Killing field [Ballarat] [War for Australia]

She walked the streets of the city that she had claimed as her own for the time being. She had been wondering the world looking for those that she knew she wanted revenge against. She couldn't even remember anymore who it was or why she wanted it. She knew they were out there somewhere but not where they would be or who they would be. She hoped that once she saw the people she would remember them and more about her life. Someone on the street accidentally bumped into her and she quickly turned on him shoving her bladed fist into his chest before she finished her turn and continued on her way. She really didn't care about the man but she didn't want to appear weak. He had not been the first to die to her hands nor would he be the last. Several people died to her every single day. Most tried to avoid her but it wasn't always possible to do so.

Miraya had heard something about a war brewing around the country she was in. She had been in Australia for some time and still didn't care about it one way or the other any more then those she wanted revenge on might be there. The city was her's as long as she hunted there though. She supported the current regime that allowed her to do as she pleased. As long as nobody tried to stop her from what she was doing she was perfectly content to remain in the city as things were. What she didn't want to happen was for someone to come into the city and try to stop her. She would defend her right to do and kill as she pleased. It was the people that were invading that she would need to fight if she wanted to continue on the way she had been so far.

She walked slowly over to the side of the city and looked out around it. She wondered where those invaders were right now. Probably somewhere closer to the major cities. It wouldn't stop them from coming out into these smaller ones forever though. She knew that somewhere in the city there was something that was supposed to be protected from these invaders but she didn't remember where it was exactly. It didn't truly matter in the long run because all she had to do was kill any invader before they got to it and there would be no problems. She wondered how long it would be before they came. She had been in a war before, she remembered, back before she became an arrancar. She had lost then and was forced to retreat back to Hueco Mundo. That was something she didn't intend to repeat again. This city was her's now no matter who tried to take it from her she would defend it. After all where would she find a killing field as rich as a city like this?

Roderich was extremely excited for this. He hadn't had a thrilling battle like this in the longest time and a added on bonus is he might be able to see some of his new allies! He had just become vice-captain of squad 9 so he was excited to meet them all and overall excited to be where he was. When he first went to greet his new division it had turned out that most of them had left in order to be in the war though. So to set a good example and to get an opportunity to meet his Division members he set out to Australia.

After Roderich had prepared himself he opened up Senkaimon. He positioned the receiving one above the city facing the ground. As he reach the other side of it he went head first. When it opened in the human world he went on a nose dive head first into the city. As he was shooting down from the sky he was yelling

"WWWOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO"

Once he got to a low enough area he flipped over and landed. He walked over to the closest open area and because he had such a grand entrance he was quickly surrounded by Monsuta soldiers.

Roderich always had a giant smile on his face that was cheerful and gave off a "light" aura about him. As the group he was surrounded with stopped growing he was easily surround with 40 men. Roderich looked around him and thought to himself

"Dang it I thought I'd get more... Oh well time for some fun!"

Roderich slowly grabbed his hilt and lowered his stance. In the moments to come he would still have a great big smile on his face, but he was concentrated on the moment. The entire group then charged him and as they got within his blades range he quickly unsheathed and in a unsheathing strike he spun around 360 degrees cutting into and through knees and thighs. He then quickly stood up and started picking the remaining off. All with non lethal, but devastating strikes usually being quick strikes across the chest or through the outside or lower torso.

The last five of them lined up for one last stand against him. He still had the smile on his face and as the line approached they all tried to attack Roderich at the same time. He then just did two simple flash steps. One to the left of the group and one ending up on the other side of the ground. Once he was on the other side of the group a horizontal gash through each and every soldiers gut appeared as they all then fell to the ground

"I'm surprised their wasn't more. Well lets see what else is in this place! Maybe I can find on of my division members!!!!

Roderich slashed his blade in mid air taking all the blood off of it and sheathing it. He then began to walk around the city as he left the group of close to death soldiers behind.

Miraya was still looking towards the outside of the city when she heard something strange. It sounded like a man shouting but it was coming from above her and in the middle of the city. She turned around and looked up and saw the Senkaimon closing in the sky. That meant that whoever the man was that was falling towards the ground must be a shinigami. She had little time before he would reach the ground but she was already moving towards where he was going to land. The man was almost certainly not her ally in this whole war thing. She got to a clearing in the city but rather then run into it she waited.

The man was already surrounded by soldiers so she decided to wait and see what the man was going to do with the situation. He easily had 40 men around him which most people would find intimidating but it wasn't hard to tell that these soldiers were relatively weak. She hid in the shadows and watched him as he took down the men quickly and methodically. He was skilled with that sword of his and relatively quick. One thing that she noted was that the man purposefully did not kill all of the men. They were all severely wounded and clearly not fighting anymore but he left them there anyway. She saw him walking away from the field and she moved to follow him.

The man was leaving on the other side of the field from where she was so she stepped out among the soldiers. One of them close to her reached out. "Please help me. please miss you have to help me." she looked down at the pathetic man that called himself a soldier and up where the man was leaving making sure he hadn't heard. She turned plunging her blades into his head to silence the man. The other soldiers stared at her ans she said simply "Now he can't feel any more pain right. That helps." None of the others asked for help after that.

The man had already disappeared at the other end of the field. The soldiers had kept her from following him but she knew she could find him again. She ran towards the other end of the field and began to look down the streets hoping to see some sign of the man. She had been in the city a while and knew her way around. She saw tracks of the man in some of the streets and determined his direction. He was headed for another small field in the city. She knew another way to get there though. She began to move to reach the field first.

When she finally got there she waited at in the middle. She would be ready to face him no matter where she came out from. She didn't say anything and barely moved. She stood there waiting for the man. She was in her normal white split bottom dress with her white glove on her right arm. On her left arm was what appeared to be a metal gauntlet. Very few ever suspected that it was actually her sealed Zanpakutō that would burst out on her hand when she formed a fist.

As she ran into a main street Roderich was leaning against the wall of the building to the right of her. Though it may have been surprising to her, he was able to sense her power and happily waited for her as she came out of the side street. He would continue to look up at the sky with his big old cheerful smile as he spoke to her

"Rather sluggish of you to chase after an opponent. Though it did make my job a lot easier it took all the fun out of it..."

Roderich enjoyed the beautiful sky and town he was in. He hadn't ever got the opportunity to venture to Australia so this was a treat for him. He had gone on many expeditions to slay hollows in other parts of the world, but most of them were wastelands. He took in his surroundings including the beautiful sky, lively town and knew even though these would be momentary he enjoyed taking them in.

Roderich then stood up and with a giant mischievous yelled

"THE CITY IS BEING INVADED!!!! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!! RRRUUUNNNNN!!!"

He then pointed his right pointer and middle finger at a condemned building and shot off a bolt of lightning into it. The combination sent people running in all directions away from the area clearing the area so that they could not be disturbed.He then looked at the women and put his right hand on the hilt of his sword.

"Well now that that's done shall we begin?

Miraya looked over to her right as she heard the man speaking. It was odd that he had managed to get there before she had but in the end she didn't really care. If just meant that he was faster then she thought and he was clearly able to sense her if he knew where she was. She did find it strange that he was staring at the sky and their surroundings. Was he trying to find something that would give him an advantage or an escape route if things went badly for him. What was he looking for she wondered.

He then began to shout about the city being invaded and destroyed a building nearby. That she certainly did find interesting. It certainly stirred up the crowd and made them panic and flee. Fools didn't even realize who it was that destroyed the building. Even while they were all fleeing for their lives from the street they still gave her a wide berth not wanting to get to close to her. Maybe it was because she was the only calm one so they might think she was the invader but most of them probably recognized her and stayed away not wanting to dodge the invasion just to all to her. When she thought about it that probably didn't help with being recognized by the other man.

The area was quickly clear of other people besides the two of them.

"You are an interesting fellow aren't you. Not many invaders would announce their own invasion you know."

She thought about the lighting he made and wondered for just a moment if it had something to do with his Zanpakutō. It was a possibility but it was probably some of that shinigami Kido stuff. It made sense for him to know some of that. He reached down and grabbed the hilt of his sword. She began to create her pheromones on her skin this time she made her love pheromone. She wasn't sure she would be able to touch him but it was always worth a try.

"Don't you find it unsavory to attack a lady like me? Most men don't like to fight against women. Are you one of them?" she asked him trying to prepare him for the pheromone should she succeed.

She held out her left arm preparing herself for the fight that was about to come. She felt no anger, or fear, or confidence, not anything at all. It wasn't even that she was calm, she just didn't feel any of the normal emotions mixed in with a battle. She clenched her fist causing her blades to form with her body in between the man and her hand so he shouldn't be able to see the transformation. She used a sonido to appear behind him driving her blades towards his back. If she hit, if he dodge, or least likely if he blocked she would quickly jump backwards from him releasing her fist recreating her metal metal gauntlet all with little chance that the shinigami would be able to notice where the blades came from.

Roderich found it funny that she thought he was interesting. All he was doing was what he thought would be the funnest things to do, and usually for him at least he was right. He thought about the awesome sky dive he did earlier and really hoped that he could do something like that again, but more to the current point she was making he replied to her saying

"Well it's just no fun having people in my way when am getting to having fun!"

He wondered for a moment thought what kind of women this was. It was kind of odd for her be the one whom was coming after him. He didn't expect it to be someone like her, but if she was the one tracking him then she must be a bit of trouble. He knew he had to be cautious, but that wouldn't stop him from having his fun. He saw the blood on her odd looking gauntlet and knew that she must of been doing something that he might not approve of seeing as she was seemingly his enemy. When she asked him if he would attack a women like her all he could do was chuckle a little and reply

"Your not just some innocent women, plus if we didn't fight what fun would that be?

Once she sonidoed he could keep up with her general direction, but he knew had no chance of doing a full on deflection of whatever she was doing behind him so he turned his head looking behind him to so he could react and pushed down on his hilt raising his sheathe up and blocking the strike. He quickly followed up with spinning around and unsheathing his blade at the same time doing an upwards diagonal slash. When he tried though she had jumped back so to keep on the aggressive he shunpoed in front of her as her blade retracted to catch her off guard and with his blade in front of him in a fencing like position he did a quick three slash combo. First of which was a downwards diagonal slash from her right shoulder to her left hip followed by a horizontal slash from her left mid torso to her right and finish with an upward diagonal slash from that point in her torso to her left shoulder

She saw as the man showed up in front of her. She wasn't ready for him to attack her so quickly after she had attacked him. She went to take a quick step back to give herself some room when he began to slash at her. She raised her left arm into the first slash to push it away against her gauntlet. She watched his blade closely and saw him making another slash towards her. She needed to get her footing enough to jump back away from him. Her feet were almost in position. She moved her arm again barely managing to move the slash off of her body. He turned the blade faster this time as she managed to push back away from him. She couldn't block it this time she just hoped she would far enough away. She watched the tip of his blade as it reached out following her jump. The tip of his blade at his farthest point in the middle of her chest and it ripped through her dress far enough to cut her behind hit before it left again.

She finished her jump backwords from his sword. She reached her hand to her right hand to her chest and looked down for a just a second before returning her gaze towards the man. The hole in her dress from his blade was over the hole in her chest. The blade had hit the edges of it but her Hierro was strong enough to keep the tip of his blade from doing to much actual damage. She still held her hand to the hole in her chest staring at the man.

"Quick, creative, and decisive. You have some skill with that blade I can tell. You claim you feel joy while fighting. I don't feel this joy. I wonder if I can learn to feel it. I doubt it though."

He was quick and skilled with his blade. He actually managed to deflect her attack and managed to see her arm guard for what it really was as well. She had seen that he was quick enough with his blade that her one weapon wasn't fast enough to be able to block both attacks. She stretched out her right arm holding it horizontally away from her body. She began to gather her energy in it. Her hand began to glow black and the glow began to move up her arm. This would make it more durable and pack a bigger punch. She closed her fist in her left hand her blades coming forth. She was ready for him this time.

With his combo barely missing he wasn't really angry about it he was more happy to know his fun wouldn't end as quickly as it usually did. He hadn't gotten the opportunity to let loose against others in a while so this presented him with not only a challenge, but an opportunity to try really fun things in order to win.

Once the hole in her chest was shown it now had made sense to him. The familiar kind of aura she held and the party pooperish style of speaking. She's is an Arrancar. Roderich never had an animosity towards hollows let alone Arrancar, like many others did. Though they are his enemy he found things like hatred towards them as useless and always tended to ruin a good time which he wouldn't allow, so he replaced that with the knowing that by defeating this Arrancar he released these spirits from the terrible life of a hollow. With the same big old smile on his face Roderich said

"You are an Arrancar huh? I will be happy to free you from the imprisonment of being one! Your weird you give a lot of compliments, but I'm happy to receive them! You didn't do half bad avoiding my last assault ether! I find joy in most things. When you really think about it, there isn't a reason not to be joyful, so why not be? Never doubt the power of joy!"

Roderich raises his sword above his head with his blade facing the sky and the point of his blade facing the women as his left pointer/middle finger balanced the blade

"I promise you I will release you from the chains of being a hollow, and at that time I will show you the power of what a smile really is. What is your name?"

When the women's arm turned black he knew that she had begun to think of him as a threat, so he had to be on his toes, or else he may not come out of this fight. A sky blue aura then enveloped the entirety of his blade increasing the effectiveness of his of his Zanpakutō while using it for swordsmanship purposes.

He spoke of the power of joy. She didn't care about the power of joy or anything like that. She had seen others that had been happy about fighting. Others that used anger and sorrow. People fought over love all the time. Even many arrancar's fought with some form of emotion even though they were supposed to have no hearts. She was one of the few in existence that truly didn't feel anything. She was no less powerful because of it.

"Yes I am an arrancar, and you are a shinigami. However, at this point it time that doesn't matter. We are fighting and it makes no difference who is what."

She saw him raise his blade above him and point it towards her. It was an interesting stance to use in order to fight with but she knew that it was probably something that he had practiced with so she could not take it lightly no matter how bad a stance it seemed to her. She finished building the charge on her arm which meant that she was ready for him completely. She wondered what the man thought the black glow meant. It was then that she saw his blade now had a blue aura about it. She figured the glow must be a technique similar to her own. Some way of making his reiatsu increase the effectiveness of his blade. If it was designed to increase his attacks it could offset her increased defenses. She raised her fists in front of her like they were getting ready for a fist fight her legs set for quick movement.

"You wish to free me from the chains of being a hollow? To show me the power of a smile. I feel no chains and have found no such power in smiles. Defeat me if you can and show me the power of your sword. That is all you shall do. In return I will try to defeat you and show you the power of my fists. You face Miraya, Fraccion to the Espada."

She rushed towards him her fists in front ready to strike. She was watching his blade as much as the rest of him waiting for the strikes that it would make. She planned on catching the attacks it would make on her Zanpakutō and performing spin maneuvers in order to line up her glowing fist for a strike at his chest. She hoped that he would write off her fist since it wasn't bladed not knowing that her reiatsu was increasing the force of her punch.

He knew she didn't realize her spirit had been made into something that was a disgusting perversion of it's true self, so he needed to show her. His strength was used to do this a lot of the time. He regularly was in a team to exterminate hollows and he saw the pain they caused, but also knew the pain they were truly in. The pain that had originally trapped her soul, had once governed his. The pure fact that he knew he could set her free and even have the smallest opportunity to show her the true effects of a smile was enough for him to strengthen his resolve. With the same smile on his face he said

"I will remember your name Miraya. Especially when you are broken from this bondage."

As she rushed towards Roderich when she was close enough he did one quick step towards her and did a front flip over her. In one motion while in mid air he stabbed the Zanpakutō into her right shoulder while turning his body to when he would land he would be facing her back. While he came down to the landing he also had was still holding onto his Zanpakutō meaning he had torn the Zanpakutō through her back and to finish it he stabbed it all the way through and tore it out the side of her waist*