Arc 1: Canon 7: Aijou Manako [Complete]

[Zou ۞]

OOC: Nope. AGAS mode is meant to neutralize Shinigami who can use Shikai. It's now above Vice Captains in power, though still below Captains. Any Captain should still be able to dispatch a heavy suit of armor like the Guardians. A single one is pretty weak on its own.

[Zieg Revolver]

OOC: Gotcha.

[Bokuga Sayuri]

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!" Sayuri was laughing hysterically. It was exactly as he remembered it in the past. Before, this monster had been so overwhelmingly powerful that the Captain Commander, King of Las Noches, and even an enemy's leader put together had not been able to stand against him. Here this person was, having lost his powers. He'd used Saigo No Houmen, and he was still strong enough to get out of a Captain's powerful strategy. He was strong like no other! It was impressive, and it was delicious.

Sayuri's tongue slid out of his mouth, and he licked his lips hungrily, greedily. He was a dog that wanted the marrow of a bone. "Oh, how I want to dissect you, God of Murder..." Sayuri said. He began fantasizing about the things that he was going to do to Satsujun. It was almost a sexual thrill to him, even. It was with palpable palor, glamor, and gleam that he wished to dissect this man. He was imagining how nice it would feel to run his scalpel across this specimen's chest, and how satisfied he would feel as he discovered all of the answers by picking apart the former Spirit Prince's reiatsu.

Sayuri's chains were circling around, and a creaking and hissing could even be heard. His violet reiatsu was pulsating from his body. His pink and red eyes were starved it seemed, for whatever it was that kept him going. Sayuri was giving a stare at Satsujun, but he wasn't staring at him. He was staring inside of him, through him, into his recesses. He was already hypothesizing about what it was that made him tick. He'd lost his powers and could still fight this well because he'd regained reiatsu and obtained some new powers. How was it that this was possible? Sayuri wanted so badly to find out! He could taste every second that would come to him just on the air.

His next strategy would be a simple one. All that Sayuri had to do was attack the humans first. "So, is that it?" Sayuri asked. "Can you do more, God of Murder? Do you have other powers? I command you! Show them to me this instant." Sayuri clapped and grinned. "Bankai..." The blades on the ends of his chains started to grow and change shape, and the chains grew longer. Blood started pouring from his torn eyes all over the body, and the gigantic pendulum blades began to twirl around. "Kuroi...Bako..."

Sayuri's blades twirled and danced, and the pendulum blades fell down in sequence on the populace. He intended to carve and kill all of them. His blades were flying around with destructive intent. He was going to make sure that every last one of them were dead, or else that Satsujun saved them. With so many blades all at once, Satsujun couldn't possibly save all of the people. It was ironic. For once, the Shinigami were really the villains, and Satsujun was being forced to play the hero.

Reiatsu: 6400/7000

Bankai: 1/10

[Zou ۞]

OOC: The other two can feel free to post in this when they want.

[Assai Fuchi]

OOC: This post will be longer, and i am aware of the drawback of the techinque i use in this post, but because of his Double Spiritual pressure, i believe his extra strength will help him ward off the extreme severity of the effects, but not all of it.

IC: She is the Vizard..., Takakazu realized through powers of deduction. Satsujun of course was not the Vizard and the man that was helping the god of murder had released a power similar to Satsujun and not a zanpakutou. This left the deduction that SHE was the Vizard, though who she was he was unsure of. It doesn't matter who she is, she must die... Takakazu looked at her with a blank and accepted demeanor. "So be it.." He let his power flow out, and his fire totem flared brighter then it had in almost three hundred years. He raised his left hand and pointed at the girl, "Come, chuusekikasai and consume her!" It was indeed a very flashy moment, but paled in what was to come.

His fire totem faded into spirit particles in front of him, it then flared and expanded in the pillar of fire. it was eight feet high, two and a feet wide and blazing with blue and white colored flames. The flames hissed in the cold and then without warning started to advance on the girl. it was faster then the average human, but slower then an a pro athlete. It was also making it's way directly at the girl. Let's see what she does now, Takakazu leaned on his staff and concentrated on catching his breath, normally that would have left him shaking and gasping for air, however his doubled spriitual pressure took most of the strain off.

If it touched any part of her with it's extreme heat, it would light her ablaze and if it caught her, she would instantly be reduced to ash. Even if they stopped in their fight to witness the pillar, it's only focus was on the girl. Takakazu spoke out loudly, "I am far from weak, Vizard!" Even Zeig would hear his outburst, and it would be sure to draw the attention of everyone. Even if satsujun tried to negate his spell, he would find it impossible. As much as Satsujun's powers were a part of him, so was this pillar a part of both itself and of Takakazu. And killing him, well... no one knew what would happen but Takakazu if he died. They would all die...

Remaining Reiastu: 12250/13500 (-1000 for kidou)

Total Fire totem usage: 0/15

Total Lightning/Wind Totem Usage: 14/15

[Zou ۞]

Fast. Satsujun...was fast. Sayuri would find this out the instant that his Bankai was activated. In a single instant, Satsujun was standing before him, and he was strong too. His hand grabbed Sayuri's face, and he blasted away, completely out of the area! He was flying with Sayuri far, far away. His skin was a hot, burning red. Sayuri would feel it too, when Satsujun grabbed him. He'd been so fast as to punch all of Sayuri's blades to negate the power Sayuri put into them, and then grab Sayuri and rocket off, even dragging those pendulum blades along for the ride. It felt however like Satsujun was cooking. What Satsujun had done was a taboo. It was a stacked, consecutive activation of Willpower. Just two in a row was dangerous. He'd used it five times. His body was charring, and fast. They soon reached another place on the outskirts of town. It was deserted, and no one was there. Satsujun backed off, and cocked his head to one side. "Will you continue, Captain?"

Meanwhile, Takakazu received the worst surprise of his life. Aijou didn't even move as the flames moved forwards. Instead, she released. "Rain, Tsuiraku." The flames were still nowhere near her. They were slow. She was not. Her Zanpakuto did not visibly change at first, and then she disappeared. The flames, which were tracking her, would end up moving back towards Takakazu, and then dodge him or he'd dodge them, and back towards Aijou. But, this wasn't the point. She hadn't intended to attack him with his own flames. There was a reason why no one was supposed to engage her. Aijou Manako was one of the most powerful things ever to exist. There was no hope for Takakazu of ever being able to beat her.

Materializing behind him, though far away, around twenty meters, Aijou had her Zanpakuto aimed at Takakazu. And before he could react, before he could even hope to conjure up another attack, and before his thoughts even caught up with him, it was over. His legs buckled out from under him, and yet there was no pain. It happened so fast that there was no way for pain to catch up with him. In fact, the nerves in that area had been fried anyway. If he looked down at his left leg, he'd see it. There was a large gaping hole where his knee had been. From Aijou's blade, a thin bolt of lightning had shot out. However, what had made it impossible for Takakazu to counter was the speed. It moved at the speed of light. That was Aijou's power. It was impossible to counter this because of the speed. Counter, dodge, etc. No one could move that fast.

His knee was gone. His leg was going to actually fall apart if he got back up. There was a hole in his leg. He couldn't stand. Aijou had taken a non-lethal shot. She hadn't killed him even when she could. She was proving that he was nothing but weak. Aijou only spoke briefly, and coldly. She didn't have much to say. "Though a worm like you can wish for greatness, a worm is still a worm. Just as mere birds kill you, so too do wolves kill them, and lions wolves, and dragons lions. You can never hope to fight me." She kept her blade aimed at Takakazu, who was in fact in the way of his flames. They were going straight, and could well hit him and kill him if he didn't get out of the way. Worse yet, Aijou wasn't done with him. The flames were so slow, too...

Another shot. Takakazu wouldn't feel it either until he saw what had happened. With that speed of light attack, there was no hope for dodging. Aijou noticeably wasn't moving her left arm, and her right eye was crying tears of blood, and it looked completely white for the moment. Regardless, the second shot was larger than the first, and it completely severed Takakazu's right arm from his body. Aijou was a monster compared to Takakazu. In fact, compared to everyone. Aijou was strong. No doubt about it. And Takakazu...had severely overestimated himself and underestimated Aijou. The flames were approaching, and Aijou simply moved away again, back to the original rooftop. She could evade them forever. She aimed her blade at Takakazu again. "No mercy." Aijou said. What would happen next?!

Satsujun's Remaining Reiatsu: 1700 Reiatsu

Willpower 5x: 1/5

Current Strength and Speed: 2700

Aijou's Remaining Reiatsu: 2300 Reiatsu

Shikai: 1/10

Note: Aijou's speed, senses, and instinct all double in Shikai.

[Assai Fuchi]

OOC: Can i get Ajou's Stats?

[Zieg Revolver]

OOC: Strength - [200 (100)] Points

Speed - [400](1200) Points

Spiritual Pressure - [0 - But Immune] Points

Reiatsu Strength - [400 (800)] Points

Light Aura - [70] Points <---- 10 during release/mask

Dark Aura - [30] Points <---- 90 during release/mask

Instinct - [150](300) Points

Senses [150](300) Points

Energy sensory - [50] Points

Healing Expertise - [50] Points


Total SP: [1400] Points

[Assai Fuchi]

OOC: do we have a posting order anymore or can i just reply?

[Zou ۞]

OOC: You can reply, but if you continue interacting with Aijou, she will kill you without a doubt. Cut your losses and move on.

Her app states not to engage her in any way.

Don't be cocky.

You've been warned.

[Zieg Revolver]

Zieg gritted his teeth as he saw his bullets effectively blown away by the guardian, it activating some kind of mode that Zieg knew nothing about. Well, he did know something at least: that it was not good. This thing must have received some kind of upgrade from the last time he had faced it! A bead of sweat dripped down the side of the captain's forehead as he nervous look came into his eyes as he locked eyes with the now gold guardian. This thing was tougher then he had expected but it made sense though that there would be an upgraded version of this thing from the last time he faced it. There was an entire army of them afterall! No doubt there had been specific ones created to form specific units against the shinigami and this was one of the cases. Unknown to Zieg, this model of guardian seemed to had been created namely to deal with vice captain leveled shinigami. However, Zieg was not a vice captain leveled shinigami any longer, even though it has only been recently since his promotion. He had to deal with this opponent now and he know decided to not second guess his decision to go bankai.

Zieg watched as the guardian vanished from sight, though he did not bother to turn around now. He knew how fast these things could "step" and if he did not see it now infront of it, it wasn't infront of him. It had already tried to attack him earlier from behind, so through battle learning experience, his best chance was that it was doing the same. Turning completely around as he slid his front foot back behind him, with his gunblade in a double gripped down by his side as he brought it up in a rising slash motion horizontally, he was correct. All three of the blades would clash between the two opponents, both blades clashing and being shoved upward by Zieg as the met with the top edge of the blade. Indeed, the guardian itself was made out of heavy metal but Zieg had monstrous strength to hold it back and force the blades away from him but he could not do much after that. He noticed that it seemed to had quickened itself, for he made the guard just in in and he felt a little more strength in the attack. This did not mean that it had gotten smarter and Zieg was getting annoyed by the guardian already.

“Ive had enough of you!” Zieg shouted at the guardian as he shoved against the blades while slamming his front foot against the torso of the armor fiercely as he gave it a boot. Both actions occurred at the same time and forced Zieg away from the Guardian swiftly several feet, getting out blade reach of it. The attacks would, in combination eachother, most likely drive the Guardian back itself and disrupt it for a moment as he performed the following. "Bankai!" Zieg roared as a tower of crimson red and aqua blue reiatsu consumed him and then, a second later , disparted to reveal Zieg aiming two miniguns at the guardian, several leather straps attached around his torso so that if he dropped them they would hang at his sides. The barrels of the miniguns were already rotating at a blurring pace, Zieg already had both triggers held down so both were ready to fire. However, he suddenly vanished from sight, using a shunpo, and appeared in a rather particular place: the shoulders of the guardian. Would it expect such a thing to happen, had it the knowledge of what to do if something got ontop of it like Zieg had? Probably but there was a problem, could it think in time? For when Zieg appeared out of his shunpo, he had already maneuvered his miniguns so that they were pointing down and he only had to move the barrels slightly to take aim at his target: the head.

In that instant ace, a barrage of chocolate brown glowing bullets rained down upon the head of the guardian, thick chunks of earth bursting against the guardian. Zieg had infused his bullets with the element of earth to enhance the damage that his bullets would do to the opponent. None of his other elements really would of worked, unless he combo'd using both water and lightning rounds but that would take time. He wanted to end it now and in this position, he could. The multiple volleys of bullets struck only the top of the guardian's head, dozens upon dozens and even in the low hundreds from how many had come out within the time Zieg had held the triggers, which was only about three to four seconds. He was already in a position where he could get out of some kind of counter attack by the guardian, that was if his attack proved to have failed. Hopefully the impact damage from the earth rounds had bee enough to pierce the helmet and fry whatever brain the guardian had inside of it. It was logic that Zieg would target the head, since it was one of the few vulnerable spots and he was indeed taking a gamble. Every attack had a possibility of failure.

Bankai: 1/12
Reiatsu: 350/1100

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Strength - [290](580)(522) Points

Speed - [280](560) Points

Spiritual Pressure - [150](110) Points

Reiatsu Strength - [400](600)(800) Points

Light Aura - [50] Points

Dark Aura - [50] Points

Instinct - [215] Points

Senses [205] Points

Energy sensory - [60] Points

Healing Expertise - [0] Points

Total SP: 1510 ]

[Zou ۞]

In a sudden burst of golden light and reiatsu everywhere, Zieg would find that he'd missed. The Guardian was naturally faster than he was while this new system was active. It had dodged his attack. Whether or not this indicated that there was potential danger to it was unknown. It was a machine, and therefore it was simply programmed. If it dodged instinctively, simply by programming, then Zieg was in trouble. If it simply dodged out of sensing danger, then perhaps at least he had a fairly good chance. Regardless, it seemed that he'd encountered quite a difficult foe. Rather than materialize behind him as it had before, this time it materialized to his left side, its blades crossed and slashing across one of his firing miniguns. It was a tactic it hadn't used before.

Instead of directly attacking Zieg, the Guardian was attacking his minigun on the left side. It was meant to damage and cut apart the weapon. And with the reiatsu strength that this thing possessed, it could do that. It had gotten smarter. This attack could cripple Zieg by destroying one of his weapons. Obviously, it wasn't going to be a good day for him if he was impacted by these Guardians and he lost his weapons. If he lost even one minigun, his chances grew very slim of having a good way to fight back. It was geared for a level in between Vice Captain and Captain when at its fullest potential, though Zieg would not know that it was not quite at its full potential. It wouldn't be until after it slashed with the blades, and hit or missed, that he'd see what it could do.

The Guardian pulled back, and away from Zieg, and its automated voice sounded "Initiating Shikai: Harashi Minoto." Flames suddenly roared up, licking at the blades of the Guardian. It aimed one of its blades at Zieg from afar, and its voice sounded yet again. It was...shocking. The Guardian...could use Shikai?! How? It didn't even have a Zanpakuto! How did it use these powers? It was using Shikai. It couldn't even think for itself because it was a programmed machine! It was using Shikai. It didn't even have a soul! It was using Shikai. It didn't have a soul that they knew of. The one Zieg had brought back before had already been dead, but traces of reiatsu had been found from it, even if the shell had been empty.

And once again, its voice sounded. "Initiating Technique: Fire Illumita." In an instant, a large fireball formed, and indeed it was very large because of the reiatsu strength of the Guardian. This fireball, twice the size of Zieg, shot off of the left blade. And then, following it, a second one charged off the right blade and fired out too. Just as well that it should. The flames rushed outwards towards Zieg, heading for him. It certainly did seem like he was in trouble. And yet, one thing was also noteworthy. This reiatsu...it would feel familiar. Why it would feel familiar was uncertain. But Zieg should realize that this was a reiatsu which he'd felt before, perhaps decades ago. Just what exactly was this Guardian? What were these soldiers?

[Assai Fuchi]

Takakazu has screwed up, but not as bad as he could have. He had in fact engaged a character with a power on a whole entirely new plane of strength. What She didn't realize was while he was leaning against his staff he was paying attention. He realized that even with all the power it contained it was still too slow, he was worried and then she spoke her release phrase. instinctively at the same time she spoke his neck lit up a bright yellow, his mind's subconscious need for self-preservation kicking in above all else. Strong winds, invisible in the night swirled around takakazu tightly making a shield like cocoon. He knew for know he would be safe as he normally possessed reiastu on the level of a captain and right now he had double the amount. His shield should protect him against anything, even as his pillar slowly stalked right at him...

She's behind me...! was all he could think when the unthinkable happened, she pierced his shield. However, the only reason she was able to pierce it was because of her zanpakutou's massive attack speed, even so. His winds shifted the attack slightly,and instead of blowing off his leg, it cut straight through the tendon known as the ACL that allowed support for the knee to hold up the leg. And before he could even scream or cry out, his shoulder was cut deeply. the winds had only shifted the attack yet again, this time he was bleeding profusely from his right arm. his kidou, Hado 69. was meant to block reiastu based attacks from attackers with lower RS then he possessed. She did meet this requirement, however the speed of her attacks allowed for her to peirce his cocoon of wind and it was the because of the cocoon he still had either of his limbs at all.

The shield caught the attacks as they hit the opposite side of the shield and takakazu gritted his teeth, the winds rapped him in a cocoon of light which would have lit up the night sky. then it would have dispersed in all directions in a flash of light and with his kidou's second effect, the howl of wind that was so loud to Ajou, it would have shattered her eardrums with her high senses and the flash would have blinded her momentarily. By the time her eyes cleared, all she would see was the pillar of fire slowly making it's way at her. It was too slow to keep up with her and she could surely outrun it, however it's caster was nowhere to be seen. He was all the way across the town using a one legged shunpo to get there entering a sekimon gateway, he was bleeding profusely and his pride was wounded.

A vizard had nearly cost him two of his limbs, as the gate sealed itself behind him. He was too weak, this could not continue. He was powerful, but not nearly as strong as he needed to be. His pillar he had left behind, it would chase the vizard chugging along for the next straight 10 hours if his calculations were correct. but it she entered a garganta, or anything of the like it would just hover until it went out. This was troublesome, it is time to go and search taicho's room for scrolls, i'm going to get stronger he thought to himself as he used his staff to limp very sluggishly to the seireitei.

(OOC: i'm not posting remaining reiastu as this is my last post in this cannon, as of now i'm out of this one, if i need to buy my treatment let me know, if not so be it.)

[Bokuga Sayuri]

Sayuri was in a dilemma, but it was intentional. He knew that this enemy was one that he wouldn't be able to kill. He knew that Satsujun even without his main power, and even without his Shinigami powers, was his superior. Sayuri could see that his enemy was burning rapidly for daring to use whatever high power boost had allowed his actions of the last few seconds. It wouldn't matter soon. It was time to leave. They'd gotten what they needed. This whole arrangement had been messed up. They'd confirmed that there would be negotiations between Satsujun and the Vizards.

They'd confirmed that there were enemies that needed to be dealt with. There was nothing else to be done. Sayuri's Bankai began to fade away and shut off, turning into reiatsu which was reforming into his Zanpakuto. Since he was a Captain, it was normal for him to be able to open a gate back home with ease. The Senkai Gate that Sayuri was going to use opened behind him. He was sure that he would get another opportunity to dissect Satsujun later, and he knew that when he got that chance, he would relish it and would never let it go either. This was the time when things looked up for him.

Sayuri would need to get stronger before he took on this person again. He knew that he would probably have to do some training to make himself more powerful. "I'll be back to dissect you one day, God of Murder." Sayuri promised Satsujun. As Sayuri stepped backwards into the gate, which began to close, he grinned openly at this man who he would one day see again. "When I see that you are at your weakest, and when you can do no more and your end is nearing, and when you believe there is no hope and things can get no worse, I will be there to eat your soul and turn your body into an experiment."

OOC: Leaving the thread too. I can't do anything else.

[Zou ۞]

OOC: You'll each get +300 TP. Do what you will with it. Skip me now. It's officially Zieg's post. He'll also get 300 TP. Consider this canon done after he puts an end post.