Just Like A Buffalo... [Azariel, Khaana]

Felt a little weird, still doing the human thing. But there were still some nice things about it. Meeting up with other streamers for example. Josu was a Japanese gamer that had recently rose in popularity, they had done a few videos together and he was actually pretty cool and relaxed. And getting to meet him was actually rather interesting. Turned out his Dad and Brother were cops for the local police department. and while they originally had just talked about a bunch of nonsense, he soon mentioned that there was some sort of big investigation that had gone down recently. Huh, go figure. It was ... kinda wild to hear about such mundane happenings in the lives of humans. Then again, some criminals these days were pretty wild. Guess that was bound to happen with so much spiritual stuff happening. And as she sat across from him on the outside table of a coffee shop, she couldn't help but think he was kinda fun to be around.

However, she didn't expect the ... shift in the atmosphere so suddenly. A loud crackle sounding as bala rained down and burst around them, a startled scream rang out from the people around her, and amidst the spray of broken wood and metal from the nearby table and railings being blown apart, she could see the guy she was sitting with covering his head in fear. But she didn't. Her good eye swept the area as her reikaku sharpened, and focused on. ...

A fuckin Arrancar?!

Her eye snapped wide open in shock as she watched him hit the ground, and she promptly grabbed him. Shhhhhhit. "JOSU cmon we gotta get outta here!" She lightly shook him, the young man blinking owlishly before nodding, terror clear in his eyes. Tch, right, civillian. She promptly looked around quickly before promptly grasping him by the wrist and bucking it down the street away from the chaos. Amidst a swarm of other people trying to escape the area. Though as they ran, Khaana's focus continued to stick to that Arrancar up above. She just needed to get Josu somewhere safe, then she could deal with them.

People were still rushing around them, but there was a noticeable part in the wave of people. A single spiritual pressure that she sensed moving closer. And yet... wasn't snuffing out the humans near it? She stole a look over her shoulder and her good eye widened slightly as she spotted them up close now. An arrancar, ....waving people by? This creature wasn't just causing wanton destruction, it was AFTER something. And that promptly amped up her adrenaline, imagining that ....was this thing after her? Her heart raced in that moment and a black shadow spilled down from beneath her eyepatch. However, to her surprise, the crackle of a sonido interrupted her thoughts and her reikaku refocused. Surprise in her mind as she saw that he wasn't focused on her, but Josu?!

No time to think.

That black shadow spread beneath their feet, yawning wide as it chewed through the concrete beneath them, and then a sudden vicious eruption of gleaming blades as several swords and spears suddenly burst from the shadow and stabbed upwards, aiming to slam into the arrancar's arm from below so as to intercept the strike, protecting Josu as Khaana hissed, grabbing one of the spears and promptly shoving the blade against his back, the haft twisting around his body, winding several times around his frame before melting into the hard material it was comprised of, and promptly adhering to the young man's outfit. IT wasn't as good as how she usually did this, but it would make a makeshift bit of armor, wrapping around his neck, chest, and belly. Protecting his vital areas. "Fucking RUN dude!" She barked out to Josu. Who was frankly freaked out, but his eyes were SQUARELY on the blade that had just been going for him, and so as soon as he was shoved, he bolted down the street!

Leaving Khaana panting a bit as she stood between Azariel and his quarry. That darkness spread across the street, the people around them having cleared out, there was a loud SHING as a wall of spears burst along the street behind her, further barring the arrancar from chasing his target. That shadow continuing to spread wider, eating away at the sidewalk as it did.

"Heh, not often I see such sombre eyes on someone looking to kill a person. Let alone a nerd as helpless as Josu. So start talkin Half-mask. The hell do you think you're doing?" She muttered. Possibly startling the man by using a slur for arrancar that usually circulated among hollows.

This was it wasn't it? This was the exact situation that she'd been training so hard for. She was in the middle of a goddamn city. She wanted to be able to handle this... GUY. But she couldn't release. Not fully. If she turned into that big monstrosity, then she may as well just throw her life out the window if anyone caught sight of it. Her eye darted. She could see frightened civillians here and there. The few who were injured by the blasts and couldn't run.

This was already bad. It was bad enough she was using her powers in public. But she had to keep this up. Her eye narrowing as she braced herself, seeing the glowing film on that weapon. She peeled one of the spears from the wall itself and narrowed her good eye, preparing herself for an attack, only for her brows ro taise as not her, but that wall was suddenly assaulted! The explosive burst of energy rocked the street and shook the ground as that powerful burst slammed into the wall. But as the debris cleared, and frankly even before then. Azariel would FEEL the wall was not just still there. But something had caught his blade.

His zanpaku'to flush up against the wall, the haft of a spear had twisted like a living thing and coiled around the blade of his sword. A single eye opening at the center of the cross-guard to stare at the man.

Just as Khaana launched herself at him from the side and aimed to slam an open hand into the side of his face. Flesh hardening into a deep red carapace armor, something that one might expect on a hollow, would lunge in and aim to slam Azariel head-first into the nearby building, an attempt to pin him to the wall with a sudden insane burst of strength. She wasn't naturally strong of course, but with a shunt of spiritual energy, that strength of her was suddenly amplified.

"Business man eh?~ You should asked for more money though. I'm definitely not someone you aughta be fighting for cheap." She noted with a cant of her head as she brought her other hand in and attemptyed to tap that spearpoint to the arrancar's chest. "So, if you ARE some kinda hired hand. How do you feel about negotiating? Got a few arrancar already under my payroll. So how about we make a little wager? You and me. Right now. If you win, then I won't get in the way of you killing my little Nerd associate. But if I win. Then we see about you working for me?" She asked with a smirk playing across her lips.

"Of course, if you'd rather I just kill you. That's fine by me too."

Brows raised slightly and she flashed a lopsided grin in response to her insistence. "Oh yea?~" She chuckled, only to perk up as he grabbed her spear and shoved it firmly into his own lower abdomen. Her good eye darting up in time to see the charge of that cero. Huh.

The blaring crackle of that energy burst was certainly dangerous to the point where on reflex, the tip of that spear would be ripped from his belly. But it didn't stop that Cero from slamming into her facefirstShe had a moment to dodge, but she knew arrancar well enough. And when the energy from that cero finally faded, She'd still be leering down at him. The flesh burned away from her skull on one side, showing the bones and muscle beneath where her skin had once been, the entire section of skin across the left side of her face and head, and more than that. the Eyepatch had been entirely burned away. And so as Khaana leered down at him, without even a mote of pain in her expression, he'd see what was lying in her socket. A pulsing black core of roiling energy. One that cracked open, and gushed an absolute mess of black shadow into the ground beneath them.

"Thats whats gonna get you in trouble buddy boy: Not being open to new experiences." She grinned. And in that moment, her own sheer fury overrode her caution.


Gaping maws and clawing hands burst from the ground in a sudden gorey mass. MAssive white frames as no less than Six enormous winged creatures surged upward from the shadows beneath them, that shadow chewing through the surrounding buildings as the creatures peeled the wall of spears and swords from the ground as they emerged, the weapons swelling in size to match their new wielders. And in the midst of them all, Khaana plunged the spear she'd been holding into her own chest, and the metal twisted and flooded into her frame, creeping along her body as it fused with her form, crawling up her neck before promptly encasing her damaged face in an armored helmet, promptly concealing the damage as that glowing eye leered down at the man.

"Lets' take you somwehere more suitable." She hissed, a crack forming across that helmet over the mouth as energy coiled behind that jagged opening, With a roar that helmet snapped open and a mouth of jagged teeth showed as she fired a burst of energy. An explosion of concussive energy rather than the burning explosiveness of a cero. Aiming to slam into the man's chest and launch him a huge bang, plowing him through a building and sending him speeding into the city outskirts, rapidly pursued by the crowd of Seraphs.

Khaana's eyes narrowed as she saw the arrancar going flying, thrown from the reach of the city by the attack she'd launched to send him flying. Tch. Close, but not quite. She peered at him through the helmet that kept her features obscured from the general public, and as he fired off that Volley, the bolts burst against the creatures frames, but much like Khaana, they continued to fly after him regardless. Only rather than mobbing him, they parted ways so that Khaana's form could be launched between them, flying in once that volley of Bala ended, swinging in with one of those swords as she aimed to strike him straight in his chest. But she didn't cut deep.

Instead, the blade of the weapon glowed and promptly burst, an explosive wave of energy erupting from the weapon just like that beam, a loud bang sounding through the air as she aimed to bat him downward and send him clean through the outskirts of the city and into the wilderness beyond the city reach. Far away from all the people. So that she could deal with him properly.