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Post by Rukia Kuchiki on Jun 8, 2010 18:50:54 GMT -5
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"That power" she gasped as she felt the enormous pressure start to take great effects on her body. She didn't want to appear weak so she pushed with all her strength to stay up, only listening at the dramatic conversation in front of her. The second she heard her mention Aizen's wishes she was at a standstill, Rukia realized that he wanted Kurosaki dead, he was the only person to have been close enough to ruining his plans. It didn't take a genius to realize that Ichigo needed to be taken out if Aizen were to continue with whatever plans he already had started. At the same time as she finished Rukia should have expected the next immediate action coming from an Espada, a cero.
Even though for a few split seconds she was more in awe than in fear for her life, but oddly the only other person to run through her mind was Ichigo. He had gone out of his way to protect her in the recent past from soul society's gotei 13, and at the same time, Rukia knew his reasoning, she had saved his family the very first time they met. Even then, Rukia held tight feelings with the substitute shinigami even though she couldn't come to terms herself to accept them.
In that instant as the hurdling cero approached them she sneaked in front of Ichigo, and holding her Zanpakatou in shikai mode she held it with both hands as she faced the aproaching cero while still having enough time to tell Ichigo to retreat. "Ichigo, this fight can't happen here, get out of here!", it was the only sensable persuasion that might make Ichigo get out of there. Somewhere in her mind she knew she wasn't going to be alone in this as she finally focused her power into her Zanpakatou and called her second dance, "Tsugi no Mai, Hakuren!", the ice particles collected from the rippling ground under her finally united as they exploded out straight against the cero. The icy wave exploded in contact, she just hoped her power would be enough of a delay.
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Post by Hotaru Tsuzuki on Jun 11, 2010 20:20:57 GMT -5
Seconds just seemed to last forever… Hotaru wasn’t sure how much time had passed since Ichigo had announced himself. The whole atmosphere around her felt tense and, now that the arrancar was just a few meters away, she had begun to have some trouble breathing; nothing too serious, but a prove that compared to hers, the spiritual pressure coming from the espada was overwhelming. She tried to not give up to that force, breathing more deeply than usual to keep herself up. That seemed to help her. She then peered quickly at everyone in the place, fixing her glaze for more time in Ichigo and finally at the female hollow before her. She couldn’t help but to wonder many things about the situation and these people. The first question that came into her mind was why the being before them was looking after that substitute shinigami; what was so special about him? She had perceived that he had an interesting spiritual pressure, an unusual one that could have attracted many hungry hollows; but that didn’t seem to be what was going on there, the blonde hollow already knew his name…there was something more, but what? Hotaru just couldn’t tell.
Then she heard the cool voice of the arrancar, saying a name she wouldn’t have expected to hear at that moment. “Aizen…” Hotaru frowned as he thought of him. If he was involved into this, the situation was more serious than how it looked. Anyways, there wasn’t time for thinking in that matter. As she felt the sudden change into the espada´s reiatsu, all her thoughts focused into the coming cero.
Normally Hotaru would have tried to dodge the attack; but as she saw Rukia facing it, she decided to back up her.
"Ye lord! Mask of flesh and bone, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man!...”
She began reciting, putting her two hands together and extending her arms before her. At the same moment she could hear Rukia telling Ichigo to leave.
“… Truth and temperance, upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws…" The sound of a collision was heard.
“Hadou #33: Soukatsui” With those last words she fired her spell after the trail Rukia´s second dance had left. She expected one of two results; if Hakuren hadn’t faded the cero coming towards them, she hoped the blue flames to at least change the course of the cero; or if the cero was already gone, her spell was heading towards the arrancar.
She didn’t wait to see if it had resulted, as soon as her hands were free of the spell, she called for the shikai form of her zanpakuto; waiting for anything to happen.
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