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Post by EvilAngel on Dec 30, 2009 14:02:51 GMT 1
Located deep in the border Forest was a large cave. The entrance had to be 40 meters is radius atleast. The thing stuck out of the group like some Colossal being poked a hole in the earth. It went down and down, at a 35 degree angel. Fortunately to a walker, jagged rocks, and smooth surface edges allowed for a descent or climb. It went down for some time until you reached the cavern at the bottom. Which was huge it itself, like some giant underground stone hall. Stalagmites and stalactites hung and stick out all around the edges of the room. Some of them within them carrying precious gems and minerals which when the sun was high enough in the sky, and managed to shine it's light into the dark, damp cave, radiated the cave with numerous colour of lights and glows.
The only way deeper into the cave was by the underground river which linked each chamber.
It was here, the Dragon-Hollow Saranos had claimed his home to be. His lair even.
It was located barely within the Border Forest, it was so deep into said forest it was almost in The Wastelands, territory of Hueco Mundo.
The clumsy footsteps of two shinigami investigating a mysterious cave that was rumored to possess something within, accidently sent a few stones bouncing and crashing down the long echoing halls below. The truth was no one truly knew what was down there. Some claimed there was a horde of treasure, and precious stones. Others claimed it was the home of a monster as old as time. Finally there was a rumour it was once the home of a rogue band of shinigami, and a place a few of the survivors remained.
As the stones finally hit the floor their noise echoed throughout the cavern, alerting the current owner of the cave to the intruders.
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Post by blaxican on Dec 30, 2009 23:42:05 GMT 1
At first Vacio' thought he had imagined the scent of the Shinigami. Surely, no Shinigami in his right mind would travel to Heuco Mundo, land of the Hollows? Regardless Vacio's sense of smell would be reliable, as short stalk through the thick forest would reveal the sight of not one, but two, Shinigami, loitering amongst the rather vast entrance to what looked like a rather vast cave.
Delicious...
The everlasting hunger that drove Vacio powered into overdrive. The two Shinigami would be absolutely delectable. With only the most primal of his instincts in play, Vacio tore through the brush, making a bee line for the two warriors. Vacio had started off a hundred meters from the two fighters, but he quickly closed that distance as he bullrushed toward them. Assuming he'd reach them, as soon as he got into range the Hollow would slam his fists down on whichever Shinigami he ran into first. He had the fortune of being behind the them and so hopefully they would not notice his presence until he was right on top of them.
They would be delicious!
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Post by EvilAngel on Dec 31, 2009 0:24:13 GMT 1
[Roleplaying the two nameless shinigami aswell as my own Hollow]
One of the Shinigami was able to dive out of the way o the surprise attack of the hollow. The other tried to jump back, but made two errors, the first was that he was not fast enough to dodge the punch, though his already moving away lessened the blow he was still hit by it, the second was that behind him was the cave. Before he knew what was happening he was falling into darkness. He fell a good height before landing on the very steep slope. He slid back, his footing lacking the grip it needed to hold him. He leant forward and scraped for a hold, his fingers burnings and being dragged across the rough rocky surface, and his feet barely protected enough by the sandals he wore to stop all the feeling from reaching his feet. Fortunately for him he was able to grab onto a less than jagged rock before he came across one himself. He looked up at the faint light that was the entrance to the cave. He looked own and realised how deep the thing went. He estimated himself to be about 3-4 hundred meters down, but he was quite easily less than half way. Infact it looked as far away now as it did when standing up on the top. He could feel warmth coming from below, a hot stiff heat that seemed to flow upwards. But he had no time to take in information about the cave now.
Meanwhile at the cave entrance the female shinigami that had managed to avoid the hollows attack had drew her sword. Holding it with both hands in a standard battle stance she faced her enemy. She was fairly well versed in combat both with a blade and with the most basic of kido. She hadn’t the proficiency with binding, but to her mind she would never set out to ‘capture’ anything so binding spells were not her concern. She took in what she could about the hollow, it had caught them by surprise, so it had to be quick.
“No sense in making the first move a frontal attack then” she thought, as it had the range advantage on her to. “My best bet is to hold off as long as possible until he climbs back up. It could be the hollow is dividing us in order to beat us one at a time. I won’t risk anything I don’t have to” she analyzed.
Way down below the sudden feeling of action finally sprung the occupant from his slumber. He wasn’t sharp at sensing reiatsu, he had to be close to pick up any kind of detail about them. But there were two things he could do well, and one of them was picking up reiatsu from those who were fighting. To him it was as clear and loud as ringing a dinner bell. His eyes shot open, his previously motionless body, immediately springing into movement. His back legs kicking him up hard, and he leapt with a thunderous spdevious into the water, as he followed the current with impressive swimming speed for a creature his size towards the main chamber.
The male shinigami looked back down, as he heard the echo of a splash. He had a very bad feeling.
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Post by blaxican on Dec 31, 2009 0:59:36 GMT 1
If Vacio' was mentally capable of uttering something such as a curse word, he would of done so. He hadn't intended to kill the Shinigami by knocking him into the cave... now he would have to actually go down and find him if he wanted to eat him. Extremely bothersome.
In the meantime, the female was alerted to his presence. She drew her weapon, but didn't attack. Normally, Vacio' would question the woman's hesitation, perhaps she had a strategy in mind. But in this instance his rampant hunger clouded his judgment. The large Hollow leaned forward slightly and with a deafening roar, charged her. He intended to barrel straight into her, hoping to shatter her body in one tackle.
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Post by EvilAngel on Dec 31, 2009 1:13:41 GMT 1
The female Shinigami barely had time to react to the sudden move by the deceivingly agile Hollow. She leapt to her left as fast as she could, clumsily slashing out at the oncoming attacker.
Below the male stood looking down the cave, waiting for something to come into view. He was slowly backing up the cave, using the edges of the rocks as footing. His eyes wide as it scanned the darkness below for something, anything. Nothing was worse than hearing something down there then not hearing anything. Clearly they’d disturbed something, be it man or hollow. But he could sense something, he was never any good at sensing anything. But this was because he felt sure what he was sensing wasn’t reiatsu. It was a feeling. He’d felt bloodlust before when someones desire to spill blood was go great you could taste it. That wasn’t it either. All he could feel was the pure intent of the being below. Whatever it was wanted to cause him harm. It didn’t matter why, all that he could feel was the malice of whatever was below him. It was the first time any such feeling had been so strong it had projected it so far as he could ever tell.
A growl echoed up the cave, followed quickly by a pounding. The growl was deep, and powerful, as it ascended the tiny pebbles rattled. It was then a shadow covered the bottom of the cavern. He turned and sprinted upwards as fast as his legs would carry him.
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Post by blaxican on Dec 31, 2009 2:28:12 GMT 1
Vacio' stumbled as he barreled her due to him throwing his whole weight into the attack, but righted himself by twisting slightly to the left. Upon gaining his footing he would kick out with his right leg, attempting to smack the Shinihami with the base of his calf.
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Post by EvilAngel on Dec 31, 2009 4:02:50 GMT 1
The female shinigami pushed herself to the floor. She felt the air removed as the foot went above her, she could feel the void pull her. She rolled away and pushed herself up, raising to her feet once more, again readying her sword. Now she stood against the hollow, with it’s back against the cave. Maybe she could use that to her advantage…
Just as those words crossed her mind, her companion finally leap out of the cave, Sword drawn he made to slash the hollow that had just attacked her. She just allowed herself to feel a wave of both relief and excitement when an enormous head emerged after him and in the moment before his sword connected he snatched the man in a single bloody bite, Spraying the area in a bloody mist.
She shrieked in horror.
The new creature flicked its head up, displaying the man being tossed around in it’s mouth utterly lifeless, before cocking it’s head back and swallowing her companion. While doing do the creature fully emerged over the edge of the cave, it glared at her and the hollow, before roaring with such noise she felt her clothes flapping behind her, her hair being blow back. She looked into it’s mouth through squinted eyes, behind the blood red stained teeth she saw a bight orange and yellow blaze where the darkness of its throat should have been. As the jaws snapped shut the new, titanic hollow flared it’s nostrils, emitting smoke and it glared at the two angrily.
She took a step back, ready to run at a moments notice. She was barely holding on against one, but now two. She looked at the bigger one, and she didn’t have a clue how she was supposed to fight such a huge creature. Where were the others?
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Post by blaxican on Dec 31, 2009 5:00:43 GMT 1
Reflexes kicking in, Vacio' jumped back several times, his attention now completely focused on the behemoth in front of him. It was, by far, the largest Hollow Vacio had ever seen; beyond huge. It made Farus look like a pup in comparison! Vacio continued to back peddle at a rapid pace, his primal instincts telling him to fly. These instincts were reinforced as the Hollow could see the remains of the Shinigami as it slid down the creatures throat. If he didn't run he would most certainly share a similar fate!
But still, Vacio could not bring himself to turn around and break free completely. There was something about the large creature that drew him back. Vacio had backed up twenty or so meters from the creature, and there he stood his ground, straining his neck to look up at its face.
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Post by EvilAngel on Dec 31, 2009 5:25:05 GMT 1
Saranos stood proud and tall before the intruders. One down, two to go. He took a whiff of the air. No, 3 to go. He could pick up two more not too far away, but getting closer. Still they would share the same fate in time. He focused him thoughts on the two whelps that stood before him; another shinigami and a hollow. He didn’t bother with the questions, why they were there, What brought them together, why weren’t they fighting. None of it matters when he was like he was today. Today he was a hollow, flesh(what little left of it there is atleast) to bone. He would not talk, or reason, or even distinguish between the two before him. These little creatures has disturbed him at his own lair. They would die.
Saranos drew breath, then launched a huge arc of intense flames.
The female shinigami leapt behind the nearest tree. She made herself as small as possible and gritted her teeth as the very lively flame began to very quickly eat its way through the wood.
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Post by blaxican on Jan 1, 2010 22:57:54 GMT 1
In a futile attempt at intimidation Vacio' roared at the large beast as it regarded him and the Shinigami. Said roar was cut off abruptly however, as the dragon suddently spouted a mass of flame down at the ground where Vacio stood. With little regard for the Shinigami's welfare Vacio moved purpose. With adrenalin fueling him and his instincts driving him, the young Hollow's actions were almost a reflex. As the bout of flames traveled toward him, Vacio charged toward the dragon, his subconscious screaming at him to do so. His movement was not a run, or a sprint. In fact he hardly seemed as if he'd traveled at all. He simply disappeared, as if he had teleported.
Vacio had just used for the first time a sonido, however in his frantic flight he'd failed to notice such. The burst of speed carried him from his original position in front of the dragon all the way past the had of the dragon. Specifically, he was standing about ten meters behind the dragon's head on the right side of his body. Because the flames had almost reached Vacio' before his high speed movement the flames would obscure the area Vacio was in from view, making it appear to all onlookers as if he was engulfed in the flames. It would only be after the long-lasting flames died away that it would be visually apparent that he had moved.
-1 Sonido.
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Post by EvilAngel on Jan 2, 2010 2:56:32 GMT 1
Saranos felt the reiatsu of the hollow disappear as it got consumed by his flame. As he finished torching the forest in front of him he roared out. Still, even the savage dragonic hollow could tell the hollow hadn’t died. Likely used some trick to avoid the flame in time. If it had been hit it’s reiatsu would not have vanished quite so quickly. He quickly searched for the smaller hollow, locating him along his mid section on his right. Angered by the fact the smaller creature had somehow evaded his attack he turn away from the hollow, Surprisingly quickly for his size lashing out at the smaller creature with his tail, after which continuing to turn to face the hollows new position.
The female shinigami retreated deeper into the now flaming woods. Coughing and spluterring as she tried to clear her lungs. The heat was intense, and the smoke was thick. She looked back as she coughed relieved to see that she was no followed. Behind her landed two fellow shinigami that were sent with her and her other companion.
“Are you aright” one said, taking her arm and rubbing her back.
“What the situation?” the other asked in a business like tone. She looked up at him, resisting the urge to continue to cough.
“M-Massive… Hollow… Dragon” was all she could manage inbetween pauses in which she had resisted to cough. He nodded in acknowledgement. He nodded to his ally who began to perform a healing kido on the female.
“We’ll go around the flames. Our mission is absolute. We find and eliminate any threats if there were any.” He said firmly.
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Post by blaxican on Jan 2, 2010 4:56:52 GMT 1
Vacio' ducked under the attack then latched onto the thick tail as it passed by overhead, launching him up into the air. Despite the massive force pulling on him the Hollow managed to keep ahold of the tail and use it to spring board himself onto the creatures back. Assuming he managed to reach the dragons head he would proceed to then ground and pound on the dome it's skull with as much power as he could muster.
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Post by EvilAngel on Jan 2, 2010 5:37:49 GMT 1
[....Pwned i think]
Saranos reacted to the cling-on violently. He immediately began thrashing, his tail flailing about, smashing and crashing into everything, The mighty creature itself lowered itself like a dog ready to pounce. Craning it's head around attempting to bite the creature on its back. It roared and screamed in fury such a little creature would dare take advantage of his size.
Meanwhile the shinigami had came around, and where witnessing the battle between the two hollow.
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Post by blaxican on Jan 2, 2010 6:31:47 GMT 1
Despite being thrown around, Vacio' managed to hold on by utilizing all of the force he possessed in one of his hands. With the other hand he repeatedly brought his fist down atop the dragon's dome, sending shockwaves of force through it's head. Even if he didn't penetrate the skin, Vacio's massive strength enabled him to pound on the large Hollow with enough force to at least rattle the dragon's brain around, giving a concussion, if not outright killing it.
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Post by EvilAngel on Jan 2, 2010 6:38:34 GMT 1
[Well, that was bound to happen the moment you got on my back]
The shinigami watched and gasped as the tiny (In comparison) hollow began pounding over and over on the dragons head. The gaint beast roared out again but any chance it had was lost due to it’s massive size. Slowly the dragons movements became slow and energy-less. Until finally it just stopped moving.
None of the three shinigami could believe what they had seen. Such a tiny little thing killing the colossal hollow. It was unprecedented. The flames in the background died away, apparently dying along with their creator.
Saranos, the giant Dragon hollow, had been killed.
[by a monkey hollow 1 10th it’s size]
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Post by EvilAngel on Jan 3, 2010 19:43:44 GMT 1
[enter, Akimoto]
She was nearly there now. She could feel it, the reiatsu of her allies whom she’d been secretly following for awhile now. She had arrived in time to see them depart, and having nothing better to do, decided she wanted to see the cave they were supposed to be investigating. However when she felt one of their reiatsu disappear she soon realised the rumours were more than just that. She picked up the pace when she felt it happen, realising they could need her help. She landed next to them with a soft thud.
“About time you got here” One of the shinigami men said. She hadn’t the real ability to conceal her reiatsu yet so it was not surprising they knew she was there, even if they were far out of sight. She didn’t respond, instead she peered through the bushes at the body of an enormous hollow, ontop of it there seemed to be a smaller ape-like hollow. She frowned at the sight. Did that little shrimp really kill the gargantuan hollow?
“It’s fast, really fast” The girl said, she was a fellow member of squad seven. She was Akimoto’s junior by a fair margin.
“Take care of him Akimomo-san. Now that you’re here you’re the most experienced one of us” the man said. She turned to him with a frown and nodded. She had planned on spending the afternoon in a wonderous cave, but she ought to know by now things never go as you plan.
She jumped forward into the clearing, strolling forward with her hand on her sheath, ready to draw her sword. She kept both eyes on the creature keenly. Waiting for it to surprise her. She stopped by the giant hollows shoulders. It had noticed her by now. She observed it’s form and shape, in her head calculating what kind of attacks it would make with such a body shape. Clearly most of it’s power with upper body, which meant it would be able to shift it’s weight into almost all of its attacks, making them not only hard, but fast. However the weakness of such a method was that once an attack was launched it was near impossible to stop.
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Post by blaxican on Jan 3, 2010 20:08:32 GMT 1
))For the sake of possible future ranking up, note this post is the first post in the thread I've made after this was used for a rank-up prior.((
It took a moment for Vacio' to realize that the battle was over. Several seconds after the large beast had fallen to the ground and stopped twitching, the young Hollow continued to repeatedly smash his fists into the Dragon's skull. It was only after the dome of it's head was nearly pulpified did the feeling of victory sink into him. If the Hollow could feel joy and relief, at that moment in time those would have been the primary emotions running through his head. Instead he just felt a rumbling of pleasure.
Stepping slightly, Vacio would begin his systematic consumption of the large creature, relishing in the fact that it's size would probably sate him for the rest of the day. However before he could take his first bite from it's juicy neck, he sensed more presences nearby. Of course there was the female Shinigami from before, but he had assumed that she had long since fled back to wherever she came from. In addition, he could smell different scents, from different people.
Looking up from his meal, the young Hollow spotted yet another Shinigami, another female though different from the first, approaching him. She seemed to be staring at him intently, and despite his obvious physical superiority something about her eyes gave him a sort of chill down his spine.
Regardless, the Hollow stood up to his full height and roared at her, bellowing as loudly as possible. Vacio was annoyed by her presence. Despite his general dislike for the soul reapers, he had more than enough food in front of him for the moment, killing her seemed redundant, and so if he could intimidate her into just leaving it would be preferable.
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Post by EvilAngel on Jan 3, 2010 20:17:45 GMT 1
She looked at the hollow expressionlessly as it roared and ranted apparently in ecstasy of it’s lastest and possibly greatest victory. She stood still, waiting for it to attack but it never came. She mentally sighed but continued to show no expression outwardly. She would need to instigate the first move. Hollows were simply creatures most of the time, once she attacked it would be game on until one of them was dead. Quietly and eyes focused still on the hollow she began a near silent chant “Broken bindings, spirit of domination, rush against the currents, shatter all sins! Hado no Ichi: Sho” She finished and fired the weak and minor Push, at the hollows shoulder, if it hit, it would just shove him back a little, but that would probably be enough.
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Post by blaxican on Jan 3, 2010 20:31:59 GMT 1
Vacio' stepped back several times to compensate for the force of the beam and not stumble backwards. Once his footing was stable the Hollow brought a hand to the bruise on shoulder and scratched it lightly. All the while doing thing he stared at the girl.She had gotten his full attention now. The corpse below him could wait, in the mean time, Vacio would make sure that not a single Shinigami would leave this place in one piece.
Roaring in a ferocious manner once more, Vacio would leap down from the top of the dragon's body and land on the soft ground next to it, so that he was on even footing with the Shinigami. Hoping to end the fight with one move, Vacio' once again bent forward slightly so that his bulk was angled forward and charged at the woman, his massive frame quickly covering the distance between with him. With the momentum carrying his weight forward, the Hollow would mos tlikely shatter her bones into jelly if he connected.
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Post by EvilAngel on Jan 3, 2010 20:42:00 GMT 1
She stared intently at the reaction of her actions. As she assumed, the simpliest of attacks would work in luring the creature into a fight. As it lept down from the large corpse she let her left leg take a step back to correct her stance. She watched as it prepared itself, then suddenly bolt forward. She was surprised at how quickly it accelerated, but it’s speed wasn’t as high as she had seen.
In a single fluent movement she leapt into the air, gracefully kicking herself of the ground so that in the air she span around horizontally. Whilst drawing her sword she slashed at the hollow who at that very moment charged onward below her.
If it hit, it would only be a grazing striking, barely enough to make it bleed. But at least she successfully avoided his clumsy charge, while not diving to one side, thus leave her vulnerable to his upper body-powered weighed attacks.
She landed as gracefully behind his, sword held out pointed at him as she waiting for him to turn so she could observe the damage if any she had inflicted.
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