veil, chuckling to himself as his mouth twisted into a smug smirk. "This is my chance for me to stop having to do this for a living. Once I get that promotion... I'll be sending Ichika-san on more dangerous trips! That'll teach her!"

As he passed through the fog, however, the man's enthusiasm would soon take a turn as he would rapidly realize that his eyesight had been partially taken away from him. All he could see as he forward into the hallway leading towards the gymnasium was a part of the walls, of the ceiling, and the windows on his left side. Everything else was hidden by the fog. It was a very unusual look to the place, and as to be expected, it caused the man's smug grin to slowly turn into a careful and alert look, especially once he would realize that raising the flashlight of his cellphone into the fog wouldn't actually help him see through the veil at all. Something about the way the fog stuck to the surfaces so easily was just too strange and unnatural. Moreover, it felt like real fog, not just some random leak. It made his skin slightly wet from the humidity, and it was generally uncomfortable to pass through. For a moment, he wondered if he was getting too far... but at this point, he felt like he was simply too far to give up.

So, he headed onward a bit further until, finally, he arrived at the gymnasium's main doors. They were closed at first, but with a good push, he was able to open them with ease. Unfortunately, much like the hallway that preceded it, the gymnasium did not possess a good view. It too was filled with fog, rendering any analysis incredibly difficult. The journalist's pacing would slow down as he entered the space. Again, his instincts told him to leave. This time, however, he would find something that would cause him to not want to do so just yet. Well, not "something"; rather, "someone". It was another man in the fog, one who wore a fisherman's jacket from the looks of it. Why he was even wearing such an unfitting outfit in this place, the journalist simply had no idea, but he did not care: seeing anyone in this place was a relief. Finally, someone he could speak to! Maybe he could get some answers about this fog, or at least some information about this stupid school!

But as he approached the man, something felt off. He wasn't moving. Even as the journalist stood closer to him as he approached, there was no reaction from him. Unsurprisingly, the ruder man would notice this, and with a frown, he would call: "Hey. Uh... I'm here for the event. The door was wide open, so I thought that everything was alright, but it... doesn't look like that way to me. Was everything cancelled or something?" His question was told in a softer tone of voice as he felt the need to be somewhat more respectful with the man. Maybe it was the fact that it was another person in such a strange place, or maybe it was the strangeness of the place altogether that was making him feel the need to address him in such a way. Regardless of what the reason may be, he would not receive any response from the man, which would at that point cause him to freeze. "Hey. Are you alright?" He tried to ask. No response once again. By that point, he would begin to feel sick of the lacking responses, and eventually, he pushed himself to grab the man in order to get his attention.

He was not able to grab the man. In fact, it seemed as though he never would be able to.

In great horror, the journalist would watch as his hand passed right through the man as though he had never been there to begin with. It would pass through the shoulder, the chest, then the hip, flying through as though the man's body had no physical property whatsoever that allowed him to be tangible. Leaving out a grunt of terror, the ruder man would immediately remove his hand from the man's body, then take a few steps back. Impossible. That... That was impossible! How the hell did that happen?! How was that even possible?! The questions would pile on, and in this confusion, the journalist could only attempt to distance himself from it all. "O-Oh... What the hell..." he muttered as he took further steps away from the intangible man. Maybe coming here was a bad idea after all. In a fit of panic, he would turn his head over his shoulder in an attempt to find the door. Unfortunately for him, what he saw was something else altogether.

There were now more people he could spot in the gymnasium. The most of them could not entirely be seen through the fog, but Akihiro could count the number of figures that he could see in the moment... or so he thought. One, two, four, eight, twelve. The number would rapidly reach a ridiculous point, causing him to freeze even further. How he wasn't capable of noticing these people before and why they were even here in the first place, he could not say, but the fact that his hand had passed through the earlier man was enough to make him feel as though the same would happen with the rest of them. Yet this was the worst thing about this sight. The worst was what these people did next. By the time he could count fifteen people, the people... started to scream. Those screams were howls of terror, agony, like they were all in great pain and mental anguish. Even though they seemingly had no physical connection to this world, they were in such pain that they felt need for the world to hear them.

By the point, the journalist had become traumatized. This was too much for him to bear. In his eyes, it was like he was watching the most horrifying thing someone could conjure out of their heads for some horror movie script. The only difference was that this was not a horror movie, or even some cheap knock-off series you could find on the Internet. This was as real as it could possibly be, and it was enough to almost make him panic. As his tough persona melted away, his free hand felt the need to reach for his office shirt, look for one of the top pockets, and grab something from within before quickly taking it out and holding it front of him. "Stay back! Stay back!" He cried as he held the thing in front of him. It was a pocket knife. He wasn't sure it was going to be effective against these things, but he did not care. Simply holding the weapon in his hand was enough for him to feel as though he had something he could use to protect himself.

Rapidly moving throughout the gymnasium thereafter, he would attempt to find the doors through the fog. He would quickly pass by many of the screaming people almost in a run as he tried his best to bring himself to flee his fear. However, for as much as he attempted to do so, he would not succeed in finding the doors. It was though they had disappeared from the world itself. Eventually, the frustration of not finding the doors combined with the sickening feeling of being stuck with what he could only describe as screaming ghosts would make him scream as well... before he would feel himself hit something that he could not see in the middle of the room. Scared, he immediately turned and wildly flailed his pocket knife towards where he believed the point of contact was. Unfortunately, he hit nothing, and what he saw was a great figure drawn by the fog. It stood tall above him, so tall that it easily towered him. As he understood what was going to happen to him, the man would find himself stunned before, eventually, his screams would join the others.

---

Sonadora watched as this Aito Akihiro screamed out in absolute terror before he simply fell backwards onto the floor of the gymnasium. Without movement, she observed as the man lost all semblance of bravado he once could have possibly had, fell possibly painfully directly on his back, then soiled himself before falling into unconscious. She said or did nothing that could have possibly influenced his fall. Once he was on the floor, the creature would simply stare at him before letting out a quiet hiss of disgust. "Fool," she could only let out in response to this ridiculous reaction. Yet another ridiculous Human to add to the many she has consumed. This was a vocal man, someone who was brave enough to enter an area that was very clearly affected by a supernatural power in his eyes all so that he could achieve the goal of spreading information to the populace... and yet, somehow, he could not even tolerate even but a silhouette of her form.

Upon landing on the gymnasium floor, the journalist's body would find itself losing its corporeality as his mind was immediately affected by the fog. Slumbered, his soul would now be located in the Garden of Eden. It took only a few seconds before he started screaming alongside the others. His face would contort in great pain as he experienced a nightmare that could not be seen to those who were outside of the Garden, causing him to join the cacophony of screams for a moment. At a first glance, it was almost as if the entire gymnasium had been turned into a madhouse, an echo chamber of pain and misery that would have left anyone with a reasonable mind at the very least concerned for the people within it. Sonadora, however, merely continued to observe the screaming beings with no particular shock. She was studying them one at a time, evaluating their purpose for future usage in an individual process.

This aforementioned process would go on for a time that may have been excruciating to some. Calmly, she would turn her head towards each Human, then assign them a task. Actor, collector, herder, onlooker... There were many to give, and a few more that needed to be granted to many within this town whom the creature has not yet reached. Even the journalist - this pathetic thing from whom she could detect the putrid smell of urine as the fluids laid underneath him - was assigned a task. He would act as an informer, a being responsible to bring others to her. They all had a purpose, a reason to exist under her servitude, and it was why she had decided not to consume. They would act as Admirers until their purpose is complete. With that in mind, she continued to assign roles and tasks to the people in the gymnasium before she would finally stop and remove the fog from the area. Once the fog was completed remove, she would look at the screaming Humans before giving them all one single general order:   S I L E N C E   .

The screams stopped immediately. All that would remain from the chamber of pain would be a gymnasium filled to the brim with Humans who either lied on the ground or simply remained standing. There was probably thirty of them, if not forty, all of which Sonadora had collected over the last few days in a vast operation. Admiring the silence that unfolded, the Hollow remained quiet for a time before beginning to give each Human an individual order. As they received their orders, the Admirers all stood, and with a slow step, they each headed towards the main entrance of the Akasaki Elementary School. They did so in an eerily-organized formation, moving in a straight line that coursed throughout the school. These lines would proceed outside of the school as they each proceeded towards the town on foot to reach their homes and businesses, with the journalist instead opting to take his car to return to the offices of his newspaper.

After the Humans were gone, the Hollow stood in the gymnasium alone. In this dark silence, she contemplated her current situation, recalling all that has happened since she has left Tokyo. Many weeks ago, she and a strange beast named Astrid had successfully assaulted the Nakajima Tower. That beast, in a fit of childish kindness, had proven herself to be an indispensable ally for her Cambio, and allowed her to consume the grand majority of the souls contained within the tower. The sheer amount of souls that she consumed at the time allowed her to greatly expand her powers, and at a certain point, she began to realize that her body was about to enter a metamorphosis into a Gillian once again. As precaution, she had found herself using the Japanese rail systems to distance herself as far away as she possibly could from Tokyo in order to prevent herself from being detected by the Shinigami, and moved towards the western side of the country. It was a simple line of reasoning, but there was another reason underneath it, one that allowed her to return to this form she had long since missed.

Before she could fully reminisce this reason, she would suddenly hear something that could be heard from outside the gymnasium. At first, the once-diminutive beast was not sure of what she had heard, though once she realized it was a voice calling her name, she would find herself frowning and immediately heading towards the scene to investigate. With the aid of Ulcera, she would move out of the gymnasium, pushing herself out of the dilapidated building before carefully approaching the source of the voice. It came from one of the other buildings of the school, namely the one which contained a swimming pool for students who wished to become swimmers. Having not used that facility prior, Sonadora would take caution and steadily approach the area. Once close enough to the building, she would use Ulcera to stealthily proceed into the building's darkest corners before then analyzing what was inside. It was then that she noticed who had actually called her all this time. She could recognize those roots from anywhere.

"... Oh. It is you, Astrid. Welcome," she would find herself acknowledging as, slowly, she brought herself away from the darkness and approached her ally in a much less tensed fashion. The one of roots would be rapidly able to realize that the Hollow's voice had changed. It was deep, but it did not sound as though her vocal cords had been burned to a crisp. If anything, though it still was somewhat rough, it was now less monstrous and more approachable. "It has been some time since we have last met. How have the times been faring for you as of late?" Of course, her voice was not the only thing which has changed, as her form too has done so quite drastically. Previously not even a whole foot taller than her ally, she now easily towered over more than threefold. It was an impressive sight, and given her appearance, it sure made her quite intimidating. The journalist from before would have most likely suffered a heart attack if he would have ever acquired the spiritual sight prior to his coming here.

Unsurprisingly, though she was quite happy to see Sonadora again, Astrid was curious about why she was even here to begin with. Upon hearing this, Astrid would slowly settle her body down so that she could be comfortably near the smaller being before she would find herself humming quietly. If there was one thing she knew about the one of roots, it was that her intellect was... well, to put it bluntly, somewhat limited. In so doing, she believed it wiser to keep these explanations short and sweet. "Our latest operation has allowed me to consume many souls, and I was thus on the verge of becoming a Gillian. As you may know, us Hollows cannot control ourselves as Gillians. We become only mindless beings during that particular phase. My time as a Gillian was fortunately brief, but I was nevertheless still required to move. So, I displaced myself from Tokyo to the sea until I was no longer a Gillian. What you see now standing before you is the result of this Gillian phase, so to speak, a member of the Adjuchas." 

She felt she could have gone into further detail; after all, Astrid was a trusted ally and she did not feel as though she could not speak to her on a further level. However, she opted not to, as it seemed as though the one of roots had not come here only to chat. It seemed as though she had expected right, as soon after, the smaller being spoke of a large hunt she had organized with other Hollows. The prospect would cause Sonadora to freeze for a moment as she immediately starting to fear the absolute worst that could happen, though before she would give any attention to the matter at hand, a Human would suddenly try to get the foggy being's attention by simply staring at her with wide eyes, almost as though he was staring at his own messiah. "Ah... It is you, my mistress! It has been so, so long! D-Do you remember me?" He would ask her in the moment as he almost prostrated himself before her. Naturally, though it was not apparent due to her monstrous appearance, all the foggy beast felt in the moment was disgust.

Astrid would go on to indirectly explain that he had used the man to find her, and quite frankly, Sonadora could tell that he was somewhat related to her. His looks were putrid, morphed, mutated. Parts of his hair had fallen, a few of his teeth were missing, and he looked bloated despite not being particularly fat. Even from where she stood, the beast could see that there were several imprints of bones within his chest cavity that should not be there. It was possible that he was born this way and he was simply a natural defect, though after a time, she began to recognize the spiritual energy that came from him. It was hers. Upon noticing this, she would immediately attempt to order him to cease and join the others. However, she would soon notice that she was incapable of doing so. That would be enough for her to recall who this being was supposed to be. "I remember you. You are the one I sent to slay the Pawn that one faithful night," she would recall at that moment. She admittedly had completely forgotten his name. Not that that particularity mattered; rather, what mattered was the fact she could not give him any natural orders. Perhaps it was a side effect of the regression the Shinigami had condemned her to. "I shall allow you to return to my fold. You may join the followers outside heading to the town as we speak. I will see that one of them allow you to live among them as a herder."

The deformed man would blink, almost as if he had been granted some kind of great miracle, then would nod rapidly before thanking Sonadora and running outside to join the other Admirers. He would go quickly, so much so that he was able to completely leave the building in the matter of a few minutes, rapidly leaving both the Hollow and the one of roots alone shortly after. By the time he was fully gone, the creature would let out a sigh before turning her her head towards her ally. "I am astonished you were able to remove him from his prison cell. He is a Human under my command. I believed his usefulness to have long since expired, yet his current condition is... intriguing," she would explain naturally before she would then push this conversation towards where it was meant to be in the first place. "But enough about the Human. I very much doubt he will have any bearings on the matter at hand. Tell me about this hunt of yours."

To summarize, Astrid wanted to conduct a mass-scaled attack on the Humans by opening a large number of portals between the Living World and Hueco Mundo. It was a very simple plan, and given the amount of Hollows that resided within Hueco Mundo, there was a chance many could benefit from this, Sonadora included. The problem that Sonadora personally had with this plan was the target of this hunt, which appeared to be this exact location they were standing on. Japan was too important for her Cambio: endangering it any further with the possibility of many Shinigami showing up and exterminating every Hollow in the area would be an extreme problem to solve in the long term. In so doing, she would gently raise a hand up to calmly raise her objections before Astrid. "You appear to wish this hunt to begin here in Japan. I cannot accept that. Should the Hollows of Hueco Mundo do such a thing, the Shinigami will conduct a calculated genocide on those of us who remain here to secure the town of Karakura. Such a thing would endanger my projects, and cause an even greater amount of us to die at the hands of the swordsmen," she would tell her ally. "For our safety, I propose that your hunt begins elsewhere. There is a city in a country which neighbors this one referred to as Manila. If you agree to change your current destination to that city, then I will follow you."

Manila is the capital city of the Philippines. It is a relatively-developed settlement currently occupied by many souls. One of the reasons why Sonadora specifically wanted the Hollows on Astrid's side to go there was evidently because she did not want her Admirers to be caught in the chaos, but her statement still rang true. A great Hollow attack is going to naturally attract many Shinigami. This is bound to occur, whether they wish for it to do so or not, and doing so in the country closest to the Jūreichi would be a slow, rampant disaster. Having the Shinigami pursue them in an entirely-different country will bring their attention away from Japan, which will not only allow her to personally continue with her projects, but also allow her to potentially form allies with the surviving Hollows and the ones who reside within Japan without Shinigami interference. It wasn't a perfect plan... but it was better than nothing, especially given that she had a say in the destination of their hunt.

Though Astrid was at first somewhat displeased by this, she would eventually side with Sonadora and decide to create sigils that would lead them towards Manila. The Hollow, having once seen these sigils, would be able to recognize them and their use, and although she was surprised to see that they could actually bring Astrid at great ranges so quickly, she did not speak out her curiosity. Instead, she moved forward alongside Astrid, stepped onto the sigil, and allowed its effects to take hold upon her. Having never actually experienced such teleportation, the creature would find herself hissing quietly as the world around her suddenly started to twist and turn. Her body would feel displaced in time, as though fleeting throughout reality itself, and for a very brief moment, her eyes would eventually find themselves closing in order to shield themselves from potential dizziness. By the time she stopped, she would find herself landing on all four to take a breath, then slowly open her eyes anew. It was in this moment that she realized that they were already here, in Manila.

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Standing atop the large building the one of roots had teleported them to, Sonadora would gaze upon the rest of the city. From where they stood, they were given a good view of the settlement. As to be expected from a capital city, it was quite large, enough so that a large-scale attack would most likely be difficult to stop unless the Shinigami do not fear the collateral; after all, the place was quite the urban jungle. Eventually, Astrid would open her portals, allowing Sonadora to get a look of countless of her kind suddenly raining down upon the Human residents of the city. Sonadora could immediately tell how huge this attack was. Not only were there many Strays, but there were also Gillians and Adjuchas. There was no doubt that many souls were going to be consumed today.  I see... She has used our hunger to attract these Hollows here,  the foggy creature would notice as she took note of the portals. At this point, though, it was no matter what she thought of them.

While the Hollow made these conclusions, the one of roots would begin to make preparations for the attack by changing her form and summoning some kind of greater creature from a tree. It was a natural spectacle, to say the least, and Sonadora was not going to hide her curiosity this time around, humming in appreciation at them both. "Interesting," she commented, unsurprisingly much preferring seeing Astrid in this vaguely-humanoid form than as what she was before. With that said, this did not encourage the Hollow to reveal more of her form, as while she prepared herself for what was to come, her fog would begin to surround her being the best it could. Even so, though, some of the more gruesome parts of her body could be seen through the veil. "Manila is renowned for its earthquakes. See that all Hollows you cross paths with are informed of this fact," she would tell the dryad as her voice rose above the chaos below. "Bring this place to its knees! I will take care of the Humans who seek shelter, and turn them into our slaves."

And with that, Sonadora would rapidly run on all four off the building, and head down towards the city to find these aforementioned shelters. She descended quickly, running as fast as she could below as a trail of supernatural fog followed behind her wake. Thankfully for her, it could not be seen, but it would have perhaps been beneficial for the Humans to be able to do so. This was most particularly noticeable once she landed down on the ground and found herself standing in the middle of a small crowd who had begun to escape from the building she was standing on. All of them were workers, and once she landed, there were about four or five in total. Naturally, Sonadora's monstrous side did not hesitate. She would immediately allow her sharp claws to puncture through the heads of two of the Humans nearest to her, instantly skewering their minds and souls before then pouncing towards a nearby woman and letting her full weight crush her back. The poor one could only scream in absolute pain before her organs ruptured from her body, and her soul was devoured whole.

Stunned by this sudden burst of violence occurring near their vicinity, four other Humans would watch in horror as their coworkers died so suddenly before they all started to scream in terror. Taking note of their fear, the great foggy beast would let out a reptilian snarl before rapidly swiping her claws to throw away the physical corpses she had punctured on the ground, then pouncing towards the four Humans. Though she was not exceptionally swift for a corrupted spirit, she was much faster than these Humans, and in so doing, two of them were unable to move away from the two rapid claw swipes that she delivered onto their heads, causing their skulls to be cut into pieces. Again, the remaining Humans screamed, though this time, they attempted to run. Sonadora would quickly puncture one of their legs before viciously pulling him to her position and biting onto his neck. The force was light, but the sharpness of her teeth was such that it allowed her to completely remove the skin and muscles from his neck, leaving only behind the weakened bones of his spinal cord as he did a most painful death. 

Soul(s) Consumed: 6x Class 8 Humans (NPC)

All that was left was one measly Human. Another woman, a young one who had watched six of her coworkers and friends die under a catastrophic minute. She was running away, but at her pace, there was no way Sonadora could not reach her, and so the creature took advantage of that. Raising her great arm, the foggy beast would concentrate on the palm of her hand, causing the pores within it to expunge an intense amount of fog of a dark silver. This fog would rapidly take a spherical shape. Once it was fully completed, the creature stared at the woman, rushed towards her with great speed, then raised her arm before slamming the orb onto the top of the woman's head. Naturally, this allowed her to grab the woman by having her hand completely surround her target's head. The woman would at first appear to pass out and become intangible, as though she was made of fog. Her screams would not stop despite her sudden slumber; however, all so suddenly, she would then stop screaming and simply remain quiet. Eventually, she would return to tangibility, allowing Sonadora to lightly grab her by the head, and with a hiss, her words would fill the woman's mind:    B R I N G  M E  T O  S H E L T E R    .

And with that, the new Admirer was let go, and Sonadora followed, eager to potentially expand her Cambio.

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{Stats & Skills}

Statistics

Physical	Spiritual	Sensory	Miscellaneous
Strength: 50       Speed: 150	Reiatsu Strength: 437 (350+87) Spiritual Pressure: 437 (350+87)	Instincts: 107 (142-35)       Senses: 100 (133-33) Energy Sensory: 25	Light Aura: 0 Dark Aura: 100 Healing Expertise: 0

Skills

Mental	Battle		Body	Utility
Analyzing: 2 Strength of Will: 2	Pain Tolerance: 2 Battle Analysis: 1 Battle Focus: 1		Acrobatics: 2      Stealth: 2	Charisma: 2

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{Reiatsu: 4120/4370  |  Admirer(s): 1 (Unarmed) }
Technique Name: Divine Veil (Apple of Eden)

Technique Type: Custom Hollow Technique | Fog Empowerment

Technique Element: None

Usable by: Hollow

Class: 1-3

Technique Reiatsu Cost: 500 (Vasto Lorde), 150 (Adjuchas)

Technique Description and Effects

A direct empowerment of Sonadora's primordial ability. The creature collects the reiatsu onto a specific portion of her body before unleashing an absurd amount of her fog towards a target in a brief amount of time, something which often appears in hindsight as an explosion. Due to the sheer amount of reiatsu present within this fog, this transforms it into one of the following Divine Veils:

• Mirage of Eden: A collection of reiatsu within Sonadora which was violently expunged from all of her pores at once, causing it to appear as a massive fog that goes beyond the limits delimited by her Class. It is said that it is roughly about thrice as large in size and causes what is inside of it to be thrice as difficult to perceive. This fog lasts for a total of four posts before it eventually dissipates into nothingness, and cannot be maintained.
  
  
• Apple of Eden: A collection of reiatsu within Sonadora which was violently expunged from the pores of a single part of her body, causing it to first appear as a ball of condensed fog. It can appear anywhere on her body, but it is most often deployed via the hands or feet. When it is so, it can be held like an object by the creature, which can lead her to either throw it in a certain direction or directly hit a target with it. Upon impact, it will unleash an extremely-potent fog that can immediately cause a living being 5m around the point of impact to be Slumbered. Unlike a Holy Veil, the fog created by the Apple of Eden applies a Slumbered state that cannot be removed at all from the target, even when they are outside of the Holy Veil, for a duration of four posts.
  

Drawbacks and Weaknesses

Because of the sheer amount of reiatsu required in order to create a Divine Veil in the first place, this technique can be quite taxing to the creature, and so it is typically preferred to only use this in times of need when one is completely unaware of its existence. Additionally, it is easy to differentiate a Mirage of Eden from a normal Holy Veil due to their color: the first is represented by a dark silver while the other is instead of a purer white. This can cause enemies located within it to immediately acknowledge this matter and distance themselves from it.

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Technique Name: Celestial Blessing

Technique Type: Custom Hollow Technique | Admirer Creation

Technique Element: None

Usable by: Hollow

Class: 4

Technique Reiatsu Cost: 250 (Armed), 100 (Unarmed)

Technique Description and Effects

The beginning of an individual's Ascension. Sonadora fills a target with an increased amount of her corrupted reiatsu to transform it into an Admirer, which is the first classification given to those afflicted by the Ascended state. Admirers are among the least powerful Ascended under Sonadora's control. In hindsight, they appear to be normal without any physical attributes that makes them stand out; however, they can be driven by the creature to commit terrible acts of violence and hatred towards those that are unfortunate enough to be near them. Although they are somewhat aware that something is wrong about their state of being and that something must be done to rectify this problem, they are unable to currently assert what that aforementioned problem is on their own, seeing as they are unable to recall their last meeting with Sonadora.

As the weakest of the Ascended, Admirers will mostly fight bare-handed or with a normal weapon, though they will at times wield special weaponry that allows them to fight in battle. These specific weapons were accursed by the Hollow during their sleep, infected by their reiatsu almost as much as their owner's very minds. This practically allows Admirers to spread the Hollow's reiatsu to awoken targets to create more of themselves should they be Slumbered, and in some profound long-term cases, even Hollowfication.

All Admirer NPCs must be considered a Class above their own once they are Ascended, with the maximum cap being Class 1. Admirer PCs are exempted from this boost.


Drawbacks and Weaknesses

There are a few conditions Sonadora must meet in order to successfully process this technique:

1. The target must be Slumbered. No matter what, it is absolutely impossible for the Hollow to create an Ascended while the target is awake.
   
   
2. The target must not be from a race which suffers from poisoning upon being exposed to Hollow reiatsu, such as Quincy.
   
   
3. The target must possess a Class equal or inferior to Sonadora's; if not, they will effortlessly resist her reiatsu with minor discomfort.
   
   
4. The target must be in the presence of Sonadora during the Ascension, meaning that she must be at their side via Judgement Call while the process is ongoing. If the target's Class is two units below hers, the process can be completed without Sonadora's presence.
   
   
5. The target must be completely submitted to Sonadora both physically and mentally, or, in other words, unable to fight any longer. So long as the target is capable of showing resistance, it will be able to resist the Ascension and remain Slumbered. This does not apply to nameless NPCs.

Only once all of these conditions have been met that a target can be transformed into an Admirer, after which the only way the target will be able to rid themselves of the condition will be to either rid their soul of the Hollow reiatsu in some way or another, or meet someone capable of doing the same. On PCs, this effect is temporary if it was applied during an NDE or DP thread unless the owner of the PCs agree for it to be permanent, only lasting for the entirety of the thread before their unique will can allow them to shake it off. Moreover, if they are near Sonadora while they are an Admirer, they can resist her orders for two posts so long as they possess a Strength of Will of 1. This resistance is upgraded by a post each time they raise their Strength of Will until it has reached 4, in which case they can effortlessly resist all of her orders until treatment.

[Alacrán]

Alacrán had been travelling through the dunes of Hueco Mundo, not really finding anything to do. He hadn't been hunting recently despite the fact that he had felt the hunger within him. Still his mind had been too preoccupied with the conversations and things he'd learned during his time at Las Noches, meeting some of the Espada and even the so called Left Hand of Kouhai. There was quite a bit there for him to take in however a commotion on the sands below him draws his attention from his thoughts. He watches curiously as several Hollows bicker over the appearance of an odd portal while a couple seem to carelessly wander through it.

Alacrán finds the portal quite intriguing as he suddenly lands on the ground next to the bickering Hollows who all suddenly looked spooked by his sudden appearance and all become quite guarded. Alacrán doesn't take note of this however as he steps towards the portal with growing curiosity. He couldn't quite tell but he seriously doubted this was the creation of a Hollow or even an Arrancar. He glances over at one of the Hollows who were now staring at him with caution as he addressed one of them, "Da hell is dis?" The Hollow he'd pointed out looks a bit confused and then shrugs, "We don't know...it just showed up here out of nowhere. Others have gone through, said it goes to some city in the human world."

Alacrán hums as he returns his attention to the portal with a nod. I guess I should go on a hunt. Might help clear up my thoughts. He nods and then begins moving forward, stepping closer to the portal before he eventually moves through it, coming out the other side to the tall buildings and bright light. It was always a bit of a shock on the eyes when one moved between the Human Realm and Hueco Mundo because of that. Once fully through the portal, Alacrán took off into the air so he could actually try and survey what was going on in the city.

Immediately he'd notice the 15 feet tall odd looking Hollow standing atop a building. As it let out it's roar he realized that it was a Gillian but it seemed their individuality had showed itself much more externally than Alacrán's had, not appearing as a Gillian at all. Still something seemed oddly familiar about this Gillian that Alacrán couldn't quite figure out at first before it hit him. It had been quite some time ago but Alacrán recalled meeting a Hollow that had a similar appearance to this one, although that Hollow hadn't quite been all there mentally and was more on the bestial side.

While he'd never gotten the aforementioned Hollow's name, this Gillian clearly resembled them. He wondered if he should attempt to communicate with them again but then with them being a Gillian, that meant they had clearly had a taste for Hollow before and while Alacrán didn't think that he was weaker than this Gillian he didn't want to risk getting a portion of himself eaten. So for now he hovers in the air and watches, as the appearance of a Gillian would surely mean that Shinigami would show up. He also kept an eye out to see if he could possibly spot the one who'd set up the portal that had brought him here.

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{Stats & Skills}Type: Roughneck

Strength - [400] (50% multiplier) 600
Speed - [200] (-30% multiplier) 140
Spiritual Pressure - [216] (25% multiplier) 270
Reiatsu Strength - 150
Light Aura - 10
Dark Aura - 90
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

[Astrid Vess]

Astrid took note of Sonadora gazing upon her transformation as she let her Infernus take over. The fact that the other was openly approving of her form only made her happier. Especially since it seemed like she even had a degree of approval for Samson. Astrid let out a small breath she hadn't known she'd been holding onto. It seemed silly for her to be concerned about if Sonadora would like how she looked at all. Let alone if she'd like Samson, given he was intimately tied to her. Still Sonadora was her first packmate. The first person to not look down on her and actually show some level of value in her. So regardless of her bestial thoughts and hunger, all that was drowned for a moment by her relief and joy at Sonadora approving. Still, she had to refocus herself. The hollows were pouring out of her portals, and it wasn't just strays. Gillians and Adjuchas were making themselves known.



The city didn't stand a chance of surviving but that also meant that she'd have to go on the hunt and see what she could get for herself. She'd have to trust in Sonadora and hope that she could handle herself though. . . What was the harm in sparing a few helpers for her? Astrid knew she likely didn't need them but better safe than sorry. Astrid had a veritable army of spirits at her disposal. Besides if they really were unnecessary Sonadora would simply send them back to her. However, there was one thing that Astrid was unwilling to allow Sonadora leave without. "Sona. . .dora!. . Stay. . . Have. . . sigil. ." Astrid immediately drew a simple ring, the original color white before beginning to change to gold and not just a solid circle of gold. But fraying some until it was like a collection of golden spiritual threads.



Once the ring was made Astrid flicked the ring over to Sonadora. It then moved itself towards Sonadora and into her chest cavity, past the fog hiding her form. Once it made contact on her flesh it would simply rest there with a gentle thum of energy, namely Astrid's. Obviously, she'd need an explanation so that she knew how it worked and could determine when she needed it. Astrid spoke up again to explain. "Sigil. . . moves. . . other. . sigils. . . beings. . I. . say. . big. . . length. . If. . . help. . attack. . . sky. . Will help. ." Definitely not the best explanation given to Sonadora but it'd have to do. Hopefully she got the point but with that said Astrid let her run down the building before looking at her flying chicks around her. "Go. . . help. . . Sona. . .Dora. . Listen. . ."



The chicks would screech in response before all five went after Sonadora. Their main purpose being to assist her as she'd order them to. Having seen Astrid use them in Tokyo, she was certain that Sonadora would have no issues using them. But if she didn't need them, she could send them back. It ultimately was an offer of assistance given the city was wide and there'd be little way to truly assist one another from large distances. Still now Astrid herself was without, aside from Samson, and that wouldn't do. There were too many hollows and soon to be shinigami or some other such defenders that would arise. Thus, she needed to spawn in a squad of her own for defensive purposes. She then looked within herself to determine what she'd want; she did have many options at her disposal. However, she felt as though the best answer to the situation at hand was to maintain flying creatures when possible.



Thus, she reached within and grabbed some of her former packmates, three hollow bat siblings, as well as two fan favorite hollows to bring with her. Her canine companion, that was unironically similar in appearance to Samson, aside from its non-tree themed appearance, and her sky serpent. They had all been useful to her in the past and thus she needed that kind of reliable help to ensure that this assault of hers was potent against both the city and to aid her safety during it. One could never know when the hunger would take over a hollow and have them attempt to fight her. Though woe to those who tried but that was an issue for all who made such a mistake. With the spirits chosen, she dragged them from within her inner realm and out into Manila's sky. The tree on her backside had the Sakura blossoms turn white before blooming. Then the petals blew away and recollected from far more petals than had originally been blown away. These recollections reformed the bodies of her spirits.



She smiled to herself as she looked over her personal guard. Two five-foot bat hollows with their elder sister that was seven feet tall, her five-foot-tall canine companion, and then the ten-foot-long serpent hollow. She nodded and then jumped onto Samson's back. They all were about to let out a roar of their own before the hunt started but were quickly interrupted by a roar from something else. With a cursory glance Astrid realized where it came from, namely due to the shattering glass that made the night sparkle like the stars above had come down within reach. It was a fifteen-foot monster that was currently sitting atop a building and screaming out so loudly it shattered and damaged the buildings around it. It was. . . curious. Definitely something about it was poking the back of her mind, like she'd seen it before. Or perhaps she'd seen something familiar. To be fair, she was riding something that was eerily familiar.



With her eyes narrowed as she continued to look it over, she decided there was only one thing that could be done. She'd need to go investigate it herself. Worst case it tried to fight her. Best case. . . . she found a new packmate? Or perhaps it was actually better if she ate it. . . like the hellworm she had at her disposal. It was curious the dilemma at hand but regardless she wanted to find more hollows like Akando and Sonadora. Hell, maybe she'd even see Odalis and that strangely humanoid one from so long ago. The bigger and more capable she could have her pack be, the more things they could do and the more chaos and death they could spread. Plus, the feasts of beings that they could consume would be nothing short of unheard of. Thus, with a dark glee in her "eyes" she created a teleportation sigil underneath Samson and within her chest cavity.



With her two sigils created she let out a roar of her own. An absolute cacophony akin to boulders falling down a hill and smashing into trees, animals, and other hard rocks. It was. . unpleasant to say the least. And shortly after she started to let out her roar, Samson joined in as did the remainder of her hollow spirits. While they may not have shattered glass around them, it was certainly loud enough that across the city it could be heard. With their cry let loose Astrid pointed directly at the gillian and had her sigil move Samson and herself over toward them at great speeds. (600 speed) Meanwhile her pack though fast quickly got left behind, but they made a damn valiant attempt to keep up for the few seconds they could. Ultimately it would take them a bit to catch up to Astrid but as far as Akando was concerned he'd have heard their collective roar and then if he looked around would quickly see something headed his way.



Namely Samson, though Astrid was on his backside, but the thing that would likely tip him off at just what was coming towards him would be the sigil beneath them. If he could recall Astrid and his hunt, then he'd likely be able to recall her sigils, namely her teleportation sigils. And despite the time between their last meeting, they would not have changed at all. The only noteworthy difference would be that the sigil was much larger than what he'd seen last time but its design was no way different. While Akando could possibly be confused at who was coming toward him, or even worse consider it threatening, Astrid eventually had a lightbulb moment. The reason? The absolute fucking stench. There was a number of things in Hell that smelled that bad. A few of which Astrid had experienced, such as the Suicide Forest. However, to find such a stench outside it? A stench that was akin to viscera and blood freshly spilled yet having been rotting for several days outside Hell. There was only one being that could bring such a familiar scent back to Astrid.



One that, against all odds, she could comfortably say was relieving and even. . . pleasant to her. The stray she'd met so long ago in the Soul Society. Akando. He was a beast then. So much so that Astrid had definitely felt a sort of kinship with him on the level unlike even Sonadora. Namely because the two were not terribly talkative and preferred action. Namely the killing of others. But such was the life of those plagued by eternal hunger. Still Astrid had to admit she was surprised, immensely. From their last meeting he'd grown. . . massive. Towering over Samson even. Hell, the only thing bigger than Akando that she knew of was her Hellworm. And even that she had a sneaking suspicion wouldn't hold up in a fight against him. Her dark smile actually turned a good bit lighter as she got ever closer and any threatening aura, she may have been putting out on accident was gone. Assuming Akando didn't run off she'd stop a few feet in front of him and immediately speak.



"Akan. . do! . . You. . . big! . . . Strong! . . Hunt . . . again? Consume. . . many. . . Become. . . stronger!" Astrid was excited at the prospect of hunting with Akando again. They'd made the shinigami from their prior hunt look like fools. Which to be fair. . . they were. But still. If they worked together again, they'd almost make certain that Akando would become like Sonadora and the hollows Astrid knew from her former like. They could become an Adjuchas likely mid hunt! The thought alone was exciting because for one so similar to her, he was far more self-sufficient. And to see what he could become next was a sight Astrid immensely wanted to see, hell to be a part of. But that would all require Akando to recognize her or to agree to it. It was entirely possible that he neither remembered nor cared about her existence.



She couldn't fault him for that. It wasn't like she remembered every hollow that she walked by. Or every shinigami. Hell, she certainly didn't recall every hellion that had wronged her. But still, it wasn't often others hunted with her, so she'd remembered him though time had made the initial sight of him clouded. But now? She remembered and she wanted to see just how he'd changed. Hopefully it was in a way that made him far more capable than prior. Hell, maybe this time he'd even be able to speak himself as opposed to mimicking others. Though granted if he spoke and did so fluently. . . she'd likely be disappointed. She still hadn't grasped language as easily as Sonadora or others she'd met. Scratch the language bit, she preferred having one person still speak how she preferred. Body language and bestial sounds. Either way the ball was in Akando's court regardless of what he did, so the question was, what would he do?

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{Reiatsu}

-250 for 5 spirits summoned
-100 for 2 teleportation sigils created
-100 for Rosahringur Ring

Total reiatsu used: 450

9,900 - 450 = 9,450 reiatsu remaining

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{Rosahringur Rings}

Class: 5

Technique Type: Hellion

Usable By: Hason

Technique Element: Sigil

Technique Description and Effects:

Rosahringur Ring is the next step of a hason's step techs. Inherently the Teleportation sigil is unable to be utilized on those other than the hason. And even without the Aspected sigils it cannot be used on objects. However, this is where the sigil starts to show its niche. This sigil technique specifically is meant to move everything in addition to the user around the battle field. However it does this by swapping targets current places with one another. And unlike teleportation sigil this is capable of being use on allies and enemies so long as the sigil is placed on them.

For allies they simply need to accept the sigil on their body. And from there the user can have ally teleport with anywhere else a Teleportation Sigil is at or wherever a person with a Ruosahrigur Ring is currently placed at. In addition, should the user have the Aspected Sigil: Infamous Renown chosen they can apply this to any object around them.

When it comes to enemies this is a little bit harder to use. Namely because enemies will not accept the sigil, with good reason. Thus physical contact is required to place the Rosuhringur Ring on them. If the ring is placed on an enemy they can forcibly teleported to another spot a current recipient of Rsuhringur is at. They are not given the means to be forcibly moved to any teleportation sigils. This must be within 50 feet of another recipient otherwise the technique does not work.



How to use technique:

Draw up the sigil and place it upon an individual. If they are willing, this can be applied anywhere on them. For enemies the sigil can be drawn first but must be sized appropriately and placed upon an area that it fits. Normally the torso.

Technique Drawbacks :

There can only be 3 rings at a given time. And every instance of moving an object or an individual counts against the users per post step technique count.

Must know and have mastered Teleportation Sigil.

The cost for each ring is the base class cost. Teleporting an ally or object costs the same as the base step tech (50 reiatsu). Teleporting an enemy is 4x times that. (200 reiatsu)

Enemies must be in physical contact with the sigil. This does allow the sigil to be flexed and destroyed if their strength/RS is higher than the users RS. In addition, teleporting an enemy costs 2 steps of the user's total steps per post.

There must be a recipient or a teleportation sigil active for an ally to be teleported. For enemies a recipient of the ring must be present and within 50 feet.

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{Infernus Information}

10/40 spirits summoned

5 spirits with Sonadora

5 spirits with Astrid


2/10 posts used

Class 4 release

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{Reference pictures for Astrids spirit guard}
Bat Hollows:





Canine hollow:




Sky Serpent:

[Akando Bena]

Akando was looking around from the top of his little perch on the roof of a tall building. He could see lots of humans below, causing his hunger to eat at his stomach while he watched his prey swarm around. Then he felt as if something was watching him, looking all around he finally spotted what gave him that sensation. It looked to be a creature highly resembling his previous form as a base Hollow, though this one had multiple limbs instead of the usual four.



This sight put Akando on edge, after all this being was heading it's way on what looked to be a large floating sigil. In fact, that sigil looks just like the one that plant creature was using to get around when they hunted that Shinigami party. Staring long enough he finally noticed that same plant creature on the back of the beast, which makes sense considering she seemed to be a summoner. It would be at this moment he would tilt his head to the left, almost questioning what this creature was doing here. After all Akando wasn't fully capable of understanding that the teleporting sigils were connected to her.



Samson and Astrid finally make it to Akando, at which he would tilt his head to be straight up once more. That's when he heard the plant creature speak, "Akan. . do! . . You. . . big! . . . Strong! . . Hunt . . . again? Consume. . . many. . . Become. . . stronger!" It was strange hearing her speak, she barely did when they first meet so hearing her start off the meeting by doing so felt unusual. In any case he could finally truly understand speech, which meant a lot honestly. Granted he did still prefer to use Bestial language and mimic speech himself.



Akando would nod in response to Astrid, giving a guttural growl as if agreeing with the words she used. He did want to become stronger, and eating would help accomplish that goal as well as sooth his never ending hunger if only for a moment. "Hung...ry...., Prey.... Down....There..!" He would be pointing with his right hands to the many humans that are currently walking the streets below, unaware of the danger that's above them. "I'm hunting wabbits, it's wabbit season", would be the next words to come from his mouth, this time more fluently except his voice wasn't that of scratching a chalk board. The voice he used was that of a man, kind of deep but not to much.



Akando was willing and ready to hunt with Astrid if she so wanted to, in fact he waited to see if she would give a reply stating she did. Saliva was oozing down his chin as he waited for her response. It would be pretty clear he was hungry and wanted to eat as soon as possible. If the saliva didn't give it away his eyes would, switching between looking at her and the unaware prey. This city was a feast, and Akando wasn't used to feasting like this.

[Zauberin]

A new Gillian rose tall, just as many had before her. She stood unlike the rest. Black spiritual fabric wrapped itself around her form, covering her from her shoulders and wrapping all the way down and around her torso. It encompassed both of her arms and her legs, making it impossible to discern whether or not she was even standing on solid footing underneath her robes. The similarities to her peers, however, stopped there. Zauberin’s limbs, unlike her peers, were gradients of translucent violet and dark blue, and her hands were made of flesh instead of skeleton. She stood only a single story tall, maybe fifteen feet at her tallest, and was easily dwarfed by most of the other Gillian around her. Resting on top of her head was her hollow mask, a unique identity in a sea of the same.

It felt like she had been standing like this for days upon days. The feeding frenzy that had encompassed her was different from past frenzies. As the Hollow had piled around her, she first felt pain, followed closely by the overwhelming flood of emotion from other Hollow around her. Her physical form ached and then she felt nothing. Nothingness encompassed her and wrapped around her mind and soul, tearing apart her body and reforming it underneath the blanketed black gown that all Gillian wore. She was lost to the form of the Menos. Or at least, she was lost at first. The muffled static of thousands of souls gnawed and clawed at her mind, threatening to drag her into the sea of souls that now formed her. Yet, she refused to join them.

Unlike her lessers - the Gillian around her - she would not lose herself to the sea of souls that made up her body. She refused to lose herself to the static. Thus, when she was reformed, she was reborn differently from the others. The howling and the shouting overwhelmed her mind and clouded out her other senses still, even as her mask formed uniquely from the rest. White skeletal matter had shifted and morphed; instead of forming the traditional Gillian mask, it instead formed her unique mask, with some minor alterations from its natural state. The murmurings of the amalgamation that she had become continued, however. Sounds - no, thoughts - continued to overwhelm her own, threatening to drag her back as she fought for control.

Z A U B E R I N. She found the name in a sea of many and she attempted to speak it. Instead of her name, however, there was only a roar - a mighty roar for such a small Gillian. Her roar echoed throughout the forest and caused the nearby Gillian on either side of her to twist and shift as their own minds clouded over. Unlike her, they were mindless. They were content. They were soldiers to be directed and otherwise to stand there and occasionally consume as souls fought for supremacy. But not her. Not Zauberin.

Z A U B E R I N. She roared a second time; this second attempt was more of a shriek. How many days had passed since her first attempt? One? Two? Twenty? It was impossible for her to keep track. Her body shifted uncomfortably beneath the weight of the black gown that she wore, causing her to shimmy and shake against the uncomfortable closeness of the Gillian next to her. It reared back its head and moved to try and bite into her shoulder. Zauberin reflexively turned and swatted it backwards, causing the larger creature to stumble back several paces and then come to a standstill, once again content. Still, outside of this reflexive state, she had no ability to speak. She had no ability to assert herself. More time passed and her frustration built up inside of her until it was absolutely frothing, causing wild fluctuations in her spiritual pressure.

“ZAUBERIN.” And all was silent. After her name escaped her lips she could see the world around her, as if viewing it anew. She looked to her left, and then to her right. Her head moved slowly and awkwardly at first, not unlike a very slow moving bobblehead. She peered outwards, and then down to herself. Finally, she looked up at the Gillian on her left, and then on her right. She did not speak again, but there was something else that she noticed. It was silent. Finally, it was silent. She was no longer contesting with waves of thoughts bombarding her very being with their incessant howling. She no longer felt the souls of others crawling and contesting at the mere thought of getting to the top - of controlling the creation they had become. Instead, it was silent.

She didn’t like silence. Silence gave way to the gnawing constancy of hunger deep in the pit of her being. Her gaze extended outwards as she tested her new limbs. First, a step forward. Then, a second. She raised both of her hands up in front of her body and turned them over and back again, staring at them. Once she was satisfied, she brought one of her clawed hands back and reached out, stabbing into the Hollow to her immediate left. It let out a horrific roar and raised its limbs to defend itself, only to be dragged down and torn apart piecemeal until it collapsed down and onto the ground. She quickly went to work tearing it apart and consuming what was left of it, before standing tall again. Like before, her hunger was replaced with an uneasy stillness and all was quiet again.¹

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They were Zauberin. Zauberin was them. She started walking, choosing a direction inside of the forest and pacing slowly and steadily forwards through the crowd of Gillian in front of her. Every once in awhile she would bump into another Hollow and, depending on her level of hunger, she would either claw into their body, take a bite from their form, or push them aside and continue on. Her attention eventually turned to a number of windows into the Living Realm that appeared during her travels. At first, there was just one. Then, they appeared seemingly every few steps, almost like they were following her. Enticing her. She peered into them and noticed that the image they held - that of a human metropolis. At first, the windows only showed humans. Then, Hollow. The allure of food began to grow inside of Zauberin’s stomach, making her uncomfortable and causing her to stare into those windows longer and longer. Finally, she reached out with her hand, touching the floating glyph.²

Her form twisted and contorted as she was transported through one of the many gates that Astrid had created. She was bombarded with sights and sounds that, while familiar to her, were momentarily disorienting at the perspective she was standing at. She scanned the area with her eyes, lamenting at her waning vision and stewing in her questionable hearing. Still, the scent of humans was unmistakable, as was the scent of smaller and weaker hollow pouring out from around her. She reached a hand out, carefully drawing the rune for creation with her non-dominant hand, causing an orb to form in front of her body where the runes were floating and lingering. Her dominant hand lifted and grasped the orb - larger than it had been in the past - and flung it towards one of the several-storied skyscrapers to her right.

Dense fluctuations of violet and blue shimmering energy spun towards the building and exploded immediately on impact, causing a fifteen meter cone of destruction to fire outwards. Glass and weaker metals crumpled and folded at the strength of the destructive impact. While the entire building was still structurally intact, it certainly didn’t stop several alarms from going off and causing multiple humans to start pouring for the emergency exits, in conjunction with the other happenings throughout the capital. Zauberin reached into the building next to her, grabbing at a human and plucking it from the skyscraper, ripping and tearing into its screaming form.³

Zauberin continued this, pulling another human from the building and gnawing at its form, ignoring the screaming in her hand while working on her meal. Once she had finished tearing through her second piece of food, she stopped to survey her surroundings. Her new size was still foreign to her, and while she had a concept of her abilities, her ability to process and respond to her surroundings was heavily muddied by the continuous occasional surge of spiritual minds inside of her.⁴

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{1}One Class 6 Hollow Consumed.

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{2}One Class 6 Hollow Consumed.

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{3}One Class 8 Human Consumed.

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{4}One Class 8 Human Consumed.

[Sonadora]

The assault on this once-busy yet peaceful capital city has officially begun, and it appeared as though it was going to be very chaotic. Nothing about the way Astrid opened her portals and unleashed many denizens of Hueco Mundo onto the Human citizens if Manila was organized, at least in Sonadora's eyes. She had visibly never conversed with any of the foggy being's fellow brethren - something which was quite apparent, given that the majority of the Hollows that came out of the portals appeared to be somewhat confused and lost with only their hunger guiding them forward - and for all intents and purposes, some of these dark creatures may even turn onto one another during the assault. As sad as it was to admit it, the number of Hollows who are willing to cooperate with one another is extremely meager even in this day and age, as infinite hunger beckons ultimate selfishness. For as much as she attempted to remain cooperative, Sonadora could also attest to that to a degree.

But that was fine. For once, Sonadora did not require an intricate plan to assure the ultimate safety of every single participant of this assault. No, she could tolerate this. Here, in this land located far away from where the grandest amount of souls can be found, this chaos could be allowed without noting any major consequences that could occur from it all. This was not Japan. This was not even Karakura Town. Instead, it was merely another capital Human city, one that was conveniently located not only not too far away from Japan, but also in a place that was most often stricken by natural phenomena that regularly endangered it such as earthquakes and floods. In other words, it was both a place the Shinigami of the Soul Society would not expect an attack to occur, seeing as most Hollows simply prefer to remain close to Karakura Town, and a place where such an operation could easily be camouflaged by the elements.

There will certainly be a response to this attack from the Shinigami. That much is to be expected from this. With an attack of this size occurring in an arguably-major settlement of the Living World, it would be difficult for an organization which most likely possess the means to detect the presence of Hollows to be unable to respond to it all. They will most likely form some sort of squadron to battle them before the following hour, and once its creation is complete, they will send the squadron where they will do battle with both Astrid, Sonadora and the rest of their brethren. However, if there is one thing that characterizes the Shinigami more than anything in Sonadora's eyes, it is their pride. They will most likely come here undermanned, feeling as though that only a handful of officers at best will be capable of braving the assault without too many difficulties, before they begin to realize that they are severely outmatched and call for reinforcements.

The possibility of the Shinigami deciding to send in someone of higher power was present. It was doubtful that they would only send lower officers to fight on this battlefield. Until then, however, Sonadora was going to take advantage of this and retrieve as many Humans as she possibly could to before bringing them to Tsunagi. There, she will assign them their tasks, and she will then be able to further pursue her Cambio with the aid of Astrid and perhaps other Hollows who would be willing to do so. Hopefully, they will be able to resist the hunger and prevent themselves from consuming the Humans under her watch, or worse, accuse Sonadora of keeping every Human for herself. The last thing that they all need during this assault is needless conflict between one another. The Gillians are already problematic enough in their lacking ability to differentiate friend from foe as is: they do not need any more of their kind perishing due to beastly intentions and pointless squabbles.

In any case, the foggy creature would begin her march through the city shortly after Astrid would grant her a teleportation sigil. It was definitely a handy tool, one that she could use should she ever feel the need to do so. However, those were not the only things that were granted to Sonadora. The one of thorns apparently wished to help her in her endeavors, and so she summoned a few flying creatures. These creatures were her chicks, of course. Sonadora had seen them before: they were a part of their operation back when they had first met in that Japanese tower. They were also the creatures who were almost responsible for their detection and therefore were the ones who had brought the aforementioned last operation closest to failure among them all. In so doing, seeing them again admittedly did not quite please the being, as she believed they could bring more harm than good. However, since this was a battlefield, she believed that there was a chance that the effects of their mistakes will most likely be nullified almost instantly. As such, she tolerated their existence, gave a caring "Thank you, Astrid", and then proceeded onward.

After swiftly consuming six Human souls and enslaving a Human woman, the creature would move across the various streets ahead of her, keeping an eye on her surroundings as she did so. Even from where she stood, she could hear the city's peaceful day turn into something akin to a warzone. There were cries of help, of pain, and there were noises that accompanied them rather rapidly. At times, she would find herself looking upward to gaze at the towering figures of some of the Gillian that had appeared in the city. There was an ample amount of them. Some were plain Menos Grande sporting nothing that would allow one to differentiate them. These simply moved along and grabbed hold of anything they could find. Seeing their claws being filled with a few Hollows was enough to make Sonadora hiss quietly. None of them deserved this fate, not even the filthiest of them. Fortunately, there were others who were somewhat more unique in comparison. Their roars shattered windows and even caused more fragile and smaller buildings to collapse. It would be clear to the foggy being that they were about to become Adjuchas.

She would allow herself to observe the towering beings before eventually turning her look back towards the woman she enslaved. The matter of the advanced Gillians and the seeking of their cooperation will have to wait for the time being. Now, she needed to focus on the task at hand, which was to seek the shelter of this city's residents. The woman moved rapidly from one street corner to the next, doing so with fright and panic with no understanding of what was currently happening to her surroundings. She was not even aware of her enslavement. Meanwhile, Sonadora simply followed her, guarding her for the time being so as to make sure no Hollows would attack her. She could enslave many Humans, but one thing had become clear while she conducted her operations in Tsunagi: her reserves of energy were not what they used to be prior to her regression. There was only so much energy she could spare now, and she was going to make sure to spend it wisely in this assault.

Seeing as she had only allowed herself to enslave the Humans who would remain within whatever shelter the people of this city had constructed to protect themselves from earthquakes, however, the foggy being would not simply follow the woman and guard her. That would be a waste of her time here in this city. No, she would make sure to consume every Human who dared to stand in her way as she proceeded onward. Some of the Humans preferred to stay in their vehicles, moving onward at rapid pace throughout the city in an attempt to escape the growing chaos. However, there were many who were either blocked in endless traffic that made sure to completely block their vehicle or simply did not possess a vehicle to begin with, and so they began to dash away on foot. This would be the downfall of many, including one man who existed his car right as Sonadora was passing by them. Panicking, he had quickly left his vehicle, then ran straight into the foggy creature, bumping into her form. He appeared to be carrying a small child no older than four or five years old in his arms.

Sonadora paid no mind at all to the child. All she saw was simply two Humans. As such, in response to him bumping into her, she would thrust her sharp claws straight through the child's head and the man's abdomen before raising the man's body and tearing off his head from his neck with her other hand. He did not even have the time to scream, and neither did his boy. "Disgusting," she would huff as she devoured their souls. The woman she had enslaved witnessed this unnatural, monstrous murder happen as she looked over her shoulder. She saw the flesh of the parent and his son be removed from their bones, and so for a very brief moment, she would freeze and stand there in horror as her conscience overpowered her enslavement for a short time. Noticing this, Sonadora would push her onto the ground. It was not a push that would necessarily hurt her, but it was done abruptly enough to show a violent intent. Once the woman was on the ground, Sonadora would then cause one word to erupt in the woman's head: M O V E. The poor Human did not need to be told twice, and so their journey continued.

The woman's mental shackles now heavier, she ran into the city without looking back, ignoring what was occurring around her to seek shelter absolutely. This would cause Sonadora to accelerate her own pace as she followed behind the woman. She would kill a few more unaware Humans who would pass by her. One of them was another woman, a younger one who appeared to be a student of sort given the school bag she carried with her, and another was an elderly man who was attempt to run from his fate despite being bound to a cane. The student was grabbed by Sonadora before the creature thrust her right claws straight into her face, cleaving through and opening her skull in the process to finish her off completely in a gruesome fashion before the soul could even have a chance to escape her body. As for the old man, all that Sonadora had to do to kill was to simply grab him by the head. The abrupt movement was enough to cause his neck to instantly snap, ending his life instantly and allowing the beast to devour him henceforth.

The foggy creature did not enjoy the violence that she inflicted onto those lowly beings. In fact, she detested it. Although she did not hesitate to deliver them death through unmitigated violence, she did not see the activity as something she should concern herself with. It was below her, below Hollowkind, even, and she wished that she could have consumed them in another fashion than this. However, at this point in time, she knew that she did not have a choice. To consume these people is to gain strength, and to gain strength is to grow closer to the accomplishment of her Cambio. So, she continued consuming more Humans as she followed the woman. She would sink her teeth into another man who was running away from the scene after fleeing his car, and thrust her claws straight into the throat of a friend of the earlier victim who was accompanying him before his demise. There was still an ample amount of Humans wandering about, and for the sake of her plan, she still

Soul(s) Consumed: 6x Class 8 Humans (NPC)

There were a few more Humans wandering about, all of which Sonadora knew would bring her further. However, before she could reach them, the other Hollows who were invading would catch up to her pace and begin consuming the Humans in her place. The lot of them were denizens of the Forest of Menos, but fortunately for Sonadora, they were not beastly enough to move without logic. This was why the majority did not run after the Human who was seemingly running away from the foggy being. With that said, there were a few of them who did believe this to be a curious sight, and so one of them decide to approach Sonadora in search for an answer. He was of average height and unremarkable stature, with a build that could be attributed to a sort of insect. It reminded the foggy beast of a fly. However, this fly did not fly. In fact, it did not possess wings. A mutant in every regard. "What's the hold up? Afraid to eat her?" It would speak in this nosy, arrogant tone befitting of its appearance. "If you don't eat her, can I have her?"

A low huff would come from Sonadora as she listened to her brethren. This was not someone that she believed would understand the purpose of the living woman. He was an insect, a repulsive thing that only thought for itself and only itself. She could tell from the way it spoke to her alone. Perhaps some of her words will reach it, but there was no point in even so much as giving it much of her attention. Despite this, she knew that such arrogance could be exploited to her advantage. "This is the sibling of the one who has conjured the portals. She is aware of our existence, but does not possess the spiritual sight. I intend to follow her to seek her current intentions," she lied as naturally as she breathed. This seemed almost enough to convince the fly, though she would notice that it seemed somewhat hesitant in approving her claims. In so doing, her gleaming eyes would turn towards it in the fog, and she would speak to him once again: "If you still wish to devour her, then go ahead. However, know that you will become an enemy to the portal conjurer, and that you may not leave this city alive. Do you understand?" 

The further she spoke, the heavier the air became, causing the insect to wince ever-so-slightly. Its arrogant mind was challenged and it disliked this, but it would become ever-so-clearer to it and some of the surroundings Hollows who listened to Sonadora's words that this was someone who could not be refuted. So, defeated, the being would huff and walk away. "Tch. Suit yourself, bitch," it spat and decided to leave the foggy being alone. This would cause Sonadora to let out a quiet hiss of satisfaction before moving onward. Hopefully, this Human will survive until she reaches the shelters.

[Alacrán]

Alacrán watched with a bit of confusion as the odd looking wood creature approached the Gillian, who, much to Alacrán's surprise, didn't attack the creature that was now talking to him. Alacrán watched the two go back and forth and something about the creature just caused Alacrán to be unsettled deep down in his core. His mandibles click together as he tries to figure out what it was about this creature that caused him to be so disturbed but he couldn't figure it out without inserting himself into the situation. He also had a feeling that this creature was the one responsible for the odd portal that had brought him here but there was really only one way to know.

So without any other hesitations, Alacrán make to land next to the pair, glancing between the both of them before he turns his attention to Akando, "Yous look familiar....have we met?" While he waits for the Gillian's response he slowly turns his attention on the odd creature, quietly observing their odd appearance. They were a strange creature, not like one he'd ever seen before and he'd seen all types of odd looking Hollows and Arrancar in his time. Yet still their was just simply something about this creature that caused Alacrán to be on his guard.

However, before his observation could go any further Alacrán would return his attention to the Gillian who'd hopefully had recognized him by now and answered in that kind of mentality. If they had then Alacrán's face would tilt to the side as he realizes that the Gillian still had the same speaking mannerism as before, to a certain degree which would cause him to sigh and shake his head, "Well it see's like ya've regain sum intelligence back, howe'er lil' it may be. Aye assume ya planning on feasting today huh?"

It would be here that Alacrán would finally turn his full attention to the strange creature as he addresses them, "And what 'bout ya? Ya plan on feasting as well? Yer not like any Hollow aye've e'er seen befo'e. Were ya duh one responsible fer the portal earlier?" His question may have seemed harmless but his demeanor was still guarded towards her, not able to shake the uneasy feeling. He wasn't sure what she was but maybe she was just a type of Hollow he'd never seen before. Perhaps she was a Vasto Lorde, although if she were then that'd raise many more questions. Still however, he's heard the rumors of how strong those were supposed to be so maybe that was a bit of a stretch. Regardless though, he didn't quite like her. At least for now.

[Astrid Vess]

Astrid smiled with as much glee and malice as she could make. Her plan was going so much better than she ever expected it to go. Sonadora had agreed to help her. She'd then found Akando, who not only recognized her but also wanted to hunt again. She was so glat to hear his response that she actually allowed her energy to let out more and radiate from her far more powerfully. That is. . . until Alacran came down. She had no idea who this one was and in truth, she wasn't fond of him already. His form was not to her taste but whatever. A bug is a bug. Hell, Hueco Mundo, the Human World. It didn't matter. They all looked the same and were just damn creepy regardless. But at LEAST it wasn't Alastor or Orobas. . . . Though she was put on edge when she thought about how he might do something similar to Orobas and thus she immediately got tense.



Still the REAL reason she was already starting to dislike him was that not only was she ignored by him, he was interrupting her conversation with Akando. She started to growl lowly but on Samson's quiet groan she stopped and tried to use what few brain cells she had to listen to him. It was. . . harder than normal. His slang didn't mesh well with Astrid's already lack of speaking capabilities nor her reduced vocabulary. This was only made worse by the fac that Astrid had only ever spoken to those with "proper" speech and full understanding of grammar. Not to mention flowery language. So this was completely different from that and it unnerved her that there was yet ANOTHER way to talk. She was really starting to find it hard to not become aggressive with Alacran.



Still she got some of what he was saying. And it looked like he was a fellow packmate of Akando so she'd hold back her dislike of him until he did something she couldn't ignore. For a hollow, let alone a companion of her ally, she could attempt to be patient and somewhat lenient though she wasn't known for it. Eventually she finally got acknowledged by them and it turned out from their body langauge alone they were also on guard from her presence. A small part of Astrid smiled in her mind, pleased by their unease. But as mentioned earlier she'd try to play nice for now. However, given the look Akando had on his face and the volume of saliva he was drooling he needed to be sent off now. She could deal with his companion alone. She looked at Alacran once he was done speaking and held up an arm to stop him for a moment.



Then she looked over at Akando and started creating another Rosahringur ring. Same as before, it started as a pure white ring of energy that then slowly but surely began to twist upon itself and get layered by what looked like golden threads of energy. Once it was made, she sent it to Akando and placed it upon the top of his head. Then she spoke to him as quickly as she could to not have him wait any longer. "Go. . . I. . . follow. . . Ring. . . help if. . . need. . Roar . . if need. ." Once she'd seen Akando do anything as a form of aknowledgement or even just leave she'd return her focus to Alacran. She was a quiet for a moment though it wasn't out of spite for Alacran. She was actively trying to think about how to respond to him. Alacran even if he was uncertain about her would be able to tell the gears in her head were turning.



Eventually she relaxed some, namely because if anything was going to happen Samson, whose empty eye sockets never left Alacran in the meantime, would react. And he'd do so likely far more successfully than Astrid ever could. It was a perk of having a body guard. And speaking of body guards, her other spirits were finally arriving and surrounding the two of them. The bat hollows were behind Alacran, while the sky serpent and her canine companion were behind Astrid and Samson. They didn't attack however as Astrid didn't specifically tell them to. But they all looked between Astrid and Alacran, uncertain of what was going on. Finally after what felt like an eternity Astrid growled out to the spirits around them and had them move from Alacran to Astrid. She was still tense but noticeably more relaxed now.



It was at this point she spoke or rather attempted to. "Not. . . Hollow. . . Hason. . Sigil. . .I made. . Want. . . Hollows. . . to eat. . . grow strong. . ." She pointed to herself when she mentioned she was a Hason. And at the mention of not being a hollow she looked. . . upset. Not at Alacran but at the fact she wasn't a hollow herself. Still that was buried underneath her genuine desire to have hollows get stronger. Try as Alacran might to find a lie, Astrid spoke none. He could be as concerned as he wanted with her, but she was genuine about helping them. With the likely unspoken clause of, so long as they don't attack me. She then started to speak again, though that odd feeling was starting to come back in her throat and she immediately moved a collection of bark and vines up to hold her neck.



"Will. . . eat. . . and. . . help hollows. . Akando. . . and Sona. . . dora. . . packmates. . You. . . Akando. . . packmate?" Astrid had her head tilted some before motioning to where Akando used to be, or was depending on if he was still waiting for them. Her surprise would be evident as Astrid genuinely didn't think Akando had packmates aside from her. He was very attack on sight in their first interaction as his hunger was very much like hers. Intense. It looked sated some given he now spoke some. But it was evident that it still controlled him thoroughly. So if Alacran was a pack member of his she had to admit, he was likely strong enough to fend him off. Meaning he wasn't someone she wanted a fight with. Still that wouldn't stop her if he decided to fight. She had two pack members to attend to and others to find during this chaos she'd sown. For now though she'd listen and watch him to see how he reacted to her.

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{Reiatsu}
-100 for Rosahringur Ring

9,450 - 100 = 9,350 reiatsu

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{Infernus Information}
10/40 spirits summoned

5 spirits with Sonadora

5 spirits with Astrid


3/10 posts used

Class 4 release

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{Teleportation sigil}
2/5 posts used

2/5 active
-one inside Astrid's chest cavity
-one underneath Samson

[Akando Bena]

Akando allowed Astrid to place the ring on his head, he wasn't sure what it was supposed to do but he could feel what the plant Hellion was intending. "Go. . . I. . . follow. . . Ring. . . help if. . . need. . Roar . . if need. ." Nodding to her Akando will surprisingly move his large body making no noise at all, dropping from the building they were on he landed in an alley below. Peeking out of the alley he would see a lot of confused and frightened people, the panic hasn't set in yet from people randomly dying. Though it was clear that they were about to realize some kind of disaster was happening.



A group of people were moving quickly passed the entrance of the alley Akando was in, meaning it was the perfect moment to grab a snack. Reaching out from the shadows, he grabbed one of the older males of the group. The man was probably about 40ish, but that made no difference to the Wendigo. The man would let out a scream as he felt a large hand grip around his chest, the other three people of the group on the other hand would stand there confused as they watched their friend float into the air.



The rest of the group wouldn't be standing there for much longer, as Akando would crunch down on the mans head. The friends watching the guy float would witness as his head vanishes with a sickening crunch. Eyes growing wide they would all let out a scream, Akando would then drop the body for a moment turning his attention towards the rest of the group. Saliva dripping down his blood soaked mouth the Wendigo would quickly reach out and grab two of the remaining people, one in each hand.



He could feel it, the hunger was gnawing at his insides. Giving in to his primal never ending hunger, Akando would slam one of the humans against the alley wall creating a distinct crack to form. The other human on the other hand would feel as her body was being squeezed, unable to even continue screaming the lady frantically looks around in horror unable to perceive the threat. Finally her bones would start cracking before she went limp, apparently the wendigo used more strength than he meant to as he wanted to keep her alive a little longer.



The last human untouched by Akando ran, fear taking over as he sprinted away screaming at the top of his lungs. He would then start shoving the corpse in his gullet, chomping down the flesh without hardly tasting them. The taste didn't matter after all, all that mattered was the hunger being slightly lessened even if only while he was swallowing his food. Once that body was done he would return to the headless corpse and quickly devoured that as well, leaving nothing but blood stains where the body used to be.



The man that felt his world circle after being smashed into a brick wall was finally coming back to his senses. Looking up he would see none of his friends, the female who was grabbed along with him was nowhere in sight. To make matters worse he would then notice his already deceased friend being torn and shredded, chunks of him vanishing as if the force doing this to them was eating them. He then realized what was happening, something was indeed eating them. Sadly his movements had attracted Akando as he finished scarfing down the rest of the mans body. Blood and drool flooding from his mouth he would lift his claw and lash out, all but removing the mans throat. From this point on the Wendigo would begin feasting on this body, flesh and soul. At some point Astrid may show up, so he would wait for her.

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{Consumed}Class 8 Humans X3

[Sonadora]

With the vermin Hollow and its allies persuaded to leave them alone, Sonadora continued to move on into the city alongside the Human she had captured. They moved quicker than before, at a pace that caused both she and the Human to go on a light run rather than a fast walk. For as much as the foggy being would have herself preferred that they remained with the first pacing they had both adopted, considering that there was no danger around them and that they would have therefore been able to conserve the Human's physical stamina while doing so, this new pace was unfortunately necessary. Despite the fact the Human could not quite see or understand what was happening around her, she had witnessed the consuming of a few of her brethren, which caused her enough distress to fall at least once. If she finds herself any more terrified by this ongoing assault against the city, she will freeze and Sonadora will have to find another Human, which will potentially pit her against yet another one of her kind. She did not have such time to waste, not in a place like this.

They proceeded onward as fast as they could. Street after street, they passed by countless scenes of absolute carnage in the process. The vandalism, unsurprisingly, had increased. Every time Sonadora saw a street now, she'd notice that it was more destroyed than the last. Signs and lights were scattered about the roads with wires sparking with electricity here and there, vehicles laid either flattened by Hollows which jumped onto them minutes earlier with glass surrounding their frames, and the nearby buildings each had several of their windows shattered. Alongside this vandalism was of course the bodies that filled it. There were so many dead Humans. Frankly, it was hard to discern the age and the gender of some of these corpses, seeing as many appeared to have been mangled beyond recognition. However, the past selves of the majority were mostly recognizable. The male, the female. The young, the middle-aged, the old. There were even figures that once appeared to be children.

Unfortunately, these dead Humans were not accompanied by their souls, which prevented Sonadora from wanting to eat any of them. A part of her was frustrated by that observation. Even though she has been developing her powers to prevent herself from falling to the likes of her unending hunger, her natural instincts still wish for her to seek evolution through consumption, and so being unable to achieve greater evolution to some capacity in this particular area  bothered her. Yet the sight of the deceased Humans was enough to make her almost smile satisfyingly beyond the fog. Even though this plan Astrid conceived was needlessly risky and is most likely going to attract the attention of many Shinigami, it could be said that it at least accomplished something that was necessary. Here, in this space away from the Jūreichi, many Hollows will congregate. There will be battles between many, yes. That is inevitable. However, in contrast, there will also be potential alliances. If at least one of these alliances persist... Sonadora could take her chances to join them and command them to victory, for the betterment of Hollowkind.

Case in point, the Gillians. Although one of the massive creatures was but a construct summoned by Astrid, there were two that Sonadora witnessed from afar who appeared on the cusp of evolution. One of them was a horned one reminiscent of another the foggy being met long ago. It was furry with a strange mask and a putrid smell that could be sensed from far away. While their appearance is strange and their scent unpleasant, it appeared to be more intelligent than a Menos Grande. Far more intelligent. Then, there was the other Gillian, this alien thing that was already utilizing her Cero to cause further destruction. It too appeared to be more conscious than the typical Menos Grande. Less so than the former Hollow at a first glance, admittedly, but nevertheless still seemingly brighter. Such things were sign of most potent Hollows on the verge of becoming Adjuchas, and therefore potential noteworthy allies. If Sonadora can ally herself with them and convince them to follow her plans much like how she has convinced Astrid of the potency of her command, then soon, she will etch herself ever-closer to the accomplishment of her Cambio.

But enough wonder. Now was not the time to think and to plan, but rather the time to act, to execute. So again, she moved, continuing to follow closely behind the Human woman she enslaved. A few more corpse-filled streets were crossed, each of which again gnarlier and more threatening to the Human than the last. Controlling her fear was starting to become a challenge for Sonadora. Though the creature gave the lesser being several orders to mitigate her fear, namely orders to ignore the carnage around her and other similar commands, the woman still appeared to be incredibly fearful for her life. Such a thing could be prevented by filling her mind with a greater amount of corrupted energy, but Sonadora felt as though such a thing was still unnecessary. She could not waste her spiritual energy, not here on a battlefield where this thing could die at any given moment. She needed to hold on, even if such a task demanded that she tolerate this pathetic woman's existence for a little bit longer.

After a time, it would appear as though Sonadora's patience would finally be paid off. There, at the end of one single street, appeared to be some sort of large building. It wasn't like the towers of glass that once populated the other areas of the city prior to their destruction; rather, it appeared to be some sort of warehouse. Police cars were currently parked near the main doors of the edifice, and by their side stood police officers. In total, there were about eight of them. Each of them appeared to be armed, though two of them were holding onto rifles rather than the standard pistol to expect from such Human forces. The foggy creature analyzed the building carefully enough. If this was supposed to be shelter, it was quite a meager one. Nevertheless, the presence of these officers must hold some form of significance... If she has led me here, then there must be a basement in this construct for them to use as protection, she rationalized then.

Looking towards the rest of the battlefield, the creature would wait for a moment to see if there were any other of her kind in the area. Aside from she, the Human and the officers, there was no one else in the vicinity. Good. With this in mind, she would then eventually let the woman head towards the police officers. As to be expected, their reaction to the woman would be understandable. Upon seeing her, they would first raise their weapons, tell her to stay put, then speak to one another. After a time, two of the officers wielding pistols would come to her and grab her to lead her inside, all the while attempting to comfort her. It was all done rapidly and professionally, though there was something about the way they behaved that caused Sonadora to frown. Eventually, this led the creature to actually pay more attention to their words. It was only then that she finally understood why these officers were suddenly being so courteous, and what this building was supposed to be.

To summarize, the woman Sonadora captured was the daughter of a police officer. Apparently, he had a modicum of significance in this particular city, and with this power, he was able to secure a few privileges between himself and his family, who is daughter is apparently one of the only members of. One of these privileges was access to a shelter during times of crises, more specifically a series of underground rooms designed to withstand even the toughest of earthquakes. Considering what was currently ongoing in this city, it would seem as though now was indeed a time that could be treated as such. The thought of such a privilege existing was enough to make the foggy being let out a barely-astonished scoff. She wanted to think that she was surprised by this, but really, she wasn't. Out of all the things that she has seen throughout her life, corruption was amongst the most common occurrences. Not even a place as clean and pristine as Japan itself is safe from it all.

She would let the woman be led inside of the warehouse without any resistance, standing in front of the officers as she did so. The creature knew that the armed ones did not possess the divine sight, and so she found no need to conceal herself from them. After the doors to the warehouse closed, she would move forward towards the officers, then allow the fog surrounding her body to concentrate itself within her right hand. "Fools, the lot of you," she would huff as she placed herself between the officers, letting them notice the fog that was suddenly accumulating within her hand. "You shall now serve I, forever more." And with that, the creature raised the Apple of Eden and mercilessly threw it onto the ground below, causing a dark silvery veil to be expanded straight onto the officers. In response to this, three of the pistol-wielding officers fired their weapon in Sonadora's direction. Though they missed, one of them almost hit the beast in the leg, which was enough to cause her to hiss. "Insolence." The screaming of the officers then followed shortly after.

Soul(s) Consumed: 3x Class 8 Humans (NPC)

Eventually, the screaming would cease, and soon, each officers who have been spared Sonadora's wrath would rise from the ground. They now appeared disheveled and lost, maybe even hurt. Sonadora would give them all a vicious glare beyond her fog as the silvery veil dispersed. There were no more trigger-happy ones... Good. Once she believed the results of her maneuver satisfactory, she turned her head towards the two officers with the rifle and ordered:   G U A R D, A N D  B R I N G  M E  M O R E .  The two riflemen shuddered in this moment, shivering, before they then would go on to position themselves in front of their vehicles, ready to welcome more people to the shelter as they moved their cars above the blood stains that had been left by Sonadora after eating the three that attempting to shoot at her. Though they seemed afraid at first, they soon appeared to completely forget Sonadora's influence, and they were now all returning to their previous roles in this crisis. Nearby Hollows and, potentially, even Shinigami would be able to detect the strange energy emanating from them. Once this process was accomplished, Sonadora then looked on to the officers who remained, then granted them an order as well:  F O L L O W  M E  .

Sonadora and the police officers then went on inside the shelter together, leaving the riflemen behind. Inside, the shelter appeared to very much be a warehouse. However, it would not take very long for Sonadora to find the actual shelter. At the very end of the room was a flight of stairs heading down towards a metallic door, one which apparently has been left opened by whoever came or exited the shelter last. It was most likely the woman the foggy being had taken control over. Not that it mattered whether it was open or not to the being: she herself could pass through it with Ulcera, and the officers most certainly had a key that would allow them to open it. What mattered to her most was what was on the other side of the door. Soon enough, she would be guided in a number of rooms all dedicated for underground sheltering. Each of them harbored a number of Humans, many of which appeared to be women and children. There were a few men too, cowardly ones who preferred to come here than brave the crisis as police officers.

For these Humans, this place was perhaps one of the only areas in the entire city where they could be safe at the moment. For Sonadora, however, this was a gold mine. At a first glance, there were more than a couple of dozens of Humans here, each more harmless than the last. Here will be gathered the Admirers, the beast thought in this instant, and so she would let out a satisfied hum as the fog began to disperse from her body all across the shelter.

For the glory of Cambio.

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{Reiatsu: 2980/4370  | Holy Veil : 3 Posts Remaining | Admirer(s): 3 (Unarmed), 3 (Armed) }
Technique Name: Divine Veil (Apple of Eden)

Technique Type: Custom Hollow Technique | Fog Empowerment

Technique Element: None

Usable by: Hollow

Class: 1-3

Technique Reiatsu Cost: 500 (Vasto Lorde), 150 (Adjuchas)

Technique Description and Effects

A direct empowerment of Sonadora's primordial ability. The creature collects the reiatsu onto a specific portion of her body before unleashing an absurd amount of her fog towards a target in a brief amount of time, something which often appears in hindsight as an explosion. Due to the sheer amount of reiatsu present within this fog, this transforms it into one of the following Divine Veils:

• Mirage of Eden: A collection of reiatsu within Sonadora which was violently expunged from all of her pores at once, causing it to appear as a massive fog that goes beyond the limits delimited by her Class. It is said that it is roughly about thrice as large in size and causes what is inside of it to be thrice as difficult to perceive. This fog lasts for a total of four posts before it eventually dissipates into nothingness, and cannot be maintained.
  
  
• Apple of Eden: A collection of reiatsu within Sonadora which was violently expunged from the pores of a single part of her body, causing it to first appear as a ball of condensed fog. It can appear anywhere on her body, but it is most often deployed via the hands or feet. When it is so, it can be held like an object by the creature, which can lead her to either throw it in a certain direction or directly hit a target with it. Upon impact, it will unleash an extremely-potent fog that can immediately cause a living being 5m around the point of impact to be Slumbered. Unlike a Holy Veil, the fog created by the Apple of Eden applies a Slumbered state that cannot be removed at all from the target, even when they are outside of the Holy Veil, for a duration of four posts.
  

Drawbacks and Weaknesses

Because of the sheer amount of reiatsu required in order to create a Divine Veil in the first place, this technique can be quite taxing to the creature, and so it is typically preferred to only use this in times of need when one is completely unaware of its existence. Additionally, it is easy to differentiate a Mirage of Eden from a normal Holy Veil due to their color: the first is represented by a dark silver while the other is instead of a purer white. This can cause enemies located within it to immediately acknowledge this matter and distance themselves from it.

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Technique Name: Celestial Blessing

Technique Type: Custom Hollow Technique | Admirer Creation

Technique Element: None

Usable by: Hollow

Class: 4

Technique Reiatsu Cost: 250 (Armed), 100 (Unarmed)

Technique Description and Effects

The beginning of an individual's Ascension. Sonadora fills a target with an increased amount of her corrupted reiatsu to transform it into an Admirer, which is the first classification given to those afflicted by the Ascended state. Admirers are among the least powerful Ascended under Sonadora's control. In hindsight, they appear to be normal without any physical attributes that makes them stand out; however, they can be driven by the creature to commit terrible acts of violence and hatred towards those that are unfortunate enough to be near them. Although they are somewhat aware that something is wrong about their state of being and that something must be done to rectify this problem, they are unable to currently assert what that aforementioned problem is on their own, seeing as they are unable to recall their last meeting with Sonadora.

As the weakest of the Ascended, Admirers will mostly fight bare-handed or with a normal weapon, though they will at times wield special weaponry that allows them to fight in battle. These specific weapons were accursed by the Hollow during their sleep, infected by their reiatsu almost as much as their owner's very minds. This practically allows Admirers to spread the Hollow's reiatsu to awoken targets to create more of themselves should they be Slumbered, and in some profound long-term cases, even Hollowfication.

All Admirer NPCs must be considered a Class above their own once they are Ascended, with the maximum cap being Class 1. Admirer PCs are exempted from this boost.


Drawbacks and Weaknesses

There are a few conditions Sonadora must meet in order to successfully process this technique:

1. The target must be Slumbered. No matter what, it is absolutely impossible for the Hollow to create an Ascended while the target is awake.
   
   
2. The target must not be from a race which suffers from poisoning upon being exposed to Hollow reiatsu, such as Quincy.
   
   
3. The target must possess a Class equal or inferior to Sonadora's; if not, they will effortlessly resist her reiatsu with minor discomfort.
   
   
4. The target must be in the presence of Sonadora during the Ascension, meaning that she must be at their side via Judgement Call while the process is ongoing. If the target's Class is two units below hers, the process can be completed without Sonadora's presence.
   
   
5. The target must be completely submitted to Sonadora both physically and mentally, or, in other words, unable to fight any longer. So long as the target is capable of showing resistance, it will be able to resist the Ascension and remain Slumbered. This does not apply to nameless NPCs.

Only once all of these conditions have been met that a target can be transformed into an Admirer, after which the only way the target will be able to rid themselves of the condition will be to either rid their soul of the Hollow reiatsu in some way or another, or meet someone capable of doing the same. On PCs, this effect is temporary if it was applied during an NDE or DP thread unless the owner of the PCs agree for it to be permanent, only lasting for the entirety of the thread before their unique will can allow them to shake it off. Moreover, if they are near Sonadora while they are an Admirer, they can resist her orders for two posts so long as they possess a Strength of Will of 1. This resistance is upgraded by a post each time they raise their Strength of Will until it has reached 4, in which case they can effortlessly resist all of her orders until treatment.

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Technique Name: Holy Veil

Technique Type: Custom Hollow Technique | Fog Manipulation

Technique Element: None

Usable by: Hollow

Class: 1-7

Technique Reiatsu Cost: 250 (Vasto Lorde), 40 (Adjuchas), 15 (Gillian), 10 (Stray)

Technique Description and Effects

A basic technique which represents Sonadora's control over her primordial ability. The creature allows minuscule pores present all over her skin to open, causing reiatsu formed in her body to be driven out in the form of a thick fog using her as its epicenter. The fog in question is white in appearance, draping the area in a veil that renders everything surrounding a living being difficult to perceive. From afar, it appears as a vaguely-cubic aerosol that is otherwise physically imperceptible from its natural counterpart. Its effects are in hindsight also identical to the latter's, rendering any environment it is present in damp and humid. Should a living being be present in this fog, the Embraced state will be applied to their soul. This allows Sonadora to sense their position in the fog by detecting the shape of the aerosol around the bodies of her targets, permitting her to not only identify what she may be facing depending on the information available to her, but also employ the use of Daydreams against them in order to apply the Slumbered state to their soul.

Although its main supernatural use stops there, the fog can also be utilized in a more advanced fashion by the Hollow should she possess the mastery to do so, notably by using it as a form of camouflage or intimidation. For instance, with focus, she can bring the fog to only drape her body and make herself appear grander than she is with it. Additionally, this same focus can also allow her to forcibly push the epicenter of the fog away from herself for means of distraction or offense.


Drawbacks and Weaknesses

Considering that the fog is composed of Sonadora's own reiatsu, it can be difficult for the creature to keep it active in a certain area for a long period of time. Unless the fog is only delimited to the very pores of her skin, simply deciding to cover an area with it requires an initial amount of reiatsu to be spent depending on her Class. Once this value is spent, half of that value must then be spent again three posts later in order to maintain the fog. The fog's size and the range of visibility available to a being located within it are also rather limited as the both of these factors are as well delimited by the Hollow's Class. The values in question can be seen below:

Class	Maximum Size	Maximum Visibility
Vasto Lorde	100m	35m
Adjuchas	75m	30m
Gillian	50m	20m
Stray	25m	10m

The fog is also not invincible. Like any other normal fog, it can be pushed away by a large amount of hot air colliding with it so long as the air in question is also made with or simply affected by one's reiatsu. This rids any target which was previously located within it of the Embraced or Slumbered state if they are successful, removing Sonadora's influence upon their soul.

[Alacrán]

Alacrán watched as the Menos listened to this bizzare creature, this Hason as it had identified itself, not that he knew what that was. What he did know was that with the sudden appearance of these other Hollows, he was feeling surrounded and very threatened and his twitching tail was showing this as he glanced around at all these Hollows who'd seem to be on this creature's side. He wasn't sure about what this creature's true intentions were even though he couldn't sense a lie in it's words but he did find it odd that so many Hollows seemed to tolerate and get along with it, including Akando, which as far as he could tell was nothing more than a mindless beast of a Hollow with just barely more intelligence than the rest of the crowd.

He calmed down just a bit as it seemed to call off the Hollows that were surrounding him and he narrowed his eyes at her as he titled his head curiously. From the way she spoke, it seemed like she might not be much more intelligent herself but that meant nothing. What truly concerened him was how she seemed to have some kind of control over these Hollows. And then there was this Sonadora figure she mentioned, a name he'd never heard before but he assumed was another Hollow considering the company this creature kept.

While he was gaining more questions than answers at the moment, at least he gained the answer to the one he'd asked earlier. So this creature was responsible for the portal earlier, if that's what it meant when it said it created the sigil. He was curious as to how it did this and on such a large scale but for the moment, he'd worry about that later. Right now he wanted to learn whether this creature was a threat or not, as it brought up the idea of packmates. Hollows forming groups and working together, while sometimes rare due to the nature of Hollows, wasn't unheard of and Alacrán himself had taken on and consumed his fair share of packs.

Still, he wasn't exactly the most social nor tolerable Hollow so he'd never really sought to form a pack of his own. He may be able to partner and team up with the occasional Hollows here and there he's never really seen the need for creating a permanent group like that. However as he looks around at the destruction on the city that all the gathered Hollows were causing, he could see the appeal. Perhaps there was something to the whole idea and maybe he could pursue his growing goals much easier. After all, he did have ambitions of adjusting the status quo of Hueco Mundo and Las Noches when it came to Arrancars and Hollows.

But that was neither here nor there and he returns his attention to the Hason before him and shakes his head, "No, aye've ne'er heard o' this Sonadora ya speak o'. As fer Akando, we met only once befo'. Helped 'im take on some Shi'igami. Asi'e from dat, aye haven' seen 'im since. Aye have a more pressing questio' howe'er; dem Hollows...ya control dem?"

[Zauberin]

H U N G R Y. The word etched itself into Zauberin’s mind. She had meant to speak it, but again, her words had failed her. Internal dialogue clambered around inside of her mind, making it difficult to perceive where she was walking. Fortunately, her size, strength, and the lack of sizable obstacles meant that there wasn’t a lot that could potentially endanger her as she walked. Humans scattered beneath her feet as they were assaulted by mostly invisible assailants - given that most of the humans weren’t even spiritually aware enough to detect the Hollows that were attacking them unless the Hollow chose to be seen, they had only their intuition and panic to help propel them in the correct direction. Zauberin trampled some overhead, but in her haze she failed to notice that she had killed any prey, leaving their spiritual remains to be consumed by smaller Hollows underneath her.

C O N T R O L. The voices continued. Some were unbearably loud and others were barely whispers at the edge of her consciousness. Having only evolved into a Gillian recently, and having only just taken control of her body, Zauberin found her pace occasionally halting completely, moving of its own accord as the souls beneath her continued to disrupt her ability to focus. They had no hope of gaining control, but their incessant interruptions created small fluctuations in Zauberin’s spiritual energy and lapses in her cognition. “SILENCE.” Zauberin roared outwards, her voice carrying for more than a few city blocks, drowned in the center of the normal Gillian screeching. Hollows and humans alike scattered around her - Hollow out of caution, and humans out of raw instinctual fear.

However, all was silent again in Zauberin’s head. Finally, she could think. Her eyes scanned the area around her - it was different than where she remembered standing. Her body had carried itself not particularly far, but far enough that she had to establish the direction she came from and the direction she was headed. In her left hand, the remains of a human were smeared across her violet skin - unidentifiable at this state given how badly mangled and damaged it was. It looked as though she had torn into it and consumed the soul and body in her traveling. She could easily identify a number of other Hollow around her - some Gillian and some woefully behind in their evolution. She also felt some power around her - clearly something that was stronger than her, but by a magnitude she hadn’t felt before.¹

She turned in the direction of the overwhelming power. She, of course, did not recognize Sonadora’s energy signature, but the dull hum of spiritual energy and the general flow of the rapidly dwindling population of the city carried her naturally in that direction. At her pace, it was very likely that she would never actually make it to where Sonadora was currently camped out, but at least she was moving in the right direction. Shouting from the humans below her caught her attention. There were humans dressed in various colors and carrying some type of firearm, devices that Zauberin didn’t recognize from life or death. Some were accompanied by vehicles with flashing lights and some were accompanied by larger vehicles dressed in drab colors and no lights to be seen.

Zauberin reached out, swiping her hand across the ground, dislodging pavement and structures, though not successfully digging them out of the ground. The humans she had identified began shouting. Any that she had hit were sent sprawling to the ground, notably injured and likely dying, though their attention was squarely on their assailant now that they could see her. Her violet and silver starburst eyes gazed down upon them menacingly. The sounds of firearms being discharged echoed through the local streets, though likely drowned out by other sounds of emergency and panic. Zauberin spoke forcibly. “ᛗᚨᚲᛖ.” In front of her, quickly blocking out the non-spiritual small arms fire, a violet orb of reiatsu formed. She reached an arm out and grabbed it as metal dug itself harmlessly into her cloak and fell to the ground, bringing her hand and the orb back, and then throwing it down towards her assailants.

The sound of a loud, sizeable explosion echoed from her location as her orb had carved out a fifteen foot cone in front of it, absolutely demolishing the larger vehicle that was in her way and mutilating several humans in the process. She shambled forwards, reaching downwards and collecting their souls by the handful to bring to her mouth and feast on. F E E D As she ate, voices clambered back into her mind, as though growing as she grew, but at a substantially slower pace. The voices, while active, were more muted than they were before. Though they were not unbearably loud, they still pulled her from her perception as her body fed aimlessly on the carnage in front of it. Somewhere in the back of her mind she could hear herself roar, though she did not have the consciousness to feel her body shift and sway.²

When she regained herself, she was two city blocks further down. Debris, blood, and various bits of gore coated her hands, but she found no reason to ruminate on how many humans she had killed and consumed as she walked forwards. It was negligible. What was more important to her now was identifying the several larger spiritual signatures around her, that of more than one Gillian on the cusp of evolution, and perhaps some Hollow that had already evolved beyond her.

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{1}Two Class 8 Humans

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{2}Three Class 8 Humans

[Astrid Vess]

The city was in complete chaos. Structures were being destroyed by seemingly invisible entities. Occasionally sounds such as inhuman screams and roars were heard. Glass shattered from the air moving around violently. And somehow in the mix of all this was a very palpable aura of malice. All living things were food waiting to be consumed to the veritable horde of hollows. And given how many individuals had just been risen into the air and eaten bit by bit? Yea there was definitely more supernatural fear and oppression in the air than simply a humans fight or flight response. However, that wasn't the case for all that were within this city. While originally a select few had either attempted to leave or otherwise hadn't arrived yet there was no denying that the situation, while not fixable, could be lessened. Specifically, if the one responsible for the portals throughout the city could be found then the portals could be shut preventing further invaders. Thus, the group set out for their closest spiritual entities near them. Each honing in on one of the 5 noteworthy powers that were around.


OOC: BIG POINT TO MAKE NOTE OF:

From this post on there is no specific posting order. There is however a wait time. When an individual posts, they must wait for 2 other individuals to post prior to posting again. I will be the only exception as I will not be doing a massive post like this (unless you all post one after another like the monsters you could be). I will instead be making posts specific to individual's enemies.

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Akando's Assailant - Kurozami



Kurozami had been searching for his sibling for months now. His idiot sibling had this grandiose idea for how to take over LN and how to be revered in fear by the Soul Society. Figured he'd start a series of escapades in the Rukongai and work his way into the Seireitei. Meanwhile he'd continue fighting those in the menos forest so he could eventually go against the minions of LN and their "Espada". Yet. . . unlike most times where he could find his sibling in some manner or another, he'd heard nothing. Sensed nothing. Their bond as siblings seemed torn asunder and despite his time in Hueco Mundo he could find no trace nor sign that his sibling was alive. He sighed to himself already having an idea about what likely happened. Though that didn't make it any easier on him.



With that said, he'd continue his search for his sibling. Or rather that'd been the plan, had he not found a curious marking on the ground that had made a portal of sorts. Or perhaps it was better to call it a pathway. It didn't take a genius to figure out that this was a means to leave Hueco Mundo. The real question was why someone would be so "generous" as to leave an open venue. He didn't like it but from within he could see that many of his "peers", albeit highly underdeveloped in their nature, had gone over and were feasting on the less fortunate. He hummed quietly as he weighed the odds of his sibling having gone through one. "Would Kazumi have been stupid enough to go through this? . . . . I already know he would. But that's only if he felt he had something to gain from it. From what I'm seeing there's nothing but rampant hollows in this alternate world."



His eyes widened slightly as it dawned on him why Kazumi would have gone. And he grabbed his own face before sighing angrily into his hand. "He'd go to "collect" more servants. Where else would he find this many hollows around with little to no effort on his part? Not to mention in his hairbrained scheme's he'd think he could beat several into submission and gain a bigger army. I need to check out the area, and hopefully find Kazumi. Stop him from committing to a stupid goal with little to no planning. God help me." Kurozami walked through the portal with no further hesitation and while his world shifted, quite uncomfortably, he managed to prevent himself from losing his stomach. When the world's warping around him stopped he finally had a moment to look over everything and take in the sounds.



Currently he was on a building that while damaged was still standing. While he wasn't truly capable of sensing another's specific energy, he could still feel the overwhelming spiritual presence caused by all the hollows presents. A further glance around his nearby area showed him a couple things. First and foremost, there were several gillian around, one of which seemed to be throwing something akin to cero's around at nothing in particular. Another building held what looked like a group of hollows all talking together. His eyes narrowed at this, knowing this to be highly abnormal for hollows in general. These would be who he should go after first. Namely to interrogate, unless they wanted to fight. . . which was likely. Those of Hueco Mundo always wanted to fight. But that's when he smelled something else.



Something that made him shake in his worn clothes for a moment. It was a stench so abhorrently putrid that he couldn't believe it was real at first. How could he? Buildings were on fire. Blood was in the air. Bodies had their insides out. The smell around him was already not clean and free of disgusting scents. And yet THIS STENCH, as no other word could compare to it, was continuously grabbing his attention. A warning and a challenge. Something was nearby. Something likely capable if it felt comfortable enough to reveal itself like that. Kurozami knew he should ignore it. That would have been his preference in the matter. Let bygones be bygones and remain blissfully unaware unless the stench persisted. And yet he had to think like his sibling. Would his sibling do the same?



Of course not. Kazumi, the fool that he was, would go after whatever made this stench. He'd want to see it. Recruit it. Or fight it. Possibly both given how confident he was with his weapons powers. Kurozami stomped into the ground for a moment to vent his frustration before he eventually walked off the edge of the building and landed in an alleyway next to it. "Quickly check. Then leave. There is no need remain here for longer than I must. As long as I do not see Kazumi, we've achieved the goal at hand. I must make it to that group of hollows." With a quick drawing of his sword, Kurozami walked out from the alley towards the main street. From there he simply walked on the sidewalks glaring and glancing around him constantly while trying to track Akando. He would keep his ears, eyes, and surprisingly nose, available to pick up any disruption in the world around him. Whatever was causing the stench was his target. And all he needed was a moment to be certain his sibling was not present. Nothing more, nothing less.

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{Kurozami Info/Stats/Skills}Class: 5

Type: SSv2

SP total: 1,200


Stats:

Stats:

Strength: 200 (600) (62.5)
Speed: 400 (268)
RS: 200 (600) (134)
SPPR: 150 (100)
Instinct: 150 (167)
Senses: 100 (67)
ES: 0
HE: 0


Skills:

BA: 2
Water: 2
Strenght of Will: 2
Pain Tolerance: 2
Acrobatics: 2
Anti-Stealth: 2
Bleeding Tolerance: 2
Battle Focus: 2

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{Kurozami Release}Cost: 550 reiatsu

Class: 5

Duration: 8 posts

Zanapkutou Release Names: Drown my enemies, Shin'en no danshaku (Baron of the deep)


Overall Ability:

When released Kurozami's form changes to that of a mythical asian dragon. As such a number of abilities relating to asian dragons in mythos are at his disposal, such as the means to conjure rain and manipulate water to a degree. For a cost of 50 reiatsu Kurozami can create a cloud that is 5 feet in length and width, and 3 feet thick. There is no limit to the amount of clouds he can create, however the clouds (barring the use of a technique) will always be created in the sky above him (or the ceiling of a room or space where something is above him.) From there he can command the clouds to produce a light shower of rain, standard rainstorm, or torrential downpower.



Light rain is mainly used to create a damp envirorment in addition to creating fog clouds. Fog clouds are generated depending on how many posts light rain has been active. At it's base however it creates 15 foot clouds. For every post this cloud cover doubles. These clouds and the rain do not cause harm, though they do make enemies more conductive to electricity, giving it a 10% OS boost. To see through the fog requires 100 Senses with points in Anti-Stealth or Focused eye reducing this by 25 points.



Standard rain is used to start actively collecting water where the clouds are located above. This will actively start to create puddles and pools and the longer this rainfall goes on the larger the puddles and pools become. There is no inherent size limit to this. However with the coming of these pools there is the means for electrical attacks to extend their reach and "jump" around. This can be from one puddle to the next or extend to encompass the entirety of a puddle/pool. At most the expanded electrical charge will reach 10 feet. This level of rain does not remove present fog clouds nor does it allow them to grow further.



Torrential downpour is the most violent application of water. In this storm flooding is almost a gaurantee and is necessary to ensure to that a space will be drowned. Fog clouds are swept away by 15 feet a post but in their stead Kazumi has access to creating gusts of wind in addition to bolts of lightning. Due to the winds being exuded by the stormfall if there is at least 2 feet of water present then individuals will find their movement slowed by 20% and their step speed reduced by 2x. This can be avoided by using step techs above the ground. To actively remain in this type of storm Kazumi must pay 150 reiatsu a post directly from his pool.



Clouds produced can be blown away with strong enough attacks. These require 75% of Kurpzami's OS. Attacks in Torrential Downpour use his RS. Fog Clouds can be swept away if an attack is at least 50% of his OS. Clouds created will follow Kurozami if he moves.



Zanpakuto Techniques:

1. Whirlpool

This technique is a passive ability of Kurozami's release. Typically water will flow around and into new areas as it attempts to spread throughout. In order to actually flood a place there must be either a barrier of sorts that prevents its movement or there must be a substantial amount of water. This technique takes the prior idea using the maximum reach of the clouds as the "barrier". So long as cloud exist the water produced by Kazumi will not extend past them. Instead it will grow in height once the entire ground is covered. Should there be enough rain and time, the area encompassed by the cloud will flood until the water reaches the clouds.


Costs an additional 150 reiatsu to release.



2. Lead Rain

This technique is only available while Torrential Downpour is being used. So long as requirement is met then the technique is available for use. This technique reinforces the rain that is produced by the cloud giving each drop more weight to it than one would expect. For Kurozami this means nothing as he is freely able to fly around in his storm. However for others this means that they are actively pushed down at a force equal to half his OS. Should they not have enough strength to resist they will find themselves unable to move to higher ground or stay afloat without some additional aid.



I.E. Climbing will be impossible. However if one is on a tree branch already they will not find themselves hindered so long as they stay present or jump to other ledges of comparable hieght. Flying creatures will be pushed down until they hit the water's surface.


Costs 150 reiatsu a post.



3. Riptide

This technique is simple as its effectively Kurpzami's standard attack. Using this allows Kurozami to create small waves using nearby water for at a 1 to 1 ratio for height, width, and thickness. These waves are created at 200 speed and when made are thrown in a direction. The waves then slam into an opponent at a force equal to half Kazumi's OS. Meanwhile they will pull whatever is hit by the wave with them using Kurozami's full OS.


Costs 75 reiatsu per wave. 3 can be created a post.



4. Typhoon

This is the peak technique for Kurozami. Use of this technique is only allowed once a release. This technique upon being used intensifies the storm for the post and condenses it to half it's current size. Those already within the storms bounds will find themselves pulled within the new bounds by Kurozami's OS.



Once these new bounds are created the condensed clouds begin to produce tornadoes that touch the surface of the water produced. These twisters will then spin around the storms AoE at 400 speed and exude a suction force equal to Kurpzami's OS within 10 feet of them. If one cannot resist they are drawn within and either thrown into the clouds or thrown into the water below. Between the winds and rough waves they will be battered by the water at Kurozami's OS or be torn into by the raging winds.



There is an out however. Kurozami needs at least two posts to charge this attack and thus produces an orb made of storm clouds. This orb uses his OS for it's durability. If destroyed he must wait a post before he can recreate it. If it's not destroyed there is only one thing a victim can do. That is endure the storm. Though its potent the storm itself is brief as it lasts only 1 post. This technique also requires the storm to be in a Torrential Downpour to be used.


Costs 250 reiatsu. 2 post charge up. Torrential Downpour needed.



Reference images for release:

Primera Etapa form:






Storm Orb for Typhoon Tech:

Non-release techniques will be added in Kurozami's following post.

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{Kurozami reference}

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Astrid's Assailant - Meredith Shakti



This city was doomed. Barring the introduction of a fully prepared spiritual army, the hollows present and soon to come had already laid their claim on this city. Meredith watched from the sky, looking down over the expanse that was the crumbling and progressively more damaged city of Manila. For once Meredith was mildly torn at the situation before her. She, a former hollow and arrancar no less, did still respect the idea of taking that which was before you. Especially when it was so generously offered on a silver platter by another. Yet, given her status as a Captain Supervisor, she held . . . hmmm. . . in her opinion she held a responsibly to assist the humans of this world. One of her main tasks of the Vandenriech was to collect those who were spiritually capable, or in more realistic terms, create those capable of joining.



This city would have survivors. Some would grow to be spiritually aware now. Others would have been nudged to grow into it. And many yet still wouldn't but in their core, selves would want to be capable of doing something. Especially when the issues at hand were largely supernatural and pretty well out of their world's capabilities. She'd already been considering if she would expand her realm of influence beyond Mongolia. Though admittedly this was a bit of a stretch. Hmm. . . She continued to ponder over what exactly it was that would serve her and the Vandenriech more. The fact of the matter was that nothing here would kill her. Numbers were important but the majority of hollows here were so pathetically weak that a mere flexing of her spiritual capabilities would be enough get rid of the trash. Though it would also kill humans in the process. Gravitational pressure was just that uncaring in nature.



After yet more time and hearing yet another series of buildings collapse Meredith came to a decision. "I will not directly attack the fodder. While it could be done, there is little to gain from it. However. . . taking out the hellion who spawned these openings, that is worthwhile. It will ensure no further hollows come to Manilla, assuming they don't have the means to already. And it will assist those below in surviving, even if it's only for a bit longer. I can then return in a day or so, after the shinigami have left and attempted to alter the memories of those who endured this event. Undo the alteration and gather those willing and capable to join me in Mongolia. With a curt nod to herself Meredith began to expand her energy sensing capabilities over the city to find the originator of these portals.



It didn't take long at all. More curiously, she noticed the hellion in question had assistants, with only one being present that wasn't directly tied to them. She tilted her head, mildly curious at this phenomenon. Much as she wanted to consider how this was possible this wasn't the time. Thus, she began to make her way towards Astrid and Alacran and on the way found an accomplice of a curious sort. Today was going to be interesting it seemed. Very interesting.

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{Meredith Info/Stats/Skills}Class: 1

Rank 3

SP total: 1,700


Stats:

Strength: 100 (50)
Speed: 400 (500)
RS: 100 (50)
SPPR: 400 (700)
Instinct: 200
Senses: 150 (113)
ES: 350 (525)
HE: 0


Skills:

Anti-Stealth: 3
BA: 3
Centipedes: 3
Poison Tolerance: 4
Acrobatics: 3

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{Bow Release - (Most of it)}Bow Release Properties:

Inspiration: True Corrupted Monk Boss and Centipede's

Form: Broodmother

Meredith’s form is about what you expect from the overall description. She gains the means to create massive centipedes that she can direct by transforming her arrows into them. The specific size of these centipedes is 3 feet in diameter and 6 feet in length. This includes their pincers and tails. The arrows however really only gain the means to track specific opponents so long as they are ground based or attached to some kind of object. As centipedes cannot fly, neither can these arrows past their initial firing point. I.E. Meredith can fire them into the air but they will fall eventually. These arrows retain their normal speed and their explosive capability, per standard vandenreich quincy arrows. Unlike an arrow though, these centipedes will attack by coiling around and trying to eat their prey alive. Lastly, destroying them is easy as they have 100 durability per class of the arrow used to create them. Class 7 is 100 and class 1 is 700 durability. In order to track people these centipedes start with sensory stats of 50. These increase depending on the class of the arrow. 7-5 is 50, 4-3 is 100, 2-1 is 150.


Firing: Infested Reach

Now that we’ve seen what Meredith’s form property is, the next question becomes how can she use them effectively? Her firing property attempts to answer this in a way that likely isn’t expected by her opponents. With no form property Meredith becomes the bow essentially, as she can fire off an arrow from any part of her body so long as she pays the cost. However when form property is active, this is when this power becomes interesting. While form is active, Meredith’s centipede arrows spawn forth from her body, at any point she desires, but doesn’t detach. This boiled down allows her to produce additional limbs made of one entire centipede, however unlike the form's base arrow dimensions she can instead create larger or longer centipedes. She does this by paying for additional arrows as she spawns a limb. For each arrow paid for she can add an additional 3 feet of width or 6 feet of length. This allows her to effectively create a 15 foot shield or she can create a 30 foot long limb.

These limbs have her highest spiritual stat as their OS and 1.25x that as their durability. In addition they can still move at 800 speed but only if they are moving away from her. I.E. She throws a “punch” and they move at 800 speed, the same as a normal arrow. However when returning them to her person or attempting to defend they are only able to move at her speed. Lastly as these are considered limbs she can utilize physical martial techniques through them or wield weapons with them. At a maximum she can have 6 additional limbs attached to her at a time.


Power (Class 4): Parasitic Embrace

Centipede’s are known for many things and depending on your heritage this symbolism changes greatly. Thus this property and the next take from two halves of the same coin. The near mythical healing capability of the centipedes and the deadly poisons that they can produce. This property works on expressing the latter by creating a poison that will put an enemy into an unholy amount of agony. However unlike most poisons this does not actually damage an enemy so much as it intends to debilitate them. The strength behind it is almost exclusively off the potential openings that it can make against an individual without the means to resist. Now you are likely wondering how this works. The answer is that the arrows that Meredith produces are imbued with a poison that induces a single dose of poison upon coming in contact with an enemy. This poison does require it to actually hit the skin or flesh of an opponent so it can be absorbed into the body. Should this be met the opponent gains a single “Dose”.

There is however another method by which Meredith can induce doses on her victim. This requires firing property to be active. Meredith can, upon coming in contact with an opponent, fuse a centipede with their body. So long as they are equal or lower class to the centipede she can have it move from her body to their own. When this method is used, the centipede becomes dormant as it merges with the victims flesh and releases one dose of poison a post. This centipede cannot be flexed off as it has become part of the victim but can be cut out or destroyed by a direct attack. The duration of this centipede is equal to how many arrows were used in its creation. Capping out at 5 posts and being at its lowest, one post. This method however costs Meredith to pay the cost of the centipede again in addition to physical contact. Up to 2 centipedes can be fused into a singular opponent.

The effects of the poison depend on how many “Doses” an individual has had in a period of time. The effects are as follows:


1-2: Noticeable in the area the dose was applied at but does not hinder the victim. No pain tolerance or poison tolerance needed. Think akin to a shallow cut. Aggravating at most but easily ignored.

3-4: Pain equivalent to an average cut (1-2 in). The pain is present and beginning to actively hinder an individual from it being a constant minor distraction. Every physical action somehow aggravates the pain to give it a small flare up. This does cause the muscles to be a bit slower to respond which causes victims who move at more than 350 speed and that use step techs to find it more draining on their stamina. Otherwise this does nothing more than begin to split the victims attention between the constant minor pain and fighting Meredith. This can be nullified with a 1 in Pain or Poison Tolerance.

5-6: Pain equivalent to a deep cut. (3-4in) The pain though it radiates from its point of contact has spread to the entire body. Wounds currently on the body are heightened to feel worse than they should be. I.E. A shallow cut feels like a deep cut meanwhile a moderate cut feels like a limb has been removed. The body will start to react irregularly causing the following side effects. Reduction in the victims maximum speed by 10% as well as a decrease in step speed by 2x and increased exhaustion from actions at 300 speed or higher (including step techs). A 2 in Pain Tolerance or Poison Tolerance is required to ignore this stage. A 1 ignores the increased exhaustion from high speed movements.

7-8: Pain equivalent to losing a limb is felt throughout the body. Any current injuries are heightened as the poison induces more pain signals to the brain. At this point a shallow cut feels like a limb is lost. Meanwhile deep wounds feel like the limb was torn off violently. The body by this point is experiencing strong reactions to the acute and widespread pain. The speed of an individual is now reduced to 20% and their step tech speeds are reduced by 4x due to constant and uncontrolled muscle spasms. The victim's heart rate is increased exponentially, causing a speed of 250 to begin to exhaust them, with anything at or above 400 becoming thoroughly exhausting. Lastly due to the mind being near forcibly committed to focusing on the pain the victim begins to suffer from a lack of reiatsu control causing all reiatsu costs to increase by 25%. With a two in Pain Tolerance or Poison tolerance the victim can move at up to 300 speed and does not suffer from increased reiatsu cost. A 1 in Poison Tolerance or Pain Tolerance does nothing.

9-10: Pain is at its maximum, equivalent to being impaled through the torso. It's excruciating and nigh unable to be managed. Even the smallest of wounds feel like something has been serrated off in a violent manner. Meanwhile, actually noteworthy wounds are like the nerves themselves are burning. Should a victim be unfortunate enough to actually have a removed limb or equivalent injury, the pain would be indescribable. The body as a whole has reached a point where it effectively shuts down, unable to do anything. Anyone without a 3 in Pain tolerance or Poison Resist will find it impossible to move their body or concentrate on anything that isn’t pain and breathing. A 4 in either allows an individual to work through this but not without hindrance. They will suffer the effects of 7-8 dosage but without the reiatsu cost. If an individual is given a 10th dose they will find themselves overcome by the pain regardless of Poison resist or Pain tolerance.

As described, Poison and Pain Tolerance can ignore the effects outright. However HE does have the means to avoid the effects also. For every 150 HE a user has they can ignore a stage. At 150 the victim can ignore the effects of 3-4 doses. 300 HE can ignore the effects of 5-6 doses. At 450 a victim can ignore the effects of 7-8 doses. And if the user has 600 they are immune to this power outright. 2x Meredith’s OS nullifies this poison.


Power (Class 3): Insectile Boon

This power is the opposite of the aforementioned property. While a centipede has the means to debilitate others with their deadly poison, they can also heal others when used correctly. And its that capability that allows this property to do something that is otherwise mind boggling. It allows for Meredith to give her centipedes, attached to her or fired out, to attach themselves to an ally. This is done by the centipede fusing with the individual's body at the point of contact and then reappearing at any portion of the user's body. This does not injure the individual in the process.

While attached Meredith can have her centipedes do two things. The first is they can entangle themselves across a single limb (torso included) and sink into the flesh of the individual. From here all wounds on that limb including bone injuries will slowly heal over the course of two posts. Skin injuries heal immediately, including 1st degree burns. By the end of the first post flesh wounds will heal and second degree burns are healed. At the end of the second post, so long as the centipede has not been destroyed or ripped off, the individual will find the centipede to have disappeared and their bones fixed as well as any flesh wounds and even 3rd degree burns. This ability cannot heal organ damage, should the centipede wrap around the torso.

The second ability allows her to focus on poisons, foreign reiatsu, or alternate kinds of status debuffs. This causes the centipede to break down into hundreds of normal sized centipedes that proceed to crawl into the body. From there the horde of centipedes begin to target any reiatsu or substance foreign to the body the centipedes are in. Upon initially entering the body they will attack and try to nullify the intrusive effect by using Meredith's OS and the class of this property. Should this fail initially it will aid the ally so long as the centipedes remain inside for the full duration. This is because while crawling throughout the body the centipedes will take on the foriegn reiatsu or substance into themselves as opposed to the individual. Then so long as they are not purged by the end of the second post they will enact a second clash adding in the victims OS and skills with Meredith’s while remaining at class 3. The maximum skill points are capped at, is a 3 for any individual skill.

These effects can be utilized on Meredith but they cost 1.5x the reiatsu to use for herself, in addition to having her firing property active. For an ally this costs 200 reiatsu per post per ally. For Meredith to benefit from either of these effects she must spend 300 reiatsu. In addition only centipedes that are at least 3 arrows worth of reiatsu can be utilized for this property. An individual can only benefit from one effect at a time. This property must remain active for the healing to take place. If it’s shut off early, the effects end immediately. The centipede can be ripped off or destroyed to prevent the healing from occurring as far as the first ability is concerned. For the cleansing aspect the centipedes are weak to bodily harm thus any attack will find the centipedes being killed off if they hit the body they reside in. Each instance knocks down the centipedes OS by 25%. If they reach 0 (I.E. a person gets hit 4 times), the ability is nullified.



Form (class 2): Centient Armor

For one of Meredith’s strongest properties we’re going back to the core of what her power is. Centipedes and in this particular form property we are looking at changing the nature of the bow into something else. Specifically the bow is becoming a semi-sentient armor made of a giant centipede. This covers all limbs of the body, including the head (though this is special). Due to the segmented nature of centipedes even Maredith’s joints are protected as the armor bends at several points across the body. For all intents and purposes the armor itself, for the arms and legs, looks like a centipede has consumed the limb on the outer portion, and the underside is protected by the various legs of the centipede. The torso on the other hand looks like it’s been entirely built by various segments slotted together in order to cover the entire chest and stomach. Meanwhile the back is a solid single series of segments.

The head however is special for a couple reasons. Namely it’s akin to a full head bike helmet. The jaws come together to create the protective jaw line and like the limbs the neck is covered by a series of exoskeleton on the backside while the frontside is engulfed in legs. Meanwhile the top of the head is covered by the head of a centipede and has on its head two antennas. The remainder of the face is however open. However I’d like to focus on the antennas for a moment as they are not simply present for looks. The antennas serve a similar focus as they would on a normal centipede. They aim to aid the user's capability to see and sense the world around them. This is done by reading the vibrations in the air, as various centipedes do. The range for this 20 feet and for the wearer the vibrations are transmitted directly to the user's mind, giving them a constant mental image of the area around them. (Think of it in a similar way to how Toph “sees” the world around her.)

Non-Release techniques will be picked in the following post for Meredith.

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Alacran's Assailant - Marvus Filibrecht




Marvus was rather excited all things considered. Squad 5 had gotten an emergency transmission / order from squad 12 as well as squad 1 that Manilla was under attack. The sheer volume of hollows appearing on their detection devices was unprecedented. For all intents and purposes, it looked as though Las Noches was actually mobilizing and making a direct offensive against the human world. Marvus as well as several other shinigami were immediately dispatched under Captain Wycliff's orders. Their goal was to take out as many hollows as possible while also determining the cause of this invasion. Though if Marvus was honest, he couldn't care less. It had been too long since Soul Society had any large-scale battles and he'd wanted to test out the many new spells he'd learned since his days in the academy.



It wasn't like he had a zanpakuto after all. Apparently, he had so much spiritual energy that he just shattered them after a short period. Unable to imprint anything onto them. Meanwhile when it came to spells, he excelled in a way many others just couldn't compare. He'd even gone so far as to outdo his teachers occasionally. So here was his golden opportunity. He could kill as many hollows as he was able to find. He would gain some degree of recognition and he'd be able to really make a name for himself in Squad 5. Maybe even go so far as to make a name for himself in the other squads as well if he did something exceptional. The possibilities seemed endless. And that's why he couldn't wait to see just what was awaiting him on the other side of the senkaimon doors. Once he was finally through the dangai he saw just what he was in for.



The world was effectively on fire, as far as he was concerned. Buildings toppled. Bodies and blood everywhere. Hell, the sky was filled with smoke and smog and gave quite the ominous glow as the lights that were dimming or flickering below were consumed by the clouds above. With the sirens and screams reaching him and the other shinigami in the air he had to admit. When squad one declared this an emergency, they were not fucking around. This looked as bad as if a natural disaster had sprung from scenic nowhere. Which. . . . in retrospect sorta did happen, didn't it? He stood on the air and pondered it for a moment before he leader of their little regiment of shinigami started barking orders and separating everyone to different districts.



With a thumbs up to their leader, he immediately set off on his way. However, wouldn't you know that while he was running, he saw something, or more specifically, someONE also running in the same direction. Someone distinctly not shinigami. He smiled to himself not immediately realizing just who they were following and called out to them. "Hello there! I don't suppose you're here to help as well? If you don't mind, would you like to work together? Two is likely a good deal safer than one in a place such as this." The woman in question stopped and turned around. He chuckled as he noticed just how aged she was. Definitely in her 50's or 60's. And yet she was completely calm with everything going on. She raised an eyebrow before smiling softly at him, to which Marvus returned. She motioned for him to come down to her level, likely so they could speak without having to yell.



Marvus did so as quick as his legs would and held out his hand for her. Meredith took it and gave him a firm shake before speaking. "I'd say good evening, but I imagine from your perspective this is anything but. You mentioned working together however I notice that you don't have a zanpakuto on your person. Are you perhaps a new member of a squad? Or perhaps you're from the fourth? Either way I won't say no to assistance but given the circumstances, I will not actively defend you. There are many hollows present and I'm going to the source of them. If this is amenable to you, feel free to join me." Marvus continued to smile easy and relatively relaxed. He wasn't certain if he was 100% ready to go into the thick of things, but this was his area to look out for. If he could stop the problems at the source, then he'd definitely get acknowledged right?



He gave Meredith a quick nod of approval before speaking up. "Can't say my goal was to go to the center of everything but I'd say I'm more than capable of holding my own. I gotta say though, you're pretty knowledgeable about us huh? I imagine you must have seen us for a long time given you look like you've been around awhile. Sadly, though I'm not Squad 4. I'm actually with Squad 5. Effectively the magic division if you don't consider the Kido Corp themselves to be THE magic aficionados. To that end, that's why I don't have a zanpakuto. I'm a kido specialist through and through. Kept breaking the zan's I was given. Not by choice. Don't let that deter you from allowing me to help out. I can hold my own without fail. So, do you know specifically the source of all this or are we searching around for it? Oh! I shouldn't forget, my name is Marvus and you would be?"



Meredith chuckled as she looked down upon the shinigami. Affable. Confident. Naive. Still, he wasn't lying when he said he could hold his own. His soul was strong as was the plethora of reiatsu it held within. He would be a very welcome addition to her goal. Circumstances as it were, she would work with him until she'd found the source and dealt with it. Once the hellion in question was out the picture, the two would separate. Perhaps if he survived, she could consider recruiting him as well. The lad was already leaving a good impression. Still recruitment aside she took a moment answer his questions while pointing in the direction of Astrid. "I've located the problem child and am actually En route to deal with them. However, it looks as though the source of the problem is a hellion. And to that end, likely the most powerful entity here. However, there is another next to them that is considerable in strength. So, if all goes well, I'd like us to separate them. I'd fight the hellion and you, their assistant. Stay close while we run towards them, and we'll be there in no time. Also, to answer your last question, my name is Meredith. I look forward to working with your Marvus."



With everything that was important said between the two, they both began to head off towards Astrid and Alacran. Albeit at a slightly slower speed due to Marvus being slower than Meredith. However, given neither were released yet and neither were actively using their reiatsu, they effectively found themselves mingling and hiding amongst the rampant and overwhelming energy around them. If anything, Astrid specifically was like a lighthouse given she was just bleeding off energy like it was no tomorrow. Thus, making it very easy for Meredith to pinpoint where she was even despite the turbulent reiatsu pouring out from every corner of this city. When they finally reached within 30 feet of the group, the two saw Astrid and Alacran speaking. Whatever they were talking about had to be important considering the state of the city. At least, that's what Marvus thought. But in truth he was surprised a hollow, let alone a hellion, could talk and communicate with one another. It just seemed to be entirely too strange to be real.



Meredith however got his attention and spoke quietly to him. "The bug you see is the hellions help. As are the other spirits around it. However, I can handle her spiritual companions. What I need you to take care of is the bug. Preferably, if you can, take it somewhere else. While I'm not certain what spells you have on you, I assume you've got something that can do this correct?" Meredith while not being aggressive was deadly serious. Her pleasant and calming aura replaced with that of a high-ranking officer. Marvus tensed a little it reminded him of a captain unironically. Still, he took a breath and focused on the bug for a moment. Then he nodded. "Yes. I should have something that can help do that. If you could, however, make a bit of a distraction for a moment I can catch them off guard and send the bug hollow flying. Is that alright with you?"



Meredith nodded at him. Marvus smiled back glad to see she could help him make an opening. A moment later and Meredith was effectively gliding her way above the group. Bow at the ready she fired off two arrows, one at the center of the left and right faces of the building. However, on their way to the sides she split the arrows and had them hit all four corners. From there they exploded, throwing up debris and making the ground underneath Astrid and Alacran start to crack. It would eventually cave in and bring both present on its roof inside the building. . . if Marvus didn't ensure Alacran would go elsewhere. Marvus once he'd seen the arrows get fired off immediately jumped into the air and ran over before shunpo'ing. Reappearing to Alacran's left side he simply smiled before Alacran found himself being flung away from seemingly nothing as air and reiatsu slammed into him. Strangely, he wouldn't himself injured by the hit as it seemed the goal of the blast itself was to be non-lethal.



Still, that didn't mean that being flung in a direction was without cause for concern. He was initially propelled in the air but was on his downward stroke and was about to run into the roof of another building. He had a moment to figure something out before he'd hit the building. Meanwhile Marvus nodded at Meredith and shunpo'd away towards the building nearly 90 feet away from Astrid and her cohorts. Marvus couldn't help but chuckle to himself. "If I'm not wrong, I think that's the farthest I've knocked someone. Niiiice. Here's hoping the hollow will still put up a fight. I'd like to get some practical experience with my kido in. " When he finally arrived, he simply waited, as he looked over the rooftop. He'd give the hollow a minute since he'd flung him pretty far over. He didn't want to be rude after all.

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{Marvus Info/Stats/Skills}Class: 4

Rank: 1

Type: Technique Master

SP Total: 1,100



Stats:

Strength: 50
Speed: 200
RS: 325 (650)
SPPR: 300 (600)
Senses: 75
Instinct: 100
ES: 50
HE: 0


Skills:

Kido: 2
Mental Incantation: 2
Battle Analysis: 2
Pain tolerance: 2
Strength of Will: 2
Bleeding Tolerance: 2
Poison Tolerance: 2

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{Marvus Techniques}1. Bakudo #9 Geki
2. Bakudo #3 Sazanami
3. Bakudo #1 Sai
4. Bakudo #61 Rikujokuro
5. Bakudo #63 Sajosabuku
6. Hado #1 Sho
7. Hado # 22 Taifuu Yofun
8. Hado #33 Sokatsui
9. Hado #35 Raikou Kawa
10. Hado #40 Gouzen Demizu
11. Hado #43 Amimono Shimokumo
12. Hado #48 Dendo Hoden
13. Hado #56 Metsubou Kobushi
14. Hado #68 Tenkaken
15. Fifty Thrust
16. *Free* Shunpo

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Sonadora's Assailant - Ellie (Elizabeth)





This was the best day ever! Ellie couldn't believe how many times she'd been able to find a hollow and make them into a lovely red mist. She was ecstatic and on an adrenaline rush as she swore, she'd almost had a few close calls because of the sheer volume of hollows around. Hell, she'd even found something akin to an odd fly. Man, he'd screamed in absolute agony when she'd blown his mask into shards. She smiled wide as she soared through the air, courtesy of yet another explosion of hers. There really was nothing quite like blowing up the world around you and seeing what was left over. She found herself barreling towards a light pole and with a bit of luck and some acrobatic capability, she managed to land on the actual light itself.



With a hand over her eyebrows, she looked around. Keeping her ears and eyes out for anything that could give her even a remotely interesting time. For the immediate area around her however she found herself in a relatively empty space. "Maaaaaybe I did go a little over the top on the last couple of hollows. Buuuuuut if you ask me, they had it coming to em. Sides, they were going to kill me. How could I not make a show of it? That's one of the best parts about making someone explode. Still. . . now I actually have to LOOK for something to kill and that's just boring. If only there was a hollow that was conveniently walking by so I could stalk them. . . or fight them. Whichever would be better." She held her hands together next to her face as she spoke to no one in particular.



Thankfully her wish did in fact come true as she noticed Sonadora in all her strange fogginess pass by. She seemed to be more focused on the girl in question that was in front of her than the immediate area around them. Well immediate being something like. . . 45 feet away. Still Ellie wasn't about to kick a gift horse in the mouth. She'd found something to play with. First with a game of hide and seek and then with a game of "How many explosions can they take before dying." Both of which were near and dear to her heart. She smiled fondly as she thought about it before detonating the lamp post and flying into the air even higher now. Eventually she created a platform for her to stand on and gave a quick look around for Sonadora. Finding her relatively quickly at a nearby warehouse facility. She tilted her head while putting her finger on her chin.



"Now why would you go there? Are you looking for something that isn't food? I thought hollows were like beasts or something. Hmm. . . Guess I'll have to ask em myself. Or not. I thiiiink not. I'll just blow up the entire place! That's much more fun!" With a couple of Bringer Lights she made it to an alleyway nearby the warehouse facility. A quick glance confirmed that Sonadora had gone inside, though the guards seemed strange now. Namely their energy was mixing with something else. Ellie wasn't really that good at detecting this sort of thing, but she did know what normal was and if it wasn't that then it became very obvious. Still, she couldn't let them know that she knew something was up with them. At least not initially. Sooo she needed to make herself look a bit more desperate.



With a lovely pool of blood from someone nearby and half eaten Ellie smiled as she got an idea. A few moments later of throwing some blood and viscera on her hair and body she looked like she was a random survivor of a bloodbath. Which wasn't incorrect per say but not for the reasons these cops might think. Still, she had to put away the smile and begin playing the part of a defenseless citizen. Someone who needed the police and their guns to save her. Thus, she knocked over a trashcan in the alleyway before running out and gasping for air. She made herself hunch over before quickly looking around. Her eyes met the corrupted cops' eyes shortly thereafter. She then ran with some tears in her eyes and started screaming towards them. "Hay salamat sa pulis! Mangyaring tulungan ako, ang lungsod ay nasusunog at ang mga bagay ay sinisira. . . ako. . Nakita kong nagkawatak-watak ang mga tao. . . ako. . tulungan mo ako! Pakiusap!" The guards would look her over for a moment as she ran over. Rifles up and ready but quickly determined she was just another woman who'd been caught in the hellfire that was Manilla's hollow invasion.



They put the guns to their sides and motioned for her to come over to them. She let more tears pour out her eyes and began thanking them profusely. Once she was there, they looked her over, made sure she didn't have anything directly harmful on her person. Aside from her necklace, she was pretty light on anything she had. A purse with money, I.D., and other typical items within. Her pockets were completely empty, and she got through almost without a hassle. Ellie started to calm down a little bit, as far as her act was concerned, and listened to the police with big eyes. However, given the police were spiritually inept they wouldn't realize once their backs were turned that she released her fullbring with its abilities active. Thus, she patted each on their body armor and thanked them again. Then when she walked into the building, she snapped her fingers and heard screaming followed by a loud explosion.



She sighed as she placed her hands on the sides of her face and walked deeper into the warehouse. [colors=yellow] "It really is the simple things in life that really make it worthwhile to be alive. Like exploding idiots into a red mist. Ahhhh. Still, I've better things to explode like that hollow!"[/color] Thus Ellie continued her walk with a spring in her step towards the shelter entrance on the ground. Since she'd not yet seen Sonadora, she figured that perhaps she was within. Thus, there was only one way to get her to come out directly. And that was to blow up the entrance and exit to this underground bunker. With a large and far more malicious smile she charged up the door as well as the stairway halfway through it. Then she snapped her fingers again and an explosion loud enough to catch Sonadora's attention was made. The stairway was completely collapsed and would be impossible to let the humans within go out nor let anyone else inside it. Not without first excavating it. But Sonadora would have to contend with Ellie before she'd let that happen.

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{Ellie Info/Stats/Skills}Class: 3

Rank: 1

Type: Mystic

Stats:

Strength: 100 (50)
Speed: 300 (150)
RS: 300 (450)
SPPR: 300 (375)
Senses: 100
Instinct: 100
ES:
HE: 0


Skills:

Explosions: 2
Acrobatics: 2
Battle Analysis: 2
Learning: 2
Illusion resist: 2
Calm Mind: 2
Damage Recovery: 2
Pain Tolerance: 1

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{Ellie release information}Fullbringer Power: BOOOOOM!!

If the name didn't give it away then let me be blunt. The power of this Fullbring is to make everything the user comes in contact with explode. Specifically it has to be inorganic matter. This is due to the fullbring super charging the object in question with reiatsu that is incredibly volatile. However unlike what might come to mind the user has the means to decide when and if they want something to explode or if they want to return the object to a stable state. There is no specific time limit for this as long as Primary Fullbring Level 1 is active. If the fullbring is ever inactive all objects return to stable and non-explosive forms.

Let's get into the specifics of the explosions however. First and foremost it should be noted that the user is immune to the harmful effects of the explosions they produce. However they are NOT immune to the effects of detonating something. I.E. They make detonate glass but the shards that fling out in the users direction WILL still harm them. Or being propelled in a direction because force is applied to them. To make an object able to explode the user must have physical contact with the object. Then they must pay in increments of 25 reiatsu. Paying the base cost creates a 2 foot diameter explosion but for every 25 reiatsu paid the explosive radius increases by a foot. This caps at 16 feet.

Now that the cost is paid, the user must also decide what kind of explosion they want. It can be a concussive force explosion or an incendiary explosion. I.E. Fire explosions or Shock Explosives. The OS for either is the highest spiritual stat of the Fullbringer. Typically the objects the fullbringer is in contact with are hand held objects, a foot long or smaller. However the user can also detonate entire sections of large objects. The cost to affect objects larger than a foot start at 25 and increase as the user attempts to detonate larger objects. For greater than a foot but smaller than 3 the user pays an additional 25 reiatsu. For above 3 feet but smaller than 5 they pay an additional 50 reiatsu. For above 5 feet to 10 they pay 100 reiatsu. From 10 to 15 they pay 150. And at maximum if the user wants to detonate an area from 15 to 25 feet it costs 200 reiatsu.

The nice part about this is that the user can choose what shape they want the explosion to be. So instead of creating a line up to 25 feet long they can create an S. They could make several squares that connect at the edges. Whatever shape the user wants so long as its within the maximum range they paid for. These costs however for increasing a large surface area still only create an explosion that is 1 foot in diameter. Thus to make up to 10 feet worth of explosive radius the user must then pay the additional costs mentioned prior.

Non-Release techniques will be added in Ellie's following post.

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Zauberin's Assailant - Bridget (Yes, I do mean that one)





Bridget was definitely not happy at the current situation. She frowned heavily as she yet again bashed another hollow's head in with her bakkoto. "Of all the times my vacation has to be ruined. . . it had to be today? Dr. Gerard only gave me a week to relax, and I was really hoping to spend it without any hollows or other spiritual messes getting involved. Gaaaaahhh! Why's it always gotta be me who deals with this!?" She sighed to herself and looked around her, near tears as she had come too late to save a human from being eaten nearly wholesale. She was currently in an alleyway and sitting on a dumpster to give herself a moment to collect her breath. Her bakkoto wasn't draining to use but the constant fighting was.



Plus, she didn't have a means to leave yet. Dr. Gerard was the one who made the portals that took her to one place or another. Until her vacation time was up, she'd not be able to get his help. Namely because some idiot hollow had stepped on her phone. That was arguably the most upsetting part of this entire endeavor. She really needed that thing and yet it was nothing mroe than a collection of metal, glass, and wires. She continued to pout as she replayed the scenario in her head. Completely unaware of just who was walking ever closer towards her. That changed within a few moments as she heard something of a ringing. And looked around her wondering where it could have come from. The wall to her right and the building in front of her was blasted to smithereens.



Meanwhile she was still sitting on the dumpster with only some of her clothes burnt away. Her eyes were dinner plates as slowly turned her head to her left to see just what in the 3 three realms had nearly blasted her out of existence. Turns out it was a fucking gillian of all things. She jumped off her seat and stood in place shaking for a moment finding herself nearly crying yet again. This time however out of fear. Just how in the hell was she supposed to fight one of those things!? She was . . . sort of capable but not THAT capable. She took down the weakest level of hollows for money. Not gillians and their stronger brethren. There was however one big issue Bridget had to deal with. . . This thing was looking at her specifically.



Guess her being released and having some noteworthy amount of reiatsu would make her a target of the ever hungry. She gave a small gasp of fear and looked around her quickly before realizing that there was still a relatively large building next to her that she could get up to. If nothing else, it would put her relatively at eye level with Zauberin. What she'd do after that? Ehhh that was to be determined once she got there. With a quick fling of her arms, she had the yoyo's fire out and reach up to the rooftop, from there she had them latch over the edge and then rapidly spin to pull herself up to the roof. She had to slow down for a moment though as she almost slammed into the edge of the roof. Thankfully her feet came in contact with as she slowed down a little. From there she scrambled up onto the roof and looked at Zauberin directly. She gulped and gripped her yoyo's tightly. "Dr. Gerard better give me a bonus for this. Else I'm never working for him again! Uhhh. . . Have at ye? Eerrr . . Come at me? . . . Oh I don't know. It's time to fight gillian!"

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{Bridget Info/Stats/Skills}Class: Class 6

Rank: 1

Type: Roughneck

SP Total: 600


Stats:

Strength: 150 [187]
Speed: 100
Reiatsu Strength: 50 [35]
Spiritual Pressure: 150 [225]
Instinct: 75
Senses: 75 [56]
Energy Sensory: 0
Healing Expertise: 0


Skills:

Weapon: Yoyo's: 1
Pain Tolerance: 1
Battle Analysis: 1
Damage Recovery: 1
Acrobatics: 1
Battle Focus: 1
Bleeding Tolerance: 1
Calm Mind: 1

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{Bridget Bakkoto Release}Bakkoto name: パチンコの女王 - Pachinko no Joō (lit. “Slingshot Queen”)

Overall:

Pachinko no Joō is a rather interesting Bakkoto, all things considered. Taking the form of a pair of yo-yos, Pachinko no Joō allows Budget to strike from quite the range, recall her weapon, and do the same thing all over again with quite an amount of efficiency. At any point, Brisket can throw out her yo-yos, and allow them to fly from her hands with spiritual wires. Said yo-yos will travel up to thirty feet before returning to her, and will do so at 100 Speed, plus an additional 100 per Bakkoto stage released.

By spending 50 Reiatsu or Life Force, Banquet can allow those Yo-yo heads to persist in the air where they will remain for up to three posts, before violently returning to her at the same speed they were shot out at. If caught off-guard, such a strike could very easily break a back or two with relative ease.

Level Seven:

Starting off simple, Pachinko no Joō’s Level Seven allows for Bracket to massively increase the size of her yo-yos. While each yo-yo is normally only about three inches in diameter, for every fifty Reiatsu or Life Force pumped into said yo-yo per post, their diameter will grow by one foot, increasing Baguette’s effective strength with each yo-yo by 50, but reducing the speed at which they move by 50. This will last for as long as Basket can maintain the cost, and can be deactivated early should she desire. This effective strength goes both ways; while making them stronger to strike with, the yo-yos also become that much more effective at defensive options as well.

Level Six:

Level Six grants Pachinko no Joō a rather interesting utility ability. To help make up for her lack of speed, Biscuit can spend 100 Reiatsu or Life Force in order to force the faces of both yo-yos to spin violently, giving them more maneuverability and speed at which they fly. For every fifty Reiatsu or Life Force spent to speed these yo-yos up, their Speed will increase by 50. While certainly nice for an offensive option, these yo-yos can be combined with the girl’s shoes in order to create a pair of impromptu roller skates, preventing her from using her Bakkoto like she normally would for the duration, but instead increasing her own Speed by an equal amount, up to three times her cap.

Level Five:

Level Five grants Bucket the ability to become a slingshot herself. While Level Five is active, at any point for no cost, she’s instead capable of pulling herself to her yo-yos instead of having them return to her. She’ll move at a speed equal to that which the yo-yos are otherwise traveling at, treating this ability as a stepping technique, but in the process also turning her into a miniature cannonball. While she flies, protected by the weaponized parasite, she’ll barrel through defensive options and hit with the force of her own Strength. The only limitation to this option is the number of stepping techniques the girl is capable of using a post.

Non-Release Techniques will be picked on Bridget's next post.

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