The Test of a Servant {Training Thread}

[Sargon Denumic]

{OOC: Training will be done for TP.}

"Where is that bitch I told her to be here awhile ago." Sargon sat in front of the fireplace in a stone chair and a wine glass in his right hand. He was simply relaxing in his own chambers awaiting the arrival of his Fraccion Aurora. He had told the Fraccion that he had been overseeing and sending her a good deal of missions and adventures that held a good deal of freedom and by now her powers should have increased a rather good degree if she did hold the potential that he had foreseen in her.

The perhaps of this meeting would allow Sargon to test the strength that his Fraccion had acquired from the multiple quests she had been sent to accomplish. She had reported back to him at every occurs yet she hadn't been victories in every single one and each that she had failed Sargon had punished the Fraccion by starving her for a week until she was near the edge. After that argon would force her to watch him eat a full course of meet in front of her and only after that allow the Fraccion to roam the desert and find a hollow to quench her hunger.

While it may be extreme to some Sargon wouldn't accept a Fraccion that brought only weakness and lose. If Aurora continued to lose or work alongside the likes of Shinigami or anything else in actuality she would be killed off and replaced by someone that showed potential as well. Sargon felt that these times held more potential then any previous and due to that knew that it was possible for him to find a new Fraccion.

The room was mostly gloomy and completely dark with the only light radiating from the rather large fireplace that stretched to about six feet in length and height. The room was massive so massive in fact that it would be comparable to a full school in the human world. Sargon continued to just sit in his stone chair drinking the blood in his wine glass as the memories of the fallen Fullbringer washed over his thoughts.

[Aurora Guerrero]

Aurora was making her way towards the Tercera Espada's chambers for like the fiftieth time in the past month or so. It seems that he gets his jollies off making her go on an insane amount of missions/adventures and whatever else his mind can come up with so he really wouldn't have to deal with her. It was either he was just too lazy to actually train her himself, or he just wanted someone to do errand running for him. Which, now that she thought about it, was pretty much the same thing.

She growled low in her throat while she was walking. It just pissed her off to no end that she would report back to him and then he just shoved her off on the next thing. The freedom was good, but just the annoyance of having to come back here to just hear him bitch, moan and scream at her was just ridiculous. Especially if she did a bad job. That was just horrible. When she failed, the Tercera, in his infinite wisdom, starved her for a week while he ate in front of her.

She would glare at him the entire time and then when he graced her enough to let her eat, she would leave and start screaming profanities towards the castle at him. Stupid, uptight little fucker. She was now fuming by the time she got to his door. She flung open the door and it slammed on the wall. She closed it behind her loudly as she walked towards the Tercera. She would always look around this room and see lost potential in the decorating. If it was up to her, it would be covered in pelts.

She smiled to herself while she thought about that, but then she looked down at him. The Horse Man. Pretty much the bane of her existence right now. He was sitting in his stone chair, which she never understood why he would be comfortable in a stone chair, but whatever. He was sipping on something, which smelled faintly like blood. It didn't surprise her, she liked blood too. It was one of the few things in common they shared. "I'm here Horse Man. What do you want?"

[Sargon Denumic]

The door had swung open and it was obviously the arrival of his Fraccion Aurora for no other Arrancar in Las Noches was stupid enough to actually do such a thing to the Tercera Espada. While Sargon didn't like to admit it he had in fact been rather lenient with Aurora. While the young Arrancar and most others would see it as anything, but that was the truth. He had heard about how she fought alongside others which only brought him shame and dishonor as an Espada. If it hadn't been for the fact that her potential was so great and that he in fact enjoyed her rather childish rage he would have killed her the first time.

Sargon could easily tell that Aurora was angry like normal just by her entrance. It was then that she looked over his chambers and himself. When she was done she spoke to him referring to him as Horse-man. In truth every time that she called him by that disrespectful name he felt the drive to kill her. Yet her potential allowed Sargon to stay calm and allow such a thing for now until she learned that even though she was his property he could do far more then starve her.

"Well Aurora with that type of entrance I'm not sure you deserve good news." Sargon was stirring the blood in the wine glass by moving his right hand in a circular fashion. He was interested to see if Aurora would behave herself better depending on what he did. It might have been fun to see her always angry, but a quiet servant would be better he thought. "So will you behave and sit down. There's even a glass for you as well just make sure no to break it." Sargon waved with his left hand to the stone chair on his left which happened to be on the other side of a stone table with a wine glass and bottle atop of it.

[Aurora Guerrero]

Aurora stared down her Espada. Every time she walked into this place, and looked at him, it seemed like he was just ready to beat the shit out of her. She figured it was due to the fact that she was always angry. But, really, it gave her some sort of weird, evil glee. It was one of the main reasons she always let her anger out now. Before, it was just because it was her nature. Now, there was a little plus to making the Espada look like that. She smiled at herself for that.

But now, she walked in and her Espada said she didn't deserve good news. He wanted her to behave and sit down at the table with a glass all ready for her. She hated the fact that he talked to her like that with the behave and shit. She really didn't feel like the kind of person that would be good at behaving. But, she only made the concession to people stronger than her and he was definitely stronger than her. By a lot.

So, she listened to this Horse-Man and walked over to the chair that was on the Arrancar's left. She sat down and grabbed for the wine glass. It was the same as his glass, but sadly, there was no blood in hers. It didn't matter that much to her, but at least she had something to drink. So, she put the glass down and grabbed for the wine bottle. She popped the bottle open and started to pour her glass full of wine. When she was done, she corked the bottle and started to chug it. "Well, Tercera Espada, I'm here. What is the good news you speak of?"

[Sargon Denumic]

Although obviously against what she wanted Aurora behaved herself and sat down in the other stone chair and immediately began to pour herself a glass of wine. While she had listened to Sargon the Espada easily could tell that she wasn't happy being told what to do, but he had known that when he recruited her in the desert. Nothing seemed to change with his Fraccion though it was always just rage which was justified itself yet at the same time he could only see it as blinding to her. She would need to control herself in order to see beyond trivial tasks and problems.

Sargon drank gently from the glass as Aurora chugged the wine. That seemed to be another thin he would need to instruct her on. It seemed that she might be so angry because she wasn't taking the time to actually stop and enjoy the position she was in. Right now she was the only Fraccion that he had and there was only one reason for that. All the other Arrancar that ha came to him held no promise and had been thrown out dead as food for the wild hollows. Sargon wouldn't take on someone who's potential didn't reach at least somewhat close to his own power for to do so would only bring a smug on his name.

"Aurora it's time you got over calling me by that name. If you plan on continuing to live which means serving me than from here on out you may refer to me as Sargon. Now for the good news that you apparently wish to know I asked you here because it's time for your sessions to begin." As he said the last few words Sargon stood up from the stone chair and walked over to the fire place. "Today will be the first trial on whether you have put the experience that I have sent you to acquire to good use." Sargon crossed his arms and as the sound of fingers snapping occurred the room was alight with torches all around the immense rooms walls. This only left the middle in darkness which would seem strange.

[Aurora Guerrero]

While she chugged the wine, she was feeling nice actually. When she was done, she took a deep breath to compose herself. She looked over at the Tercera. She knew that she was the only Fraccion he had at the time, but she was kind of curious why. She knew that other Espada, in the past, had multiple Fraccion that they would use and train as they saw fit. But with him, she was the only one. She liked to think that she was so amazing, he didn't need any other Fraccion.

He then decided to tell her for the reason he called her back to his chambers. It seemed that he finally gave him her name. "Well, if you just would've told me that in the beginning..." she said under her breath. She only called him that because he didn't wish to grace her with his name from the beginning. But, now that she knew it, she guessed that she would have to start calling him by that. Though, when she wasn't in his presence, she would still use her nickname.

He had planned some kind of sessions for her. A lot of ideas went through her head and really only a few of them enjoyable. But, her thoughts were interrupted when he snapped his fingers. Torches seemed to light out of nowhere and she held her hand over her eyes to block some of the brightness. Once her eyes had adjusted, she removed her hand and looked at the room. The whole room was alight, except for the center of the room. "I'm guessing that the darkness is where the training will start. Do you care to enlighten me on what we're going to be doing, Sargon?"

[Sargon Denumic]

Sargon walked to the edge of his fireplace and then took his right hand and placed it against the stone wall. It seemed that Aurora was curious and actually interested in the sessions that Sargon and planned for her. This was an enjoyable surprise for the Espada. Normally it seemed that Aurora would complain far to often and fight against his every command without actually understanding why he had sent her to the locations. Now though was the chance she would get to prove herself more capable and if that were so she might even be allowed to accompany Sargon himself.

As his hand held against the stone wall the torches began to burn brighter illuminating the middle of the room slowly. After a few moments the darkness would be nearly all gone and Aurora would be able to see that what was actually in the darkness was some kind of creature that looked eerily like a bear. It would look similar to a the animal yet different and was currently only starring at Sargon with hate filled eyes as it screeched in rage.

It was in a cage about five feet in length and height enough room for what could be considered a small black bear to move around with hardly any room. "Your first session Aurora is to fight this vermin and kill it. The only thing that your not permitted to utilize is your Ressuression." Sargon had this session planned s that Aurora would learn to strength her base form and not always have to rely on her released form. Little would Aurora know though that the bear wasn't the same that could be found in the world of the living.

Instantly the cage seemed to just break apart and the eyes of the bear literally shrunk and it let out a monstrous roar of rage. It would be then that Aurora would see that this bear was in fact able to stand on two legs and was roughly eight feet tall making him superior in height to her. The bear would charge Aurora eventually coming upon her and clawing at her torso with its right paw.

[Aurora Guerrero]

Aurora watched her Espada start to light up the middle of the room. She had no idea what to expect. It was dark and sadly, since the rest of the room was so freaking bright, it screwed up any chance of her seeing anything in the darkness, since she didn't really have anything like night vision in this situation. What she was seeing, however, didn't even seem possible. Sargon was letting the light slowly show in the middle of the room and this was crazy.

It was a bear. A freaking bear. Where in HELL did he find a bear like that? The cage was about five feet all around. The bear was insanely huge, but it was still a bear. No matter how big a bear is, it's still a bear. She looked at it and sniffed. She definitely smelled the scent of a predator. The huge claws it had was also another sign of what this bear did for a living. It killed shit. She did too, but still. Her claws now were not that big.

It was staring at Sargon with rage in its eyes, roaring at him. Oh, if she could actually do that to his face, she would be happy. So, it didn't bother her that this bear was roaring at him. More power to it. But, of course, her Espada wanted her to fight what he called 'vermin' and kill it. Without her Resurrection. She glared at him. She swore that her Espada put her through horrible shit for his pleasure only. But, she could understand how this would help.

Once the cage broke, the bear turned its attention towards her and roared in her face. She roared back at it, louder than it did to her. A roar would not scare her. She did that too. It then stood on its hind legs. She looked up at it and it was a rather large bear. Larger than she thought. She hit herself for assuming again. She really needed to stop doing that. It then started to charge her. Aurora quickly unsheathed her sword. She would need it.

She knew that the bear had to be smart, but she figured that she might be able to run faster. If not a lot faster, at least enough that she can work around the bear. But, she then noticed something. From what she knew of bears, they couldn't charge on two legs like that. What in the hell was this thing? It kept coming at her and she held her sword up in front of her. It then came at her with its right paw, trying to claw at her. She kept her sword at the midline of her torso.

When the paw came towards her, she slashed at it, hoping to injure its paw. She needed to at least cripple it in some way to make this fight easier. She would then run around the bear-man-thing and try her best to hit at least two slashes on it, one diagonal from her left hip to right shoulder and one that went straight down the bear's back. She then would jump back a few feet. She needed to figure out how to stop all of this power without getting herself killed.

[Sargon Denumic]

As Aurora slashed at the paw of the bear the paw actually stopped moving an the body itself lunged forward. Luckily for Aurora she had already planned and began to maneuver to the side for the bear chomped down right where her head had been only a moment prior. As she moved to the side of the beast and attempted to slash at it's side the bear would jump off the ground right towards her in what would seem like a shoulder bash.

There was something else happening though and Sargon was hoping that even if his Fraccion failed to notice it that she'd be able to survive. In all truth Aurora had raw potential that would need a mold and that's what he was doing right now with the beast-clan bear as an instrument. He had acquired the spirit a few weeks prior while he went to the wilderness of Soul Society due to simple boredom. There he had subdued the bear and . . . . Now it was little more then a pet for the Espada to use in order to train his disciple.

Sargon moved back to his chair and turned it around to watch the fight between the bear and his Fraccion. Taking his wine glass back into his right hand Sargon sipped at the blood the memory of a fight flooding his mind as he watched one right before him. He hoped that Aurora would be able to handle the large beast and prove herself worthy if she didn't she would die here for mercy wasn't within Sargon and helping others was a fools waste of time.

The bear beast-clan as it jumped off the ground and attempted to shoulder bash Aurora had focused its reiatsu and caused the hair on its body to prick outwards into tiny needles. If the bear was successful in making contact with Aurora then the Fraccion would find herself flying off the ground with a good deal of the now needle like hairs embedded into her flesh. Sargon only hoped that his Fraccion had worked on developing her base attributes and not just her power.

Stats for Bear
Strength: 200
Speed: 100
Sppr: 50 (450 Reiatsu Remaining)
Reiatsu Strength: 15
Instincts: 150
Senses: 100
Energy Sensing: 35
Healing: 0

[Aurora Guerrero]

Aurora watched as this bear-man-thing was actually able to avoid her attacks. It pissed her off. It was definitely a formidable foe. It was stronger than her, but she thought that she was able to keep on par with it. She watched as her first slash did nothing against this bear but thankfully, she was already in motion before it actually hit her. Now, though, this bear-man-thing was jumping up, trying to get a somewhat high ground on her.

She watched as it was trying to hit her and noticed that the fur on its shoulder was starting to get pointy, like he was making the fur on his shoulder like little knives. She knew that immediately she needed to get away from the pointy fur. She used her speed to just side step the beast. While it was coming down towards her, she stepped out to the side. Once it landed, she ran behind the beast again and started to slash all over the bear's back.

After that, she needed to take a breather. This thing was massive. She needed to start doing more than just reacting. She needed to start trying to think ahead. But, it was pretty much a wild animal. They could be very unpredictable. Then, she thought about what she had originally thought of. She needed to take out a limb. It would be the easiest way. So, now, she ran back behind it and started to go after its right leg by slashing at it from left to right, trying to get the leg right under the knee.

[Sargon Denumic]

Sargon watched with mild interest as his Fraccion successfully managed to evade the shoulder bash of the bear. He was pleased to see that Aurora at least held the reaction and thinking speed to succeed in such a trivial thing. She had managed to dodge the bear in its single assault, but would she be able to survive the onslaught and take it down was something Sargon actually had a decent amount of interest in to find out.

At this point though the blood of fallen Shinigami was beginning to thrust him into the memory itself like it so often did. Sargon was split on which he would rather do continue to watch his Fraccion prove herself or relive a fight that was somewhat satisfying. Sargon placed the glass on the stone table and crossed his arms over his chest while he closely examined his Fraccion.

Aurora was moving now and attempting to slash at the back of the bear. She was successful in the first slash causing a shallow cut on the back that soaked the fur of the spirit in its own blood. As she would continue to attempt to slash up the back of the bear though the beast turned around and swung with its paw. Aurora would have been able to evade the attack and now it seemed that she had the plan to remove a limb from the beast to make it less dangerous.

As she charged it though the bear roared louder than before and what looked to be about a dozen of the hair like needles were fired from its shoulders right for Aurora. The needles were moving at an incredible speed and with them being so small they would definitely be hard to spot especially with the roar taking most of her attention along with her own plan of attack.

[Aurora Guerrero]

Aurora watched as her first slash was able to cut the bear man. It gave her some evil glee. But, most of the time when she was killing hollows, she got the same look on her face. While she was trying to go in for other slashes to its back, she saw the bear start what looked like a turn around. Well, with him doing this, it presented her with a few options. It seemed that this bear ran on instincts, so it would make sense if the bear would turn around.

It wanted to kill whatever was bothering it. She still had her sword out and on the move. Because of this, it would take her less speed to actually try a counterattack, if she really wanted to. Or, another option would be to avoid the attack all together. But, Aurora was not one to actually back down from a challenge and this bear man definitely was a challenge for her to say the least. But, she figured that this might be the only opening that she gets.

Since she had slashed from left to right to wound the beast, instead of actually moving her sword away, she kept the blade in front of her, just turning her body. That way, when the bear man turned to swipe at her, she was able to easily move her sword to the wrist of the paw and take a few steps forward, leaning her body away from the swipe, using her strength and the bear man's own momentum to cut the paw off. She would stand there, ready for the next strike.

[Sargon Denumic]

Sargon continued to watch as this battle between beasts escalated to a higher level. It seemed that Aurora had at least learned enough from the assignments that he sent of her that her talents in the art of evasion and swordsmanship had risen. Not to mention that screaming idiot of a girl that he met in the desert was now thinking when it came to combat. At least now when she was anger she didn't rush all in with everything only to come out completely defeated and at the mercy of someone else.

The bear was turning and Sargon saw how Aurora had positioned herself and watched as the paw of the large beast was severed from the rest of its body. What came next though was something that caused a slight grin from Sargon at the corner of his lips. The bear rushed Aurora completely now that it was overwhelmed with rage and pain its mind was lost and it was simply savage. The bear forced Aurora to the ground and would then attempt to bite down on her neck from the left side.

Aurora would either find a way to evade the bear or finish it off while she was underneath it. Sargon thought it would be easy enough for him to simply fire off a bala and kill the beast before it killed his Fraccion yet knew that it would be mercy for her and such a thing wasn't correct. He would become the very thing that he hates and he wouldn't do that not even for someone like Aurora. He knew though she had some options even if they were limited simply due to the fact that she wouldn't be able to use Sonido with the full weight of that bear on her.

[Aurora Guerrero]

Aurora grinned evilly when her attack worked. The bear man was stupid enough to just charge in head first. Using her head, for once, she was able to easily slice the paw off. She heard it thud as it landed on the floor, pouring blood out on the floor. She started to pat herself on the back for that one. But, after the attack happened, she saw the look on the bear. It was roaring in pain and she saw it look at her in pure rage. She knew what was going to happen next.

The bear man then started to charge her. She faced her opponent with her blade vertical in front of her, blade facing towards the incoming bear man. She smiled at it, knowing that the end of this bear man was coming. She let the bear man force her to the ground, moving her sword horizontally across her face, with the blade still facing towards the bear man. Since this is a quick movement, she was able to quickly perform this movement while falling.

So, when the bear man came down to try to bite her neck, she just pushed up. With the force of the bear man's own movement down and her push up was enough force to sever the beast man's head from its body. She was able to barely move out of the way when the now headless body fell limp to the ground. She put her blade up to her lips and licked the blood off. It was definitely an interesting taste, to be sure. She then ripped off the right arm and started eating it. It was pretty tasty. While eating, she walked in front of the Tercera and waited.

[Sargon Denumic]

Sargon watched the events would and was content with the outcome of Aurora's decisions. It seemed like for once the small girl was thinking with her mind and not just acting with her body like a fool. Now might be the time for her to truly begin training. Yet that was still to be determined. Sargon wouldn't permit a unworthy anything to be trained by him specifically it was the reason why Aurora had only been sent on assignments so far.

As Aurora walked over to Sargon the Espada moved over towards a wine rake and pulled out a bottle. He would then turn and pull on one of the torches that was melded to the tone wall. Surprisingly the torch would bend forwards like a switch and like that the floor in the middle of the room began to shift. The large cage sank into the floor against and after a few loud clicks a new box popped up. This box was big and looked to be made of pure steel.

"Aurora you fought well against a mere beast yet this is a test that will require more intelligence. Remember I will not aid you and if you die then that is your own fault." Sargon then popped the top of the bottle which actually had blood in it and sat back down in the stone chair pouring more blood into his glass. As the top of the bottle was opened the steel box all of a sudden had a door and it burst open. Revealing a human inside of it dressed completely in white.