Snowflake Artifact: Dance for your life!

Yuu turns her head as Hayato asks her a question about winning and she chuckles as she notices three things about the next moment; first was the drop in temperature, causing her to feel more tired than before and Yuu can see her dark aura is shrinking. The second one was Hayato's new outfit, which seems to represent ice, so he was the one who is causing this. And then the flash freeze that encases around her feet. Within a second, Yuu figured out that the freezing air is causing problems for her body and her new passive is reacting to it by expending her spiritual stamina to try and keep itself warm and functional in the winter. She has not fully tempered her body to resist such a chance that her body would actively kill itself to survive. She can feel her heart racing as lightly tries to break her right foot out of the ice, but in vain. Apparently, this is the moment that she is tested for something that she has trouble recalling. It is about something that relates to her charge. She breathes deep as the blizzard sets in.

"I don't intend to win."

She doubts that Hayato would hear it over the blizzard as the ice encases around her and forces her body to kick into overdrive as Hayato would notice her isolation aura is shrinking at an alarming rate before he could see the night sky once again if the blizzard clears up. By the time the blizzard would clear up, Yuu is encased from the neck down in ice while her skin is pale and cold...and with no pulse as her body spent too much spiritual stamina to keep her alive for the moment until someone transfer their own spiritual stamina to revive her; in a sense, she is not truly dead for good, just needs a battery recharge. While in her "dead" state, the network's vital status on Yuu would be blaring that she is in critical condition before dropping to a flat-line; Yuu was just smiling with her eyes closed like an accomplished soldier.

As the ice around Yuu begins to melt around her, she was still not moving, but she is reacting to the spiritual energy that is restoring her. The network alert begins to drop the flatline to a very slow heart rate, though the heart rate begins sounding the "critical condition" alert once again. As the network is detecting slowly increasing heart rate and slow recovery, the ice would have completely melted away and Yuu collapses onto the ground before Hayato, still unconscious. Without the system to help Hayato, there would be no way to know if it worked without rechecking her pulse, which would be at a relaxed pace. Further moments pass and the alert cuts off as the vitals begin to appear green, though the condition of her being is "Incapacitated." Back at the field, the fallen shadow was still collapsed on the ground.

With given second wind, Yuu's fingers twitches before curling up into a fist. Abruptly, a bright light flashes throughout her body as her armor is replaced with winter clothing with a blanket on top of her. The intention is that she is unconsciously using her Equipment Transition ability to keep herself warm. Equipment Transition is a direct upgrade to her Requip ability that allows her to do more immediate equipment switching than before for the same price. Yuu believes it is doubled her effectiveness by enhancing the efficiency by twice its present capacity. However, the alert would trip as critical condition again as the equipment switching took some of her spiritual energy, but it stops again as more spiritual energy is restoring her body. In the end, she is resting in the middle of the field donned in winter clothing and mostly covered by a blanket. While it would raise questions among those associated with the Yuudeshi Network, it may raise concern for Hayato about how come Yuu nearly died from a little winter spell.

"Well. That is odd. Did not feel the joy you would have thought, but it appears I fed off your disparity."

Yuu's comment was blunt and bold as she normally sits up before she yawns. Then when she looks around, she notices the hollows around her. Her heart racing at the sight of them and she knows why. Since she was young and way before Hayato was even born, Yuu took down her first Hollow during a night and each encounter with them afterwards are increasingly petty and nonchalant as Yuu knows the same song and dance for these souls in suspended damnation. They want souls to either stay alive or to have a vain hope of becoming stronger when it hardly did a thing for them. Even the eternal cries from them echoes in her ears in form of growls, groans, moans, and whimpers to the ears of their potential prey like Hayato and Shadin before he openly started training four hundred years ago. She hates the misery they caused, she hates the chaos they ensued, she hates the idea that these are either once good people who succumbed to disparity or people who chose the easy way out with sins riddling their bones. She fought so many that she could hardly count and yet could pinpoint their excuses faster than many of the defenders. As she peers further into their aberrant form, her right eye begins to glow violet once more as if discerning weak spots and critical vulnerabilities. As Yuu stands next to Hayato, she flashes with sunlight to reveal herself not in her armor, but in her Onmitsukidou attire that resembles a black, lightly worn peasant attire with a mask covering her face's lower half, which she lowers to have her face revealed. The gaze she bears would make her appear as an entirely different and sinister person; a person of neither joy nor despair; a person of silent, pragmatic rage and liberi fatali umbra, or "Fated Shadow." With the aura creeping around her, she is protected from the cold while Hayato could feel his hair, facial hair and body hair beginning to stand on end as a spiritual chill would creep up his spine. Strangely, her hair changed with the rise of power as her dark, short hair turned into light red, long hair.

"While she refrained her darkness, I embraced it and well shit, I think I overdone my power and dispersed some of the dye. No matter, I can get it back after this fight. Jeez, I have a Midori hair..."

Yuu was not particularly pleased with the change of her hair that results in the hair color and feel of her arch-rival, Midori Surigara. She then sighs and pulls out a ribbon from her attire and uses it to tie her hair back into a high ponytail. By her side, Cobie the spiritual fluffy puppy returns as it could feel Yuu's emotions. Yuu glances at him and kneels down while the light keeps the hollows away for now. She then ruffles the fur of the puppy while massaging behind his ears. With a smile, she comes up with a plan as she looks at Hayato and then at all the hollows.

"Cobes. Go straight to the Yuudeshi Clan and pass this mental message."
"To those who Cobie found, this is the Ichikage; do look around the sky and find the brightest star over the trees. We have a hollow infestation in the forest and I have a civilian to look after, so some assistance will be nice."

The text that is grayed out is the mental message for the Yuudeshi Caln or those who Cobie may run into in its search for Yuu's reinforcement as Yuu knows that there are simply too many hollows on high alert around her and she would normally be able to handle them if they are not alerted to her presence to begin with. The mental message will not be heard as it is not spoken, but if there are those who can read minds, they could interpret it with clarity. With the message implanted for Cobie to deliver to as many it could run into, Cobie swiftly whips around and dashes out into the darkness as only a bright starlight could mark its location. Just like that, the starlight vanishes as Cobie makes its way to the Yuudeshi Clan's center or towards the city to find Shadin Yuudeshi. Yuu stands up and dispels her dark aura, bringing some comfort to Hayato who would be exposed to her more sinister aura before. A moment later warmth radiates around Yuu as Hayato could feel the cold no longer bothering him and certainly not bothering Yuu while he could feel his entire body tingling as the pain of before is melting away. Within Yuu's sunlight aura, she can actively comfort her allies, making them better able to fight despite past injuries. It would not help completely erase pain, but at least fighting with the injuries would be more tolerable.

"I guess I could let go of the darkness for just one night. Come on, Hayato! Your Pretty Cure can't always cure things better than a good, glorious strike for victory! Come danger! Come spoiled souls! FOR GREAT JUSTICE!"

Upon the mighty shout, Hayato would feel a kick of adrenaline and would feel like he is on top of the world and these vile hollows are going to try and knock the king off of that hill. Certainly he would not allow that as a former wrestler and would see him and Yuu as the current kings of the hill. With a clap of lightning, an archer's longbow appear in her left hand, but an empty quiver hung from her sash, over her right thigh. She knows that she will need time to create a bundle, but since there are no archers around her, she can easily create one arrow now and rapid draw them for this battle. Upon drawing the bow, a violet light emanates next from Yuu's left arm as an pristine arrow with a silver arrowhead appear from thin air. She aim for the general area of their presence while her aura would reveal at least their outlines and her eye would reveal violet dragon eyes at the center of their bleached mask. These are her three hints on where to hit as she looses the arrow into the direction of on of them. The arrow in flight would be seen as a streak of violet light creating a trail of where the arrow may have went. A sharp eye would notice that the silver arrow head is surrounded by a small orb of violet light, which is leaving that streak of light. Upon impact on one of the hollows, the arrow would outright evaporate the hollow if it is a lesser kind, if it is a Gillian Menos or Adjuchas, it would leave quite an injury that a second shot is needed to finish them off; however, Yuu is unsure how it would work against a Vasto Lorde. Hayato could see the evaporation as a burst of silver particles of light flickering like fireworks before a silver wisp of light in form of a butterfly is visibly ascending into the sky and vanish. If Hayato bothers to ask, Yuu would answer briefly that her arrow is like a hybrid between a Quincy's Arrow and a Shinigami's Purification Ritual, which he could put two and two together as it is like Pretty Cure, but for Hollows and Demons rather than the army he is defending Earth from when Pretty Cure would not work against Hollows and Demons. This is called, the Sacred Arrow. She creates another arrow and after each shot, another silver butterfly ascend into the sky while few would burn in azure fire before becoming black ashes with a scent of brimstone, leaving nature untouched.

"They are already dead and the best I would do is to pass them onto the Soul Society for those who needed salvation or to Hell for those who are ill-retrievable."

"Never thought these boneheads would even dance. Tch! They are learning, Granny! One of them just knocked my arrow down by bare hand-claw-something!"

Yuu was making a retort to Hayato's samba, but when she fired an arrow at one of them, the hollow simply holds up its hand-claw-something and slaps it down. The other hollows with it look at their would-be hero and look at Yuu. However, Yuu is no one-trick-pony like a few morons that tried to specialized in one trick; she is an expert in weaponry and when she switches out, her next weapon is a giant boomerang made out of steel with thick handles wrapped in Kevlar to keep allow Yuu to sling it onto her back. Right after that, her body flashes with light again to conceal her body as she swap out her attire for winter battle armor, which is the same as before, but the fabric sections are thicker to keep Yuu warm complete with a synthetic-furred hood. Grasping it by the handle with her right hand, she summons her nodachi back into her possession via left hand.

"Field testing time!"

Yuu positions her boomerang further behind her and shifts her right foot back as she winds up for a toss. The thunk noise of the boomerang gives weight that Hayato would detect to be very heavy as the boomerang is slightly taller than Yuu. Without calling out the attack, Yuu put all her motion forward with the boomerang roaring through the air as it rides the momentum forced by Yuu. The weapon is released and it heads toward the group of Hollows that are crowding a distance from Hayato's left flank. As it cut down hollows like a hatchet on cold butter, Hayato can hear bones being smashed and flesh being ripped asunder. With one toss, Yuu effectively killed a party of Hollows that are going to swarm Hayato. When the boomerang returns to Yuu, Yuu catches it by the super strong tassel while despite in a strong stance, she was shifted a foot or two backwards by the sheer force of the weapon as the boomerang gives off a roar before halted by thud! The mere twirl from it tells how much momentum that it still carries as it makes two rounds before stopping behind Yuu while Yuu has to shift her stance to keep herself from being pulled by the momentum. Yuu stifles her grunt as she realizes that the boomerang is heavier than her and by physics, even she is not immune to the kickback that her Steel Hiraikotsu bears for her experience.

"Little heavier than expected, but it does its job. Hayato, I do hope you have an idea or we'll get swarmed; I can easily escape them, but not sure about you!"

"I-I-Impossible..."

Yuu does not know what just happened, but hell it worked as the hollows miraculously were reverted to pluses, similar to how her sacred arrow would work on demons. Strange that out of all the things that could be affected, Yuu was unaffected by the so-called, "Pretty Cure." After all her years of slaying Hollows and Arrancar, she never would have thought there could be a mass cure for full hollowfication. There are little ways to save them, but this time, that Human managed to do the impossible. Seeing Hayato exhausted, Yuu was quick to catch him and land him softly before she puts his arm over her shoulders before lifting him onto her shoulders like a soldier.

"Well. For a Human, you managed to do what semi-immortals could not do easily. At this point, I'll have to note Shadin about your special ability; expect to be called upon for training and honing your abilities so you can do so much more."

Yuu pulls out her mobile phone and calls the Yuudeshi Network to relay the message to the Gotei 13 about a gathering a soul pluses that needed to be evacuated. Hopefully, they will not know of this and give the Humans an edge over the other races. As she carries Hayato away, she whispers two pieces of knowledge;

"Life is eternal, but not love; cherish only in the happier times and pass it to the new. For each with power, there will be those without power; exchange them by muse."

Yuu assumes that he would be fading in and out, but can hear well as he would see the forest flying by below him as if he was bouncing along the dark clouds. Yuu intends to take him to the Yuudeshi Center to see about getting him more immediate care before taking him back home for resting. Perhaps, as pieces of memory are showing up with new powers she discovered, she would find her own answers.

END OF THREAD
This happened before the Chaos at Soul Society by Forsaken Crow started.
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