Rescue Party!

[☾ Aevus | Umbra ☽]

All was still, Aevus's senses were not up to par nor was his instinct close enough to react to what came next. He had heard the sound from earlier but it was gone now, why had it disappeared? Than just as he was about to turn to warily glance around himself, he'd find himself cut off from doing so. His eyes bulged from the site of a rats tail curled around his face. He'd let out a gasp if he could but his mouth had been covered, finding himself literally being strangled by that pink flesh. In an instant, Aevus would be freed, his body outwardly being tossed forth against the sewer wall. Acting upon instinct Aevus would swiftly activate, 'advanced air ground' stopping himself from hitting the wall and saving himself from being critically wounded. Though next he's find himself in that filth. His left hand still latched onto his weapon and his right knee falling into it, his right hand literarily kept himself level so that he didn't fall head first into it.

'Hotaru' That was his first thought, not the filth and not the strange creature nor the mission. It was Hotaru, she had disappeared. He had lost track of her, his superior his partner. Aevus kept a death grip on his blade, hollow or not this creature was not going to hurt her, not if he could stop it. He wouldn't allow himself to lose another, not now he couldn't do this alone. Splashing into the tunnel Aevus's eyes would warily dart around the tunnel. If he had energy sensory it would have helped, but no he didn't. He'd find himself panicking for a time and just than he'd spot Hotaru and the creature.

Aevus would see an odd creature, the ragged kimono clinging to his bestial form. The brown hair, the triangular pink ears. It was like a rat but it also wasn't, nor was it a man. It was an odd animal but in Aevus's eyes it was still a threat. Darting forth across the tunnel Aevus would attempt to cut him like any other target. It was a defensive action on his part, clicking in the back of his mind to protect his superior even if she could rightfully defend herself he would still help in any way he could. The blade was reverse gripped as he swung the katana, he was aiming directly at his left thigh. He'd be sure to slow this one down before doing anything else.

Advanded Air ground - 1890/1865

[✠Asmoskon Masurao✠]

The large rat beast walked into the brighter tunnel coming into full view of the female Shinigami that was now looking at him in somewhat shock. It was then that this girl spoke about something very trivia and unimportant at the moment about this beast man looked like a character from some type of television show. It was easy to see that this girl didn’t completely follow her instincts for at the moment she just placed her zanpakuto in a manner that declared defense yet minimum aggression.

One thing that the beast knew though was that the dark haired Shinigami wasn’t down and would be near him in a moment. He knew this based on two different facts that had been collected by his incredible senses. The first was that he had never heard the impact of the Shinigami's body against the tunnel’s wall. The second was that he could feel the fur on his back pricking up in some type of sixth sense to alert him of near immediate danger.

As the zanpakuto of the Shinigami was swung towards the left thigh of the rat the thin base of the emerald staff suddenly clicked against the cement floor of the tunnel blocking the blade of the zanpakuto. The dark haired Shinigami would feel as if all of the force that had been behind that swing had suddenly vanished. All of a sudden though the tail of the rat would once again wrap around this Shinigami however this time it was around his throat. The rat didn’t squeeze tight enough to kill, but the fact that he pulled the Shinigami out from behind him and threw him at the girl might cause some pain. “If you’re here to free the prisoners young ones then you must continue onward. Don’t waste the little time you have attempting to do the impossible.” His words spoke the rat suddenly just stepped back into the darkness and vanished.

The two Shinigami would be able to see that the tunnel continued just like the last yet it was far brighter and cleaner. The further they walked the more they would realize how much the Vandenreich standard began to become apparent. Soon they would run into the Quincies yet where and how many were still unknown factors. That was until the Shinigami would find themselves at the end of the tunnel with a steel door that on the other side opened into the lower section of the tower they would have been able to get into from above.


Well it seemed that the half demon had been able to kill off the wondering Quincy with nearly no injury however as he pulled the Quincy into the darkness a loud ringing would spread out across the prison and below. The emergency alert system was now running and everything was being blasted by the constant sounds. The Quincy that the dark haired Shinigami had knocked unconscious had reawaken and fixed the water tower system. He had just alerted the entire prison that they were under attack. The half demon would have to make a choice on whether or not he would stay and fight while outnumbered and at significant disadvantage or if he would rush to the man hole like the Shinigami.

[Hotaru Kuchiki-Masurao]

Hotaru looked at the rat and felt Aevus behind him just as he got close to the rat. She only felt him then because her energy sensory was so poor. She was going to try and stop him but two things really stopped her. The first was that the rat man was standing in between her and Aevus' attack in the first place. The second thing was that she could feel strength from this rat. She didn't know if he had reiatsu strength, but she knew that his physical strength would more than likely be a challenge and she might not be able to defeat him.

So, if she did try to intervene, it might not work out and they both get hurt. It was good that she didn't stop because Aevus' attack was blocked and the rat man ended up bringing him around towards her, throwing him her way. She moved her forearms up to try to block him from hitting her and giving him a solid base to bounce back from. She watched the rat man speak to them saying that if they're going to release prisoners, they needed to continue forward in this tunnel.

Before she could say anything else, he walked backwards and vanished into the shadows. The rat man was interesting, that was for sure, and she was pretty sure that the rat would find its way out. Though, he could make his home here, she had no idea. But one thing that the rat said brought her back to reality, they had little time. It was true, they didn't have much time, so they needed to hurry and head to the actual prison. She looked towards Aevus. "Aevus-chan, follow me!"

She started to run. She didn't want to go her full speed, but she still kept to a decent pace. She hoped the pace was enough that Aevus could easily keep up with her. She was so glad that she didn't have to endure the smell of the sewers or step through all that gunk again. She quickly looked at her feet and cringed at all the filth on them. She would definitely need to clean them. When they reached the end of the tunnel, they found a door. She quickly grabbed the knob and pushed, opening the door and walking through.

[Jak Halcom]

Jak swore loudly now that their cover was blown. Who the hell set off the alarm? It wasn't him. He made sure that he would not get caught by anyone as he was fighting. One of the shinigami must not have killed a guard. He looked up to the watch tower where they had entered. He narrowed his eyes and gathered energy in his right hand before throwing it as hard and fast as he could at the structure. The strength of the orb should be enough to cause major damage to the structural integrity of the tower if not destroy it outright.

It may not shut off the alarm, but maybe he can divert enough of the Quincy's attention his way to help the Shinigamis. "Well sorry Hotaru," he said with a slight smile on his face. "Looks like I have to do a little more fighting before I catch up with you." He started running deeper into the complex. He made sure that there was cover where ever he ran. Walls, rubble, he didn't care as long as it would provide some cover from Quincy arrows. 

He was not only proceeding a distraction for the Shinigami, but since the alarm was raised and the fact that their cover was blown, he could go all out in his fights just as long as he did not run into too many of them at the same time. Jak peaked around a corner trying to block out the sound of the alarm to hear the foot steps or shouts of the Quincy guards. "Damn that things is fucking annoying." He said to himself. 

[☾ Aevus | Umbra ☽]

The twitch of the rats furred ears signaled to Aevus that he had been heard. But it was to late now, he was already going in for his attack. Click! His Zanpakuto would suddenly stop at the base of the creatures staff. It felt as if all the force in his attack had ceased immediately in its existence. Aevus’s eyes bulged, as that pink tail once again wrapped around him, but this time it was his throat. He’d find himself lifted up from the ground, his feet dangling for but a moment before being tossed aside like trash. Being caught by Hotaru Aevus would listen keenly, his blade still help firmly in his grasp as he quickly gathered his bearings.

“If you’re here to free the prisoners young ones then you must continue onward. Don’t waste the little time you have attempting to do the impossible.”

Aevus wouldn't blink but it would seem like this creature had disappeared like that of smoke. At first his sapphire eyes would widen in disbelief and than he would warily glance around himself. His blade held before him in a reverse grip. But than it had clicked in his head, the rat must have been an escaped prisoner. ‘He must have been testing our abilities, maybe he was seeing if we can actually pull this off.’

"Aevus-chan, follow me!"

The pale faced reaper would follow Hotaru through that tunnel. That rat had easily fended himself against him. Aevus would keep his eyes foreword as he moved, he seemed calm but inside he was questioning him. It had caused Aevus to feel slightly weak in comparison to his superior. Could he actually save these prisoners or even defend them from these enemies here? Just than he would hear the sirens, even down here in this tunnel.‘They must have found the demon, there goes our stealthy approach’ Aevus would think to himself, his eyes trailed to the end of the tunnel. Following his superior in a similar pace, he could tell from their earlier exchange that she was faster than him, hopefully he wouldn’t slow her down.

[✠Asmoskon Masurao✠]

Well it seemed that the words of the large rat swayed little difference in the shinigami. They had both listened to how he explained that if they felt they were strong enough they would need to hurry yet he hadn’t specifically said that they were strong enough to get away with it. He had vanished to swiftly for either of the shinigami to get more information from him so now it just seemed like the shinimagi were back to the same point they had been before they met him a few moments ago.

Now both shinigami ran through the tunnel until they came upon the door leading into the tower at the back of the fortress that just so happened to be the entrance to the prison below the surface. The leading shinigami with purple hair turned the knob of the door and began to walk into the thin white corridor of the tower. It would look unlike what many would assume when starring at the tower from the outside. In truth none of the walls held color they were just white and went on in both directions. After about ten feet though there were conjoining corridors. It was a repeating floor like a business floor of workers. In truth though this was a maze that they would need to go through to find the elevator leading down to the prison.

What neither of the shinigami would know though was that there were ten sentries. Quincy on this floor constantly moving throughout the corridors now running through them due to the alarm going off. Up here it was far louder and depending on which way the Shinigami went they would clash with these Quincy. It’s up to them to find the elevator in time or else they might just have to fight all ten of the Quincy.


Outside the prison on the edge of the second wall was the half demon. The Quincy outside were rushing around looking for some sign of what was going on. All of them were recent recruits and had yet to truly adept to the teachings of the Vandenreich so none of them were incredible powerful and had the skills to spot the demon. However, the demon might choose to fight the five in the same section as him as fast as he could simply because those five had just located the dead body of the fallen Quincy and were moving to the manhole ready to jump down and follow the possibility.

Sentry Quincy

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Class 4 Non-Type 1000SP
Strength: 100
Speed: 200
Sppr: 200
Reiatsu Strength: 300
Instincts: 100
Senses: 100
ES: 0
HE: 0

[Hotaru Kuchiki-Masurao]

Hotaru opened the door and was almost blinded by all of the white that was around. Even though she was running through a sewer that had some light in it, it was still fairly dark in there, so she still had some kind of night vision. So, when she opened the door and saw nothing but white in the hallway that was lit up by the lights, she was momentarily blinded. So, she had to blink her eyes a few times and rub them to try to get them adjusted to the light and the color of the walls better. She didn't understand why they needed so much white in their lives, but whatever.

Once she got used to the whiteness of the the hallway, she got a better look around. It seemed that the hallway they were in was connected to some other hallway. She tried to see what the hallways were connected to, but she couldn't tell from looking over the walls of the hallway. She didn't know how long the hallways were or how many of them their would be. She just knew that they couldn't really hid in these hallways since they were now white. They stuck out pretty bad.

Even though they would still stick out like sore thumbs, she would plaster her body to the wall of the hallway. She hoped that Aevus would do the same. She slowly started to creep her way up towards the end of the hallway. She quickly looked around the corner of the wall she was plastered to, which was the right wall, to see if anyone was there. Just then, she noticed the sirens blaring. It was pretty deafening, but she was surprised she didn't notice them until now.

She figured that she was concentrating too much on the mission at hand and not paying attention to the sounds around her. She shook her head quickly to make sure her head was clear. She didn't want to get too focused and then lose sight of all the little details that were around her. When she looked around the corner, she didn't see anyone. She peeked around the other corner and didn't see anyone either. Though, she could hear the yelling of the Quincies in this room, put on alert from the alarm.

She looked towards Aevus. The only thing she could think of was that the Quincy he had dealt with in the watch tower was only knocked out and not killed. The guard on the top of the wall, if he did the same to it, would more than likely still be knocked out and wouldn't have the time to actually do anything. She glared a little at him before saying, "Well, Aevus-chan, it seems you didn't take out the watch tower guard as well as you thought. We need to move quick. Follow me and don't do anything stupid." She started to run to the right, turning the right corner. She would continue to run right and straight forward when she could, hoping to get out of this apparant maze.

[Jak Halcom]

Jak walked away from the burning tower truing back to the man hole. He heard several Quincy running in his direction. He quickly hid behind a wall watching them run past him. He waited for the last Quincy to run by him counting five of them in total. He thought that he should be able to take them out fairly quickly. Their focus was on the man hole trying to pursue Hotaru and the other shinigami. He fired out twenty four spirit bolts out as fast as he could firing them once all of them were released trying to catch the by surprise. They would be divided semi-evenly for each Quincy. Jak didn't even bother with their tracking abilities.

Jak hoped that the small barrage would at least confuse them enough for him to run up close to them. He pulled his arm back as fire consumed his cursed limb. He sent the first forward once he got in range of hitting the nearest Quincy in the face. As well as the impact of the fist, an explosion would come off his fist and several more explosions would head for the rest of the Quincy group. Jak would feel the force of the explosion, but he would push through it to kick another one on the gut.

[☾ Aevus | Umbra ☽]

Why was there always a light at the end of the tunnel? How cliché. Aevus would find himself nearly blinded as he stepped forth into that light, the sound of sirens now nearly deafening him. Aevus would have to bear the sound for a time. His eyes readjusting to the light and his ears slowly getting used to the sirens he'd find himself in a sigh. Two things he didn't enjoy, a lot of light and of course loud noises. The smell on his clothes didn't help but at least the two had escaped the sewers.

This place was like a maze and everything nearly looked the same. It was....an eyesore. Plastering himself to the wall next to his superior, Aevus would yet again keep an ever watchful eye out for anything amiss. Though seeing how the sirens and the blinding walls caused him some discomfort it was certainly hard for the man to concentrate. Quincy and their white, he was starting to see a pattern to this prison. Aevus noted as his superior would shake her head, she must have been so focused that she hadn't even noticed the deafening sirens before, lucky her. That focus, where exactly was it coming from? He himself was focused but not to that extent. Where he would block out everything around him. But no that was a lie, there were times when he did so but only when...

"Well, Aevus-chan, it seems you didn't take out the watch tower guard as well as you thought. We need to move quick. Follow me and don't do anything stupid."

Aevus would find himself snapped back to reality, running after Hotaru. Taking the right alongside her, he kept neatly to her heals. She was right after all, if he had killed that guard maybe this wouldn't have happened. But than it would hit him. If it wasn't the demon who sounded the alarm than where exactly was that creature now. Had he been captured? Or perhaps even killed. It was a demon but Aevus found himself slightly worried for the creature, as he took but a single glance behind himself. 'Don't die Demon.'

[✠Asmoskon Masurao✠]

The shinigami it seems weren’t so accustomed to sudden brightness. They were both taken aback by how loud the alarm was and how bright the walls were due to the actual light reflecting off of the color white. They both moved down the halls and to the right or forwards. It was obvious that they were looking for the elevator that would lead them down to the prison section of this fortress yet how were they going to find it. As Hotaru and Aevus moved around the last corner suddenly an arrow would hit the wall between them. A half second later the arrow would explode in a radius equal to that of a grenade. Both of these shinigami would need to either get away right away or suffer at least some type of damage from that blast.

The next part though was what was truly interesting. The Vandenreich Quincy that had spotted the both of them was holding a short bow made of pure white like one might expect. In the next moment after the explosion that Quincy had fired off another arrow. This one though had split almost instantly after leaving the bow. Now there were two white arrows soaring for whichever direction the shinigami had fled or were at from the explosion. Either way as the arrows reached them they would explode once again just as the first. It seemed they were dealing with someone who felt the need to alert all of his brethren that the infiltrators had been found.

The half breed though was still outside and was choosing to attack like an animal against a pack of wild deer. One might think this intelligent while others could view it as cowardly yet primal at the same time. So many different ways to view it yet the result would be so much more to pick apart and make sense of. As the half demon had began to fire off the large number of red reiatsu orbs into the air around the Quincy. They had naturally reacted and spotted the source of the attack. Yet only two of them had been smart enough to predict what was about to happen.

Three of the Vandenreich had been so focused on the location of the half demon that they had instantly materialized their bows in an attempt to fire off at him and kill him swiftly. They hadn’t been able to predict that they orbs around them were controlled and would eventually be used to kill them all at once. The other two though were more experience and saw through the devilish trap of a technique. As the orbs come inwards on them and caused a massive explosion of reiatsu they had moved swiftly enough to get out of the blast radius.

The Quincy step technique was one that would come in handle always once it was perfected. Now though both Quincy were standing ten feet on each side from where the group had been. Both with their short bows out and white arrows soaring right towards the half demon. As they soared closer they both split doubling the number to four coming right for him. As they reached him though they would explode just as the arrows from the Quincy inside in a radius equal to a grenade. How would the demon react and would he overcome his challenge now that the prison knew his location.

[Hotaru Kuchiki-Masurao]

While Hotaru was running down the corridors, she was trying her best to actually look around and see any enemies that might be coming towards them. She didn't see anything, but she also had her senses out to their maximum. Well, at least she tried to push them out to their maximum. She wasn't really able to sense anyone since her energy sensory was so bad. But, she hoped that her vision and hearing would help her out a lot more than everything else right now.

It was then that an arrow got shot into the wall between the two of them. In the few seconds it would take for it to explode, unbeknownst to her, she knew that there had to be a reason for him to just shot a wall like that, wasting an arrow like that. So, she figured that it had to have some kind of ability to it for him to do that. It could be multiple effects, but she didn't want to find out what the effects were. She Shunpo'ed towards her left, which would put her back behind the wall.

She had stopped right when she had hit the right wall of the hallway. So, when she Shunpo'ed, she looked towards the left and quickly stepped, so that she would be back down the hallway. Right after she Shunpo'ed, the arrow exploded. She hoped that Aevus had found cover. But, right after she heard the explosion, she heard another arrow hitting the corner of the hallway that she had just went down and explode again. It seems like he was trying to let the others know their exact location. She unsheathed her zanpaktou and waited in the hallway, thinking of ways to beat this Quincy.

Remaining Reiatsu: 2950/3000 -50 for Shunpo

[Jak Halcom]

Jak watched the fruits of his attack as he started to run to the nearest Quincy, which was the one to his right. Three out of the five was not bad, but that just meant that the two he was facing were more formidable than the three that he had just killed. Still he smiled hearing their death cries mixed in with the explosions of the many spirit bolts that he had just unleashed onto them. There was something in the back of his mind that told him that something wasn't right. Something told him that this was not him. He needed to push that away since the Quincys had started their counter attack. 

Jak was able to sprint away from the farthest Quincy's arrows, and he had to roll to dodge the arrows shot by the closest one. Jak could hear the arrows wiz over his head and stick to the wall behind him before exploding. He wasn't close enough to the wall to take any real damage from the explosion, but the force still propelled him forward. He used the momentum to quickly close in on the Quincy as he unwound his chain. He struck out with it trying to wrap the Quincy's leg with the hot heavy chain. He would then pull causing the Quincy to falloff balance where a hard punch would find the man's head or neck with his left hand.

Jak would then turn to the other remaining Quincy. He would fire one spirit bolt to distract the Quincy while he ran closer. He then fired another once the Quincy had recovered and tried to counter attack. Once Jak was within the range of his chain, he would strike with a diagonal slash aiming to crush the Quincy, he then suddenly jerked chain back and then forward again whipping the Quincy with it in the torso.

[☾ Aevus | Umbra ☽]

The black strands of hair on the back of his head would stand on end as an arrow zoomed by his head, between both him and his superior. It sent chills down his spine and with a quick turn of his head he'd look for its creator, clad neatly in those robes of white. He hadn't been moving so why had the Quincy missed? unless of course he was a bad shot. Aevus would not have time to pounder upon that thought though as he watched Hotaru begin to move. Acting solely upon instinct he'd follow suit after his superior. She was after all, moving immediately upon reaction to the arrow and he had guessed it must have been for good reason and thus he would shunpo as well, shortly behind her.

The next arrow came just as quickly as the last and Aevus moved as hastily as possible, his breathing easy as usual. The explosions behind him had signaled to why Hotaru had moved so swiftly. She must have dealt with this kind of attack before. Aevus felt the blast sound behind him as he moved sending a warm push of air down digging into his back as he did so. His feet dug soundly onto the ground as he ran. It was certainly a close one, he'd think to himself as he ran down the corridor just slightly behind Hotaru in a fast stride. These quinces didn't let up and seeing how one possessed such power Aevus would truly begin to wonder what exactly the two had gotten themselves into.

Aevus himself didn't know much about the Quincy but He had at least heard of how they preferred to use bows as their main weaponry and of course of the Quincy blood war. That history intrigued him. He had first heard it within his district, about spiritually gifted humans who were nearly eradicated by the shinigami. Instead of purifying hollows they undoubtedly destroyed them, thus tipping the scale of the world by disallowing souls to move on and bringing forth imbalance.

Keeping close to Hotaru, he looked for guidance in that moment. With all the commotion they certainly would be found by the others. Thus Aevus would arrive at the same conclusion, even by dodging the arrows their enemy was signaling the other Quinces in the vicinity. What now? Aevus would seemingly ask with but a stare as his sapphire gaze clung to her very form. Holding himself against the wall, his blade was unsheathed and his breathing eased as he'd await his superiors next move.

Shunpo - 1890/1815

[✠Asmoskon Masurao✠]

That single Quincy that had been able to locate both of the Shinigami and tried his best to obliterate them himself with a few arrows had proven ineffective at the moment for the task. However, his actions hadn’t been forsaken. The three arrows that the Quincy had managed to fire off had all exploded which altered all of the other Quincy on this floor. Now all of the Quincy knew roughly the location of the intruders. It would just matter when they all reached them and if the Shinigami could survive.

Now both Shinigami were located behind the corner of the next hallway. The Quincy wasn’t stupid and knew that if he rushed forward and tried to shoot them down the hall they would most likely still be there and cut him down swiftly. That was when his uplink went off and the Quincy began to communicate with the closest ally. In the next few moments the Shinigami would be getting a plan together only for another Quincy to take the turn into the hallway about twenty feet away.

An arrow was fired that was split apart like the others. There were two white arrows traveling down the hallway right for the two Shinigami. As that happened though another arrow was fired from the Quincy that had put them in this situation right at the end of the corner. They would be trapped between the explosions that were about to happen if they did nothing so what would be the course of action.


As for the half demon it seemed that he was willing to fight up close against these Quincy. He had managed to dodge the first few arrows and use the force of the explosions to send himself right at one of the Quincy. As the chain hit the legs of the man and he punched him though Jak would feel a pitch in the center of his back. A moment later the half demon would feel incredible pain on his back and be sent flying to the ground.

The other Quincy had shot two arrows at the half demon killing his ally and wounding the demon. Now as Jak would recover the Quincy was getting ready switching from the short bow to a much longer white bow. The Quincy was ready and after a few moments of watching let fly five arrows aimed at the half demon. If he survived he would be captured and thrown below. Yet keeping the demon alive wasn't a priority.

[Hotaru Kuchiki-Masurao]

Hotaru stood in the hallway, trying to figure out some kind of plan. She knew that the longer they stayed in this spot, the more likely it would be that they would get surrounded by Vandenreich Quincy and less likely that they would be able to reach the prisoners that they needed to free. She knew that if they went forward, the Quincy would try to blow them up again, so she was trying to best to have her mind go quick, trying to find a way out.

It was then that she looked behind her and saw the other Quincy. They were definitely in a tight spot now. She had no idea if the other Quincy had the same type of abilities as the one they had just faced. She didn't know how the Quincy powers worked and she only really fought against Asmoskon and Gerald. Their powers were different, but Asmoskon is the Renegade and if she remembered correctly, Gerald was a high ranking officer of the Vandenreich, so their powers could be different.

But, she couldn't risk to not think that the powers could be the same. She had a good idea of what they were trying to do, so she quickly looked around to try to tell how she could avoid the incoming arrows. It was pretty obvious that now that they were 'cornered,' they were going to try to keep shooting at them till they were dead. She didn't want to die, so she needed to find an escape route from this stupid mess that wouldn't use much reiatsu, or very little. She didn't want to waste it all here when they were more than likely going to run into a stronger enemy when they reached the actual prison.

Of course, all of these thoughts were running in her head the few seconds that the second Quincy came into the hallway and the first one came into the hallway and were prepping themselves. She had a crazy idea that just might work. But, seeing as they didn't really know which way the elevator was, she was going to keep to her original plan and keep heading right and forward. It seemed to her that the most likely way to keep going that way. So, she needed to take out the first Quincy.

"Aevus-chan, take out the other Quincy, I'm taking the one on the right." She started to run at the one on the right, using her speed. When the arrow was released, it was flying towards the center of the hallway. She moved her body a little towards the right while running to avoid the arrow. When she came upon the Quincy, she ran behind him and since her zanpaktou was already unsheathed, when she ran behind him, stuck him through with her sword. Since she was now in a different position, the arrow aimed for her wouldn't hit her.

She then moved down the hallway she was heading towards with the body still on her sword. So, when the arrow exploded on the wall, the dead body would take the brunt of the impact. She didn't move too far down the hallway so she could wait for Aevus. Once the arrow(s) exploded, she would throw the dead body off her sword and flick the blood off. She would then quickly peek her head around the corner. "Aevus-chan, if you're done with that, let's head out. We can't just sit around here. But, just remember what happened when you left the guard alive in the tower." She would then start out down the hallway at half speed so Aevus could catch up to her. She hoped they would reach the elevator soon.