(OOC: Sorry, Ash and Tazu, but I decided for it to be just the ppl who are already in it.)

Takami was troubled when he saw how easily his slash was dodged and how fast the Arrancar moved. He didn't want to use Kido because it might anger the Arrancar enough to make him use his Cero. What now then? Then, he got and idea. He increased his Reiatsu to the point that it glowed orange around him as he prepared to attack. He kept letting his Reiastu build. Now his blade was white-hot. He built his Reiatsu for just a bit longer before he did a Shunpo and appeared behind the Arrancar at the same time as Mutsuhito was attacking. He pointed his sword at the Arrancar as soon as he finished his Shunpo and yelled "Hi Shiro!!!". An 'X' of white flame shot toward the Arrancar. If it hit, it would slash across the Arrancar's chest in an 'X' shape.

(ooc: didnt say you used shikai Sato xD Minoru n Taka are in shikai))

[Veloz P.o.V]

After using Sonido to appear in a tree a third shinigami, nearly as strong as the other two joined in the fight slashing for my neck, I turned with ease and blocked the strike with one of my glowing blades before pushing the shinigami back. As I had blocked the strike I heard the other shinigami yelled out something and blasted a white hot X in my direction, deciding to put on a show I decided on using my Germelos Sonido leaving a 'speed clone' in my place to take the hit as I vanished to the other side of the clearing spotting the wind using shinigami, with a laugh I sheath my blades and begin gathering a cero in each hand, Doble cero comprimido! I roar as I smash the two cero together between my hands, compressing and combining it. My spiritual pressure roaring into existance.

Gemelos Sonido Info:

[ooc:will post as minoru in a follow up post]

[Minoru P.o.V]

Seeing Lt.Sato go after the arrancar I took the time to charge up my shikai's attack when the arrancar easily dodged sato's strike then appeared to take a Hi Shiro from Taka, but the image just vanished as it took the hit, suddenly I felt a surge in spiritual pressure as I turned and saw the arrancar nearby as he seemed to smash two cero together. With a yell I charged towards him using shunpo trying to get in close before unleashing my attack,Windscar! I yelled slashing my blade forward as 3 blades of wind ripped towards the arrancar.

"You auto-hit!" Mutsuhito complained with a short sigh in his voice. Although Takami's flame attack appeared to hit, Mutsuhito was clearly somewhere else- a clone? Is that one of his powers? He also used what appeared to be a regular cero, but he did it strangely... this cero was much stronger. "Alright Minoru, Taka. Since you guys are doing it, I might as well do it too! Assimilate, Meiji!" Mutsuhito blared. His blade glowed momentarily, and stopped. It did not change at all. "Hey if you guys are hurt, feel free to grab onto my sword" he saysas he uses shunpo once again, and attack in a similar method as before, this time using vertical slash- rydan.

"Didn't hit, huh?" asked Takami. "Lets see how you like this!" he exclaimed. Before he could finish talking, the Arrancar had Sonidoed away and used some sort of Cero attack on Minoru. He watched as Minoru fought back and then he decided to make his own attack against the Arrancar. He quickly build up his Reiatsu, causing it to flame up around him in a bright orange flare. Then, Takami lifted up his sword. He was feeding Reiatsu into it. Then, Takami did a Shunpo and fired a blade of darkness at the Arrancar from behind at close range. "Take that, sucka!!" yelled Takami, hoping his attack worked.

[ooc: even though I hadn't fired my cero yet, I'll go with taka's post saying I had used it]
[Veloz P.o.V]

First I noticed the rise in reiatsu from the wind user as he sliced the air infront of him and three large blades of wind came at me, quickly drawing my blades I coated them in my reiatsu blocking the blades as the tearing wind cut into my skin slightly. During that another of the shinigami had taken the time to go into their own shikai before saying something to his allies before rushing at me using shunpo.

With a smirk followed by a snarl I rose my spiritual pressure as I cut through the wind blades suffering more small lacerations as the shinigami shunpo'd out of my sight. For a brief moment I was unable to sense the shinigami as he first was out of my sight, until I felt the air shift behind me. Raising my spiritual pressure slightly further I took an attack to my back, one that would have done more damage to a lower espada.

I could feel my blood dripping down my back as I turned to face the shinigami prepared to strike at him as the fire using one once again made himself a part of the fight. He rushed in using shunpo, Tsk, gotta be faster than that if you want to surprise me. My voice coming out in a snarl, I turned to him as he tried to get behind me and just dodged a close range attack he shot at me. With a buzz of sonido I backed off 20m from the two paying closer attention. With a laugh I shouted to the three shinigami, Your proving more fun than I thought! Shall we get a bit more serious? I asked the shinigami as I stood there in the air awaiting their reaction.



[Minoru P.o.V]

I watched as the arrancar quickly pulled out two blades that began glowing in a dark blue and gold reiatsu as he blocked my windscar, though it seemed the winds managed to cut him slightly. The arrancar rose his reiatsu as we cut through my attack suffering more from the cutting winds, that was when Lt. Sato used shunpo to get behind him and land an attack on his back I could see his blood dripping to the floor. Taka suddenly rushed in once again with shunpo as the arrancar said something I couldn't hear, before Taka tried to get behind him and launch an attack. As I saw the arrancar dodge the attack I rushed in quickly using shunpo of my own, I flarred my reiatsu as I once again began charging my blades with my own reiatsu. I stopped beside Taka and Lt.Sato taking up a defensive stance as I continued to rise my reiatsu taking the fight more seriously.

Yes! The attack hit! Mutsuhito fell back, and smiled. "So, what was that other move you used? What was it called?" he said, his reiatsu changing from its usual white color to a more blueish-yellowish color. "Oh well..." Mutsuhito held the tip of his blade towards the arrancar, crying "cero". As he did so, a blue ball of energy formed at the tip of his blade, with a gold center. As the attack charges, Mutsuhito states "You see, my power in a nutshell, is to trade off a bit of my reiatsu in exchange for using your powers. Unfortunately, I barely have any idea what those powers are. Still, I know you are an arrancar, and all arrancar have cero!"

On both sides of him, Takami's allies were charging their Reiatsu, preparing for the Arrancar to attack. Takami decided that it was time the fight got more serious. He began to allow his Reiatsu to build. It wasn't long until the Reiatsu flowed off him like an orange mist. It continued to build until it looked as if Takami were engulfed in orange flame.There was no fire here, though. Just concentrated Reiatsu. Now Takami lifted his blade before his face in the same manner as a medieval knight preparing to meet a great onslaught alone. "Hey, you Arrancar!" yelled Takami as his Reiatsu flowed around him. Now his sword began to glow. "I believe you wish to get more serious, Arrancar." said Takami. "Well, bring it on!!" he challenged. Takami readied his blade for the attack. He nodded to Mutsuhito and Minoru, knowing that this could be the last act of his life. Then he attacked. He did a Shunpo, but instead came a mere 8 inches from the Arrancar in front of him rather than behind. "Hi... Shiro!!!" yelled Takami, releasing the most powerful Hi Shiro attack he possibly could, shooting an X of flame at the Arrancar at close range.

[Minoru P.o.V]

I watched as Lt.Sato's reiatsu suddenly changed to somewhat match the arrancar's as Sato began to somehow form the arrancar's Cero, I doubted it would actually hold up vs an the arrancar's own cero but I decided to add in my own attack and I pointed a finger towards the arrancar before shouting out Hado #4 Byakurai! A white lightning bolt of reiatsu blasted towards the arrancar aiming for the right shoulder. That was when Taka added his own attack after flaring his reiatsu, he used shunpo trying to get within close range of the arrancar to unleash another Hi Shiro. 'Damn arrancar better eat this attack..' I thought too myself.

[Veloz P.o.V]

These shinigami seemed like they were getting overconfident, the one with white reiatsu suddenly began charging a weaker version than my own cero through his zanpakuto's strange abilities. This ticked me off slighty, the fool though his attempt of a cero could stand up to my own. Suddenly as I watched the cero charge a white bolt of reiatsu was blasted towards me, turning to my side I dodge the shot that would have hit my shoulder. While doing so the third shinigami used shunpo once again,albeit faster than last time. I could feel the mans reiatsu pick up as he charged his attack while rushing towards me.

With a roar of power I began laughing a loud hollow like laugh, as another white hot X of flames was blasted at me from close range. With a smirk I took the hit as my spiritual pressure began climbing, the attack pushing me back slightly as it began burning my clothing as well as my scarf and skin. As my now burnt scarf dropped from my neck I turned around revealing the blood red 5 on my neck before I spoke upTch this is all you three have? I thought Soul Societies Lt's where stronger than this! Vanishing with a buzz a relocated to a section of sky above the clearing. Looking down to the three shinigami I started laughing once again, I was enjoying this little fight with the shinigami.

So shinigami... I said between laughter before continuing, Would you like to see a more powerful cero than my first?!? I burst out into thicker laughter as I once again began charging a gold and blue cero in each palm, allowing them to expand slightly before smashing them together with a howl of laughter. The smash of cero's resulted in a golden/blue glow erupting around me as the cero's were forcefully merged into one another. This doble cero comprimido was different than the first, taking on a golden outter shell and blue core while blue 'sparks' of energy shot around it. After the glow died down I could be seen standing in the air with a tennis ball sized gold orb of cero in my hand before I 'threw' it in the direction of the shinigami with a yell of Try this one, Doble cero comprimido! The cero expanded slightly as it rushed towards the trio.



[ooc: originally I used gran rey, but I decided against it in the end so I edited out gran rey and switched it for Veloz's doble cero comprimido]

A number five; that would have to mean this man is an espada. Mutsuhito was amazed at how quickly the group has returned, even after all that has happened. As the arrancar ascended, he charged two more cero, smashing them together, shouting out a name- the name of the technique. "Ooh!" Mutsuhito admired "that looks cool." His next act, was using another cero in the same fashion as the arrancar, having the too revolve around and smash eachother at the tip of his blade. He aimed his cero upward towards the arrancar. "Doble cero comprimido!" he announced, trying to cancel out the arrancar's attack with his own, knowing it wouldn't be as strong.