Arc 2: Canon 9: The Shadow King [Complete]

[Zou ۞]

The pterodactyl appeared to be much stronger than Raito had initially thought. All Shada Hollows were, those of course this was his first encounter with one. This smashed through his wall like it was nothing. Some kind of red aura had come across it as it did this, repelling the attack. Essentially, it was useless. A pulse of random force flew out of it as well, knocking Raito back to stop his slashes. The pterodactyl followed however, managing to land a grisly, small slash across Raito's chest to draw blood. It was faster then he was by a massive margin, but its earlier movement had been slower. This meant that it had no definite speed, and that there was something that made it vary. Instead of worrying about that, though, Raito should be able to take this fight as a blessing. It was an opportunity, a golden one at that. He was facing a ridiculously strong enemy here.

This one was much stronger than a regular hollow. The words 'Property of King Shada' were within the chest, just below a red gem. Raito hadn't gotten to use his Hollowfication in battle. This would be his chance to try it out. Of course, even with that he wouldn't be able to defeat the pterodactyl right away. This thing was strong enough that even Raito could get hurt despite hollowfication, though this might allow him to beat it. The pterodactyl flew forwards, even faster than last time, now. It was like a rocket, moving forwards as energy gathered on it, and it propelled itself forwards. It was going for a head on collision. If it hit Raito, it would be the same as being run over by a train. Essentially, he'd go splat. Raito would have to find some way to defend against this beast.

[Jin Yamada]

Jin's attack had connected. Well that was good, but now the floor had opened up and he was falling threw it. "Whoa!" Jin called out as he fell. The tail coats of his long black jacket flew upwards as he fell due to his sudden descent. He landed on the balls of his feet, and then placed his right hand on the ground and knelt with his right leg upon landing. He looked up, and standing there before him was a Shada-Hollow. There was no mistaking it. The gem in its body and the words Property of Shada written underneath the gem. Just who was this Shada? Well, that couldn't really be answered now. The whole point of this journey would be to discover that once they defeated all one hundred Shada-Hollow. For now, he had to focus on defeating this one right here in front of him.

Jin smiled, standing up fully as the pterodactyl like hollow came at him. "This'll be fun. Ziege Dich, Hitze." Jin said, pulling out his golden yoyo and flicking it forward in the walk-the-dog poisition. The yoyo spun quickly, and then a golden reiatsu blasted out from Jin. Jin placed his palm forward as the beast approached. "Hitzewelle" he called out. A sudden orange mist rushed out from his body, heading straight for the hollow as it came. He knew this wasn't going to end it. That wasn't the plan he was going for. He knew from fighting the bat hollow last time. His Hitzewelle hadn't worked completely on it, and even then when he did use it, it was only because he had been given a distraction by Suteki. Now, he had no such distraction. He knew his heat would do good against the hollow though. Dinosaurs were reptiles in a sense, and so they were cold-blooded. He didn't want to increase the heat in the room because then that'd leave him defenseless, and then he couldn't really attack.

With all of this in mind, Jin watched as the Hitzewelle shot forward to meet the pterodactyl hollow. He quickly jumped out of the way, moving away from the spot he was standing at before. He used the Hitzewelle as a cover to do this, while watching the hollow's reaction out of the corner of his eye. Once it blew away the Hitzewelle, he would use Warmekuppel and trap in in a sphere of heat. From there, he would fight it using the heat as his advantage. It would be better than surrounding the area with heat because he could use Hitze then without having to have it appear first before every attack. He had also jumped out of the way so that when his attack was blown back, like it had been with the bat, he wouldn't be in the way. This was only an assumption though. It had wings, and they loooked pretty powerful, so that was why Jin had assumed all of these things.

Jin's Remaining Reiatsu: 1780

[Zou ۞]

The pterodactyl rushed at Jin, batting its wings to fan away the Hitzewelle. Powerful winds obliterated it, while an aura of red surrounded it. Of course, it was using those odd gems that Jin had seen numerous times before. However, as opposed to before, this one had an expanded ability. A cage of electricity formed around it, and it began spinning. It was like an electric missile heading for Jin at a very quick pace. It was keeping the rest of the area's heat away while it spun. The heat wouldn't start sinking in until the spinning enemy was stilled. So, how would Jin defend himself against such an opponent? Obviously, if he was hit, he'd be killed by the spinning electric drill, which was what the pterodactyl had become. In all honesty, Raito and Jin were here in this pyramid, fighting for their lives against enemies with strong beyond what they were used to, meaning that these enemies could really challenge them.

OOC: Sorry for the short post. I just didn't have it in me to post any more for some reason.

[Seikatsu Raito]

Raito watched as the pterodactyl easily smashed into his wall and through it, well it seemed the ancient bird had strength and speed out of nowhere. He was pushed back by some kind of aura and pulse, and then slashed across his chest. Raito's eyes grew wide to look at what appeared to be a gem on his chest. He read the engraved phrase on the enemy as well. It said, "Property of King Shada", well that was odd...
The Vizard stood there with a smile on his face, knowing that his regular fighting wouldn't cut it with this enemy. Raito looked at his enemy and swung a hand over his face, a bloody demonic mask appeared. The mask only had the upper teeth set that looked like fangs as they came down covering half his face with blood covering them. The mask had fearsome horns on it and gave off the demonic aura it portrayed. Raito's speed instantly increase, giving him a strong boost needed to defend against this Shada-Hollow.

Raito aimed his claws forward in a pointed matter and a red circle materialized as the pterodactyl came in closer. Then boom! A huge red beam fired off and a Vizard Cero was shot out by the Vizard. The cero traveled forward at the incoming pterodactyl, and he hoped that would slow down the Hollow somewhat. But he was prepared to move with his newfound quick speed to counter the pterodactyl in case he would plow through the cero and keep on attacking. The Vizard had his blade ready and ready to move away quickly from the ancient dinosaur.

Shikai: 3/10
Vizard Mask: 1/3
Reiatsu: 2,350/3,000 [-300 Reiatsu at End of Vizard Mask Duration]

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Stat Points
[Type: Fighter]

Strength - (200-(200*0.25)) [150x2=300] Points

Speed - (400+(400*0.5))[600x2=1200] Points

Spiritual Pressure - [300] Points

Reiatsu Strength - (300+(300*0.5))[450x2=900] Points

Light Aura - 32 Points

Dark Aura - 68 Points

Instinct - [100x2=200] Points

Senses - [100x2=200] Points

Energy sensory - 0 Points

Healing Expertise - 0 Points ]

[Zou ۞]

OOC: Post skipped.

[Jin Yamada]

Jin landed, watching as the Pterodactyl batted away his Hitzewelle. Just as he had expected. He smirked a little as he found out that the beast had done exactly what he had expected it to. He raised his hand, ready to finish the second part of his plan when he suddenly saw it begin spinning. What was worse, lightning began forming on the Pterodactyl hollow. Oh, this was bad. Very bad. Jin realized that by spinning, heat no longer would affect it, even if he set his heat out into the whole room. For the moment, his heat was only around him, throwing off the hollow's vision, distorting it so that it couldn't tell if Jin was close or far away, or if he was even standing in that spot. It seemed that wasn't really working either since the beast was now coming at him full throttle.

Well, Jin needed some way to stop it's spinning so he could hit it with the heat full throttle. He had to hit it with a strong heat attack right after he got it to stop spinning, but how would he do that. For now, he would work on getting it to stop spinning, which he began preparing. He built up heat into his palms as he cupped them together. He focused reiatsu within it as well and then aimed his hands at the beast as it came in. He was preparing the heat sphere attack he usually used. Come to think of it, he still hadn't come up with a name for it. He would do that later, but for now, he had to hit that hollow with it, which is what he did. He let the sphere blast forward after it grew to the size of half of his body, of course. It radiated with intense heat, and it was fairly large, meeting the oncoming hollow and colliding with it. Upon doing so, it exploded with a deafening boom, blasting heat all around. Jin, knew to escape it before it collided, and so he had used Schiene to move himself farther back and to the right from the beast. He reappeared, staring into the smoke formed. He wasn't sure if it would just plow through the attack, so he had curved the rail to move off to the side as well.

Jin's Remaining Reiatsu: 1630

[Zou ۞]

The pterodactyl blasted cleanly through the attack with the lightning, which faded after that. It crashed into the wall, and whirled around, staring at Jin from there. It screeched with a mighty cry. That thing was strong, very powerful. As it turned out, there was no damage on it. It had successfully defended itself from Jin's attack. Well, this was only expected. This was the enemy of 100 years in the future. Of course, it was supposed to be strong. It suddenly opened its mouth, and a powerful red Cero covered in flames and lightning began charging. Oh, that couldn't be good. It blasted out, shooting a powerful burst of that specialized Cero straight at Jin. No doubt about it. If this hit Jin, he was going to die. He was finished if he got hit by something of that magnitude of strength. The letters on the Shada Hollow's chest were also starting to glow for some reason. Why was it doing this? This was uncertain.

Suddenly, time seemed to freeze for Jin, and one of those flashbacks overtook him as the Ring he always had in his pocket pulsed. It took him to the flashback of Future Jin, a hundred years later. Jin had on no shirt, and black pants. He was covered in wounds, his pants were torn up. Burns, scratches, all sorts of stuff covered him. Something was moving towards him. Fast. It was a pterodactyl type hollow like what Present Jin was facing now, except this one was much bigger, and it had four wings and six arms. It was stronger, clearly. Jin threw up blood as it charged towards him. However, he looked up at it once. "Grobe Hitzewelle!" he gasped. Suddenly, a giant field of what appeared to be blue gas began flying towards the pterodactyl. It was twice the speed of Present Jin's Hitzewelle, and obviously much stronger. The moment it got NEAR the Shada Hollow, within 10 meters, the Shada Hollow burned up, disintegrating. With that, the flashback ended.

[Zou ۞]

OOC: Sorry sorry. Forgot about Raito's post.

IC:

The Shada Hollow facing Raito took a hit from the Cero, screaming. However, of course, it didn't go down. That gem was giving it an aura that the Cero had only barely penetrated, which meant that it had taken only minimal damage, roughly first and second degree burns. Normally, that Cero would have been enough to kill a Hollow instantly. The fact that this had not yet happened meant that something horrible was shielding this Hollow. A great power had come across it. So now, with that said and done, with steam coming out of its body, the pterodactyl shrieked with a mighty cry. It continued to roar, and then it opened up its mouth wide to attack Raito. A Cero began charging there, but something was odd about it. This Cero had lightning and fire revolving around it. Worse yet, a second mouth suddenly formed at the top of this beast's mouth, opening up.

Alright, so it had two mouths. This one also began charging a Cero. Even if he countered, Raito probably couldn't match two extra power Cero with just one regular Vizard's Cero. Of course, this meant that he'd have to dodge, or at least find an angle of weakness in the attack if he planned to battle and retaliate against it. The twin Cero fired out, flaring instantly towards Raito at a great speed.

[Seikatsu Raito]

Raito watched from behind his mask as the pterodactyl was covered in steam and continued on forward. This wasn't good, there was that aura coming from that gem that was protecting this beast and granting him powers. The Vizard stared at it and his instincts told him maybe the gem was the source of its powers. Without it, maybe it would be a normal hollow... or better a dead one. It was worth a shot and Raito set his eyes on it. He watched the pterodactyl as it started charging a deadly looking Cero in its mouth, wait a second mouth! A second mouth was charging a similar cero! Oh shit this was bad for Raito! He had to dodge this if he wanted to make it out a live. Raito used his speed to make it look like he was running forward, but when the ceros were fired he used his Shunpo to increase his speed even more. He moved below the pterodactyl's body where the gem was lodged and slashed his blade towards the chest of the ancient bird. Blood splattered out of the blade and they formed spikes as the large wave of blood came out of his slash.

Shikai: 4/10
Vizard Mask: 2/3
Reiatsu: 2,300/3,000 [-300 Reiatsu at End of Vizard Mask Duration]

[Jin Yamada]

Jin watched the smoke and saw that the pterodactly blasted cleanly through his attack. Well, that wasn't an option anymore, though at least he did get it to stop spinning like he had wanted to. Though it did stop spinning, it was now charging a cero within its mouth, which it promptly shot forward towards Jin's position. Oh crap. That wasn't good. The cero looked powerful too with all the flamees and lightning swirling around it. Jin wasn't sure how he would get out of this one. He was trying to come up with a plan when suddenly, time seemed to freeze around him. A flashback was coming.

He saw himself, from the future fighting a hollow. It looked exactly like this one, but bigger, an with more arms and wings. This one looked pretty powerful, and this was shown by the shape Jin was in. His shirt had probably been ripped off, and he was only wearing pants. His body was scarred, scratched up, and burned. Jin looked like he couldn't go on anymore, when suddenly, he gasped out the words, "Grobe Hitzewelle" As he said those words, a blue mist shot at the beat. It was fast! It headed towards the beast, and before it even touched it, the beast disintegrated and burned up. So this was the power that he would gain? An attack like Hitzewelle would be able to kill without even being near the opponent?

Jin was then brought back to the present, facing the deadly hollow rushing towards him. He had to block that somehow. The only thing he knew that was strong enough to do so was the attack he had created while fighting the bat. He aimed the palms of both hands at the cero and they suddenly glowed with a powerful golden aura. The golden aura grew, and the air around him seemed to distort, mainly around his hands. He was mixing the heat around him with his reiatsu to create a powerful attack. "Hitzewelle Zwei." he murmured, and a large column of heat blasted out with incredible speed and power. It collided with the cero, stopping it from coming any closer to Jin as the two battled to overthrow the other. Jin then used this opportunity to move out of the way, discontinuing the attack and leaping to the side.

He rolled across the ground and then came to a stop. Without hesitating anymore, Jin reached into his jacket, biting his thumb with his other hand. Blood formed on his thumb, dripping onto the capsule he had now pulled out. It flashed and glowed, and then golden gloves with black lines all over it formed over his hands. He quickly aimed his hands behind him, and the Bount symbol in the center of the palm glowed before blasting out a large wave of flames. The flames pushed him forward with incredible speed, and when he neared the hollow, he aimed his left hand diagonally to his side to push him away. Now, he was to the side of the pterodactyl hollow but still a good distance away. He moved his right hand forward now, aiming it at the hollow and blasted flames towards it. The flames moved with incredible speed and intensity. Jin wasn't sure how much damage the flames would do to this beast. He knew that gem gave it a sort of resistance to attacks, so he knew that he would probably have to keep hitting it with flames, which is what he did. He aimed his left hand now at the hollow as well, and fired off those flames, which caused him to fly backwards. Now there were two large streams of intense flames heading towards the hollow.

Jin's Remaining Reiatsu: 1430

[Zou ۞]

Though Raito slashed and added his blood attacks in, it was of no avail. The pterodactyl reared up with a mighty shriek, and red reiatsu covered its entire body as it roared. The blood and slashed hit, but the hit bounced off, deflected instantly. The blood dissolved against the reiatsu, instantly vanishing. Wait, what?! It WAS Reiatsu. Anyone would be able to sense that. There was no trick to it. Reiatsu was Reiatsu. Raito's blood disintegrated Reiatsu. So then why...? Why hadn't the reiatsu surrounding the pterodactyl been disintegrated? Why was it still alive?! Why had the reiatsu destroyed the blood instead?! There was only one answer to that. Raito's blood was inferior in some way. When two forces collide, the stronger one rules and continues, while the weaker one is canceled out. Sure, stronger reiatsu strength could resist Raito's disintegration of reiatsu, but it shouldn't obliterate and repel it like that.

The answer was in a complete inferiority. Somehow, the beast was using a power beyond what Raito knew about. It was using a whole different plain of power than Raito. Its latent abilities were actually far inferior to his, that much was clear. If Raito was on the same plain, this pterodactyl would have no chance. However, as it turned out, this one was on a higher plain, and therefore much stronger. The difference made it so that even with superior latent strength, Raito was absolutely no match for this thing in terms of power clashes. He could still kill it since his latent strength was far superior, but he wouldn't be able to do it easily. The two mouths opened up again, and twin Cero fired out. This time, the beast also beat its rings, releasing crescent shaped Cero straight towards Raito. This thing had some powers he hadn't seen before.

Meanwhile, over on Jin's side, the pterodactyl stared at the beam, opening its mouth. A second mouth opened up on the first one, and twin large Cero fired out, rushing throughout the beam, and destroying it completely. It had defended. And it had done so instinctively. Beasts like this couldn't think of strategy. This meant that most likely, Jin's attack was able to hurt it. If he hit the pterodactyl with that Hitzewelle Zwei, it would probably get hurt. This meant that he should pursue hitting with it, though he'd have to outsmart his enemy in some way to do so.

The pterodactyl rushed forwards very suddenly, blurring past Jin. Red reiatsu had come to cover its entire body and block the flames, and it whirled around, opening its mouths. A third mouth opened up, and three of those vicious Cero flew towards Jin, while it also beat its wings to send crescent shaped Cero at him. Oh, this wasn't good. If Jin was hit by any of these, he would die.

[Seikatsu Raito]

Raito watched as the red aura once again prevented his attack from succeeding. He watched it closely and didn't budge. He didn't like how powerful this beast was. It had a very strong defense and strength, some odd powers he had never seen before. He simply stood there and watched for the counter attack. The beast was still nothing, but a beast. He could easily outsmart the beast and Raito was set on doing this. He watched as the mouths opened up again, he knew what was coming. Raito started to move backwards ready to dodge the incoming cero. That was when suddenly it beat its rings something he hadn't seen him do. That was a crescent shaped cero moved towards Raito. "What the hell," he simply muttered before using a shunpo to move completely out of the way. "Shit, I'm almost at my limit," he said, feeling the strength of the mask fading away.

Raito wanted to get at least one good hit on the pterodactyl before his mask shattered. Raito used another Shunpo as the ceros were released. A red cero was charging in Raito's hand as his blade slashed forward, "Ketsueki Ofuro and Cero!" Raito yelled out as a large red cero pushed forward ready to smash into the back of the bird. A large wave of blood erupted out of his blade encompassing the cero and everything around it. The blood literally mixed in with the cero giving it a darker color. The density and weight of the blood heightened as it stayed in liquid form. It was blood and would drench everything around them, but at the same time would feel like boulders were falling.

Shikai: 5/10
Vizard Mask: 3/3
Reiatsu: 2,300/3,000 [-350 Reiatsu at End of Vizard Mask Duration]

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Ketsueki Ofuro (Blood Bath) - This is a technique used by Raito where he will use the blood to send a wave of it towards his opponent. The wave is simply the acidic blood and it can be physically blocked, if correctly defended against. The wave of blood will be sent to his opponent and the quantity can be regulated by Raito. This can be an offensive or defensive attack since it can be used to counter reiatsu. The downside to this attack is that it can be blown away easily since it is simply liquid flying through the air, in the beginning, before its properties are changed. Defenses that effect a wider area are usually much more effective due to the random splashes of the blood.
This ability is different from a normal wave of blood that can be sent by Raito. This ability increase the reiatsu strength depending on the class of the wave that is sent.
Class 4-1
Class 1- This is when the wave of blood can become tsunami like and encompass huge areas. The waves of blood can also now change in viscosity, so the liquid is able to act defensively as well now and fool opponents. This gives +125 reiatsu strength when firing.

[Zou ۞]

The pterodactyl screeched as its Cero met with Raito's Cero. Of course, the difference in power between the Cero was obvious. Raito's was superior. However, several things were working in the pterodactyl's favor. For one, it used two Cero, and both of these somehow had fire and lightning working in them. Second, it had that gem in its chest. The gem by itself was enough to add a ton of power to the Cero, plus it added that aura defense which was incredibly hard to penetrate. If only Raito knew. It was the power of a technology one hundred years away. The pterodactyl's Cero completely overpowered Raito's, obliterating it. It struck the blood, and resisted. Of course, being a beast of inferior strength, backed only by superior technology, its Cero could only do so much. Normally the blood would have stood no chance, but in this case it evaporated and took the Cero with it due to the weakened attack.

The Cero was actually getting stronger. That gem was the cause of it, obviously. But, attacking it would do no good. Getting near the beast would leave Raito open to an attack from its shields. Without his mask, he was no longer any match in terms of projectile techniques. He couldn't really use his Bankai too well since they were indoors, and rain was his Bankai. He couldn't use it to its fullest extent. However, the pterodactyl appeared to have been hit by part of the blood, which, though most of it was beaten down by the shield, managed to score a minor hit across the chest, causing the pterodactyl to bat its wings and scream in agony. The Hollowfication did its job well. The pterodactyl wasn't used to being hit, and so it quickly slammed into the ground, crying out. This was Raito's only chance to land a proper attack.

[Jin Yamada]

Jin watched as the hollow formed a second mouth which blasted a cero into the Hitzewelle Zwei which he had shot out. The two cero together were enough to stop his attack. The hollow seemed to realize that using two would make it strong enough to stop Jin's attack. That meant something. It knew that the attack had been strong enough to hit and damage it? Maybe. Jin would try and pursue that, but later. For now, he had to avoid the Pterodactyl's attacks which were now coming at him once again. This time however, it proceeded to add in a little variety. It was sending crescent shaped Cero at Jin with each bat of its wings. That wasn't good. Not good at all.

Jin aimed his left palm to the side and blasted himself sideways. Then, as he was moving away, he aimed his right palm downwards to blast him upwards at the same time. That was when he used Schiene to move into the air to completely avoid the cero. They were coming in fast, and so simply using those flames to move him along wouldn't help. He was now above the Shada Hollow, where he quickly proceeded to fire down another wave of flames, however, this was to block the crescent shaped ceros that were coming towards him. The flames impacted with the Cero, blocking them and even destroying some of them due to Jin's increased reiatsu strength. With that done, Jin then aimed his palms behind him and disappeared once again, however, this time, he was moving using the speed of the flames. He was still in the air, but now he was more or less behind the pterodactyl hollow. Now, once there, he spun around while in the air, and aimed his hands together, once more forming the golden aura along his hands. Then, when the glow built up enough, a column of concentrated heat was blasted forward. "Hitzewelle Zwei." he muttered.

He was blasted backwards this time upon using the attack. He had added more power to it so that he could move away from the hollow while shooting it to gain distance from a counter attack. This time, it was sent at the hollow's back. It was focused on where Jin had been in front of it before, and so Jin had high hopes of his attack hitting this time. If it did hit, it would probably burn through its reiatsu defense before causing frying the hollow, though due to that defense, Jin wasn't anticipating anything worse than second degree burns.

Jin's Remaining Reiatsu: 1280

[Zou ۞]

While Hitzewelle Zwei broke the defense, a huge surge of reiatsu flew out of the wings, striking Jin as well. In unison, the two were set to burn. The flames danced across the pterodactyl, which screamed due to not being used to pain. Its defenses came back up while it was bathed, which obviously managed to dull the burns. However, the reiatsu had consumed Jin as well, and both of them were taking intense pain, heat, and burning. Jin knew the secrets of this Hollow, of course. It was a hundred years in the future. It was a time when everything was exponentially stronger. As a result, it was only natural that he had a hard time with this kind of enemy. The future truly did hold some powers that made things difficult for Jin, after all.

While both were burning, a flashback came over Jin. Suddenly, he was witnessing Future Jin. The smoke was only just clearing. Wait...smoke? A battle had just finished. If Jin racked his memory, he'd remember that this was the sight, the wasteland, where Future Jin had fought against that dragon-like Shada Hollow. The dragon humanoid thing. He'd remember that Future Jin and Future Zouma had had a hard time fighting against it. In fact, as the smoke cleared, with Zouma and Jin standing next to each other, it became clear that that monstrous attack Jin had used still didn't kill the dragon humanoid. It continued to stand, its eyes glowing a vicious red, the scales covered in burns. The Dragon Hollow smiled coldly, taking a few steps forwards. It was still in fighting condition too.

The Dragon Hollow roared, and Jin cursed, but could barely move. He'd used up a lot of energy with that attack, and he'd lost a ton just from fighting that thing. Zouma exhaled, drawing his hand across his zanpakuto blade. "We have no choice." he said. The blade lit up in a fiery blue glow, and he looked up. A powerful circle of flames began to revolve around him, spinning constantly. The flames were blue. Zouma's trademark coldfire had arrived. But...it didn't look like he'd activated a release. What had he done then? In fact, one of his Rings was glowing. He was wearing two. Zouma jammed his blade into the ground in front of him, and aimed his hands forwards. "Prepare yourself." he said. Suddenly, the flashback ended. It was abrupt, but it still ended. Jin and the Pterodactyl had finished burning, and both crashed to the ground. The Pterodactyl screamed. Jin had to hurry and right himself. This was his only chance to attack. Both were covered in second-third degree burns.