Feeding Time

[Talon]

A familiar winged shape descended from the sky into the middle of a culdesac. Red iris's pierced the darkness as they glanced from house to house, smirking. There. A couple of teens drove down the street to it's location, and it dove into the air again. The car stopped outside of one of the houses, and the boy asked,

"Did you h-hear something?"

The girl shrugged, then paused, turning white. She shakily pointed her finger behind the boy, who turned just in time to get grabbed by the face, screaming. A snapping sound ensued, and the beast rushed forward, grabbing the girl.

"Where are you going, my pretty?" It hissed.

She screamed as it brought its face near hers, blood dripping from its claws and maw. Another 'crack' ensued, and the girl suffered the same fate as her date had...

The humaoind dragon picked a finger out of his teeth and flicked it away, belching, followed by a pleased hiss.

"Hmm. Physical humans taste better than their spirits do..." He commented.

But he was still hungry...

[Azure_Ghidorah]

"damn it, I had a feeling something like this would happen, Shive...

Or should I say, Evihs." Solranous growled, perched atop a nearby building. He regretted not being able to stop the hollow from ending those two innocent lives. But he would stop him from ending more.

"Shounetsujigoku Shousen Asahi." At the sound of the words, Kizoku transformed into his Shikai state, and Solranous glared at the Hollow. His heart clenched somewhat.

'Myrr, please forgive me if I have to kill him...' Solranous thought, shielding it from Evihs' telepathic senses.

[Talon]

Evihs's head cracked towards Solranous, grinning. In the light of the fire eminating from Solranous's blade, it was revealed that half of the mask had been formed, and both eyes had reverted to Hollow form.

"Ah, hi gecko! How'ya doing? Hungry? I'm sure there's plenty more people around here." Evihs stated.

His shoulders shrugged in restrained laughter as he drew forth Hakaisha.

"Houkou, Hidoi-Hakaisha." He hissed.

The blade reverted into its Shikai state, and Evihs leveled it at Solranous.

"Hey, I've got an idea! Let's see how long it takes you to die! I'll time it... let's see..."

He glanced from side to side, and a derranged grin slowly formed.

"We'll time it via how many people die before you do!"

That's when mutiple Hollows appeared on the rooftops, hissing and snarling. Most of them were humanoid, but some had animalistic shapes. The all began phasing through the roofs and into the houses, going for the inhabitants...

Evihs let out another cackle and rushed Solranous, hefting Hakaisha as his red reiatsu flared into life.

"LET'S GO!"

[Azure_Ghidorah]

Evihs, though, flew straight into a burst of fire spewed by Solranous. The Hollow, not expecting it to be enchanted by reiatsu, was caught completely off guard when he felt the heat from the flames. Screeching from the pain, Solranous cut off the stream and charged at the Hollow.

The dragon shoved his Zanpoktou through Evihs' gut, before ripping it back out and gouging away one of his foe's eyes. The dragon then settled for a strong punch to Evihs' wound eye, throwing the hollow back.

"Spirit Rocket!" Solranous bellowed, firing off three rockets of reiatsu enchanted fire.

[Talon]

The reiatsu flared around Evihs for a second, then wrapped around him for a moment. As it shot inwards, Evihs's wounds began to heal rapidly before the aura expanded outwards again, Evihs fully healed.

"You DO know you're just harming Shive, right?" He hissed.

He rushed forward and kneed Solranous in the throat, then bashed him back to the ground. As the two fought, a scream came from one of the nearby houses. Evihs grinned, and stated,

"Look's like time's running out for these humans. What a shame. Oh, and by the way..."

He suddenly appeared behind Solranous, the blade crackling.

"Kai." He finished.

The wave slammed square into Solranous's spine, sending him flying into the air as blood gushed out. Evihs followed quickly by firing a blast of acid into the wound, then dropkicking Solranous back to the ground.

[Fredrex00]

A golden lion like robot stood atop of a building. He looked onto the two fighters. The machine looked up and saw a lot of Hollows converging on the city. Nothing would be able to stop them. Except for Shive and Solranus.

The lion looked back down at the two warriors. He uttered a growl and mutters "This world....needs a protector...and soon"

[Azure_Ghidorah]

Solranous was thanking whatever higher beings there were that he had back spines right now, considering they had taken the brunt of Evihs' counterattack.

"damn, I have to end this now, and the only way I can think of is to use my telepathy and telekinesis." Solranous mused bellow Evihs' hearing range and healed his own wounds. His fist seemed to be coated in light blue energy, before he slammed it on the ground, creating a great shockwave of energy that paralyzed most of the Hollows.

'Most' meaning that one was spared, though, and that was Evihs himself, who merely recieved the greatest shock of his life. The dragon snraled, getting back to his feet. While the Vasto Lorde was dazed Solranous gripped his face.

"I'm ending this now. Psychic Shock," Solranous growled, pulsing another wave of telekinetic energy. This one was targeted at Evihs' reiatsu, though, damaging and disrupting it, and in turn draining the Vasto Lorde's strength. Solranous directed his thoughts to the dragonkin trapped in his mind while Evihs was recovering from the Psychic Shock.

"Shive, if you can hear me, this is your best chance to break out again. Evihs has been weaken. Make it fast, because we still have his Hollow lackeys to deal with, and my paralysis won't hold forever. As soon as its gone, many people are going to suffer, so again I say, if you are going to break free, make it fast because this is your best chance."

[Talon]

Several howls echoed through the area, and behind Evihs appeared several Gillian. They all stared down at Solranous as Evihs started laughing.

"I'm afraid... he can't hear you."

The Hollow then decked Solranous full in the face before clamping his claws into the dragon's neck and hefting him into the air. A chain had appeared out of Evihs's chest, attached by a hexagonal metal plate. The chain was only about 3 feet long, and the end links seemed to be broken. Evihs held the end of the chain and laughed,

"Watch this."

The end links suddenly sprouted mouths filled with sharp teeth, and began to devour themselves. Evihs opened his mouth, and what sounded like a scream of sheer agony came from Shive himself. He shut his mouth, regaining his voice.

"This is your friend's spirit chain. When someone goes under the process of becoming a permanant Hollow, the chain will begin to devour itself. Every time a link is devoured, the host will be wracked with excutiating pain."

Evihs looked up at the moon, and grinned as the mask was still spreading slowly.

"Looks like you've got three hours left. After that, he'll be gone forever."

Evihs snapped his fingers, and the three Gillian opened their maws, dark-red energy filtering itno them. They fired theirs Cero's simultaneously, each one blasting into Solranous and sending him skidding backwards. Evihs laughed as he aimed Hakaisha at Solranous, booming,

"Just give it up! You can kill the other Hollows, but you won't be getting your friend back! He's too far lost for you to even speak to him!"

He whipped Hakaisha to the side, firing another Kai wave. It slammed into Solranous's already damaged front, allowing more blood to spray out.

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[Azure_Ghidorah]

"Heh... It's ironic. My enemy is now the means by which I can save my friend. Armageddon can command spirits, considering he pulled mine's and Myrr's back from the grave, even after our deaths were sealed by none other then himself. I believe he intended to use me to make more slaves for him to command, because I know his spells. It may be from another fragmented memory, but it is full enough that I know the words." Solranous spoke, smirking some what. His next string of words was indeed a spell, one that allowed him to perform acts similar to what Armageddon had done, but through his own energy.

What Solranous felt from this, he would never be able to describe without being incorrect at some point or another. It was as if a massive fog had covered the world, yet it did not hinder sight at all. Also, he saw transparent figures in the fog, mostly humans. Their eyes were closed, as if resting.

'Spirits that have passed on?' Solranous ventured. It was the only conclusion he could come to.

"So, Solranous... Finally decided to join where you should have been for so many years? Finally decided to join the dead again?" an eerie voice came from behind, and the dragon turned, gazing upon what appeared to be a skeleton in a heavy black cloak with a great scythe.

"Grim Reaper..." Solranous guessed, and the skeleton nodded in response.

"Eight years its been since I've seen you here, and that was when I reaped your soul," the Grim Reaper continued.

"Don't remind me, I'm guessing your going to say something along the lines of 'once resting, the dead should always rest,' right?" Solranous growled in irritation.

"You guess correctly, Solranous. Now, are you going to come quietly, or do I have to reap you again?"

Solranous laughed at that. The irony of it all... "Let me answer that with my own speech: 'There are times when the dead do not wish to rest in peace. Some people leave life with unfinished buisness. And sometimes, the dead cannot rest peacefully until the monster that threatens their friends and family have been laid to rest as well.'"

"...You speak of yourself and Armageddon, do you not?" Grim inquired.

"The end of the world brought me to you prematurely, though in a sense, also when he was supose to. My death is long overdue, yet at the same time I was cheated out of my life. I will not rest until Armageddon has been taken down. Even if I have to defy you again. However, that is not why I am down here, in the realm of spirits." Solranous replied, stubborn determination flaring in his eyes.

"Then what is it, dragon?" Grim asked again, but he thought he already knew.

"Three words: Vasto Lorde possession." Grim was wrong.

"A Hollow? I know your background, and you shouldn't be believing in this stuff. What has driven you like this, Solranous?"

"Kind of hard to deny what exists when I'm holding proof of it." Solranous retorted, displaying Kizoku. The dragon continued, "Now let me do what I have to do. I've only got less then three hours to do it in."

"Shive's fate was sealed when the Hollow first appeared, I cannot allow you to keep him alive. I'm already on the verge of being fired from my job by letting you and your future daughter back out again. To save the dragonkin now is impossible. He was lucky I was on vacation every time he died. He's lucky to the point of it being a supernatural power. Not this time, though. This time, there is no escape."

Solranous' reiatsu flared as the dragon's strength tripled.

"If you really knew me, you would know that you should never tell me the odds."

Grim didn't reply with words, but he raised his scythe, ready to bring it down on the dragon. The skeleton swung...

Only to find that the sound of flesh being ripped from flesh and a rolling head was absent. He looked at the dragon, to see that Solranous had caught the scythe's blade in his hand with no ill effect to himself.

"Th-This c-can't be..."

"There is a lot more to this dragon then meets the eye, as you should already know. Don't bother me again until I feel it is time to rejoin the dead." With that, Solranous shoved Grim away, and stalked towards Shive's/Evihs' form. The dragon noted the chain that was devouring itself. Around three feet long and slowly shrinking, the energy he felt around it was indeed the orchid reiatsu energy of Shive.

"Spirit Chain, hear my call, I invoke my energy upon thee, cease thine self-destruction!" Against all odds, against all lost hope, the chain's destruction began to slow, until it came to a complete stop. Solranous was trembling from the mass usage of energy. Stoping a spirit chain from consuming itself, he soon found, was a very difficult task. He could stop it though, it was within his power... But he couldn't fight and stop the chain from being destroyed. That was to much to put on even the multi-tasking dragon's plate.

'Shimatta, this is bad, and it unfortunately can only get worse.' Solranous thought. If only he had some help... But no one else could fight the Hollow... save for Solranous and Shive himself...

[Talon]

((Now you will learn more about Zanpoktou's and the effects they have on their wielders. BTW, I need to borrow Kizoku for a sec so he can explain))

And that's when Solranous noticed he was wearing something.

It was a baggy black robe, the edges (collar, sleeves, and bottom) were white. It seemed to fit him perfectly, and felt like a combination of silk and cotton. It even had slits in the back for his wings. Kizoku seemed to be... laughing.

Sorry Grim, but you can't reap a Shinigami. He stated.

Knowing Solranous would be confused, Kizoku sighed and explained,

You own a Zanpoktou, a manifestation of your spirit force, or reiatsu. However, gaining such a veapon has given you... other abilities as vell. Dose with a Zanpoktou that have passed are reffered to as 'Shinigami', or 'Death God'. That is the garb of a Shinigami you're vearing. Venever you enter a spiritual state, that will appear on your body, marking your othervordly state.

He paused, panting, then continued,

You can't really die unless you are slain in that spiritual state. If you die on the physical plain, you'll just go back to Soul Society (that's in Heaven) until you can get another Gigai, or physical form. Now, you may be vondering vat the Shinigami do. Zey are the vones who defend the balance between the spiritual and physical realms. You help those trapped here to pass on, and you... slay Hollows. Vell, it's not slaying per say, but more of a purification. Any qvuestions?

Meanwhile Evihs was internally screaming.

The-damn-link-is-stopping! NO! I won't let that happen! He hissed mentally.

He raised Hakaisha above the chain, then stabbed in between the links, severing the chain in half. The links shuddered, and began eating eachother again. Evihs smirked and sighed.

"That's better. And, I'll be a Hollow in even less time!" He laughed.

[Azure_Ghidorah]

"Nope, no questions," Solranous replied before Evihs broke the link in half.

Grim seemed to laugh as well with that.

"I should have guessed that you were a Shinagami with a Shikai state Zanpoktou," the skeleton confessed.

Solranous wasn't paying attention. Now that the Hollow had split the chain in half, breaking his concentration and he was desperately trying to restore it.

"Shimatta, Shimatta, Shimatta!" Solranous barked angrily. He saw the skeleton lend his own strength which, being technically many times that of Solranous', stopped the chains again, instantly.

"Go, purify the Hollows in the city. I will give your friend more time, and I have the distinct feeling that he, too, is a Shinagami. This scenario reminds me of a similar one, only I didn't interfere. The Hollow will not take Shive as long as I am the Grim Reaper."

"Didn't you just say you were on the verge of being fired?"

"I'm sure they'll understand if they knew it was a Shinigami I was helping," was the casual reply of Grim.

Solranous paused for a few seconds. "...Arigatto, Grim Reaper." He then left the spirit realm, heading back to face the Hollows, and trusting that Grim would indeed keep the Hollow from fully taking Shive over.

The physical form of Solranous became aware again, glaring at the Vasto Lorde and the Gillians.

"Looks like you've lost, Evihs, what with the Reaper himself keeping you from going full Hollow," Solranous chuckled. His reiatsu flared as Kizoku's blade burned brightly.

"Time to spread the light." Solranous teleported after that, and one of the Gillian moaned as it was sliced perfectly in half from its head down, with Solranous kneeling on the opposite side.

"And to think, these Hollows are suppose to be tough. That, or I'm underestimating myself, or overestimating the Gillians."

'Well, you do have an unnaturally high reiatsu level. That may very well be the reason.' Kizoku supplied.

"I'm leaning more towards my own options, they seem more plausible," Solranous replied. The dragon dissapeared again, slaying another two Gillian with just as many sword strokes.

"If anything, that Vasto Lorde is going to be many times stronger," the dragon thought aloud, healing his wounds with telekinesis and bracing with a shield against the next attack.

[Talon]

Evihs let out a slow, cold laugh, which slowly rose in intensity.

"Death has no power over that which is already dead. I fear you not, Reaper." Evihs hissed.

The mask was now fully formed just as Solranous finished off the rest of the Hollows. He cracked his neck and grimaced at the chain, then tugged on it. The plate that connected the chain to Shive loosened, and Evihs laughed. A dull black light emanated from beneath the plate, and Evihs let out a mad cackle.

"I SHALL NOT BE DENIED!" He boomed.

His red Hollow reiatsu flared into life, contrasting against Solranous's neon-blue reiatsu and breaking the Reaper's control. He leveled Hakaisha at Solranous and growled,

"You have no hope of beating me without a Bankai."

He rushed forward and slammed the blade against the shield Solranous had made, cracking it and splintering it. However, something about Hakaisha could be noticed now...

She was disintergrating.

You, green boy! Either kill him now or force the Hollow back! The more reiatsu he eats, the more I die! Hakaisha cried to Solranous, clearly pained.

Evihs cackled in joy as the links shuddered, beginning the process again. He rushed forward and slammed the sword through Solranous barrier, shoving the blade through the emerald dragon's shoulder, then ripping it upwards in a bloody spray. He bounced backwards and snarled as dark-red energy began to gather in the palm of his other hand...

[Azure_Ghidorah]

'Incoming Cero!' Kizoku warned. The dragon didn't reply, only teleporting out of the way at the last second. As he reappeared, he wasn't to far away from his last position, enough to still be in the Hollow's eyesight. One look at the Hollow's almost complete form told him that sealing it away would do no good, not to mention be a nigh impossible task. He had to strike Evihs down.

"I have no hope with out a Bankai? I'll tell you what I told the Reaper himself, don't tell me the odds, because I can defy them," Solranous commented as his reiatsu flowed to its full power for his current state. Solranous snarled as his non-sword-wielding fist glowed with energy. He slammed it into the ground again, producing the shockwave that freezed the Gillian before hand, and that now dazed Evihs again.

In the seconds he was recovering, Solranous teleported behind the Hollow, with his spines still facing Evihs, and was milliseconds away from rending Kizoku through the right side of Evihs' stomach and up through his left shoulder. Silently, the dragon Shinagami begged for Myrr to forgive him if this killed Shive as well... If it even hit Evihs that is...

[lordnidhogg]

Unfortunately, without any intentions of ruining anything, Thanatos interfered. He blasted Shive away with a shot of plasma, and then landed, setting Martyr and Saelia down beside him.

"I heard you could use a little help."

[Talon]

Shive's body lay still on the concrete, a puddle of blood spreading rapidly beneath him. There was no breathing, no pulse. His face was down in the pavement, Hakaisha having landed a few yards away. The chain (or if it was even there anymore) was hidden by the corpse's bulk. He lay lifeless for the 5th time in his life.

Before anyone could lament (or cheer XP), the corpse shuddered, and rose back on it's feet. A small, hexagonal plate fell to the ground at the corpse's feet...

A sudden burst of red reiatsu rushed forth, bogging down everyone in the area as the corpse slowly turned around, a mask on it's face and a perfect hole through it's chest. A thick, black fluid shot out from the chest, shins, and forearms, wrapping around them and hardening into chitin. The armor fell away to reveal dark-gray scales, twice their normal size. The wings decayed away at a rapid rate, dissolving into a set of three spikes on either shoulder blade. The tail lengthened and sprouted a pincer-like claw.

The corpse started laughing, raising it's head to reveal two pitch-black eyes with red, iris-less eyes. Evihs had taken Shive's body. Evihs had won.

"Ah, thanks so much f*ck-nut! That last attack hurt like hell, but it managed to break that damn plate off!" He laughed to Solranous.

He straightened and grew slightly taller. He had returned to his natural form, but now by using Shive's body. He glared all around, then appeared behind Solranous and tore two of his three tails off, then stabbed the blades through the dragon's gut before kicking him forward onto the concrete. He turned to the three newcomers and hissed,

"Try to hit me. I DARE you."

((BTW, Nid? Read 'A One-Sided Proposition' if you haven't already. Information about that threat Evihs made))