Arc 3: Canon 8: Turn around Come Together [R, DE]

[Zou ۞]

Name: [Turn Around, Come Together] - The Adventure Name

Participants: [Arrancar/Akki/Hollows] - Who can participate?

Location: [Las Noches] - Where does this take place?

Difficulty Level: [Hard] - Easy, Medium, Hard, Extreme. How difficult is this adventure?

Setting: [DE] Is this DE or NDE? Death Enabled or Non Death Enabled?

Plotline: [There are odd looking monstrosities attacking Las Noches. All within Las Noches, zombie-like things. They have human shape and form, but their bodies are white and featureless. Except for giant mouths, they have nothing on their faces. These mouths have many rows of sharp teeth. These things feed on and devour enemies. Those bitten but not killed and devoured will be infected. What will happen?!] - Explain the plot of your adventure.

Estimated Enemy Strength: [5] Estimate the strength of the NPC's people will fight in this adventure. Class 7-1, what is their strength on average?

Estimated Time Until Completion: [3-4 pages] - How many pages do you think this adventure will run for until it is over?

Starts: [Now] - When does the adventure begin?

Special Conditions: [2 participants maximum.] - Any special conditions, limitations, or other things.

[Arrion Tanados]

OOC: Well, since no one else seems to want to join, I guess i'll try it. . .

IC: It was a fine, dry, and dark day in Heuco Mundo. Then again it usually was. Arrion Tanados, Adjuchas class Hollow was by the gigantic structure of Los Noches, by one of the gates. Inside one of the gates I should say. Why was he here? It wasn't uncommon to see Hollows wandering Los Noches, hardly, they employed Hollows as sort of low ranking foot soldiers. At one point at least. Maybe they still did. That wasn't why Arrion was there though. Something about today seemed different then the rest. Something ominous, deadly, and horrifing. All as a cloud, hanging over Las Noches.

That was why Arrion was there. If there was doom and gloom, perhaps there were good pickings and casualties. Arrancar generally gave the most power to Regular Hollows like Arrion here, thus they were in high demand, and were generally hard to aquire, as they tended to be stronger than Regular Hollows. But the power they did give. . . was lucsious. . . so strong. . . power overwhelming. . . Ahem. Right. Back to the topic.

As said before, something bad was going on. Something unnatural and deadly. And Arrion had landed himself smack dab in the middle of it. He went down the way till he got to the first of the massive corridors of the lowest floor of Las Noches. He had never seen such a gigantic structure, even in the Human world, this building dwarfed everything else. Like some gigantic, silent, hungry beast, ready to devour everything around it and in it. That was a bit scary of a thought. . .

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Strength - [100] Points

Speed - [50] Points

Spiritual Pressure - [40] Points

Reiatsu Strength - [50] Points

Light Aura - [15] Points

Dark Aura - [85] Points

Instinct - [40] Points

Senses [50] Points

Energy sensory - [20] Points

Healing Expertise - [0] Points.]

Total SP: 350

[Gen Shizuo]

Boring. Boring. Boring. Boring! That's how Gen was feeling about everything around him at the moment. He couldn't find anything to do. Las Noches had nothing new to see. Why was it that Gen found humans more interesting than he did his own species? Why did he like to hang around in the human world more than he did here in Las Noches where his home was and where the people who could protect him were? No one could answer that except for Gen, though at the moment, his mind was on something else. He was thinking deeply about something. There must be some place in Las Noches that I haven't explored. There has to be...

Currently, he was walking along the corridors somewhere around his own room. He had only taken about four or five steps from his room at the moment when he had decided that there was nothing to observe. He was about to turn and head back to his room when he realized that he had gotten lost. Oh man. How did he lose his way to his own room?! Gen turned around to retrace his steps and backtrack in the direction he believed he had come from. When he continued down the hallway, he realized that he had taken a left turn around the corner after he had come out of his room. When he had backtracked, instead of turning right, he had turned left, which put him in the wrong direction to his room.

"I...seem to be lost..." he spoke to himself as he continued walking. He walked and walked, for what seemed like hours around Las Noches, going from corridor to corridor trying to make his way back to his room. Each time he would remember his way back, he came upon something that he had been thinking about recently, which distracted him and made him forget how to get back. With each step he took, he became a little more frightened about being so far away from his room. He felt safer there than anywhere else. He was walking calmly, but he was pretty tense inside. Something was coming for him and he could feel it.

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Strength - Decreased[150(105)] Points

Speed - [200] Points

Spiritual Pressure - [200] Points

Reiatsu Strength - Boosted[200(300)] Points

Light Aura - [50] Points

Dark Aura - [50] Points

Instinct - [150] Points

Senses [150] Points

Energy sensory - [100] Points

Healing Expertise - [0] Points


Total SP: [1150] Points

[Zou ۞]

OOC: A post will be up from me once Gen's intro is up.

[Zou ۞]

Well, a lot of people got bored in Las Noches. This much was true. It was dreary, and not much happened in it. An example was Gen's master, the Noveno Espada. Asuka Hitotoki was a girl who was always bored of Las Noches, and thus divided her time up with Shinsei (a Zero Division Shinigami she'd met decades earlier) and hanging around with her old friends from the Fraccion she'd once served under. She also tended to get bullied by her former Boss, and by one of the Fraccion members, the new one that had replaced her. Furthermore, she sometimes had to use her time to keep track of her Fraccion, since two of them were very needy and dependent. Meanwhile, others got bored too.

For example, the Segunda Espada, Kuroi, was just about never seen in Las Noches. Usually he was somewhere in the human world doing some ridiculous training. Lately, rumors had been circulating that he planned to become the greatest living swordsman. Some rumors said that he'd been seen wielding four swords at once, though others insisted that it was only three. Some said he was even looking for yet another blade! They said he had become capable of infinitely growing. Well, that really didn't matter. At the time of these events, Kuroi was not in Las Noches, as expected. In actuality, he was probably training, but that wasn't the reason he was away. Rather, he was preparing for his next fight in the Devil's Vendetta Tournament. Having won his first one, and therefore advanced to the second round, he did have to prepare. Opponents were all stronger than before, and he wanted to win, like everyone else in the tournament did.

At any rate once again, there were many people who got bored. However, when things stopped being boring, things also happened to get just a bit chaotic. Gen and Arrion would find it out soon enough. First thing, just as Arrion was heading towards the entrance, he was blocked. The man with the goat skull mask had a blade aimed at Arrion, and wore a white leather coat, zipped, and matching white pants. He had black desert shoes. The choice of attire indicated that he was Exequias, but nothing special. He was just a regular soldier of Exequias. It seemed that their leader, Shiroi Hokai, was probably away in the human world preparing for his DVT battle as well. In other words, many of the sensationally powerful high ranks were gone, and some of the mid ranks had returned injured. How would Arrion get in when being stared down by this Exequias, who clearly believed Arrion to be of such insignificant value that he shouldn't be allowed in?

And, over on Gen's side, groaning could be heard. Just as he turned a corner, WHAM! He was smacked right into by a featureless white humanoid figure, which instantly started trying to grab at his covered face. It grinned, revealing rows of sharp teeth. It then proceeded to begin opening its mouth, and biting towards Gen, trying to take a nice juicy bite out of the Noveno's Fraccion member. What would he do?!

[Arrion Tanados]

Rgh. . . a guard. Of course they had a guard, it was Las fucking Noches. Apperently whatever was about to happen hadn't happened yet, or was just going on and the panic hadn't set in yet. Either way, Arrion had a gate guard to face. Worse yet, Arrion had no way of knowing exactly how strong this guy was. He could be so much stronger than Arrion that he could just blow him away without much effort, or he could be low enough that Arrion might have a chance against him. But if he fought this guy now, Arrion would loose Reitsu and stamina probably.

There was always the route of diplomacy, though Arrion was sort of lacking in that department. Heavily. The most he had negotiated with anyone was over food and how to split it. And even then it usually ended in the other person being eaten. Werg, perhaps this guy thought so little of Arrion that he would see no reason not to let him pass. After all, Arrion was rather weak. Perhaps there would be some sort of distraction, such as the ominious feeling that would draw the guard off somewhere else.

But that was to optimistic to even think about. In all likely hood, he would have to fight this guy to get in. Arrion COULD ask the guard and hope he let him in, but sadly that seemed non existant. Ahh well, worth a shot right? Arrion summoned up his most diplomatic voice. . .

"I seek entrance to Los Noches, to join Sonken Kouhai's army. What do I have to do to get in?"

Heres hoping the guy didn't rush him. . .

[Gen Shizuo]

It happened so fast that Gen had no time to react. He didn't know what had happened until he fell to the ground and the featureless white humanoid figure was on top of him. Why was he being attacked? Gen's arms lifted instinctively as the featureless white humanoid figure beared down onto him. The sharp teeth it revealed were more than enough to tell him that he needed to get this thing off of him. It was about to take a bite out of the mask fragment covering his head. Luckily, he had that covering his head like a helmet, otherwise, his actual head would have been in danger.

Gen wasn't in a position right now to push that thing off so easily. He would have to use reiatsu to do so. Gen pulled one arm back and then pushed it towards the featureless humanoid figure, firing a Bala from that hand into the creature's lowering head. The Bala was at point blank range and would move too quickly for the creature to realize it coming in time. Even if it did and tried to stop it, Gen was already firing one from the hand holding the creature. The pain from that would stun it enough for Gen to push it off if it was somehow able to stop his first Bala from impacting it's head.

"Just...what...exactly...are you...?" Gen asked in his monotone voice while struggling with the white featureless humanoid figure. "Why are you attacking me anyway?" he wondered. How had something like this even gotten into Las Noches. Had Kouhai let these things in? How had they gotten past the traps and guards set at the entrances. Gen pushed with all the strength he had in an attempt to push the creature off of him after it either had it's head blown off by the bala or had a hole blown into it's chest where Gen was holding it.

Gen's Remaining Reiatsu: 1900 (-100 for 2 Bala)

[Zou ۞]

The guard that was observing Arrion didn't speak at first. It might scare Arrion a second, and might confirm his suspicion that he was just going to get attacked by the guard to the gate. Well, luckily for him, that didn't happen. The guard had just been pausing a few moments, deciding how best to word the answer that he was going to give to Arrion, so that things could be kept most diplomatic. If anything, he didn't seem like he really wanted to kill Arrion. This was one of those "can't be assed" guys who were just doing their job. He didn't really give a damn about Arrion.

"If you're strong enough, you can join as a normal Hollow. If you're weak, you have to leave. By default, Arrancar can get in here on their own, but you're just a normal Hollow..." Well, that was the answer Arrion had gotten from the guard. It was too bad that he didn't know anyone inside of Las Noches all that well. If he was buddy buddy with someone, they could vouch for him and let him into Las Noches. Well, maybe he could make something up. Hopefully if he did, people would buy it, buy into it, or even have the kindness of heart not to sell him out.

Meanwhile, of course, Gen got no answer. The thing didn't answer him, and simply flew off his body as he kicked it away. It hadn't had the sense to dodge either of the Bala, and had died just like that. Not that this helped out, really. Around the corner, four more started stalking towards Gen. At first they were only walking. However, once their faces moved to face Gen, despite the lack of eyes, they started sprinting at him. They rushed towards Gen, running. It was as if they really did just want nothing more than to consume him.

[Gen Shizuo]

OOC: Not sure what's up with Arrion, but I'm going to skip him and post so this thing doesn't get shut down.

IC: Gen got no answer from the beast that had attacked him. How rude! It had tried to eat him and didn't even introduce itself. "Maybe I was a little too quick in attacking..." the Fraccion pondered. "It may have said something if I had waited." Gen spoke in that monotone voice of his as he stood. He dusted himself off and looked around, checking to see if another one was going to jump out of nowhere at him.

Gen was about to start walking again when suddenly, four more of the white featureless humanoid figures came around the corner. They started walking to him, silently and without a word. "What are you guys? Was he your friend?" Gen questioned. It seemed he wasn't going to get an answer from these guys either for they immediately started charging towards him. Gen's lifted his right hand, aiming that at the center featureless white humanoid figure within the group of four. From that hand, he shot two more Bala. These things seemed to be fast, so he was assuming that it could dodge easily if he just blasted it with one. Plus, he was also thinking that he could hit two at the same time or something. Even if he didn't, it wouldn't matter.

His left hand had already reached the hilt of one of the blades sheathed on his back as he was firing out those two bala. He drew that blade with his left hand and threw it forward; however, when he did so, it was in such a way that it would spin around him. He did this by swinging the chain attached to the end of the blade. This was so that he could protect himself from the other two if they got too close. While that blade swung around him, he drew the second with his right hand and swung that one as well. He began swinging both blades around him, letting them extend farther and farther in his grasp each time they made a revolution around him. They would slice into the featureless beasts when they got closer. Even if they didn't move closer, Gen would still hit them by extending the length of the swinging blades as he swung them.

Gen's Remaining Reiatsu: 1800 (-100 for 2 Bala)

[Arrion Tanados]

OOC: Schools whats up. I bearly get any time on the computers here sometimes and im locked out at home. Fortunately, I have no school on friday.

IC: Truth be told, Arrion actually did know someone inside of Las Noches. A certain Espada he had once helped out in the human world. What was his name again? Gah! He needed to remember it, quickly to. Otherwise he would miss all the fun going on in Las Noches. And that would be a disaster. Magnus. . . Magnus. . . W? His last name began with a W, Arrion knew that for certain. Arrion had helped out that Espada during that one time in the Human World, when he was still a Gillian. Somehow he retained that memory when he became an Adjuchas class Hollow. Wait, that was it! Magnus Wonderwizz! All right, he might be able to talk his way into Las Noches then. Or he could be brutaly ravaged. Meh, worth a shot.

"Magnus Wonderwizz can vouch for me."

Arrion said confidently. The thing was, this wasn't a lie. Arrion had helped the Espada out by going to Hueco Mundo and retrieving a certain item for him. Arrion didn't exactly know what it was, but he got it for him anyways. Come to think of it he still owed him for that. Though he did get a bit of a meal out of it. Meh. Arrion still wanted that favor.

[Zou ۞]

"Magnus? He's been missing for quite some time." That was the response to Arrion's use of Magnus's name. Oh, crap. That was very true. Within Las Noches, it was known that Magnus had been defeated horrifically in battle by Kuroi Naito, the Segunda Espada. He'd escaped death by fleeing through a Garganta, into a random place in the human world. Well, more specifically, he'd evaded death by any onlookers that would come after Kuroi was finished. Kuroi himself had just left Magnus alive for whatever fate awaited him. He'd escaped to the human world to heal and get stronger. Therefore, it was only natural that he'd disappeared for a while. He was missing. His name, at that moment, was meaningless to a guard of Las Noches. Arrion would have to give another excuse.

Meanwhile, on Gen's side, his blade and chain killed the two remaining after some Bala took out the two middle. However, that didn't seem to do much. Coming from behind it, their footsteps obviously audible, ten more were running. Gen was going to run out of reiatsu and stamina if this kept up. At that rate, he'd be in some deep trouble. He was slowly being attacked by more and more of those creatures. In fact, Gen had to find an escape route rather than just keep attacking and killing these things. He should conserve his power, and attack only when he needed to use it to really escape. Otherwise, he would end up facing some rather dire consequences. He could end up being out of reiatsu, and out of stamina too.

[Gen Shizuo]

Good. Gen's swinging blades were able to kill the last of those two beasts, but he wasn't done there. As he pulled on his blades to stop their swinging and fly back into his hands, he heard footsteps. His head quickly turned towards the sound to see the ten quickly approaching figures. "What are these things...? Where are they coming from?" Gen asked himself. He had to get out of here quickly or he would be overwhelmed when more came. It seemed they were multiplying and quickly too. Each time he killed one, almost double that appeared after. Even if he killed these ten, he would probably be facing somewhere near 20 next. His instincts were telling him not to stick around. It was no longer fight time. It was time for flight.

Gen looked to his left and there, he saw a window and quickly formulated a plan. He rushed over towards the window, throwing his left blade into it as he moved forwards. The blade crashed through the window, shattering the glass as it did so. Then, Gen leapt forward, smashing into the rest of what was left of the window. He wasn't going to stick around to continue fighting those guys just to be swarmed after killing them. Now, Gen was plummeting towards the ground with no way to form any air ground of reiatsu underneath his feet. So instead, he improvised. He swung around in the air, throwing his right blade into the wall where it quickly stuck into. Gen pulled on the chain and swung himself over to the wall, kicking out his feet to prevent himself from slamming into it. "That was close..."

He wasn't sure whether or not those things would come after him even out here. They seemed to be mindless beasts that acted on instinct alone. So, he decided to keep going down. The farther down he went, the farther away he'd be from those things. Gen kicked off of the wall and slowly lowered himself down with the long chain attached to the blade. Slowly and slowly he lowered himself down, getting more and more anxious with each passing second. If those things didn't get him, the ground would when he slipped and fell. Gen just wanted to be back to his room. Why did he have to get lost anyway?!

Gen stabbed his second blade into the wall when the left blade's chain could go no further. He pulled that one from the wall and began lowering himself with the second blade's chain. It was like climbing down a mountain, except that the mountain was Las Noches. Gen went to push off of the wall with his foot when he slipped and fell. Oh crap! He was plummeting straight towards the ground with no way to break his fall. Oh man, Gen didn't want to die like this. He threw one of his blades towards the wall again in attempt to have it stab into the wall, but it didn't stick in very well and so it slid down with him. He was going to die! Gen hadn't accomplished much in life. He wanted to be strong! Well, he had lived a good life. Gen hit the ground in that moment, however, when he fell he didn't feel the desert sand underneath him. Instead, he had hit something softer. It felt like a body. Gen lay there in shock for awhile, not even realizing that he had just fallen ontop of the guard who was blocking Arrion's way. He needed some time to recover from the fall even though the guard had broken his fall.

[Arrion Tanados]

OOC: Lol. If that works, kudos to you Jazz. And thanks.

IC: Well. Crap. He had forgotten that little tibit of information. Arrion had learned that out when he had encountered said Espada. He was supposed to be missing, for a while at least. Of course since he wasn't here, and since he had been asked to do somthing similar already, Arrion figured it wouldn't be to hard.

"Ahh, yes, forgive me. Sometimes I forget what I was sent to do. I meant to say that Magnus has asked me to come here and retrieve some items for him. He also says to say he is alive and well and his training is going well."

Well it wasn't the best lie Arrion could come up with at the moment, but it was all he had. Of course, as the guard was about to answer, something ah. . . interrupted him. In the form of a body flying down from the upper levels of Las Noches. And slaming into said guard with much force. Possibly knocking him out or outright killing him. Huh. Lucky coinidence I guess? Better go see if the falling guy is ok. . .

"Oy, are you still alive?"

Arrion asked the body on top of the guard.

[Zou ۞]

OOC: Skip me. Interact with each other in the next couple of posts.

[Gen Shizuo]

OOC: You're very welcome.

IC: Gen awoke from his fall to see Arrion standing over him. He heard his voice, but he could barely make out what he was saying. His consciousness was slipping in and out as Arrion spoke. My...body...hurts so much. Why...didn't...I die...from that...? He was trying to gather himself when he finally realized that the thing he lay on top of wasn't sand. He blinked and then sat up, looking around at his surrounding area. He looked down and saw the Arrancar lying underneath him. "I-I'm sorry. Are you okay...?" Gen asked the unconscious Arrancar, unsure of whether or not he would receive an answer. Gen was wondering what to do when he suddenly remembered the hollow that had been standing over him when he awoke.

He turned to Arrion and took a good look at him. "Huh?" Gen wondered, tilting his head slightly to take a good look at Arrion. "What are you doing here...?" Gen asked in that monotone voice of his. He continued staring at Arrion, trying to figure out what a hollow was doing near the entrance to Las Noches. It was then that he had realized that he hadn't introduced himself. "I am Gen Shizuo, Fraccion to Miss Asuka. What do you call yourself?" Gen asked. He was starting a conversation while sitting on the guard. He wasn't even sure whether or not that guy was alive or not. He hadn't waited for an answer and had simply started speaking to Arrion.