Post by Alkaid Alkane on Jun 1, 2010 18:41:41 GMT -5
Name: Alkaid Akane "The Red Streak"
Age of Death: 18
Age of Appearance: 23
Real Age: 120
Blood Type: A+
Type: Solider( Halve Strength, Double Reiatsu Strength)
Fighting Style: In combat, Alkaid mainly uses her speed and agility to outmaneuver the opponent. She believes that no matter how much strength one has, it is no good if you cannot land a single blow on the target. Therefore, Alkaid will attack from multiple directions and/or spots using her speed to her advantage. Alkaid also prefers close combat then fighting from afar. She finds that range doesn't allow you to truly conquer you enemy. Because of this, she will get in mere inches of her target before they even realize it and swiftly force them to change to melee attacks. Alkaid prefers using her Shikai also at the start of battle, because of its form and prefers striking multiple times at once to confuse the opponent and overwhelm them. She also holds her blades upside down, normally having one held infront of her and the other behind her with her arm straightened nearly entirely out with the front blade pointing down at the ground and the other blade pointing up into the air. Speed is one of the few keys to her defeating her opponents.
In close hand to hand combat, Alkaid excels at hitting the the target in various spots all over their body. At first, she will aim to disable or distract the opponent by causing pain so she may finish them off swiftly. Her targets therefore are normally places such as the throat, knee, solar plexus, groin, ribs and feet. However, when taking her opponent 100 percent seriously, she aims to kill them. During this, she targets spots such as the bridge of the nose, temple, heart, liver, neck and kidneys. She will also strike targets like these several times at once, leaving no chance that the target will fight back if the blow connects.
Alkaid also tends to be overly aggressive against her opponents. She will hardly give them a chance to breath, let alone counter attack whatever she throws at them. Alkaid tends to easily resort to violence when proved. She is rarely one who rejects a challenge. Combat seems like more of a sport to her really, believing you can only reveal and show your feelings through your fists. She also tends to never give up during a fight, even though it may seem like she will lose. To give up without trying, to her at least, is a cowards tactic.
Besides her zanpakuto, Alkaid enjoys using both her legs and hands during combat. She is also very evasive and flexible, easily dodging other attacks if she is faster then the opponent. If she meets a opponent of her equal level or stronger, she will attempt to find a weakness. Alkaid mainly does this by attacking different spots on the person swiftly then getting away from them as fast as possible. She will also resort to medium to high level kido usage to break through their defenses. If all else fails, Alkaid will use her shikai's special ability to literally burn through her opponent's defense.
-Appearance-
Height: 5'8
Weight: 106
Eye Color: Black
Overall Appearance: Alkaid is a woman appearing in at the age of 23. Her short red hair with white highlights comes down to about shoulder length and is parted so none is in her face. Her skin tone is a light tan color. Her breast size is about 38 C and she has a hour-glass body shape. Also, she is moderately skinny, meaning that she neither down to the bone skinny or bloated, she is just the right size.
Alkaid is normally seen wearing custom-made shinigami robes. She wears a short top of a black kimono with white lines outlining it and a white string tied to secure it. The back of it is accented by a large white fan with gold designs of her squad's symbol on each of the fins of the fan. She also has a sash, which resembles a fox's tail, the top of the tail being white while the rest of it is a light orange, around her waist which represents her agility and love for speed. She wears four large triangle shaped open white skirts that are next to eachother and have gold lines going across each of them, each line connecting to the next.
As for her bottom half, she wears knee high black boots along with black karate gee shorts. Each side of the legs of the boots have several small purple triangles going up along it. The bottom of the boots are a fiery red color. The tops of the boots are actually open, making them zōri like so they make almost zero sound when a step is taken and the sound heard is barley audio able. They also have 5 leather like straps on them to secure the boots.
Her zanpakuto's sheath his located on her lower back, strapped there horizontally. The sheath itself is very typical, black and the same length as her zanpakuto. Her zanpakuto itself takes the form of a Wakizashi. The hilt of it is a average colored red with gold diamond like shapes going up along it in a line. The blade itself is a metallic silver color with a pure white streak going up the middle of it.
Alkaid also normally wears a pair of bronze colored leather gauntlets. Underneath these, she wears a black light cloth gloves the go all the way to her elbows. The hand of the gauntlet covers mainly her knuckles but exposes the rest of her fingers and her palm so she may grip her zanpakuto more easily and use kido freely. Above each of her elbows, she has a fiery red colored wave like tattoo, made to represent how her attacks are like a swift wave. Attacking you when you least expect it and seemingly out of nowhere. Also, when she is with the Onmitsukido, she wears a black ninja outfit, that is sleeveless and the back is opened up.
-Personality-
Dislikes:
[1.] Arrogance, she finds that people who cannot expect a fact is extremely annoying.
[2.] Men who show off, seeings guy try to impress women like her basically engages her temper.
[3.] Rap, Alkaid hated nearly everything that rap offered when she listened to it once in the human world. The lyrics were basic and had no meaning and she also believes songs should have rhythm to it, not some off-beat garbage sound.
[4.] Cold, Alkaid seems especially vulnerable to the cold, easily getting chills and shivers when it is in the 60's outside.
[5.] Tomatoes, Alkaid attempted to eat a slice of a regular tomato once when she was in the human world and she nearly gagged at the taste. It just simply tasted way too juicy and soft.
[6.] Cats, she finds that cats are annoying, constantly meowing for various things like attention or going outside. Plus they normally destroy everything you enjoy such as your furniture, bags and beds.
[7.] Sarcasm, she finds that people use sarcasm and decide to be smart a -likes to her annoys her greatly and she will most likely knock them out cold.
[8.] Jealousy, Alkaid believes that if you cannot get something you want, just accept that fact and don't get all emotional and mellow dramatic about it.
[9.] Dresses, she finds them way too feminine for her liking.
[10.] Morning Birds, Alkaid can barley them, mainly because they tend to always wake her when she is trying to sleep in the morning and wishes she could kill them.
Likes:
[1.] Canines, especially foxes. Alkaid finds that they are agile and majestic and compares herself to a fox.
[2.] Gold, Alkaid loves not only the color gold, but also any object that is made of or is gold itself.
[3.] Money, Alkaid is extremely greedy and practically drools at the sight of a large amount of money, especially gold.
[4.] Alcohol, preferably sake. She just simply loves the taste of it.
[5.] Short Blades, she finds that they are easier to wield in combat and allow more faster maneuvering.
[6.] Fields, she enjoys wide open fields that seem to be never ending, also believing that to her, they represent freedom.
[7.] Wind, most preferably breezes because they only have a slight chill to them but also she enjoys normal to high winds like gales because they are both weightless and powerful.
[8.] Arcades, traveling to the human world many times, she has come to wind up mainly in a arcade because she is enticed by the graphics of each arcade game.
[9.] Beaches, mainly the sand because it is normally warm, if not hot, and enjoys its feeling beneath her feet. Also she finds it is one of the best places for sunlight.
[10.] Dango, she loves the taste of dumplings and also Anko, also known as red bean paste.
[11.] Parties, Alkaid loves letting loose on occasions so she doesn't become entirely stressed out.
Flaws:
[1.] Attitude, Alkaid basically has the attitude of a tomboy and easily tell off men, causing most to fear and/or hate her.
[2.] Temper, Alkaid easily becomes furious, normally even with smaller things but not as much as major.
[3.] Strict, Alkaid tends to be very demanding and strict to those below her.
[4.] Fear, her fear of the dark tends to be one of her major flaws, because she thinks it shows weakness in her and that is the last thing she wants to reveal to people.
Habits:
[1.] Whistling, Alkaid tends to normally whistle while she is walking through Soul Society and other places.
[2.] Arms Crossed, Alkaid will normally walk and stand with her arms crossed behind her back.
[3.] Drinking, Alkaid tends to drink frequently after a battle or intense training.
[4.] Hand to Hand Combat, Alkaid tends to start off fighting with hand to hand combat, then gradually move to fighting with her zanpakuto.
[5.] "Master Lightning", Alkaid's respect and admiration of Old Lightning is extremely high, so high that she constantly refers to him as Master Lightning, both when speaking to or about him.
Fears:
[1.] The Dark, oddly enough with all of her tough attitude, Alkaid is deathly afraid of darkness.
[2.] Death, although she is a "Death God", she fears it since she has already died once and doesn't plan to die again anytime soon.
Goals:
[1.] Alkaid eventually wants to open up her very own weapon and item shop.
[2.] Alkaid desires to find a vast amount of jewels somewhere, either in the spiritual world or the human, and claim them as her own.
[3.] Another one of Alkaid's goals is to find a person suitable to be her rival in Soul Society.
[4.] Alkaid's main goal is to visit her sisters and apologize to them.
Alignment: [Lawful Good]
Overall Personality: Alkaid could most likely be considered a tomboy. She enjoys getting into arguments and fights with other people, especially men to give them the embarrassment of losing to a girl. She also relishes in the fact she can normally beat guys. She just simply gets a rush from it, like a natural high. She'll also fight with other woman to show them that any woman can become strong, if not stronger, than a male.
She normally has a fiery, battle ready personality when around others, mellow when with superiors and also high spirited. She is always ready to defend her pride, and doesn't take any insults from anybody. She especially dislikes arrancar, seeing them as beings who are too cowardly to fight others of equal strength and will only target the weaker shinigami. She also has a particular loathing of the Captain Commander Old Lightning, seeing him as a decorated war hero and wishes she could be like him one day. However, she knows that it will takes hundreds of years to become close to strength as Old Lightning.
However, to those who have earned her respect, Alkaid is a very loyal friend. She is willing to defend their honor just as she would her own.Alkaid tends to mock individuals, mainly for their weaknesses. She also is seen enjoying herself when she is in a fight, which is most of the time, mainly training sessions though. She is usually seen with a concentrated look on her face, showing her discipline.
-Powers-
Zanpakutou Sealed Appearance: [Wakizashi]
Zanpakutou Release Appearance:
Shikai: A pair of golden five foot long dagger-like short swords, also know as twin blades, with a large circular guard that covers her entire hand but leaves enough room so it does not interfere with her wielding it.
Bankai:Alkaid's twin blades shatter then a pair of teko-kagis materialize on her hands and feet. These are a pair of customized, light weight,metal gauntlets and boots with 3 foot long large gold steel claws. The gauntlets are attached on her wrists and the boots on her feet. The blades themselves are both light weight and extremely sharp.
Overall Ability: ["Wail, Taifuu!", Wind]
Shikai Overall Ability:
Alkaid's shikai can unleashed rapid bursts, streaks, gales and various other forms of a eerie green wind. This wind can also be extremely sharpened, her zanpakuto's spirit sharpening the wind with its reatisu. This could cause the wind to be sharper then any zanpakuto. She can NOT create tornadoes, cyclones, or twisters in shikai. And she cannot consecutively fire wind. Only six wind blasts at any one firing, and then a 3 second cooldown. (Per blade)
Shikai Techniques:
2. Technique Name: Sparrow Strike
Class: 4
Technique Type: Shinigami
Technique Description and Effects: Alkaid unleashes three green colored streaks of wind from her blades all at once. The streaks of wind are sharper then most blades and can easily cut through steel and solid rock and travel roughly at subsonic speeds.
How to use technique: Alkaid raise her twin blades up over her head then slashes down with them, speaking the name of the technique.
Drawback: Has a ten second cool down time in between each usage of the technique. Has to raise her zanpakuto's up, leaving her open for an attack.
Made by: [Alkaid Akane]
Reserved?: [Yes]
Made by: [Alkaid Akane]
Reserved?: [Yes]
3. Alkaid gains a special shunpo using her shikai's wind abilites. For one step, she can move 7x as fast as she is currently, which is not as fast as a regular shunpo but it is still effective. To use it, she actually uses her wind abilities to the fullest and uses the wind to move herself. When she performs it, she would do so with enough blinking speed to make it appear that she dissolved into wind, making it seem like she disappeared into the wind. The wind also masks her presence completely, making it seem like she literally disappeared.
Bankai Overall Ability: Alkaid's wind abilities become magnified, giving her the ability to form and control small tornadoes from both her weapons and hands. This also gives her the ability of flight as two red colored angel-like wings of condensed wind materialize on her back and are controllable. She also gains the ability to control the general chill of the wind. She cannot fire attacks consecutively in spam. 8 attacks at once (per blade), then a 4 second cooldown.
Bankai Techniques:
2. Alkaid gains the ability of flight, due to her wings.
3. Her special shunpo now gains another unique ability. She does 6 of those special shunpo all at once and with each shunpo, she leaves a clone of herself for 4 seconds.
4. Technique Name: Reaper's Fury
Class: 1
Technique Type: Shinigami
Technique Description and Effects: Alkaid unleashes a gigantic red and white streaked tornado from both her hands and engulfs the enemy. The inside of the tornado is sharpened with thousands of small golden wind blades that can easily shred an opponent to millions of pieces due to them being sharpened by reiatsu. The reiatsu strength of the attack is 800, due to the fact of the amount of reiatsu is condensed in the attack.
How to use technique: Alkaid gathers together her spiritual energy, presses her hands and wrists together, then thrusts both her hands forward, opening her hands up but keeping her wrists against eachother her. As she charges the attack, red and golden lights from her reiatsu flare from her palm, indicating the attack to be charging.
Drawback: The attack costs Alkaid more then just her spiritual energy, it will physically drain her, meaning her speed will sharply decrease to average and the same with her strength. Also, her bankai will deactivate, sending her back to her shikai start for several minutes before she can reenter her bankai state. Due to this, this is normally a last resort technique for her. It drops her reiatsu down instantly to 100 and the technique can only be performed if her reiatsu is 800 or higher.
-History-
Birthplace: Kantou, Japan
Current Residence: Seireitei, Barracks 2.
Squad: 2
History:
[Parents: Marik Akane - Deceased, Juno Arami- Deceased, Siblings: Rita Akane - Living, Estelle Akane- Living, Enemies: Marco Jing, student, Others: Jericho Hunter, Treecko Augustine,Vice Captains-Deceased, Heero Sliver, Onmitsukido Member-Living.]
Childhood
The parents of Alkaid lived a high standard of life. This was due to them owning large portion of the electric industry of Japan. Her parents met in their early twenties and eventually her mother Juno gave birth to Alkaid. Alkaid grew up in a above average life, only slightly spoiled to begin with since she was both a girl and their first child. However, a year later, Juno had given birth to Rita, Alkaid's first younger sister. Alkaid was jealous at first when Rita began attracting the attention of her parents more then she did herself but it eventually balanced out and she grew out of jealousy against Rita. Rita and Alkaid became close siblings, Alkaid constantly watching over her.
Three more years passed by and again, Juno had given birth to another daughter, Estelle. Alkaid's father, Marik, was still very successful in his electric industry so the family was not even close to poverty and lived a decent rich life. The three siblings got along fine and became very close, Alkaid naturally becoming the role of the eldest sister and taking care of the two of them constantly, even though her parents still looked after them all. The three's school life were fairly simple and all passed with ease as they all entered a school that ended at the eighth grade and began at the third. However, during this time, Alkaid became very aggressive at those who decided to poke fun at her younger sisters, giving at least a dozen boys black eyes and also knocking out their loosened teeth. Eventually, all of the students knew not the mess with Alkaid or his sisters, seeing as Alkaid seemed to hear almost everything and appear out of nowhere when trouble began. Her sister's looked fairly similar to Alkaid also as they grew up, however Estelle's hair became pink with white highlights and Rita's was simply red.
Alkaid's younger sisters looked up to her, though they did find Alkaid quite frightful when her anger was unleashed. Alkaid established her dominance in the school and constantly trained outside of school in Kenpo, a karate style in which puts emphasis on the use of both the hands and feet of a person. Soon Rita joined her and became her sparring partner. However, as Alkaid and her sisters progressed through their school life, their father Marik's life was steadily declining. His business was better then ever, constantly receiving income a good life, well, for his family a good life. Marik gradually began looking for even more income and constantly began gambling in whatever places he could get to in Kantou, using only his own personal saved money so his family would not suspect anything. Unfortunately for Marik, he was not that good of a gambler. Marik constantly lost, only luckily winning a few times but he soon lost those winnings by simply doubling his bets.
Soon, Marik began losing vast amounts of his personal money as Alkaid, Rita and Estelle had all entered high school and were progressing extraordinarily well, easily passing difficult tests and exams while dozens of other students only scored average. Alkaid made sure the two studied and also joined them in their studies so she could keep up with Rita, who strangely enough was scoring slightly higher then Alkaid. At this time, Alkaid was 17, soon to become 18, Rita was 17 and Estelle had just turned 15. The three were inseparable and constantly together. Normally, they would just walk around on the streets or go to a nearby plain and simply lay on it, watching the clouds. They discussed their future and problems if any came up, such as Estelle becoming shy around guys or Rita trying to get a boyfriend but Alkaid interferes. In the end, they'd laugh about it then shortly return home.
As the three girls attended school, their mother Juno constantly worked, overseeing the electric company while Marik was away on his "business" trips. Juno enjoyed her job, making sure everything was running smoothly as usual, however it did tire her mentally since she worked long hours filling out paperwork and such for Marik. Marik had also been winning lately, however not due to any luck this time. Marik had began cheating, constantly hiding cards normally up into his sleeves and such to achieve victory, however Marik began cheating against the wrong people, namely gangsters so suspected him greatly of cheating. Although Marik had won and had somehow not been caught of cheating, the gangsters suspected him of this because it was only logical, one man who was on a losing streak suddenly starts winning constantly? Foul play was involved and the gangsters do not take kindly to have been tricked. So the gangsters began plotting their revenge against Marik, gathering information about him and soon, discovered his electric industry.
The day before "it" happened
Alkaid, Rita and Estelle lied back on their usual plain that they visited, Alkaid crossing her arms behind her head as Estelle and Rita rested their hands on there stomachs. "Oh!, that one!" Estelle exclaimed, putting at an oddly shaped cloud above the sky, "It looks like a frog!" "Hm, that one looks like a tiger" Rita commented, pointing at another oddly shaped cloud. The two of them would normally do this for fun, to pass the time while they were there. "And that one looks like my future boyfriend.." Rita suddenly said, pointing at one that oddly enough, did look like a boy's face and she glanced at Alkaid. Alkaid gave her a light glare and Rita pouted. "Come on Alkaid, why can't i have a boyfriend? The guys at are school are constantly asking you and me, probably Estelle soon when shes a bit older." Rita asked her, a sad look in her eyes. Alkaid sighed lightly and sat up. "Look, its not that I don't want a boyfriend, I do, but mom and dad have enough problems with work and such that if we start dating, they'll be even more stressed out." Alkaid explained, Rita looking down in depression, not because she couldn't have a boyfriend right now, but that she could of caused her parents problems. Alkaid placed a couple of fingers on Rita's chin and lifted her head up so she was looking at Alkaid. "Look, here is a deal. Once you can beat me in a sparring match, then you can have any boyfriend you want okay?" Alkaid said with a light smile on her face. "Okay!" Rita said with a grin and hugged Alkaid tightly, Estelle then jumping on them both and causing them to all fall on the ground ontop of eachother. They laughed together, each smiling and unaware of the events to partake the next day.
The Accident
None of the workers knew what had happened that day in the electric industries headquarters. Marik had decided to come into work today with Juno, he was in high spirits after his latest "business trip". The two had just entered the building's main entrance and were walking across the middle of the room when suddenly, a large chandelier hanging from the ceiling dropped down, the cables that were hanging it up suddenly snapping and dropped on the two of them, crushing them instantly. Above, on a platform that was eye level with the chandelier, the three gangsters that Marik had cheated were standing, each wearing all black so they could blend into the shadows from above and were holding silent pistols, which they had used to shoot out the cables. The three men were caught soon afterward when the police had tracked the pistols, which they discarded, back to them.
Soon, one of the managers from the industry came to the Akane's home. Alkaid, Rita and Estelle were simply studying as usual when the manager knocked lightly on their front door a few times. Alkaid looked at her sisters, confusion on their face since they rarely got visitors. Alkaid stood up and approached the door, opening it and seeing the manager. "I'm sorry to disturb you miss but I bring troubling news about your parents." the manager said at a low whisper so only Alkaid could hear. Alkaid nodded and stepped outside and closed the door. "What happened?" Alkaid asked but slowly presuming the worst. "There was a unfortunate accident at the industry, your parents had entered the building and were passing through the main floor when the chandelier that we have displayed dropped down and... well, i believe you get the picture.." The manager explained, looking at Alkaid sadly as Alkaid looked at the ground, shock and despair on her face. "So their dead..both of them..?" Alkaid asked weakly, still staring at the ground. "Yes, unfortunately... the accident was caused by three assailants who encountered your father Marik and he somehow angered them, they are currently in custody and we have evidence linking them to the scene and causing the crime, they will receive execution for such a act.." the manager continued, hoping at least this part of the news would somewhat cheer Alkaid up. "Good.. they deserve death.." Alkaid said, slightly glad that the men who causing this will die for what they did. "What am i too do..?" Alkaid thought inside her head, shaking slightly.
"Miss Akane, since you are the eldest of your family and are the closest to adulthood, you receive the rights of ownership to both your home and the industry. That is, if you accept them that is." The manager told her, feeling uncomfortable since this has never happened before. "I will have too... for my sisters..." Alkaid said lowly, turning around and looking back up. "The paperwork will be sent to you tomorrow so it is official.. good luck." the manager said, walking away and off the property. Alkaid stood there, revealing troubled and saddened, then walked back inside, seeing the Rita and Estelle must of heard because they were crying and holding eachother. Alkaid joined them and held them close together, fighting back the tears she had so she could stay strong for the two of them.
Several Months Later
Alkaid began sweeping the floor clean of the kitchen as Rita and Estelle just finished dinner with her. Their mourning of their parents put to rest after the funeral, Alkaid basically became the mother of Rita and Estelle. She still went to school with them, since she was about to graduate so it was easy for her to maintain their house and keep a education. She had hired the manager that told her about her parent's death to watch over the industry so she could stay home and take care of her sisters. The manager accepted, causing Alkaid to still have a income coming in. Soon, she would graduate and take care of her sisters even more. However, she did not expect her death to come so soon.
The Death of Alkaid and Birth As A Shinigami
Marco Jing, a student in Alkaid's grade, fell back onto the grass as Alkaid delivered a swift and powerful elbow strike across his face. He was about 18, Alkaid's age, and groaned in pain as he tried to get up. Alkaid smashed her foot against his head and knocked him out cold. The guy foolishly had hit on Alkaid while she was outside of the school on a break and when Alkaid completely ignored him, he grabbed her arm. Alkaid viciously yanked him up to a sitting position by his hair while he was still knocked out. "Never touch me again, man-whore." Alkaid whispered harshly into his ear then shoved him back down. She walked off, anger in her eyes as she simply left Marco there out cold.
Hours passed and school was nearly over. Alkaid again was on a break and on the rooftop, gazing across the city. Suddenly, the rooftop door swung open and Marco stomped in, drawing a pistol from his pocket and aiming it at Alkaid. Alkaid saw this and didn't react to it, yawning lightly. "What do you want, Marco..?" Alkaid asked lazily, giving him a annoyed glare. "NOONE EVER REJECTS ME, I DON'T CARE WHO IT IS! EVEN IF IT IS YOU ALKAID, SOON YOU WILL WISH YOU HAD ACCEPTED ME!" Marco rambled as he advanced forward towards her, carelessly not taking note that he had just stepped into her kicking range. Alkaid ducked low as she swept her leg across infront of her and into Marco's legs, knocking him down onto his back and knocking the gun down next to him.
She stood up as Marco sat up to also stand but Alkaid smashed her leg against the side of his face, sending him rolling a few times. Alkaid glared at the guy with fury, he had to nerve to show up and pull out a gun on her over being rejected. Completely dishonorable Alkaid thought inside her head. Marco suddenly got up and charged her, unaware that Alkaid was standing a foot from the roof. Alkaid easily side stepped him but then saw him begin to fall as he couldn't stop himself from running fast enough. Instinctively, she grabbed the back of his shirt and turned, throwing him back on the roof but caused her to fall as well. Marco fell on his pistol, which set it off and it killed him, his spirit going to Hell. Huh..guess this is how it ends..sorry Rita..Estelle.. Alkaid thought inside her head right before she died.
Alkaid was suddenly hovering over her body, confused but then realized she must be a spirit now. She looked around and oddly enough, saw two strangely dressed men floating a few feet by her and watching her. "What are you, angels?" Alkaid said, facing them as she gave the two men a weird look. The two men wore black robes and both had katana's sheathed at their sides. One of the men was in his late 20's, his hair light blue that hung down nearly over his eyes and had a average athletic body. The other one seemed to be Alkaid's age and was just as athletically built as the other one. This one, however, had black spiked hair and a horizontal scar on both his wrists.
"Angels eh..? you could say that." the one with blue hair responded as the one in black laughed lightly. "I am Jericho Hunter, this is-", " Treecko Augustine." the black haired man said, interrupting Jericho. Jericho glared at him a bit, ticked off slightly that he interrupted him. "Well what is it? I did just die after all, isn't it time to go?" Alkaid asked the two men, still confused on why she wasn't just in whatever afterlife she going to be be sent to yet. "That, is up to you. If you come with us, you can become something far more better then you were as a human. However, if you do not, then you can have your "eternal rest", what say you?" Treecko explained and asked Alkaid. "Eternal rest does sound boring.. alright, I will come with you." she responded. "Just one question, what are you then if not angels?" Alkaid asked them, crossing her arms as she examined the two men. "Death Gods!" Treecko exclaimed, Jericho grinning as Alkaid's expression became more confused and also shocked.
Shinigami Life
It turned out that Jericho and Treecko were both vice captains, scouting out the area for any hollow when they saw Alkaid's death occur and felt a high amount of spiritual energy coming off of her so they decided to recruit her into the Shinigami Academy and also explain everything about Soul Society. Jericho was the vice captain of the 5th division and Treecko was vice captain of the 10th. Both had met eachother at the Academy and had been friends ever since, even when they went into separate squads. The two of them have been in Soul Society for around 50 years and have much experience from it that they begin passing onto Alkaid. The two of them became Alkaid's personal teachers and also the only two friends she made in Soul Society. Alkaid respected them but also found them like a old couple because they argued with eachother constantly on random topics.
Potential Revealed, Four Years Later
Alkaid easily ducked a kick to her head from one of the academy students and countered with a swift kick of her own to his chest, knocking him down to his back. All around her was a ring of academy students who were here, along with Alkaid, to take a combat test. So far, Alkaid has been in the ring for ten minutes and has defeated 25 of the students single handily. She was getting tired however, and hungry but those were signs that she could use up her spiritual energy. Jericho and Treecko were watching from a distance with their arms crossed behind their back as another student stepped up to the challenge to face Alkaid. "Man, think shes gonna stop? Looks like she is ready to take on the whole lot of them." Jericho commented to Treecko, impressed that Alkaid was still fighting. "I believe she could, you know what this means right?" he asked as Alkaid blocked a punch to her chest by bringing her right arm up and pushes the student's arm up over his head and then thrusted her left palm against the student's solar plexus, knocking the wind of him. "They'll approach her soon enough." Jericho answered him, motioning towards to their right as Alkaid dashed past the student, grabbing him by the throat, lifting him up and slamming him to the ground. Treecko looked and saw a man dressed head to toe in a black ninja uniform with his arms crossed, observing the test.
Later That Night
Alkaid stepped out of the shower which she had just finished cleaning herself in. She grabbed a white towel that was hanging from a metal bar and began drying herself off with when she heard a single knock on the door. "One minute." Alkaid said loudly, finding it odd that someone was at her door at this time of day. She spent a minute drying off then threw on a bath-rub she had hanging up on the wall by a hook. She tied it tightly so it wouldn't open back up then opened the door, only to be greeted by a kick aiming right for her stomach. Her instincts and senses kicked in and she bashed her palm against the side of the leg, knocking it away from her. As soon as she blocked, the opponent bashed his fist against her chest. She cringed and stumbled back but swiftly recovered her balance as the opponent rushed in, aiming a palm strike to her jaw. She turned to her side, the opponent's hand now infront of her face and she grabbed their arm, pulling and twisting it causing the opponent to flips, who yelled in surprised as he hit the floor.
Alkaid got ontop of him swiftly and pinned him down, aiming to drive her fist through his face. "Heh, seems like I wasn't wrong, your pretty damn fast." the opponent commented and chuckled lightly. Alkaid halted her fist and flipped on a nearby switch, turning the lights on and the opponent was the man in the ninja outfit that was observing her battle. Alkaid looked closely and saw the Onmitsukido emblem stitched onto his outfit and her eyes widened in surprise, as she had just recently learned about them in the Academy. This guys part of the Onmitsukido? Alkaid thought inside her head as the man pulled out a package from his outfit and held it up. "Here. This should explain everything." The man said, tossing up the package. Alkaid caught it and got up, sitting on her bed as the man sat up, sighing in relief. She tore it opened and looked at what it held and her eyes widened in shocked, pulling out what it held.
The first thing she pulled out was the exact same outfit the man was wearing. She unfolded it and saw that the Onmitsukido's emblem was on this was also. They want me to join? Alkaid asked herself as she laid the outfit next to her. She then pulled out a pair of folded up shinigami robes. She unfolded these and then saw the Insignia, a bent tulip, the second division's Insignia. "You have been assigned to the second division but also, you have been requested to join the Onmitsukido due to the potential you revealed through your Academy career. Do you accept?" asked the man as he stood up and faced Alkaid. Alkaid looked at him and grinned. "Of course." she said, excitement in her tone.
Entering The Ranks of Shinigami and Omnisukido
The man from Onmitsukido was Heero Sliver, born and raised in Soul Society. He had athletic body to him and his hair was spiked blond. He and his family were of royal blood and gifted with natural fighting talents. He had entered the Onmitsukido 200 years ago and since then, he has devoted his life to it. Normally, only those of royal blood could enter the Onmitsukido but those gifted with unique fighting abilities and/or reatisu are given a opportunity to join it. After various tests and challenges while in the Onmitsukido, one is given the rank of captain over one of the five divisions. So far, only Heero has passed these tests and challenges and he is only the captain of the Patrol Corps, who are given the duty to patrol Seireitei and travel to various dimensions and lands to combat various hollows and other enemies of Soul Society. Because there is no Commander -in-chief of the Onmitsukido, Heero has led it, even though he stayed as the Patrol Corp's captain.
Alkaid walked along with Heero as they approached the Onmitsukido headquarters. The headquarters itself was a massive dojo with 5 different sections inside of it, each section for a separate division. Heero tapped on the sliding door entrance to it and it instantly slid open, Alkaid couldn't tell if it was opened by someone else or something completely different. Heero walked inside, followed closely by Alkaid who was wearing the ninja outfit that she was given. The door slid shut and suddenly, various lanterns glowed dimly to life, keeping the entire dojo barley lite. It took a moment for Alkaid's eyes to just but when they did, she saw that there were many other Onmitsukido members inside, each doing various tasks and mostly moving around. "As you can see, we have been quite busy with the Ogatago's movements." Heero commented to Alkaid as they walked into his room, where several guards stood by. Two rooms of candles formed a path leading up to a large black leather seat with a couple of tables next to it. Heero sat in it and crossed his legs Indian style as Alkaid sat infront of him in the same way.
"Now, Alkaid, being part of the Onmitsukido is not a easy task. You must be willing to learn and improve. If you become weak, your teammates become weak and when they become weak, the Onmitsukido will crumble. We cannot have this happen." Heero stated, looking directly into Alkaid's eyes. Alkaid gave him a small glare but nodded. "I am not and will not become weak." Alkaid responded, crossing her arms as she stared at Heero. "Good, however, to prove your worth to the Onmitsukido, you must be challenged and tested, these will teach you how the Onmitsukido works and which division you will be apart of." Heero explained, taking out a small pipe and filling it with tobacco. " Ill pass whatever you have in stored, I am not afraid." Alkaid said intensely , slamming her fist down on the ground and the tables shook lightly. Heero raised a eyebrow and lite the pipe, placing the end of it in his mouth. "Oh? Good... you will be.." Heero said, inhaling and exhaling as a two small lines of smoke came out his nose, filling the air infront of his face as he leaned his head forward through the smoke, "you will be.."
A few days afterward, Alkaid had spent some time at her new room and barracks in the second division. There was not much activity going on, compared to the Onmitsukido's base. She preferred it there more but she knew she would have to prove her worth both here and at the base. Alkaid also learned that the second division did not have a captain or a vice captain either. Alkaid found this strange but then she learned that the captain of the second division normally would be the commander-in-chief of the Onmitsukido. Alkaid then decided she would do more then prove her worth in both the second division and Onmitsukido. She made it her own personal goal to do what Heero did not and become commander-in-chief of the second division.
The first few challenges and tests were quite simple. Basically, they were against various hollows that the Patrol Corp forces had discovered in the human world. Alkaid slew them with relative ease, only having slight difficulty when the last one had multiple long necked heads. She conquered it however by stabbing one of the heads, then wrapping that head's neck around the necks of the other heads, suffocating it. She then stabbed it square in the back and cleansed it. However, after these few challenges, they became difficult. Instead of hollows, Alkaid faced against and worked with other members of the Onmitsukido, which was to test both her physical strength and endurance, as well as teach her the meaning of teamwork, such as having to fight a large number of opponents with only yourself and three other people or through a obstacle course where aiding one another was required. Alkaid again found these of little challenge against her and passed them flawlessly.
As she progressed through the Onmitsukido, she did the same with the second division. Gradually, she began moving up in ranks as she proved her combat effectiveness, fighting and defeating everyone in her division in sparring matches. In nearly a year, she had become the third seat officer of her division and had become one of the squad leaders among the Onmitsukido's Executive Militia. Heero was highly impressed of Alkaid, he even believed that she may even have surpassed himself. Heero did not mind this, he was glad that there was finally someone who was better then him, that way he could focus more on his own division then the rest. However, before he could do that, there was one more test Alkaid had to go through. This was to fight and defeat Heero in a duel.
Shikai Achieved
Heero had announced the Alkaid and the Onmitsukido that in a few days, him and Alkaid were to battle to see if she was worthy of being the commander-in-chief of the Onmitsukido. Half of the members already thought that Alkaid would finally be the one to lead the Onmitsukido, however the other half still believed Heero should be the leader. All of the members would find out in a few short days, however, tragedy had struck Alkaid. Jericho and Treecko, the two vice captains that had recruited Alkaid as a shinigami and became her mentors had been killed. The two were pursuing a couple of arrancar through the Gillian Forest when they were ambushed by a massive amount of hollows. They managed to slay about half of them when finally, the numbers became too much and the two died swiftly. When Alkaid heard the news, she was devastated and had locked herself in her room in the second division and would not see anyone, even Heero, for two days. Heero did not judge her on this, knowing this was probably the first time she had lost someone in her shinigami life.
It was about midnight on the day before the test. Alkaid mourned silently for the loss of her two mentors. She had thought of them as her fathers and they were her first true friends that she had met in Seireitei. Even though she had Heero as a friend, she still felt alone now. "It seems you have forgotten something." a light feminine voice said out loud,seemingly out of nowhere. Alkaid leapt to her feet, pulling out her zanpakuto as she scanned the room with her eyes for any intruders. However, noone besides her was there. "Show yourself!" Alkaid commanded, both confused and angered since she could not find the source of the voice. "As you wish." The voice said again but Alkaid heard where it was, her eyes opening in shock as she looked directly at her zanpakuto. It suddenly shined brightly and she felt herself being drawn in and everything went black.
Alkaid jackknifed awake, immediately sitting up and looking around at her environment. She was on the beach of a majestic island where the vast sea surrounded it and seemed endless. She looked around and got to her feet as she saw a figure approaching her. The figure was a woman in her early 20's and she was more tan then Alkaid. She had long white flowing her that ran down her back and was parted so none was in her face and also she had two white furred fox like ears. Her breast size was about the same as Alkaid's and instead of a normal top, she seemed to be wearing two light orange cloth that crossed above her breasts and the ends of them were tied together behind her back in a knot. Her eyes were teal and also, she wears black leather straps, that Alkaid could see, one started around her neck and it seemed to be wrapped around her breasts and tied under them. She also wore a light purple skirt that had a black leather strap around the top of it and circled around the skirt two times, going down to the end of her thighs. Also it seemed she had two white fox like tails that were partly wrapped around her waist. The woman stopped a few feet infront of Alkaid and stared at her. Alkaid realized that this must be her zanpakuto spirit. "Still think your alone now?" the zanpakuto spirit asked her as she crossed her arms and continued to stare at Alkaid.
Bewilderment filled Alkaid inside her. She had completely forgotten about her zanpakuto since she had been focused on her testing and training. Although, oddly enough she could of sworn she had heard her zanpakuto's voice quite a few times encouraging her on. "Sorry.." Alkaid murmured, looking at the ground in shame for acting like such a child. Alkaid suddenly had to lean back as her zanpakuto spirit aimed a kick to her head. "You have no need to be ashamed, Alkaid, you cannot be. You only have this morning until you have to fight Heero and trust me, it will not be a easy task without my help. Even with it, it is up to you to have the willingness to become a leader." the zanpakuto spirit clearly stated as she took up a fighting guard. "You will only acquire my help if you defeat me." she said with a grin as Alkaid also took up a fighting guard. "So be it." Alkaid answered, a grin of her own forming on her face as he lunged forward with a open palm strike going towards the spirit's chest.
The spirit turned swiftly but then had to block with her forearm as Alkaid bent her striking arm, her elbow nearly striking her shoulder. Alkaid followed her movements and lashed her right leg towards the spirit, who swiftly blocked it down with a sweep of her palm and smashed her fist into Alkaid's stomach with a sudden burst of speed. Alkaid cringed but held her ground, spinning and smashing the back of his fist against the spirit's cheek, who turned her head so it lessened the blow but it still did the same amount of damage as her own punch. The two began exchanging blows with eachother, each attempting to block and counter one another's hand techniques. After several seconds, Alkaid managed to trap the spirit's arm by wrapping her own arm around it and rolled, bringing the spirit with her and throwing her a few feet. The spirit rolled a couple of times but hastingly got up as Alkaid did and both dashed forward at eachother. The spirit ducked a palm to her face from Alkaid and smashed her own palm against Alkaid's stomach, causing her to stumble back and the spirit took advantage of this. She spun to her right, bringing her left leg up as she did this and side of her foot caught the side of Alkaid's head, causing her to stumble to the side, nearly falling over. Alkaid quickly recovered, responding with a sudden palm strike to the spirit's ribs, causing her to shuffled back and grab her side for a moment.
The spirit quickly recovered and dashed forward as Alkaid did, both aiming a kick at eachother. The two attacks collided, a burst of spiritual energy forming when this happened. The two then punched forward, this fists colliding also and again, another burst of spiritual energy erupting around them. Alkaid couldn't believe this, they were evenly matched,but yet, something was wrong. Alkaid noticed the spirit's face, she was still smiling and then Alkaid understood. Shes not even trying yet! Alkaid exclaimed inside her head, stepping back with a fierce look in her eyes. Ill make her then Alkaid thought inside her head, suddenly dashing forward and aimed the back of her fist for the spirit's head. She suddenly changed this to a elbow strike, catching her off guard and nailing her the left side of her face. Alkaid followed this up with a roundhouse kick to her right side and then lashed her fist into the spirit's stomach, all the attacks connecting and sending her onto her back. The spirit actually giggled and leapt up to her feet, almost unfazed by the attacks.
Alkaid looked in shock at this, dismayed the spirit barley felt pain. She blinked and when she opened her eyes, all she saw was a blur of black vanish from the spot where the spirit was. She looked around wide eyed and suddenly felt a fist slam into her cheek, causing her to stumble to the side. She then began being hit from all sides it felt like for several seconds. A kick to her back sent her rolling to the ground and in a kneeling position, marks all across her clothing and body as she knelt there panting, seeing the spirit there standing and walking towards her slowly as Alkaid closed her eyes. "I will kill you,Alkaid, remember the Omnisukido code." the spirit told her, continuing to walk forward. Heero's voice repeating itself in Alkaid's mind: If you become weak, your teammates become weak and when they become weak, the Onmitsukido will crumble. The word "crumble "echoing in Alkaid's mind as her eyes flared open, a fighting spirit filling Alkaid's eyes as she let out a battle cry and unleashing all of her spiritual energy, engulfing her in a aura of red and gold spiritual energy. The spirit stopped in her tracks, surprising filling her eyes as she witnessed Alkaid stand up and face her, her spiritual energy increasing not only her strength but her speed too for she was using the one technique her spirit did not expect since very few knew how to use it and even fewer had fully mastered it. This was of course, Shunko.
"W-what are you -" the spirit began but was cut off as in a few split second, Alkaid had suddenly moved infront of the spirit and drove her fist across the spirit's face, sending her flying a dozen feet to the side and she landed skidding and stayed there. The spiritual energy surrounding Alkaid died away and Alkaid dropped to her knees, panting heavily. She had obviously pushed herself to her very limit and broke it. She nearly passed out but drove herself to stay awake, to see what the spirit would do. The spirit sat up, smiling even though she had a large bruise on the side of her face and blood going down her lips. "Very good." the spirit said, standing up slowly with shaky knees and approached Alkaid, holding out a hand. Alkaid took it and the spirit pulled her up to her feet, as the two weakly smiled at eachother. "Now you have me, use me and call my name, Taifuu!" the spirit Taifuu yelled out loudly, a strong wind blowing across them and the island so it carried the words and made it seem like a wail as a bright white light formed from the two's hands and engulfed them, Alkaid slipping into a unconscious state. She again jolted awake, sitting up and looked at her hands, seeing she was holding onto her zanpakuto. She unsheathed it as she stood up, smiling with excitement and raised her zanpakuto into the air. "Wail, Taifuu!" Alkaid yelled out loudly, uncaring for she may wake the other barracks. Her zanpakuto glowed for a moment then split into a pair of golden five foot long dagger-like twin blades,with a large circular guard that covers her entire hand but leaves enough room so it does not interfere with her wielding it. A light wind blew up from under her as she grinned, knowing she was ready now.
The Final Test and Meeting Old Lightning
Outside of the Onmitsukido's headquarters, all of the members had gathered together and formed a large ring around Alkaid and Heero, who were in the middle of the ring of people. Both wore their Onmitsukido's uniforms and each had their zanpakuto's on them. Alkaid's was strapped and sheathed horizontally on the lower part of her back while Heero's was strapped across his back diagonally, his zanpakuto's sealed state being a katana. The other members of Onmitsukido whispered to eachother, unsure of how the test will go or who will win. None had seen the two's shikais, not even Heero's. A few even doubted the two had shikai but the rest dismissed this and would simply have to wait and see as the two shinigami approached eachother. They then stood with their feet shoulder width apart and slide one foot back behind them and bent their knees slightly, taking up a fighting guard and locked a focus gaze with eachother. "Begin!" Heero shouted suddenly, dashed forward and unleashed a flurry of open palm strikes at Alkaid's chest.
Alkaid stepped back several times, smacking the strikes to the side easily and swiftly as she responded with a few back fists to Heero's head, Heero ducking down to avoid these. They began exchanging various blows, Alkaid connecting with several strikes to Heero's head and chest while Heero also landed several blows on Alkaid's arms and stomach. They continued this for several minutes, blocking and countering each others moves then broke up, standing several feet apart from eachother, both in a fighting guard. Both were panting, the two seemed to be evenly matched against eachother. Alkaid realized this and so did Heero as they met eye contact. Alkaid suddenly dashed forward, spinning around as she brought her right leg up for a round house kick aimed at Heero's head. Heero anticipated this as she spun and delivered a round house kick with his left, the two kicks colliding with eachother and a small shock-wave like burst of spiritual energy erupted from the point of impact. Both cringed lightly as they set back up their fighting stances as they placed their feet back on the ground and prepared to attack.
The two suddenly shunpoed at the same time and reappeared in the center, each directing a punch at the other. Their fists collided and a burst of spiritual energy came from the impact. The two then became shunpoing everywhere in the circle of people, random bursts of spiritual energy seemingly appearing out of nowhere which was the only indication of the two still fighting. The Omnisukido members began cheering as the two continued to battle, even though they could not completely tell who was winning. All they could see was brief streaks of red and yellow which of course was caused by the two's hair. The two suddenly appeared in the center of the circle, floating up in midair and exchanging blows with eachother. They continued rising, dozens bursts of spiritual energy radiated from the two's attacks when they collided. They spun as they began to lower, still delivering various punches and kicks to eachother. As the two landed on the ground, they power lashed their fists forward with all their strength. Both their fists collided and a powerful blast of spiritual energy erupted from the point of collision, sending the two skidding back a dozen feet.
Half the members chanted Alkaid's name as the other cheered Heero's. Alkaid drew her zanpakuto and held it horizontally infront of her as Heero drew his from the sheathe on his back. The two shunpoed forward and met in the middle of the ring, slashing forward. The two blades clashed against eachother, a short ringing sound echoing throughout the area. The two circled around eachother, slashing and parrying eachother's attacks. Even in swordsmanship, the two were on the same level with eachother. They danced around eachother, slashing at eachother in multiple angles and directions but nothing got through either of their guard. Alkaid slashed across Heero's chest and Heero slashed down against her blade, parrying her slash and pressed forward as Alkaid did the same, the two trying to break eachother's guard and maintain their own at the same time. Their blades shook and the two continued their power struggle as the chants rose up. The two broke off and faced off eachother, panting.
Heero chuckled and began to laugh, Alkaid looking at him oddly. "Heh.. sorry, its just that i haven't had this much fun in a fight before." Heero explain, chuckling lightly. Alkaid realized this too and laughed lightly with him as the others stared at them in bewilderment. "I guess we shouldn't hold back then, huh?" Alkaid asked him, holding her zanpakuto up infront of her. "Agreed." Heero responded, lifting his zanpakuto up infront of himself. The other members began whispering to eachother in excitement, the two were about to reveal their shikais! "Wail,Taifuu!" Alkaid shouted loudly and her zanpakuto became engulfed in a white light and split into two, becoming shorter. "Shuffle,Unmei o Tosumono! " Heero yelled loudly as his zanpakuto also shined bright but shattered and became a deck of 52 white and red cards and also a small black box shaped card holster. Alkaid's zanpakuto shaped into two twin blades and she grasped their handles, holding one infront of her and behind her horizontally. Their weapons stopped glowing and became whole, Heero's cards suddenly floating into the holster and it itself attached to the top right side of Heero's pants and several low number cards with diamond suits rose from the holster and hovered around Heero.
The two suddenly shunpoed, seemingly disappearing into thin air. Various small miniature explosions, blasts of wind and sparks of spiritual energy formed at multiple spots in the circle. After a few minutes of this, the two appeared out of thin air several feet from eachother. Time to show him what we can do, raise your blades above your head Taifuu instructed Alkaid inside her mind and Alkaid did what she was told, Heero going into a side-ways horse stance and raised up three five of hearts infront of him. Now slash down saying Sparrow Strike, quickly, he is about to attack also. Taifuu again instructed as Alkaid began slashing down and Heero flung the cards he was holding out towards her. "Sparrow Strike!"Alkaid shouted as she nearly completed the slash. Three large green colored streaks of wind blasted out of Alkaid's blades and the cards that Heero threw erupted into balls of fire about six feet tall. The attacks collided, blasts of both fire and wind scattered a few feet from the point of impact then faded away as both of them locked eyes with eachother and the other Onmitsukido members whispered among eachother on what they just saw.
Age of Death: 18
Age of Appearance: 23
Real Age: 120
Blood Type: A+
Type: Solider( Halve Strength, Double Reiatsu Strength)
Fighting Style: In combat, Alkaid mainly uses her speed and agility to outmaneuver the opponent. She believes that no matter how much strength one has, it is no good if you cannot land a single blow on the target. Therefore, Alkaid will attack from multiple directions and/or spots using her speed to her advantage. Alkaid also prefers close combat then fighting from afar. She finds that range doesn't allow you to truly conquer you enemy. Because of this, she will get in mere inches of her target before they even realize it and swiftly force them to change to melee attacks. Alkaid prefers using her Shikai also at the start of battle, because of its form and prefers striking multiple times at once to confuse the opponent and overwhelm them. She also holds her blades upside down, normally having one held infront of her and the other behind her with her arm straightened nearly entirely out with the front blade pointing down at the ground and the other blade pointing up into the air. Speed is one of the few keys to her defeating her opponents.
In close hand to hand combat, Alkaid excels at hitting the the target in various spots all over their body. At first, she will aim to disable or distract the opponent by causing pain so she may finish them off swiftly. Her targets therefore are normally places such as the throat, knee, solar plexus, groin, ribs and feet. However, when taking her opponent 100 percent seriously, she aims to kill them. During this, she targets spots such as the bridge of the nose, temple, heart, liver, neck and kidneys. She will also strike targets like these several times at once, leaving no chance that the target will fight back if the blow connects.
Alkaid also tends to be overly aggressive against her opponents. She will hardly give them a chance to breath, let alone counter attack whatever she throws at them. Alkaid tends to easily resort to violence when proved. She is rarely one who rejects a challenge. Combat seems like more of a sport to her really, believing you can only reveal and show your feelings through your fists. She also tends to never give up during a fight, even though it may seem like she will lose. To give up without trying, to her at least, is a cowards tactic.
Besides her zanpakuto, Alkaid enjoys using both her legs and hands during combat. She is also very evasive and flexible, easily dodging other attacks if she is faster then the opponent. If she meets a opponent of her equal level or stronger, she will attempt to find a weakness. Alkaid mainly does this by attacking different spots on the person swiftly then getting away from them as fast as possible. She will also resort to medium to high level kido usage to break through their defenses. If all else fails, Alkaid will use her shikai's special ability to literally burn through her opponent's defense.
-Appearance-
Height: 5'8
Weight: 106
Eye Color: Black
Overall Appearance: Alkaid is a woman appearing in at the age of 23. Her short red hair with white highlights comes down to about shoulder length and is parted so none is in her face. Her skin tone is a light tan color. Her breast size is about 38 C and she has a hour-glass body shape. Also, she is moderately skinny, meaning that she neither down to the bone skinny or bloated, she is just the right size.
Alkaid is normally seen wearing custom-made shinigami robes. She wears a short top of a black kimono with white lines outlining it and a white string tied to secure it. The back of it is accented by a large white fan with gold designs of her squad's symbol on each of the fins of the fan. She also has a sash, which resembles a fox's tail, the top of the tail being white while the rest of it is a light orange, around her waist which represents her agility and love for speed. She wears four large triangle shaped open white skirts that are next to eachother and have gold lines going across each of them, each line connecting to the next.
As for her bottom half, she wears knee high black boots along with black karate gee shorts. Each side of the legs of the boots have several small purple triangles going up along it. The bottom of the boots are a fiery red color. The tops of the boots are actually open, making them zōri like so they make almost zero sound when a step is taken and the sound heard is barley audio able. They also have 5 leather like straps on them to secure the boots.
Her zanpakuto's sheath his located on her lower back, strapped there horizontally. The sheath itself is very typical, black and the same length as her zanpakuto. Her zanpakuto itself takes the form of a Wakizashi. The hilt of it is a average colored red with gold diamond like shapes going up along it in a line. The blade itself is a metallic silver color with a pure white streak going up the middle of it.
Alkaid also normally wears a pair of bronze colored leather gauntlets. Underneath these, she wears a black light cloth gloves the go all the way to her elbows. The hand of the gauntlet covers mainly her knuckles but exposes the rest of her fingers and her palm so she may grip her zanpakuto more easily and use kido freely. Above each of her elbows, she has a fiery red colored wave like tattoo, made to represent how her attacks are like a swift wave. Attacking you when you least expect it and seemingly out of nowhere. Also, when she is with the Onmitsukido, she wears a black ninja outfit, that is sleeveless and the back is opened up.
-Personality-
Dislikes:
[1.] Arrogance, she finds that people who cannot expect a fact is extremely annoying.
[2.] Men who show off, seeings guy try to impress women like her basically engages her temper.
[3.] Rap, Alkaid hated nearly everything that rap offered when she listened to it once in the human world. The lyrics were basic and had no meaning and she also believes songs should have rhythm to it, not some off-beat garbage sound.
[4.] Cold, Alkaid seems especially vulnerable to the cold, easily getting chills and shivers when it is in the 60's outside.
[5.] Tomatoes, Alkaid attempted to eat a slice of a regular tomato once when she was in the human world and she nearly gagged at the taste. It just simply tasted way too juicy and soft.
[6.] Cats, she finds that cats are annoying, constantly meowing for various things like attention or going outside. Plus they normally destroy everything you enjoy such as your furniture, bags and beds.
[7.] Sarcasm, she finds that people use sarcasm and decide to be smart a -likes to her annoys her greatly and she will most likely knock them out cold.
[8.] Jealousy, Alkaid believes that if you cannot get something you want, just accept that fact and don't get all emotional and mellow dramatic about it.
[9.] Dresses, she finds them way too feminine for her liking.
[10.] Morning Birds, Alkaid can barley them, mainly because they tend to always wake her when she is trying to sleep in the morning and wishes she could kill them.
Likes:
[1.] Canines, especially foxes. Alkaid finds that they are agile and majestic and compares herself to a fox.
[2.] Gold, Alkaid loves not only the color gold, but also any object that is made of or is gold itself.
[3.] Money, Alkaid is extremely greedy and practically drools at the sight of a large amount of money, especially gold.
[4.] Alcohol, preferably sake. She just simply loves the taste of it.
[5.] Short Blades, she finds that they are easier to wield in combat and allow more faster maneuvering.
[6.] Fields, she enjoys wide open fields that seem to be never ending, also believing that to her, they represent freedom.
[7.] Wind, most preferably breezes because they only have a slight chill to them but also she enjoys normal to high winds like gales because they are both weightless and powerful.
[8.] Arcades, traveling to the human world many times, she has come to wind up mainly in a arcade because she is enticed by the graphics of each arcade game.
[9.] Beaches, mainly the sand because it is normally warm, if not hot, and enjoys its feeling beneath her feet. Also she finds it is one of the best places for sunlight.
[10.] Dango, she loves the taste of dumplings and also Anko, also known as red bean paste.
[11.] Parties, Alkaid loves letting loose on occasions so she doesn't become entirely stressed out.
Flaws:
[1.] Attitude, Alkaid basically has the attitude of a tomboy and easily tell off men, causing most to fear and/or hate her.
[2.] Temper, Alkaid easily becomes furious, normally even with smaller things but not as much as major.
[3.] Strict, Alkaid tends to be very demanding and strict to those below her.
[4.] Fear, her fear of the dark tends to be one of her major flaws, because she thinks it shows weakness in her and that is the last thing she wants to reveal to people.
Habits:
[1.] Whistling, Alkaid tends to normally whistle while she is walking through Soul Society and other places.
[2.] Arms Crossed, Alkaid will normally walk and stand with her arms crossed behind her back.
[3.] Drinking, Alkaid tends to drink frequently after a battle or intense training.
[4.] Hand to Hand Combat, Alkaid tends to start off fighting with hand to hand combat, then gradually move to fighting with her zanpakuto.
[5.] "Master Lightning", Alkaid's respect and admiration of Old Lightning is extremely high, so high that she constantly refers to him as Master Lightning, both when speaking to or about him.
Fears:
[1.] The Dark, oddly enough with all of her tough attitude, Alkaid is deathly afraid of darkness.
[2.] Death, although she is a "Death God", she fears it since she has already died once and doesn't plan to die again anytime soon.
Goals:
[1.] Alkaid eventually wants to open up her very own weapon and item shop.
[2.] Alkaid desires to find a vast amount of jewels somewhere, either in the spiritual world or the human, and claim them as her own.
[3.] Another one of Alkaid's goals is to find a person suitable to be her rival in Soul Society.
[4.] Alkaid's main goal is to visit her sisters and apologize to them.
Alignment: [Lawful Good]
Overall Personality: Alkaid could most likely be considered a tomboy. She enjoys getting into arguments and fights with other people, especially men to give them the embarrassment of losing to a girl. She also relishes in the fact she can normally beat guys. She just simply gets a rush from it, like a natural high. She'll also fight with other woman to show them that any woman can become strong, if not stronger, than a male.
She normally has a fiery, battle ready personality when around others, mellow when with superiors and also high spirited. She is always ready to defend her pride, and doesn't take any insults from anybody. She especially dislikes arrancar, seeing them as beings who are too cowardly to fight others of equal strength and will only target the weaker shinigami. She also has a particular loathing of the Captain Commander Old Lightning, seeing him as a decorated war hero and wishes she could be like him one day. However, she knows that it will takes hundreds of years to become close to strength as Old Lightning.
However, to those who have earned her respect, Alkaid is a very loyal friend. She is willing to defend their honor just as she would her own.Alkaid tends to mock individuals, mainly for their weaknesses. She also is seen enjoying herself when she is in a fight, which is most of the time, mainly training sessions though. She is usually seen with a concentrated look on her face, showing her discipline.
-Powers-
Zanpakutou Sealed Appearance: [Wakizashi]
Zanpakutou Release Appearance:
Shikai: A pair of golden five foot long dagger-like short swords, also know as twin blades, with a large circular guard that covers her entire hand but leaves enough room so it does not interfere with her wielding it.
Bankai:Alkaid's twin blades shatter then a pair of teko-kagis materialize on her hands and feet. These are a pair of customized, light weight,metal gauntlets and boots with 3 foot long large gold steel claws. The gauntlets are attached on her wrists and the boots on her feet. The blades themselves are both light weight and extremely sharp.
Overall Ability: ["Wail, Taifuu!", Wind]
Shikai Overall Ability:
Alkaid's shikai can unleashed rapid bursts, streaks, gales and various other forms of a eerie green wind. This wind can also be extremely sharpened, her zanpakuto's spirit sharpening the wind with its reatisu. This could cause the wind to be sharper then any zanpakuto. She can NOT create tornadoes, cyclones, or twisters in shikai. And she cannot consecutively fire wind. Only six wind blasts at any one firing, and then a 3 second cooldown. (Per blade)
Shikai Techniques:
2. Technique Name: Sparrow Strike
Class: 4
Technique Type: Shinigami
Technique Description and Effects: Alkaid unleashes three green colored streaks of wind from her blades all at once. The streaks of wind are sharper then most blades and can easily cut through steel and solid rock and travel roughly at subsonic speeds.
How to use technique: Alkaid raise her twin blades up over her head then slashes down with them, speaking the name of the technique.
Drawback: Has a ten second cool down time in between each usage of the technique. Has to raise her zanpakuto's up, leaving her open for an attack.
Made by: [Alkaid Akane]
Reserved?: [Yes]
Made by: [Alkaid Akane]
Reserved?: [Yes]
3. Alkaid gains a special shunpo using her shikai's wind abilites. For one step, she can move 7x as fast as she is currently, which is not as fast as a regular shunpo but it is still effective. To use it, she actually uses her wind abilities to the fullest and uses the wind to move herself. When she performs it, she would do so with enough blinking speed to make it appear that she dissolved into wind, making it seem like she disappeared into the wind. The wind also masks her presence completely, making it seem like she literally disappeared.
Bankai Overall Ability: Alkaid's wind abilities become magnified, giving her the ability to form and control small tornadoes from both her weapons and hands. This also gives her the ability of flight as two red colored angel-like wings of condensed wind materialize on her back and are controllable. She also gains the ability to control the general chill of the wind. She cannot fire attacks consecutively in spam. 8 attacks at once (per blade), then a 4 second cooldown.
Bankai Techniques:
2. Alkaid gains the ability of flight, due to her wings.
3. Her special shunpo now gains another unique ability. She does 6 of those special shunpo all at once and with each shunpo, she leaves a clone of herself for 4 seconds.
4. Technique Name: Reaper's Fury
Class: 1
Technique Type: Shinigami
Technique Description and Effects: Alkaid unleashes a gigantic red and white streaked tornado from both her hands and engulfs the enemy. The inside of the tornado is sharpened with thousands of small golden wind blades that can easily shred an opponent to millions of pieces due to them being sharpened by reiatsu. The reiatsu strength of the attack is 800, due to the fact of the amount of reiatsu is condensed in the attack.
How to use technique: Alkaid gathers together her spiritual energy, presses her hands and wrists together, then thrusts both her hands forward, opening her hands up but keeping her wrists against eachother her. As she charges the attack, red and golden lights from her reiatsu flare from her palm, indicating the attack to be charging.
Drawback: The attack costs Alkaid more then just her spiritual energy, it will physically drain her, meaning her speed will sharply decrease to average and the same with her strength. Also, her bankai will deactivate, sending her back to her shikai start for several minutes before she can reenter her bankai state. Due to this, this is normally a last resort technique for her. It drops her reiatsu down instantly to 100 and the technique can only be performed if her reiatsu is 800 or higher.
-History-
Birthplace: Kantou, Japan
Current Residence: Seireitei, Barracks 2.
Squad: 2
History:
[Parents: Marik Akane - Deceased, Juno Arami- Deceased, Siblings: Rita Akane - Living, Estelle Akane- Living, Enemies: Marco Jing, student, Others: Jericho Hunter, Treecko Augustine,Vice Captains-Deceased, Heero Sliver, Onmitsukido Member-Living.]
Childhood
The parents of Alkaid lived a high standard of life. This was due to them owning large portion of the electric industry of Japan. Her parents met in their early twenties and eventually her mother Juno gave birth to Alkaid. Alkaid grew up in a above average life, only slightly spoiled to begin with since she was both a girl and their first child. However, a year later, Juno had given birth to Rita, Alkaid's first younger sister. Alkaid was jealous at first when Rita began attracting the attention of her parents more then she did herself but it eventually balanced out and she grew out of jealousy against Rita. Rita and Alkaid became close siblings, Alkaid constantly watching over her.
Three more years passed by and again, Juno had given birth to another daughter, Estelle. Alkaid's father, Marik, was still very successful in his electric industry so the family was not even close to poverty and lived a decent rich life. The three siblings got along fine and became very close, Alkaid naturally becoming the role of the eldest sister and taking care of the two of them constantly, even though her parents still looked after them all. The three's school life were fairly simple and all passed with ease as they all entered a school that ended at the eighth grade and began at the third. However, during this time, Alkaid became very aggressive at those who decided to poke fun at her younger sisters, giving at least a dozen boys black eyes and also knocking out their loosened teeth. Eventually, all of the students knew not the mess with Alkaid or his sisters, seeing as Alkaid seemed to hear almost everything and appear out of nowhere when trouble began. Her sister's looked fairly similar to Alkaid also as they grew up, however Estelle's hair became pink with white highlights and Rita's was simply red.
Alkaid's younger sisters looked up to her, though they did find Alkaid quite frightful when her anger was unleashed. Alkaid established her dominance in the school and constantly trained outside of school in Kenpo, a karate style in which puts emphasis on the use of both the hands and feet of a person. Soon Rita joined her and became her sparring partner. However, as Alkaid and her sisters progressed through their school life, their father Marik's life was steadily declining. His business was better then ever, constantly receiving income a good life, well, for his family a good life. Marik gradually began looking for even more income and constantly began gambling in whatever places he could get to in Kantou, using only his own personal saved money so his family would not suspect anything. Unfortunately for Marik, he was not that good of a gambler. Marik constantly lost, only luckily winning a few times but he soon lost those winnings by simply doubling his bets.
Soon, Marik began losing vast amounts of his personal money as Alkaid, Rita and Estelle had all entered high school and were progressing extraordinarily well, easily passing difficult tests and exams while dozens of other students only scored average. Alkaid made sure the two studied and also joined them in their studies so she could keep up with Rita, who strangely enough was scoring slightly higher then Alkaid. At this time, Alkaid was 17, soon to become 18, Rita was 17 and Estelle had just turned 15. The three were inseparable and constantly together. Normally, they would just walk around on the streets or go to a nearby plain and simply lay on it, watching the clouds. They discussed their future and problems if any came up, such as Estelle becoming shy around guys or Rita trying to get a boyfriend but Alkaid interferes. In the end, they'd laugh about it then shortly return home.
As the three girls attended school, their mother Juno constantly worked, overseeing the electric company while Marik was away on his "business" trips. Juno enjoyed her job, making sure everything was running smoothly as usual, however it did tire her mentally since she worked long hours filling out paperwork and such for Marik. Marik had also been winning lately, however not due to any luck this time. Marik had began cheating, constantly hiding cards normally up into his sleeves and such to achieve victory, however Marik began cheating against the wrong people, namely gangsters so suspected him greatly of cheating. Although Marik had won and had somehow not been caught of cheating, the gangsters suspected him of this because it was only logical, one man who was on a losing streak suddenly starts winning constantly? Foul play was involved and the gangsters do not take kindly to have been tricked. So the gangsters began plotting their revenge against Marik, gathering information about him and soon, discovered his electric industry.
The day before "it" happened
Alkaid, Rita and Estelle lied back on their usual plain that they visited, Alkaid crossing her arms behind her head as Estelle and Rita rested their hands on there stomachs. "Oh!, that one!" Estelle exclaimed, putting at an oddly shaped cloud above the sky, "It looks like a frog!" "Hm, that one looks like a tiger" Rita commented, pointing at another oddly shaped cloud. The two of them would normally do this for fun, to pass the time while they were there. "And that one looks like my future boyfriend.." Rita suddenly said, pointing at one that oddly enough, did look like a boy's face and she glanced at Alkaid. Alkaid gave her a light glare and Rita pouted. "Come on Alkaid, why can't i have a boyfriend? The guys at are school are constantly asking you and me, probably Estelle soon when shes a bit older." Rita asked her, a sad look in her eyes. Alkaid sighed lightly and sat up. "Look, its not that I don't want a boyfriend, I do, but mom and dad have enough problems with work and such that if we start dating, they'll be even more stressed out." Alkaid explained, Rita looking down in depression, not because she couldn't have a boyfriend right now, but that she could of caused her parents problems. Alkaid placed a couple of fingers on Rita's chin and lifted her head up so she was looking at Alkaid. "Look, here is a deal. Once you can beat me in a sparring match, then you can have any boyfriend you want okay?" Alkaid said with a light smile on her face. "Okay!" Rita said with a grin and hugged Alkaid tightly, Estelle then jumping on them both and causing them to all fall on the ground ontop of eachother. They laughed together, each smiling and unaware of the events to partake the next day.
The Accident
None of the workers knew what had happened that day in the electric industries headquarters. Marik had decided to come into work today with Juno, he was in high spirits after his latest "business trip". The two had just entered the building's main entrance and were walking across the middle of the room when suddenly, a large chandelier hanging from the ceiling dropped down, the cables that were hanging it up suddenly snapping and dropped on the two of them, crushing them instantly. Above, on a platform that was eye level with the chandelier, the three gangsters that Marik had cheated were standing, each wearing all black so they could blend into the shadows from above and were holding silent pistols, which they had used to shoot out the cables. The three men were caught soon afterward when the police had tracked the pistols, which they discarded, back to them.
Soon, one of the managers from the industry came to the Akane's home. Alkaid, Rita and Estelle were simply studying as usual when the manager knocked lightly on their front door a few times. Alkaid looked at her sisters, confusion on their face since they rarely got visitors. Alkaid stood up and approached the door, opening it and seeing the manager. "I'm sorry to disturb you miss but I bring troubling news about your parents." the manager said at a low whisper so only Alkaid could hear. Alkaid nodded and stepped outside and closed the door. "What happened?" Alkaid asked but slowly presuming the worst. "There was a unfortunate accident at the industry, your parents had entered the building and were passing through the main floor when the chandelier that we have displayed dropped down and... well, i believe you get the picture.." The manager explained, looking at Alkaid sadly as Alkaid looked at the ground, shock and despair on her face. "So their dead..both of them..?" Alkaid asked weakly, still staring at the ground. "Yes, unfortunately... the accident was caused by three assailants who encountered your father Marik and he somehow angered them, they are currently in custody and we have evidence linking them to the scene and causing the crime, they will receive execution for such a act.." the manager continued, hoping at least this part of the news would somewhat cheer Alkaid up. "Good.. they deserve death.." Alkaid said, slightly glad that the men who causing this will die for what they did. "What am i too do..?" Alkaid thought inside her head, shaking slightly.
"Miss Akane, since you are the eldest of your family and are the closest to adulthood, you receive the rights of ownership to both your home and the industry. That is, if you accept them that is." The manager told her, feeling uncomfortable since this has never happened before. "I will have too... for my sisters..." Alkaid said lowly, turning around and looking back up. "The paperwork will be sent to you tomorrow so it is official.. good luck." the manager said, walking away and off the property. Alkaid stood there, revealing troubled and saddened, then walked back inside, seeing the Rita and Estelle must of heard because they were crying and holding eachother. Alkaid joined them and held them close together, fighting back the tears she had so she could stay strong for the two of them.
Several Months Later
Alkaid began sweeping the floor clean of the kitchen as Rita and Estelle just finished dinner with her. Their mourning of their parents put to rest after the funeral, Alkaid basically became the mother of Rita and Estelle. She still went to school with them, since she was about to graduate so it was easy for her to maintain their house and keep a education. She had hired the manager that told her about her parent's death to watch over the industry so she could stay home and take care of her sisters. The manager accepted, causing Alkaid to still have a income coming in. Soon, she would graduate and take care of her sisters even more. However, she did not expect her death to come so soon.
The Death of Alkaid and Birth As A Shinigami
Marco Jing, a student in Alkaid's grade, fell back onto the grass as Alkaid delivered a swift and powerful elbow strike across his face. He was about 18, Alkaid's age, and groaned in pain as he tried to get up. Alkaid smashed her foot against his head and knocked him out cold. The guy foolishly had hit on Alkaid while she was outside of the school on a break and when Alkaid completely ignored him, he grabbed her arm. Alkaid viciously yanked him up to a sitting position by his hair while he was still knocked out. "Never touch me again, man-whore." Alkaid whispered harshly into his ear then shoved him back down. She walked off, anger in her eyes as she simply left Marco there out cold.
Hours passed and school was nearly over. Alkaid again was on a break and on the rooftop, gazing across the city. Suddenly, the rooftop door swung open and Marco stomped in, drawing a pistol from his pocket and aiming it at Alkaid. Alkaid saw this and didn't react to it, yawning lightly. "What do you want, Marco..?" Alkaid asked lazily, giving him a annoyed glare. "NOONE EVER REJECTS ME, I DON'T CARE WHO IT IS! EVEN IF IT IS YOU ALKAID, SOON YOU WILL WISH YOU HAD ACCEPTED ME!" Marco rambled as he advanced forward towards her, carelessly not taking note that he had just stepped into her kicking range. Alkaid ducked low as she swept her leg across infront of her and into Marco's legs, knocking him down onto his back and knocking the gun down next to him.
She stood up as Marco sat up to also stand but Alkaid smashed her leg against the side of his face, sending him rolling a few times. Alkaid glared at the guy with fury, he had to nerve to show up and pull out a gun on her over being rejected. Completely dishonorable Alkaid thought inside her head. Marco suddenly got up and charged her, unaware that Alkaid was standing a foot from the roof. Alkaid easily side stepped him but then saw him begin to fall as he couldn't stop himself from running fast enough. Instinctively, she grabbed the back of his shirt and turned, throwing him back on the roof but caused her to fall as well. Marco fell on his pistol, which set it off and it killed him, his spirit going to Hell. Huh..guess this is how it ends..sorry Rita..Estelle.. Alkaid thought inside her head right before she died.
Alkaid was suddenly hovering over her body, confused but then realized she must be a spirit now. She looked around and oddly enough, saw two strangely dressed men floating a few feet by her and watching her. "What are you, angels?" Alkaid said, facing them as she gave the two men a weird look. The two men wore black robes and both had katana's sheathed at their sides. One of the men was in his late 20's, his hair light blue that hung down nearly over his eyes and had a average athletic body. The other one seemed to be Alkaid's age and was just as athletically built as the other one. This one, however, had black spiked hair and a horizontal scar on both his wrists.
"Angels eh..? you could say that." the one with blue hair responded as the one in black laughed lightly. "I am Jericho Hunter, this is-", " Treecko Augustine." the black haired man said, interrupting Jericho. Jericho glared at him a bit, ticked off slightly that he interrupted him. "Well what is it? I did just die after all, isn't it time to go?" Alkaid asked the two men, still confused on why she wasn't just in whatever afterlife she going to be be sent to yet. "That, is up to you. If you come with us, you can become something far more better then you were as a human. However, if you do not, then you can have your "eternal rest", what say you?" Treecko explained and asked Alkaid. "Eternal rest does sound boring.. alright, I will come with you." she responded. "Just one question, what are you then if not angels?" Alkaid asked them, crossing her arms as she examined the two men. "Death Gods!" Treecko exclaimed, Jericho grinning as Alkaid's expression became more confused and also shocked.
Shinigami Life
It turned out that Jericho and Treecko were both vice captains, scouting out the area for any hollow when they saw Alkaid's death occur and felt a high amount of spiritual energy coming off of her so they decided to recruit her into the Shinigami Academy and also explain everything about Soul Society. Jericho was the vice captain of the 5th division and Treecko was vice captain of the 10th. Both had met eachother at the Academy and had been friends ever since, even when they went into separate squads. The two of them have been in Soul Society for around 50 years and have much experience from it that they begin passing onto Alkaid. The two of them became Alkaid's personal teachers and also the only two friends she made in Soul Society. Alkaid respected them but also found them like a old couple because they argued with eachother constantly on random topics.
Potential Revealed, Four Years Later
Alkaid easily ducked a kick to her head from one of the academy students and countered with a swift kick of her own to his chest, knocking him down to his back. All around her was a ring of academy students who were here, along with Alkaid, to take a combat test. So far, Alkaid has been in the ring for ten minutes and has defeated 25 of the students single handily. She was getting tired however, and hungry but those were signs that she could use up her spiritual energy. Jericho and Treecko were watching from a distance with their arms crossed behind their back as another student stepped up to the challenge to face Alkaid. "Man, think shes gonna stop? Looks like she is ready to take on the whole lot of them." Jericho commented to Treecko, impressed that Alkaid was still fighting. "I believe she could, you know what this means right?" he asked as Alkaid blocked a punch to her chest by bringing her right arm up and pushes the student's arm up over his head and then thrusted her left palm against the student's solar plexus, knocking the wind of him. "They'll approach her soon enough." Jericho answered him, motioning towards to their right as Alkaid dashed past the student, grabbing him by the throat, lifting him up and slamming him to the ground. Treecko looked and saw a man dressed head to toe in a black ninja uniform with his arms crossed, observing the test.
Later That Night
Alkaid stepped out of the shower which she had just finished cleaning herself in. She grabbed a white towel that was hanging from a metal bar and began drying herself off with when she heard a single knock on the door. "One minute." Alkaid said loudly, finding it odd that someone was at her door at this time of day. She spent a minute drying off then threw on a bath-rub she had hanging up on the wall by a hook. She tied it tightly so it wouldn't open back up then opened the door, only to be greeted by a kick aiming right for her stomach. Her instincts and senses kicked in and she bashed her palm against the side of the leg, knocking it away from her. As soon as she blocked, the opponent bashed his fist against her chest. She cringed and stumbled back but swiftly recovered her balance as the opponent rushed in, aiming a palm strike to her jaw. She turned to her side, the opponent's hand now infront of her face and she grabbed their arm, pulling and twisting it causing the opponent to flips, who yelled in surprised as he hit the floor.
Alkaid got ontop of him swiftly and pinned him down, aiming to drive her fist through his face. "Heh, seems like I wasn't wrong, your pretty damn fast." the opponent commented and chuckled lightly. Alkaid halted her fist and flipped on a nearby switch, turning the lights on and the opponent was the man in the ninja outfit that was observing her battle. Alkaid looked closely and saw the Onmitsukido emblem stitched onto his outfit and her eyes widened in surprise, as she had just recently learned about them in the Academy. This guys part of the Onmitsukido? Alkaid thought inside her head as the man pulled out a package from his outfit and held it up. "Here. This should explain everything." The man said, tossing up the package. Alkaid caught it and got up, sitting on her bed as the man sat up, sighing in relief. She tore it opened and looked at what it held and her eyes widened in shocked, pulling out what it held.
The first thing she pulled out was the exact same outfit the man was wearing. She unfolded it and saw that the Onmitsukido's emblem was on this was also. They want me to join? Alkaid asked herself as she laid the outfit next to her. She then pulled out a pair of folded up shinigami robes. She unfolded these and then saw the Insignia, a bent tulip, the second division's Insignia. "You have been assigned to the second division but also, you have been requested to join the Onmitsukido due to the potential you revealed through your Academy career. Do you accept?" asked the man as he stood up and faced Alkaid. Alkaid looked at him and grinned. "Of course." she said, excitement in her tone.
Entering The Ranks of Shinigami and Omnisukido
The man from Onmitsukido was Heero Sliver, born and raised in Soul Society. He had athletic body to him and his hair was spiked blond. He and his family were of royal blood and gifted with natural fighting talents. He had entered the Onmitsukido 200 years ago and since then, he has devoted his life to it. Normally, only those of royal blood could enter the Onmitsukido but those gifted with unique fighting abilities and/or reatisu are given a opportunity to join it. After various tests and challenges while in the Onmitsukido, one is given the rank of captain over one of the five divisions. So far, only Heero has passed these tests and challenges and he is only the captain of the Patrol Corps, who are given the duty to patrol Seireitei and travel to various dimensions and lands to combat various hollows and other enemies of Soul Society. Because there is no Commander -in-chief of the Onmitsukido, Heero has led it, even though he stayed as the Patrol Corp's captain.
Alkaid walked along with Heero as they approached the Onmitsukido headquarters. The headquarters itself was a massive dojo with 5 different sections inside of it, each section for a separate division. Heero tapped on the sliding door entrance to it and it instantly slid open, Alkaid couldn't tell if it was opened by someone else or something completely different. Heero walked inside, followed closely by Alkaid who was wearing the ninja outfit that she was given. The door slid shut and suddenly, various lanterns glowed dimly to life, keeping the entire dojo barley lite. It took a moment for Alkaid's eyes to just but when they did, she saw that there were many other Onmitsukido members inside, each doing various tasks and mostly moving around. "As you can see, we have been quite busy with the Ogatago's movements." Heero commented to Alkaid as they walked into his room, where several guards stood by. Two rooms of candles formed a path leading up to a large black leather seat with a couple of tables next to it. Heero sat in it and crossed his legs Indian style as Alkaid sat infront of him in the same way.
"Now, Alkaid, being part of the Onmitsukido is not a easy task. You must be willing to learn and improve. If you become weak, your teammates become weak and when they become weak, the Onmitsukido will crumble. We cannot have this happen." Heero stated, looking directly into Alkaid's eyes. Alkaid gave him a small glare but nodded. "I am not and will not become weak." Alkaid responded, crossing her arms as she stared at Heero. "Good, however, to prove your worth to the Onmitsukido, you must be challenged and tested, these will teach you how the Onmitsukido works and which division you will be apart of." Heero explained, taking out a small pipe and filling it with tobacco. " Ill pass whatever you have in stored, I am not afraid." Alkaid said intensely , slamming her fist down on the ground and the tables shook lightly. Heero raised a eyebrow and lite the pipe, placing the end of it in his mouth. "Oh? Good... you will be.." Heero said, inhaling and exhaling as a two small lines of smoke came out his nose, filling the air infront of his face as he leaned his head forward through the smoke, "you will be.."
A few days afterward, Alkaid had spent some time at her new room and barracks in the second division. There was not much activity going on, compared to the Onmitsukido's base. She preferred it there more but she knew she would have to prove her worth both here and at the base. Alkaid also learned that the second division did not have a captain or a vice captain either. Alkaid found this strange but then she learned that the captain of the second division normally would be the commander-in-chief of the Onmitsukido. Alkaid then decided she would do more then prove her worth in both the second division and Onmitsukido. She made it her own personal goal to do what Heero did not and become commander-in-chief of the second division.
The first few challenges and tests were quite simple. Basically, they were against various hollows that the Patrol Corp forces had discovered in the human world. Alkaid slew them with relative ease, only having slight difficulty when the last one had multiple long necked heads. She conquered it however by stabbing one of the heads, then wrapping that head's neck around the necks of the other heads, suffocating it. She then stabbed it square in the back and cleansed it. However, after these few challenges, they became difficult. Instead of hollows, Alkaid faced against and worked with other members of the Onmitsukido, which was to test both her physical strength and endurance, as well as teach her the meaning of teamwork, such as having to fight a large number of opponents with only yourself and three other people or through a obstacle course where aiding one another was required. Alkaid again found these of little challenge against her and passed them flawlessly.
As she progressed through the Onmitsukido, she did the same with the second division. Gradually, she began moving up in ranks as she proved her combat effectiveness, fighting and defeating everyone in her division in sparring matches. In nearly a year, she had become the third seat officer of her division and had become one of the squad leaders among the Onmitsukido's Executive Militia. Heero was highly impressed of Alkaid, he even believed that she may even have surpassed himself. Heero did not mind this, he was glad that there was finally someone who was better then him, that way he could focus more on his own division then the rest. However, before he could do that, there was one more test Alkaid had to go through. This was to fight and defeat Heero in a duel.
Shikai Achieved
Heero had announced the Alkaid and the Onmitsukido that in a few days, him and Alkaid were to battle to see if she was worthy of being the commander-in-chief of the Onmitsukido. Half of the members already thought that Alkaid would finally be the one to lead the Onmitsukido, however the other half still believed Heero should be the leader. All of the members would find out in a few short days, however, tragedy had struck Alkaid. Jericho and Treecko, the two vice captains that had recruited Alkaid as a shinigami and became her mentors had been killed. The two were pursuing a couple of arrancar through the Gillian Forest when they were ambushed by a massive amount of hollows. They managed to slay about half of them when finally, the numbers became too much and the two died swiftly. When Alkaid heard the news, she was devastated and had locked herself in her room in the second division and would not see anyone, even Heero, for two days. Heero did not judge her on this, knowing this was probably the first time she had lost someone in her shinigami life.
It was about midnight on the day before the test. Alkaid mourned silently for the loss of her two mentors. She had thought of them as her fathers and they were her first true friends that she had met in Seireitei. Even though she had Heero as a friend, she still felt alone now. "It seems you have forgotten something." a light feminine voice said out loud,seemingly out of nowhere. Alkaid leapt to her feet, pulling out her zanpakuto as she scanned the room with her eyes for any intruders. However, noone besides her was there. "Show yourself!" Alkaid commanded, both confused and angered since she could not find the source of the voice. "As you wish." The voice said again but Alkaid heard where it was, her eyes opening in shock as she looked directly at her zanpakuto. It suddenly shined brightly and she felt herself being drawn in and everything went black.
Alkaid jackknifed awake, immediately sitting up and looking around at her environment. She was on the beach of a majestic island where the vast sea surrounded it and seemed endless. She looked around and got to her feet as she saw a figure approaching her. The figure was a woman in her early 20's and she was more tan then Alkaid. She had long white flowing her that ran down her back and was parted so none was in her face and also she had two white furred fox like ears. Her breast size was about the same as Alkaid's and instead of a normal top, she seemed to be wearing two light orange cloth that crossed above her breasts and the ends of them were tied together behind her back in a knot. Her eyes were teal and also, she wears black leather straps, that Alkaid could see, one started around her neck and it seemed to be wrapped around her breasts and tied under them. She also wore a light purple skirt that had a black leather strap around the top of it and circled around the skirt two times, going down to the end of her thighs. Also it seemed she had two white fox like tails that were partly wrapped around her waist. The woman stopped a few feet infront of Alkaid and stared at her. Alkaid realized that this must be her zanpakuto spirit. "Still think your alone now?" the zanpakuto spirit asked her as she crossed her arms and continued to stare at Alkaid.
Bewilderment filled Alkaid inside her. She had completely forgotten about her zanpakuto since she had been focused on her testing and training. Although, oddly enough she could of sworn she had heard her zanpakuto's voice quite a few times encouraging her on. "Sorry.." Alkaid murmured, looking at the ground in shame for acting like such a child. Alkaid suddenly had to lean back as her zanpakuto spirit aimed a kick to her head. "You have no need to be ashamed, Alkaid, you cannot be. You only have this morning until you have to fight Heero and trust me, it will not be a easy task without my help. Even with it, it is up to you to have the willingness to become a leader." the zanpakuto spirit clearly stated as she took up a fighting guard. "You will only acquire my help if you defeat me." she said with a grin as Alkaid also took up a fighting guard. "So be it." Alkaid answered, a grin of her own forming on her face as he lunged forward with a open palm strike going towards the spirit's chest.
The spirit turned swiftly but then had to block with her forearm as Alkaid bent her striking arm, her elbow nearly striking her shoulder. Alkaid followed her movements and lashed her right leg towards the spirit, who swiftly blocked it down with a sweep of her palm and smashed her fist into Alkaid's stomach with a sudden burst of speed. Alkaid cringed but held her ground, spinning and smashing the back of his fist against the spirit's cheek, who turned her head so it lessened the blow but it still did the same amount of damage as her own punch. The two began exchanging blows with eachother, each attempting to block and counter one another's hand techniques. After several seconds, Alkaid managed to trap the spirit's arm by wrapping her own arm around it and rolled, bringing the spirit with her and throwing her a few feet. The spirit rolled a couple of times but hastingly got up as Alkaid did and both dashed forward at eachother. The spirit ducked a palm to her face from Alkaid and smashed her own palm against Alkaid's stomach, causing her to stumble back and the spirit took advantage of this. She spun to her right, bringing her left leg up as she did this and side of her foot caught the side of Alkaid's head, causing her to stumble to the side, nearly falling over. Alkaid quickly recovered, responding with a sudden palm strike to the spirit's ribs, causing her to shuffled back and grab her side for a moment.
The spirit quickly recovered and dashed forward as Alkaid did, both aiming a kick at eachother. The two attacks collided, a burst of spiritual energy forming when this happened. The two then punched forward, this fists colliding also and again, another burst of spiritual energy erupting around them. Alkaid couldn't believe this, they were evenly matched,but yet, something was wrong. Alkaid noticed the spirit's face, she was still smiling and then Alkaid understood. Shes not even trying yet! Alkaid exclaimed inside her head, stepping back with a fierce look in her eyes. Ill make her then Alkaid thought inside her head, suddenly dashing forward and aimed the back of her fist for the spirit's head. She suddenly changed this to a elbow strike, catching her off guard and nailing her the left side of her face. Alkaid followed this up with a roundhouse kick to her right side and then lashed her fist into the spirit's stomach, all the attacks connecting and sending her onto her back. The spirit actually giggled and leapt up to her feet, almost unfazed by the attacks.
Alkaid looked in shock at this, dismayed the spirit barley felt pain. She blinked and when she opened her eyes, all she saw was a blur of black vanish from the spot where the spirit was. She looked around wide eyed and suddenly felt a fist slam into her cheek, causing her to stumble to the side. She then began being hit from all sides it felt like for several seconds. A kick to her back sent her rolling to the ground and in a kneeling position, marks all across her clothing and body as she knelt there panting, seeing the spirit there standing and walking towards her slowly as Alkaid closed her eyes. "I will kill you,Alkaid, remember the Omnisukido code." the spirit told her, continuing to walk forward. Heero's voice repeating itself in Alkaid's mind: If you become weak, your teammates become weak and when they become weak, the Onmitsukido will crumble. The word "crumble "echoing in Alkaid's mind as her eyes flared open, a fighting spirit filling Alkaid's eyes as she let out a battle cry and unleashing all of her spiritual energy, engulfing her in a aura of red and gold spiritual energy. The spirit stopped in her tracks, surprising filling her eyes as she witnessed Alkaid stand up and face her, her spiritual energy increasing not only her strength but her speed too for she was using the one technique her spirit did not expect since very few knew how to use it and even fewer had fully mastered it. This was of course, Shunko.
"W-what are you -" the spirit began but was cut off as in a few split second, Alkaid had suddenly moved infront of the spirit and drove her fist across the spirit's face, sending her flying a dozen feet to the side and she landed skidding and stayed there. The spiritual energy surrounding Alkaid died away and Alkaid dropped to her knees, panting heavily. She had obviously pushed herself to her very limit and broke it. She nearly passed out but drove herself to stay awake, to see what the spirit would do. The spirit sat up, smiling even though she had a large bruise on the side of her face and blood going down her lips. "Very good." the spirit said, standing up slowly with shaky knees and approached Alkaid, holding out a hand. Alkaid took it and the spirit pulled her up to her feet, as the two weakly smiled at eachother. "Now you have me, use me and call my name, Taifuu!" the spirit Taifuu yelled out loudly, a strong wind blowing across them and the island so it carried the words and made it seem like a wail as a bright white light formed from the two's hands and engulfed them, Alkaid slipping into a unconscious state. She again jolted awake, sitting up and looked at her hands, seeing she was holding onto her zanpakuto. She unsheathed it as she stood up, smiling with excitement and raised her zanpakuto into the air. "Wail, Taifuu!" Alkaid yelled out loudly, uncaring for she may wake the other barracks. Her zanpakuto glowed for a moment then split into a pair of golden five foot long dagger-like twin blades,with a large circular guard that covers her entire hand but leaves enough room so it does not interfere with her wielding it. A light wind blew up from under her as she grinned, knowing she was ready now.
The Final Test and Meeting Old Lightning
Outside of the Onmitsukido's headquarters, all of the members had gathered together and formed a large ring around Alkaid and Heero, who were in the middle of the ring of people. Both wore their Onmitsukido's uniforms and each had their zanpakuto's on them. Alkaid's was strapped and sheathed horizontally on the lower part of her back while Heero's was strapped across his back diagonally, his zanpakuto's sealed state being a katana. The other members of Onmitsukido whispered to eachother, unsure of how the test will go or who will win. None had seen the two's shikais, not even Heero's. A few even doubted the two had shikai but the rest dismissed this and would simply have to wait and see as the two shinigami approached eachother. They then stood with their feet shoulder width apart and slide one foot back behind them and bent their knees slightly, taking up a fighting guard and locked a focus gaze with eachother. "Begin!" Heero shouted suddenly, dashed forward and unleashed a flurry of open palm strikes at Alkaid's chest.
Alkaid stepped back several times, smacking the strikes to the side easily and swiftly as she responded with a few back fists to Heero's head, Heero ducking down to avoid these. They began exchanging various blows, Alkaid connecting with several strikes to Heero's head and chest while Heero also landed several blows on Alkaid's arms and stomach. They continued this for several minutes, blocking and countering each others moves then broke up, standing several feet apart from eachother, both in a fighting guard. Both were panting, the two seemed to be evenly matched against eachother. Alkaid realized this and so did Heero as they met eye contact. Alkaid suddenly dashed forward, spinning around as she brought her right leg up for a round house kick aimed at Heero's head. Heero anticipated this as she spun and delivered a round house kick with his left, the two kicks colliding with eachother and a small shock-wave like burst of spiritual energy erupted from the point of impact. Both cringed lightly as they set back up their fighting stances as they placed their feet back on the ground and prepared to attack.
The two suddenly shunpoed at the same time and reappeared in the center, each directing a punch at the other. Their fists collided and a burst of spiritual energy came from the impact. The two then became shunpoing everywhere in the circle of people, random bursts of spiritual energy seemingly appearing out of nowhere which was the only indication of the two still fighting. The Omnisukido members began cheering as the two continued to battle, even though they could not completely tell who was winning. All they could see was brief streaks of red and yellow which of course was caused by the two's hair. The two suddenly appeared in the center of the circle, floating up in midair and exchanging blows with eachother. They continued rising, dozens bursts of spiritual energy radiated from the two's attacks when they collided. They spun as they began to lower, still delivering various punches and kicks to eachother. As the two landed on the ground, they power lashed their fists forward with all their strength. Both their fists collided and a powerful blast of spiritual energy erupted from the point of collision, sending the two skidding back a dozen feet.
Half the members chanted Alkaid's name as the other cheered Heero's. Alkaid drew her zanpakuto and held it horizontally infront of her as Heero drew his from the sheathe on his back. The two shunpoed forward and met in the middle of the ring, slashing forward. The two blades clashed against eachother, a short ringing sound echoing throughout the area. The two circled around eachother, slashing and parrying eachother's attacks. Even in swordsmanship, the two were on the same level with eachother. They danced around eachother, slashing at eachother in multiple angles and directions but nothing got through either of their guard. Alkaid slashed across Heero's chest and Heero slashed down against her blade, parrying her slash and pressed forward as Alkaid did the same, the two trying to break eachother's guard and maintain their own at the same time. Their blades shook and the two continued their power struggle as the chants rose up. The two broke off and faced off eachother, panting.
Heero chuckled and began to laugh, Alkaid looking at him oddly. "Heh.. sorry, its just that i haven't had this much fun in a fight before." Heero explain, chuckling lightly. Alkaid realized this too and laughed lightly with him as the others stared at them in bewilderment. "I guess we shouldn't hold back then, huh?" Alkaid asked him, holding her zanpakuto up infront of her. "Agreed." Heero responded, lifting his zanpakuto up infront of himself. The other members began whispering to eachother in excitement, the two were about to reveal their shikais! "Wail,Taifuu!" Alkaid shouted loudly and her zanpakuto became engulfed in a white light and split into two, becoming shorter. "Shuffle,Unmei o Tosumono! " Heero yelled loudly as his zanpakuto also shined bright but shattered and became a deck of 52 white and red cards and also a small black box shaped card holster. Alkaid's zanpakuto shaped into two twin blades and she grasped their handles, holding one infront of her and behind her horizontally. Their weapons stopped glowing and became whole, Heero's cards suddenly floating into the holster and it itself attached to the top right side of Heero's pants and several low number cards with diamond suits rose from the holster and hovered around Heero.
The two suddenly shunpoed, seemingly disappearing into thin air. Various small miniature explosions, blasts of wind and sparks of spiritual energy formed at multiple spots in the circle. After a few minutes of this, the two appeared out of thin air several feet from eachother. Time to show him what we can do, raise your blades above your head Taifuu instructed Alkaid inside her mind and Alkaid did what she was told, Heero going into a side-ways horse stance and raised up three five of hearts infront of him. Now slash down saying Sparrow Strike, quickly, he is about to attack also. Taifuu again instructed as Alkaid began slashing down and Heero flung the cards he was holding out towards her. "Sparrow Strike!"Alkaid shouted as she nearly completed the slash. Three large green colored streaks of wind blasted out of Alkaid's blades and the cards that Heero threw erupted into balls of fire about six feet tall. The attacks collided, blasts of both fire and wind scattered a few feet from the point of impact then faded away as both of them locked eyes with eachother and the other Onmitsukido members whispered among eachother on what they just saw.
