Popping her eyes open at Cross' words she smirked he had good strategy while the opponent was down, but as Veloz seemed to ignore him she closed her eyes once more to collect her breath. Her pants growing shallower by the second before she heard Miguel state that they shouldn't consider him so weak she began to laugh pulling herself up to a sitting position her arms still folded over her stomach, "Do NOT think I was protecting you, Number 7," she corrected with a laugh leaning her weight back on her arms as she continued her explination, "I had been distracted is all, like I would let such an attack hit me on purpose" shrugging her shoulders and leaning her head back she finished, "but if you would like to see it that way, I suppose I am okay with that, but don't expect the kindness a second time!"

With her face was turned towards the sky she smiled genuinely for the first time in a while. It almost felt out of place on her face, but she liked the comfort of it. Genuinely she felt happy and she missed the feeling. Her smile was quick to die however as she opened her eyes to a half mass and lifted her head as Cross, Miguel, and Veloz all fought one another. Her jaw clenched at the pcture why did she always have to ruin her own mood? But as she knew all too well, this picture was bound to burn sooner or later. Once cards were turned she was positive she would face them a second time as their enemy, but for now she would bask in the moment.

That was until she felt Cross' riatsu move behind her, she had just barely managed to turn her head before her neck was taken out with a roundhouse kick that sent her rolling to the side. By the time she stopped she had a fire in her eyes that seemed of a laughable anger eyes setting on him as she moved a hand to her neck and a growl in her throat, "Surprise attacks huh?" she spit to the side, although very un-lady like, she didn't care as she returned to her feet dusting herself off, "Fine, I guess I can go a little longer, but I suggest you run" she smirked.

At the ends of ears an orange flame appeared burning with a brilliance. If she was to fight Cross even slightly serious she would have to pick it up. The reiatsu around her grew heavy before she bent her body and ran at Cross with a speed that nearly doubled her previous speed, and that was without using her Sonido. As she raced towards Cross she pulled her hand back in a punch aiming straight for his throat to return the favor of being hit. With him being three ranks higher then herself, however, she expected his attack to hit so if her punch was blocked she would collect her footing before jamming her knee into his stomach. If both failed, she would be at point blank range and open for his own attack.

As Miguel said that he'd prefer to be allowed to deal with attacks himself, Iza laughed and said that she didn't intend to protect him and would not do it again. To this, Miguel responded, "Good, that's the point. I like to fight for myself.". At that point, Cross began to attack Iza, so Miguel decided to turn to Veloz. He began his Barra Equis, a quick X shaped slashing attack for use at close range. Because Barra Equis was meant to be fast, Miguel did not expect what happened next. He only completed half of the X before Veloz grabbed his arm. Miguel's eyes widened in surprise at how easily his attack had been stopped. Then, Veloz used Tesshou, a punch capable of breaking bones. That gave Miguel an idea. He allowed the punch to make contact. At the moment of impact, there was a crack and serious pain as several of his ribs broke. However, Miguel pulled his arm out of Veloz's grasp, using the force of the punch combined with his own strength to get free. "Seems you're pretty fast, aren't you?" said Miguel. "I'd better not fight you in close quarters unless I want broken bones, it seems." he said. With that, Miguel used his Sonido and reappeared at a point above Veloz and opened his mouth, charging a dark blue Cero.

Smiling like a kid i bounce on my toes once the kick lands. My legs still glow with reiatsu as i towards iza."Run? Now why would I do that?' i say playfully walking towards her. Hands still in my pockets She comes straight at me with her fist, Watching it till the last second, i grab it with my own right hand, pushing her back.

"If you are going to try Hakuda, I hope you're actually a good match for me." The smile on my face was that of a kid in a candy shop. Even though Cross did not like to fight, he did so well. Seeing her come back at me with her knee, I raise my own left knee to catch hers. My reiatsu slowly creeps on her leg, Almost "tasting" her.

Don't be so serious in a fight like this, have some fun why don't cha?" i say smiling towards the woman. I stall ehr with my left knee, as I bring up multiple kicks to her ribs with my right leg. As a final strike I attempt to push her backwards with a thrust kick to the gut. If succeeded, I would sonido above Miguel, Spinning forward with a front flip once again, Protuding my ankle out as I dropped down, aiming for his back with my reiatsu covered leg.

I was surprised when Miguel seemed to allowed Ikkotsu to hit him, as my attack had hit I heard the cracking and breaking of bone. However using the force of my attack and a bit of his own strength Miguel released himself from my grasp before speaking. "Seems you're pretty fast, aren't you?" I chuckled to myself knowing the speed I used was but a fraction of what I was capable of, Miguel then continued on. "I'd better not fight you in close quarters unless I want broken bones, it seems." With that, Miguel used Sonido to vanish, for a moment I lost track of him to I felt a spike in reiatsu above me.

Looking up I saw two things, first Miguel charging a dark blue cero in his mouth, and further above him was Cross dropping down for some sort of attack. With a smile and roar of my own reiatsu I sheathed my blades as my hands began to glow brightly with gold and dark blue reiatsu. Instead using the usual formation for Doble Cero Comprimido, I glasp my hands together in order to mix both sources of reiatsu as the layered cero formed. As it did so I began to focus on minimizing it's size while compressing its power, the result when I opened my hands was a super condensed golf ball sized Cero that glow with a gold/blue glow. Now this one is much more powerful... Doble Cero Comprimido! I spoke out as I held the palm containing the cero out, with a buzz of power the cero blasted from my palm as it neared the speed of a bala.

The Cero would collide with Miguel's before the outter shell faded to allow the core and main power of Doble Cero Comprimido to pierce through Miguel's cero and continue towards both Miguel and Cross. I would then Sonido towards Izanami, with the full intention of a hand to hand fight.

She wasn't surprised when Cross caught her hand, she wasn't even surprised when he parried her knee. When he hit her stomach, however, her eyes widened and an "umph" escaped her lips. The forced behind it had Iza flying several yards back from her original position rolling to a stop before managing herself back to her legs. Her knees wobbled. Even in just a pay fight Cross held so much more power over her. A trail of blood began to trickle from her lips from biting her tongue. She spit the pooling blood to the side before wiping her mouth.

If you're going to use Hakuda, I hope you're a good match for me she tcked at his words. If they had been serious she'd show them exactly how good at hand-to-hand she was but these were suppose to be her comrades. So, there was no point in getting hot-headed because Number 3 put her in her place. She recollected her fan in her hand before smiling a moment pushing off with a Sonido this time to catch up with Cross while his attention was on the other two.

To her surprise however, Veloz rushed towards her saving her from getting in the way of his Cero as well as attacking her. She would have to pursue him and she was fine with that. Izanami smiled as she struggled to watch him get closer, but with logical guestimation on his speed and position she waited till he was close enough to give him a good round-house kick to parry his on-coming attack. However, she would have to wait to see if the attack hit before she was able to continue do to her guessing on his location.

[[OoC: Short, my apologies, I seem to be lagging through some writers block -_-]]

Cross smirked at the attack from veloz. Even though this was a spar, Veloz was doing some pretty strong attacks to his own comrades. notcing the cero coming towards him< Cross pusshed off the calf of Miguel, back flipping and then sonidoing towards teh ground, barely missing the cero. AS he landed His right horn cracked even more. The reaitsu on his legs, slowly creeped up his body, covering most of his upper body now.

he smiled now,yawnign and stretching his arms into the air, slowly walking towards the group. Moving his eyes from one espada to the other, his reiatsu slowly creeped off his body, almost shaping into a worm-like parasite figure. the green reaistu now was covering his chest, and branching off his right shoulder. he took one step forward, blasting sand behind him as he glided towards Veloz and iza.

Bending slightly forwards, His palms ran against the sand, making a trail behind him. Right before reaching the two, he sonidoed once again, appearing under miguel, throwing multiple punches while the reiatsu branch headed for iza and Veloz,. attemping to wrap around the neck of Veloz.

Miguel watched as the Cero that he shot was blocked by a much more powerful Cero from Veloz. Then, Veloz's Cero, with much more energy, continued toward him. At the same time, Cross aimed several punches at him. The choice now was between taking a Cero and being punched by Cross. Miguel decided that he would take neither. He began to Sonido, but as he moved, one of Cross's punches hit the bottom of his left leg just above the ankle, breaking the bone with a loud crack. Miguel reappeared out of his Sonido awkwardly, landing on 2 feet at first, but then his left leg gave out, bringing him to his knees for a moment. Trying to take the pain the best he could, Miguel got up. "I was hit by a Hakuda attack from Cross..."They're much more damaging than one from Veloz." said Miguel. "Fine, lets see how you deal with this!" said Miguel. He did a Sonido behind Cross, appearing not too close, but in range for a slash with his blade and said "Barra Equis.". Miguel began a super fast slash attack that would carve an 'X' shape into Cross's back if it succeeded.

As I rushed towards Izanami I failed to notice the odd branch of reiatsu spreading from Cross, thus when I closed in on Izanami and was hit by her roundhouse as I went to punch her in the gut. After getting hit by the roundhouse the odd reiatsu branch wrapped around my neck as I was thrown back in the air a few feet. As soon as I hit the ground I would recover and stand, feeling the reiatsu around my neck. Immediately I loosed an excessive blast of reiatsu, forcing Cross's own from my neck. After doing so I used sonido in a quick three burst succession to appear behind Izanami, with a surge of reiatsu I lashed out with a strong one handed punch(Tessho), aimed for the back of Izanami's ribs, if the hit landed it would probably break a few ribs and fracture others. If the strike landed I would grab Izanami's foot as she was launched forward by the punch, only to aim an axe kick for the middle of her back. If the Tessho failed I would use sonido to appear infront of Izanami in a low stance to kick her in the stomach and send her airborn.

When the kick landed she managed to get away from the grasping reiatsu till she figured out it had been meant for Veloz. He had been too fast however, as soon as it had grabbed him, he was free from it and behind her. She had managed to turn herself slightly and use her fan as a shield for the punch although it didn't stop it all together. The fan distributed the force behind the punch but still hit her ribs fracturing a good three or four of them rather than breaking too. The action caused more blood to pool from her mouth as the wounds on her tongue slowly healed up. She was now facing him, as she recollected herself from the punch.

When he grabbed her foot she let him as he tried to deliver a kick to her, now facing him, stomach. She held her hand out however as a Cero collected in her palm, and with a smirk on her face for the blank-range Cero she was about to empty on him. He had to choices, get hit by the Cero or land a devastating blow to her stomach. Either way, she was hurting and just needed him to get away for a moment to collect her breath. Veloz seemed to be on a rampage. She had only meant the fight to be a slight show of strength, but Veloz was starting to take it to a whole new level which she was fine with but she hadn't been expecting it in the least.

As the Cero continued to collect she managed to linger her eyes over him. He had been so fast, but her strength would surely match her speed. Izanami made a note to start putting more oomph in her punches if he wanted to go all out. If she didn't she may just end up with some serious injuries. Even now with her regeneration, without releasing her resurrection, it was going to take a while for her body to heal her ribs.

I was mildly surprised when Izanami twisted herself just enough to block the Tessho punch with her fan, although blocking most of the attack I still heard the faint noise of bones breaking or fracturing, possible her ribs. I had then grabbed her foot before aiming an axe kick for her back...Wait why is she facing me.. I thought before I noticed the cero collecting in Izanami's palm. Now thats not nice Izanami.. a cero that close might actually hurt quite a bit.. I teased her as I fed reiatsu into my leg, I would not halt the attack, instead I would alter the trajectory so that my reiatsu coated leg would collide and set off the cero in Izanami's palm.

As my leg connected with the cero it exploded sharply as I felt a sickening snap in my leg before falling from the cloud of smoke caused by the explosion. From the other side I watch as Izanami fell as well, I couldn't tell her condition from my angle of sight, but if how I felt was anything to go by she wasn't faring much better than myself. As I neared the ground I shifted my weight and landed roughly on my shoulder, popping it out of place as I came to a halt. Slowly I stood up, my right leg mangled and broken from the knee down, blood pooling at my foot. With a grunt of pain I grabbed my dislocated shoulder and wrenched it into its socket with a sickening 'pop'. Damn... that was one hell of a stupid idea on my part.. I attempted to use sonido to approach the falling Izanami but failed to do so when I noticed I couldn't move my right leg... Tch.. looks like I'm done till this damn leg heals.... unless you all wanna... make things more interesting? As I had said this my voice dripped with aggressive intent, and my blood red eyes held the gleam of blood-lust in them.