The Desert Beast [Nize&Vanyel]

Sat Apr 14, 2018 3:42 pm

The modern world had changed a lot and Human race had scared it pretty badly. What was once green and lush forest, was now a dead, radioactive wasteland, dangerous for many to roam it's wide fields. Such, these fields also allowed the growth of the most interesting creatures in attempts to survive the harsh environment. One of such places had became a home to a particularly interesting speciment of a Hollow. Mutated by the mix of radiation left from wars long forgotten and good amount of Reishi, it's existence has cost many life's and spread rumors about powers to infest and kill from with in. And these rumors have went so far to reach one particular Arrancar.

Nize, in his mechanical form, with a black gas mask protecting his face, scurried trough these fields in company of a hunting dog type Hollow. The beast was almost the size of a horse, but the corroding body and sickly look indicated it won't last for long. No matter, it followed it's creator, trying to pick up the scent of one the boy was hunting for. He stopped, the boy lazily turning in the direction of the beast. "I don't think we will find anything like this. And you seem done for as well. Whatever."
With a wave of hand the animal disintegrated in flakes of Reishi, giving one more pitiful look at the Arrancar, before being absorbed in his palm. "Now then..." As he spoke pulses of spiritual energy were emitted, giving surrounded creatures the sense goal. Sense of order. To those with strong willpower it was nothing, but a poke in the brain, but those who would submit. Those, with blood of a Hollow would slowly gather around the male, responding to his call.

There weren't many. Maybe a dozen, if not less. Surviving in such rough environment forced a beast to become capable of stronger will and instincts, but there were also those weakling, that were bound soon to become food. "Great! You are capable of survival here. Now go and seek out the one, who usually hunts you! If you can't bring that thing here, then die trying at least." And the creatures scattered almost instantly. Bigger, smaller, they flew, floated and crawled, leaving him alone as quickly, as they all gathered. "Now I wait, I guess." Nize had no problems with that.

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Mon Apr 23, 2018 10:37 am

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Hollows weren't exactly his usual form of trying to alieve boredom, but it was better than nothing. Chalk it up as his "good deed for the day" -- Pfft! Just the prospect of those words being used to describe anything that he did was enough to make him snicker. Him, doing anything for the benefit of others or to be considered "good"? What a crock of shit.

Vanyel rolled his eyes as he stepped throughout the Wasteland, hands behind his head as he looked around for any of the Hollows that had been sighted. He had been out there for about an hour, his feet sorer than a teen who got fucked in the ass for the first time, and he had found absolutely nothing. How predictable. Another obligatory eye-roll, and he was just about to turn around and head back...when he felt something.

His senses picked up the faint detection of a certain type of energy, and, as a result of that --, he grinned. Immediately, he shot off in a flash, sliding into the Buzhou state as he began moving swiftly across the Wastelands, a hand sliding into a small pouch at the side of his waist, retrieving three throwing weapons from the small carrying case, easily fitting them in-between his fingers.

Taking a deep breath as he came to a stop, as the energy signatures were much stronger than before. Allowing his Chi to flow into the nodes in his eyes, Jiaodan flared to life, his eyes brightening to a light blue as his vision was drastically enhanced, allowing him to pinpoint the energy signatures better through using his sight. Thus, after spotting one of the owners of these signatures, he shot off towards them, his other hand reaching for his sword.

Similarly to the samurai of the Edo era, Vanyel seemingly passed through the Hollow, the drawing of his sword unable to be seen as the sound of cleaving flesh and cracking bone rippled around him. Slowing to a stop and sheathing his weapon, the Hollow would soon dissipate into nothingness. Vanyel's grin slid further across his cheeks as he hovered a hand over his heart.

That burst of life and energy...

It was addicting -- intoxicating. Taking another deep breath to calm himself, Vanyel took off again, before his ear picked something up... and he froze. Literally, he stopped in his tracks, not moving a muscle as he slid across the ground, head turned towards the origin of the voice. The sound of a weapon scraping against wood seemed louder than before...then the Wastelands went silent once more.

All of a sudden, the Hollows that the masked man had brought forth would swiftly peel apart, disintegrating like the others. Standing just a foot or so away from Nize, Vanyel grinned again, waving lazily.

"So! You're the cause of all these Hollows, huh?"

Tue Apr 24, 2018 5:45 am

That was fast. The Hollows barely managed to scatter, even still in his Perquisa area which was incredibly small, before they were removed from existence one by one. At first Nize was almost pleased he won't need to go look for his prey, but that was changed to confusion, as the culprit appeared and it wasn't a Hollow.

"So, you are the cause of all these Hollows, huh?"

The man spoke, the blue shining in his eyes, something of a wicked grin directed at the Arrancar. It would be hard to explain what he felt at the moment. Slight confusion, yes. Something of annoyance, not sure about that, and definitely curiosity. Humans don't tend to wander radioactive wastelands without a reason.

"If by cause you mean I created them, then no. The Hollows were already here and I just made use of them. If one knows how to look, they can find Hollows everywhere."

He responded with expressionless face, not a muscle moving. If the white haired human hadn't peaked Split's interest he wouldn't bother to even answer, just get rid of a nuisance and carry on, but this wasn't the case. Though, this didn't mean he was happy for being disturbed in the search. Nize made sure to let it be known vocally.

"And I don't appreciate being disturbed, when working. Now care to tell me why you decided to bother a complete stranger in the middle of a pool of radioactive Reishi?"

Nize then sent another pull for all in-will weak Hollows to obey and come to him, but it seemed there was none left in the radius of his power. Yes, Nize was almost sure it was annoyance he felt surging through him right now. This male should better be worth the trouble.

"And now I will need to change locations to get more Hollows. As if I haven't been wandering here long enough!"

Nize wanted to almost huff, something new since he came to control and, on top of that, something akin to memory of memory of similar situation was prodding his brain. It wasn't previous Nize's memory, those he remembered perfectly, but this...This was different. You could say it added to the slight, really weak irritation Nize was experiencing and leading to decide in testing, if it was even worth in messing with the blond.

With that thought he released all control over his Spiritual Pressure. Everything made of Reishi in near-by territory went bursting in black flames, not only destroying the Reishi, but damaging everything near by with their heat. Nize meanwhile just stood there in one spot, inspecting the damage his Spiritual Pressure alone done and waiting for the intruders reaction. The stranger should learn some manners and the Arrancar was curious just how durable this guy was.

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Fri May 11, 2018 7:17 pm

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Disappointment. There was not a single word that could describe what Vanyel felt any more than disappointment. The extreme bland monotone that the male gave as a form of response was...dull. It was like trying to have a conversation with a wall. Except the wall was breathing...and human-shaped. The grin that Vanyel previously had was gone within seconds, replaced now by a scowl and narrowed eyes.

"Well, aren't you a ray of fuckin' sunshine..."

Well, it turned out that the Monotonous Misanthrope had a bit of bite to him! Thus, it wouldn't be long before Vanyel's grin returned and he flipped upside down, a small exertion of Chi keeping him from falling over, and he put his hands behind his head.

"It ain't exactly Chernobyl out here. The hell are you on about with radioactive Reishi?"

Shrugging, before stretching, he continued.

"Boredom, really. Ain't much to do in a shithole like this, so finding some form of social activity was nice. Then again, it ain't really all that exciting when I'm talking to what equates to a rock."

Turning back to lay upright, Vanyel watched the man exert more of his spiritual power in an attempt to gather more Hollows, something that earned an eyebrow raise from the man before he stared at the man in utter disbelief. With a brief wave of his hand, Vanyel was quick to utilize this burst of energy in order to solidify it into a small coin.

"You...do know about that coin-thingy that attracts Hollows, right?"

While it was mainly a Quincy item, it wasn't hard to recreate one. Tucking his thumb under his index finger, Vanyel flipped the coin towards Split. Soon after, Vanyel took a step back as the man released the control he had on his spiritual power. As a result of this, the human simply tilted his head to the side, before looking at his side.

A fire had burst to life on his side, coming right from his knife. Unfazed by this, Vanyel casually pulled the knife out of its sheath and held it out in front of him, before dropping it.

"Huh. Ain't that a bitch."

Calmly kicking the weapon away as he patted out the fire that had spread to his jacket, before turning to Split, not even realizing the several burns that had broken out on his hands and arms.

"Well! That was interesting. Got any more tricks up yer sleeves, Mr. Magician?"

Thu May 17, 2018 7:20 am

Well, if someone would ask Nize, he wasn't happy. Not only the stranger offended him, but also had the nerve to act as in Nize would have been in wrong here. Like...The Arrancar was just minding his business, doing research and hunting for test subjects, but here was this male Human specimen interfering just because he was Bored^TM. Not only that, this person spoke as in Nize would have been some kind of lesser intellect being. It was official, Split felt annoyance for first time and it wasn't pleasant.

"Yes, I know what is bait, but I have no need of Hollows that won't obey. That thing there will attract them."

The small disk was quickly grabbed by a black cloud of dust, that had left the Arrancars body, and seemingly was dissolved while, in truth, being eaten by millions of microscopic size nano-Hollows, that was his Zanpakuto. Now he had a sample of the guys energy, just in case, if he ever needed it. The way he spoke to Nize, though, was still high and mighty. And it just dawned to Split, he didn't like for his authority to be denied. For some reason a small chuckle suddenly escaped Nize's lips, him murmurring to himself.

"Who would have thought..."

But he was then returned to reality by the blond males ongoing taunts. There was really, really something the male didn't like about the Human, even if his mind couldn't supply enough of answers what it was. For now he will go with explanation, that he had got in the way of males hunt.

"This was once a rain-forest. Then Third World War came and now it is a wasteland because of the radiation. Over the years radiation attracted Hollows and their dead bodies produced Reishi, that was then tainted. Weak Hollows from outside can't last long here. And physical bodies also start to feel strain after day or two. It also causes quite interesting types of Hollow to develop here."

And after saying that Nize moved via Sonido to attempt appearing right above his target. From his arm five metal rods were fired, digging into the ground of 10 feet radius. White Cero energy would be released to connect with the blond in the middle, effectively paralyzing the flow of energy in his body and stopping the Human from movement. Afterwards Nize simply would point his finger at the paralyzed man and fire a black Cero just enough to inflict a lot of pain, but not to kill. Killing was waste of resources.

If, though, the attempt to paralyze this intruder would fail, he had a back-up plan. On both Nize's shoulders small Cero guns(imagine those from Predator movie) would appear, locking on to the males energy signature and starting to fire hundreds of small, bullet size Balas at him. Being so compressed, they had immense piercing power and, if caught completely unprotected, will probably seriously injure the said male.

"Please! Do remember manners."

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