Espada Mission 1B: Sword of Enigma

[Kolbertt]

"Whole colonies of hollows are being murdered.

Normally, such small news wouldn't even concern us. However, the survivor of this ongoing massacre spitted a particular fact before he died from his wounds. The whole colony was murdered by a SINGLE man, wielding a sword. However, we were unable to retrieve more information. Inspecting his wounds, we could indeed confirm they were sword slashes. Inspecting the scene has proven futile, as the fight has left too many reiatsu patterns intertwined. In other words, it's impossible to make a definite idea on this creature's specie.

As you know, the sole creatures in this dimension, capable of hurting a Hollow with a sword, are either a Shinigami, or an Arrancar.

It's of public knowledge that the Captain of the 12th division has been lost in Hueco Mundo for quiet a while now. And so far, information on this particular person has avoided us swiftly, we do not discard the possibility of this man being the 12th division Captain. At the same time, Arrancars attacking other Hollows is not unheard of. The lack of information on this individual's motifs do not help us determine, nor his specie, his skills, or even a slight hint on his power levels.

Our tacticians have traced a pattern in this man's actions, and we are able to predict his destination. Your job, is to get more information on this misterious swordman.

In case of it being a Shinigami, dispose of him ASAP. In case of him being the 12th division captain (Easily recognizable by the Captain's trademark Haori), take him back for further studies.

In case of him being an Arrancar, do whatever is necessary to have him join our ranks. That is, if you see him fit -

Remember, your lifes are precious to us, as such, your survival is top priority. However, if we find out you were defeated by an Arrancar, we'll gladly have him take your place in the Espadas

Mircalla Zolmao - Primera Espada"

The Espadas that had received this message that very morning, were already waiting in their designated spots. Mircalla had been specific on the resolution, but had left the procedure open for the Espadas to decide. Would a surprise attack do? Or was direct confrontation better? Whatever they'll do, they'll have to think and act quickly.




Espada Mission Rules!

Espadas are free to chose their mission, and expected to deal with them until the very end. WITHOUT help from the higher up Espadas, OR other Espadas (Which should be on other missions themselves ;p)
Everyone is free to "Adopt" any kind of Arrancar. In other words, have them join their Fraccion, but Hollows will only be chosen by the higher ups (Primera-Cuarta Espada) - You never know when possible spies are :flirt -
It's in the best interest of the thread, that all the participants are active. If any participant becomes inactive for an extended period of time, their character will be "Knocked out" by a mod, and remain unconscious until they return.
Remember, you are EXPECTED to complete your missions ;p - Failing them, or going your own way will result in a Point Penalty

That covers everything I think :XD

[Hiraeth]

"Durante-sama! Durante-sama!" Sisko had finally made it to her boss' rooms, despite wandering for some time through the alabaster corridors of Las Noches. She was obviously out of breath, clutching the piece of paper in her left hand like it was a matter of life and death.

Durante looked up from where he was playing snakes and ladders with Otso and raised an eyebrow "Sisko?"

Still panting, she held out the paper, which he scanned over quickly before smiling happily "Sisko you chose this for me?"

She nodded "Yes Durante-sama. I thought you might like it."

He smiled happily and patted her on the head "Good work Sisko, this is why you're my favourite."

Two other pairs of green eyes snapped up at this comment, and Durante wavered "Wait, no I don't have favourites, you're al the same. I mean, you're all equal. No! I love you all equally!"

Eager to escape a potential fight with his fraccion he dashed out the door "Gotta find the other Espada who's going! Goodbye my darling children whom I love equally."

[Final Boss]

Lala and Lulu were sleeping peacefully on their humongous bed, the bed was filled with pillows and stuffed animals scattered everywhere. Among the pillows, blankets, teddy bears, and who knows what you could barely see the twins still in a deep slumber. Lulu had made her way over to 'Lala's side of the bed'. Lala had felt the unwanted intruder trespassing onto her territory and woke up angry.

"Lulu your on my side of the bed!!"

After hearing her other sister scream madly at her, Lulu instantly woke up. "I'm not on your side! Look we are near the middle!" After close inspection Lala let it slide, "Whatever..."

They both were wide awake now so they planned out their day. A message was left on the desk near their bed. Lala grabbed it and tore it open. After a while of reading both twins got the message. "A mission?" Lulu wondered, "Yeah I guess so, looks like its interesting though, whole colonies be wiped out by someone who wields a sword." Both twins got ready to depart and ran out towards the designated meeting place, they would be accompanied by another Espada.

They reached the spot where the other Espada should be, "No ones here." Lulu said. "So we're early who cares, I hope he gets here soon I want to find out who this colony annihilator is."

They waited anxiously for the other Espada to arrive.

[Hiraeth]

Durante couldn't shake the feeling that he was being followed. He couldn't see anyone but his fraccion could be stealthy when they wanted to be, even Otso despite his enormous frame. When he arrived at the meeting place to find a pair of matching arrancar waiting for him he almost had a heart attack. Then he realised that they were two girls of the exact same height, with yellow hair, Lulu and Lala, the fifth espada.

He grinned happily and waved when he saw them "Hi Number Five! I'm so happy to see you two, for a second there I thought I was going to be stuck with someone boring."

Suddenly a the world grew dark, like a cloud had come across the sun, and from behind himself Durante heard a deep voice rumble his name.

He paled "Uh Number 5, could you tell me, is there perhaps a large arrancar with pink hair and green eyes standing behind me? And is he by any chance accompanied by two similar looking arrancar females? And are all three possibly staring at the back of my head like they're hoping it will explode?"

[Final Boss]

Lala and Lulu turned to see Durante, the 8th Espada, waving at them. "Whew it's not the creepy 6th or the justice guy... or was it?" They both squinted, trying to identify whether or not it was the 8th. Suddenly a large shadow loomed over the other Espada, this caused Durante to question the twins about who it was behind him.

"Pink hair, green eyes, a big guy..." the twins were following the description given to them, "Yep! He's right behind you!" said the twins, pointing behind him. They also noticed two female arrancars accompanying the large one. They were all staring at Durante.

[Hiraeth]

Durante shivered, he could almost feel the pressure of their eyes boring into the back of his head. Eventually it all got too much and with a quick use of sonido he moved so that the fifth espada were between himself and his fraccion.

Trying to take a serious tone of voice he pointed a finger at the trio "You three this is no time to be staring at me! We have work to do. Otso, Sisko, Suvi this is the Quinta Espada, they could crush me with their little fingers so imagine what they could do to you!"

He moved behind one "This one is Lala, and that one is Lulu. Or is it the other way around. Hmm, you two look the same from behind. Either way, Number 5, these are my three fraccion, feel free to obliterate them if they get in your way. I will be sad of course, but it shouldn't be hard to find new, less troublesome subordinates."

He paused "Also, in case you'd forgotten I'm the Octava Espada, Durante."

[Final Boss]

As Durante introduced the twins, they were somewhat surprised, "How did he know I was Lala?" Lala wondered. Either he had a keen sense or he was just plain lucky, whatever it was it didn't matter.

"Yep I'm Lala and this is my twin sister Lulu!"

The twins both looked at the trio of arrancar they looked to be a nice bunch. Lala took the liberty of using sonido and reappeared sitting on the large arrancar's shoulder, "So are you Otso?"

Lulu looked towards Durante and smiled, "So your Durante? It's a pleasure to meet you." With that she held out her hand as if she were offering a handshake.

[Hiraeth]

Durante forced himself to ignore his suspicions and reached out to grip Lulu's hand firmly, but not too firmly in case she took it as a challenge. She did seem to be the calmer of the two siblings though, which could only be a good thing "The pleasure is all mine, getting to work with a pair of pretty ladies like yourself is, as I said, a welcome surprise."

Otso stood still and swung his head around, trying to determine where the noise was coming from. When he made eye contact with Lala he tried to draw back to see her better and ended up leaning over onto Sisko who struggled with his weight "Don't do that! She's sitting on your shoulder."

That seemed to make it through to him and he made a cheerful mumbling sound, much like a minor earth tremor, and widened his dopey grin. Rather than offend the Espada, Sisko explained "He doesn't really talk much."

Durante raised an eyebrow at the antics. It seemed it had been a good idea to bring his fraccion after all. Well to have them follow him anyway.

He turned back to Lulu "I assume you've read the mission report, do you want to head straight to the projected destination of this mysterious person, or do you think it might be a good idea to visit the sites of his previous attacks and see if we can spot anything? I would personally suggest we head to his next destination and watch what he does, maybe even use bait to draw him out."

[Final Boss]

When Durante reached out and grabbed Lulu's hand she proceeded to instruct him in a secret handshake. "First you grab it like this, then snap it, shoot it, kaboot it. Good job, that's Lala's and my secret handshake, we only show it to our friends or people we like."

Osto tilted his head back, trying to get a good look at Lala. He nearly fell over onto the female arrancar. "Oh so he doesn't really talk huh? Oh well." She smiled and patted his head affectionately, she then jumped down and greeted the female arrancar, "I'm Lala, who're you?"

[Hiraeth]

Durante smiled happily "You like me? I like you two as well, let's all be friends." He tried his best to memorise the handshake, suspecting he might need to remember it later.

Sisko blinked nervously "I am Sisko. It is a pleasure to meet you Lala-sama."

From up above her she heard Otso happily rumble "Lalaaaaaa" and she winced, it was bad enough that he called Durante-sama by his first name alone, now he was doing it to someone ranked higher even than Durante-sama.

Out of the corner of her eye she caught Suvi sneaking towards Durante and Lulu, and wished wholeheartedly that she'd remained in the room instead of following after her master with her siblings.

[Final Boss]

"Yes I've read the report, I agree that we should head to his next destination. Normally I would want to gain some knowledge on his abilities but Lala seems to want to get some action. I guess it's enough to know that he is capable of eliminating entire hollow colonies." Lulu was too busy discussing the plans with Durante that she didn't notice the fraccion sneaking up on them.

"It's nice to meet you Sisko!" She then proceeded to show her the same secret handshake that Lulu had showed Durante, she also made sure Otso was paying attention. "Thats our secret handshake, lets be friends okay?" Lala said with a smile "Anyways wasn't there a another one of you guys?"

[Hiraeth]

"F-Friends Lala-sama? Of course." Sisko managed to stammer out, privately wondering where the hidden camera was. This must be a joke, Espada didn't ask to be friends with fraccion, well except for Durante-sama, but he was more like their brother, or maybe their weird uncle.

She paled at the mention of the third sibling and pointed a shaking finger at where Suvi had been standing a second ago. Suddenly Durante keeled backwards as though something had hit him in the back of the knees.

Sisko watched in horror as Durante hit the ground. Suvi had a talent for picking her moments. The tiny little deviant jumped onto Durante's chest and smiled sweetly up at half the Quinta Espada "Hey! He can't be your friend because he's my friend. I'm his favourite. Right Durante?"

His response was something like "Gnuuurgh"

[Final Boss]

Lala looked back at Durante, it seemed the third one she was looking for brought Durante onto the ground and was sitting on top of him. She headed towards Durante hoping to join the fun.

"He can be all of our friends." Lulu insisted.

Lala came running over to the sight and joined Suvi, on top of Durante, "Hey this looks fun, whats your name?" asking the other fraccion.

[Hiraeth]

Durante made a slight 'oof' sound as the weight on his chest increased. He felt an ominous shift in weight as Suvi turned to consider the Quinta Espada. "I don't like-"

"To introduce herself!" Sisko finished, clamping a hand over Suvi's mouth to prevent her from stating that she disliked a powerful and unpredictable pair of beings. Suvi tried to pull at her sister's hand, but it was no good Sisko was determined not to let the tiny arrancar ruin things for their master. "Her name is Suvi. I'm sure she'd love for us all to be friends, she just gets overly protective of Durante-sama sometimes." and sometimes she just enjoys causing him pain she thought.

Sisko scooped her sister up off Durante, still gagging her with one hand, and asked politely "Lala-sama would it be possible for you to move so that Durante-sama can stand?"

Durante managed to get his voice back for a moment "We should probably get started soon, before the Primera Espada comes to find out what is taking so long."

[Final Boss]

"Okay." Lala quickly jumped off of Durante. "Lala you should know better than to just jump onto our partner like that."

Lala folded her arms in front of her chest and pouted, "Fine then, lets go!" She started to lead the way to the killer's next destination.

[Gol D. Roger]

"I'm late, I'm late!"

In his alcohol-drenched slumber, Fritz had managed to sleep through his blaring alarm clock, and now found himself dashing through the hallways of Las Noches on the trail of his mistresses. He could sense their reiatsu up ahead.

Suddenly, a cavernous opening emerged ahead of Fritz, spilling light into the corridor. Lala-sama and Lulu-sama were certainly just outside.

"Fine then, lets go!"

"No, no!" he yelled, bursting into sonido. "Wait for meeeeeee... oof!"

A well placed leg from Lala-sama caused Fritz to trip, flying through the air before colliding with the sand below.

"Thorry Rara-thama..." he said, emptying his mouth of copious volumes of sand. A moment later, he was bowed at Lala's feet, groveling.

[Final Boss]

"Just get up. We were thinking of bringing you along anyways." Lala turned back to ask Durante, "So where are we going anyways?"

Lulu came up to Fritz and helped him up, "Lets go." Durante and his fraccion came passing by and Lulu took the time to introduce him. "This is Fritz, he's our fraccion. Fritz thats Durante, the 8th Espada, Sisko, Suvi, and Otso." As she introduced them she pointed to each arrancar.

[Hiraeth]

Durante waved briefly to Fritz "Hi." He inspected the mission statement "They've given us some coordinates. It seems as though his next destination is a valley in..." He turned around a couple of times and ended up facing the way others were already walking "that direction."

He folded up the piece of paper and fitted it into a pocket "Valleys are perfect for ambushes, so let's just make sure we're the ones doing the ambushing, not the other way around alright? Also we should probably move quickly since they've determined he'll be arriving some point today."

"So in the interest of haste..." He grinned and reached out to tap Lala on the shoulder "Tag!" With a flash of sonido he was gone in the direction of the valley.

Sisko sighed as she watched her master zoom off into the distance "It is nice to meet you Fritz, Otso doesn't really talk much, and Suvi is not talking at the moment." A pair of green eyes glared at her from behind the hand that was still gagging her mouth. "But I'm sure they're pleased to meet you as well. Perhaps we should prepare to run."

[Gol D. Roger]

Fritz took in the pair of glaring green eyes with a hint of fear. Angry people made him nervous. "Um, um... It's nice to meet you too, uh... Sisko, was it? But what did you mean we should prepare to...?"

He trailed off, noticing Lala and Lulu had already taken off after Durante. "Lala-samaaa, Lulu-samaaa, wait for meeeeeee!" he shouted, jumping into sonido after them.

[Final Boss]

As Durante sped away in the direction of the valley the twins watched him move swiftly away and thought, "We never lose at tag!"

They burst into sonido leaving a cloud of sand behind them, slowly gaining on Durante. Fritz was following behind so the twins increased their speed, putting a smirk on their faces.

[Hiraeth]

Durante glanced back to see the twins rapidly gaining on him. This seemed to have been a good idea. He slowed a little to let them catch up to him, his sonido was pretty good considering his ranking, there were probably only a few espada faster than him, but since he wasn't in battle it didn't really seem worth going all out, it was always good to keep some cards to yourself.

Sisko was now following Fritz and the Espada diligently. She figured by now it would be okay to let Suvi go, and the little girl thanked her with a swift bite to one finger. She yelped, and was rewarded by a rumbling chuckle from Otso, his brain having caught up enough to allow his legs to follow. Suvi had vanished into the desert, but Sisko had the sneaking suspicion that when they reached this valley she'd be waiting there for them, possibly snacking on little hollow lizards, her favourite.

[Final Boss]

Lulu looked ahead and noticed Durante's slight decrease in speed and notified Lala. "Well maybe he's getting tired." answered Lala, "Unlikely."

The twins quickly caught up to Durante and Lala tagged him on the shoulder, "Your it!" Lala and Lulu slightly increased their speed and widened the gap between the 8th Espada. Lulu waved, "Bye bye." and Lala turned around sticking out her tongue and making funny faces.

They moved at an incredible rate towards the valley, apparently playing tag with the twins was a good idea.

[Hiraeth]

Durante grinned and increased his speed slightly so as to not let the two girls get too far ahead. He made a quick feint at Lala who dodged expertly and grinned at him. He noted that Sisko had caught up and he dropped back a little to tag her shoulder. The expression on her face was something between surprise and resignation "As you wish Durante-sama."

Durante watched Sisko's form blur as she headed after the twins, he suspected they were also holding back, as despite her speed she was still only a fraccion and shouldn't have been able to get so close to them.

[Final Boss]

The twins glanced back to see a switch of pursuers, Sisko had obviously been tagged and was quickly heading their way. "Uh oh" Lulu thought, "here comes Sisko." Sisko was slowly gaining on them, "What do we do Lala?" Lulu asked. Lala thought for a moment then used sonido to appear with tagging range of Sisko the quickly disappearing in a flash, outside of Sisko's reach.

"Come on Lulu." said Lala, Lulu then joined in, the identical twins quickly appeared and disappeared all around Sisko, "You can't catch us." teased Lala.

[Hiraeth]

Sisko sighed, and dutifully reached after the two espada only to have them vanish before she could touch them. She spent several minutes doing this, knowing full well that Durante-sama was trying to force her to have fun. It wouldn't work, she wouldn't give in so easily.

Suddenly she felt a hand on her arm as Durante indicated for her to stop, she did so and found herself looking into a valley. They were at the entrance of it, it was apparently a cul-de-sac, only having one entrance or exit, perfect place for an ambush. The steep sides of the valley were dotted with the strange leafless quartz trees that proliferated in Hueco Mundo, as well as larger white boulders, perfect for hiding behind.

Sisko glanced down at the hand still gripping her arm and turned her face up to Durante "Tag."

He grinned down at her "You win!"

"You're slow." As Sisko had expected Suvi had somehow beaten them to the valley and was sitting on a rock with her knees drawn up under her chin. Out of the corner of her mouth poked a tiny white tail. With a final crunch she swallowed it down "There's no one strong here yet, just some mediocre hollows wandering around. We should set up bait and wait up the top."

[Final Boss]

The twins stopped their game of tag and looked down into the valley. If the information given by Suvi was correct then they were lucky to arrive before anyone else.

"So any plans in mind Durante?" asked Lulu. "We may be able to make use of the boulders around the valley."

[Hiraeth]

Durante shrugged, "I guess we mask our reiatsu and just sit around and wait. It'd be better if we're spread out a bit, and I think Suvi's idea about the bait was a good one."

Suvi seemed to take this as her cue to contribute "You should make Sisko the bait."

Her sister, realising this was revenge for gagging the little monster earlier, nodded "I'd be happy to be bait Durante-sama."

[Final Boss]

"Sounds like a good plan." said Lulu, "Where is Fritz anyways, he's soooo slow." Lala began to look for a good hiding place and quickly hid her reiatsu, "Forget him, he's probably waaay behind. Let find a place to hide." Lulu followed obediently behind her sister waving once to Durante's group before they looked around.

Lala found a nice, big rock, perfect to hide behind and sat down, her back resting on the huge boulder. "Soo lets wait, I'm gonna take a quick nap since you ruined my sleep earlier. You keep watch." She closed her eyes and quickly drifted into sleep. "Fine..." Lulu positioned herself behind the rock, with a great view of the valley.

[Hiraeth]

Durante turned to his own fraccion, Suvi had already vanished again, rather than hiding Otso was impersonating a boulder and Sisko was trying to look like she wasn't trying to look like bait.

He grabbed Otso and managed to drag him somewhere slightly less obvious, then he indicated for Sisko to head into the valley. She did so, still trying to look nonchalant with only moderate success.

Durante positioned himself across from the twins and masked his reiatsu.

[Gol D. Roger]

"Waaaaiiiit!" Everyone seemed to have vanished, and in his hurry, he failed to notice the boulder which came up in front of him.

"Oof!" He tripped over the boulder, toppling over it, onto...

Lala-sama!

"Oh no!" he yelped, only then realizing he had stopped his fall with a hand on Lala's breast. He yanked it away in absolute horror. "Oh no, oh no, oh no!"

Once again, he groveled face down in the sand. This time, he prayed for death. In his mind, it'd probably be better than whatever discipline was waiting for him.

[Final Boss]

"What the hell?!" Lala screamed, very angry to have her sleep interrupted...a second time. Her scream was nearly loud enough for all of Hueco Mundo to hear,

"Lala! You're going to give away our hiding spot." Lala was to furious to give in to reason, "Fritz?! You like touching my boobs or something?!" Lala grabbed Fritz's head and flipped him onto his back, she then forcibly shoved her breasts straight into his face, suffocating him. She held his face tightly against her chest and continued yelling at him, "Here is this better?!" Lulu quickly grabbed Fritz by the legs and tried to pull him away from Lala, but to no avail.

Lala would not let go of Fritz until it seemed he had suffocated to death, Lulu kept tugging in hopes of slowly prying Fritz away. It turned out to be a game of tug-a-war, nearly stretching Fritz beyond the limits of his body. "Stop Lala you going to get us caught!"

They continued to pull at Fritz now unaware of what was going on in the valley.

[Kolbertt]

A sole man walked through Hueco Mundo. With dead-white eyes, and shoulder length red hair. Nothing covered him, except for a ragged loincloth held in place by... tentacles.

Tentacles were everywhere in "It". All around its neck, into its Torso, penetrating its mouth, and all around its right arm and into its fingers, which held a Sword tightly.

He moved erratically, as someone who is being moved by invisible strings one limb at a time. In his head, an unblinking pink eye stared straight to the other end of a valley. Its goal was there, a place where it could unleash all the power. From sheer excitement, this being started irradiating power, a bizarre combination of Reiatsu that made it impossible to know what they were facing...

With nothing else in its mind, this creature moved forward - That is, under it heard a scream...

The eye in the head moved everywhere. It would seem its fun would arrive before time

(OOC: And here's your Enemy for you to see ;p - Excuse the lame quality and the girly hips, but I couldn't be bothered to photoshop it into something decent ;p

http://i28.tinypic.com/w6quxk.jpg)

[Hiraeth]

Sisko watched the thing walking towards her and suddenly had a really bad feeling. She hoped Durante-sama knew what he was doing. Then she realised what the strange looking things all over the thing's body actually were.

"T-t-tentacles?" She started to shake, and sheer panic filled her eyes "Tentacles?! Durante-sama it has tentacles!" She shouted as best she could in her state, then as the being got closer her eyes rolled up into her head and she fainted.

Durante, hearing the last of her shout and knowing of her phobia of things with tentacles, had stood up to go to her aid, only to have his ankle grabbed by Suvi who shook her head "Boss, don't be foolish, she works just as well as bait like this, if not better because her bad acting won't give her away."

Durante glared at her "I don't like this."

Suvi nodded "I know, but if he does anything at all to my sister you won't get to him before me..." She grinned, showing white teeth that almost looked pointed.

Durante nodded "Very well."

[Final Boss]

The twins continued pulling on Fritz until it seemed his body would rip in half. Suddenly Lulu sensed an unknown, unidentifiable reiatsu. "Stop Lala!" hushing her voice just loud enough for Lala to hear, "Something is coming." Lala also sensed this energy and tossed away Fritz's body, "I'll deal with you later."

They both looked down to see an unconscious Sisko and a strange being, tentacles wrapped around his entire body. This person was also holding what looked like a zanpaktou, "Look Lulu, that's the guy we're looking for." said Lala excited that the target was approaching. "Yes but why is Sisko unconscious?" wondered Lulu.

If Durante hasn't acted yet then maybe this was part of the plan, they both thought.

[Kolbertt]

The creature moved forward with a slow, but steady pace, giving the sensation that every step was over-calculated, and performed clumsily. Was it really THIS creature the one who had destroyed all those Hollows? - At mere first sight, it would be hard to believe. Since this mysterious individual's frame was not exactly muscular, and it's movements were clumsy...

Yet, as it moved closer to the source of the scream, this unconcious woman in the middle of the Valley, the eye on it's head blinked. It's iris got narrower and focused on the woman. The eyelids contorted in a bizarre way, it seemed as if this protrussion was smiling.

Suddenly, coming out from behind it's hair, more tentacles extended and got on it's back. They expanded all along his torso and into its hips, following the shape of the spinal cord - All the while, the body shaked, and in a blink, was standing in front of the fainted Arrancar.

She would help It, but not at the time, not in THIS state... It would be best to take her with It, and force into colaboration. It’d drag her hair until she woke up, all the road to the next collony if necesary –

It extended it’s free hand towards the Arrancar’s head...

[Hiraeth]

Durante watched what was about to occur and his gaze flicked down to Suvi. Her eyes had narrowed considerably and one hand had reached into the pocket of her dress. He knew that look "You were saying?"

She met his gaze, nodded once and seemed to vanish before his eyes, in truth she'd simply burrowed under the sand. She emerged seconds later at the heels of the figure, the hand emerged from her pocket clutching a knife, her zanpaktou, as diminutive as she was. With a quick movement she reached out and stabbed the knife into the side of the thing's heel, then ripping it back towards her. The movement would have cut the achilles tendon of a human, but Hollows were made differently, it was a bad idea to wait and see if it had the same effect. She was back under the sand before the spray of blood had a chance to spatter her clothes.

She emerged a moment later, her blade still dripping with blood that she licked off with a smile. With any luck her quick attack had just distracted him from Sisko.

[Kolbertt]

But of course... An Arrancar wouldn't faint in the middle of a valley without a reason... IT had been too careless, and now HE paid the prize...

Since the thing that had made the Arrancar scream was still around, the eye on the head of that thing grew a second and third iris that started looking around... But for the moment being, IT'd like to secure it's prize. ITs hand extended forward towards the Arrancar for a second time...

[Gol D. Roger]

At some point between Lala-sama's mountains of joy suffocating him to death, and Lulu-sama tugging on his legs, Fritz had passed out entirely.

"Uh..." He yawned, stretching and rubbing his eyes. What a nice nap. Although it was strange, he was pretty sure his bed wasn't so... sandy...

He blinked, sitting straight up. The dark skies of Hueco Mundo hung over him like a blanket.

Then it all came rushing back to him, and his eyes widened. Nothing to do but...

Duck! Fritz crouched low, covering his head. Nothing happened.

He chanced a glance around, but there was no great valleys-suffocating Lala-sama, or leg pulling-offer Lulu-sama...

Then he saw them, standing, looking out at something below. If they were occupied, best not to interfere...

Fritz crouched low and crept over to the boulder he tripped over earlier. Laying in its shadow, he produced a small jug of sake from an inside pocket in his tiny jacket. Never go anywhere unprepared.

[Final Boss]

Lala and Lulu had been observing the scene below, watching as Suvi attacked the mysterious 'thing'. Lala was about to jump down and join in on the attack but Lulu held her back, "Wait Lala, lets take this oppurtunity to gather some information on this thing's capabilities."

She turned around looking at Fritz, "Fritz go down there and help out."

[Hiraeth]

Suvi didn't like being ignored, as the creature soon discovered when the hand reaching for its prize felt the bite of her zanpaktou. She twisted the knife happily "You're stupid. Don't you know you always deal with attackers first?" With a savage grin she dragged the little knife up the thing's arm.

Like the twins, Durante was assessing the situation. He trusted his fraccion to take care of themselves, they were far from weak. He was slightly concerned about Sisko but once she woke up she was more than capable of fighting back.

[Gol D. Roger]

Fritz sighed, tucking the sake jug back into his jacket. Well, at least his mistresses seemed to have forgotten the earlier incident.

Trudging over, he caught his first glimpse of the weird... thing. Oh boy, not what he wanted to do right now. In fact, not what he wanted to do ever. Frilly dresses, fine, okay, but crazy tentacle thingies? He didn't sign up for this...

But then a kick in the behind from Lala sent Fritz tumbling down towards the scene below.

[Kolbertt]

The attacker had appeared. And as IT had predicted, it was another Arrancar -

His left hand had been slashed between the ring and middle finger, and the cut continued deep into half of his hand. A minor nuisance, since IT could regenerate it fast. Like stitches on a wound, small tentacles appeared from inside the flesh and joined together back the hand, at the same time it extended forward and grabbed by the face the toddler like creature that emerged from the sand.

From where the wound had been seconds before, now a tentacle came out and inserted itself on the toddler Arrancar's mouth, small ramifications expanded into its face, nearing her ears and nostrils... If she was worth it, she'd be ITS propierty.

IT was so focused, it didn't notice the other falling Arrancar. In ITS mind, all that existed was the Arrancar in front of it, and how much power it would unlock with her help...

(OOC: Hira, take into account that Fraccion action won't raise your points as much as Durante's actions. After all, it's your Espada the one we are evaluating ;p)

[Hiraeth]

(OOC: I know, but Durante's not the kind of guy to get into battle unless he knows his fraccion can't deal with it.)

Suvi could feel what was happening to her, but her mental instability meant that she wasn't afraid. As she did when anything entered her mouth she started chewing on it to see what it tasted like. She was disappointed to find that it wasn't as nice as lizard. She suspected that if the tentacles got inside her that it would be annoying so she began stabbing her knife into the things hand, trying to sever as many of its tendons as possible to get it to let her go.

Durante frowned as he saw what was happening. This thing was powerful, simple minded but powerful, his fraccion probably couldn't handle it. He sighed petulantly and with a flash of sonido he moved into the valley. A moment later Arrulo was unsheathed and slashing through the air towards the creature's forearm.

[Final Boss]

Lulu had been patiently observing the actions taken by this creature, apparently it inserts its tentacles into the opponents body. Unfortunately Lulu would not be able to gather anymore information then that as Durante appeared in a flash down in the valley, zanpaktou unsheathed.

Lala looked down and noticed Fritz's limp, unconscious body. "Useless." she thought, "We're going down now Lulu, I can't let Durante have all the action."

Lala jumped down of the edge of the valley, her zanpaktou, Guerrero, materializing near her right hand. She landed hard against the sand surface of Hueco Mundo causing a dust cloud to rise up and cover her completely, she burst out of the cloud at an incredible speed straight for the back of the unsuspecting monster. She viciously swung her massive claymore horizontally at the waist hoping to chop the creature in half.

Lulu sighed, her zanpaktou materialized near her right hand as well. Guarda, her zanpaktou took the appearance of a massive shield, perfect for defense. She quickly appeared in front of Lala, shield ready to block her attack. Lala's attack struck the shield powerfully the force of the blow would be enough to easily cleave a boulder in half. "Lala let's not rush this, he looks like an arrancar we should try talking to it first."

[Hiraeth]

Durante felt his blade bite into flesh. The creature obviously felt it too, releasing Suvi who spat out a mouthful of blood. He suspected it probably wasn't hers. She looked up "Boss?"

Durante pointed at Sisko "Take her."

Their playful interraction had suddenly vanished, replaced by an almost military precision. Suvi nodded and dove onto her sister, dragging her down into the shifting sands.

With a flick of his wrist Durante extracted his blade from the creature's flesh and lowered it to his side. For a moment he simply stared at it, then his face broke into an embarrassed smile "Ah this is awkward, but I need to know who you are and who your allegiance is to."

[Kolbertt]

The creature's arm would have fallen off, were it not for the tentacles that had suddenly emerged to held the pieces together. It had been swift and precise, but the toddler had still escaped and had taken his first pray with her. Not that it mattered, as this one seemed to be the boss.

Out of sheer excitement, more tentacles appeared and spreaded out throughout its back. This time, it'd squeeze the power out from this body, even if he had to claim the life on an Arrancar in the process. It leaped forward, and with it's right hand, threw itself for a slash -

(OOC: Don't expect our little friend here to speak anytime soon ;p)
0======0

"My, my, at the very least, one of you's got manners" screamed someone from the top of the valley. An androginous young man was sitting on the exact place where the twins had been hiding before. He sitted and joyfully played with his odd hair, long and blond, but short and black at the same time...

"Hey little ones, why don't you leave those two hotties to dance? I've got other places to be instead of this yucky mountain - Oh, dear, it'd be better if I go closer to you... All this shouting can't be good to my throat"

Having said that, he jumped from the top of the mountain in front of the twins... To put it in simple terms, his appearance was... Flamboyant, to say the least -

"Allow me to introduce Myself - Don Juan Giovannesse. Or Jhonny to the cute little girls. The Sixth Arcano...

Now, mind telling me more about Man-candy there? Cause I've got the feeling he's the one I've been looking for"

(OOC: You've chosen a REALLY bad day to make me show off new characters :fu - I promise pictures by tomorrow

BTW: I wonder what will happen when same-Source Inspirations clash ;p)

[Final Boss]

The one known as Don Juan Giovannesse, Jhonny for short, landed directly in front of Lala and Lulu, "Man-candy?" Lala wondered , "Who the hell're you talking about, Durante?" she pointed towards the the Espada engaged with the creature.

"Never mind that Lala. Sixth Arcano? Are you an ally of Dios de Diablo?"

[Kolbertt]

"Yeah, the tentacle guy is not my type. Nice body and all, but I'm not into tentacles lately... Durante... What a cute name <3 -

As for me being with Dios de Diablo, pfft - That guy doesn't like Arrancars like me and you... I'm a honorary member of the Arcanos, and one of the thirteen future rulers of Hueco Mundo! Jujuju!"

Jhonny's laugh was weird, and the fact that he covered his mouth with three fingers as he laughed rythmically, wasn't helping his image at all.

"But before that, we need to erase the past, and I've heard there's an Espada going around, killing hollows. A perfect chance to show why WE, Arcanos, are far superior to the Espada - So, is Durante-Chan an Espada?"

[Final Boss]

"Yes, Dura..." Lulu was rudely interrupted by her sister, "Forget Durante over there!" yelled out Lala, "We're the 5th Espada!" She pulled down her brief slightly making the #5 completely visible, not to mention a good potion of her skin.

"Yes Durante is an Espada." Lulu continued, "But my sister and I are an Espada as well, I'm Lulu and that's Lala. And an Espada killing hollows? Nonsense, the one your looking for is that creature over there."

[Hiraeth]

"Man-candy?" Durante wasn't sure whether to be flattered or offended. He was spared the choice by the tentacled creature finally deciding to move into action. He dodged its attack, appearing behind it for one of his own, leaving the twins to deal with the creep with the bad hair.

[Kolbertt]

ITs attack had been repelled... The eye gorgled in excitement at the prospect. Its hearing was not exactly the best, but it had heard the word "ESPADA" and even IT knew what that meant.

The tentacles sprouted from his elbow and covered his whole right arm. The whole hand's mass increased, it became muscular and obscenely disproportionate. This new strike would be stronger, faster, and deadlier than the one before.

0======0

"Oh, so you two are Espadas as well? What a bummer, And I was about to ask you to join me so that I could see you both blossom. Guess I have no choice then"

Jhonny took out his cape, revealing an even more ridiculous and flamboyant outfit. Out of nowhere, he had also taken a pair of bladed tonfas.

"Now, mind telling me what do a pair of Barby dolls do in the Espadas?"

(OOC: Here's Jhonny!
http://i31.tinypic.com/280litj.jpg
YUP; that's a Speedo - and the thing on the tongue are Hollow masks remnants

Ya, I've got no shame, nor talent :fu)

[Hiraeth]

Durante made the mistake of glancing back and erupted into a fit of giggles. It was worth getting the tentacled fist in the back, just to see the ridiculous outfit that the 'arcano' was wearing.

Durante felt the fist connect with his shoulderblade and send him flying back towards the other three, he was tempted to keep laughing and land face down in the sand, but he got a hold of himself and used one hand to flip himself upright.

He brought Arrulo back up in an offensive position "Not much of a talker are you? Well I have other ways of finding things out, but first let's see how good you really are."

He sonido-ed behind the creature and swung at its shoulder.

[Kolbertt]

The sword clashed. ITS blocking movement had consisted of simply putting its arm over its shoulder, and intercept the slash with his Zanpakuto.

Without moving, the creature's bizarre Eye blinked, gathered energy, and shot a Bala straight at Durante's face.

Not a moment after that, IT spinned on it's heel, and and threw a slash with the strong, right arm.

[Hiraeth]

Durante smiled and snapped his head to the side to avoid the bala, then brought his hand up to grab the fist that smash towards him. He felt the jarring all the way up his arm, this thing was strong. He really didn't want to have to use his resurreccion form, but if this went on much longer he would probably have to. He used the hand grabbing the fist to suddenly pull the creature past him, knocking it off balance and giving him a chance to get out of range. Having done so he stabbed Arrulo into the ground and used both hands to shoot his signature double bala at the thing. He kept up a steady stream of them, purely to see how it would react.

[Kolbertt]

IT saw the incoming energy, but he couldn't possibly dodge them all in middair. Where it wearing any other kind of body, this would have meant the end. But this body had yet to see it's limits. IT had not been able to unleashe the Zanpakuto's power yet!!

This could be pulling it to the limits, but IT saw no other way. It extended his left arm, the free left arm, and pointed it at the incoming Balas - Very much like the right arm had done before, this one deformed as million tentacles runned under the skin, and blossomed like grotesque flowers that gathered up and swallowed each and every one of the Balas shot at IT.

However, it was far from redirecting or swallowing the attack. All the damage absorbed was redirected by the tentacles (Which swelled disgustingly after each attack) throughout the body -

Once the barrage of attacks ended, IT landed softly. The flock of tentacles had receded back into his body, which hissed as smoke came out from it...

Without a second thought, IT lunged forward, ready for the thrill of battle once more -

[Hiraeth]

Durante cocked his head to the side as he saw its response "Interesting." He reached out and pulled Arullo from the sand "Guess we're not done yet."

He watched it approach "So let's see, if it weren't for your all your wobbly bits you'd be in a lot more pain right now, so I guess I could cut you up and see how much damage can be done before you can't be stitched back together."

He frowned "But that requires so much effort. Tch, I wish they'd sent the doctor on this mission instead, I can't figure anything out from all this observing."

The creature's next attack broke his reverie, as he blocked he tried again to communicate "Oi, is there any chance you'll just tell me what your deal is?"

[Gol D. Roger]

Fritz groaned, finally coming to at the bottom of a sand dune. He opened his eyes ever so slightly, trying to gauge what was going on.

Almost immediately, he caught sight of the tentacled... man... thing, fighting with Durante. And then, he noticed the flamboyantly dressed man looking on. He'd worn clothes like that because he'd had to in order to please his mistresses, but to see someone wearing it voluntarily... Yuck!

After weighing his options, Fritz decided the best course of action was...

To pretend he was still unconscious. He shut his eyes as much as he could while still retaining just a sliver of vision to observe what was happening.

[Final Boss]

As Jhonny revealed his outfit Lala couldn't help but burst out in laughter even Lulu let out a giggle, but she quickly retained her composure. She identified his weapons, "Tonfas huh?" she thought, also mentally noting Lala, "We can't underestimate his capabilities, but it looks like a fight cannot be avoided."

Lala slowly stopped her laughing, "Hahaha... so ya want to see what these Barbie dolls can do?" The twins readied their weapons.

[Kolbertt]

Still clashing weapons, IT stared at Durante with it's pearly white eyes, and emmited no sound.

0=====0

"Yeah, I wanna see what the Barby dolls can do..." Having said that, Jhonny lunged forward - Judging from looks, the one with the Sword seemed to be the strongest, while the one with the huge Shield looked slow.

It's easy, Jhonny knocks the one with the sword away and hold the one with the shield ransom - Or maybe the other way around?

However, his body didn't wait for his mind, and was already dashing forward towards the one with the Shield. Crap! I hate it when that happens!!

Anyhow, he had managed to think fast enough to Sonido behind the girl with the shield. Holding his Tonfa by her neck, and another by her back, Jhonny looked at the 5th Espada.

"Now, you'll have to slash through your precious Sister to get me... Jujuju..."

[Final Boss]

Lala watched as Jhonny took Lulu hostage, "Stupid..." Lulu slightly smiled as Jhonny appeared behind her, she disappeared in a flash along with her shield, quickly reappearing above Jhonny. Guarda was obstructing Jhonny's view and as it disappeared Lala became visible to Jhonny. She was already charging towards Jhonny ready to swing Guerrero.

"Don't underestimate us." said the twins in unison.

[Hiraeth]

Durante sighed, and shoved back his opponent. This was going nowhere fast, if he wanted to find anything out before he killed this thing he was going to have to do it before his patience wore out.

He quickly distanced himself from the creature and held Arullo out in front of himself. He placed one hand on the blade and glanced up towards the tentacled arrancar "I guess you leave me no choice." The sand began to rise around him as in a low voice he muttered "Whisper, Arullo."

The sudden increase in his reiatsu was accompanied by an explosion, temporarily blocking him from sight. When he reappeared it was with the entire bottom half of his body transformed, and a mask on the back of his head.

He raised his tails and twitched them experimentally, able to control them like another pair of limbs, which in fact, they were. He grinned revealing a set of newly pointed teeth "Shall we find out what you taste like then?"

[Kolbertt]

The excitement at Durante's Release was shared among the Espada's enemies.

The tentacled creature twitched it's head in various manners, raised it's arm, and slashed the air, unleashing a barrage of energy, mixture of a Cero and some strange energy... It neared Durante at a relatively slow pace, but it's strength was so big, that even the area surrounding the slash corroded and dissapeared.

The creature twitched even more than before.

0=====0

Jhonny had indeed underestimated the one with the shield, but he was no slouch himself, as he had already jumped, letting the enormous sword pass behind him, at the time he hitted it with his Tonfa - The sword bounced and hit the floor, and Jhonny himself was propelled into middair.

"Jujuju... Let's see how well you defend then!" He threw himself to attack the one with a Sword, but stopped mid-attack once he sensed the new Reiatsu in the area.

"OH. MY. GOD!" He screamed

"WHAT AN EXCEDINGLY HANSOME MAN YOU ARE! Oh MY GOD!!!" He panted heavily, at the same time he held his hand by his chest, obviously, Durante's Resurreccion had shocked him to no end. His rather revealing outfit made it obvious he was NOT over-reacting, as his body was reacting accordingly.

"Calm down, you were told you needed to kill the Espadas... You cannot take him home, no you can't... And then, you have to deal with those annoying brats... Yeah... Jhonny will deal with the hottie later. Yeah... Jhonny'll take the ugly girls out, and then it'll be Jhonny and him..."

Jhonny clashed both his Tonfas at the same time he said... "Saibun, Gemelos"

Unlike Durante's Resurreccion, Jhonny merelly splitted his arms, which kept on separating further and further at the same time the Tonfa's merged into them...

Seconds later, two small shadows were rushing down at a blinding speed, at the same time a pair of armored fists punched Lulu and Lala straight at the face.

"You are not the only ones who can talk in Stereo, little ones!"



(ADD ON: I got comments saying Jhonny was disturbing... I wonder why it is :fu)

[Hiraeth]

Durante's senses were generally heightened by being in this form, he'd always found resurreccion to be a way of releasing the baser part of his own nature. He heard the noises that the arcano was making, but blotted them out as only so much noise.

He put both hands together and combined his two shots of cero into one, which he shot directly at the thing to take some energy off it. It was only mildly successful.

The strange blast reached its destination and exploded upon its target. The smoke cleared to reveal a slightly smoking, but mostly uninjured Durante, who'd coiled his tails around himself as a shield from the blast.

He unwrapped himself in seconds, and sent both tails snapping through the air to wrap around the arms of his opponent. With a spring his body followed and in seconds he had fastened his jaws on the creature's neck, and injected it with his sleeping poison.

[Final Boss]

Lala jumped back and managed to avoid the punch, Lulu on the other hand used her enormous shield to easily block the attack.

"Shit he released." Lala thought, "If things get out of hand we may have to release as well." replied Lulu. "No! I refuse to release unless we have to!" She swung her sword at the shadow that had approached her.

Lulu knew how much Lala disliked releasing their true powers so she obediently followed with a counter attack against Jhonny, attacking with her shield.

[Kolbertt]

IT felt the bite on the neck. However, it couldn't feel anything else. Was this the so famed power of the Espadas? What a let down... IT couldn't unleash it's arms, which remained tightened fast in the Espada's tails... The sheer pressure by which they were held prevented IT from letting the tentacles run free, so he couldn't power the arms up. Instead, IT let the tentacles loose on the lower section of the body. A precise powered up kick threw the Espada back - But it still had the problem of the tails holding his arms tight... But that could play useful for IT as well.

IT forced the Espada back to him by grabbing a tail and pulling it back with strength. As the Espada neared, IT prepared another devastating kick -

0========0

"What do you think of them Yan?"

"Meeh, usual blockheads... Nothing else to be expected really"

The dust moved away, and now, standing on the Espada Lala had just swung, sitted a younger version of Jhonny - It's hair was black, unlike Jhonny's bi-colored hair, and his whole right arm was covered in what seemed stone like armor. Aside from that, he looked as human as Jhonny - All that pointed out his Hollow past, were the Hollow mask remnants that had appeared on his eyebrow, and the enormous hole in the middle of his torso.

"Jujuju... Maybe we should end them before they release? As to grant the small ones a last dying will?"

"You are mean Nee! You've already damaged that shield! It won't be fair if one releases and the other doesn't!"

"I see her shield works as fine as before" Said the second voice as it dodged the shield strike - A second figure appeared next to the small Jhonny.

Now that they stood directly under moonlight, one could see they were like reflections. The second young Jhonny had blonde long hair, and even though they were equal, looked slightly more effeminate than his counter part. The fact that it hugged his doopelganger from behind didn't make him look more masculine at all.

"Hey, Shield girl! Are you still able to release your Zanpakuto? I mean, I left"

"We left"

"Whatever, there's a nice crack on it- Will that hamper you at all?"

"Maybe we should revert, just to make things fair?" Said the black-haired one

"No, I want to play with that one over there... Hey! You! I'll let you bite me all you want!" Shouted the blond-haired one

"Would you please stop flirting?"

"Ya, Ya - Whatever"

The twins jumped back into a considerable distance from the girls.

"The name's Yan!"

"And I'm Nee!"

"Together, we are the one known as Jhonny!!"

"Now, can we kill you fast?!" Said the blonde one


(OOC:

@Hiraeth: The poison is working as fine as any other time ;p - You'll find out why later

@Final Boss: Just for you to know, Yan and Nee are, when separate, weaker than Jhonny. However, their added strength is around 1.5 Jhonny's strength. Plus, they have a skill ;p -

And for you to know, you are both doing EXCELENT in your fights ;) - Don't get scared if it looks you'll be losing)

[Final Boss]

"Tch." Lulu looked towards the crack on her shield, she didn't bother answering their question. "Lala we could be in trouble if we don't release, I don't think my shield can handle much more." thought Lulu, mentally speaking with her sister. Lala glanced at Lulu's shield and saw the damage, "Lets switch weapons, we both know your better with the sword and I'm much better at defending."

Slowly the weapons floated away from the current wielders until Lala was in possession of the shield, Guarda. Instead of the shield floating near Lala's right hand she grabbed it's handle, now that she firmly held onto the shield she reinforced it with her massive reiatsu. Just like her sister Lulu grasped the sword, Guerrero, with one hand, her incredible strength allowing her to wield it easily. "Lets do this." the twins said in unison.

Lulu used sonido and appeared behind the blond one swinging Guerrero with much more speed and power than her sister. Lala was close behind ready to defend from any counter attacks.

[Hiraeth]

Durante was in no mood for games. Now that he'd gone to resurreccion he was going to find out what he needed to know as fast as possible.He ignored the thing preparing for its kick, instead flipping the needle sharp tip of his tail around and plunging it in to the creature's body.

"Why don't we see how you like happy thoughts?"

He watched the being go still and felt a familiar sensation travelling through his tail and up the base of his spine. It reached his skull and he closed his eyes, only to open them again to somewhere that was definitely not this valley in the middle of the desert...


[OOC: Vision time Kolbertt!]

[Kolbertt]

(Excuse my tardyness :facepalm - RL has been a bitch lately and I wasn't able to stay more than 10 minutes in a computer)

As the bladed tail incrusted itself on his body, not only IT, but HE saw visions... Visions of a time when HE was not IT, and existance was completelly different and purpose-less...

The shinigami was resting on my bed, with roughly made bed sheets made that I made with Hollow fur... It'd been a whole day since our first encounter, and he had barelly made it alive after that.

"Maybe it was already too late? What a pity... I really wanted to have a word or two with you. Bumm- Wait! He moved!"

And indeed, the Shinigami was moving! He had moved a little bit, but now, even his eyes were opening!

"Aloha Shinigami-Kun! - I must excuse from the lack of movility, but I had you paralized for your sake... I mean, your whole left arm and leg were blown off by that Cero! And it looks painful as hell... But don't worry! I'm pretty good at reading faces and emotions! So, it doesn't matter if you can only move an eyebrow! I'll know exactly what you want!"

Jejeje... I was kinda naive at the time, and mistook his face of pain and shock with one of surprise and kinda hungry. But it wasn't my fault! I was told paralizers numbed the body, so I thought it would do him good to not feel his missing limbs!

The whole situation was deliciously funny! I mean, I had saved the life of a Shinigami who had defended me against a Cero from a hungry Gillian. When have you ever seen a Shinigami do such a feat? It was this selfish and unpredictable reaction the one who had made me take him home, and look after his wounds.

"It'll be a little while before you can talk, so, how about I call you Art 'till you can speak again?! The name's Sora, pleased to play the nurse here!"

It was all so exciting! I, who had never even had a pet, was now taking care of a wounded man! Daaaarn! What would happen whenever he would speak? What would his voice sound like?! Is it true that Shinigami's grow their limbs back if feed Hollow blood?! -I'll have to try that whenever he can move his mouth! For the moment, it seems he can only open his eyes REAAAAAALLY big! He must be tired... I'll turn the lights down for him to sleep -

As I went to turn the lights down, I passed through the polished rock I used as a mirror, a red-haired youngster with shoulder-length hair, a small claw like hair-clip, and Hazel eyes bounced the stare back.

"I cannot wait until you can speak again! I'm so eager to open your mind like a book and see what goes through there!"

It was all dark now, but even in the darkness, I could see him twitching and mumbling incoherent speach... He was obviously trying to say "Thank you" or something on those lines... Shinigami's are strong! Even missing limbs and paralyzed, they keep their manners!

"You are more than welcome here!"

0=======0

Being too distracted watching Durante, Nee was too slow to dodge the incoming, fortified blow. Blood spurted everywhere as the sword slashed his shoulder and went alll the way to his chest -

"Tch! Damn brats!" He said as he threw a punch with his armored hand - A futile effort since the now repaired shield bounced his fist and cracked his left arm.

"IDIOT! You know you can't do anything on your own!" Yan screamed as he tackled Nee out of the way of a new slash.

"I know, I know! It's just those brats are not playing fair! DARN, That hurted like hell!"

"Playing Fair?! You MORON! You are the one drolling over the hot one!"

"So what!? I was slightly unfocused for a while! What's the deal with it... Not that they made any permanent damage"

And indeed, the slash had dissapeared from Nee's torso, and his left arm showed no sign of ever being cracked -

"That's because you have me, you dummy..."

"Jujuju... You think I don't know that?" Nee approached his mirror image sugestivelly close...

"Nee..."

"What? Don't kill the moment"

"We've got company..."

The blonde haired one sighed... He looked at the twins, and at the shout of "Darn BRATS!" Threw himself for another attack, only to be stopped by his Mirror Image - "WHAT THE FUCKING HECK DO YOU WANT NOW?!"

"Don't you think we should explain our powers a little bit?"

"WHAT?! Why the heck should we do that!?"

"Because every single cool villain does it!"

"Why the heck should they do that?!"

"I don't know... I guess it's like a "Universal Villain laws" or something on those lines"

"That's the most retarded thing you've ever said. And we are NOT the villains here, remember?"

"Bite me! "Villain" sounds waaay more cooler than "Heroe" - Besides, it's not like explain..."

As to shut his counterpart up - The blonde one screamed "Hey little girls! Listen well, cause we'll only say it once!" - "Darn! You should let me know before taking the spotlight!!" - "Shut up and explain then!"

"Fine, fine..." The black haired one gave a step forward, while holding the hand of his doopelganger.

"You know, each one of us is weaker than "Jhonny" - But overally, we together are stronger than him!"

"But that's not the end of the story... If we both touch each other... our strength is doubled!..."

"Essentially making us three times as powerful as before!"

"Can you handle it Espadas?! Cause that shield of yours won't protect you forever!!"

The two lunged forward, holding hands and ready to crush the twins with their armored hands.

[Final Boss]

The twins saw Nee and Yan approaching. Lala mentally told her sister, "They're right, if their attack strength is doubled then I don't think I'll be able to block many more attacks. But I'm not going to stick around and find out."

She threw the shield and a dangerous velocity, right in between Yan and Nee. They dodged the shield, letting go of each other's hands in the process, before they could rejoin Lala rushed Nee and released a barrage of powerful punches, slowly forcing Nee back and away from his other half.

Lulu followed Lala's example and pushed Yan farther away from Nee. She unleashed a flurry of deadly slashes, leaving little openings for a counterattack.

The twins both said, "If you're stronger while touching then we won't let you get together!" They continued the onslaught of attacks successfully splitting up the halves of Jhonny.

[Hiraeth]

Durante's tail, still inside the creature, felt its heart rate increase rapidly with the memory. It was disappointing but alone that one memory didn't tell him anything at all about the creature, other than the fact that it had once been so much more than it was now.

He looked more closely at the creature, and remembered the vision of the shinigami with red hair... Could it be that somehow the hollow and the shinigami had somehow fused into one? He was even more intrigued than he had been.

The creature still hadn't fully recovered from the first attack, Durante always came out of them quicker than his victims, which gave him a slight tactical advantage. He quickly extracted his first tail from its position in the thing's chest, and prepared to stab his second into the side of its stomach.

He noted that the tentacles were already beginning to close the first hole, was it his imagination or were they moving slower now? If so perhaps his poison was still working.

"Time for round two, I really hope you like pain."

[Gol D. Roger]

From his prone position, Fritz continued to observe the battle. The strange, tentacle-y, gross... thing, well, he was perfectly satisfied to let Dormire-sama handle that.

The newcomer, Jhonny, who had identified himself as one of the Arcanos, was a whole different story, however. The fact that the separated halves of the... hentai, yes, hentai Jhonny, were actually keeping up with his mistresses...

And then it hit him.

In his terror, he was letting some hentai super-pervert get all close and personal with Lala-sama and Lulu-sama. It was unforgivable, absolutely unforgivable!

Without even thinking, he found himself on his feet, zanpakutō drawn. "Morder, Veneno Varilla!"

With a flash of light, Fritz was transformed. Spines bristled all over his body, and his snout sniffed the air lightly. He was like a hedgehog, or a porcupine. A lithe, muscular... sexy hedgehog or porcupine.

It had been a long time since he'd found himself in a situation where he'd had to use his Ressurrecion form, and now that he had... Well, he couldn't help admiring his new appearance.

"Ooh," he whispered to himself, flexing his pectorals, dazzling himself with their... well, beauty, of course! And the biceps, oh yes, the biceps. Lulu-sama and Lala-sama would admire this body so much...

"Ara ara!" he yelped, forcing his attention back to the matter at hand. The enemy had clearly noticed his rather obvious display, and the separated halves seemed to be contemplating what to do about him between deflecting strikes from his mistresses. He wouldn't give those hentais a chance!

"Take this!" Fritz shouted, firing two rapid bala blasts at Yan and Nee.

[Kolbertt]

The tentacles were already repairing the wounded tissue. However, IT was slightly worried about his state... His heart was beating at an abnormal rate, and that affected IT's movements... What the heck had that Espada done?!

IT wasn't even able to understand the situation, but that didn't stop the Espada from attacking...

"Hey... How's it going?"

"Shut the fuck up" A rather wounded Shinigami answered me back. His torso was covered in heavy bandages, and he was missing both his left arm and leg, as well as a good chunk of left body...

"Oh, come on Muso!! You need to cheer up a bit..."

"Why the heck should I?"

"Cause I found out a strange cure you might find interesting!" - And indeed, I had. My dreams for a Shinigami friend had been shattered almost at the same time my new room-mate regained the ability to talk... And even now, I knew that the only reason he remained in my room was because he lacked the ability to walk away without getting himself killed... But now, even if it meant I'd have to say goodbye to him, I had found a way of getting him happy... Or that's what I thought

"Are you plainly stupid? There's no cure for this... I even lack the strength to kill myself!"

"I know... But I've gotten my hands on a rather nifty so called elixir!! Well... at the very least, the Arrancar who gave it to me said It'll be able to heal any wound in a blink! As well as granting strength! So, you can either grow your limbs back, or have enough strength to kill yourself! It's a double win situation!" I said those foolish words as I took from my robes, the flask with the Earth-Brown liquid that mysterious Arrancar gave to me... I was foolish enough to trust the words of a stranger, and I paid the price due to my stupidity...

"Meh... I really hope you got poison and kill me for once"

"Jejeje... You sure know how to joke around... But I wouldn't be able to hurt you" I handled him the bottle... The instructions had been clear, have the one to drink the Elixir open up the bottle, drink the content in a single gulp, and await for results. All I had to do in exchange, was to give that Arrancar the Muso's Zanpakuto - One of a series of errors that made him hate me...

Without a word, Muso drank the bottle. It was funny, cause instead of a liquid contexture, the elixir looked gel-like...

"Bleh... Tastes like shit"

I was about to apologize once more... Lately, it had been a stupid routine. I'd try to satisfy Muso, and he'd say how useless I was... But I couldn't help it. I felt responsable for his state. It's not like that Cero would have even damaged me, but he still went ahead and took the damage to get me out of the way. He wouldn't want to tell me why he did it, and I started suspecting he would never do... At the very least, I could try to make his life as comfortable as possible as payback for an unrequested service.

"Wait a second..." Muso said.

His thorax expanded in a second and reduced back in a second. The bandages exploded, and a series of tentacles came out, stood a second out, and got in his body once more. This repeated itself a number of ways, and it looked like his body had been badly stitched with horrible and grotesque tentacles... But his arm was back.

It was not his arm, but a bizarre substitute composed of tentacles and ligaments. The bandages in his legs had also been destroyed and a similar limb helped him stand up.

"It's Amazing!! You've done something good for once!"

"Jejeje! See! I knew this would wo... Muso?" Muso's eyes had gone white, and an enormous eye had sprouted from the middle of his chest. "Muso? Are you OK?"

But he didn't answer. Instead, he lunged forward and attempted to crush me with his newly regenerated arm. "Muso?! What the heck is going on with you?!" But he wouldn't answer back, and for once, I missed his insults.

I refused to fight with him, it was my fault he was like this, wasn't it? I couldn't be able to hurt him anymore than I had already, but my Passive idea of a fight wasn't going nowhere, Muso had landed a punch strong enough to bypass my Hierro, and in a fit of rage, I blindly threw a Cero at him.

Instead of dodging it, Muso blocked my Cero with his tentacle hand - In fact, it was more like he had SWALLOWED it! I could even see my energy running through his body, and how it made the tentacles in his body expand and glow, they expanded more and more... and eventually, Muso's body exploded.

There was no trace of Muso. Well, to be exact, there were traces of him everywhere. My whole home was splashed with my friends blood... All that remained of him was a small charred fetu- like thing... I couldn't help it. I kneeled and got the remains of my friend in my hands and hugged it as tears runned through my face. I never knew his secret, I never got him to like me, but in the end, I had granted him the wish of dying...

I felt a sharp pain. My body started moving against my will, grabbed my Zanpakuto and moved out. Every single movement caused excruciating pain. As my body moved on it's own, I happened to get a glimpse on the blood-splashed mirror. It wasn't big, but on the spot where Muso's corpse had touched my skin, an enormous hematoma had appeared. The pain was getting to intense... I passed out

0=======0

"Darn you Nee! Why the heck did you let me go?!" Yan screamed as he dodged the slashes with difficulty

"What the fuck are you saying?! You were the one who fucking let me go!" Nee replied as he blocked most of the punches. The blonde little girl was more powerful than she appeared.

Both halves of Don Juan Giovenesse were being pushed around by the twin Espadas, both had managed to stay on their feet, but it was true the Twins were stronger than them... If things went on this much, but there was a little trick they didn't count with... However, the untimely Bala blast opened them both for a direct attack...

Yan was cut in half, and Nee was blasted against the other side of the Valley by a direct punch to the gut. He recovered just in time to bounce against the wall into his other half, using the gained distance gained by the inhuman punch to his advantage as to kick Lulu and send her back.

"You FUCKING BASTARDS!" Nee screamed to the twins, however, when he turned back to insult the one who had shot the Bala, he shutted up, swallowed his words, and threw the cute Hedgegog a blink and kiss - By this time, the bruise left by Lulu's punch was already reducing in size.

"I asked you before... Could you please stop flirting?" Yan got up. Even though he was badly cut, the wound in his stomach closed fast. Even worse, there was not a single scar on it. Unlike regeneration, it looked like the wound had never happened.

But at the same time, both still carried the wounds and burns made by the Bala on their backs on the exact same spot.

"Looks like we both got a beating eh?"

"What are you talking about? I see nothing here!"

"Shall we explain the reason?"

As a response, Nee punched Yan in the face.

"Fine, fine... no more explaining our powers..."

[Hiraeth]

Durante smiled as the heartrate of the thing increased again. Normally it would take a minimum of four hits from a single tail to knock a weaker enemy out, but by alternating the tail used he expected that he could probably kill his opponent in one more attack. He paused for a second as it came back to its bizarre version of consciousness.

"I think I might understand you a little better my wriggly little friend. There's intelligence in you, but it's buried deep, which is why I'm only getting the memories of it. Now I'm not a very patient man as you might have noticed. I prefer to just take a look at things rather than wait for them to be explained."

He moved forward a little to consider the creature "There's two of you in there aren't there? At the moment the one with the tentacles is in control, but it seems like that part isn't so talkative. Still I guess I can give you one last chance."

He wrapped his tails tighter around the creature, ensuring it was held in place properly, then pressed the tip of one of them into the large eye on the side of its head. The other tip he pointed into one of the human sized eyes.

"I give you one chance to start talking, and if I even see the hint of a cero or bala I'll stick these so far into your skull that you won't have time to hallucinate before you die."

He raised his hands before him and prepared his own double cero.

"Just to make doubly sure that you understand, once I've done that I'll blow you to pieces with the two of these once I've stabbed you, just to make sure that you're not going to get back up again."

His smile widened into a feral grin "So choose. Talk or die."

[Final Boss]

Lulu saw Yan and Nee heal off their wounds just as they had before, all except one. The injuries caused by the Bala blasts Fritz had shot at them remained.

"Hmm it seems they can not heal all types of attacks, I have a plan." she thought, she handed Guerrero back to Lala also letting her keep the shield. "You and Fritz will distract him, meanwhile I will prepare a Gran Rey Cero and fire it at both Yan and Nee." "Sounds easy enough." responded Lala, she looked back towards Fritz, "Hey!" As Fritz came towards Lala, Lulu disappeared in an instant.

"I'm gonna need your help Fritz, we need to distract this guy." said Lala, whispering into Fritz's ear. She readied both her weapons, preparing herself to preccupy both Yan and Nee.

[Gol D. Roger]

"Hai, Lala-sama," Fritz said. "I will stop this hentai at any cost!"

With that, Fritz launched into sonido, appearing behind Yan and Nee. "Eat this, perverts!" he yelled, firing off another couple of bala blasts. Before waiting for them to reach the enemy, he followed it up with a number of his venomous, hallucinogenic spines, Loca Varilla.

If he could hit Yan and Nee with his poison, then he'd be able to create all the distraction his mistresses needed.

[Kolbertt]

The Espada had done that again... He was damaging HIS body and there was nothing IT could do against it... The increased blood rush was affecting ITs control over the body - And couldn't help it when the body made an epileptic movement and lodged the eye directly into the tail...

WHY?! WHY?!
WHY IN HELL'S NAME SHALL I SUFFER THIS MUCH! I CAN FEEL THE HEAT! THE EXTREME COLD! THE DARKNESS!! IT'S BEEN AGES! EVER SINCE I SAW THE LIGHT! I'VE BEEN TRAPPED IN THIS FUCKING TUBE FOR ALMOST A WHOLE YEAR NOW!

WHY MUST I ENDURE THIS PAIN!? WHY WON'T I DIE! AND HERE HE COMES AGAIN! WHY MUST I ENDURE THE PAIN OF HIS CHEMICALS!? WHY WON'T HE SIMPLY LEFT ME DIE!?!?

Unlike the previous memories, there were no images, just the feeling of an intense pain. It was a feeling similar to being immerged in acid. The feelings of suffocation and burning mixed in one.

But now, the one to react was not the body, but the parasitic entity it held hostage. The tentacles receded and held the eye in the neck... If it had a mouth, it would have screamed in pain as it remembered it's past, but it merelly held itself with the tentacles, as one would do with a very strong headache... IT needed to get away from the pain... away from those damned tails... But it lacked the concentration and strength to move the body...

With a last ditch of effort, IT gathered its tentacles, released the body.

A red-haired Arrancar falled down, at it's side, a fetus like thing propelled out and crawled miserably to run away... In it's back, a protruding eye kept close eye of the Espada's movements...

0=======0

"Don't get cocky Sonic!" The halves shouted as they easily repelled back the Bala.

"The sole reason why you managed to hit us!""Was because we were distracted!

The difference in speed between the Balas and the other attack, left a gap wide enough to let the halves hold hands - Utilizing their increased leg strength, they Sonidoed in front of the Hedgegog, and Nee punched him straight in the gut - The Hedgegog was thrown back some distance. Damaged, but surelly alive.

"Why in hell's name did you let my hand go?!""Cause he's cute, alright?! I don't want to damage his body... too much"":facepalm - Can we damage the little girls at the very least? Or are they too cute for you?"
"You sound jealous for a reason or another, but now that you mention it..."
"WE FUCKING WON'T ALLOW YOU TO DO WHATEVER YOU ARE PLANNING TO DO!"

The halves propelled against the unarmed one - The time they had waisted against the porcupine-man was minimal, but they didn't really know how much time the girls needed... To make matters worse, the one with Shield and Sword had already gotten in the middle -

"FUCKING ANNOYING BRAT!"

They screamed as both of them punched at unison - Still holding hands

[Hiraeth]

The thing now crawling across the ground had missed one thing in its carefully planned retreat. Otso had finally realised that there was a battle going on and had trundled out to assist. He watched, green eyes wide with curiosity, as the tentacled monstrosity scurried across the sand towards him, its one eye was so fixed on Otso's master that it didn't notice his existence until he picked it up, looked at it curiously and did the first thing he could think of.

Durante watched in slight amusement as the thing was swallowed whole, and wondered how it liked the view from Otso's stomach. The thing about the largest of his fraccion was though from his appearance people would assume his abilities lay in combat, his main use was as a storage compartment for anything Durante deemed dangerous. Durante did a quick inventory of Otso's stomach, caculating that there wasn't anything in there that the little monster could do any serious damage with. Speaking of little monsters, he glanced around "Suvi!"

A second later her head popped up from the sand and she grinned like a little snake "We won Boss?"

He shrugged "In a manner of speaking, the host is lying over there and Otso ate the parasite."

His largest fraccion recognised his name and turned round with a beaming smile "Duraaaaaanteeee."

Durante waved a hand at him "Yes yes you did well. Suvi get your sister."

She nodded "Yes boss." and reached a hand into the sand to pull out Sisko, who was clutching herself and muttering slightly, obviously having come out of unconsciousness while buried alive "D-d-dark. H-heavy." She whimpered as Durante grabbed her hand and lifted her up.

"There there, it's all better now." She glanced at the red headed arrancar and gave a shriek. Durante sighed and held her still "Hey it's okay, the parasite is gone, no more tentacles see?"

She peered forward and nodded reluctantly "I see. Shall I heal him?"

Durante nodded and she crept over to the side of the unconscious red head. When she was convinced that he wasn't about to start shooting tentacles at her, she gently placed a hand over his mouth. From the tips of her fingers she excreted a clear bluish liquid that seeped between his lips. It was a liquid rich in nutrients that would hopefully fix any internal injuries and wake him up.

Satisfied that Sisko was doing her job, Durante found himself a comfortable boulder from where he could easily see Jhonny get his behind kicked by the Fifth Espada, although strangely it seemed to be evenly matched. Durante turned to Suvi who'd come up next to him "Got any more of those lizards?"

[Final Boss]

"I can't let them get past me." Lala braced herself for Yan and Nee's powerful punch . She held out both the shield and the sword in a defensive position. Their punch hit the shield and sword directly, the sheer force and impact made Lala wince in pain. But she would not budge, "I won't let you get to my sister!"

Lulu saw Lala and the halves of Jhonny locked together, "Now Lala!" A chain flew out of the back of the shield and wrapped both Yan and Nee together. She threw the shield down towards the sand and effectively restrained both Yan and Nee. Suddenly Lulu was directly in front of both halves with Guerrero sticking out of the sand beside her, she cut her hand slightly, just enough to make her bleed and held her hand out.

Blue energy gathered near her palm and formed an orb of destruction, "Gran Rey Cero!!" A large blast shot out of her hand engulfing both Yan and Nee at point blank, "Its over." Lala appeared next to her sister, "Good shot Lulu." Lulu smiled at her sister's arrival, "It would not have been possible without you Lala."

The twins began to walk away, both weapons disintegrated as the went to join Durante and his group.

[Kolbertt]

"My my my... look what you've done to poor little Yan..." Nee said unscatched from the top of the valley.

"That idiot used our doubled strength to throw me out of reach, and he dared take the whole attack himself... Poor guy, I'll always remember... sniff, sniff" Having said that, Nee covered his face with his hand and started crying --- Until...

The charred bones started moving, the jaw opened and closed, as flesh started growing from the very marrow - It made a horrible sound as wind passed through the regenerating flesh. One by one, muscle, tissue, organs, everything reappeared slowly but steadily.

"Why don't you wait until you are fully recovered before you ruin my scene, you fucking moron?!"

Having grown enough flesh to talk coherently, the corpse answered back -Why do... do you have... to be... so... melodramatic?
"Don't make me go kick your bony ass"

Yan's body had regerated fully, everything but the scar left by the previous Bala had returned to it's previous state. It was as if the Gran Rey Cero hadn't even scratched him.

"Now, where were we?"
"We were about to kill them both so we could get to Durante"
"I'm not distracted enough as to forget about the hottie... But it seems we are seriously outnumbered now"


"Mwhaha! It looks fag-boy got seriously beaten here!"

"That annoying voice..."
"That insolent tone..."
Both Yan and Nee covered their faces in shame, and screamed in unison:
"Get out of wherever you are Inanna"

"No need to ask twice!"

A beautiful woman with an elaborate dress and sporting heavy ornament, Sonidoed in front of them. Her hollow mask consisted of a simply elegant Tiara.

"Now, mind explaining the situation fag-boy? Cause if I remember correctly, your mission was to find and enlist that mysterious swordman, not to lust after Espada"

"Tch, It was only logical that an Arrancar going around Hueco Mundo showing off their powers could only be an Espada"
"So we thought we might as well kill the Espada and end this mission earlier"
"But we didn't count on the Espada to be such a hottie..."

"So, instead of accomplishing your mission, you decided to get your ass kicked by some little girls - Way to go Tinkerbell!"

"Bitch"

"Ohh! I'm so offended"

"At the very least we discovered the swordman!"
"Yeah, it's more than you did! Bitch!"
"Yeah! And he wasn't that great to begin with!"
"Yeah, it was all due to that small parasite!"
"So shut up you bitch!"

It seemed Yan and Nee were keeping an eye on Durante's fight all the time. They didn't know the details of his abilites, but they seemed to know what had happened... Of course, this was merelly because they couldn't stop from peeping Durante, and Inanna knew that.

"So, are you implying all that destruction was caused by a mere parasite?"

"Well, that parasite and that red-haired Arrancar. By the way, what is a bitch like you doing right here?!"

Inanna glared at the almost naked red-haired Arrancar - She could feel his energy was not higher than the Espada one... And even yet he had fought on par with an Espada... "This is worth analyzing..."

"We felt the particular wavelength of a Gran Rey Cero near the location at which you were dispatched... So I was tasked with the tedious job of getting your flowery ass back in one piece.

But at the moment, I'm more interested in that parasite... Do you happen to know where it is right now?"

"Well... It was eaten by that large Arrancar" Nee said as it pointed the one called Otso.

"I see... You better go back. Atha-chan is rather pissed with you at the moment... Well, more than usual"

Inanna walked forward, completelly ignoring the gestures both Yan and Nee made at her, and spoke with a much more formal tone, completelly different from the soft voice she had used with Yan and Nee

"Espada! Mark my words, cause I won't repeat them. My name is Inanna Rivera, the Third Arcana and I'm here to retrieve the property of the Arcanos! On the mere fact that I was not tasked with your direct destruction, I'll give you the option of handing back that Parasite of which my companion speaks, or have me retrieve it with my own hands!"

[Hiraeth]

Durante smiled at the newcomer "Inanna? Now what is a goddess of love and light doing here in this underworld?"

He didn't bother rising to reply "I'm still not sure what exactly an Arcano is, since I didn't get a chance to use my particular abilities on your little friends over there, however I'm thinking that anything that you want, we probably want more."

He turned to Lala and Lulu "What do you ladies think? I'm of the opinion we should just end this now, but if you want me to hand the parasite over then that's up to you."

While waiting for their response he flicked a finger at Suvi, who understood what he meant and quietly sank into the sand.

[Kolbertt]

"We Arcanos are the destined rulers of Hueco Mundo. Unlike you, Espada, we do not rank ourselves based on our killing prowess. Our numbers do not reflect strength or skill, but our role as the cogs of destiny...

Fit of a goddes of love and light, I cannot be made to wait for your decision Espada, you've been given the chance, and now I'll take back what is rightfully mine"

Inanna extended her arm softly forward - Where one would usually expect a Cero or a Bala, nothing happened. Instead, an enormous hand appeared in front of Otso and plunged a hole in his stomach. The Fraccion didn't have enough time to realize what was happening when Inanna already had the tentacled parasite in her hand.

"Remember this, Espada - I'm not one as patient as Don Juan Giovenesse. You've been lucky enough to confront the one with the least inteligence

"HEY!"

of our Organization... You won't be this lucky next time"

Having said this, Inanna, Yan and Nee were covered by a pair of enormous hands that appeared out of nowhere, and in a flash of light, everyone was gone.

[Final Boss]

"Haha like we're just going to hand it over!" shouted Lala.

Suddenly Inanna formed a large hand and forcefully retrieved the parasite from Otso's stomach. Soon after they were engulfed in light and disappeared.

Lulu looked towards the red haired arrancar laying on the ground, "Shall we take him back to Las Noches?"

[Hiraeth]

Durante sighed and got up off of his rock.

"That's not fair, sending such a slow guy against us first, then sending such a fast woman."

He strode over to Otso, whose wound was already sealing itself shut, and patted the large arrancar on the shoulder. "Don't worry about it buddy."

Suvi, who'd been preparing to drag Otso underground if the girl tried anything, popped up and bowed her head shamefully. "Sorry Boss, she was just too fast."

Durante reached down and ruffled her hair "That's okay. It's my fault for not giving her enough credit as a threat."

He walked over to Sisko and crouched down next to the red haired arrancar they'd rescued. His breathing seemed to have returned to normal and his heartrate was slowing to a more regular pace. This was most likely due to the sleeping poison that Durante infected people with, but he'd be able to counterract that soon enough.

After checking for obvious injuries, he hoisted the emaciated body up onto Otso's shoulders and nodded at Lulu "Yeah, let's get back to Las Noches and give our report to the first. Then we can ask her who the hell these Arcanos are, and why they think they're the rulers of Hueco Mundo."

He offered Sisko a hand and helped her to her feet. When she'd stood he grinned down at her and spoke one word "Tag!"

He vanished with a burst of sonido, leaving her to sigh and turn to the two Fifth Espada "Lulu-sama, Lala-sama, I don't suppose either of you would like to be tagged?"

[Final Boss]

The twins thought for a brief moment, "Sure, I guess we can let you tag us. We feel like chasing not running at the moment." Lulu reached out her hand and let Sisko tag her, Lala was already chasing after Durante. "Fritz give them any help they need with getting that red haired arrancar back to Las Noches. See ya there!" She disappeared in a flash of sonido following after Durante and Lala.

Lala was close behind Durante, "Better pick up the pace, I'm catching up to you!" She looked to see Lulu right next to her, "Should we tag him? I don't really feel like running away, chasing is waaaay funner." Lulu nodded in agreement and they slightly picked up their pace until they were within arms reach of Durante.

[Hiraeth]

As before, Durante stayed ahead for a while, then gradually slowed himself down to let them catch up. He was still on a high from the fight, but the two girls hadn't exactly won, so he didn't want to get too far ahead of them.

He glanced back with a grin "Hey next time we should play hide and seek. Otso's really good at it, took us almost a week to find him last time."

Something launched itself out of the sand at him, and he felt tiny hands grab onto his shirt and swing a small body onto one of his shoulders. He glanced to the side and his eyes met Suvi's. She cocked her head in curiousity, and he gave up on holding back, with a yell he left the twins eating his dust.

[OOC: Go read the Character roster if you don't believe me lol ;)]

[Gol D. Roger]

Fritz was just pulling himself up from the desert floor, clutching his bruised stomach. With a flash of light, he returned to his sealed state, though his clothing was slightly tattered as if to reflect his injuries.

"Fritz give them any help they need with getting that red haired arrancar back to Las Noches. See ya there!"

"H-huh?" By the time Fritz looked up, his mistresses were already gone, leaving a trail of dust and sand in their wake. "Crap."

He glanced around, taking in the stupidly grinning Otso, who carried the red-haired Arrancar draped over his shoulder. This was going to be a long walk. He glanced down at his sash, looking for his sake jug...

It was gone. In horror, Fritz suddenly noticed the clay shards all around his feet; the dark, wet sand beneath him; the damp spots on his clothing, reeking of alcohol. "Dammit..." When that pervert punched him, it must have shattered.

"Dammit, dammit, dammit!" He dropped to the ground, eating some of the sand, before deciding it probably wasn't worth it. He spat out the grains, wiping his tongue with the back of his hands. "Dammit!"

Fritz stood, raised his fists at the heavens, and screamed at the top of his lungs. "Damn you, hentaaaaaaaaaiiiiii!" His voice reverberated across the desert, and for a moment, he felt a little bit better.

"Gehehehehe..."

Fritz glanced over at Otso, who was apparently laughing at him, his bear-like form shaking. "What's your problem?" Fritz demanded.

Otso continued to laugh. "Fritz. Girlie. Gehehehehe..."

Fritz sighed, and kicked at some of the broken jug below. "Come on, stupid. Let's go."

He started to walk in the direction of Las Noches. Otso stood there for a moment, waiting. "Me?" Then something suddenly dawned. "Me?! Stupid?!" With that, Otso disappeared after Fritz, his cargo still hanging over his shoulder.

[Final Boss]

The twins coughed out sand, "We're gonna get you for that!" They burst into sonido and gradually began to catch up with Durante.

They put in an extra effort and appeared in front of Durante, quickly tagging him. They sent a very large amount of reiatsu down into their feet, releasing it like an explosion. This left a much larger cloud of sand in front of Durante.

"Eat that!" They dashed ahead sticking out their tongues in a teasing manner, getting closer to Las Noches

[Hiraeth]

[OOC: Gol, would you mind not RPing my characters without asking me first? Especially since Otso doesn't actually talk that much. He's limited to saying people's names.]

Sisko stood and dusted off her skirt, before heading after her brother. She caught him up and peered at his stomach, checking that his skin had sealed itself properly. He had a ridiculously fast healing ability, she suspected he was made of rubber, that just snapped into place. He hadn't even bled when the Arcano ripped his stomach open. Sisko sighed, with his low intelligence, Otso was useless in a fight, but at least you knew he'd be there to carry home the broken remains of your body when you died.

She shot a glance at the Fifth's fraccion, Fritz was it? He was cute looking, but she didn't really like the way he'd reacted to losing his alcohol. Nope she did not want to fall head over heels for a drunkard, not when she already spent most of her time moping over the oversized child of an Espada that she served.

Further ahead of them, Durante was overtaken by the twins, who'd supplimented their regular speed with reiatsu, something he hadn't bothered doing. Suvi leant down towards his ear as the two girls sped off and whispered "They cheated so you won."

His grin widened "Is that so? Well maybe this time we'll let them get away with it."

His head was snapped to the side as a little black boot made contact with his ear. "No fair!" She pouted "You're so boring."

He brought his head back up straight as she dropped off his shoulder and vanished into the sand like some bizarre kind of land fish.

[Kolbertt]

(OOC: As to give close up to this Mission, give your personal reports - Feel free to write whatever you want... BTW; It WILL influence your score 0:)

After some time of goofing around, The three Espada ended up summoned in an elegantly simple room. In the exact geographical center of it, appearing from behind a ivory white desk, Mircalla Zolmao looked at her Espadas in a Gendo pose - (OOC: GO SEE EVANGELION!:yell)

"My dear Espada... Inform me of the outcome of this mission"

[Final Boss]

"Well..." Lala briefly thought for a moment, "An Arcano showed up and picked a fight with us." She began to perform a mock fight with her sister, Lulu. "So we took 'em on." She began throwing playful punches at her sister, who dodged each attempt. "Then another Arcano showed up and saved him, I think his name was Johnny."

"Jhonny." corrected her sister, "Jhonny, the 6th Arcano. The other Arcano was Inanna Rivera, the 3rd Arcano. She immediately retrieved the parasite Durante successfully captured, vanishing in a flash of light. The parasite seemed to be controlling a red haired arrancar who we brought with us here to Las Noches, this arrancar was the one responsible for the destruction of the numerous hollow colonies."

Lala looked at Lulu, she looked slightly annoyed that her sister had interrupted, "Yeah yeah, Inanna or whatever came in and saved Johnny...Jhonny from getting his ass kicked. He had weird powers though."

"Yes Jhonny's powers were indeed strange, he released and became two separate halves of the original, we do not fully understand their powers but it seemed they were stronger while touching and they could seemingly heal each attack we delivered." said Lulu.

Lala looked at Lulu again but she continued, "So recapping, we discovered the culprit responsible for the death of the hollow colonies. This arrancar was being controlled by a parasite and Durante successfully defeated it. We engaged an Arcano and in the end they retreated with the parasite. If you would like more information on the parasite Durante, being the one who fought against it should know more."

Lala lightly pushed her sister aside, "Now we want to know something, what do you know about the Arcanos?"

[Hiraeth]

Durante kept silent for the moment, merely nodding in agreement with the sisters. He was prepared to give a report on what he'd discovered, but first he wanted to hear what Mircalla had to say about the Arcanos.

[Kolbertt]

"I didn't think they'd start their movements so quickly. It's only fair that you desire information on your enemy...

"Los Arcanos" is an Organization. A rather recent one which is growing at a worrysome speed. Their members are not ranked, instead, the number they carry is a representation of what they call "The Cogs of Destiny" and from what we've personally faced, I will dare say that they each reperesent one of the 22 Mayor Arcana in the Tharot deck.

Their objective still eludes us, as well as their exact number of members... It's clear from their movements that their goals include the dominion of Hueco Mundo. But why did they chose that particularly bizarre way of numbering themselves... I cannot help but thinking that it's either a mock to our current ranking, or has a darker, unkown purpose.

Even if ridiculous at first sight, their powers are not to be underestimated. We still have the title of the strongest in Hueco Mundo, and I'll personally make sure it stays that way.

That they held hand of this particular parasite is something to note... Do you happen to have any more details on this "Parasite"?"

[Hiraeth]

Durante bowed his head "Other than that I can only tell you what I gleamed from the arrancar's own mind. I do not know if you are familiar with my abilities, but in my released form I am able to connect with my opponents through shared visions."

"It seems that at some point in the past the arrancar had a shinigami captive that he befriended. In an effort to heal this captive of his injuries he fed him a clear liquid that seemed to do as required. He discovered however that despite healing his injuries, it also caused him to explode when hit by a cero, leaving behind something that resembled the parasite itself. The arrancar touched the thing to his head, which caused a growth to form that somehow claimed control of his movements and shut down his mind."

Durante shrugged "That's all the information I have. Perhaps the arrancar can tell us more of the parasite, or at least where he obtained the liquid from. I must admit I am not familiar with such monstrosities as this parasitic creature, perhaps I should consult with Il Dottore and see if he has heard of it." He finished, referring to the Sixth Espada.

He cocked his head to the side and grinned "As for the Arcanos, if they do in fact represent the Major Arcana, then I'd like to put in a request to go up against number twelve."

[Kolbertt]

"I know every single detail of you, my Espada. Coincidences are more likely to happen if you give them a hand, and during this last 100 years, I personally spent my time settling every one of your promotions into the Espada"

Mircalla gave them both a look. It was a motherly face, but at the same time, her eyes were so piercing that you could feel her penetrating your skull.

"It was a neccesary sacrifice, but it's for the sake of the future... Talking of which, the power of sacrifice is not something you should underestimate, Octava Espada.

It's not easy to predict the movements of "Los Arcanos". Even if we know their base Tarot reference, it's not enough to point their powers. The fact that the sole Arcano I met was more of a bizarre version of his Tarot counterpart does not help that fact.

I'll personally speak with this rescued Arrancar. Even if controlled by a parasite, his power alone created such destruction. He can definitelly be a worthy Ally.

Dear Espada, this concludes your mission. The Sworman attacks have been stopped, and we suffered no casualties. If you don't have any more questions, feel free to do your bidding until your next mission"

[Hiraeth]

Durante's smiled vanished "Madam if you know us so well then perhaps you realise that I simply meant that an opponent that is suspended would be easier to kill."

"I feel like I should clarify something, it makes no difference to me if I am here by accident or design. I am only here while our goals are aligned, as soon as they are not I will have no use for you or the Espada."

His smile returned, but it had changed markedly "Obviously as far as sacrifices go, you should not expect me to ever willingly lay down my life for you. I serve no one but myself, and to achieve my own goals I have to be alive. I hope you understand."

"I had my fraccion take the arrancar to the medical area, where one of them is using her abilities to heal him. If you want him to wake up any time soon I will need to go and extract my poison from his blood stream. I thought it best to wait until we had spoken to you before waking him up, in case he was deemed to be a threat."

[Kolbertt]

Mircalla couldn't help but smiling at the Espada's comment, even if it was true he was a fearsome warrior, this particular Espada sounded like a young child at times.

"Then I have nothing to say, except: Let's hope our roads go together for a long time. I don't need protection, so just worry about staying alive.

About the rescued Arrancar, I'll be more than glad from speaking to him whenever he wakes up"

[Hiraeth]

Durante was a little surprised at her response, expecting chastisement, or even his complete and utter annihilation right then and there. He found that he had a modicum of grudging respect for the woman, and suspected that was probably what she'd intended. "Staying alive is my speciality Madam."

He gave her a large, mostly genuine smile "By your leave I will head to the medical facility immeditately and take care of him so you can question him thoroughly."

He sketched a deep bow and left the room.


[OOC: Kol, did you want us to keep going or end this thread soon?]

[Kolbertt]

(OOC: Well, the mission is practically over, and the report was intended to give closure to it. But FB went AWOL and our report got a bit one-sided lolz - But sure, you are both free to leave Mircalla's room and end the mission with the next post)

[Final Boss]

Lulu listened to Mircalla's explanation of Los Arcanos, taking in every bit of information she could and storing it safely in her head. "I see..."

Suddenly Lala let out a huge sigh, "Well