Out of the abyss [JT | Hikari]

[Scarlet]

Rushing to the scene didn’t take long all the whole Hikari made sure that her reiatsu was constantly acting like a wonderful scent to draw in all the Hollows in the area. If they could pick up on her then they were more likely to leave everyone else alone. If they left all the other people alone it meant she could save them. Dealing with the massive Hollow turned out to be nothing, since she didn’t have to do anything. She just watched as the one familiar with her charged an attack of light. One that seemed more powerful than everything she’d previously seen, one that moved like a wave of water yet burned away the Hollow like it was made from the hottest fire.

The attack she’d just seen didn’t seem possible, it came off like something unbelievable. How was she supposed to stop all Hollows when her acquaintance had just shown her something she knew she couldn’t stop. Not only had she watched him fired off one the blasts but the other large one had done the same thing. “So all of them likely can once they reach that level.” Suddenly the beautiful stone black axe in her hands didn’t seem all that impressed despite the strange heat she could feel from it still. How could something like an axe bring down what she’d just seen.

One more giant Hollow then all the average ones that she’d been dealing with more lately, once they were all taken care of perhaps she could figure out how to communicate with her acquaintance this time. He started to run at a speed she still couldn’t believe, despite his size moving fast enough that only by communicating with the ground beneath her feet asking it for help could she keep up with the distance he was clearing. That’s when she saw it and swung forward.

A Hollow one of the smaller ones about the same size as a fully grown male came in front of her right side. The Hollow looked like a bird with a pointed beak mask of white and black feathered body. Swinging her Fullbring downwards in front of her Hikari hoped that her reaction time would mix well with her action time enabling her to just decapitate this Hollow right away. Sadly, her body hadn’t been trained quite well enough yet to pull off that feat.

Instead the Hollow noticed her movements managing somehow to actually turn in a roll like manner away from her then twist and change his course of motion. Going from being right in front of her to now above staring down. Although it said nothing Hikari knew she had its attention now instead of her acquaintance. “Go ahead and finish off the other big one. I’ll handle him and any others that come this way.” Although she’d spent some time training in how to command the souls of the environment, actually managing to pick up a couple techniques, nothing she had seemed like it would work all that well against this Hollow.

That meant she had to rely on the basics. Focusing on the cement beneath her feet Hikari does her best to command it to help her jump up higher at the Hollow. Managing to do just that in the next moment the red head found herself more than a dozen feet off the ground with her Fullbring held horizontally out with a swing directed right at the body of this Hollow. If she were lucky she would catch it off guard enabling her to end it fast. If not then she’d have to try another attack while doing her best to not get injured. She just had to hope her acquaintance could handle this second big one as easily as the first.

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Knowing itself bested, or perhaps by pure instinct, the Menos Grande that remained among the attackers of Karakura took its ghastly white hands out of the black robe covering its body. Then, it created a large rift in space-time, breaking the boundaries between the worlds and leaving a semblance of what looked like shattered glass, giving way to the deepest darkness imaginable. Of course, as a Hollow themselves and a user of the technique, Caballero immediately understood what the creature was attempting to do run away via a Kumon gate. Technically, this accomplished the objective, but there was one problem. Kumon gates were imperfect, unlike the far more nuanced and advanced Descorrer that Arrancar were able to use. As such, it would remain open for far too long, which meant that other Hollows could use it to get into the city. That would not fly.

Caballero turned to Hikari, handling the rest of the Hollows there. With her strange weapon, it seemed like she was more than capable of handling the remaining Strays. They would need to trust in her ability to destroy the remnants of the Hollow threat, while they themselves fended off the remaining threat in Hueco Mundo. Giving her one last thumbs up, Caballero jumped into the Kumon Gate in pursuit of the fleeing Gillian, who had already crossed the gate without losing a second. Even if they were in the same evolutionary stage, Caballero's personality had asserted itself, pointing out that they were close to becoming something else, something different... and the opponent knew it.

The not-so-tiny knight flew through the darkness within the Garganta, coming out into the endless night of Hueco Mundo once again. The world remained in the same stasis it had always been in, never changing except for its denizens. Just white sands and a crescent moon overhead. As expected, the Kumon gate would not close yet, and there were many Hollows already gathering to cross, in search of the spiritually rich souls that seemed to gather in Karakura. Good. They would be able to test the abilities of their new body, as well as how far they were able to take their Menos form.

But first things first, they needed to take down the Gillian. Caballero would not resort to Cero or Bala this time. They had their blade, and that made them different from the rest of the denizens in Hueco Mundo. Having just escaped their worse nature meant the 8 foot tall knight was eager to show that they could rise above it all. That was why Caballero merely stepped in with Úlcera to avoid the Menos Grande's attacks, and used Filo to deliver a quick combination of attacks, killing the beast. Mindless Gillians were not used to fighting their brethren other than in cannibalistic battles, so it could not react against the sword. Caballero ripped a chunk of its flesh with one of their tendrils before turning to the rest.

A horde of multiple Hollows was already running toward the Kumon gate; the dunes obscured their sight so they were only able to see the Gillian disappear all of a sudden. Perhaps they thought that it had just entered the portal... but when they got sight of the whole scene, that quickly changed. Caballero did not take any time to gloat or revel in their strength; they needed to weed this threat out as quickly as possible. As such, the first unsuspecting Stray was quickly decapitated by a second attack after yet another Úlcera step, a tiny portion of flesh consumed so that it would start fading away.

The other creatures immediately jumped on Caballero, hoping to get them and feed on the feast of souls they contained as a Menos. The poor inexperienced creatures believed numbers would matter in this case, and had they been stronger, it most likely would have. But for the time being, they barely registered as untrained threats to the Menos Grande, who split Filo in two to defend themselves against the pincer attack. Caballero focused on breaking out of the circle first, and to do that, they targeted two of the creatures first.

Lunging forward, the knight used the split sword to attack at two of them on the right side, using a quick combination of three strikes that alternated between the two targets. This made them drop to the floor from the jump, gliding over the sands and then scraping against them, painting the white with red. This opening put a dent in the foes' formation, and all of a sudden, the outcome of their instinctual attack on Caballero did not look like such an easy victory anymore. With that factor, the 8 foot tall knight got to work by surgically starting to eliminate part after part of the horde.

The ones that had been rendered immobile were yet to die, but they would not be participating in the fray any longer. Caballero turned their attention to the braver, physically stronger Strays that lunged at them, foaming at the mask and eager to sate their hunger. While Caballero may have been physically weaker, it was Filo that granted them the advantage of a weapon that used their far stronger spiritual side to fend off threats. The result was that the vanguard would meet a swift death at the blade. The Menos Grande decided to eat later, and instead focus in eliminating the rest of the horde.

By that point, they had wisened up to their folly, and went off in different directions. Some of them retreated deeper into Hueco Mundo, back to the hellhole they had crawled from. But others made a beeline toward the Kumon gate instead, even using Úlcera to gain some advantage. Caballero saw the Kumon beginning to close, but they needed to finish off those monsters before they could make it to the portal, ensuring the safety of Karakura. As such, they broke in pursuit of those aiming to reach the human world, using Tendón to rip off chunks of their earlier prey for consumption. The act saw them push down the souls that threatened to take over again even more, thus quickly teaching them that the more they ate, the less in danger they were of regressing to a mindless state.

Caballero managed to reach some of the slower Hollows, but the faster ones would be more difficult to catch up to. Instead of trying to run and get those, Caballero quickly used Tendón to shoot forth a myriad tendrils, covering some of the advantage they had. Tendón wrapped itself around the faster beings, and Caballero yanked back, using them as a sort of bowling ball to hit the rest. The creatures all roared in frustration, clawing away at the sand in a futile attempt to escape the clutches of the strange Menos Grande.

A meaningless effort, for the group would soon meet their end at Caballero's non-existent hands. By a combination of their sword technique, Espinas and Tendón to deal cutting, crushing and piercing damage, their physiques were all soon turned into nothing but mincemeat, prime for consumption and unfit to threaten a soul ever again. In total, the little knight would have feasted on 7 Hollows of the horde of ten, counting the menos grande that they had chased back into their home world. The rest had escaped, but as soon as they didn't threat anyone, they could let it slide for now. At that moment, the Kumon gate finally closed, leaving them back in Hueco Mundo--only this time, they had their sanity back with them. The little knight thought about opening a gate again, hop back to help Hikari handle the Hollows. Doing so, however, might incur in an even bigger invasion of the city.

They could not afford that risk.

As such, they turned their attention back to Hueco Mundo. Caballero had grown beyond a mere Stray, and had regained their sense of self. They were able to return to their activities before they became mindless and frenzied. But did they have the right? After all, they were not a Shinigami, but a Hollow... right? They would need to think about this, but for the time being, they were just glad to have been able to stop themselves before hurting people.

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OOC: Caballero has consumed x7 Tier 1 Hollows (350 TP) this post
Total consumptions this thread: x12 Tier 1 Hollows (12x50=600TP)

[Scarlet]

Hikari watched as the strangely beautiful ax of stone in her hands cut through the body of the Hollow in front of her. What was an absolute threat one moment was reduced to literally half in the next. She watched as it screamed out in pain only for its body to evaporate like water over the course of just a few seconds. She’d been told that her real strength as a Fullbringer was likely going to manifest itself when her Fullbring actually did, but this felt different. Shimada-sama could make green fire and control it from his Fullbring, so was there something more than just a sharp edge?

More than a dozen feet up in the air Hikari could hear the sound of other Hollows rushing her, turning her head while she descended downwards the red head spots a grotesque looking Hollow that while humanoid in shape resembled nothing more than a mass of tongues wrapped around one another. A disgusting thing that rushed her like a savage animal for whatever consciousness that had inhabited the body at one point seemed lost now. Shifting her Fullbring along with her arms Hikari brings it down watching the edge of her weapon slice into the Hollow as blood sprays out from the wound.

That would have been the extent of the damage she could inflict on the Hollow. . . with her normal ax. The Hollow’s body of disgusting tongues though was split from top to bottom, no different than splitting a log of wood. Her Fullbring impacting the pavement in front of her now biting into the ground itself while her feet touch down once again. “You’re kidding.” Hikari whispers to herself not realizing that her voice was much lower than normal just due to the disbelief currently coursing throughout her mind.

That’s when she’d hear it, the sound of glass shattering that pulled her attention away from the sight of her Fullbring biting into the pavement in front of her. The massive Hollow in the shape of a pillar, it looked like it was breaking through the air itself. Almost like she was staring at something in a picture book or an illustration that she’d see in a comic book. What was happening even after everything else didn’t seem real. She’d already seen more than she ever would have expected since obtaining her powers, but watching another method of crossing through the worlds just seemed insane.

It’d only take a couple of moments for the entire thing to slip away, in those that followed though Hikari could see her ally slip right through chasing after the one larger. Although she was glad to see the massive threat leave Karakura this meant that she was alone to face off with the rest of the Hollows. One of which she heard approaching her from behind, its large body giving away its location. Turning with a swing, generating more force with her body working in tandem together allowed Hikari to cut down a third Hollow with little resistance.

This was it though swinging around this ax was tiring, the weight and size ellipsing the typical style that she had been using up to this point. Although her Fullbring felt different while possessing far more destructive potential it also was taking more from her to use. Sweat dropped down from her brow alerting her to the issue she now faced. The minor sting that washed over her right eye was enough that she had no choice, but to close it while looking around with her left. There were others still so she could be attacked any moment now.

Hikari stayed alert though for several minutes waiting on guard while listening and watching yet nothing emerged nor attacked. By the end all she felt was embarrassment. The strays either ran away from her or just followed the large one back to Hueco Mundo, but nothing gave her a reason to believe they were still here now. Now all she wished was that she could sense energy, all she was happy about was that no one saw her fighting against nothing.

[Camila Adaronde]

92 paragraphs counted, meaning 460 TP for both participants!

Given caba's consumptions, that'll be an additional 600 TP awarded to the little hollow~!