Desire Looming [Wellgunde, Open]

Pups? This woman had a strange way of talking smack. Regardless Hono needed to lock in, these invaders were dangerous so any wrong move could cause her to be cut down. Her Shikai while it boosted her abilities did cut her range, hopefully that weakness wouldn't be exploited.

As Wellgunde attacked, Hono would go to parry but wasn't expecting the sudden amount of speed, dodging to the best of her abilities. She managed to move to the left, though not completely out of the wave, the edge of the spear cutting her side, causing a slight wince, as the water launched her backward.

Hono would attempt to recover and use a flash step to rush towards Wellgunde. Attempt to strike the woman with a quick slash of her Zanpakuto

Wellgunde was a woman who was well-suited to subtle movements. The way in which she carried herself was disorienting enough to give any opponent no small degree of pause. However, when it came to her actual speed, Wellgunde was not particularly impressive. Her eyes darted to the side as Hayden slammed into her, the thin line of her expression shifting once again into an outright disapproving frown as she felt her hierro chip in a few places.

She had no reason to provide some little quip in response at this stage, however. Instead, she simply stepped back, not wanting to stay too close as the crackle of sonido yet again masked her position for the brief interval of that step. Still, that left her at the mercy of this other one-

With a twist of her body, Wellgunde appeared out of her step and swung her polearm in a wide arc, intent on keeping both of these two at a distance. Tactically speaking, it was impractical to try and fight at close range. Even so, the cut from the pink one's blade had made its way through. It wasn't much, but any cut was displeasing. A mark of her failure, and an unattractive blemish that might make her less pleasing to her master's eye.

No, that wouldn't do. That wouldn't do at all.

Hayden had begun to move for a follow-up to land after Hono's attack had begun, but the swipe of the polearm tearing through the air in front of him caused a sudden stop, his feet pushing back after it passed him by. The polearm would pose trouble, but he figured that if he managed to get close enough, he and his teammate could keep apply pressure. The only question he had was if the look on her face was going to lead to her being thrown off, or the opposite.

He also was worried about how well versed she was in her sonido, but he had an idea to hopefully halt that for a moment. He took steps to circle around Wellgunde for a moment, towards Hono. He knew he couldn't leave enough room for her to use her weapon, or else she could tear into both of them.

“Ten minutes should be enough time for most of the evacuation, hopefully. Think we can handle her for that long, if not sooner?” he said to Hono, still keeping his eye on their opponent. His voice was loud enough for his ally to hear, but it wasn't projected much more than it needed to be. Without a pause in his footsteps, he began to spin his sword in a circle around his hand.

Now we're cooking with gas.

“Defend,” he began, before a particularly fast motion. The blade seemed to meld along its path. “Praetorius”

What was once a slender blade had become a black circular shield with cyan decoration, just over half a meter wide. Nothing seemed inherently abnormal about it otherwise. And with his weapon released, he pivoted on his left foot, and began to charge forwards again, his zanpakuto raised towards Wellgunde.

A hit, that was all Hono needed. Despite the cut being quite small, some shards of her blade made their way inside Wellgunde at the point of impact... With the ability of her Zanapkuto, of course, nothing would happen yet. She needed to get more strikes in before she could use her Zanpakuto's real ability. She was just hoping it would WORK this time when it came to her Zanpakuto it had a really poor track record, though she had never used it in a real-life or death fight...

She turned her attention towards Hayden at his brief comment. "It'll be easy~" Deciding to shit talk a bit, shouting back to return his volume. While she wanted to tell Hayden her plan, which would require her to give away her Zanpakuto's ability, and she didn't want to show her hand just yet, she wanted that element of surprise.

She decided to follow Hayden's lead, and keep up her assault, her strikes aimed for Wellgunde's shoulder with her Zanpakuto. She didn't know what Hayden could do, but she was hoping the two of them could deal with the threat before them.

Despite her own capabilities, it seemed that these two were not so below her notice that she could dispatch them without any effort. She wasn't intent on continuing to fight the two of them head on given the current circumstance. If it were a one on one bout, Wellgunde doubted she would have had issue, but two shinigami, using release, were more than she wished to fight as she was.

"Snap, Ostra."


Wellgunde's skin quickly shifted to a deep blue in color, and she whipped her weapon around with far more force than before, intent on holding back any imminent strikes with her now increased capabilities. A step of sonido, nearly in place, marked the appearance of another shell of hierro that moved to clash with Hono's blade, while Wellgunde herself looked to Hayden.

"You should have run away, you know."

With another stab of her weapon, an orb of water fired toward the shinigami, but this time it was not simply intent on causing injury. Those struck by her resurreccion's waters would find themselves locked in its abyssal walls, a bubble of water that was meant simply to hold prey in place; if she had the time, she would turn them into a most beautiful pearl within her own depths.