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Satoru watched the battle unfold as he accompanied the Mystic to a position a few feet away from Ishin, but Adelaide's tale in response to his scolding still echoed about in his head. The Captain of the Prisoners, destroying a tea shop? If he recalled correctly, Captains were always either on a mission or with their divisions. Why would Ishin have need of destroying a mere tea shop? But that wasn't all.

The last that he'd fought had two things that the new Hollow didn't: a name and an effect that messed with the humans. From what reports had made their way across his desk as a Fourth Seat, all of the previous Scions had some kind of ability to manipulate the non-spiritually empowered. This current Hollow, while fearsome, had none of that. And this was not what worried him most of all. As he observed the beast make its next move, the ever-pleasant tones of Eduard Khil began to run through his head via his headphones.

And now my very music is telling me that this is a trap? Everything just feels... off.

And with that, the Hollow began the slow process of splitting itself apart. The following spectacle sent Satoru's mind moving in different directions, sent his hands gripping the tanto even more tightly than before, and sent his heart racing against the clock. Ishin was the monster. They had to fight the Warden, one of Sereitei's most established warriors whose Captaincy predated even the Soutaichou.

Diapasao, if there were ever a time that I needed you, it would be now. Please... no tricks, no games, no clever inquiries, he began to plead at his sword spirit.

And why should I help you now? I will admit that you have made some progress since our last encounter, but you still have much to learn.

If you expect me to ever become a true High Inquisitive, then I have to survive this. I can't become anything if I'm dead, and neither can you!

A terrifying moment of silence ensued as his zanpaktou thought over his request.

Very well. I can't have you dying on me just yet, aliado. Just answer me this when you get a chance... What will you do with all of the information you take in? You don't have to answer me now, as you're in the middle of a battle, but if you ever expect to use me to my fullest potential, you may want to answer that soon.

"Emitir, Dipasao!" Satoru shouted out. Suddenly, his black spiritual pressure burst forth for all it was worth as it permeated the already heavy atmosphere. The tanto in his hand became the six foot long black staff with a tuning fork end as blue lines began to inscribe themselves upon its surface. Once again using Soshi to control the earth beneath their feet, Satoru brought both himself and the Medic back towards Adelaide upon platforms of rock. Upon his arrival, the Fourth Seat looked Adelaide up and down, appreciating the new changes brought by her Bankai.

"Rather flashy, isn't it? Darkly beautiful, but still a bit flashy," he noted with a sidelong glance at her before turning his attention to the Healer and saying, "You know, now would be a good time to release if you can. We're fighting a Captain-class opponent."

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Um, Senshin?

Yessum?”

What happens when someone affected by Nagashi Me has their target die?

A pause. A long pause. Too long.

I don’t know. You should probably let her go, just in case.” Setsuna simply shook his head in annoyance and quickly released Adelaide from Chikaku Senshin’s grasp. Setsuna hopped over to the very next lamppost, stood just behind and above where the Vice-Captain and Fourth seat were confronting the new opponent.

Have to say I did not see that coming. Note to self: try not to show the shock. He rotated his head about his neck and squatted down.

“So,” he began, calmly spinning his twin blades, “I have one question before we start. Have you been the Scion the whole time or did that fancy display turn you into it?”


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“So many questions, so little time. I guess those could be the last words you were talking about? Then again, I intend to continue speaking, so just shut up and then you can count these all as your last words. As for being the Scion, this whole time I have been Ishin. I am Ishin. This Scion business is so droll. Answer me this: If you were stuck doing one thing, fighting one set of people, eating just one thing, then suddenly a new world opens up for you, would you sit back and let that slide by? No, I don't think you would. You would go and try something new. That's what I like about you shinigami. You are all about adventure. So, when the chance came, I took it.”

He grinned at them, his eyes shining maliciously.

“Piedad
Inifinita!”

Ishin convulsed, his entire being shuddering as if a sudden chill ran through him. Then, he changed. Black reiatsu started to pour from every orifice and drip from every scar. The back of his shirt exploded outwards as wings seemed to grow from just between his shoulder blades. The wings, extending well past double his arm length, were vaguely bat shaped things that convulsed and pulsed every other second. In his mid back, two extra sets of limbs burst forth, each one the size of his arms but capped with a grasping pincer. Around his arms, all six of them, twined chains, along with his legs. Each of these was tipped with a spike that seemed to shift from pure spike to wickedly curved hook and back again. It was these chains that had ripped the hollow apart. And atop his head, horns sprouted. The antelope shaped horns began to grow down into a mask, but Ishin reached up with his right hand and ripped the mask off before it covered his face. It shattered just above his forehead, so that the horns remained but not the mask. Pitch black eyes stared at them. He growled and stared at his right hand for a moment, then looked at them.

“So, you still intend to fight, do you?”


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She steeled her resolve against what she watched someone she once cared for become. At least he wasn’t really Ishin anymore. She had met Vizards before, but a Scion Vizard? That was something new. And anyone, anyone who would work with the Vasto Lorde who harmed her friends, anyone who could slaughter the people Adelaide cared for and wanted to keep safe – they were her enemies. If Katsuji Ishin was now among their number he wasn’t simply a Vizard, he was a demon.

Adelaide was in the business of slaying demons.

“What would Lilith think if she could see you now? If she knew what you’ve become. If she knew what you worked for now,” she shook her head. What was he? What happened to Katsuji Ishin? She didn’t know. She didn’t know if there was a way to help him, to save him. The only option left might’ve been killing him. That could’ve been all that was left now.

She couldn’t forgive or forget.


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Even if this was once her friend, the creature she saw now certainly was not. The things he had done proved that much. “Do I intend to fight, Captain?” she echoed his question, channeling power into her weapon, priming it with kidou energy, “Yeah. And I’m going to win.”

With a puff of silver flecks of light, the signature of Soulfire, Adelaide launched herself into a flash-step, attacking the monstrosity that was once Katsuji Ishin.

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Satori did not know what had happened. All around him, people began to change, reiatsu signatures began to flare and words began to storm in from all sides.

His brilliant idea, of running to the Seventh Division captain, turned out to be the right thing, because the hollow was not crazy enough to charge at Satori while he was near the captain. Or so he thought.

Well, in fact, it was not the hollow that came by himself, but it was pulled to them in some way. Satori would have tried to run away again if his legs had allowed him to, but no, he just stood there, shocked and paralyzed.

He stood there, while Ishin consumed the smaller hollow.

He stood there, while the ground was ripped out and was sent flying to Adelaide.

He stood there, while Ishin changed to something frightening.

Damn, he even stood there while Adelaide released her blade and turned into a sexy lady. Usually, he would have goggled at her from top to bottom while trying to save the picture of the red and black hair, the black and short coat and the heatless and beautiful wings of fire. But at the moment, the only thing he could do was stand there, shocked. Until the reiatsu of Adelaide kicked in and pressed him down to the ground for a second.

Thanks to that, he was able think clearly again and slowly worked against the sheer force of reiatsu that was pressing on his shoulders. All the words which were said rained in on him at once and he had problems to react to all of it, so he bothered only with the things important to him right now, and tried to react to all of them at once, creating a hard to understand swill.

“No I can’t release and what the fuck happened right now I should have known what should I do no I don’t want to fight let’s just go home and act as if nothing had happened god I’m not made for this shit I should have stayed in bed today.”

Still, he tried to slowly walk away from Ishin, millimeter for millimeter, until he nearly fell backwards because of the slight elevation he stood on. Catching his fall, he started to chant a spell, the first smart thing he had done the last few minutes.

“When the loneliness gets to real, when the pain gets to much, reach out towards safety and lose yourself in my embrace. Chiyudou number thirty-one, Safety Bind.”

The small strips began to form and wrap around his body, protecting him from small wounds, not that something like that would occur in a fight with a captain, but it at least took away a little bit of his fear.

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Sry for not posting until now, easter weekend and stuff happened, will turn more frequently again^^'.
 
Satoru listened to the barrage of words assaulting him like a hurricane that was trying to sweep him away with its fear. Deep inside, though, somewhere underneath the floods of terror and desperation, a spark of his will burned on. Deep inside his mind, the reiatsu of others ran mightily across his skin. like tributaries with a common river of purpose. To wash away the beast in front of them was the goal that would unite them, and he knew that the key to victory against a Scion was, no matter how cliche it sounded, teamwork.

"Then brace yourself for the oncoming storm, my friend!" quipped the Mystic as he watched Ishin's horrible metamorphosis transpire. He breathed deeply, trying to bring himself to a state of mind that would allow him to focus on the task at hand. As Adelaide charged for the Hollow, he felt his zanpaktou drawing parts of his spiritual energy for something or other.

What exactly is your plan?

The same as yours. Just give me a second.

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The horrifying amalgamation of Ishin and whatever else it was looked at her, easily dodging her attacks. His eyes followed her every move, and at the same time keeping track of the others. He sighed as he dodged the sixth swing in a row, not once raising a finger.

“Wasn't talking to you, you red headed dyke. I notice that you are the only one really attacking, though. Guess the others are too big of pussies to even try to help you. Sad, because trust me, you are definitely gonna need the help.”

Dodging another swing, he growls at her.

“Now this is just getting ridiculous. Are you even really trying?”


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The Mystic practically danced, spinning, twirling and slashing with both ends of her staff at the creature that once was Katsuji Ishin. She was so full of fury, being called a dyke didn’t even register. Derogatory terms meant to dig at her couldn’t really be expected to outweigh the massive force that was Adelaide’s ire over the deaths Ishin had visited on her home. Those were her sisters. Those were her lovers. That was her home. Her home. She was going to kill him.

The flecks of silver light fluttered in the air around the flaming angel as she swung her scythe. He was only slightly better, but it made the difference. He was able to evade too well for her desires. So, the mystic freed one hand and pointed it at the vizard and she roared with all the rage she held “KOKURYUHA!”

The desire to kill was pretty evident in the kidou she cast. A torrent of black fire flecked with silver light poured violently from Adelaide’s outstretched hand while she braced herself on the other. This particular spell was exhausting. The flames shot angrily outward forming the shape of a massive serpentine dragon of silver and black fire. The dragon soared into the New York skyline and the screeching horrible sound it made was absolutely terrifying.

“Now I’m trying, bitch.”

The dragon fell, locking its sights on Ishin and opening its screeching maw, the bloodcurdling sound met with the terrible visage as the dragon of fire quite simply ate the horrible scion, leaving him cursed with its black and silver inferno, a towering nightmare that the Mystic unleashed only on the most awful of creatures. Katsuji Ishin was now among their number. Though the dark flames would scorch the horrible former friend it also tired the lieutenant.

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Jumon Kaiki [Spell Totality]
Through devoted study, a shinigami can gain greater control over a spell. This allows them to bypass the incantation with greater success.By equipping a spell twice, it's bypassed effectiveness increases by 25%. Spells may be equipped up to three times, but cannot exceed 100% bypassed.

Jumon Zoukyuu [Spell Augmentation]
Deeper studies into the demon arts have granted insight into the fluctuations of reiatsu and how to adjust them while still achieving a desired result. In this way, the user of Jumon Zoukyuu can increase the effect of a spell by increasing the amount paid in, within the limits of their understanding and the spell itself.
To use Jumon Zoukyuu, the caster spends the total spell cost plus an additional 2% of their kidou stat per tier of kidou.
Ranks 1-30 = Spell Cost + 2% Kidou Stat
Ranks 31-50 = Spell Cost + 4% Kidou Stat
Ranks 51-70 = Spell Cost + 6% Kidou Stat
Ranks 71-90 = Spell Cost + 8% Kidou Stat
Ranks 91+ = Spell Cost + 10% Kidou Stat
This technique uses the natural rank of the spell and is not affected by abilities that lower or increase the effective rank.

Soulfire
Soulfire is the enhanced form of Hellfire. At the cost of 3% of her reiatsu per turn, Adelaide can augment all her kidou. While using Soulfire, Adelaide cannot use Lashiel's Shadow or Flames of Passion. As Soulfire is active, cosmetic flecks of silver light float around Adelaide and the scythe. Kidou used while Soulfire is active cost twice as much, and become twice as effective in terms of scope and magnitude. Chromatic fire and actual fire-based kidou may instead cost triple the normal and have triple the normal effectiveness.

Kokuryuha - Hadou #70, 1500 Kidou
Description: The user stretches out his hand and his arm is covered in coruscating blackness. With a screeching hiss, the ebon flames are unleashed in the shape of a ravenous black dragon, flying up to 20m. Upon contact, the hungry fires will burn for three rounds, unquenchable by normal means.
It takes an ability of a greater cost than Kokuryuha to extinguish the black flames.

1500 + 1147 (Augmentation) = 2647 x 3 = 7941
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Well look who decided to offer some input...

Setsuna shook his head and calmly spun both blades in his hand as he watched the exchange between Ishin and Adelaide.

Ugh, I suppose I better help. He hopped to the ground and pointed his blades at Ishin performing the exact same move he’d done to both the Hollow and Adelaide. His swords then moved to point AT the Vice-Captain.

And that be that. He grinned and turned to the afro-headed shinigami.

“Hey, Satoru right? You and me are gonna attack him from behind. Just trust me, I know what I am doing.” Without waiting for an answer, he disappeared and reappeared in midair behind Ishin, both blades aiming for Ishin’s spine.


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What?
Ishin is now totally focused on Adelaide, so is slightly unaware of the red-headed, rainbow-clad doom that lurketh behind. And possibly afro-headed too, who knows? :D
 
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"Holy Hell!" the Mystic let slip as he stared in awe at the massive draconic construct of devastation flare out and close in on the Warden. Quite frankly, Satoru had never seen a spell more powerful than the one she had just let fly loose.

He almost didn't notice the flamboyantly clad lad trying to get his attention. As the man smiled playfully and invited him to join the assault, Satoru flash-stepped in his wake and followed up with an overhead strike to the Scion's head. If he had his way, he tuning fork would be ringing with the sound of a Hollow's headache. In addition, he stated "Hinome!" as he arrived at his destination. Thick strips of pure sunlight and reiatsu instantaneously sought to bind themselves to "Katsuji Ishin's" legs.

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Hinome
Hinome (Sunlight) - Bakudou #38, 500 Kidou
Description
: Hinome allows the user to manipulate the heat energy of the sun to form thick strips of their own reiatsu to physically bind an opponent. The strips must be concentrated around a certain area of the body (e.g., the arms, the legs) and once set in place, will cause burns on the area bound. The binding itself is instantaneous.

While the spell can be cast anywhere, if used an area of high sunlight, the burn will double in intensity.

To cast this, the user holds one palm up toward the source of sunlight while aiming the other toward their opponent. The bindings will come forth from the latter.

Incantation: Called down from the heavens above, drawing strength from the spirit of a god, bind and burn my foe to protect me, a child of the sun. Bakudou #38, Hinome.


 
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Of course he saw it, the huge spell created dragon. It was impossible to miss. It was impressive to say the least. Too bad it was so incredibly slow. With a flick of his wrist, one of his chains shot outwards, wrapping around one of the thicker trees in the area. Then, with a combination of flash step and a forceful tug, he rocketed away from where he had been a moment before, the dragon crashing into the ground causing quite a bit of destruction.

Unfortunately, he was still getting used to this new body, so he didn't quite dodge fast enough. His left arm was hit by the horrendous, burning maw. It lit up like it was made of straw. He was on fire, a pain so intense it threatened to tear him apart from his new body. Then again, the heat was something this body was accustomed to, it seemed. Sure it hurt, but there were skills that he knew to overcome pain, make it as though it didn't exist. Sure he would hurt later, but by feeding he could simply regenerate the damage done to his new body. With a simple thought, the pain disappeared, forgotten as though it had never existed.

Then he felt the tug, the urge to focus on Adelaide. Like an impossible suggestion that there was nothing else there. He knew the others were trying to flank him. He knew that they meant to attack from behind while his attention was focused on Adelaide. He just didn't care. Everything was about her at the moment. To him, there was nothing else that mattered, even to the detriment of his own being.

For one part of him, at least.

As the attack came in, chains sprung from the ground and blocked the incoming blades, at the same time absorbing the spell as though it had been meant for them in the first place. A laugh escaped his lips. Then he defied everything that his body was telling him and turned to look at them.

“You know, I was going to let you live. Hell I was going to let all of you live so long as you kept quiet about this. But nooooo. You just had to attack me. You know how hard it is going to be to come up with a cover story about why you all died except me? Its going to take me forever. And if there is one thing that he and I have in common is that we both hate having to do extra work. Now then, who first, eh? Oh I know. Let's get rid of the biggest waste of space here!”

He flicked one of the extra arms on his back, and the ground seemed to come alive, the surface suddenly covered with ripples from where the chains were digging through the ground.....

Erupting out of it to envelope Satori in their metallic embrace. Ishin turned to look at him, bringing him close to his face.

“Sorry about this. Nothing personal, you know. Just the wrong place at the wrong time.”

The chains maneuvered around and placed the captive behind Ishin, directly in the path of the two shinigami that had tried to get behind him.

“Try that again, and you will be picking up his body parts to take home, understood? As for you, Miss Peirce, Why are you so upset? You still have yet to tell me what you think that I did.”

As he was talking to her, his right hand twitched again, drawing a ireful glare from him.

“Again, you should stop fighting, or this will just be more painful for you.”


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“You came into my home,” the exhausted mage watched his arm burn with a kind of contentedness. The fact that midtown Manhattan was engulfed in black flame as well didn’t really seem to bother her all that much, “You came into my home and killed people I care about. You came into my home and slaughtered people who count on me for protection.”

The blackness of the flaming angel’s hair was the only darkness deeper than the black flames that flecked and licked at the tree the vizard had protected himself with. Rocks broke off the surface of the earth and floated around Adelaide replacing the once-present silver flecks of light as she lifted the burning tree with her mind, “You let the blood of my sisters run in the streets of the West Second, Katsuji Ishin. You have two options, and two options only.” The blazing tree floated in the air behind her and her wrists burned, the bracelets throwing sparks, “Option one, be judged by the Central Forty-Six for your crimes. Option two, be judged by me.” To hell with throwing the black flames, slowly and in a massive dragon. Now, she was dealing with he hollow like what it was – a parasitic bug. And Adelaide had a flyswatter.

She swung the tree like a giant bat swinging at a spider. The black fire fell on the bark, littering the park with their decimation. As she forced the once-friend, once-captain to respond, to dodge the strike, she launched herself in a flash-step, soaring through the air toward her enemy, toward the Captain she once considered a friend. The bankai on her wrists knew. His zanpakutou knew. And together the Angel of Lust and the Queen of Mass would change the course of what would otherwise be the worst infestation since the Mask War.

Together the Angel and Queen would get vengeance, and would deliver Katsuji Ishin from the evil that consumed him.

“Cry havoc!” screamed Adelaide as her tree came at one side and scythe came at the other. Now the mystic let slip the dogs of war.

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The Mystic had hoped to at least leave his mark on the seemingly indifferent Ishin, but of course he... no, it would salvage his own existence with that of an innocent healer's life. His earlier thoughts about physical attacks seemed to be incorrect and, more than that, costly in terms of manpower. The bandages against his skin were slightly scratchy, rubbing against his thoughts like sandpaper. Thankfully, like sandpaper, his rough sketches of ideas soon began to form into a smooth plan. As the itching continued, he quickly ran through a few ideas in his head and came to a risky solution.

"Sorry guys... this is going to be loud!"

The Fourth Seat bent the very laws of physics to his will, jumping directly over Ishin before Adelaide finished her statement and unleashing an all-consuming burst of sonic energy. The cacophony of sounds would render anyone caught within the blast to have much difficulty hearing anything for quite some time. If he could just make sure that Ishin was stunned, even for a short while, then perhaps that would be a way to hold him still long enough for Adelaide to do her thing.

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Burst of sonic energy

Attack: O Lançador de Baixo (The Bass Cannon)

For 15% of his reiatsu, Satoru releases a concussive cone of sound waves around 15 meters in length and 2 meters wide from one of the tuning forks on his weapon. Anyone or anything caught in this devastating sonic wave is thrown backwards and faces being shattered by the intense waves. Opponents become highly disoriented and find concentration difficult due to the distinct sound patterns utilized by O Lançador de Baixo... not to mention the fact that their eardrums have just been blasted out. Any subsequent techniques utilized by the opponent will have their effectiveness reduced by the amount paid into this attack and any technique that costs less than it becomes completely negated. This is treated as a pool equal to the amount of rei used by O Lançador de Baixo from which abilities are drained and has no bearing on the rank of techniques like Kidou.
 
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Satori did not know what happened to him, when spiky chains suddenly entangled him. Getting strangled by them, he at least did not fade out because of the huge amount of reiatsu all around. However, he felt that the air slowly was pressed out of his lungs and he knew he would not have much more time.

Sadly, in the same second he tried to gasp for help, Satoru used a strange ability that surely did not only fry his eardrums, let alone, made it impossible for him to hear a word of his comrades.

Was this his end?

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so yes, not much to talk about right now.

PS: yeah i heard today that it ends TODAY and not monday, i would have written earlier, but i was without a pc for the whole week q.q
 
The creature that used to be a Captain of the Gotei probably had some retort or response for the meddlesome bitch, but no one was going to hear it thanks to Toride Satoru’s handywork. No one was going to hear a whole hell of a lot, actually. No one was going to hear the roaring flames that burned mercilessly at the tree Adelaide swung with all her telekinetic might, no one was going to hear the medic’s agony as the Scion feebly tried to use his body to shield against what he anticipated was an attack from the tuning fork only to be sent flying. No one was going to hear the bone-shattering impact of the tree against the hollow. The black flames spread as they were made to do to more than just a quietly blazing arm.

As the creature took a tumble, Adelaide let the tree go. This was a mistake, but one she made because Setsuna had blinded her to the consequences of her actions. The chains from her scythe buried themselves firmly in the ground, supporting Adelaide as her own black fire began to form, creeping along her skin and migrating toward the slowly spinning blades of her scythe.

No one could hear her tell them to run.

By the time hearing was restored and a really pissed off Katsuji Ishin stumbled back to a standing position, there was only one word. It was crisp enough to cut through the silence that fell as if it was nothing. “Guilty.” With that, a new cacophony replaced the tinnitus that Satoru had induced. There’s a sound fire makes when it’s released to roar to life, and a sound the air makes when it gets so hot it bursts. There’s a sound that the water in the air makes as it clings hopelessly to the states of matter and is reminded that gas is really the highest it can go.

Those sounds were drown out be the horrible lights and sounds of celestial fire. The blinding white-gold terror of a star’s corona shot violently from the blades that spun so fast they might’ve been a fan. The black fire that crept over Adelaide’s skin shot violently, uncontrollably forward through the spinning blade and burned away the grass, the soil, the trees and landscape around Katsuji Ishin. Cars behind him on the street melted into barely recognizable pieces of metal and the plume of flame stripped bare the stone of sidewalk and street. Birds and bugs and anything else unlucky enough to be in the torrent of disaster was simply ashes before it would realize the fate that befell it.

Again, no one could hear the cries, the catharsis of the Mystic or the agony of the Captain. No one heard one another’s remarks on the sheer power of the woman who poured her soul into her weapon. She stood toe-to-toe with a Captain and it served as a stark reminder that the moon, in all her glory, was forged from elements of the heart of a star. And that which Adelaide’s solar wind brought into the world, she was perfectly willing to take out of it. Not only was it impossible for them to hear, it was damned hard to see – the brilliance of the fires was unlike anything Adelaide herself had ever channeled through her bankai. It was the primal fires of creation stripping the world bare, and that was a hot, bright and fearsome prospect to behold.

Maybe somewhere in the fire was a black flame. Maybe somewhere in the fire were clicks, maybe somewhere items of the hellish waste found their way into the material world. Maybe they even survived the flames of the dark-haired angel’s final strike by the grace of the Mad God. But if such things transpired, no one bore them witness. They were too busy trying to not stare too long at the glory of the sun.

When Lashiel told Adelaide to receive her majesty, this was what the fallen one was talking about.

It wasn’t until the flames died out that the scale of the carnage was apparent. Grass in the entire arc of the flare just didn’t exist anymore. Neither did much else recognizable. There weren’t so much burnt husks around as there was dust on the wind. Near the end of the flame where streets and cars sat, they were exposed to light enough terror that the sidewalks seemed to be firmer, melted and resolidified, where cars were piles of unidentifiable metal. It was a parking lot, one devoid of people, which was a blessing because no evidence of any people there would’ve had the courtesy to remain.

Two things did exist in the scorched earth. One was a red-haired woman on her knees, panting and half-alive at the point from which the devastation began. Planted firmly in the burned soil in front of her was a black-bladed sword with a silver edge. The other thing was the hulking, burned and naked mass of a gray-haired giant. He probably would’ve been clad in a shihakushou if it hadn’t been incinerated.

It wasn’t until this point that the question of what became of the tossed medic was apparent. This also was the moment where the unfortunate nature of Adelaide leaving the burning tree, of being singularly focused on Ishin, mattered in a most horrible way. Both the medic and tree were tossed in the same general direction. Both the medic and tree landed rather unceremoniously and then were forgotten by the flow of combat.

The medic was on fire when they found him. He had screamed, but no one had heard. The black flames of Kenkyouka were too mighty for him to extinguish, they singed and scorched at the poor boy until being awake was too much agony and he simply stopped screaming. Whether he was alive or dead was a question that a simple glance couldn’t answer, but there was no question about one salient fact: the healer was the final victim of the Scion of Prometheus that was known as Katsuji Ishin.

What was to become of Katsuji Ishin now? What had made him into a Scion of the Mad God? Whas he responsible for the lives his beast had taken? Was he truly purged of its curse? What of the healer, Satori? Would he burn to death, a victim of single-minded opponents?

Adelaide didn’t care. She, like Ahab, had found her white whale. Like Ahab, had her body been a cannon, she would have fired her heart upon him. She had made a promise, to blast Katsuji Ishin off the face of the world with the fury of God’s own thunder. Weakly, she lifted a hand and pointed it at the unconscious man several yards of charred earth away from her. “Ye lord...” several words were inaudible, “all creation...” and several more were too weak to hear. “... power... no less than...” she pulled in all the energy she could muster. She would augment this spell, she would fully incant it. She would make good on her word.

She would blast him from the face of the world with the fury of God’s own thunder.

Then Adelaide couldn’t see anything. Then she felt something warm and gentle, like a pile of soft sand, smack into her face really, really hard.

And then she lost consciousness.


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Notes
I waited as long as I could afford to, and then resolved this in a fairly open-ended way that may or may not have resolved certain things we discussed from the outset. Like Satori dying (you and Ish can talk that over, Mits) or if we get goodies (that's Will's call) or what the hell happened with Ish (you still owe me a collab, big boy). Also, not for nothing, but I think it was a fittingly epic conclusion.

It's wrap-up time if you want last turns.

Flames of Passion

The "Final Strike” attack of Adelaide’s Bankai. By expending 75% of her remaining reiatsu, Adelaide unleashes the enhanced raw power of Lashiel and the fires of the Fallen Angels. The chains from the scythe cease to be dormant, instead lancing outward and multiplying as necessary to bind the targets of this attack for its duration. Adelaide then begins to spin her scythe in a clock-like fashion, and funnels her passion and reiatsu through the spinning blades. Lashiel then transforms and enhances this power into the cosmic fires of a solar flare. Adelaide can move the stream of fire by changing the direction of her scythe. This celestial flame attack can burn away most material. The raw power involved in this attack forces Adelaide out of Bankai, and if she lacks Mastery with Bankai she is fatigued after using this ability. If Adelaide does have mastery with her Bankai, following use of this ability, Adelaide cannot re-enter Bankai for five turns.
 
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Satoru landed unceremoniously due to the massive kickback from his weapons attack. Still unaccustomed to the power of his soul slayer's attack, he had to descend into a rough roll that ended with him on his back. As it stood, he was the only one who had not been deafened by the sound waves.

He was the only one to hear the Medic's shout of unparalleled pain before he was burned out, leaving naught but a singed shell of his former self. He was the only one to experience the horrible, glorious sound of the celestial fires of his superior's full release. Finally, he was the only one to experience the screams of a broken boy as they emerged from his own throat. That soul reaper had been the nicest of the bunch in addition to being the one with the most untapped potential. Now, he didn't look like much of anything but a scar.

Satoru rushed over to his side, avoiding the ebon flames and sidestepping the debris from the fallen tree as he went. The bandages that Satori had been wearing seemed to have been burned off almost completely, giving him the appearance of an unwrapped mummy. The Mystic didn't think. He didn't shout. He didn't do anything but flood the man's wounds with his own reiatsu in an attempt to stablize him until the Senkaimon opened. Instead of breaking down, he refocused his anxiety into determination to keep the boy from receiving any further injuries.

"Setsuna. If that thing moves again, I need you to keep it away from us." Satoru state in a neutral, clipped voice.
 
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