Inner world

The battle for control raged on. I am hurt my uniform is ruined I am cut and bleeding but I still stand. Looking up at ryujin I shunpo,towards him slashing as I approch. Hitting his arms I don't see his wings sweep in and impale me at the gut. spitting out blood I was thinking why am I so stupid to rush in like that. Ryujin looks at me grinning a toothy grin How can you protect her if you can't defeat me tazuma? He slides me off the his wings as I scream in pain. I get up slowly then I notice it. My zanpacto is in shikai but I did not call it outYou have my help tazuma its then I know the kuriyami is hiding but she is not leaving me. I get up using the sword as a post just,to,catch a series of slashes to my chest. Falling straight back I look up to see ryujin standing above me. His wings pointed to the sky he then turns them downward.i'm going to kill you now and then kill your friends

Breathing heavely blood coming out of my mouth. I close my eyes and whisper"I'm sorry Amaya. I was too weak." As I accept my fate I hear it faint but there You idiot...Dont you dear lose to this monster, or I will never forgive you if you lose to this thing." I open my eyes filled with a new found power and hope. "Amaya your here." I whisper bringing my sword up point first as ryujin brings his wings down"fortisimo!" The blast of my reiatsu and vibration blasts ryujin point blank throwing him backward. I leap up and shunpo at him slashing and stabbing as he falls just to catch a punch as he hits the ground. standing up from the punch"amaya I do this for you " bringing my hilt to my mouth I play a song a steady melody. Looking up I see a cero heading my way. Swinging my sword I intercept the cero swinging it above my head the cero coating the sword as it rounds my body I release the cero back powered with a bit of my reiatsu and vibration. The cero flys toward ryujin he holds out his hands to block the cero but the impact was different his chest was burned and puncured. Yet he healed from it almost instantly Why do you fight Tazuma?

Fujioka was pleased to see that someone stepped in to help with restraining Tazuma's hollow. With his kido already in motion Fujioka watched everything else unfold. The hollow was down for the count thanks to Zoran, and Masaru's kido as well. Though with the introduction of Amaya Fuji felt a bit uneasy. She was appeared before him during one of his worst moments not too long ago. He was embarrassed from that incident and seeing her again so soon just wasn't comforting. Receding into the shadows Fujioka went up stairs to watch the hollow carefully. Though it was restrained for now this wouldn't last long.

Zoran Zazaravitch took this time to catch his breath and rest. Using duel-cast kido on such a high level as bakudo seventy-five and bakudo sixty-one was taxing on his energy supply. Though, all his actions had occurred successfully. The hollow was now down for a while. The giant pinning steel pillars did their job, making sure the beast stayed pinned down to the ground. The addition of the rope bindings cast by the other two Vizard only ensured that the hollowfied Tazuma would stay put for now. Zoran took in a deep breath, allowing his body to relax in preparations for when the thing finally did break out.. The other two had ceased fighting it for now, speaking with Amaya, the most recent individual to arrive to the scene. The hollow’s golden-yellow eyes darted throughout the room, the yells of it’s beast-like nature echoing outward from it’s jaws. Though contained, the thing was still gaining higher and higher levels of power by the second. The rods of light that struck in the creature’s mid-section were starting to crack along the base of each rod, showing that the weaker of the bakudo was starting to wear down.

Zoran Zazaravitch watched this as it occurred, taking careful note of the hollow’s reishi pattern and steady rate of power. He didn’t know how long this was going to last. Turning his head toward Fujioka, he spoke out toward the individual, asking another question in his deep tone of voice. “ Aye, how long is this supposed to last? These binds won’t hold forever you know.. Five minutes at best..More likely four or three minutes. This thing is also getting more barbaric as time progresses.” He ceased this message as the weakest of the kido spells cast had been broken apart, the reishi being dissipated into the air as he binds were weakening. Further cracks forged in the six bars of light restrains, and a very minor shaking in the giant pillars started to be noteable. The Taicho of squad nine decided to fight the beast himself for a time. He needed to get adjusted to fighting these powerful vasto-class hollows to get ready for the real fight with the Arrancars and their resurrection state.

The final cracks forged in the six bars of light, the energy being cracked apart and breaking apart like glass. The shards of energy fell back to the ground, two minutes time now passed as the beast struggled to overcome the rope bindings around it’s arms. The five pillars started tos hake more rapidly, but not to a degree nearly enough to break their mighty weight. Zoran Zazaravitch was no longer panting, having rested enough over this short break to begin fighting again. Though he had not all of his reiatsu, itw as enough to fight at his full potential unhindered. The beast screamed once more, it’s dragon-esque jaws opening up and revealing traces of red light forming in the back of it’s throat. This red light was growing in size, becoming more apparent as the hollow energy surged throughout the hollowfied embodiment of Tazuma. The shinigami saw this and prepared for it accordingly. Speaking briefly as the energy charged, he uttered the phrase, “ Hado thrity-one, Sokatsui.” As these words were spoken, the hollow unleashed a powerful bala from the depths of it’s mouth. The bala was fast, and its size was much larger than that of a normal bala, being roughly three feet in circumference. Fortunately, bala was a weak attack. It was fast, but had little amounts of power in it. Raising his right-hand toward the incoming blast, reishi was concentrated into the Taicho of squad nine’s right-hand. In a instant, a rather large blast of blue fire was sent forth, aimed to crash against the bala. The blast of blue flames and the over-sized bala clashed in the middle of the room, the explosion from the two techniques being of a decent size for such low-level attacks. Dust and flames scattered for a few feet around the two blasts, but neither had really one. It was simply a draw, leaving nothing left. The hollow’s rage only intensified after this, growing more and more as it wouldn’t be much longer now until the thing was entirely hollow.

Zoran Zazaravitch watched the hollow closely as its claws ripped apart the rope around it’s arms. This left it nearly free. All that was left was the five giant pillars above it’s body. It clawed against the earth with hands and feet, trying to push upward. The five pillars moved much quicker now that it was the only bind in place. The rattle of the chains filled the room with sound., showing that the bakudo was close to breaking down. With one final burst of corrupted hollow reiatsu, the five pillars slammed inward, crashing into one another and slowly shattering on contact. Cracks moved up each pillar, these cracks expanding as time passed. The pillars crashed downward, the chains connecting them snapped and the force of the pillars crashing against the ground caused a copious amount of dust to ascend around the hollow. It was now free, and the real fight was close at hand. The beast quickly got up from its downed position, standing up on the floor of the underground area. It seemed to calm down slightly due to being free from it’s binds, but that bloodlust still lingered in its golden-yellow eyes. The beast was ready to attack at any instant.

Zoran Zazaravitch glared at the hollow cautiously, ready to engage the beast in combat at any time. It was getting ready to attack, as shown by a stance it had made with its body. The feet were being pushed against the ground with more force than usual, as if ready to push off of it for a burst of speed. This showed the nature of the hollow’s combat methods. Something that ran on pure destructive offensive and corrupt unorthodox power. The hollowfied Tazuma charged, as anticipated. It pushed off of the ground, cracking it and crushing the spots directly under its feet into smaller craters about a foot in circumference. Its claws were stretched out, ready to tear apart anything in its path. The jaws of I opened widely again, ready to devour the target in it’s path.

Zoran Zazaravitch thought out a means of countering this attack, needing the perfect time to do so for it to be successful. As the hollow was getting close, Zoran started to focus his reishi for a moment into his physical body. A crimson aura of spiritual energy poured out from his body, moving around his form and covering him in a small one-inch layer of reishi. As the hollowfied opponent sent it’s claws forward for a series of high-speed and high-powered attacks, he used the reishi in his body to temporarily augment his speed and strength for the time to keep up with the hollow’s ever-growing power. He ducked downward as the two clawed strikes moved over his head,, slicing off a few strands of hair at the top of his head due to how close they came to actually hitting him. Quickly moving back up with the momentum of his speed and the gathered kinetic energy of the hollow’s movement, the taicho of squad nine balled up his right-hand into a fist and sent a high-speed uppercut toward the hollow’s chin. This strike caused the hollow to stumble back for a second, but nothing else. These blunt strikes couldn’t do much damage against that armor-like coating that encased Tazuma’s body. Not only that, but it could regenerate any real damage done to it.

Zoran Zazaravitch saw another attack incoming from the beast. Using his reishi once more, he triggered the infamous shinigami shunpo technique to escape the vicinity of the attack and instantly appear directly behind the beast. He attempted to grab the hollow’s tail and lift it up as quickly as he could by it, using his full strength to lift the heavy beast and throw it a few dozen feet high into the sky. This was all a set up for his own attacks to deal some damage to the thing and keep up with its power, which was still only getting higher. The cloak of hollow reiatsu became more potent around the transformed individual. This hollow was much stronger than any he had faced before. Even the vasto-lordes didn’t have power on par with this.. While in the air, the beast aimed its right-arm toward Zoran with the hand opened up in a pronged form. Reishi rapidly gathered from the creature’s body, several streams of red energy coming from the skin and coming together at the center of the hand. These rays of energy formed a single sphere of concentrated energy that shined throughout the vizard’s underground. The massive amount of power in he cero was enough to cause a substantial amount of damage to most people. Zoran had a higher level of ability in the detection of spiritual power and frequency than most shinigami, even going as far as to match with the arrancar’s pesique technique. The level of hollow energy manifested in that cero was on a level far above any cero he had seen in the past against the thousands of hollows he had faced during his time as a shinigami and vizard.

Zoran Zazaravitch kept his composure, relaxing as the attack was being charged and ready to fire from the air-born hollow. He wanted to keep the energy he used in this fight to a low level, so he decided that simply dodging the attack would be best for now, rather than trying to block or counter it with bakudo eighty-eight, Danku, or hado eighty-eight; The hollow gave out another yell of it’s barbaric rage as the super-charged cero was unleashed. A truly enormous concentrated beam of transparent red energy shot forth from the creature’s hand, burning the oxygen in the air and speeding toward Zoran’s position on the ground. Seconds before the attack could connect, he warped away from his current position with another shunpo, barely having had the time to escape the blast’s radius. The cero drilled straight into the earth, making a hole in the ground atleast six feet wide and twenty to thirty feet deep. At the bottom of the pit, all the burnt rock had formed a large pile of black ash just at the bottom of this hole. That being all that remainded of the earthw here the cero hit. The beam of energy dissipated in the hollow’s hand as Zoran saw this chance to make a counter-attack against the beast.

Zoran Zazaravitch was about twelve feet from the zone of impact. It left no trace of fire or explosion. It just incinerated everything in it’s path on contact, leaving that large crater where it hit. The hollow landed on its feet just on the other side of the hole drilled into the earth from its cero. The taicho of squad nien took in a deep breath, wrapping his fingers around the ebony guard of his zanpakto. Slowly pulling it from it’s tattered sheath. The dull old-looking zanpakto was revealed. It was thin, but measured at an extended length of five feet. The guard itself was six inches in length and the blade was four feet and six inches. Running his bandage-wrapped left-hand over the zanpakto’s blade, he spoke for a moment while sliding the hand against the blade’s edge. “ Divide to thousands, Raizen Akuma Grance.” The blade turned into a form of crimson energy, the once dull and long blade losing a foot of it’s former length, but becoming sharper with jagged edges coming from all sides of the weapon. These edges cut into the blood-soaked bandages around his left-hand, but did not make contact with the hand itself. Just the bandages. The former golden guard turned pitch-black and the tattered red sheath also turned into a new black attire. Silver traced the interior of the sheath, giving it enough weight and durability to be used as a blunt weapon as well. Blood leaked out from the bandages, covering the blade with a few drops of Zoran’s blood., it’s initial power was activated.

Crimson spiritual energy flowed around the zanpakto, the blood across its steel being evaporated into a form of visible steam that moved through the air. This steam was the remainder of Zoran’s D.N.A in the blood infused with spiritual energy from his zanpakto, allowing the process of cell-division to begin. The steam all gathered a few feet to the west of the initial Zoran. In seconds, the gas started to liquefy, becoming a human-sized blob of blood. The cells in the blood were dividing rapidly, forming a clone. The spiritual particles that caused this process were replicated as well, giving the clone it’s own supply of reishi and power on the same level as the original’s. This rapidly expanding form of blood started to take shape, gaining the same texture and exact physical details as Zoran’s own body. The liquid finally entered the solidification process, gaining color and the final traces of power that made it the perfect cloning technique. The clone’s eyes opened, the same crimson and calm appeal of Zoran’s own hues showing in it. It had the same spiritual power and the same look. The same power and the same mind set. For this was the power of Zoran’s zanpakto. Perfect cloning albeit the use of cell-division. Though, he could use cell-division for more than this, but it was the primary power of the zanpakto in both shikai and bankai. For now, one was more than enough to deal with this hollow.
The Hollow did not hesitate to charge again after this process was done with, its feet pushed of fof the earth and causing the edge of the cliff near the giant hole to fall down, crashing against it and scattering ruble throughout the abyss. The beast landed on the other side, running forward with its claws stretched out in the same predator-like manner as before. Its eyes filled with hatred and bloodlust. Zoran Zazaravitch saw the oncoming hollow, getting ready for an attack that may do some actual damage to the thing. As the beast got closer, the taicho vanished using shunpo, appearing behind the beast while the clone fought it at close-range proximity. Using the new jagged blade from his shikai, the clone intercepted the two clawed talons, holding them back with the blade. Though, he was being pushed back rather easily. His feet were dragging against the ground as he attempted to hold the beast back, but he only needed to for a few more seconds.

Zoran Zazaaravitch appeared behind the hollow once more while it was in a physical clash with his replica. Speaking in a very low tone of voice, he uttered the words- “ Hado fifty-four, Haien” As this was said, he moved his hand so that it was aimed toward the creature’s tail. It was likely the thing didn’t even know of his presence here since he had the same spiritual energy as his clone, which was also extremely close to him. From his hand, a blast of concentrated purple fire was sent from his palm toward the creature’s tail. The goal of this concentrated blast of flames was to incinerate the creature’s tail and burn shut its wound so that its instant regeneration could not forge another extension. Since the tail was made purely of hollow-material, it wouldn’t do any serious harm to Tazuma, just cause the tail to stop spawning on the back. If successful, the clone barely holding the hollow back would use this surprise attack as a chance to inflict more damage and fall back a bit. With the blackened hilt of his zanpajto in hand, the clone swiftly sent a diagonal slash across the creature’s chest before quickly jumped back ten feet. This caused a thin cut to appear along its chest, only a miniscule amount of blood being drawn due to the hollow-like armor that encased Tazuma’s body in that hollowfied state. Though, just as soon as the slice had been made, a white liquid poured over it, healing the damage as fast as it had been caused. The tail, however, could not be reformed due to the manner of technique used to destroy it. The hollow screamed in rage from the damage done to it, its power still only getting higher as time went by. The hollow quickly turned around and sent it’s claw at Zoran. Unfortunately, unlike before, he could not fully dodge this one due to the rising speed of the opponent. The claw cut through his jacket, clawing through his chest and making a rather large cut in his body. It was nothing serious or fatal, but it was still a hit and had caused a average amount of pain in his body. It would have been a full-blown gash if not for the fact Zoran had jumped back at the last instant to avoid the majority of the attack. Zoran Zazaravitch had done enough for now. With all the kido he had been using, he needed a short rest. In an instant, he used shunpo to appear near the rest of the group. His clone, however, remained. He intended to just let the clone fight for awhile, since it had nearly all of its energy still. It was only then that Zoran started to speak again. “ So, this thing is only getting stronger as time passes. Would be nice if Tazuma could finish this up already with whatever mental fight he is having right now.”

Amaya listened to him closely of how he was alive and how he have been. She once again found his arms around her in a long awaited embrace. Her right hand rested on his cheast as she soon found herself hugged closed to him. she first closed her eyes half way then fully closed as her right hand moved to behind him, resting on his back returning the embrace. She quitely pulled away. she shifted on to her knees moving her left sleeve and arm into her lap before replying "I wish I could say life has been a true hell but honestly it hasn't. I am not the same as I was back then..I will admit that someone finally got through my blackened heart the moment we met... ever since that day we kept close, great friends, partners and fighters. I wish I could say I was among the best of the captains like those before me , but honestly, right now, I can't really help him, though I know just being here is helping him win this battle, I know tazuma will return to me, just like that ambush at the academy, I didnt think anyone was going to help."She said gently more to herself but to him before she put on a smile and a finger to her chin while looking up thinking. "on a lighter note, I have lost alot of lieutinents who became vizards and several that just died and I have gained a daughter with a rare disease that traveled from her human life oer to this one. however, she is trainig and wishing to become a captain and not lletting this disease or disorder get her down."She commented.

"The only other news I can give is the fact that now I have an espada wishing to kill me, I found out a few months ago this espada is the sister i have been search for all these years she is my younger sister and has caused several of our own ranks to fall victim to her and follow her killing their own allies to serve her and the other espada...tazuma lost a lieutinent to her."She commented gently

ooC: Now back to taz,fuji,zoran,masa,shou,amaya posting order ]]

Inner world

Tazuma, why do you continue to fight me at every turn? Ryujin's words were like daggers to me his tone was so angry. Holding up my sword"i fight for my,father and family that was slaughtered. I fight me my friends who care for me and have shown me that together we can achieve anything. I do it for....white sword lilys." The last bit made ryujin get a confused and disgusted look on his faceFor a flower? You engage me in battle for a flower? his anger could be felt by me.

Within an instant he was in front of me,not three inches away from my face. Then his wings pierced my sides in the exact same place as the hado 90 did. The pain was intense but remembering the time was even worse for me. As he picked me up off the ground I felt my weight pull me down causing more painGive in Tazuma. Let me out ad this will end my lips move but he could not hear what I was saying.Speak up boy thiss your last words "Ye lord! Mask of flesh and bone, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Truth and temperance, upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws hado 33." My outstreached left hand growed blue as the hado took form and blasted ryujin in his chest causing him to fly back and a large hole to appear only to be filled in by white liquid.That was foolish! he snapped at me raising his hands forming a large purple cero. The cero blasyed towards me at an insane speed I barely dodged it by using shunpo and a roll. As I look up I see it. A single white sword lily growing among death and decay. I smile and turn to face ryujin."i just realised why I fight ryujin. I fight because I want to defend and protect those in my life that matter to me. The ones who as I was weak they protected me and when they were weak I protected them. I fight for the silver ribbon she word that day. The way she smiled at me as I walked past her. I fight because of how she makes me feel. For her I will do anything and you will submit to me." I then charge him sword over my head in ready to slash. Ryujin slashed with his wings as he did I would leap up over them and slash at the wing joint severing it from his body landing within 5 feet from his body I slap the blade against the ground"fortisimo!!" The blast rockets out of my zanpacto and strikes it under his chin sending him air born. "do you still not know ryujin?" I ask him while walking slowly bleeding out and limping toward him"don't you feel it? " ryujin gets up and hunches forwardFeel what?! I feel nothing.

{ooc i'll continue next post also can someone say the total time used in their post

Fujioka leaned over the balcony with his arms crossed on it. He watched the entire fight Zoran just had all while eavesdropping. Three captains were here and one of them was hollowifying. When Zorans battle was starting to curve in the hollows favor Fujioka figured it was time to act. Though he had done one good thing out of the entire time he was fighting the hollow. He got rid of that pesky tail and for that Fuji was grateful. Fuji jumped over the Balcony and headed down towards the hollow quickly. Quickly he put his hand over his face and the mask materialized between the two. His mask formed peculiarly around his face with just a outline first. With the outline Fuji's scelera became black and his pupils became a purple dark purple color.

As Fuji continued to fly downwards towards the hollow his mask filled in. Though it was pure white with no defining characteristics or designs on it. Once the pure white mask formed Fuji's reiatsu exploded to that of a captains level. The purple reiatsu flourished through the room with a subtle intensity. Second by second that intensity grew and grew into a sleek reiatsu that would suffocate those with low reiatsu*. It would feel like their skin was crawling, their throat was dry, and their ability to intake oxygen somehow slowing. Ontop of all of that it you would get the sensation that someone was watching you. Something you couldn't run a way from, you could only feel something like a hunter was nearby.

Fuji pulled his blade in front of him once he got within a hundred feet of the hollow. When he finished pulling his sword his reiatsu had bumped up another notch while the details of his mask were being filled in. Fuji raised his blade over head so that he could time his slice with the finishing of his mask. Once he was within ten to twelve feet Fuji made a slice for the hollows right collar bone. Now that he was down closer to the ground his reiatsu would feel lighter than it did before. It was still plentiful it just wasn't as brutally intense on the weaker individuals in the room. With the slashing of his blade he cut into the hollows shoulder like butter. Though he managed to sever a bit of the collar bone his sword stopped forcing him to pull it out. In a reverse swing Fuji removed his sword the same way it went in. Looking over the hollows shoulder Fuji stared right into the eyes of Zoran clone. [color=indigo]"Get Back."[/i] He uttered in a completely monotone metallic voice.

After warning the clone Fuji prepared to shunpo infront of the hollow. Shortly before shunpoing his his normally purple reiatsu made a red outline around his body. When he went Fuji left behind a condensed amount of reiryoku and reiatsu covering the hollow. The red reiatsu lingered for a moment all around it.The reiatsu formed into an abundance of tiny little razor blades the size of tooth pics. With Fuji's speed the sticks began to spin rapidly in every which direction mimicking the look of a spinning star. Though it looked fanciful these blades were spread out into a twenty foot area around the hollow. Everything within that radius was cut and shredded by the razorblades even the hollows skin. The entirety of Fuji's attack lasted all but a few seconds but the hollow looked like it just came out of Hado ninety kuroshitsuji.

Fuji stood right in front of the hollow with his mask still wondering what to do next. That wound in the collar bone was rapidly healing, his last attack did a great deal of damage. All in all it was still too close to a large group of people. Taking his zanpakuto Fuji lifted it up with his right hand so that the blade was pointing down. Just like before his reiatsu made a red outline around his body. Letting the blade go it floated there. Grabbing the blade with his right hand "Swirling damnation bring about the devourer of" Fuji started the incantation for Hado number fifty eight. At the same time the hollow charged forwards towards him. "Onmitsukido way of onmitsu, Utsusemi" Fujioka whispered before leaving behind his jacket. His jacket stayed there for a moment taking on every characteristic of himself, even the suspended kido in progress.

With himself out of harms way Fuji prepared to finish the incantation. He smirked while he watched the hollow tear apart his jacket with his ferocious claws. After the jacket was torn asunder Fuji would be found at a new location diagonal to the hollow. "worlds. Damn bird of avaricious snatch at your own tail. Hado # 58 Tenran!" Fuji called out combining the kido with his weapon and his reiatsu. All of the red reiatsu the lined his body poured into the blade. With the snap of the wrist the blade began spinning rapdily. The very spins creating sending waves of air in every which direction, they carved the ground, slammed intot he walls, and aimed for the high ceiling. Then all at once a forwards funnel of red wind spread outwards horizontally creating a tunnel. The tunnel of wind engulfed the hallow and took it along with it. All the white Fuji's reiatsu had once again turned into razors and aided in the destruction of the hollows body.

The red wind tunnel would eventually start to look like normal wind as it carried the hollow away. Fuji was trying to create some distance while also doing the minimal amount of damage. Looking back at Amaya he put his hand over his face. With that half of his mask vanished leaving just half of it. He did this so that he wouldn't over exert himself too quickly.

Zoran Zazaravitch stood at the edge of the vizard's underground, his eyes keenly focused in on the next individual stepping up to fight. It seemed that Fujioka was taking back his position in the fight after that minor fight he had with the beast earlier. The taicho of squad nine did not bother to speak any more after this, just keeping his crimson hues pin-pointed on the vizard as they took stance against the hollowfied Tazuma. What really peaked Zoran's interest was the ability the man had upon dawning the strength of his mask. It was forged rather quickly, raising the individual's power rather exponentially That hollow-infused reiatsu was all too familiar to him by this point though. Over his time as a Vizard in the Soul Society, he had become adjusted fully to it due to his own hollow power that was binded to his soul. That demon of silver steel that he had faced over two centuries ago...Yet he still faintly remembered the process of the fight. The details were filled with fog, but still there. It was all a matter of focusing in on them. When Fujioka spoke to his clone, requesting it to vacate the area so they could face in combat one-on-one, Zoran mentally messaged his clone, using the link between them to give it the order to accept and leave the feild. The clone did as asked, nodding briefly toward Fujioka then vanishing in a burst of speed with shunpo, leaving only a small patch of dust at his previous location. The clone appeared directly beside Zoran, allowing them both to be in the same general area.

Zoran Zazaravitch continued to watch the fight at hand, but had one minor issue to attend to himself. During his fight with the hollow, he had attined an injury along his chest. The claw had made a rather deep slash in his body, blood pouring from the wound at a decent rate. It wasn't anything fatal, but was a bit of a mess and proved bothersome to him. The Taicho of squad nine inhaled deeply, relaxing his body and focusing his reishi for a different type of kido than what was normally used. A green reiatsu slowly poured out from his right-hand, covering it in the green energy like an aura. The energy did not have any destructive frequency to it and was highly controlled. It was maintained and calm, like still water in a ;ale on a day without wind, rain, or any force to disturb the tranquility of it. Placing his right-hand over the injury, ZOran Zazaravitch attempted to use his semi-advanced skills in the medical field to heal his minor injury. The green reishi flowed into the wound, slowly causing the flow of blood to slow down, eventually ceasing fully after a few moments. The energy left his hand, covering the wound entirely in that green glowing reishi now. The wound closed over time, the crimson blood over his jacket fading and becoming less noticeable. The green glow around the former-slash in his skin started to vanish, having done its job with the wound now closed.

Zoran Zazaravitch turned his attention back toward teh fight now, seeing the power Fujioka was able to muster under the hollowfied power their mask granted. He was having a much easier time against this thing than he had. Though, shikai didn't really boost power much, it just granted him part of his ability to forge clones and use cell-division. He still had to keep his mask hidden from Amaya and Tazuma, so that is why he chose to use shikai instead. He fully anticipated the other vizards knew he was one of their kind, but that was them. Tazuma and Amaya were different. He couldn't risk word spreading in the Soul Society/ He anticipated certain events. Things that would be best if his true nature was kept under wraps. The hollowfied Tazuma was taking extensive damage by Fujioka's attacks, like the vizard was now even above the hollow. Though, that creature's instant-regeneration quickly did away with most of its wounds, as before. For now, Zoran Zazaravitch and his clone intended to just stay put at the edge of the room and watch the fight progress, waiting for Tazuma to finally beat his inner-demon and revert from that blood-thirsty form.

After embracing Amaya for a moment, she had returned the embrace, she then quietly ended the embrace before telling Masaru her own tale. "I wish I could say life has been a true hell but honestly it hasn't. I am not the same as I was back then..I will admit that someone finally got through my blackened heart the moment we met." These words of hers made Masaru glad, she had found someone important to her, and not only that, she continued to explain she also had a daughter now who aimed to become a captain one day. Masaru then listened as Amaya explained that she had an Espada after her, more accurately her own sister. Masaru truly felt sorry for Amaya, and would do whatever he could in order to help.

Meanwhile two others had fought the hollowfied Tazuma, and Masaru knew it was his turn, he would bring Tazuma back to Amaya. While he had listened to Amaya, Masaru had felt a sharp rise in reiatsu, not once but twice as on of the vizards dawned there mask in the fight. Masaru was glad to know they were strong as well, it would make things much easier, unlike all the times Masaru had helped other Vizard through this very process on his own. Looking upon Amaya with his silver eyes, his gaze was gentle as he spoke up with a gentle tone, We will bring him back too you Amaya, do not worry.. With that Masaru rose from the ground and walked towards the barrier the fight was inside of.

As Masaru neared the barrier he watched as one of the combatants used healing kido to heal himself after a clone had returned to his side. As Masaru passed through the barrier his eyes began to change in color, first the screla began to turn into a dull silvery black color, as the silver in his eyes began to change to an extremely dark blue color. As his eye color changed a sharp rise in his reiatsu could be felt before the mask began to form, first the slitted eye's of the mask formed, causing yet another rise in Masaru's reiatsu before he waved his hand over his face.

Once Masaru had waved his hand across his face a draumatic rise in his reiatsu occured as his blue mask formed. Those who could bear the rise in it would feel as if they were in the deepest depths of the ocean, they would suddenly feel an extreme cold bearing down upon them before the feeling would fade. Masaru then drew his zanpakuto from his back and called out Let the tide flow, Howaitobīchi. His zanpakuto then took on the form of a 16" long knife with a massive chain attached to it. As he called out his shikai Masaru's reiatsu increased once again, the uncontrolled feeling of being sucked to the bottom of a stormy sea would creep upon everyone, every breath would feel like an intake of extremely cold water.

Masaru brought his reiatsu under his control so that it would no longer pressure anyone before he vanished using shunpo. Masaru passed by Fuji heading straight for the airborn hollow, as he neared the hollow it hit the ground with a large amount of force before rising to its feet, the large amount of wounds slowly beginning to heal already. After standing the hollow looked upon Masaru, sensing the new combatant, with a roar the hollow opened its maw charging a purple cero before using sonido to get withing CQC range of Masaru.

As the hollow closed in Masaru delivered a heavy uppercut to the jaw, closing the hollows mouth on its cero, the hollow then opened its maw once again, the energy from the crushed cero releasing in a chaotic storm of reiatsu. Masaru was prepared for this and had already used shunpo to gain distance before the uncontrollable reiatsu was unleashed. The damage to the area was much greater than it would have been if the cero had simply fired off, the area around the hollow was littered with small craters from the reiatsu impacting.

Opening its bloody maw the hollow roared a challenge to Masaru who had already re-entered close range, with a slash of his blade Masaru aimed for the hollows shoulder just missing as it leaned to the side. Masaru quickly snapped the chain of his zanpakuto around the hollows leg before water began to travel along it, the water began to encase the hollows leg as Masaru then channeled water to the ball at the end of the chain as it began to superheat. In the meantime the hollow had slashed at Masaru with it's claws, missing by a hairs breath as the water encasing its leg began to freeze over slowing its movements for a moment. That moment was long enough for Masaru to strike out five times with the ball coated in boiling water. As the strikes hit Masaru called out Chain Blitz.. The hollows hierro was cracking under the hits and the boiling water seeped through and caused 2nd and 1st degree burns.

Jumping back Masaru tugged on the chain of Howaitobīchi freeing it from the ice as the hollow loud out a massive roar, this roar caused a shockwave that shattered the ice around its leg, as well as pushing Masaru back 10-15ft. The hollow the charged forth with sonido, landing a massive clawed punch to Masaru's stomach, drawing blood as the claws pierced his skin. Masaru was knocked back by the punch a good 30+ feet before hitting the ground with a 'thud'. Once Masaru rose again blood was dripping from the corner of his mouth, although with his mask over his faced it would look as though the blood could be dripping from anywhere. Damnit... you've got one hell of a punch there.. the wounds to Masaru's stomach were dripping blood, but did not slow him as he advanced on the hollow. Both being's starring each other down as Masaru's reiatsu began to spike yet again, Sorry Tazuma.. but you must return to Amaya.. thus I can no longer go easy on your hollow self... Masaru's words carried no emotion what-so ever, Aisutaigā's love for battle was beginning to affect Masaru. With a yell of Bankai Masaru's blade changed once again, now becoming a large 46" long fang like sword, a thicker chain attached to it, at the end of the chain was an axe like blade.

The hollow raised its own reiatsu to match Masaru's, waves of energy beating off of the barrier causing it to shake and waver slightly. Both combatants vanish in their respective movements, clashing with a heavy strike, blade to claw as a crater was punched into the ground beneath their feet before the two vanished yet again, this time appearing in the air. The hollow lashed out with both claws trying to crush Masaru between them, Masaru was quick to call out Blade Storm! the axe head of his zanpakuto became encased in water before freezing into a copy of the 46" long blade. As the blade formed Masaru was quick to block both claws, the tips digging into his shoulders as his own blades cut into the hollows hands. The two were now in a power struggle, the hollow trying to pierce Masaru's shoulders, while Masaru was trying to push the beast back. Suddenly the hollow opened its maw, a purple cero forming, Masaru's eyes widened under his mask as the cero grew larger. Damn your a smart hollow... With a massive shove Masaru separated himself from the hollow as the cero was released. As Masaru jumped back staying just out of the cero's range he quickly formed his own aqua blue cero at the tip of his blade before firing it to collide with the purple cero. A brilliant explosion of energy was set off, throwing both the hollow and Masaru back, each combatant coming to a skidding stop, a lengthy trail in the ground from both their feet. With a whisper Masaru dipped his blade into the ground, a pulse of reiatsu traveled through the blade in the hollows direction as it recovered from the blast.

Sub-Zero Slaughter.. Was all that could be heard before a pillar of water shot up from beneath the hollows feet, encasing him inside, as the water began to freeze the hollow struggled to escape, his claws and head getting free of it before the water froze fully. Slowly the ice began to crush in around the hollow as it struggled to get free causing the ice to begin cracking. Damn your a tough bastard... normally I'd have to trouble encasing a hollow in this... The ice continued to crack with the hollows struggle as it continued to crush in around him before shattering, multiple large shards of ice piercing the hollows hierro, though not serious Masaru hoped the damage would slow the hollow enough for him to build up his next attack after using shunpo to gain distance once again.

[ooc: sorry if the quality of this post is lacking... my longest combat post ever by far,at 1511 words]

Throughout the whole fight thus far Shou has been sitting down holding the barrier up. Watching the fight going on, he was getting anxious to get in there and help. He didn't want to seem worthless after all. Sitting nearby on a rock He rolled his neck, speaking slowly. "Well...Guess its my turn to come in.." Stepping off the rock, he turned his eyes towards Amaya, Who was still there watching Tazuma. "You shouldn't need to worry about him..he's in good hands." He commented with a large smile on his face. Rolling his shoulders he began to get loose. Stretching was important before physical activity right? Taking slow baby steps towards the barrier, he bent at his knees, placing his hands on his head as he twisted to the left and right at the waist, popping his back. Nearing Zoran, he watched the man slowly heal himself. "If a captain level can barely keep up with the hollow...How will i get through this.?

As Shou said that the little girl laughter could be heard throughout his head. "Shouuuuuu! I want to play with this guy! Come on! Let's have some fun! Shou smirked. Maybe it was really time to actually let her play this time. "Alright..But once your time is up, don't be coming back until anytime soon." He said, putting the pipe in his mouth. "Ohhhh yeah!! This is going to be a fun thing you're letting me do Shou!!" The little girl was all to excited. Slowly the smoke from the pipe covered Shou's face. His eyes turned black with his irises turning a light blue. As the smoke goes up his face, White fragments are left as it passes. The smoke finally clears, revealing a fully masked Shou. His reiatsu bursed, feeling almost like a thick smoke. "GAME TIME!" the mixed voiced yelled abruptly. Pulling out his zanpakoutou he threw it in the air, catching it as he yelled. "Okoru!Inkutsubo!" The black reiatsu formed around the blade as he caught it. Ink started to drip from the tip as it extended into a bamboo stick. The white threads formed slowly as the red string at the base extendeds, Showing the mark of the kido corps and omnikitsukido.

Smiling as he released his shikai, he rushed through the barrier like it was always down. Running past Masaru, with his palms dragging against the ground, he jumped above the now slowed down Hollow. bakudo #63 Sajō Sabaku!" the fused voice yelled loudly as multiple ropes formed around the hollows arms, wrapping at the shoulder, putting his claws to the side. Having a chance for attack, shou extended his foot, striking a falling kick to the hollow, causing a crater from the impact. The smirk under his mask was short lived, the hollow that he just now kicked, Has broken through his kido. The hollow jabbed at Shou multiple times with his claws, Catching rips of robe from the vizard. "you actually scared me for a second. Let's see how you do against this. SHou beings to spin the brush above his head, shunpoing a few feet away from the hollow as he rushes towards shou. A thick ring of Ink covers Shou's body as the hollow swipes at him. As the hollow makes contact with Shou's shoulder a word could be heard spoken. "Hanekasu.." As Shou was shot out from the cocoon of ink, it exploded, sticking to the torso,arms,hands,and thighes of the hollow. Blood poured out of Shous' shoulder as he smirked from under his mask, Drawing 3 lines in the air as he states. "Go." The blades shot towards the hollow, Pinning its right arm just for a second enough for Shou to get behind him with a shunpo. "Shimiru As the last letter leaves Shous' mouth. The ink splattered on the hollow will instantly harden, then shoot into the surface they are touching as spikes. Piercing the skin of the hollow as multiple holes are put into the hollow. But with its regen, they instantly heal. "You little bastard.."
The voice that is fused is now frustrated..annoyed even.

Watching the hollow regain its rage, Shou painted the ink on his face as he charged his reiatsu up. "...Bankai.." The explosion of dark ink covered Shou fully as the brush was above his head, dripping constant ink over his body. The features of Shou can still be distinguished if you look closely enough. Rolling his shoulders the now masked vizard was using bankai. Hollow tazuma sonidoed behind Shou after the transformation, kicking him down towards the ground like a bullet. As shou hit the ground, a Dust cloud appeared. As a minute passed, so did the dust cloud. Standing under it was another Hollow tazuma, well an altered form. :" You actually made my technique easier than i thought." The mixed voice bantered as it was breathing hard. Taking a direct hit from a hollow that strong was not a an easy thing just to shrug on ya know? Shou's form was now just a black verson of Hollow tazuma. The other vizards could easily tell the difference between the two forms. Atleast he hoped. Putting his hands together, he pointed two fingers towards the hollow, as black reiatsu formed over the fingers. "hado #33 Sōkatsui!" The black blast headed towards the hollow quickly, even if it was boosted from bankai or the new form that Shou had taken, the hollow just swiped it away with its' claws. completely like it was nothing.

Getting aggricated now shou appeared behind the hollow, attempting to do what the hollow did earlier. Hollow tazu just turned around grabbing the feet of Shou throwing him down again. Exactly where he landed earlier. standing up slowly he Grabbed his shoulder, giggling. "Your arms are becoming an hassle..Bakudō #63. Sajō Sabaku" teh bands formed around the hollow binding him for masa.