Not Super Human

Sitting at home, was getting boring, who knew when the sun set, when the curtains were pitch black…you lost track of time, you lost track of everything, the only thing that keeps you aware of the time is the small square object on a nicely filed down mantel(rotting from bugs i might add). With red numbers on it. Just another 3:00 pm right? The night was cold, and the air had a scent in it. It was a kind of scent that would fill the air, and make everything seem new. Make everything seem fresh. The clouds suffocated the moon, but they were pink colored, so it was noticeable that they were clouds. It seems the wind didn’t dare blow. A slam of a door, could be heard, and a dog started to bark a few blocks away.

The light of matches against something was heard, and then the familiar smoke of a cigarette could be seen rising towards the sky. Soft footsteps could be heard, it echoed from the trash to trash, to Destroyed house to abandoned house, even in this city which never was at rest, seem to be taking a power nap, with the occasional two or three passer byers.. A girl, with pale skin, that stood out in the night, had stopped, to an average human, she was staring at nothing, but to someone like her, she had been staring into the eyes of a hungry hollow. She inhaled, and the cherry of the cigarette shrank, she blew smoke out of her nose.

Who needs a hero? Her brown eyes were shining, and from her coat, which seemed to drag against the ground, she pulled out two dragons. She shot, and one hit the hollow at it’s shoulder. She stared at it, with eyes, as hollow as it, she inhaled again, the cigarette hanging from her mouth. She had to fight today, to live another day. The hollow seemed to make a growl in rage, and it charged at her, it was inches away. She pointed the gun, it was only inches from the hollows head, and if the silencer hadn’t been on, a loud bang would have been heard.

Her brown eyes widened, and the hollow stepped a few steps closer, before falling on her feet. She stared at it, then sensed another presence, she turned where she sensed it, her guns pointed. They were powerful, She couldn’t get caught, no not now. She wasn’t strong enough, no not at all. She inhaled, as ashes fell from the cigarette, alot has changed? How long could she have stayed under the radar?

Space ripped and tore before Xenmar moved away, hair whipping around wildly before resting after the Garganta closed. He was now in District 3 where his peer, Makenshi, should be arriving to soon..

He sensed around, pinging for signatures like a sonar and picked up a particularly powerful level of energy. Xenmar Then attempted to suppress his Reiatsu. However it only worked so well as his signature is now like a candle flickering from zero to around 75% randomly.. this is part of the curse of the Kidou Seal he bears. He can't always perfectly suppress his energy.

The Arrancar looked around and saw the abandoned state of the area. Buildings in need of repair, humans gathered into various nooks and openings, some were even in the rundown constructs. He decided to head towards the large signature he sensed a few moments ago.

“Might as well get some work done before Makenshi-san arrives.” he said to himself as he retrieved the Hook Sword paired with his Zanpakutō and made his way toward the signature sending the occasional “sonar” ping.

The Espada made his way towards the power that he pinged. Occasionally there were some Super Humans that thought they had the power to challenge him, but they were no where as powerful as the signature he was heading towards. He just slashed one of their arms off and tested the blood, so far no response. Xenmar thus far has avoided the females, using supernatural jumping, leaving them to be captured by Makenshi and the Numeros.

His small journey through District 3 has unveiled a nicer part of town, that is the buildings looked less decrepit. Now it was more like a rundown neighborhood vs abandoned. He turned a few corners, though a few alleys and found his way to his destination. Now before him was a man about 6'3''and wore what looked like hand made clothing. Though he was substantially taller than Xenmar it was not what concerned him. What concerned him was the raw power he felt from this person. The man looked over to the Espada and spoke, “Is there anything I can help you with, my lord?”

Xenmar took some steps towards the man, noting the dripping sarcasm of which he spoke. This person clearly didn't understand the situation, despite his situation a larger purpose was being served. That is the continued survival of a Race or specifically the infants, children and teenagers and besides, despite this human's relatively super power signature it did not reach that of the Espada's. Xenmar shook his head, the cape-like hair swayed from the movement then settled.

“No, your sarcasm can't help me, but you can. You are to serve a greater purpose then food.”

The human smirked, “Food? Who said my purpose was food?”

“What? Are you delusional? Human, you were here for Hollow feed, now you are to serve a different purpose; it would behoove you to be grateful.” Xenmar flick the paired hook sword so the blood from the previous attempts wouldn't crust on the blade. “Now I need you to come with me, that would be the best choice or you could let me cut you. I'd prefer to have this test to be organized and categorized so I would appreciate it if you would just follow. What is your name?”

The resident of District 3 spoke as he took steps to get rather close to Xenmar, an intimidation tactic that wouldn't work. “My name is Yenich and I will follow you up to the point of...” then Xenmar felt a rush of pain, “Oblivion!”.

“Ghaa!” Xenmar realized what what going on after a moment, but a moment was too long an elegant sword pierced his shoulder, the person was siphoning energy from him and disrupting his Heirro. It was energy being forced through the Kidou Seal, something that normally couldn't be done with enough force to be damaging.

The Arrancar quickly retreaded a few steps holding his head. He then sensed a great increase in power, the humans power mixed with his own bringing him to unfortunately a more even playing field. Xenmar still though he could handle this with no trouble, but then heard words from the human, words that with the skill displayed earlier could easily mean a person of over 2,000 years. There was a virtual explosion of power as the staggering Xenmar's vision cleared, this was an ancient and boosted foe. “Zeige Dich, Alanea”

Slowly he entered the building, still with lots of smoke and dust due to the explosion, one by one he looked at the human bodies still unconscious and laying on the floor, of which seemed like a very old and dirty hotel lobby.
Most of them weren't hurt... but not all of them seem to have any kind of energy or power... he thought as he walked along the bodies, when several arrows of energy, thin as needles, left the middle of a cloud of dust flying rapidly toward him. Makenshi let his reiatsu wave as he raised his right opened hand, blocking almost all of the arrows been struck by one on his left arm.

"I just hate people that hideway their presences, don't try that again and show your self already" he said while taking the small needle like arrow from his arm and looking toward the smoke cloud from where the attack came, that had just began to dissipate, making a silhouette slowly appear while a voice answered to him "Don't worry i'm not running away" said the young brunette gal wearing dirty torn jeans and shirt, with two small energy balls, that were the size of a fist, flying by her side.
"Are sure? if we fight here the whole building may end up falling" Makenshi talked while looking toward the cracks in the ceiling and walls "and i wouldn't like to damage you, but them..." he said while making his zampakuto appear right on his back, before taking it and stabbing a man that was waking up.
"I don't care at all about them" "How can you..." "If you want i can kill everyone here, if not you should do just as i say and don't try out anything. You understand..." he put his zampakuto hanging in his back before it disappeared again while talking and walking next to her, making her start to tremble with rage, while listening it "Cause if you ever try it, i might just disobey my orders...and end up killing you. Now lets move" walking out of the building and moving toward the nearest group of numeros with her by his side before shooting another cero when she tried to escape, making the building finally collapse and rising a large cloud of smoke and dust.

Xenmar saw the sword transform into a humanoid doll with blades for arms and legs.
The wind seemed to pick up with the increased spiritual energy.

“Well, this is interesting. You, you think that since you caught me off guard you can take me? Unfortunately your fate isn't entirely my decision.” Xenmar reestablished his Heirro and ceased his suppression. He knew this opponent might be a threat, it just added difficulty that killing him wasn't necessarily an option.

The Bount looked cocky taking having taken the Arrancar by surprise, “You consider yourself powerful don't you? Well, I doubt you've encounter one of my kind before. Alanea, kill him.”

The Doll called Alanea dashes at Xenmar leaving a dust cloud in it's wake. The small figure becomes a whirling blur of blades twirling and slashing with ferocity. The Espada defends the whirling blades only suffering minor nicks and cuts. After 10 minutes of defending, the blade he just parried bends around the sword and cuts along his arm while unleashing barbs with energy pulses, it stays bound to his arm.

“So your aren't as strong as I said.” the Bount smirks, ”It's time for -”

“It's time for this testing to end.” Xenmar let go of his paired blade then crouched to catch it with his other hand while he launched a Cero with the hand from his bound arm which pierced and exploded the Alanea Doll sending shrapnel into his face, cutting it while destroying several buildings beyond. He then turned towards the Bount, whom looked slightly scared, “You, I will find out what I need and if you survive then I'll find out your tricks...” the Arrancar's voice wavered slightly, his physical energy was being slowly drain as if some kind of poison was introduced.

Yenich, the Bount, took on an air of confidence as Xenmar was weakening, “You can't defeat me I'm too strong, too devious. Your energy will be mine and I will become even more powerful.”

Xenmar launched forward with his hilt blade first and Yenich parried, lighting fast, with a small blade, a knife. Dust and minor debris clouded the area from the downed building. Despite this the Espada crouched trying to catch the knife with the hook, finding the blade missed he came up with his fist. Yenich sprang backwards throwing a moderate slab of metal at the Arrancar.

Xenmar dodged the slab as it appeared through the cloud giving a resounding thump as it landed. Yenich then ran up and kicked off from the door frame coming through the dust cloud in a downward slice. Yenich's blade was incidentally deflected by the curve of the Hook Sword. The Espada threw a punch straight for the Bount's solar plexus. Yenich couldn't defend in time, but the arm stopped. The dust cloud swirled and revealed a blade straight through Xenmar's body from Alanea. He coughed, “Heh, it must of regenerated.. you never meant to hit me with the metal slab did you... you know your only this powerful due to a fragment of mine.”

“I know and that's why I must incapacitate and absorb you before the ultimate blow comes from you. Alanea, Zat Tou Deich. Goodby Espada.”

The Doll's, Alanea, blade elongated sending acidic semi solid pulses of metal as it went and curved through the building Yenich initially came out of. The structure whined as it's support was destroyed and the bulding caved in, screamed could be head from inside and a person was at the doorway before the building's dust overtook the image, blood splashed onto Xenmar's face. Alanea's blade finally completed it's curve and split into three other blades poised to strike. Xenmar cracked a smile.

“You are a fool Yenich, you could have had the blade expand cutting me in two. However you decided to be a bit flourishing. Han-280-Cero!” The blades rapidly descended on Xenmar as a black/blue-red streak came round his front top vertical and stopped at his back. Immediately it unleashed a Cero blast that enveloped Alanea , this caused her and her blades to shatter as they dug into his skull. The Espada blurred using Sonido to behind Yenich and punched him firmly in the kidneys and brought the inner curve of the hook around as he fell to his knees, Yenich's neck resting on the inner curve. Xenmar stopped from beheading the Bount and instead flipped the blade and made a thin scarring cut on his neck.

He 'sheathed' the blade and brought around the Relics to sample the blood and there was a response. He quickly stowed the Relic-gods and sensed for Makenshi, upon finding his signature Xenmar picked up the Bount, Yenich, took his knife and traveled to Makenshi. Still feeling weak and needing this spirit poison to take it's course he walked out of the dispersing dust cloud unveiling the crumpled, bloody buildings and debris.

"so tell me where is your headquarters?" makenshi asked the girl "and like i said before, don't try anything and nothing will happen to you or those pathetic and weak humans...""I'm...i'm not from here so i can't say it" she slowly answered back while walking along side him.
He turned around sidling as he looked toward her "whatever, it's not important at all. It will just take us a little more of time before finding them, what mean more humans death until we find those who have powers"

After turning at some squares they reached an alley and saw a large amount of unconscious humans covering all the place around, feeling a strange smell while a humanoid with fly wings and feelers standing in the center of it. As them approuched walking through the bodies makenshi asked "numero 95 Calle, wheres your partner?" "Oh, lord Makenshi. He is searching for humans with strange reiatsu in the bodies at the other side, while i spread my poison knocking down the humans around" as he was finishing his speak, the girl started fell in the ground fainting.

"where are the superhumans you managed to capture"
"right there sir" he proudly answered, pointing toward nine bodies leaning against the wall.
"Keep focusing on your poison. I'll wait here for a while" he said carrying her body and taking it next to the others, before leaning his back against the same wall and start to move his left arm in the air ...Things are going fine, it seems that their leaders really don't care about this place and all the resistance around here is too weak or can't work in group, but what is wrong with my arm. It seems to be slowly being anesthetized, it should be the effect from her attack... he sighed before starting to rise his reiatsu.

"something wrong makenshi sir"
"why no one never understand what i say. Just focus on your poison, did you understand it now?" he said closing his eyes while sitting on the floor.
"su..sure"
...maybe like this those humans can show up and try to attack me, or try to run away from the city and get captured by the others... he thought while waiting there.

She has long let darkness eat at the rims of her body. Her eyes closed, it would seem eery how darkness seemed to hug her very tightly. Her dark hair seemed to hide her pale face, and the cigarette had long been out, after she fled the scene where she killed the hollows, she walked out of the darkness, lighting another cigarette, her signature had long faded around her, but it seemed, like little feathers, floating in the air. Walking within the building she resided she paused, then her brown eyes glanced up. As she inhaled, the smoke seemed like the arrancars and hollows, spreading and moving fast to the world, she blew smoke out of her nose.

Arrancars? What were they doing here? She paused, only for a millisecond, and started to walk off. Her weapons had long been concealed, her gun being gripped by her pants, against her lower back. Bruises at first the weapons made, but now; they were more like indents. She stopped, then glanced at them..recruiting more humans. Just a war... why did it feel like she was the only one fighting?! Why did it seem like she had to play hero?! She bit down on the cigarette, as if to hold her tongue, she paused, and stared at the arrancars. She had to speak her mind! If she was a hero, she wouldn’t be afraid to give her life? But some where deep inside of her, she felt like her death would be for nothing.

Her precense seemed not to be felt just yet, then she realized what the arrancar would do, taking a step outside, she ran the cigarette not dropping, only to the corner, turning her head. She watched the arrancar leave, she went quiet, then went against the wall. She looked up; I should follow! That girl doesn’t deserve to be captured. She paused, and before the logical side came up, she followed.

Then saw arrancars, she had long finished her cigarette, and ached for another. Korey to be point blank, was a strategist. Glancing around, she saw the super human’s bodies propped against some rotting fence. Her hands curling into fist behind her back, then she let her precense known. she grabbed a cigarette and lighting it, it would be a smack in the face to all the arrancar, and even Marin could feel it. She stopped, and walked forward to the front of the alley way.

She had to fight for what’s right. She had to speak her mind, standing up she stared them down, her gun pointing at them, to the arrancars it would appear as a normal hand gun, smoke curled around her nose and cheeks, as her hair covered her eyes.

This would be the fight for her life; and she wasn’t ready to die....

She threw away her hiding, no more. She had to fight today...She let them stare at her. Then she fled, this was her strategy, she knew she wouldn’t be able to take on two, so one would have to watch the super humans, while she ran. Nine superhumans on one arrancar would be deadly to it. But she knew both couldn’t leave, cause that’d be risky if one woke up. She ran keeping a steady pace, fast enough for her to be a problem for the arrancars, but slow enough so they could see her. The cigarette didn’t budge from her mouth, nor did she care to stop until she was far off from the alley way, turning in the direction the arrancar would be coming, gun facing down.

Her black trenchcoat, flowing to a stop behind her, as her brown eyes stared down to where she calculated the arrancar to appear. Where she had stopped was another alley way, also a dead end, so the arrancar would assume she did it on accident, in the alley way, she glanced around, three garbage cans, and what was left of a car, and finally a rotting six foot fence. She stood straight as she stared towards the opening of the alley way.

The weakened Cero Arrancar made his way to Makenshi's location passing by the decrepit buildings and fleeing people. After several minutes of walking he finally saw Makenshi, the pile of humans and sensed a significant power along with a gunshot.

'grr' he though in his weakened state.

Xenmar tried to focus his energy to cleans his body using methods that he observed from Shnigami Kidou, but it didn't seem to have any effect. Ether it was too counter-intuitive to the Arrancar's abilities or there was some trick to it. The answer to that question would have to come later as he had a more immediate concern. What to do with Yenich? The Bount was too power to be left in any random place, he would cast destruction about any area if he was to wake up. There was only one option he could think of that would do the job. The Espada opened a Garganta into a gooey stasis cylinder in his lab and threw Yenich into it, stopping him from regaining consciousness.

After Yenich was through and the Garganta closed Xenmar felt better and this puzzled him. Was the draining effect linked to the Bounts spiritual energy and thus ranged? Did it's effects wear off just now? Assuming Yenich survived and it was the former, the Arrancar would have to figure out how it worked as having the ability to weaken your opponent by just injuring and being around them would be useful.

Now that his current problem was dealt with he needed to figure out what to do with this new energy. He only caught the tail of a trench coat and one person had to stay to secure this group of humans. Feeling revitalized he walked over to Makenshi.

“Makenshi-san, you have done well compiling Humans and I see you have a woman. Hopefully she is uninjured. Do you have anything other than the obvious to report?”

Xenmar waited for a response then added, “The attacker clearly wants us to follow. Unless you know something I don't, I suggest we both pursue using our own tactics; that should put almost any one off guard and remember we can't do anything destructive until we find the gender of this assailant.”

Xenmar had just reached at the alley makenshi and the arrancar were at the same moment a strange human had showed up and started to run away from there.
"This place is useless, theres only weak people around while the others are hiding their selves" he said to Xenmar as he stood up "well if you think so... then i'm going to do exactly what the enemy want" he started to walk with his usual slow pace toward the direction the enemy had gone, stopping for a moment near the arrancar "Tell your partner to clean all this mess and to take the ones you guys already captured and the girl to the castle, did you understand?" Makenshi asked receiving a nod back from the still frightened arrancar, fearing to speak and annoy the espada again.

"I'll meet you there then" He said turning back to Xenmar before starting to run toward the enemy presence reaching the alley it entered and walking into it too "I'm here like you wanted, i think, now just tell me who are you before my friend reach here too"

The Espada known as Xenmar opened his senses searching for the exact, pinpoint position of this human. When he found it he locked onto it and jumped to the roof nearest the position, from there he saw the fence, trash cans. Cars and the human a female.

He took a moment to concentrate, he was about to use the Garganta in a way he hadn't in a long while, since his assaults on Donezo. After his concentration he made a Garganta Broadcast in the form of a bubble surrounding her save for a foot arc at her left.

“Hello, aware one.” Xenmar's cape like hair swayed in the momentary breeze, “I am known as Xenmar a Hollow that would rather not use force against you. Lay down your arms and give yourself to a more fulfilling purpose. It would be inadvisable to refuse.”

The Arrancar kept the bubble up while awaiting the deciding response.

Smoke filled her nostrils, and steamed around her, as if she had been a demon, she turned to the arrancar, she glared at him, cold brown eyes. She stared him down, then sighed softly, before aiming her gun at him. Her skin had been paled to everything dark there had been. She jumped back atleast ten feet from the garbage cans. She brought the gun up so it pointed at his head. She stared him down. She paused, her eyes widening, and she crouched low, her hair blanketing her eyes, as she inhaled. She saw their tele-porting device form, a warp pole or whatever. They had a name for them, but she never really paid attention.

She placed her back against the rotting fence, not enough to break the decaying wood, but enough so she had a firm grip on the ground. Well Korey you have their attention. Now what? She questioned, she didn’t want to use her ability; unless she had too. She stared both of them down, she glanced towards both of them. ”Heh.” Then the Newer one of the two, with long flowing red hair, spoke. Her eyes narrowed, and she went to move forward, but she stopped herself, as she felt herself in what seemed a bubble...she inhaled, smoke in, just as smoke left her nose.

She then smirked, then aimed her gun up towards the one, as she let it stay there, then glanced to the other, who hadn’t spoken in a while. Don’t use your ability unless you have too. She paused, then got an idea. She dropped then put the gun away, and fell on her knees. “I Won’t Fight Anymore..” she spoke, then looked down, cigarette smoke exiting her nose.

Xenmar smiled and dropped the Broadcast bubble. He then used Sonido to appear behind her in a burst of static.

"You chose the greater choice, it will be worth it."

Xenmar then took a portion of his long hair and bound the human's wrists, enhancing the bind with Heirro. Then he opened a Garganta and spoke,

"We did good work here Makenshi-san." He then spoke to his captive, "Have you been mated before or injured in anyway?" He asked as if it was an everyday question.

Then he and his captive walked through the open Garganta that lead to the holding area in the Castle where Xenmar would test the blood of the males and bring the reactives and pure females to the Lord of Hollows...

End-> Castle

"Nothing really serious, well i'll be joining you after talking to the numeros" he answered while leaning his side against the wall at his left before Xenmar entered the garganta, going to the castle. He walked away from there and looked toward a thin and light purplish cloud growing, probably from the arrancar focusing on his poison cloud.

"Those two seem doing fine, i might find the others" he though before running and disappearing in the air using his sonido, until finally reach the group of arrancars that was required to capture the females, finding only two of the three near the outside of the city.
"So?" makenshi asked walking past them and looking to the wasteland landscape.
"We managed to capture twelve females with strange powers" an arrancar with a blank mask covering half of his face answered.
"They would be fourteen if it wasn't for..." the other one said been interruped by the first one hand shutting his mouth.
"If it wasn't for what?" the espada said looking back to them over his right shoulder and spotting some blood marks around the place in the ground.
"Nothing sir"
"You shouldn't lie when you lie so bad like that... but where's your other partner"
"He went to the castle with the females we managed to capture sir"

"Then we shall go too, both of you go and warn the others that its time to go back. I'll meet you back at the castle" he finished his talking opening a garganta and walking into it, going back to the castle to meet the king.


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