MAKE IT STOP!!! {Open/NDE}

[Raphael Laurent]

Raphael turned in his bed. It was nearly three AM, Karakura time, and he couldn't sleep. Well, taht wasn't quite right, he was exhausted, but every time he slept...the nightmares came in. And they were never the same either... Some nights, he would go to sleep, and feel like he'd not eaten dinner, especially on nights when he'd eaten a huge dinner. He'd dream of the land that Kazura had taken him to that fateful night, except... he'd be walking around on the sands up above. And sometimes he would see something eating another hollow, but... when it turned he would watch the mask shatter and it was just his face...

He pushed himself out of bed and took a cold shower, trying to clear him of the dreams. But as he closed his eyes in the shower, he saw those red eyes again. He could remember fighting Kaen... He could remember... Once more those red eyes came at him and his own opened. This wasn't working. he needed to go for a walk...

With a quick tug with soul command, his phone flew to his hand and he unlocked it. Nothing. Not from Kazura or Uzaki Enterprises or even Luca. Not hearing from the company didn't surprise him, admittedly; he had been placed on extended medical leave, after what had happened. Kazura, on the other hand, he was pretty sure that the man had been feeling bad about what happened, but he hadn't called or texted. Then there was Luca... What in the fuck had happened to his friend?! He needed answers and he would get them, grabbing a sandwhich as he started waling out the door.

He started eating the moment that he was out of his apartment, and began devouring it, ravenously and in anger. Glancing at his phone as it beeped he read a text from his brother, his rage only growing as his phone disintegrated. "Damn bastard... I can't believe him." He threw away the wrapper of the sandwhich, as he finished it, and yet still he felt hungry.

"...why am I so hungry...?" This had happened ever since that day, when Kazura had broken his fullbring. It was almost like that had been a cage for whatever was within him. He could barely control it some days, and others he had full control.

FEED. HUNGER.

It was there, right at the forefront of his mind.

"No... not this time." And yet, as the sound of a hollow's echoed through the night, he could barely contain an excited, hungry shiver, that ran through his core. "M... Maybe once wouldn't be so bad... M-Maybe..." With those words echoing through the air, he dashed off in the direction of the cry. He... would... he didn't kknow what he was going to do, but he did need to at least get there, and stop this hollow. Whatever happened next... well, he would have to see.

[Tamashi Yuki]

One of the many advantages of being a Mod Soul is that you don't really need to sleep like most humans, sure you can but it really doesn't do much to you outside of resting if you had a fight before, when most of your routine involves going to school and observe humans to learn from them resting is not something you usually need, that said it's for the better that they don't need to sleep or rest as much as a normal person after all the real "fun" begins at night.

A Hollow can attack at any moment and Yuki has the particular directive of dropping everything they are doing at that moment and begin the hunt, when they are trying to act as a normal human student it can get a bit hard to explain (even in their first days of school they really didn't know how to make excuses and leave the classroom with a blank expression), but this is exactly why the night is perfect as they don't need to make excuses nor pass as a normal person, they enjoy the comfortness of their plush and how much more freedom they get to act at night since trying to fight a hollow in their gigai can make the unfortunate scenario in which a classmates recognize them and they'll have a lot to explain, but no one will believe you if you tell someone that a penguin plush was doing incredible strength feats and turning water into ice!

Yuki usually takes these nights to ponder on things, mostly what their next move should be, they have grown stronger and have are part of a group but they rarely interact with them and in the end the one thing that always is in the back of their head is "Comeback to Soul Society, prove that you can be of help" the last words their creature said before discarding them, and yet they didn't feel ready for such task.

A Hollow signal followed by a howl took them out of their deep thinking, without a second thought the penguin plush stood up and started running in the direction of said howl, it would take sometime considering the size of the plush but Yuki would flare their reiatsu heating up the air around their right wing and creating a blade of heated air, doing this would also make their presence known and hopefully bring the hollow towards them.

[Raphael Laurent]

"Where in the hell did it go?!" he growled, stalking the streets of Karakura town slowly. He wanted it. He wanted to eat, needed to! He shook his head. What in the hell was going on with him? Ever since what had happened with Kazura, he felt like his head was constantly splitting in two, like something was constantly digging into his skull. His head was pounding, maybe getting this hollow killed would take care of that...

FEED.

He was so damn hungry, too. Where was this damn hollow?! For a brief moment he felt a burst of reiatsu, and tensed, but it was a bit farther away and wasn't what he was looking for, anyways. Where was it...? Where?!

His own reiatsu flared, bursting outwards like a beacon and balloon. That was when he felt it, when it pinged off his radar. The hollow was conflicted, it seemed to be pacing a certain area. His grin spread, manically and he pushed off the ground with bringer's light, heading right for it.

Down in a park, the hollow wandered back and forth, looking around trying to make a decision. Raphael decided that he wouldn't give it the chance. There was a brief moment of nothing, of quiet and silence and stillness in the world. Then there was a whooshing and a green pillar of light, the hollow seed technique burning in his hand, as he crashed into it, slamming it against a nearby wall. Then, with a sadistic glee, Raphael slammed the technique into the hollow, laughing as he did so.

It wasn't incredibly strong, but it wasn't super weak either, so it looked like it was going to put up a fight, lifting him and tossing him into a wall nearby, he coughed, but rose, smiling. There was... He felt wrong, somehow...

Feed... FEED. FEED!!

He was ravenous. Had he eaten at all today? He couldn't remember... It was... Hard to think from how hungry he was. It was so aggravating that this thing wouldn't die quicker. Didn't it know that he was hungry? Stupid hollow... Just... Just...

"JUST DIE ALREADY!!!!!"

[Tamashi Yuki]

Just as Yuki was expecting the flar of their reiatsu was enough to catch the Hollow's attention and move it towards them, it seemed like it was going to be another simple night of hollow hunting... Until another Reiatsu signature flared and this one wasn't subtle like Yuki's, no, this one was shooting towards the sky like a beacon calling for the Hollow which to the Mod Soul only meant problems, not only the Hollow they were chasing was turning away from them but a flare so big and out in the open could also call for more Hollows to come out of hiding.

"Could it be?" The Mod Soul thought, the type of energy they were sensing coming from that pilar of light was similar in a way to that of a hollow, could it be that those creatures were calling each other to create a Menos? If that was the case then the penguin better hurry, without a second thought the Mod Soul use Caelumintro their very own Step Technique of their race and took of to reach the point of wherre the two signatures were gathering.

To the surprise of the Mod Soul once they got to the park there was only one Hollow and one human, obviously the Human was (or at least should be) a Fullbringer but something felt odd and they couldn't exactly pinpoint what, either way the Mod Soul guessed the Human had it under control but at the same time they can't ignore their programming, even if they want to purify it rather than killing the hollow it would be faster and better if they just finish it off now.

As the Hollow was distracted with the Human the Mod Soul would take another step with Caelumintro to reach at the creature's face and attempt to slash the mask off with their Burning Blade techinique, if succesful that should be the end of the creature but if there is one thing Yuki always does when facing a hollow is being overconfident and flying right at it's face may no be the smartest move either.

[Hoshi]

Tonight was a dull night for Hoshi. No hollows in his sector were detected or at least none that he could find. It seemed various other sections of Karakura had at least some kind of activity. Mostly hollows, low level ones from what reports he'd heard over his earpiece. One person had even found a quincy who'd wanted to rob some common folk. Definitely odd all things considered but nothing terribly out of the ordinary. Karakura ALWAYS had some sort of spiritual event happening. Which brings us to Hoshi's current evening walk. Up to this point it'd been dull, quiet sans the occasional car driving by or person scurrying home from a bar or some other abode. Truthfully, despite Hoshi's inherent distaste of the evening, given how cloaked everything was in darkness he had to admit he was bored. And when he was bored that meant that certain thoughts became far more prevalent than he wanted them to be. Thankfully however that would change given a bright light suddenly spawned out of nowhere.

Hoshi didn't need energy sensing capabilities to take a stab and say it was Bringer Light. Namely due to some associates having trained to utilize it recently. Thankfully though even if he hadn't known what it was, given how late and dark it was Hoshi would have had no problem seeing the sudden burst of light. "Did you guys see that?! Looks like someone decided they wanted to be the spotlight this evening! Anyway, I'm making my way over to see whats going on. I'll update ya'll when I know more. Bye-bye!" Hoshi immediately started running and quickly started to realize that the light was close to a nearby park. He sighed in between breathes as he ran thinking glumly about the recent turkey hollow invasion. I'd really like to not burn down ANOTHER park. Ugh. Can't people pick another spot to do fights in?

Hoshi shook his head and made his way over slowly but surely. In the meantime he checked the back of his kimono to check on his two steel rebars. A recent upgrade given he was nearly at the point of melting them. Thank the heavens for Kitai and his ability to fix things. Upon feeling their weight in his grasp he smiled and fixed his sash to make sure he wasn't going to drop them. By the time he arrived it seemed that Hoshi had to be fashionably late, as usual, given not only was there a hollow but there was not just a human but . . . "THERE'S MORE OF US?!? Holy shit! I thought everyone else was destroyed!" Hoshi was effectively starry eyed as he was lost in momentary joy that not only was there another Mod Soul around but even moreso there was a Mod Soul with excellent taste. Having manifested fiery weapons. Hoshi may have teared up just a little bit at the beauty of it.

Still something seemed wierd and it wasn't the Mod Soul or Hollow. It was the person in question. They seemed twitchy? Close but not right. Something was off and call it "instinct", a strange word for an artificial creature, but this wasn't the good kind of off. Like Kitai who was wierd but funny. This was the sort of off like cheese that had started to grow mold. . . on the mold that made it. It stunk and he wasn't exactly super certain how to feel about it. Still Hoshi knew one thing, he could hold his own if worse came to worse. So he simply put his one hand behind his head and walked over, namely to the penguin doll. He'd have clapped but with one arm. . . well that was a bit difficult to do. "Howdy do my dear! Or is it sir? The doll makes it hard to know, either way my names Hoshi and I'm like you! Though hopefully less destructive haha! Gotta love being made for war eh? Anywho what's your name and what brings you around here? Ya helping your chum? OH WAIT! Is this vigilanty shit?! Do you have a cool name to hide your identity with?"

Hoshi again had nearly starry eyes as he spoke to Yuki more than a little excited at seeing another survivor of the shinigami's mass "decomissioning". However, that didn't mean Hoshi was totally oblivious to Raph at the moment. His "vibe" still wasn't sitting well with him and thus he kept his ears perched for any shuffling of clothing or some other sign like movement of shoes on the grass, concrete or whatever he was standing on. Still even if he tried something it wasn't like a human could do much right? Well Shizuka is human so perhaps I'm underestimating him. Hell we have others like em and they also know how to use light to travel far. Yeaaaa that clinches it, I'll have to keep an ear and hopefully an eye on em, if only to make sure my new mod soul friend and I stay safe and sound.

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{Hoshi Stats / Skills}
Stats:

Strength: 50 (35)

Speed: 200

Reiatsu Strength: 400 (600)

Spiritual Pressure: 200

Instinct: 100

Senses: 100

Energy sense: 0

Healing expertise: 50


Light: 100

Dark: 0






Skills:

Improvised Weapons: 2

Anti-Stealth: 2

Illusion Resist: 2

Battle Analysis: 2

Strength of Will: 2

Street Fighting: 2

Cold Tolerance: 2

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{Items on Hoshis person}
2x Class 4 Beastick

Name: The Beat Stick
Description: This can be made into any weapon the user wishes upon purchase. In short, this is a very strong, very durable weapon. What you see is what you get with this one.
Class: 4
Item Type: Weapon
Item Power (IP): 750
Offense Type: Physical
Durability: 3x IP
Bonuses: N/A
Drawbacks: N/A
Form: Steel Rebar


2x Class 4 Throw Equip (On the Beatsticks)
Description: This is a modification that can be equip to any weapon from the Kitai Shop. This allows the user to call back the item this is equipped to, at a speed of 625, with a strength equal to the speed. This costs 100 reiatsu to perform.
Class: 4
Item Type: Equipment
Item Power (IP): Equal to Beatsick's IP
Offense Type: Physical
Durability: N/A
Bonuses: Adds the IP of the item to the weapon it is equipped to.
Drawbacks: Only three Equip items can be attached to any one weapon at a time. Added IP does not count towards the durability of the Weapon, or the OS/IP required to damage the item.


2x Class 4 Fire Equip (On the Beatsticks)
Description: This is a sigil, engraved into the blade of a weapon, or somewhere on it that has a large flat surface on it. This sigil comes in many forms, but they all represent fire, in some way, shape, or form. Be it a figure that resembles the user dancing with a figure of flame, a figure meditating with a circle of fire behind them, or something like the Kanji for fire that glows orange pressed into the metal. The sky is the limit for the user.

Class: 4

Item Type: Equipment

Item Power (IP): Equal to Beatstick IP

Offense Type: N/A

Durability: Equal to the weapon it is attached to.

Bonuses: This is a modification that can be equip to any weapon from the Kitai Shop. While this weapon is equipped, the user can coat their weapon in flames in whatever manner they deem visually appealing. These flames can launch up to three different fire attacks, with those being a large fireball that explodes, a cone of fire, or a curtain of flames that linger for a post. The IP of the fire is equal to the IP of the Weapon this item is attached to. Each fire attack costs 100 reiatsu.

Drawbacks: Only three Equip items can be attached to any one weapon at a time.

[Raphael Laurent]

Raphael could still feel the rage, could still feel that anger... that... That... Wait... He could feel another entity nearby... It felt like... That was when he opened his eyes and looked over at the little penguin mod soul came running out with a burning blade and decided to not move. The hollow, however, didn't seem to have the same idea about not moving, leaping out of the way at the last possible second, as an arm dropped to the ground.

Then there was a second presence that appeared... another mod soul??? Where were they all coming from? It didn't make any sense, but with the appearance of the two, he'd been brought back to the forefront of his own mind and shakes hs head. He was back. He'd lost himself for a moment, he realized. Angry with himself for not being able to keep hold of himself. He needed to be better. The meditation worked, to a degree, but...

He saw the hollow's severed arm and, for just a moment, licks his lips, before shaking his head.

The hollow got to its feet, struggling with the loss and imbalance of its now missing limb. It moved to the attack, all of its focus now on the one that had nearly killed it. Kairos, however, was not done with it either. As it moved to attack the mod souls, Raphael raised his right hand, reiatsu gathering, and swirling in his right hand as a beam of energy crashed into the hollow, sending it flying through the park.

"We need to kill this thing before it attracts more or, more importantly, before the fighting attracts more. I can't really control myself..." His voice suddenly altered, echoing a bit. "We need to kill that thing REALLY fast! At this point more will show up, no matter what we do! Let's kill this stupid thing and get ready for even more fighting!! Just be careful and not get hurt, alright?!"

PREVIOUS: 5200 - 400 (class 3 hollow seed) = 4800

Current: 4800 - 100 (class 5 mastered Spirit Waves) = 4700 SP remaining

[Tamashi Yuki]

And their attack was succesful... Sort of... Kind of... While they fail to kill it off at least they took one arm off and that's a start, they were about to jump into action one more time to make sure the creature doen't have time to react but a voice caught their attention (a shout to be precise) someone was showing surprise at the fact that there were more Mod Souls, turning around the Penguin looked very confused yet did not turn off the burning blade and turn back to keep their sights on the hollow as the other Mod Soul walk closer and talked

"It is neither, although I suppose my gigai IS female, call me however you feel confortable it doesn't do much difference to me" They responded completely focus on the hollow "I was made to help Soul Society to fight the creatures known as Hollow, their evolutions "Arrancar" and "other" things that can interrupt the soul cycle, as for what should you call me, my identifiname is Tamashi Yuki" They said in their funny and unusual way of combining words without realizing it. "I find the statement of the fullbringer agreeable, we should take care of our primary objective first and then take the time for the pleasantries and introductions"

As the penguin started taking steps forward towards the hollow the Human shoot an energy beam in front pushing the hollow deeper into the park with his attack, weighin their options Yuki thought what could be the fastest way to take it out with the time the fullbringer bought with that attack, clearly is not too strong if Yuki was able to cut one of their limbs with relative ease meaning that if they get a clean hit on the mask that would be it, but for that they will need to hold it in place in someway first which could prove difficult without their unique powers. "Does any of you is capable of creating a liquid or gas? I have a plan but I require one of those states of matter to execute it, any kind of liquid or gas should be good" The penguin said turning back to the other mod soul and fullbringer.

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{Yuki Stats}Strength: 100 (67)

Speed: 100

Reiatsu Strength: 180 (270)

Spirit Pressure: 200

Light Aura: 100

Dark Aura: 0

Senses: 40

Instinct: 50 (33)

Energy Sensory: 80 (27)

Healing Expertise: 250 (375)

Total:1000/1000

Type:Prodigy V2 (50% Increase to RS and HE, 33% decrease to Strength and Instinct, 66% decrease to Energy Sensor)

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{Reiatsu pool and techniques}Total 1530/2000 (-470 for previous post Caelunmintro and Burning Blade)

6 posts before Burning Blade stops

[Hoshi]

Hoshi frowned as he watched Yuki's attack miss. . . kind of. He groaned mentally not at Yuki but for her. Fucking hollows man. Add in this extra wierdo and all I'm seeing is more things I need to do before I can talk with someone important. Agony. Whatever, Kitai's weapons will take care of this for me. Hoshi pulled out one of his two steel rebars from his back and immediately lit it on fire. The flames glowing a bright icy blue, honestly kind of eerie given the fact it was 3 am. As Hoshi was about to do something he heard movement behind him and immediately jumped to the side only to see the human decide to fire off a blast of some kind. Hoshi narrowed his eyes a bit as he bit his tongue. This guy was really starting to piss off Hoshi and if he wasn't careful, he'd take this park down with him. Later. We'll deal with him later; Yuki has a point.

As Hoshi listened to Raph talk, he didn't let the note about his changing voice go unnoticed. Mind you, Hoshi didn't know why the man was trying to fluctuate and change his voice on a whim. Now wasn't exactly the time to be a voice actor after all. Needless to say, this was another step in the wrong direction as far as Hoshi was concerned. Meanwhile Hoshi made sure to keep his attention rapt and precise when it came to Yuki speaking. She seemed a bit more . . . roboty in her speech. Maybe she's operating under programmed parameters at the moment? I really should be also all things considered but I'm not letting THEM be in charge of ME at this moment in time. His eyes did widen as he heard about "Arrancar". An "evolution of hollows". Truly if nothing else from her sentence, that had him stumped. Since when, in all of creation, did fucking hollows need ANOTHER evolution?! They already had Base, Menos Grande, Adjuchas, and Vasto Lorde. The implication of another evolution was deeply unsettling.

As the hollow was blasted back Hoshi decided to simply walk around, out of its, likely, immediate sight given it should be focused on Yuki and the human. Though he was on fire so perhaps he'd attract the attention. He gave it a 50/50 chance. However, what stopped him dead in his tracks was Yuki's request. . . . He felt his body go a bit tense and he made a face of disgruntlement. He really liked his form, and it was exactly what she needed. . . . But he'd get yelled at again for burning down ANOTHER park for sure. There was no way to hide his power without drastically weakening himself. Something he just wasn't willing to do. He sighed and spoke out to Yuki. "I CAN do that yes. . . But let's be clear. If I use my abilities, we are not only attracting EVERYONE'S attention. But ya'll have to run. Not step out the way. Not weave in and out. I mean you have to GTFO. I'll be taking the fight from there. Personally, for my and the nearby surroundings sake, I'd say just help me get a clean hit on this thing. But if ya'll insist, I'll use my power."

Hoshi waited for a moment but unless both gave him a solid yes, then he wasn't going to use his powers just yet. Instead, he was going point his rebar, currently on fire, at the hollow's direction. From there he started charging up some energy and creating a fireball. Bright blue, raging in appearance but icy in opacity. Given the thing was near some trees Hoshi was hoping to wait until it moved closer to the group or himself, given he was out in the open streets. The most flammable thing being some grass and a bench nearby. Both of which could be easily dealt with. Regardless of which would happen first, once the Hollow was away from the trees and was making its way in one direction or another, he'd fire off the fireball. However, he wasn't "directly" aiming for the creature itself. He wanted to catch it in the fiery blast so if it came after him, he'd aim for the ground before him about 10 feet out. While for the others he'd take a solid guess at its direction to be and then fire at the ground it was heading towards. Hoshi felt confident that one hit from this fireball and it'd be dead on arrival. It was just a single hollow after all.

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{Reiatsu}
100 for a single fireball

2,000 - 100 = 1,900

1,900 remaining

[Raphael Laurent]

Raph though he kept beam up for a little while, pushing it farther back and giving them room, and therefore time, to plan, the thing was getting up quickly. He turned to the approaching penguin plush with a bit of an apologetic frown and shook his head, voice returning to normal, somewhat. "Sorry, but no. I can't create water or any kind of liquid at the moment. If some were here, then I could direct it, but that's about all." He glanced back at the other mod soul, nodding seriously, though he could already feel that same feeling taking him over, he tried to keep calm. "Sure thing. Worst comes to worst, I can also--" He reaches up and massaged his forehead. "I can at least hold it back, for a bit..."

"Roger that!" He chuckled a bit, before dashing around to the other side, before reaching out with soul dominance and used the wind to push the hollow right into the fireball that had been launched. What in the world was it that was going on? After everything, shouldn't other hollows be showing up to join in this? "I... Ok. If you think that it would be helpful, then do whatever is necessary, but don't put yourself too much at risk, yeah?" Then he moved to a roof on a nearby building with Bringer's Light, waiting to see how this situation, played out. He didn't care to--

Suddenly he was grabbed from behind and pulled away from the already rapidly evolving situation. Finding himself pulled away from, and thus separated, from his two modsoul friends. "Gah, shit! Alright! Fine. Looks we're being pulled apart!" He knew that something had felt off. There was one hollow and the moment that it was engaged there should've been more, but there weren't. Now he knew why. The moment that his reiatsu had flared, then others had decided to lie in wait. For a second, he wondered if the other two were being watched or if it was just him, before he looked behind him.

He was being dragged from the fight, an entire block away, into a construction zone aaaand into the mouth of a waiting hollow. Not this time. His right hand blazed to life with the fifth level of hollow seed, as he jammed it into the hollow's hand-like tongue, burning through it and slicing it off. The moment he was free, he used Bringer's Light to get himself back into position again, landing on one of the floor's of the construction zone and brushed himself off.

"Y'all can't just fuck off can you? Can't just let me kill your friend there in peace, huh?" He sighed. "Alright, then. They'll take care of your friend, and I'll kill you, huh? Hell, they'll probably kill off you friend, before you know it and be up here to help me kill you. Won't that be great?!"

4700 - 100 (class 5 hollow seed) - 50 (Bringer's Light) = 4550 reiatsu

[Tamashi Yuki]

Yuki took note of Hoshi's reaction to their request and listen to his words carefully, it was clear that he had a way of getting what the penguin needed but the cost was too big to risk for a simple hollow, the Fullbringer didn't seem to have a way to facilitate a liquid to them, the penguin sigh (or at least imitate a sigh since dolls don't really breath) and shook their head. "I would rather we do not make a scene and attract more attention to us, let us not take drastic meassures unless it is extremely necesary one single hollow is not worth endangering collateral damage" They said thinking of an alternative.

And while the penguin was thinking the Fullbringer and Mod Soul got to work holding that hollow with a quick tag move, the fire ball actually got the Mod Soul the answer they were seeking, smoke IS a type of gas (at the very least a mixture of gas particles and water vapor) which meant it WAS exactly what they needed, now granted they have never tried to extent their control this much but it would be a start to see how far their power has grown "Keep their attention on you, I have a plan but I'm going to need some time!" They yell at Hoshi

They turn to look for the Fullbringer but they were already away having use bringer's light when Hoshi throw his suggestion about using his abilities, either way the Penguin got on the move to a nearby tree and started slashing at the branches with their burning blade and making sure to pile them up so a small fire was ignited, once the smoke started rising the doll would hover their burning blade above the fire and making sure they were in contact with the smoke and then activate their unique Mod Soul Power flaring their reiatsu.

It took a minute but it DID work the smoke seemingly stop moving and Yuki was able to direct it on the direction of the Hollow, the penguin make sure to cover and wrap the hollow on the smoke before yelling to Hoshi "Cover your eyes and get ready to give it the last hit!" As soon as the doll shout that they charge the smoke with negative ions transitioning into plasma, a flash of light went from the point the Mod Soul was touching the smoke and running through the hollow electrifying it, even if the shock wasn't as strong as they were expecting due to how fast they had to think and improvise for this, surely would be enouggh for Hoshi to deliver a good hit on their mask.

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{Reiatsu Pool and techniques}Reiatsu: 1380/2000 (-150 for level 6 power activation)

5 post before Burning Blade stops

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{Level 6 Phase Transition (Advanced)}This almost perfected Phase Transition now allows Yuki to move from gas state to plasma and increase their range of effectiveness to 7 meters, there are two common uses, the first is to direct a cloud of gas and heating it as it flies through to turn it into a beam of Plasma similar to a Cero, the other use is a defensive one if a beam technique two classes below Yuki hits them they can reduce the damage taken by deionizing the beam and turn it back into gas state but this only will be possible if the attack is 2 classes lower than Yuki, the cost raises to 150 to activate and keep active, additionally Yuki must pay another 100 when transitioning a beam attack that hit them into gas (Doing this reduces the damage Yuki takes from the attack by 25%).

[Hoshi]

Hoshi was beyond genuinely surprised his fireball didn't actually kill the beast in question. Even with the unasked for, assistance of Raph the beast practically ate it like it was nothing. Hoshi could feel his artificial heart rate increase and it was starting to be accompanied by a rising growth of reiatsu that he was radiating. This was a problem since this wasn't a fun fight. It was a means to an end, an end he very much wanted, which was to talk to the mod soul. And this thing kept delaying it. Hoshi's attention was caught by the sudden light from Raph which answered at least one question. He could use bringer light for certain now and thankfully he was out of sight and functionally out of mind. . . Even if Hoshi did unfortunately hear the sound of something being yoinked away. ImnotgoingtousemystarpowersImnotgoingtousemystarpowersImnotgoingtousemystarpowers. Not yet. Not yet. Not. Yet.

His anger was rising again though he was managing to keep it contained. Mainly through shifting more into his programming since that would happen more on reaction. As he heard Yuki mention having a plan and requesting back up, he decided he would just commit to throwing hands with it. Something that he figured may relieve some anger if he was careful about it. With a deep breath to calm himself some Hoshi immediately let reiatsu flood his body and then ran at triple his speed towards the hollow in question with a large grin on his face. "You got it! One cooked up hollow coming your way!" Within a couple seconds Hoshi was in front of the hollow and within a moment decided it had too few injuries. He immediately swung out his rebar at it, missing given it jumped backwards but that wasn't going to save it from Hoshi and his "unorthodox" style of fighting.

Letting his rebar direct him into a quick spin, he rotated on the pads of his feet while bringing in his rebar. Then once facing the hollow again basically jumped after the hollow. "Let's see how well you dance filth!" Hoshi then thrust out his weapon towards its shoulder area managing to hit it before it backed off. But Hoshi wasn't letting it keep walking away, so he stepped forward with his other foot, twisted his body and spun again letting the creature think he missed a follow up attack only to actually come back with a follow up attack and yet another step closer to it. This time making sure to slam into its side and hearing a sickening crunch and the smell of sizzling skin following the sound. Sadly, physically weak as Hoshi was at this moment the hollow didn't move and instead used its remaining arm to grab the rebar and keep it from moving. Clever bastard.

Thankfully he'd given Yuki enough time and both heard and saw the results of her work. He let his rebar go and jumped backwards. The flames on his rebar immediately went out. Meanwhile Hoshi quickly reached for his other rebar and ignited it. He had to admit though he was pretty surprised to see what happened next. Hoshi didn't have much time, so he was ultimately still facing the hollow and smoke cloud. As he closed his eyes he still "saw" the bright light that was created as Yuki made a small plasma bomb. Then he smelled the seared flesh and heard its groans and screams at it. Hoshi's sight was foggy even when he opened his eyes again, things were dark, and light was brighter. But in lieu of seeing, he just let his nose guide him and definitely not the sound of his rebar hitting the ground. From there Hoshi moved on practically instinct. With his second rebar alight, he jumped forward, and let his rebar the ground before dragging it up from behind him and inevitably brought it through the hollow cutting it "cleanly" through.

As much as a flaming unedged rebar could. By the time his sight wasn't flooded with colors he could see he managed to get just enough of the hollows body and mask in functionally the same swoop. He'd misjudged the distance but managed to slam the tip of his rebar into the mask's "jaw" and the force and fires spread from there cracking and burning the hollow until it just collapsed, and the mask began to break off into pieces. The body of the hollow would soon follow into the spiritual flames and at some point, be burnt to nothing but ash. In the meantime, Hoshi put out his rebar, replaced it in his sash on his backside, and then picked up his other rebar and nuzzled it some. "I'm sorry bud, but I'm not strong in this form. You'll have to forgive me but no worries ya did great hitting its ribs!"

With a smile at his rebar, he then walked over to his new companion. "Well with that thing dealt with, I suppose you're intent on saving that human yea? If so, I can't sense him. Not built into my parameters to sense energy. But I heard him get dragged off behind us. Any chance you can lead the way? I can even carry ya if you're not very fast. Oh! And by the by, nice job on the smoke move. Not too different from my power. . . . well in one way at least haha!" Hoshi was very visibly relaxed for better or worse. Just simply enjoying the momentary peace and conversation with a mental sigh because he was certain she'd want to save the human. And thus, they'd have to run after him. With a smile for Yuki, he remained quiet as he listened all the while his thoughts were churning somewhat. I hope for his sake, he can survive. Fullbringers are unique and all but they're still human at their base. And thus, they're prone to injury.

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{Reiatsu}
-25 for movement

1,900 - 25 = 1,875 reiatsu remaining

[Raphael Laurent]

There was a lot of fighting, and if he knew anything, that meant that there would be more hollows before hhe knew it. Raphael was starting to get concerned. He knew that he couldn't keep flaring his own power, like he was. If he wasn't careful... But then again, the hollow wasn't either. Another roar, farther away, pierced the night, and he frowned. They were coming en masse, now. With the destruction of those cities, the hollows had gotten even more brave than they had been. They were coming en masse, now. Hopefully there'd be some shinigami support showing up soon, but, if not? Then the hell with it, they'd just deal with the situation.

"So...are you one of the ones that can talk?" It roared and he snickered. "Guess not. Meaning that I don't have to feel bad for what I'm about to do to you, huh?" He couldn't use many more techniques of this strength, though. He'd have to make sure to finish this one off with a single blast. Yet... he couldn't help but feel a bit curious. He knew that Kazura had said that there were a lot of things that had properties of elemental souls and that he'd just need to experiment. Perhaps his first opportunity was here.

Evading another grabbing tongue strike, from the hollow, he held up his hand, energy lancing up through him, threatening to peel his flesh. in seconds there was a purple sphere floating above his hand, and he held out his hand, pressing it forward. The hollow lashed its tongue out to try and stop the technique, but it simply kept going, racing forward. Before the hollow could jump out of the way, disintegration had reached it. It flew into the creature's mouth, right behind the mask, before erupting in a purple orb.

Yet, he wouldn't let all of it go. Racing forward, he grabbed at the hollow's mask, using both leverage and the technique allow him to rip the mask from its head. The scream was horrible, but within seconds, the majority of the hollow had been consumed, leaving only its torn off mask behind. The rest of the body completely vaporized by his technique, he stuffed the mask into a bag and took a breath, and walked to the edge of the construction site.

"Hey!! You two still alive?!

[Tamashi Yuki]

Yuki probably should've given a better warn than just "cover your eyes", getting a flash of plasma in your face is going to disorient you even if you DO cover your eyes, but fortunately Hoshi was able to find its bearings and finish the hollow off which prompted Yuki to smile proudly at their teamwork, for two complete strangers they did really well maybe it's some kind of Mod Soul bond, Hoshi did express surprise at their sight after all although that may be just that seeing another Mod soul is a rare sight which Yuki knows all too well.

"Affirmative, taking care of the hollows takes priority" They said once again keeping their sort of robotic monotone. "That said, I am very proud of how we handle this Hollow on our own, I must admit I was not sure if the plan was going to work as I have not tested my powers this far" Hoshi would notice that for that sentence they dropped their tone for a more natural one, still hard to tell if they were male or female but it was more leaning towards female. "Let us keep advanmoving and help the Fullbringer" Yet they still combine words without noticing but it was pretty clear what they said.

Just to be sure they have more ways to fight the penguin surround themselve with the smoke before depositioning into a thin veil of snow covering their doll, this way they will have access to something to manipulate if the fight is still going, of course a small veil of black snow may not be enough but if needed they can ask Hoshi to throw a fireball near them for more smoke, with that precaution taken the Penguin would jump on top of Hoshi's head and said "Onwards! It is not far from here" and pointed in a direction with their burning blade guiding Hoshi towards the construction site

Truth be told Yuki still had no idea what to think about the fullbringer, on one hand it didn't look like a bad person but at the same time something was off and the way they took off as soon as Hoshi mention that using his power was going to make a mess and they should be away rub the Mod Soul the wrong way, wouldn't be a problem if Yuki agreed and Hoshi use his destructive power but since it was a group decision bailing before they could get their word and/or think of an alternative did not sit too well with them.

After a couple of minutes the Mod Souls would reach the construction site with no sign of the Hollow something Yuki felt earlier, it was clear the fullbringer was stronger than he let out at first, but hey that's 2 hollows down in one night definitely a nice job for an improvised fight. "Of course, it takes more than just a regular hollow to defeat a Mod Soul, not even an injurscratch on my plush!" They said with pride still on top of Hoshi's head.

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Reiatsu 1230/2000 (-150 Upkeep lvl 6 mod soul power)

[Hoshi]

Hoshi chuckled some as he listened to Yuki. Completely unfazed by their request to save Raph, even if Hoshi didn't really want to at this point. Still, he kept his personal feelings to himself at this point and decided to wait until she was ready to actually leave. He did have to admit though, he was curious about their power as well as what caused them to fuse things. Perhaps a malfunction? I certainly didn't fare well upon my first reawakening. My sight parameters and memory banks melded, and I couldn't see much for what it really was. Perhaps she just needs another reset. Hmm, meh, doesn't matter. She'll be fine with that habit. As she covered herself in what could only be described as soot, in Hoshi's mind, she found a way to hop right onto his head. This ultimately made him laugh a bit as he couldn't have imagined them doing this, but it was as good a spot as any.

Once they pointed in the direction Hoshi took off. However, since they had a free moment, he decided that now was 100% the time chat. "So Yuki, humor me a moment. What brings you around here? I was working and on patrol, but I can't imagine you were doing the same. Or maybe you really are into vigilante shit, in which case, keep up the good work haha!" Hoshi tried to imagine a penguin plush in a cape and with a mask on its face and started laughing hysterically. This would be more of a comedy skit than it would be real if that were the case and thus Hoshi could only hope that Yuki well and truly did commit vigilante acts so that he might have a chance to see this possibility. Which speaking of possibilities while they had a minute Hoshi felt like it was a good time to air his concerns. Thus, he spoke up but this time more serious in tone, even glancing up at the penguin to for good measure.

"Be real with me Yuki. Do you trust this human? I know the spiritually capable humans and they don't feel anywhere near as concerning as this one. And I work with some choice people mind you. That voice change is concerning to me personally given he may have some kind of mental defect and he's not weak from what he's shown us. I think it's worth being careful if I'm honest, but I don't trust him. Whatcha think?" Hoshi saw the construction site nearby and made his way over, even chuckling softly as he saw the company logo. He waved at is as he ran into the construction site and smiled a bit as it looked similar to the one, he'd been on for a building that he'd burnt the walls of. On accident of course. Ahh home sweet home. I really should see if the last place is fixed now. Hopefully everything is back to normal. Ah there's the man in question.

Hoshi walked closer but stopped several feet away. Not willing to go closer of his own accord given his lack of trust in Raph. His previous smile replaced with an even draw of his lips and a more business focused look on his face. He did wave to Raph however if only to mirror Yuki's near immediate response to the human. Once they were done, he spoke up. "Yea and we cooked up one hollow for ya. It'll be ash in no time so now the park has fertilizer." Hoshi stood somewhat tense but continued to watch Raph for any signs of issue to arise. Whether that was another force change, a physical change, hell even a visual charge of reiatsu. Anything to add fuel to his concerns about the human and their strange interactions thus far. Though, admittedly, Hoshi was still really only concerned with talking more to Yuki but this whole thing had to be dealt with first. He couldn't learn more about Mod Souls in general if there were hollows or heaven forbid, shinigami around. But hopefully they were done with that for the evening. If not, he had a long patrol ahead of him.

[Raphael Laurent]

Raphael stood there, panting, as the two came to him, giving a bit of a sigh out of both relief and out of exhaustion and put his hands on his knees, leaning over to breathe a bit. It had been a while since he'd really fought like that. He was so out of shape. Yet, as he looked to them, he smiled, apparently quite happy that the two were alright. He, admittedly, had some apologizing to do. That was supposed to be a group effort, and not only had he messed that up by leaving before they'd all agreed, BUT he'd then separated himself enough to get snatched.

"Ok... Ok, good. I'm glad that you guys are okay." He scratched the back of his head a bit. "Hey, uhm... sorry that I jumped outta things, before everyting had been agreed on... I put both of you in danger with that little stunt, and it was stupid on my part." He frowned, and sat on the ground with a bit of a flop. "With any luck, that's the last one and we can get a bit of rest, after all of that." He sighed. "And I probably owe you two an explanation of... all of the stuff that happened, yeah?"

He grinned at the other mod soul, the one that the penguin was sitting on. "I'm glad to hear that it's gonna be fertilizer for the flowers. You two got some time? Gonna have to submit a report to where I work for this little patrol, like I usually do, but I'm not looking forward to that part. I should at least do some introductions. Hi, uh, I'm Raph or Raphael, depending on how formal you wanna be. I'm a fullbringer. Well, my fullbring was broken, but I can still move things and the elements and all that. May I, uh, what might your names be?"