Tia Harribel [APPROVED, 0-5--]

How long had it been since those events so long ago in Karakura town…? 400 years. It had been 400 years since Karakura town, fake Karakura town, had been turned into a mosh pit for Shinigami, Vizard, and Arrancar. Tia doesn’t exactly look upon the event happily, not even a little. Why would she? Her fraccion nearly died in the conflict and so had many others died as well. And then there was… Aizen… Sure, she was part of his army and she was fighting for him against the Shinigami. She even had to fight the current captain of squad 10, nearly being killed by him. But Aizen… That day she was betrayed by that bastard of a man. She was actually lucky not to die from the injuries she received from the battle before and from Aizen himself. The reason why she does not look upon the event with ‘joy’ is because it was a time she thought someone was good to her was truthfully a traitorous swine who cared nothing for her. Though, even she knew Aizen was an intelligent man; of course he was. He had fooled countless people with his words, even the Arrancar. But, he was long gone; as was any respect she had for him. Imprisoned, or killed, so many years ago by that Kurosaki boy… Whatever may have happened then was long behind her, lost to time but not her memory. It was something to learn from, not something to forget. However, even now, hell was breaking loose; literally.

In recent years she had noticed that, even with the so called “peace” that was brought about, chaos was brewing. Did she care? Not particularly. She truly was content to just watch everything unfold and analyze the situations and battles. Luckily, most won’t question her on this either. Not only is Harribel still powerful, people would rather not fuck with her, even though she is very calm, since most people like to not piss off a shark. No, Tia is not a shark. But, how she can act when betrayed is very shark-like; unyielding and brutal. This is what allowed her to keep to herself, and her fraccions, for most of the 400 years. However, all the pent up chaos and destruction was bound to overflow and pollute her calm demeanor.

400 years. It took 400 years for shit to hit the fan and for Harribel to actually do something instead of keeping to herself. It started, of course, with low ranking Arrancar questioning her power and her allegiances. While her Fraccion were ready to fight for her, to kick the asses of the Arrancar who slighted her; she only shrugged such comments off. Why bother with hot headed idiots who have no idea what they are talking about? It would only cause pointless bloodshed that had no purpose or results; she was not going to kill anyone to prove her power. There is no point to kill for something so stupid. Tia did not like to claim the lives of others… it was pointless, needless, and had no true meaning besides death. But, that was not the issue. No, what the issue was what happened next.

Harribel had always been one to keep to herself and fend for herself; only caring for her fraccion in the long run. This meant that she truly was an independent Arrancar, why she was unaligned. She followed herself and her own set of rules. If someone tried to get her to follow them, especially after Aizen, there was going to be a pretty big disagreement. Luckily, no one actually tried to get her to follow them; knowing what could happen. However, some Arrancar really decided to fuck themselves over when they thought beating Tia’s fraccion into submission was a good idea. A very, very, good idea.

That was not a good idea. That day Tia had noticed the absence of her fraccion. They weren’t gone, per se, she could still feel their energy and recognize that they were in a good state of wellbeing. However, about halfway through the day, she noticed a major flux in their reiatsu. This had caused her to run to their aid, outside of Los Noches. When she arrived they were all bloodied and battered; two Arrancar laughing at the women. However, their laughing turned into shrill squeaks of terror. Tia glared at them and she quickly yanked her Zanpakutō out of its sheath; spinning it by one of the holes in the guard before she grabbed the blade by the handle, brandished it, and pointed the blade at them. A soft sigh escaped her as she spoke at the two Arrancar.

“I assume you two wish to experience the sensation of death. For you have injured my fraccion… I hope you’re ready… I won’t exactly hold back for what you have done.”

After Tia spoke, her blade started to glow yellow, like her reiatsu, and formed around the blade like a fire made from her spiritual energy. The energy snaked around the blade and she raised it a little before speaking once more to the Arrancar. She was clearly beyond pissed, yet, somehow had a rather calm demeanor to her pose and speech. However, if they could see into her eyes; it would be simple to tell that they were burning with fury that had not seen the light of day since she thought her fraccion had first been killed. Without a word, she attacked.

“Ola Azul”

The Arrancar had an idea of what to expect from her, but, not the best idea as Harribel really has been an Arrancar to stray from combat if she can help it. So, they were surprised by the projectile that flew from her blade; given little time to evade the attack. Both of them were clipped and Harribel sighed. One could say practice makes perfect, which could hold true for Harribel; she had been isolated from combat for about 400 years. Sure she had done training with her Fraccion so they all could keep up with the powerful beings that had been popping up recently. Like this Mana Asthavon character that was had created a faction with the Arrancar and Hollows. Definitely someone she had to make sure she kept up with; despite her desire to stay out of battle. But, regardless, lack of battle can result to being rusty in battle.

This did make Harribel curse under her breath as she watched the Arrancar start to make their moves. She only stared at them and said not a single thing as she appeared behind one of them; her afterimage still residing where she was standing. Many current Arrancar had likely forgotten what Harribel could do. And this, this was definitely something she could do. Creating afterimages of herself with her Sonido that could confuse enemies to the point where she could strike from behind, below, above, right, left; you name it.

Her eyes turned to the Arrancar behind her who, for some reason, had a grin donned. She did not like the grin, not one bit. As she looked at him she brandished her blade again and made quite a masterful strike towards the Arrancar’s neck. She heard a clang and saw her sword hit the blade of another. Something that actually surprised her. Why did this surprise her? Well, because most who have blocked her blade were normally thrown a good way before impacting against something. This meant that Tia was rather surprised by the block. But, it meant nothing as she soon used her strength to shove the Arrancar into the second Arrancar; sending them toppling over.

She likely should warn the Arrancar to leave normally, but, these Arrancar had needlessly hurt her Fraccion. While such a thing could be punishable by death; she’d still much rather not kill others. So, she was prepared to just spare them and allow them to leave if they surrendered. However, they decided to kill Harribel along with her fraccion. How did they do this? They both released their Resucrecion. Making Harribel sigh as they taunted her.

“Tia Harribel… a worthless Arrancar with worthless Fraccion. I see not why you stay in the position you reside in. There is literally no point for it.”

Harribel said not a single thing as she looked at the Arrancar that were in their Resureciones. Clearly, they were out for blood. Pointless… Tia sighed softly and slowly spun her sword with one of the holes in her Zanpakutō’s guard. She sighed softly and then caught the blade’s handle in her hand and pointed the blade towards the ground; speaking at the Arrancar.

“It was foolish of you two to do this… Destroy, Tiburon…”

A giant geyser of water exploded around Tia as she used her Resurrecion. The second the Resurrección was activated the enemy was exposed to her vast levels of reiastu; causing enough pressure to scare some Arrancar away without doing much else besides releasing her resureccion. However, these two were not so easily scared. But, they were showing signs of being affected by the spiritual pressure, but, it wasn’t enough to force them to leave. Otherwise, just transforming would have won her the battle. Sadly, it would not be so simple. What Tia had to do was kick these Arrancar into the dirt and help her fraccion before death could claim them.

With a step towards the Arrancar she swung her released blade in an arc in front of her; creating a large gust of wind as well as aiming to strike the Arrancar that had decided to attack her fraccion. The first one got hit with the blade and was cut in half by the strike. Tia cursed under her breath from this. While the Arrancar deserved it for what they did to her fraccion, she still did not need to kill them; just teach them a lesson. The one cut in half flailed on the ground as he bled out; not having any way to heal such a colossal wound. Tia sighed softly as her eyes averted to the Arrancar who had been blasted away from her blade thanks to the blast of wind she created.

Tia stared at the Arrancar as he shook in his boots, clearly scared shitless. However, he seemed to have some sort of resolve to fight as he drew his own blade and released his resureccion. This made Tia sigh once more. She didn’t want to drag this out at all, to kill this Arrancar like his friend. However, such a thing was impossible now as it was clear that this Arrancar did not plan to relent. So, with a look of anger launched off from the ground directly at the Arrancar and created an after image that made it look like she was going to strike from the front and do an overhead attack. With that distraction in place Tia attacked from behind using La Gota to shoot about 3 blasts in a row with the ability; sending two at the legs and one for the center of mass.

The Arrancar was smart enough to realize that the Harribel in front of him was an after image, though he could barely tell before the water blasts slammed into his legs and back. The shots caused him to fly forwards but not get ripped apart by the force created by them. However, his Hierro was greatly damaged by the attack. Tia said nothing as she appeared in front of the flying Arrancar as she extended her blade upwards; pointing it towards the sky.

“If it wasn’t for the fact that you hurt my Fraccion, I would let you live. However, that possibility passed long ago… I hate to kill, but, for you; I’ll make an exception…”

Harribel’s blade started to glow with her yellow spiritual energy as she stared at the man flying towards her. Time seemed to slow, moving slower… and slower. It would feel like an eternity for the man as he flew towards his death; towards Harribel. With not a single word Tia swung her blade down at the Arrancar with incredible speed. He attempted to put up some sort of defense, but, it was no use. Harribel’s Pata came down upon the Arrancar’s weapon; slamming into it with immense force where the weapon immediately shattered and the Pata cleaved right through the Arrancar; cleaning him in two. Tia swung the blood off of her Pata and kicked aside the Arrancar’s bloody corpse. She reverted back to her unreleased form; glad she had no need to use her segunda etapa. She looked at the two Arrancar corpses and sighed, both pleased and not pleased at doing what she did.

Harribel walked over to her fraccion, still alive luckily, and she picked all three of them up in quick succession before returning to get them healed. Maybe it was time for Harribel to do something in this world… however, whether that was true or not has yet to be seen. But, it still stood that if people would attack Tia’s fraccion just to get to her obviously Harribel could not stand idly by. But, who would she fight with? Shadowfall? The Vanguard? Hard to say. It would make sense for her to stick with her kin, but, the last time that happened things didn’t end well. However, just doing what she wishes is a good way to do things as well. But, whatever may happen Harribel did know what she had to do; keep people from fighting her fraccion so she can observe. Unfortunately, there would be times where she can’t do that.

The future truly was more open to her now that Aizen was gone. Now, there was only one question to answer. What would she do? Her fraccions would follow her regardless of her choices but, she would have to make a choice. It was time for Harribel to finally take action after 400 years of being idle and only visiting the human world with her Fraccion from time to time. With a soft sigh, a slow step, and three arrancar in her arms, Harribel walked back home. She did not much care for fighting, but, in this world today; it seemed like she’ll need to fight. Even now, this world was always in perpetual conflict; and could anyone or anything really escape it? Maybe, maybe not. But, she knew one thing. She knew that if she didn’t act her fraccion would only continue to get in danger in her honor. Another soft sigh… one last soft sigh as Tia was still thinking of what she should do.

There was still time to think, time to decide… she may find something eventually, but, for now all she could do was think; maybe even talk to those she knows outside of Hueco Mundo. It was time for Harribel to take action and help the world she did not wish to be destroyed. However, she needed to think. And that’s what Harribel would do for now. She would think. She would think until she had arrived at a decision. After all, not everyone must stay on the sidelines forever.