Arc 0: Canon -99: Need No Lies [R, NDE, H-E]

[Zou ۞]

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Kaen, all of a sudden and out of nowhere, in a completely unexpected manner, was struck across the cheek by something! A small droplet of blood dripped forth from a cut that had formed on his cheek. Simultaneously, his flames met nothing. No ice. No water. That was unusual. How could it have happened? It should of course have been impossible for those to hit Kaen. His fire should have blocked it. But no, it had done no such thing. His fire had met nothing. And he had been cut across the cheek. And then, all of a sudden, again across the arm, a mere split second after the cheek. On his left arm, blood was trailing down. Down his cheek too. What was that?! Kaen had been hit, but how? Better yet, why had his fire come into contact with nothing? Had it just been so light as to not be detected?

As Kaen was circling Ken, he'd find something peculiar. The water began to rise up, and circle heavily around Ken. It was becoming a larger and larger flooding torrent of water. What would Kaen do, given the enormous attack that was surely being prepared? By matter of fact it looked like there were prickling blades of ice inside of the water torrent. To avoid being caught up in it, he would have to continuously back off a little bit while circling Ken, and give some space so that he was not caught up in the torrent of water. And yet, even as this happened, a second cut formed on his cheek, merely an inch or so below the first cut. They were perfectly parallel. The blood ran in between the two and mixed into a larger droplet.

Ken smirked at Kaen. "It would be troubling to me if your ability could directly counter mine." he said. "Luckily it can't." And then another cut formed on Kaen's chest. All cuts were relatively shallow, drawing merely a droplet of blood. However, it stood to reason that it was odd for this to be happening, given that Kaen's eyes, through all of the hits, would detect nothing. The rushing sound of the water grew louder and louder. The torrent became more and more drowning of all other noises. Exactly what was going on? Kaen was surely in trouble in his current state. What was going to happen?! Why was this all happening so easily?! Time to investigate a little bit. What was the meaning behind these attack connections?

Ken's Remaining Reiatsu: 1450 Reiatsu

Shikai: 2/10

Meanwhile. . .

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"I am here," the Captain Commander said, "For a very simple reason. Indeed, we have already mapped out the strengths and weaknesses of all of you who have arrived. You were indeed the strongest, those also the first to fall. The others will more than likely soon join you in this prison, and together you will probably stand trial." As the Captain Commander spoke, Raito would hear a woman's high pitched scream. And then lots of other shocked screams. He'd see blood everywhere in a Squad's barracks. The walls, the floors, everything. And there was a corpse too, with a white haori on it. The insignia for "7." "Youare all to be detained pertaining to investigation in the assassination and death of Squad 7 Captain Irie Makimaki."

Two hours previously. . .

It was a typical day for anyone that was meant to clean Squad 7's barracks. And yet, it was anything but typical when the barracks were opened up, having been empty all day by some executive order. It was anything but an ordinary day when the barrack doors were opened, and the halls and walls were decked with with blood. The floors too were smeared. Everything was bathed in that dark red liquid. And further investigation resulted in the pulling out of a corpse on a stretcher. Irie Makimaki. Squad 7 Captain. On that stretcher, the corpse was identified as legitimate. The heart had been gouged out, as had the eyes. The hands had also been cut off. The fatal wound however was unidentified. The body had died before the heart was lost. Something else had happened.

And therefore the squadrons rushed to and fro, getting information across, getting healers, etc. It was a disaster, really. The first death of a Captain in the Gotei Thirteen. And moreover, the first assassination of a Captain. It would not be the last in the Gotei Thirteen's long history, but it would certainly always be one of the most remembered and infamous. This had not been a weak man. He had been a Captain of incredible and immeasurable strength. So how it so happened that he had ended up murdered was uncertain, and the culprit was not known either. No traces of reiatsu had been found at the scene. As a result, they'd been forced to simply go off assumption rather than true leads. And this was why others were to be detained as soon as possible.

[Shade Kawada]

Jin did not speak as the Captain wheeled himself closer to the bount. Suddenly, Ousama stopped in his tracks, cocking his head to the side and turning it as if he was looking around for something or listening. In reality, the captain had sensed the power that was infecting Jin’s mind right now and had identified it as the captain who he’d made a promise to earlier. “Luuryak-san, leave this one be. He is mine to slaughter,” he said as he unsheathed his zanpakutou. Who was this Luuryak that Ousama was talking to? Was it the person who was instilling the voices and illusions in the bount’s head? That was the most likely case. Either way, Jin had other things to worry about now. Ousama pointed his blade at Jin with his eyes shut and his head hanging slightly down.

“Bleed, Zetsumei” grunted the captain as he released his zanpakutou. Jin would see the sky turn dark red and red sparks of electricity flicker across the buildings and ground around them in no particular pattern. Just what was happening? Nothing except the environment seemed to change after the captain released his shikai? Suddenly, Jin would hear a whooshing sound behind him. If the bount turned to look, he’d see nothing but empty air behind him. Suddenly, a large corner of a building was sliced clean off of its place and fell to the ground. How was this possible? Ousama had shown no indication of making a move.

It was as soon as this happened that Jin would feel crippling pain in his legs. As he was distracted by the corner falling, his Achilles tendons had both been severed by some unseen force. Jin would fall to the ground, defenseless as the red sky seemed to darken. “Beg me to kill you...” uttered the captain as he wheeled himself in Jin’s direction, “Beg and I will grant your wish for death.” Little did Jin know that Ousama had no intention of making his death quick and painless. Ousama was not done with the bount and relished the act of torturing his victims. The best that Jin could hope for was passing out from pain or blood loss, but the chances that would happen were slim. Ousama had gotten quite skilled at killing his prey slowly and painfully without allowing them to go unconscious.

Remaining Reiatsu: 9,800
Shikai: 1/10

[Zou ۞]

OOC: Whoever wants to post next can go for it!

[Zou ۞]

OOC: You should've read my post. He used Shunpo to get behind Cupid.

[Zou ۞]

OOC: One of the purposes of Shunpo is being able to quickly move to dodge an attack. In slow motion, he could easily have weaved to dodge, or simply gone around. Shunpo is not teleportation, but is so close to the idea that something such as dodging arrows, of which there are NOT a completely overwhelming amount, is rather trivial. Getting behind the enemy with Shunpo is easy. That's what step techniques are practically for, is dodging lame duck attacks like that.

[Zieg Revolver]

OOC: I could post in this if you want .-. either reprising my role as Mr.Sting or as one of my characters.

[Zou ۞]

OOC: We'll see how it goes.

[Kaen Youji]

Kaen felt the sting of something slicing his cheek. It wasn't a deep cut, but just enough to draw blood. One of the more irritating types of wounds to suffer. His eyes narrowed slightly, and noted the likely attack on his way. It was gonna be big and flashy, he expected. Kaen did indeed give some ground, to make space to try and avoid the oncoming attack, but a second cut formed. Hm. Is he manipulating the water in the air? Or simply launching out ice shards too small to be noticed? Kaen wondered. It was likely a defensive position would be ineffective. Even though he was at a distance, Kaen recognized the need to attack!

The shinigami launched up his hand, and unleashed a wave of fire that blazed forwards at Ken's water wall. Water vs fire? What was Kaen up to? The plan was actually fairly simple. When fire and water collided, it would create steam, from the rapidly evaporating water. Maybe Kaen could even have hoped to eventually pushed through Ken's water wall if he'd tried long enough, but a static attack like that would be easily countered. Kaen was aiming to create a considerable amount of steam to cover his next move.

The third officer from the future leapt up into the air above the steam cloud he was creating. Ken's circling water left an obvious avenue of attack. His defenses were limited from above him! An attack like that would be too easily anticipated if Ken could maintain sight of Kaen, however, so the third seat instead opted to strike from above. Pointing his hand directly down at the position Ken had been occupying, Kaen shaped multiple softball sized fireballs and rained them down. He hadn't discounted the possibility of Ken moving, and so he sprayed them down in a Vegeta-esque fashion, blasting as much ground as possible, within the cloud, each fireball giving off a sizeable explosion, upon collision with the ground, and sending debris from the particles of the battlefield flying about. Kaen's eyes narrowed, trying to discern the damage his attack had inflicted.

Reiatsu remaining: 1300
Shikai: 3/10

[Zieg Revolver]

OOC: Alright well let me know if/when I can join, especially if its to be Mr.Sting. XD

[Jin Yamada]

Such...bloodlust. I can't even move my body! Jin could only stand there paralyzed. He couldn't even take a step back as the Captain approached him. Ousama's reiatsu was too powerful. It bore down on Jin so hard that he couldn't move a single muscle in his body. Like a scared little animal, he could only just stand in place while the predator approached. A bead of sweat suddenly dripped down the side of his face. His eyes grew wide when Ousama called out to someone else. There was someone else there?! How had he been so unlucky as to run into two opponents at once?! Damn it!

Wait, no. It seemed the one in front of him was telling the other one to go away. Jin was his to slaughter. There wasn't much Jin could do in the state of paralysis he was in now. Why...why won't my body move?! I need to get out of here. I need...to...get out of here!" And that was when the Captain aimed his blade at Jin very suddenly. Soon after that, Ousama released his blade and it seemed as if even nature was changing in response to the release of his power. The sky turned dark red and across the buildings on his left and right, red sparks of electricity began flickering. And then, Jin heard a whooshing sound behind him. An attack? Move!

However, it was to no avail. The Bount Leader's body seemed rooted to the spot. He cringed when he heard the slab of the building hit the ground and crumble. And then, he felt it. The crippling pain in his legs that brought him down to his knees. He cried out in pain as his knees hit the ground and he fell on all fours. He wasn't sure at all what had just happened, but he didn't want to die like this. He still had so much to accomplish for his race! He heard Ousama's voice, asking him to beg for death. It was then that Jin's mind flashed back to those memories. To those times when he was running from Shinigami.

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"Beg for your life, trash." one Shinigami had told him. Jin was on the ground that time. He had been ambushed and surrounded. He fought them thinking that he could have won. He fought them thinking that he could show them the power he had gained. He thought he had become powerful enough. Little had he known the power that these people he had come to know as Shinigami possessed. They were out of his league at that time.

"You don't deserve to live. Just fucking die already..." another said while delivering a kick to Jin's ribs. He doubled over in pain and fell to the ground. He lay there while that same Shinigami planted a foot down on his head. "If you ask nicely, we'll give you a painless death, Bount trash." a third said to him. And in that moment, despite all of the anger he felt he could do nothing to them. His blood was boiling. He wanted to destroy them. To rip them apart. To kill them. But then, he couldn't do anything because he had just learned of his powers. That time, he had to be saved by someone else...


"Tell it...to my secretary...mate..." Jin said slowly. He stared at the ground as he said this. Despite the fear he had felt earlier, somehow he had been able to speak. Somewhere, he had found the courage to reply in such a way to someone who had no qualms about killing him right then and there. The anger of that memory fueled him. It gave him strength. He was able to fight through the paralysis with that memory and others from those times. He pushed himself up and lifted his head. How Ousama would react to Jin's sudden vigor was unknown. "I...can't..." he muttered softly. "I can't...I can't...I won't!" A blue aura suddenly flared into existence over Jin's body. With its activation, came the healing of his severed achilles tendons. In only a few seconds, with the help of the abundant reiatsu surrounding them, Jin was able to heal himself.

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"I won't let you Shinigami continue to talk down to us..." Jin began as he stood. He got up slowly, trying to adjust himself as his achilles tendon was still healing fully. While getting up, he placed a hand in his pocket. He pulled out the golden yoyo from that pocket and gripped it tightly, letting the first few words hang there in the air. Surely, Ousama would be caught off guard by what had just happened. Jin had been able to recover from his attack so quickly. He wouldn't know what it was that Jin was doing or what he was even talking about. But of course, he would feel the flare in Jin's reiatsu. It was building very rapidly all of a sudden. "Zeige dich, Hitze..." he said as he flicked the yoyo forward. The golden toy flared with reiatsu as it wheeled itself off of the string, moving quickly towards the Shinigami Captain. It glowed a bright golden color and Jin continued speaking, "Erste Komposition!"

The golden yoyo suddenly burst into an orange colored dust cloud that quickly moved to surround the approaching Captain. Such an unfamiliar release might take him by surprise at first. Who knew? Would it even catch him offguard? The field of orange dust that moved to surround the Captain condensed very suddenly and became a steady beam of brightly glowing energy. That beam of glowing energy, orange in color, blasted out towards the Shinigami Captain. If it hit, it would blast third and fourth degree burns across his body. Or at least, that's what Jin thought. He wanted to make him pay for his threats. From there, Jin disappeared from where he stood. He blurred and reappeared standing on one of the buildings to Ousama's left.

Without a word, a huge cloud of orange gas suddenly rushed forth from his body to devour the wheelchair-bound Captain who was also being attacked by the steady beam of heat energy. This cloud, however, was much much larger than the last. That daunting wave of orange gas moved in quickly (stat speed: 400) to devour the Captain and consume his body. Ousama would realize the danger it possessed as the cloud turned the ground it moved over to ash while heading towards him. Due to his reiatsu strength, it would take some time to turn him to ash completely; though nonetheless, he was still in danger. From there, Jin had Hitze spread around that small area the two of them were in, about 20 feet around. Whether or not Ousama escaped the attacks, he would feel the incredible increase in temperature that occurred very suddenly. The heat might not get to him as quickly because of his reiatsu strength, but soon he would begin to feel it. He would begin to lose his physical and awareness abilities over time as long as he remained within the heat. It would be subtle when it hit him, but in the end he'd succumb to it just as others did. And, since he wasn't able to escape as easily as most due to his limited mobility, he would be stuck within the heat for some time. He was going to cook for sure, that's what Jin figured.


Jin's Remaining Reiatsu: 2325/3400 (-400 for Vok Sheit, -400 for Doll Release, -25 for Movement)

Hitze Remaining Reiatsu: 2800/3400 (-400 for Erste Komposition, -200 for Hitzewelle)

Vok Sheit: 1/5

Wüsten-Abfluss: Active

[Zou ۞]

Kaen would find an anomaly with what he was attempting. It happened as soon as the water met with the fire. Instantly, there was a huge puff of steam. The puff was so enormous, the cloud so incredibly gigantic, that it rose all around their battleground and beyond it. It instantly obscured Kaen's view. The steam was very, very thick. And upon this happening, Kaen would find that he was therefore unable to appropriately time and aim the rest of his attack sequence. Therefore, when he went to do it, it was very highly likely that he would miss. But, one more odd thing. A spark of light ignited somewhere in the steam within Kaen's view, but was gone the instant after that. What had just happened? Kaen would have no time to go find out.

Suddenly, more cuts started spreading across his body, these ones far deeper. More blood would be drawn, and these wounds, six in total, would be of a more serious nature. They were nothing life threatening or even battle ending, nor crippling. However, the depth meant that these would continue to bleed, and Kaen might actually face trouble later as a result since there were six wounds. A single wound of that depth was without problems. Six made this an issue. But what was this ability? The steam cloud quickly cleared, revealing to Kaen that his enemy was no longer where he had thought he was. Of course, he had no doubt moved while the somehow gigantic steam cloud was there. What he was doing was simple.

Behind Kaen, he was whiplashing a huge whip of water toward Kaen. He was about ten meters away, but the whiplash was about five meters thick and twenty meters long. If it hit Kaen, he would be engulfed in the water. Given that earlier some of the water had been turned to ice, it was possible that if caught in the whip, Kaen would be frozen. So he would probably not want to stick around for that. On the other hand, he had still been cut last time somehow. So there was a trick to this ability, and Kaen was missing it. But, if he dawdled around, then he obviously would not get anywhere. Therefore, it was within his best interests to fight then, and to think later. That would most definitely help his case out.

Ken's Remaining Reiatsu: 1450 Reiatsu

Shikai: 2/10

[Cupid Koikokoro]

OOC: I still don't understand how a shunpo can weave between arrows when it's a single step? Can you change that many directions in a single step? I guess I've been looking at stepping techniques entirely wrong. And I really don't understand how it speeds up the mental processes, or "slow motion" when that should be a different stat all together but I'm over the matter so moving on..

IC:

Cupid hyrenkyakued when he realized that Kurubo was going to dodge the rest of his arrows. Cupid activated this for a constant post so that he would be able to land a hit this time. He moved away from Kurbuo positioning himself far enough away but not too far that his attack would be easily dodged. Cupid was going to need to pay up some reiatsu if he was going to get the ball rolling. The only thing was that Cupid didn't want to attract too much unnecessary attention to himself. There were a lot of strong enemies around and Cupid didn't want to get caught up in a sticky situation that would result in his permanent end of existence.

Cupid turned to face Kurubo. His bow had been readied during the movement and pointed at Kurubo. Cupid fired 10 arrows at Kurubo. These arrows were incredibly faster than before. Kurubo may be thrown off by this and in the end suffer for it. The reason these arrows were so much faster was because Cupid's bow property allows his arrows to be double Cupids speed. And during hyrenkyakyu his speed was severely increased which in turn also increases the speed of his arrows. Cupid continued moving as he fired each arrow. This was so they would all be heading from different directions. With his speed increase he would be able to cover the frontal areas infront of Kurubo nicely. This means his arrows were not 800 speed but 8000 speed. At such an incredible speed was there really any chance of dodging?Kurbuo was going to need to overpower it if at all possible.

Another thing was Cupid's superior reitsu strength. This means that his arrows were going to be that much harder to block if that route is chosen. Cupid's arrows were all class 1 which would put Kurubo at an even higher disadvantage. Things were not looking well for Kurubo at this point. Was the shinigami going to be able to hold his own much longer?

Remaining Reaitsu: 3480
-70 class 1 arrow(x10)
+1600 Quincy Cross intake
-400 contant hyrenkyaku(1 post)
-200 final silence level 1
Final Silence Level 1 Active[/b]

[Zou ۞]

Kurubo cursed as he approached, and his body was hit by arrows. He was impaled, and sent flying back. As he went flying, blood shot not just out of his wounds, but out of his mouth as well. Of course, this meant that Kurubo had been defeated, and that Cupid could proceed on his way. Kurubo flew back, and fell towards the ground. As he impacted it, and was dragged across it, his eyes shut. He had been knocked out. He may even have been killed. It was possible. But, Cupid probably didn't have the time to check for that. What mattered first of all was getting to the next location, and doing it quickly. If not, then he would find himself in a world of obvious trouble. There was a strong reiatsu, and it was approaching him. Quickly.

Suddenly, a huge surge could be felt. It was almost immobilizing how strong the reiatsu was. Cupid would find that it was much stronger than his, and that it was an overwhelming ocean of depressing force. More or less, this was a reiatsu belonging to a Captain of the Original Gotei Thirteen. It also meant that he had to get away from that area. If he did not retreat, then he would be confronted by a Captain. Judging wisely, he'd probably come to the realization that he was no match for one of these original 13 Gotei Captains. And so if he encountered one, he would be defeated and captured, or perhaps he would be killed. It was not a risk that he would be able to take, and he probably knew it too. It was time to move on.

[Cupid Koikokoro]

Cupid's eyes widened when he saw that his attack had managed to work. Quickly his bow dissipated and he began to move towards the shinigami. He needed to know what all this place had in store and he wasn't going to do it unless he had someone to give him the answers. Cupid looked at Kurubo as he approached him. He knew that he was barely alive and not even conscious. Taking him would only slow Cupid down and he might not even get any answers. Cupid had tough decision to make but he was not going to take that large of a risk so he ultimately decided against it. Cupid quickly searched the shinigami for anything that he could use to his advantage.

Cupid then sensed it there was someone powerful heading his way. Cupid rose immediately. He had very good energy sensory and could easily tell that this person was on a whole different level then he was willing to deal with. Cupid began to move. He needed to get himself far enough away from the person who had been heading in his direction. Cupid made sure that he hid his reaitsu and masked himself as well as he could to prevent anyone from sensing him that doesn't need to be sensing him. Cupid knew that he was going to be sensed by some if not most anyways but he needed to take as many precautions as he could. Cupid moved stealthily onward trying to not bring any attention to anyone. But at the same time he kept an eye out for anyone that he could capture and force into speaking so that he could form some kind of plan in order to do this correctly.

[Zou ۞]

Despite Cupid's best attempts, he would soon find that a powerful reiatsu began to push down on him. And soon, he would find that even running on rooftops was a bad idea. Any elevated position made the pressure worse and worse. And therefore, as this happened, he would inevitably find himself running around in the hallways of the Seireitei as it had been 33,000 years ago. And, in those hallways, Cupid would meet someone that he would never wish to have met in his life. There, in those hallways, he would see his nemesis. Reiatsu was dancing around viciously as Cupid arrived. The first thing Cupid would see was nothing but blinding light, a powerful golden reiatsu unlike any he had ever before seen and experienced.

And then, standing there, he would see an enormous man, rippling with muscle. This man was big. Bigger than life. He was at least eight feet tall, and his muscles rippled powerfully. Worse yet for Cupid, he would find that the man standing before him had a reiatsu stronger than he had ever before fought against. The man with short hair and a Zanpakuto in his grasp already was emanating a reiatsu that seemed to pulse like the heart of the world. This man was without a doubt the Captain of Squad 11. Kenpachi Guren. Hope was standing in conflict with the powerful Captain of Squad 11. The first man ever to don the title of Kenpachi. None could fail to recognize this legend of a man. The Captain's robes were all he wore on his torso, and he wore it as a sleeveless, open vest, revealing his abdomen covered in muscle.

Saying nothing, Kenpachi Guren flexed slightly. He swung his blade around a few times, just as a warmup. On the first one, a devastating blast of wind rushed outward. Cupid would feel it as his body was hit by the wind. It was enough to push him back a couple of inches. And that had been with a lazy flick. The second one created a similar gust of wind. However, the third was the most terrifying. With the descending of the third blow, a huge blast of golden reiatsu annihilated the building next to Kenpachi. And this was how it became clear that the end of his freedom was coming. Cupid was face to face with a master. The Squad 11 Captain, who stood there with a huge grin on his face. What would happen next?