Post by Victor Karnes on Sept 21, 2017 19:55:00 GMT -5
Training for SP
In the boundless expanse of desert, there were several signs of life in the past and signs of the life that had over-run the entirety of Hueco Mundo. The caves dug out by hollow claws, the homes built from stones and sand piled atop themselves, trees that had crystallized, and rivers that seemed to have vanished. The world had dried to the core, leaving behind only shells of what was once there. Now, all that remained was a beautiful moon in the sky that bathed the world in an endless stream of white light, and remnants of a once living ecosystem. As is common, trees had sprouted up around the river once upon a time, but now all that remains are crystal shards that jut out of the ground, one every dozen feet or so, scattered around as if some divine being dropped the seeds from the sky as he streamed past. It's a world where white reigns supreme.
Underneath the white moon, three hollows stand at the edge of the river. One has a large body that is similar to a caterpillar on the bottom and a human on the upper half. His lower is a pale brown half stretches back seven feet, with two small legs every two feet. His upper torso looks like a well-built human who exercises regularly, though he is not heavily muscled. His upper torso is black and has three arms jutting out of each of his shoulders, all connected at the same point. Each arm is the same, two feet long and tipped with hands sporting black claws. His mask is the most interesting point, as it has no eyes, merely containing a large hole in the center that leads to a black interior. Surrounding the hole, the mask seems to have been twisted inwards, as if it was rotating around the central hole. The second hollow was much simpler in design. He looked like a tauric spider, the upper half of his body being human shaped with black chitinous armor. His lower half had 6 legs, each shaped as spears, starting around 4 inches in diameter and tapering off at the tip. His lower body was pure white, seemingly made of bone. His upper body contained two more spear like arms, not having any hands to be seen. His face is made of a white mask with 8 appendages shooting off the edge, while his mouth looks more conventional, having human like teeth. The last hollow looks the most ordinary, seeming to be a centaur with two lances for arms. His mask takes the shape of a horse head.
As the three war with each other, the pristine white sand is dyed black and green with the blood of those who are fighting. Unbeknownst to them, within the riverbed, another hunter lurks. This hunter is similar to them, being a hollow, but is different in that it specializes in stealth and devouring unknowingly. As the three hollows fight, the first one to get knocked down is the tauric spider, his body being thrown down the river as he gets kicked by one of the caterpillar mans many legs. As the spider hits the end of the river, he seems to fall in a black puddle that he didn't notice before. A voice rings out from nowhere. "You know you are going to loose this fight. They are going to talk to kill you first, because you are already wounded. Why would they waste their energy on each other when there's a free meal right here?" The voice rings out in the spider hollows head as he starts looking around. He can't seem to find the source, until he looks down and sees a white mask within the puddle.
It's obviously a weak hollow, one that relies on stealth to beat it's foes. "So what!" he nearly shouts. "It's not like I can stop them. Besides, it's our nature! The Strong devour the weak! You little monster that only knows to hide in the sand shouldn't speak to these matters to us. You should just become my food!" He reaches down, his claws reaching for the puddle before the voice comes back, a bit firmer this time. "If I am so weak you can eat me anytime, why don't we work together and eat them first? All you need to do.. is Take my hand, and we will triumph. We can destroy those who are trying to beat you, and eat them instead." Victor's flesh curls around the spider-like hollow. He attempts to swat the puddle away, but it quickly turns into the form of a snake and wraps around his arms, coiling around him like some predator who has just found a prey. The hollow struggles as Victor forcibly pressures the spider-tauric, his body exerting his reiatsu down against the soon-to-be host. His form then wraps around again and wraps around the neck of the spider.
As he made his way up the edge, Victor was greeted with the perfect sight. He saw the other two hollows fighting as if there was no reason not to. For Victor, this kind of enemy that only thought about brawn and fighting was the most delicious. He charged them, the hand spears of the tauric spider impaling one of the hollow's by surprise. Victor knew his strengths and his weakness, his spears directly penetrating the centaur through the chest from behind. While they weren't comrades, the idea of being stabbed from behind by someone that just engaged in frontal war surprised the centaur and he let out a bloody cough before falling to the ground. He wasn't dead, but his wound was definitely near fatal. He wouldn't last long unless he was treated immediately. His blue blood seemed to be making a beautiful stream as it flowed out of his chest, before it slowly sank through the sand. The centaur hollow still tried to move his arms, but being pierced clear through his body made it hard for him to control his limbs.
Seeing this, the other hollow, being quite confident in it's power, jumped past the spider; quite an impressive feat considering his size. As he started into the air, Victor started to kick behind him. The caterpillar hollow pounced over and he saw the mask on the back of his target. Only now did he realize how the entire tauric looked differently, his body covered in a black ooze. He released kick after kick towards the Spider, but his feet only seemed to hit a puddle. Though the spider tauric didn't move, the mask on the back winced in pain as he was hit. Without being able to penetrate through the ooze armor's width, he couldn't even damage the spider taurics real body. As he landed, the spider tauric stabbed out backwards with his leg. Due to Victor's incredibly low speed, the leg kick didn't hit out until just before the caterpillar hollow landed, causing the leg to pierce into the back of the caterpillar, instead of the middle torso. This wasn't Victor's first time fighting with somebody else's body, but he only now realized how much of a hassle his naturally slow speed was.
He turned around, each spider leg piercing the ground time after time. He sent an arm piercing towards the caterpillar hollow, but he still only managed to graze him. Knowing this, Victor started to lead his attacks more and more, trying to predict what the opponent was going to do, however he quickly noticed the only actions he could correctly predict were ones already in place. Victor sighed as he tried to use the 8 spider limbs to lure the caterpillar into the areas where there were trees, trying to pin him against one. Eventually, Victor pinned the Caterpillar hollow down and pierced through him as well, using his 4 legs to pierce through the lower body of the caterpillar, while he stabbed into it's back with the piercing needles.
Seeing as the caterpillar was a bit too hard to deal with and the wounds were not light, Victor moved his mask from the back of the tauric to it's chest and finally to the spear on it's hand. Victor then stabbed out with the spear and impaled the caterpillar. His crescent shaped frown seemed to detach and his mask separated into two pieces as he slowly devoured every bit of the caterpillar hollow, before moving to do the same with the Centaur hollow, impaling and devouring him. Victor did, however, take a liking to his current body, though it was constantly wrestling with him, Victor found this quite a useful method to enhance his strength. The spider-tauric struggled ceaselessly as he watched his previous competitors become the food for the man wearing his body, but he wasn't even able to utter a scream as the mask of the ooze suit covered his own.
Every step Victor took had become a test of his strength, and he had to concentrate constantly, forcing the Spider to move with his full strength every step, piercing into the ground as he moved across the sand to hunt his next mark.
Reiatsu: 350/400
Techniques used: Form Armor (50 Reiatsu)
2 Class 8 Hollows eaten.