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Who: The Joker and the City of Siren's Port
When: After Sirens
Where: Wealthy sectors and surrounding areas
Summary: Joker's controller locks up, the Darkness goes berserk
Warnings: Violence, gore, monster shenanigans and the Joker
( Therein walk only daemons and mad things that are no longer men, and the streets are white with unburied bones )
When: After Sirens
Where: Wealthy sectors and surrounding areas
Summary: Joker's controller locks up, the Darkness goes berserk
Warnings: Violence, gore, monster shenanigans and the Joker
( Therein walk only daemons and mad things that are no longer men, and the streets are white with unburied bones )
Something resonated on the edge of his senses and Byakuya stopped. He reached into his bag and pulled out Senbonzakura. Something was coming.
Then he heard the screaming. People flooded around a corner, running for their lives.
When it came around the corner, he wasn't prepared for it and had to abandon his bag and roll away from the thing. His spiritual pressure flared as he prepared himself to attack.
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His gaze shot up at that reiatsu flare. Kuchiki? Granted, a flare of reiatsu after dark could usually be dismissed as something run-of-the-mill, given the nightly monster activity, but that was a strong pulse. Perhaps he should at least investigate. If Kuchiki didn't need his aid, then he wouldn't interfere.
He slung Hyourinmaru across his back, and was out the door in seconds. Shunpo quickly brought him from rooftop to rooftop as he followed Kuchiki's reiatsu. It was likely that he wouldn't have to intervene -- he might think that Kuchiki was an ass most of the time, but there was no disputing his combat ability -- but there was little sense in taking an unnecessary risk.
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It ran toward him and he held his ground. Senbonzakura flashed and even though the skin had been grey, flacid and looking to be covered in slime, when it charged, it suddenly flashed red, hardening into some sort of substance that his sword bounced off of. Kuchiki himself only dodged the backhand, by shun-po-ing out of the way.
Another flash of sun-po and he grabbed a woman out of the thing's way and put her at the door of a restaurant, When she babbled her thanks, he ignored her and went back to see if he could stop the thing that was still headed after the civilians.
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Hitsugaya just watched at first, from a rooftop, as Kuchiki faced the thing down. He blinked at the flash of red . . . and then again as he would have sworn that Senbonzakura just bounced right off its skin.
That cemented it. He was stepping in.
Hyourinmaru was in his hand in a split second, and he spoke the release command as he swung the blade in a downward arc. A wall of ice crackled into existence between the charging beast and the civilians that still remained on the street.
He took to the ground, now, landing expertly just behind the wall, where some of the people still stood stunned. "Get inside. All of you. NowHis tone, calm and authoritative, seemed to get through to most of them, who subsequently scurried about to find ( ... )
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He shoved another civilian toward a door as the ice wall shattered. But the monster just kept moving. Where the hell was it going and what would it take to slow the thing down?
Another uncomfortable reminder of Yammy.
He flash stepped in front of it - any civilians behind it seemed safe, since it wasn't deviating from its path - and raised a single hand. "Byakurai." One of his favorite hadous, and he used it often enough to be known for it.
Unfortunately, it didn't have the effect he'd thought it would....
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And also appeared to just shrug off kidou, as well. Byakurai was a low-level spell, but fired off by someone with Kuchiki's reiatsu and level of training, it should have managed to do a hell of a lot more besides fizzle against the monster's hide. Damn it. What was this thing made of? They needed to slow its rampage so that they could at least figure something out.
He levelled a pair of fingers at the monster as it charged by him. "Sajo Sabaku."
The streams of reiatsu shot out and wrapped around the monster's legs. Or rather, it wrapped around the rear of its three pairs of legs. The creature itself continued forward, though at least it was slower now.
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The thing stumbled as the bands tightened around its legs. Byakuya let it stumble past him, taking a moment to study it. Its flesh hadn't flashed red since his attack with Senbonzakura. The Kidou had bounced, but the flesh had remained grey and flaccid.
Flash-stepping in front of it, Byakuya lashed out with Senbonzakura again, and again the thing turned red, and the sword bounced off. A brief frown. At least the thing didn't seem to be intelligent. Following Hitsugaya's example, his own Sajo Sabaku lashed out and captured the front pair of legs, slowing it further.
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The creature was stumbling forward again, lurching after them. That row of bony something at the base of its head opened and it let out a yell. The air suddenly smelled fetid. Byakuya couldn't help but cover his nose, his eyes watering.
He flashed forward and scored a small hit on the thing's chest before it flashed red once again. Except this time, when the arm came around, Kuchiki took a glancing blow, that rattled his skeleton. He shun-po'd back to Hitsugaya, carefully holding his arm. It wasn't broken, but it did hurt.
"That red flash is inconsistent. We just have to get around it."
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He instinctively covered the lower half of his face when the air took on that odour. Ugh. There was no end to what this thing would throw at them, was there? He dodged quickly when it continued forward again, trying to get to fresher air.
He eyed Kuchiki's arm critically; it seemed that the other captain had taken a heavier blow than he had. But there was no time for that. They could both still fight; any injury could be taken care of afterward.
Hitsugaya nodded at the deduction. "There must be some particuar circumstance it needs to fulfill in order to bring up the defense. We have to have done something to it that's impeded that ability."
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"Indeed." He watched the thing stumble more. "Perhaps movement? Your attack was unimpeded as it was stuck."
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Kuchiki was right. In the brief moment when the beast couldn't move, his blade had finally pierced flesh. It was as good an inference as any. But they would need it stuck a little longer in order to drive home a killing stroke.
He blinked his own eyes clear. "We'll need to use bakudou to keep it in place. With the elemental resistance, Hyourinmaru won't hold it long enough."
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Standing in mid-air, he slipped to the side of the creature. It took him a moment to remember the incantation - it wasn't one he used often, but he had no desire to allow this thing to get free.
"Walls of iron sand, a priestly pagoda, glowing ironclad fireflies. Standing upright, silent to the end." Byakuya's hands flared with the power of the bakudou. "Way of binding #75: Gochūtekkan."
The pillars dropped from the sky, pinning the creature to the ground. The roar was deafening when it realized it couldn't move.
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When the creature roared, he resisted the urge to cover his ears -- but he was surely going to have a headache when this was over. Which, should their supposition be correct, would be in just a moment.
A shunpo forward, and this time, the blade cut deep into flesh, met bone, and continued through until he had cleanly slashed all the way through the length of the pinned body.
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He rolled his shoulder, feeling the tendons click. Probably not a good sign, but he'd survive, even without intervention.
"I have not seen this one before." The question was clearly asked: Have you?
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Though his throbbing temples, one of which he rubbed at absently, were demanding that things be done. He even felt vaguely ill, though if that were from the headache or the stench, he didn't know.
He shook his head at the implied question. "No. I've encountered those with elemental resistance before, but those don't have a defense against a blade. I don't recall this being in the recent updates to the bestiary, either."
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