Arc 2: Canon 12: Melody [Complete]

[Zou ۞]

OOC: A hundred years. Not ten.

IC:

Shauna nodded. "I see." she said again. A confident smile lit her face. Charisma. She had it. Her smile was very beautiful, despite her young age, and yet it had enough radiance to light a room. Her smile seemed able to make even the most miserable turn happy. She was a good model of a leader. Good personality, and very strong. Shauna wasn't someone to be second to anyone. If she were ever to face Kyousou Ningen, the Captain Commander, she could well end up winning. If the Quincy had this kind of leader, and one of their goals was to defeat the Shinigami, they should have already done so. Only two explanations remained. Either they couldn't do it, or they'd lost interest in such a goal. The ladder was much more plausible, as Jin seemed to have lost the urge to obliterate all Shinigami as well.

Shauna looked at Alexandria, posing a question directly to her. "How long have you been with Jin Yamada?" she asked. At the same time, Zouma was just managing to struggle to his feet, coughing out blood from the wounds that Shauna had inflicted onto him. He'd fallen earlier, obviously. Zouma had taken exponentially more damage than Jin or Alexandria. With his power, he'd been able to do literally nothing to Shauna, and attempting to fight her had been useless. She'd crushed him. If the difference between Shauna and Zouma was that much, for Zouma had used hollowfication and shikai both, then what was the difference between Shauna and everyone else? Zouma had killed Old Lightning. The Captain Commander. Old Lightning had been no match for Zouma, even with Raikiri and Ryuujin Jakka both. Zouma was no match for Shauna. Shauna was strong.

[Alexandria Witwe]

Alex raised her eyebrow and let her hands folded around her chest fall to her sides. It was okay that he had not told her about the ring Some times she just gets caught up in being so bewildered by everything that it frustrates her. She smiled at Jin. Hopefully that would show him that she was not upset. "What an odd explanation. I mean I believe you, but its just odd. Time travel is possible? I really need to get into the loop. Everything is so different now." The story was rather weird. She didn't know what to think about it, other then it was mysterious. Everything is mysterious though. She is completely knew to all of this so it is going to take her a while before she gets used to the weirdness. Then the Quincy Leader asked her a question. Alexandria turned to face her. "Not a long time. We just met up recently. I haven't even gotten a chance to know him to well yet it's been so soon." Alex responded. "Why do you ask?"

[Zou ۞]

"Time travel is not possible." Shauna said. "Not without dying. It inflicts permanent damage to your reiatsu and spirit. Only those with incredible strength can pull it off, and stumbling across the power is accidental. It cannot be attained on purpose. It is a blessing that it was obtained by the future Jin, but this means that if he is not yet dead, this future Jin will soon be dead." Well, that sure was bad news. Shauna then proceeded to answer Alexandria's next question. "Put simply, one must have a strong conviction to follow what Jin Yamada will soon go through. The enemies ahead of him are strong." That much was clear. If allies at the same levels as Shauna and Zouma were required, then clearly any enemies ahead were ridiculously powerful. Anyone facing them would have to be careful. This meant that Alexandria would most certainly have to get stronger if she wanted to survive.

[Jin Yamada]

The Bount Leader's eyes widened upon hearing Shauna say that time travel was only possible by dying. It inflicted permanent damage on the reiatsu and spirit. Jin was shocked to hear this. If that was true, then that meant that Future Jin died, or would soon die. Jin wanted so much to be able to meet him. To see how he matures and grows in the future. He wanted to be able to fight himself and see with his own eyes just how powerful he had gotten. But it seemed now he wouldn't be able to do that. Jin looked a little heartbroken then, hanging his head down slightly. Shauna said that Future Jin must have obtained the time travel by accident as it was not somehting one could just attain it on purpose. It was a blessing that Jin did obtain it, like Shauna said, for Jin now would never have been able to combat these Shada Hollow without the information Future Zouma had given him. Even without the ring given to him by Future Jin. He would never have been prepared for the future ahead. He couldn't become the great leader that his race needed him to be without hearing Future Zouma's words that day.

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Jin finally looked up after having been staring at his feet for a few seconds. He had been staring into empty space. He quickly flashed a smile when he looked up, showing that he was alright if anyone did wonder when he had looked down for so long. "Thank you Shauna for joining my cause. I do know that the enemies ahead will be strong. I know that I may even lose my life to them, but I just want to protect my race. If I can protect them till the last Shada Hollow remains before I die, then I would like that. That is all that I want for the Bount race." Jin said, flashing his smile once again. Jin was becoming the great leader that Future Jin was. He would soon become that leader, and he would lead his race to do great things. He could just feel it deep inside. The only thing that now bothered him was the comment made by Future Zouma when he had fought him. "And you always spoke of a day when you met me originally. Now I know what you were referencing." Jin wasn't sure about this comment. Did it mean that the cycle would continue? Did it mean that the Jin of this time would also stumble upon this time traveling phenomenon again and die as a result? Jin wasn't sure about any of it, but he knew that before he died, he wanted to make sure his race was safe. That was all that he could hope for.

[Zou ۞]

Canon Terminated.

Reward is simple. 200 CTP. Cannot be converted to TTP or SP. 4500 Ryo. Well okay, Jin's 200 TP is TTP since he can't get any more CTP or SP.