[Aivee] Fragments [Archived]

Carter Zenaki stood on top of a decrepit building, he was five floors up from the ground. With Cold excitement he watched the girl below enter the the Abandoned school. He didn't quite know why he was here but none the less he was and he would stay to make the most of it.

Carter smirked as he saw the girl vanished into the shadows. He wasn't sure if she was to be helped or if she would become an enemy. Either way he didn't care. The wind picked up and his auburn hair slide down over his face, obscuring his white blue eyes. He chuckled faintly to himself as he pushed his spirit pressure up to be a flare to show he was present.

He had made himself known so there was no need to wait on top of the building, he walked over the ledge and fall to the earth five stories below with a soft thud. Putting his hand on his blade Nacuto Carter walked forward towards the school.

As he neared the door Carter's eyes went wide in shock, he felt them, he felt the Hollows but still the girl went in un phased. Maybe she didn't know, she could be a normal human. He needed to get in and make sure she was fine, Putting his left hand to his pummel he slid into the abandoned school and almost instantly he felt massive numbers of Hollows. Sighing he ran his free hand through his hair and continued onward not afraid, he never feared anything but he knew he was outnumbered and outclassed.

He would need to find her and do so fast. He could feel the Hollows closing in and the hairs on the back of his neck stood up as he moved forward, it felt as if the darkness was getting darker and the cold getting colder. The floor felt spongy from rot and the air had a damp moldy taste to it. He heard the girl's quiet footsteps with his ears and followed as he heard people talk over in various rooms. He turned a corner and saw the girl standing outside a rotted door and heard a voice, looking to her he saw faint light wash over her face and her eyes came into view looking dead.

He frowned in sorrow for her as he slid closer to her, she was a beautiful little child, much like a doll with creme skin and raven dark hair that glinted in the light. ''Who is there?'' She spoke to the room in front of her and Carter slipped his hand around her mouth, pulling her back he whispered into her ear "be calm and quiet I am not here to hurt you, but there are people and things here that will hurt you, allow me to guide you out safely child" He let his hand free of her mouth hoping she wouldn't scream nor run.

Carter groaned as he watched the blind girl move towards the lumbering golem like Hollow, she was unaware death would soon claim her it seemed and so far Carter felt bound to help her.
There was something about this little girl that made him wish to protect her. Nodding to himself Carter laced the fingers of his left hand around his zanpukto Nacuto and pulled it from its sheath with the crisp noise it echos forward, the noise seemingly louder as it bounced off of the rotted walls and moved down the hallway as it slowly faded from his hearing. He noted that the many Hollow had come together in one form so that would, hopefully, mean only one hole for him to slice into.

Removing his shoes he felt the spongy wood under his feet, it was damp and chilled like moss next to a stream in the early spring but the feeling was disgusting here. kicking off of the floor he rocketed past the girl and leapt upward and pointed his free hand out, light flitted to each finger tip and swirled making tiny orbs or radiant energy pool. As Carter closed in on the Hollow he let the tiny cero's fly, two aiming for its arms, two for its legs, and the final one that was poised on his thumb at its head. These would sting and burrow deeply into the Hollow if it landed but it was not his main attack, they were a sort of shield for him. Still in mid air Carter pulled Nacuto back and roared as he slashed downward towards the Hollow's hole.

The momentum carried him through the slice and past the creature so he would land behind it facing the darkened hallway and they would be back to back, he wouldn't know if his hit had rung true for a moment but he hoped the noise and energy had managed to scare the girl from walking forward at least.

Carter turned on his heel seeing the Hollow split in half as more swarmed around, they weren't coming for him they all pooled around the blind girl. Looking at her her noticed her eyes blinking and moving with life, it confused him for he thought her to be blind. He had no time to question it though, she was in trouble even though she had a knife in her hand and she was holding the swarm at bay. It would take his Zanpakutō to finish off each Hollow unless she had some hidden power insider her to help him in the job. Running at her he considered his options as he spotted a Hollow in a dog like shape emerge and circle around her keeping the other Hollows at bay.

He was confused again, not many times did a Hollow ever help a human or any race other than its own. He thought the girl and dog must be bonded together and tat helped him, the less he had to fight the more likely he was to get this girl out of here alive. He wasn't worried for his own safety but he feared for her. leaping into the air above her he felt his Hollow mask form on his face as his spirit pressure increased, the pressure caused the floor to buckle slightly and the walls to crack, the lesser Hollows fell down unable to move, a few even passed out. But the majority of the Hollow merely looked up at him light pooled in his hand, A white cero with a negative outline in black charged in his free right hand while is Zanpakutō Nacuto waited in his left hand.

He let the cero fly after it was fully charged at the front of the line of Hollows descending on the girl, he took careful aim not to hit the Hollow like dog as he landed in front of the girl next to the dog.

"Try and find a way out if you can, I will handle as many of these as possible to buy you sometime" Carter yelled from behind his mask.

Carter looked at the hollows shuffling around them, his cero had landed like a tiny nuke in their ranks thinning them But it wasn't enough there were still too many of them and too little of himself. He couldn't stop though, as the horde rushed he sliced at them and it appeared to be wild hacking but each of his hit landed true. Slicing into the holes of the lesser hollows and removing limbs from the other hollows he could not destroy. He slowly moved backwards upon hearing the girl shout she will not run, he needed to move closer to her so he could cover her better.

He slide in next to her in time to feel something inside her shift around, something in her attracted his lesser half. His hollow raged in his mind, it threw itself and the bars that created its cage but carter held true to his training and to his better side. He forced the hollow back into submission with a mere thought then stole more of it's power. With a smirk from behind his mask he tried something tricking that would spell doom or ti would bring the end of this battle along a lot quicker in their favor.

He pulled as much of his hollow side out as he dared, he began to feel his out skin become hard like bone as his shoulders widened a bit more, his ribcage cracked as it shifted outward a bit becoming large and firmer as his muscle grouping expanded so rapidly it felt as if they would explode. When the change was over he went from his slight frame to that of an Olympic Wrestler. As soon as his body reached the point he wanted he stemmed the energy taking and tried the part that would kill him if he failed. He slide into shikai state and began to pull that energy out while holding the hollow energy. He didn't shift into his Shikai form but the energy slid into him creating a fluxing vortex inside his own being. The two energies were never met to touch eachother but he saw no better way. He brought his sword arm down and into the floor as a fissure ran from the blade tip and down the hallway away from him and the girl. The crack grew and the weight of the hollows was too much. The floor gave way forcing all of the creatures who were not on the walls to fall downwards a complete story.

He wanted this to end now while his body was still his own to control, he felt the Hollow side coming to the surface too fast. Sliding Nacuto back into her sheathing he cupped both of his hands together and pointed his palms downward to the seething mass of hollows. Carter let out a pain roar as his body began to rip form the inside due to the energy over flow. He barely managed to funnel the energy to his hands as a cero built, it was wobbly and took shape fast. Within seconds it was as large as a basketball and its color rippled from a blood red to an abyssal black. He closed his hands letting the missile fly at the horde. If it hit any of them they would all die.

Carter turned to the girl as his mask shattered off of his face and he smiled weakly before falling to one knee and sweat dripping down his face as his boy reverted to its normal state. ready to go? He asked.