[AGGRESSIVE RECRUITMENT] Cerberus Squad Versus Ichikage Raion

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Kura "Demon Arm" Zaraki

She back-steps while she twirls her cane, deflecting the bayonets that would have hit her even though she dodges backward; the cane was not destroyed because it was made on Earth. A bead of sweat trickles down the side of her head as she was honestly not prepared enough to get out of that on the dot! They are accurate enough that if she was on her toes then, she would be done in by these blades. The strength of the blades are good enough that it does not surprise her that she needed two hands to effectively deflect them; even then, her arms are quaking from the impact of the parry. Initially, she is prompted to look around for who threw them and when the man speaks, Kura looks at him before assuming a master swordsmanship stance with her cane. Judging by the glow, she should not touch it at all.

The man wanted to show them the way to Hell and he looks like he is going to cast a kido or something. Kura turns around quickly and uses a hoho technique to create some distance while throwing her hand out towards the man and shouts out a spell called, "Sai" as it is meant to restrain the man and interrupt his casting. Should Akaname uses it in synchronization with Kura's, then it would be at the strength of a master. If it fails, then at least she and Akaname has a running start to get the distance needed to leap over the wave and re-position themselves for the higher ground advantage. Due to the speed, surely the man would think that he had her and Akaname in one wave. Following an instinctive plan shared between her squad, she has to wait for the chance to catch the man on the back.

Kura sees the warning and looks up to see giant blades coming down around their ears and immediately uses Shunpo to evade to the right. Akaname would take the left so if they are apart, at least they would not be caught in the same blast as they nearly did before. Who is that man and how he manages to quickly take initiative without thinking about the chance that he would be overwhelmed not by power, but by number? With the wave coming, Kura was a bit slow, but at least she manages to get out of its way. This has to be her chance to strike at the man while he is distracted by Ichiryuu. Before she could dive in, she is stopped by a harmless ray, alerting her of Hayato's presence on the school's rooftop. She looks at him and sees him standing by the woman like a ballet dancer. The cold does not bother her as she looks back at the man. As Kura sees Akaname making head gestures, she knows what he is saying as he implies that the runt has to go. However, Ichiryuu gets out of his wheelchair and denies the motion, bidding her and Akaname to focus on the man who is doing the real damage.

OOC: Consider it as a marker for when the trio starts getting serious at the same time.

At the same time as Ichiryuu and Akaname, Kura raises her great reiatsu to the point that it appears as a live blaze of red fire with he cane ignited into a fiery sword. Hayato would definitely feel the heat from where he is standing as the rooftop opposing from the school was being burned beneath her feet. The holy man would find it slightly difficult to focus in the heat around her. With Ichiryuu using his flash-step, Kura uses the spriritual traffic to cloak her presence temporarily so she can position herself near Akaname who will be above her. Should the combo work as planned, then the holy man will be down on the ground so Kura can land a presumably crippling blow as she will not hesitate to strike on the mark made by Akaname if the holy man is not so lucky. After the attempted strike, Kura leaps back as she keeps an eye on the holy man.

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Akaname "Whiplash" Zaraki

Akaname was about to approach the woman who was clearly in no state to argue a little help, but he back-steps quickly before he shifts to the right in form of a hoho to evade the surprise blade storm; Alexander and Hayato would see the hoho use has a distinctive "plume of black smoke" whenever he uses it. His wits are sharp and even sharper now that there is a second man coming in. He looks at Kura with a nonchalant expression and proceeds to dash away and use "Sai" to restrain the man's hands behind his back. If the hand is glowing then it is a kido, that's what mom always say. Interrupted or not, he will get his distance and take to the air, using the massive wave to cover his and Kura's trace that they eluded the wave's marvelous power. But really, would a combined strength of two restraining kido would hold this fellow back? Doubtful as Akaname gauges the man to be an elite class in reiryoku. That means he will be no picnic, even for the elite Cerberus Squad. Kura may be holding back to try and catch him on the back, but Akaname is waiting for him to make an opening for the Whiplash technique that took down the woman rather easily.

When receiving the warning from Ichiryuu, Akaname looks up and notices these giant blades coming down like pillars of steel. Both he and Kura are scrambling apart to evade them, but a sharp eye can tell that the three are much more organized than just a mere pack of morons. Akaname is slightly worried that this man would manage to have the squad cornered, but slowly, Akaname can see the opportunity to corner the man instead after Akaname ascends to the air for a moment to leap over the wave. What is known, he cannot keep up the evasive for long, he has to strike while the iron is hot. He was going for the lunge at the man and he uses Shunpo to evade the ice ray and tries to give Alex a slap on the back as he passes by with a hand-sprung flip recovery on the ground. He would have expected Kura to not be far behind, but she is far behind as she was somehow stopped by the ray that he evaded. Akaname looks at Hayato and the frown says that he is displeased. He nods to Kura and then to Ichiryuu, but Ichiryuu abandons his wheelchair and the game is beginning to get interesting.

OOC: Consider it as a marker for when the trio starts getting serious at the same time.

At the same time as Ichiryuu and Kura, Akaname raises his reiatsu to the point that it appears as a sharp polygon of blue with his eyes shimmering from the great intensity of his reiatsu. The ground around his feet begins to freeze while each breath he emits appear as steam; Hayato will have no problems because Akaname's reiatsu is limited due to its element. The holy man would find it slightly difficult to fight swiftly and precisely around Akaname with the chill tingling in his joints. Should the holy man be touched in the back by the slap earlier, the beetle mark would appear on his back and make any damage exponentially doubled its original potential force. Upon observation, he can see that Ichiryuu is using Utsusemi to get behind the holy man and Akaname knows what to do, so he uses Shunpo to create a spiritual traffic to mess with the holy man's senses and to get behind fake Ichiryuu. Should he land the Iron Palm, Akaname will be waiting behind the fake Ichiryuu for the holy man to fly at him and when in range, he will perform the next part of the team's combo. The second part consists of a front flip to slam the holy man with a hammer heel strike to send him plummeting down onto the pavement below and to mark leave a mark on his body.

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Yuu "Ichikage" Raion

Yuu thought she was done when Akaname is approaching to try and capture her, but with the bayonets come raining down to ward them off, Yuu sighs with some relief as she looks at Alexander, a prisoner from the Maximum Security Prison was the one who rescued her for the time being. As the battle begins, Yuu notices something odd about the sky above her. It looks like a snowflake...a rather fat one at that and it was plummeting down towards her! Yuu braces and receives the hit as she feels slightly better, but not by much. Following up with it is a massive wave of energy that sweeps across her and Hayato. That was the one that manages to make her feel more free than earlier as she can see her wounds closing up on their own on top of the snow's healing property sped it up by a lot. The happier moment was seeing her right mangled foot was realigning and healing itself to the point that Yuu is soon to be back on her feet. However, the battle seems to just be starting as the trio are being prepared for something.

OOC: Consider it as a marker for when the trio starts getting serious at the same time.

"They're releasing reiatsu! Hayato, stay by me or you will suffocate with two immense players and two great players on the game board!"

Yuu quickly summons her sacred arrow and warns Hayato before she stabs it into the ground, creating a field that is to protect Hayato from having to deal with so much reiatsu and soul traffic going on at once. Yuu is strong enough to with stand it, but Hayato is not; not with that much activity rising. Hayato and Alexander can see the circle of protection created by the sacred arrow as a well-lit core with violet border to outline the range of a football field. This reaches Akaname and Kura and makes their reiatsu greatly reduced so Alexander does not have to suffer the effect of getting close to them while Ichiryuu's reiatsu remains unaffected because while Ichiryuu's was used for defense, Kura's and Akaname's are considered malevolent. The downside is that Alexander's malevolent powers, auras and spells would also be greatly weakened as well if he is also in the sacred arrow's range. Yuu hopes Alexander understands because one of the helpers is a lot weaker than he is. At least his utility skills like Hoho, Hakuda, Zanjutsu and general skills are not affected.

"Hayato, focus on keeping our friend energized with your powers and I'll make sure they will not get close to you."

With that command to Hayato, Yuu uses Equipment Transition, which works now as a halberd appears in her grasp and she flourishes with Hayato hearing a distinct pop as Yuu's right shoulder relocates with the weight of the halberd doing the work for Yuu. As much Yuu can resist pain, relocating her bones is still painful!

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Ichiryuu "Boss" Zaraki

"An' ye don't get ta' pleasure a' pickin' on a' ol' lad."

Ichiryuu heard to blast and the noise of grinding blades all too familiarly and thus he is alert enough when the second interloper manages to approach him with the accusation of picking on a girl. If the man's about chivalry, then he would know that he has to respect his elders. But it would be a weak retort since all he did was repeating the accent and rip it into something relative. Enough of that, he flicks his wheels back, sending himself back five feet, which is four feet away from the blade outstretched. He quickly puts the sheathed Zanpakutō between him and the man in a defensive stance as he invokes Enkosen, creating a whirling blade of yellow energy at the speed that it would look like a parma large enough to protect the old man from the approaching blades. Given it is a whirling blade, the bayonets scatter in different directions as if struck out by a very fast moving parry. Behind the Enkosen, the old man was slightly unaware that the man was using Shunpo to get behind him once more and are going to through two blades at his shoulder blades.

When he hears the whistling, he spins around on a pivot of his left wheel and only manages to deflect the two bayonets at the cost of the Zanpakutō's wholesomeness as the sheath snaps against the second bayonet as the blade snaps at the end of the parry. Ichiryuu knows now that he has to acquire a new Zanpakutō to be able to commit to Konso. At this point, that man won the day and Ichiryuu has to get the teams out of Karakura before back into the Zaraki District for recuperation and redesigning the plans. When the man rises to the air, Ichiryuu suspects another onslaught like that wave and it is going to be from above since anyone knows that the closer one would be to the source, the easier it is to use them by cost, control and effort. Ichiryuu points up the sky to alert his squad of the attack from above.

Ichiryuu shifts and pivots before vanishing into a Shunpo to generally leave the areas of impact completely. By the time that the wave would come around, Ichiryuu ascends higher above the wave as he grimacing the missed opportunity of using that wave to clear the students and faculties. Now the man manages to get the trio on the rope, so Ichiryuu has to think of something to get themselves out of that predicament. Once they do, they will have to retreat. Out of nowhere, a ray strikes Ichiryuu and puts frost on his wheelchair, making it harder to use. The squeaking can be heard by Alex and Hayato as the old man growls and slowly gets up from his wheelchair. When Akaname was implying that the runt has to go, Ichiryuu shakes his head at the same time as the wheelchair shatters onto the pavement below.

OOC: Consider it as a marker for when the trio starts getting serious at the same time.

At the same time as with Kura and Akaname, Ichiryuu raises his reiatsu to the point that it is clearly visible as a solid, golden orange egg with him at the core. His reiatsu can be felt as an immense and stronger than both Kura and Akaname while given the distance, Hayato would feel the aura like a strong knee to the gut with no one to deliver the kick while the air around him would thin as he is slowly gets stunned by being close enough to be in this old man's presence. The holy man would find it difficult to cut this old man as his bayonets would create sparks on contact before cutting in deep into the egg-shaped reiatsu and still not touch the old man. With the two on the holy man's flanks, he would be pressured to think fast or get overwhelmed by the three-man tag team. The first part of the first combo will be Utsusemi where the holy man would not see that Ichiryuu has moved while Ichiryuu's reiatsu along with the clashing reiatsu of his two squadmates would cover his movements quite well only the man happens to be abnormally sharp with his senses. While the real him will appear behind the holy man, he uses an open palm strike called Tessho or Iron Palm, which would shatter a lot of grown men's spine if in full contact because of Ichiryuu's master degree of strength training graciously given to him at the Maggot's Nest for his cooperation. If he strikes the beetle mark, then the strength would feel like it is from a grand master. It would certainly not punch a hole in his back and out his chest, but it would send him hurdling forward into where fake Ichiryuu would stand. As expected, Akaname would be ready at that endpoint.