Takami had not been moving through the desert of Hueco Mundo for long before he discovered his next opponent. Much to his dismay, it was another regular Hollow that had come much farther into the desert than was good for it. Takami stood still where he was as the Hollow came closer and closer to him.

The Hollow was in the shape of a giant squirrel. It was brown with a white mask in the shape of a squirrel's head. Its Hollow hole was on the left side of its chest. However, unlike a squirrel, its right arm was a large, white, serrated blade. Its left hand as well as both feet had long, razor sharp claws.

Finally, it came within reach of Takami. Still, he just stood there. Then, the Hollow slashed at Takami with its blade. The blade came closer and closer, but still, Takami did nothing. Finally, at the very last second, Takami's hand shot up and grabbed the blade. With his free arm, Takami stabbed his sword into the ground and then punched the Hollow in the face while letting go of its arm, sending it flying a good 20 feet. It landed on its back with a crash.

Picking up his sword, Takami walked over to the stunned Hollow. He then stabbed his sword into the Hollow's chest to pin it down. Then, he reached down and ripped off the Hollow's blade arm. Takami dealt the Hollow the ultimate shame. He ended its life by stabbing it between the eyes with its own blade. Takami quickly pulled his sword out and wiped it clean on his uniform before devouring the dead Hollow. When he finished, he yelled out ”SIX!!” before moving on once again.




As Takami continued through the desert, he increasingly felt as though he was being followed. Sometimes, he would hear a buzz, like that of a Sonido, behind him. Other times, he would feel a spike in Reiatsu nearby. Soon, he began to feel and hear these sensations from all directions. Maybe one would be in front of him. Maybe behind him. Sometimes even off to the side. On a few occasions, he would even hear voices, though he could not tell what they were saying.

After a few more minutes of this, Takami became fed up. He stopped and cupped his hands in front of his mouth. ”Who the hell is out there?!” yelled Takami. The only response that he got was a red metal arrow sticking in the ground uncomfortably near him. To Takami's surprise, the voice that he heard next was female.

”Shut up before other Hollow find us and ruin my fun!” it said. At that, a Hollow that stood on two legs walked toward Takami. Its body was covered in pink Hierro. Its mask was in the shape of a horse's jaw, and it was white with a pink stripe on the side. Its Hollow hole was in the center of its chest. It held a large red bow with a red arrow on the string. There was a quiver of arrows on its back.

Another voice spoke. ”Good work, you found him.” said the voice. There was a buzz of Sonido as a Hollow like the first one appeared. The only difference was that its Hierro was orange. So was the stripe on the side of its mask. It held a red tomahawk in each hand. ”Hey, Arrancar. You should make a nice meal.” said the Hollow.

”How interesting. I was thinking the same about the two of you!” said Takami. Just as Takami lifted up his blade to attack, the final member of the group that attacked Takami arrived. This Hollow was like the others, except that it had blue Hierro and a blue stripe on its mask. In addition, its weapon of choice was a 3 and a half foot long dark blue katana.

”We have come because we intend to eat you.” said the Hollow. With that, the blue Hollow jumped at Takami with its sword lifted high. Takami struck the Hollow while it was open, slashing it deeply across the chest. The Hollow got back up and attacked again. Clearly, it did not know when to give up.

That was when Takami heard a whooshing noise. Looking to his left, he saw a red arrow flying toward him. He moved aside, the tip of the arrow only grazing his shoulder. Takami charged his Cero behind his back just as the orange Hollow attacked at Takami's right side, striking with his tomahawks. Takami hit the blue Hollow in the face with the Cero, putting it out of the battle. He now had the pink Hollow and the orange Hollow to deal with.

As he blocked the tomahawks with his sword, he heard the pink Hollow say ”Punta de Relampago”. Turning, he saw a glowing red arrow shooting at him. Takami quickly used Sonido to dodge the arrow, but it exploded when it hit the ground. The shock of the blast knocked Takami into the air, but he managed to gain control even as he heard a buzz of Sonido behind him.

Turning, Takami saw the orange Hollow strike at him again. He blocked the strike with his sword. That was when the tomahawks began to glow. ”Quemadura Finale.” said the orange Hollow. Obviously, the technique had a lot of recoil, because the pink Hollow yelled ”Hurry! Back off! in a frightened voice.

This gave Takami an idea. He quickly pulled his blade away and used Sonido, reappearing near the pink Hollow and putting a huge diagonal slash across her chest. At the same time, there was a blast of red energy as the orange Hollow's attack went off. When the dust cleared, the orange Hollow was badly burned. Takami used Sonido and appeared above the orange Hollow, bringing the right foot down on his sternum. ”You're lucky that I have decided for your death to be swift.” said Takami. He then decapitated the orange Hollow with a swing of his sword.

Now Takami used Sonido to move back to the pink Hollow. ”Any last words?” he asked. ”This isn't over!” said the Hollow. With that, she turned her bow into a red nodachi. She slashed at Takami, who parried. They fought like this, trading blows for quite a while.

Finally, the Hollow was driven to the point of using her Cero. She fired her pink Cero at Takami several times, never actually hitting him. One time, it nearly hit him, but he fired his own Cero into it. Since the power of both attacks was almost equal, they were both destroyed in a huge blast. Takami used the distraction to Sonido super close to the Hollow. Yelling ”Fuego y Oscuridad!!”, Takami ripped a huge gash in the Hollow's throat, killing it.

Now came the business of eating the three dead Hollows. Takami ate the pink Hollow first, tearing into it and absorbing the spirit particles before yelling ”SEVEN!!”. Moving on to the orange Hollow, he used his sword to cut it open before he began to eat it. When he finished, he shouted out ”EIGHT!!!. Finally, Takami got to the blue Hollow. It still had a little bit of life left in it, but Takami did not care. He ripped it open and began to eat the still living Hollow. Wiping the blood off of his face, hands, and sword, Takami yelled ”NINE!!!.

Now, Takami used Sonido to move about 25 feet into the air. He decided that he would move quickly above the ground to try and avoid being ambushed again.

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Let’s do this.
Soverias was still airborne as Cross looked up, thinking about what to do. He couldn’t pull it down with pure strength. He would get bombarded by the other hollow’s attacks. He had to remove them once at a time. He needed to start with the wings, so that the hollow can stay out of the air. But, first he had to reach the wings on the back of the abomination, after all. The only ranged attack he had without releasing was the parasite worms. But he has already used them enough; they needed to rest a few minutes before attempting to attack again. So he had to improvise, Grabbing his right sleeve, he tore a long strand of clothe off the white robe he had worn out here.
Seems like I need to just deal with this for a while; Grabbing his belt off the brim of his pants, he tied multiple knots connecting that to the sleeve. Which he then tied it tightly around the hilt of his blade. Grabbing the very edge of the cloth, he picked up the blade, spinning it around his body, being fluent in his movements with the weapon. Watching him from the side of Soverias head, the two shell type hollows spoke up, almost yelling at the top of their lunges. “Hey! You actually think just by tying some shit to your blade that you can actually beat us?” pausing, they both spoke one at a time, finishing their sentences. “We will.” “Prove you wrong.”
The experiment rushed towards Cross full speed, swooping near the sand. The snake was once again charging a cero on its tongue. Cross smirked as he tied the cloth around his right wrist. Walking slowly towards the charging Soverias, He rolled his shoulders and neck, once again loosing up before he decided to start a slow jog. With each few 10 yards, he picked up speed until he was at a full sprint, dragging his sword against the ground. The white ribbons fluttered from the wind of the sprint.

Broken ground.
The clash between the two was epic. Once Cross was mere inches away, he sonido’d to the right of the beast, then rolled under him , then quickly rolled to the front leg, Stabbing the sword in the ground. Pushing his hair back from his face, it revealed a large smirk across his face. The monster tripped over the well placed ribbons, Rolling on its back, struggling to get up. Cross walked by his sword placing his hand around it as he walked slowly towards the struggling beast. Shaking his hand in the middle of the air, he remarked about the size once again towards the monster.
“Ya know. For a hollow of your size and strength, you are mighty clumsy.” He was near the Monster, That was, until the snake turned its body around the head of the mammoth, firing off its cero he had charged. After the cero was shot, the shell on the right side shot 20 bala towards the chest of Cross. “Come on arrancar what are you going to do-“ The shell stopped it’s voice. It turns out that Cross rolled to the side, throwing his blade towards the shell cutting it’s tongue out as it hits the sand. “finally.. I got you to shut the fuck up.” Rubbing his nose, the shell just closed, even ignoring the rest of the fight. He didn’t have his witty comments to say throughout the fight. After all, he was the “word” bully. Pulling back his sword across the sand, the blood tightened up on his blade, thicking up to a paste. Cross brought it to his tongue, licking ti as he wiped the excess on his pants
“well. Looks like you crushed your wings too in the process. Nice to have you back on the ground. I hope you enjoyed riding with Setsuzoku Airlines today, please enjoy your death.” As he said that, he untied the cloth from the hilt of the blade, rolling his neck walking slowly towards the Struggling beast. He began tapping his blade on his shoulder, hitting the blunt side on his shoulder blade. Each tap produced a loud thud, creating craters wherever he stepped. The force of his reiatsu forming on the blade as monstrous, the worms slowly branched off the hilt of the blade as the reiatsu ran up towards the very tip.

Really? Talk.
Each passing second Cross was near the hollow experiment. Closer and closer he came to killing it. His mouth was basically watering from the reiatsu coming from this beast. That was until he saw the look in the eye of every hollow combined in that form. It was of sadness, Grief, maybe even pain. Cross kneeled down to the beast, looking in it’s eye. “You are strong, I will admit that. With each of you becoming one, if you reached the level of vasto lorde, I bet you could even beat me to a pulp.” The tone in is voice was much more calm than before, even caring like he was talking to a human. The snake raised its head after laying on the mammoths body for so long. “this is how we have been for years.. just beign stuck together, eating becoming stronger. That is why the scientist put us together.” The tone of voice from the snake showed how much pain they have endured. Cross sheathed his sword, causing the worms to ride up his body to his shoulder. Placing his hand on the mammoths forehead, he begain draining the reiatsu from the monster. Slowly, the beast shrinked, becoming nothing like it was before. “What, What are you doing? Why not kill us?” all of them spoke at the same time. Cross smiled towards the hollows. “I will let you become something stronger, something that you will not have to experience pain, or sorrow.” The abomination was now a worm with a skull. Putting his hand out on the sand, it slowly went up hand, before entering a slit in Cross’s hand. Standing up, he squeezed his left hand, Making sure to close the gap. Grabbing his blade, he hsot off into the desert once again, but with a smile on his face.
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Takami had progressed very far into the great desert of Hueco Mundo by this point. Turning around to look, he saw that he could not even see Las Noches anymore. Takami was now in the most dangerous area of Hueco Mundo. Here, there were all sorts of hiding places in which Hollows of surprising power could easily lurk. Takami realized that he could very well meet a Vasto Lorde out here.

As he thought, Takami heard a voice behind him. ”Turn around so that I may see the face of my opponent.” said the voice. Takami turned around. What he saw shocked him. Standing before him was not a Hollow, but an Arrancar. The Arrancar held a katana in its hands. ”A no-number, huh?” asked Takami. ”Yeah, the no-number that's going to kill you.” said the Arrancar.

With that, they began to fight. Takami made the first strike, which he noted that the other Arrancar only barely managed to block. It was obvious that this Arrancar was not very strong. When the other Arrancar tried using a Cero, Takami was able to grab it without any harm to himself. ”This one couldn't have been stronger than a Gillian when he broke his mask... thought Takami.

It seemed that the weak Arrancar could not use Resurreccion. Takami knew that it would have used it by now if it could. Deciding that he wanted to end the battle as quickly as possible, Takami gave a great swing. He cut right through the weaker Arrancar's sword. Then, Takami used Sonido to appear behind the other Arrancar and stab him in the heart through the back. In much the same manner as before, Takami ate the defeated Arrancar, yelling ”TEN!!” and then cleaned his blade and moved on.

After his defeat of the rogue Arrancar, Takami did not encounter any trouble for quite some time. It was a good half hour before Takami spotted a lone Adjuchas in the shape of a jellyfish with legs. Takami jumped down and attacked it, slashing off several of its tentacles. The creature responded by trying to wrap its tentacles around Takami. Takami responded by blowing these tentacles off with his Cero. Takami then used Sonido, moving onto the top of the creature's dome=shaped body and stabbed his blade into it. ”Weak Adjuchas...” thought Takami. He then attended to the business of eating the jellyfish Adjuchas. When he finished, he yelled out ”ELEVEN!! before leaving the area.

Now, Takami decided to head a slightly different direction. He still went farther into the desert, only he veered to the right just a little bit. It was in this way that Takami came upon his next foe. He found a huge Hollow in the shape of an orange dragon flying over the sands.

Takami used Sonido to move directly in front of the Hollow, which shot a jet of orange fire at him. Takami sliced through the jet of fire with his blade. He then used Sonido to strike the dragon's side, making a deep wound. However, the dragon was fast. It turned and grabbed Takami's blade with its mouth. Having no patience for this, Takami shot his Cero straight into the Hollow's mouth. The blast burned its gums and dislodged and broke several of its teeth. Giving a roar of pain, the Hollow backed off before preparing its own light green Cero with black streaks in it.

Before the Cero could be fired off, Takami jumped into the air. He then lifted his blade, getting ready to use a technique of his. However, the Cero from the dragon Hollow was ready. Now, the Hollow fired the Cero at Takami. He moved quickly using Sonido. Even so, an edge of the Cero struck Takami's left arm, causing the Cero to explode. Because Takami only took a glancing blow, only his Hierro was burnt. However, the purple glow that Takami had been charging on his left hand was now ready for use.

The dragon Hollow had been unfortunate indeed in meeting Takami as he finished preparing one of his best abilities for his sealed form. Now, Takami called out the words ”Tiro de Incineracion!!. This caused a blade of purple energy to shoot from Takami's left palm. The blast struck the dragon Hollow in the neck. When it hit, it exploded, causing a large portion of the dragon Hollow's neck to be entirely incinerated, effectively decapitating the dragon Adjuchas.

Takami watched as the decapitated body fell. He used Sonido to move tp the place where it would land quickly, arriving just as it crashed into the ground. Takami took his time eating this Hollow, enjoying it slowly. After a good twenty minutes, Takami finished his meal. Quickly, he yelled out [/color]”TWELVE!!!”[/color]. He then stood up, not caring that his hands and face were covered in blood as he picked up his sword and pushed off, using Sonido. Takami was heading even deeper into the desert.

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OOC; Sorry taka, I’ve gotten busy a little >,< but it’s ok, I will finish this Tier up with you.i know short post >.>]]
I’m really getting bored.
Cross ran across the desert with his left hand closed shut. Blood dripped from his palm as Soverias imbedded himself into Cross’s Bone. It wasn’t so much an annoying thing, just something Cross was never used to. Realizing he never called out his number of kills since he faced Soverias, he brought his right hand to his chin. Should this one count? He did add to his power in some way, maybe Cross should yell out what number it was. So he breathed in slowly, letting air slowly come out of his nostrils as he opened his mouth; “That’s 14!” As the words escaped his mouth, blood spilt down his chin. Grabbing his gut, he slid down on his knees, Yelling In pain.
Soverias was heading into the internal organs of Cross. Something that he should of suspected when he entered the palm of Cross. All that could be done was to cut him out, but did Cross really wanna do something so risky? No. He was too much of a wimp for that to be honest. He could never cut into himself, and pull out something that can potently kill him. Just too much of a wimp. Grunting at the pain, he bent forward on all fours now. He was beginning to throw up the blood from his stomach. Grasping his robe, he ripped off the upper body cloth, throwing ti on the ground. His body was covered in green veins appearing throughout his whole body.

Oh shit oh shit.
Cross gasped,Every time he touched a vein, it bulged and another shot of blood came out from his throat. He was panicking, how does one take something out of its body, without cutting into it? He rolled his body into the sand, as it leaves the prints of his cold skin. His eyes rolled to the back of his head as they turned green. He could see and control his body with ease, it was just from the effects of the vein moving to his head. That was until Soverias moved into the hollow hole on the chest of Cross. He stretched out with his mouth and hook tail, grasping the skin as he took chucks out of it. Every time that worms mouth pulled some flesh out with each bite, more blood spewed out of Cross’s mouth. Seomthing had to be done, and quickly.
Getting on his knees, Cross was breathing and wheezing heavily. He was in major pain from the reiatsu being pumped from the veins. Trying to stand up, he grabbed his blade, pressing it into the sand underneath him. Looking up at the moon, the veins spread even more across the body, moving to the lower body covering his legs. Yelling, his voice could be heard across the desert. Sand bursted out from under him when he yelled. Soverias’s laugh could be heard in the back ground of Cross’s voice. Dropped back down to his knees, He spat up more blood, forming a puddle underneath him. Running his blade through it, he watched as the blood ran through the sand, but the sand pushes the blood back into the puddle. This had given Cross some hope. He gained an idea just from the visual aid from the sand.

Do Work, son!
Grabbing his blade once more, he stabbed it into the ground, holding on to the hilt tightly. He concentrated on the worm holding on his hollow hole. Roaring, he bursted reiatsu throughout his body, High volumes of it. The thing he was trying to do was flush out the reiatsu of the worm, and make it his own. After all, it was adapting that was needed, Pulsating every ounce of Reiatsu he had into the veins, Cross was doing everything he could do. The worm slowly went back into the arm of Cross, as the veins slowly subsided under the skin of the espada. The laughter behind Cross’s voice was slowly going away. Nothing had prepared cross for this, but this should have been the first thing he thought of once he offered the spot to the worm. Rolling his shoulders again, he let out a sigh, wiping his chin from the blood as he turned around, heading in the direction of Taka.
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