Substitution

[Talon]

A lone figure sat on the edge of the building across from Solranous's house. The robes of a Shinigami adorned her lithe frame, and a pair of silver wings were jutting out from a pair of slits in the back. Her feet-talons dangled over the edge as her tail swayed, her clawed hand pushing back a lock of metallic chrome-blue hair. Humming a tune, her fingers drummed on the Zanpoktou laying on the ground next to her.

"Sheez... this is his place, isn't it? Where is he?" She muttered to herself, though not in irritation.

She sighed, shrugging.

Hitsugaya knows well what will happen if he's forced to go through with this... She thought.

[Azure_Ghidorah]

"I would have answered the door, had I not been out running a few errands" Solranous said from behind the Shinigami, making her whirl around in shock to see him, for she had not sensed his reiatsu, which he preferred to hide while a fight wasn't raging with him in it. As a precaution whenever he left, he always kept Kizoku on hand, though he was certain the Shinigami before him wasn't here to cause any harm. However...

He couldn't shake the aura of familiarity she seemed to have on him... liked he'd seen her before... yet at the same time, he hadn't.

He crossed his arms and looked the Shinigami in the eye, "Who are you, and what brings around to my home?" he asked her, not angered at all that someone had approached his house without his knowing. However, it did perk his curiousity.

[Talon]

She yelped when he spoke, then turned around while simultaneously bouncing to her feet. An 8th-squad kanji was seen on her robes. Bright-eyed and smiling, she responded,

"Hi! I'm 9th-seat member of 8th Squad, but you can call me Sevra!"

She paused, and her eyes became downcast as she glanced to the side.

"As for what I'm doing here... your captain wanted me to deliver a message. Fourth seat of 10th squad Solranous, Captain Hitsugaya has ordered that as of tommorow, you are to be permanantly moved to the Seiriteri due to lack of action." She stated, though hesitant.

She sniffled, muttering,

"Why he wanted me to deliver the message, I've no idea..."

[Azure_Ghidorah]

Solranous' eyes widened. 'WHAT!? Lack of action, my tails!'

The dragon had clenched his fist so tightly that a steady stream of blood now dripped down it.

'I can't just leave Kisara like that! More importantly, Xeno still has her problem with Phazon, what if some one overloads her PED? Spite won't be able to get to her in time to fix the problem even with advanced notice, so that would leave me as the only viable person to keep Xeno from becoming afflicted with Phazon Madness!'

Solranous, who had unconsciously clenched his eyes shut, reopened them to look at Sevra.

"Don't be sad, I don't blame you for being the bearer of this news. But... That doesn't change one fact. They'll have to drag me to Seiriteri, I will not follow this order willingly... It would mean abandonning the one I love, and thats not something I can do." Solranous turned away from Sevra, and looked at the horizon.

'And if they try to force me, I'll set all the guns ablaze before I submit...' The dragon thought, his eyes glaring. 'Come hell or high water, my first devotion will be to my love.'

(OOC: Nitpicking, but he was fourth seat, unless something changed without my knowledge.)

[Talon]

((Edit'd, but then again, Sevra isn't all that bright... Sevra: *levels Zanpoktou with Talon's face*))

She sighed, glancing of to the side.

"I was afraid you'd say that..." She muttered.

She rubbed her temples, muttering,

"He said if you didn't come, that I'd have to use force. I really don't want to do that."

She kicked her Zanpoktou into the air and grabbed it, unsheathing the blade in a single fluid motion. A basic, white handled katana, she held it with the point aimed at Solranous. Yet despite her best actions, she couldn't hold the sword through her arms shaking.

"Please... at least go talk to him. I don't want to fight you." She pleaded.

[Azure_Ghidorah]

"I would go and speak with him, to try and negotiate something less drastic... but I am not willing to set a comprimise. In this case... its all... or nothing." The dragon, however, did not draw his Zanpoktou. Unless Sevra had a Bankai, or at least a Shikai, she wasn't going to pose much of a threat to him.

The dragon sighed, noticing Sevra's quivering hands, figuring that it wasn't the fact that she thought she was out of her league against him, but of her hesitance to attack. Her attempt to plead with him to take a non-violent route was proof of this. But seeing as it was an order, he doubted he would be able to negotiate anything less.

"Believe me, the last thing I want to do is fight against a fellow Shinigami. I've seen enough innocent blood spilled in my life, enough bloodshed period, whether innocent or corrupt, even. But if I'm backed into a metaphorical corner, I will strike back." Still he did not lay a hand on Kizoku. If Sevra finally gave in to her orders to use force to bring him there, he would allow her the first shot, seeing as he was a full five seats above her, indicating at least a decent advantage over her. Although... he could be wrong...

"I hope Shive will forgive me if I'm forced to fight you." Solranous whispered, whether Sevra picked up on it or not, he wasn't sure.

[Talon]

Her ear twitched, and her lower lip quivered for a moment before she sighed, then muttered,

"Shaberi, Haritenshi."

Her sword suddenly converted into a blade that seemed to be composed of a clear crystal. The handle had turned to a brighter white, with cords of silver spiraling down its length. The four metal ‘bridges’ supporting the guard had extended past the guard’s border, ending in four points, making the guard reminiscent to a basic snowflake. A single gray cord ending in a silver bell adorned the hilt.

She spun the sword, chiming out,

"Eika Osoi!"

A low, drowsy tone began to emanate from the blade as she spun it, and Solranous felt himself becoming sluggish as the sound starte dinterfering with his thought proccesses.

"I hope he'll forgive me for doing this." She whispered back.

She suddenly stopped spinning the blade, then jabbed it at Solranous, shouting,

"Eika Yorokobi!"

The low noise suddenly increased to a shrill screech, assaulting Solranous's ears and coming close to popping his eardrums. His vision now blurred and wavy, Sevra bit her lip before shouting,

"Eika Doki!"

Solranous could feel his bones literally rattle as the breath was knocked out of him by a powerful wave of unseen harmonic force, forcing him to skid backwards.

"Way of Binding: Six Light-Rod Prison." She finished.

Six shafts of light suddenly speared into Solranous, yet doing no physical harm. However, they did succeed in halting all movement below his chin. She cautiously walked over to the dragon, pulling out a Matter-Transmutation Gate cube out of her pocket.

"I'm sorry..." She muttered.

[Azure_Ghidorah]

Despite the sound-based attacks disrupting him, Solranous recovered at a magnificent speed, utilizing his telekinesis to blow Sevra away, the sudden jerk causing her to lose the cube in her hand.

The dragon then looked at his prison.

'Hmm... How to counter this...' he thought.

"If it helps you any, Sevra has to expend reiatsu to use it." Kizoku noted.

'Thanks. If I've got my facts straight, these bondings are made of her reiatsu then?'

"Most likely."

'Thankfully, the name of the move suggests that all rods must be present for the seal to be at full power.'

Solranous gazed at Sevra, and figured that he didn't have much time to pull off his little 'virus reiatsu' trick, so he had to make this fast. The dragon focused his reiatsu onto one of the rods sealing his movement, seeping it slowly inside. The rod quivered at the invading reiatsu, but refused to bend to it. Solranous checked on Sevra, finding out she had fully recovered and was probably looking for the cube she had dropped in Solranous' retaliation. That was good, it was giving him more time, as she seemed to think the dragon wouldnt be able to escape his prison. Oh how wrong she was.

It took a few minutes, but the rod finally gave in, changing into his own reiatsu, which he absorbed back into himself. The dragon then let his reiatsu out in full, though completely sealed, force, catching Sevra's attention so that she witnessed break his now weakened prison by force.

"Subduing the opponent by using a mirade of disrupting and sealing moves. An interesting tactic, but as you can see, its not enough against me." Solranous said to her, as both rose back to their feet, Sevra having found her cube.

"Shounetsujigoku Shousen Asahi." The dragon spoke, altering his own Zanpoktou to the Shikai state as well, as well as drawing it. The dragon Flash Stepped behind her, slamming his fist into the back of her head. The attack sent her sprawling against the ground.

The dragon checked her head... Good, it wasn't bleeding, he didn't want to hurt her too bad, only knock her out. But incase she wasn't going to stay down from that, he planned on using her own move against her. First he scanned her mind her mind, making sure he knew had to perform the seal, and then repeated what Sevra did to him.

"Way of Binding: Six Light-Rod Prison"

The rods, once used on him, now sealed Sevra down where she layed.

[Talon]

Sevra lay unconscious for a while, proving she wasn't a very durable opponent. Meanwhile, a figure had been watching from Solranous's roof, a tall figure shrouded in robes like a Shinigami's, but white. His gray scales shone in the sunlight, and a small piece of mask-like bone ran along one side of his face.

"That's no way to detain an opponent... bah... Kidou. Useless!" Evihs grumbled.

He pause,d then his eyes widened when he caught a second glance at Sevra.

Her! He thought in surprise.

He paused, then slowly broke into a grin.

She was the impudent one's Zanpoktou at a time.... said weapon slaid me for a while.... this could be a good chance for revenge... He thought.

He suddenly appeared between Solranous and the downed Sevra, grinning sadistically.

And the irony of the fact she's now a Shinigami... oh, I'll take much pleasure in killing her... he thouht.

He aimed his palm at Sevra as a Cero began building in clawed grip.

[Azure_Ghidorah]

POW!

The earth shattering punch from Solranous threw Evihs head over heels away from Sevra, losing the charging Cero in the process.

"You just don't know when to just stay in Hueco Mundo, do you, Evihs? Or better yet, why don't you crawl into some hell hole and just die? Oh wait, you're already dead. I keep forgetting that." Solranous said as he stepped between Sevra and the Arrancar, releasing his Bankai. He also looked at Sevra, and undid the kidou on her, allowing her to flee or fight should she awaken in during the battle. True, she was his opponent, but she held no genuine malice towards anybody, and was just doing what she was ordered to do. Evihs, however, was evil, and therefore the greater threat.

The dragon Shinigami snarled at the Arrancar, and Flash Stepped to him, which resulted in him punch Evihs' gut in one second flat, too little time to react to and evade at those speeds. The speed also added to Solranous' already telekinetically enhanced power, winding Evihs. Solranous then charged energy into his claws and fangs, tearing into Evihs with his triple explosion attack. As he backed out of the smoke, he cleared it with a burst of telekinesis, so Evihs couldn't use it to get a free shot off. He also tensed himself for an attack from any direction, certain that Evihs had a Flash-Step like ability now that his reiatsu felt like both a Shinigami's and a Hollow's at the same time.

'I'm not letting him kill Sevra... Even if she was enacting an order to bring me to Seiritei by force if needed...' the dragon thought.

[Talon]

Evihs let loose a growling laugh as he rose to his feet, brushing himself off. It seemed Solranous's abilities hadn't done as much damage as he'd have liked them to.

"At least I knew I was dead... unlike someone for the past eight years..." He hissed.

His claws twitched, and i flash he had rushed forward and literally jumped in mid-run, delivering a powerful dropkick to Solranous's face, sending him skidding backwards. Evihs then fired off several Bari, each of which impacted the area where Solranous was going to hit, sending him flying back towards Evihs. He charged a Cero just as Solranous was about to impact, and let it fly as he jabbed the clawed limb at Solranous's chest.

Smoking, Solranous skidded to the ground as Evihs laughed,

"Oh, and by the way... your friend Gaigan makes a good Hollow. Wish I coulda gotten the others though."

[Azure_Ghidorah]

The dragon got back to his feet without missing a beat, and roared angrily at Evihs. He jumped into the air, charging energy into his maw. Evihs saw it, and was prepared to dodge, when he felt himself freeze unwillingly. Solranous had used his telekinesis to stop Evihs in his tracks. The dragon then launched a seires of energy balls, quickly followed by a Star Burst Flare. The dragon then charged at Evihs with his weapons, carving multiple gashes in the frozen Arrancar's frame, before blasting Evihs back with another Star Burst Flare. Before the smoke from the first had faded, Solranous Flash Stepped behind Evihs and fired again, then once again repeated the move, before landing near Sevra.

While Evihs was down for the moment, Solranous tried to rous Sevra from unconsciousness, "Sevra..." No response... "Sevra! Please get up, we've got problems!"

[Talon]

Sevra sat up, groaning and rubbing the back of her head.

"Urgh... 'someone see where that rhino went?" She gurgled in a dazed, off-tone.

Evihs staggered to his feet, growling as he unsheathed the katana at his side.

"THAT'S. IT. I've had my fill of you goddamn Shinigami always trying to ruin our kind's lives."

He held the blade out verdically, then hissed,

"Tear, Gaarascura!"

The Arrancar was enveloped in a burst of purple reiatsu, which slowly began churning around the Arrancar before eventually dissapating, revealing the Ressucion-released Arrancar within...

He now had white chitin-like structures on his shoulders, a strip down his back (between the wings), some on the front of his shins/knees, completely covering his shoulders, and mostly covering his forearms. The strip on his back had three katana-like spines, each about three feet long, running down it, while the pieces on his shins had five smaller blades running up them, and a sharp ridge jutting out over the knees. The patches on his shoulders had a cluster of similar blades jutting out from them, curving backwards slightly at the tips. His mask had spread out somewhat, covering the area between his eyes now as well and another strip of mask parallel to the first strip. Finally, each hand was sheathed in a sort of ’bone-gauntlet’, the fingers sheathed in long, oversized, serrated claws.

He flexed his claws, grinning sadistically as Sevra rose swayingly to her feet. The poor anthro had very litle time to react as Evihs roared,

"Trituradora de Alma!"

Sevra was impaled by the rapidly-extending claws that had pierced her stomach, and she vomited up a handful of blood. She felt her reiatsu begin to fluctuate as her limbs locked in place at her sides. Evihs's grin spread, maw slightly open now as he raised the claws, bringing Sevra up with them and into the air. He then spun around, forcing her off of his claws and flying to the ground below as the claws retracted. Evihs slowly turned to Solranous, then hissed,

"Perfore de Alma..."

He used the Sonido to teleport directly before Solranous as a sphere of blue-purple energy formed in his maw. The energy then launched out as a thick spray of needle-like beams, each managing to pierce completely through Solranous and is reiatsu. While still in mid-air, Evihs flipped around and smashed his leg into Solranous's head, sending him flying off of the edge of the roof.

"This form rings a bell, doesn't it? Looks like my old Hollow self, DOESN'T IT? Well, in a way, it is. Like Shinigami, our powers are stored in our Zanpoktou. But instead of the sword transforming, we gain our unique Hollow powers back while retaining all Arrancar traits. This is called a Ressurecion. Take it in, SHinigami. It'll be the last thing you ever see!"

[Azure_Ghidorah]

"I beg to differ." Solranous said, And Evihs' gagged, looking down. The dragon had impaled his claws, charged and extended with reiatsu, into Evihs' chest and out through his back.

"Since you've transformed, I'm inclined to bring out my most devastating attack." The dragon growled, before throwing Evihs down to the ground. Simultaneously, a piece of the roof of an uninhabited house was ripped off.

The dragon then lunged at the Ressurected Arrancar, smashing his fists into Evihs' gut, winding the Arrancar, before flying up and repeating the motion on the roof piece which now floated over them. Two fire flowers burst from the ground and roof, trapping Evihs in their sharp-petalled grip, Solranous having escaped with Flash Step. Solranous growled, once again freezing Evihs' while he set the fire flowers to do their work on their victim.

((Solranous: I don't care how durable you are. That is going to HURT!))

[Fredrex00]

Suddenly from behind Solranous, Kasou Tiranno appears. He takes a look at Evihs in his Ressurection form. He cocks his head to the side in curiousity. "I didn't know you looked like that as a hollow Evihs.." he mutters.

Suddenly the air around his body begins to erupt with dark flames. Solranous stumbles a bit forwards in shock and Kasou just keeps a silent, emotionless stance.

"Maybe you should see my Resurrection..." Kasou snarls, "I haven't activated this form in a while!!"

Kasou's body was then encased in flames, the outline of his body only being seen. Kasou lets out a gigantic howl of hunger and his body begins to change form. The arrancar's legs became more dinosaur like and the toe claws dug into the dirt. A tail formed onto Kasou and it lashed around in fury. The Arrancar gives out one last roar as the transformation starts to end and the case of flames bursts appart.

Smoke fills the area as the Resurrection Arrancar steps out. A gigantic Hollow-estc Tyrannosaur snarls at Solranous.

[glow=red,2,300]Tirano Desatrancado! [/glow]

The Arrancar looms over the shinigami and the other Arrancar. His nostrals inhale the sweet scent of burning grass and buildings. He also smelled the reiatsu of Evihs and Solranous. And the third one....that third one he smelled.

It made him hungry.

The Resurrected Arrancar stomps his way over to Sevra and sniffed her body. She layed on the ground in a small puddle of blood, which made the Arrancar crave even more for a meal. The saurion arrancar raises its head in the air and gives out a bellowing roar. He then quickly swings his head downwards, attempting to scoop the little shinigami in its mouth for its food....