Waiting Voi The Gates of Dawn

"VOI, YOU!"

The man suddenly exclaimed, his body appearing simply in the plain of existence known as Hueco Mundo as his right arm thrust forwards, pointing his pointer finger straight forwards as his eyes stared plainly at the white cloaked male. "VOI! YOU'RE THE STRONGEST THING FOR MILES! LET'S GO, GIV EME A FIGHT! GIVE ME GREAT FIGHT! GIVE… ME…"

He cried out, as without warning his entire body became lit with strange purplish and black flames, as the flames all concentrated towards his right hand, feeling the flames become supper condensed as he threw his hand downwards, pressing it hard into the ground in front of himself, his entire body pushed up vertically in the air, his feet pointing towards the sky as he smiled wide, feeling the massive levels of force pulsing from his arm into the ground, shaking the entirety of the land around the two men for miles through the barren sands, the only living things for miles to be certain.

Without warning, the area around the man suddenly seemed to change as the entire area around them became covered in dust, dust rising from everywhere, sand trying to push straight upwards towards the man who was standing there. However, this was impossible, as the man was emitting such force from his body, force rolling off of him that the sand had to move away from himself, the force even carrying over past the other male, who would be able to feel the pure spiritual force pressing against his body as it stopped some hundreds of feet from the Moon Iramasha standing in the center of it all, as at last the sand had a place to go as the sand rose up in gigantic columns at the edge of the waves of force, meaning that they were now both within a massive coliseum, the ground around them pressed down flat from normal and walls of solid sand pushed up against the waves of force, dozens of feet tall.

The man standing in the middle of the chaos suddenly threw his right fist into his left, smiling broadly as his hands reshaped themselves, his right hand moving up a foot and a half above his left which began to open up, leaving his palms facing one another as flames shot from his arms, collecting around his palms into one massive Blast-ball, smiling at the man aways from him, the wind causing his massive amounts of blonde hair to flit all about. "A FUN TIME!!!" He roared out, throwing both of his hands out as from his hands shot an absolutely massive sphere of energy, which descended into the white haired, white clothed male, pressing massive amounts of force on him, ripping at him with an absolutely massive amount of force due to friction, leaving Moonie standing there, smiling to himself, small pants coming out of his breath mostly from the first action of such force, but still feelings lightly the use of such a massive attack while still in his sealed state, throwing out one arm as he prepared to go into unarmed combat.

Just like any other day as of late, the ex-Espada Kimimaro Kaguya was simply wandering Hueco Mundo without purpose. Ever since he had been revived by that odd snake man, Kimimaro had had nothing to do whatsoever. He didn't want to go back to the Espada led by Ashlei Clixx.....yet he didn't know why. He had heard of the formation of a new Espada, but he didn't want to involve himself with those other Arrancar. Left leaderless, Kimimaro had just been walking around the white sands of Hueco Mundo, waiting for something, anything, to happen. He did notice that recently he began feeling.....more. He had been feeling less like a robot, and more like an actual person. He felt no hatred, even for Shinigami and humans, and the feeling that seemed to push out all others was....emptiness. Kimimaro had nothing.

But suddenly something changed. Something awoke deep inside this Arrancar as soon as he heard the first scream from the strange man who appeared near him. Just by being near this strange, yellow-haired man, Kimimaro felt.........odd. He felt energy welling up inside of him for the first time in a very long time. What is this......feeling......who is that man? The Bone arrancar immediately noticed the wild and uncontrolled energy radiating off of this other man as though he had absolutely no control over his own power. It had been a very long time indeed since he had encountered such a being. His energy must be effecting me somehow....perhaps it is a form of poison. Kimimaro brought his left hand up to a few inches away from his face and looked at it, observing to find any abnormalities. After turning it around so his palm faced himself, he dropped his arm back to his side after a few seconds.

"Who are you, and what do you seek?"

Kimimaro got his answer to his second question rather quickly: it seemed as though this Iramasha was here only for a fight. Because of his own power, Kimimaro was being attacked. He found this to be rather interesting...or, at least, more interesting than walking around blankly in the endless sands of Hueco Mundo. The massive wave of sand Moonie sent up didn't faze Kimimaro in the slightest, and he just watched on with his vivid green eyes looking on towards his attacker without emotion, no hint of anger, surprise, or anything coming from his face or presence. His presence as a whole seemed....absent, almost. This stayed true even as Moonie prepared and launched a massive sphere of energy at him, and the only action he took to respond was raising his right arm and opening the palm of his hand in the direction of the energy sphere. When it reached him, he simply caught it in his hand unflinchingly, and then after grasping it tightly, tossed it away to the right.

Even after catching such a tremendous attack, his hand, arm, body, and clothing remained completely unharmed, despite smoke coming from his hand. While many people would be eviscerated by such an attack, and torn to shreds, Kimimaro oddly seemed totally unaffected by it. At this point Moonie would at least be able to notice the growing amount of spiritual pressure coming from his opponent. Kimimaro was consciously releasing more pressure from his body until it matched Moonie's output, and then it surpassed it, completely blocking Moonie's reitsu from going wild, as well as pushing it into submission. If Moonie hadn't been expecting a difficult fight, he most certainly would how. Granted the prospect would probably make him happy.

Kimimaro's blank eyes just continued to stare at the battle mongering beast in front of him, showing absolutely no emotion whatsoever. The only thing on Kimimaro's mind was examining and observing the strange Nature Iramasha who seemed hell bent on fighting him....for no good reason. Perhaps this monster simply enjoyed fighting. However, a concept like that seemed strange to this Arrancar who very rarely actually participated in combat due to being a relatively neutral being. In this case though, it seemed he would be forced to actually put forth some effort if he wanted to still be alive by the end of the battle. And so Kimimaro was closely observing his opponent as Moonie ran towards him, noticing his movement speed.

"You are.......slow."

Despite pointing out the Iramasha's rather slow pace of movement, Kimimaro didn't even attempt to dodge the initial attack from his opponent, and so when Moonie threw his right fist straight into the Arrancar's chest, where it impacted with Kimimaro's skin, and was thus stopped in its tracks. While nearly any other opponent would have been sent flying by such an attack, and even potentially suffer from extreme internal bleeding and broken bones, in this instance it was likely Moonie's fist would be damaged from the force of his own attack due to the sheer durability of Kimimaro's body. The Moon Iramasha would likely have a bruised fist, if not a broken bone or two in his hand or even arm. Even after Moonie increased the force of his attack by launching energy from his elbow, Kimimaro was only pushed backwards a few feet, and overall seemed relatively fine.

While the initial attack had done essentially nothing to Kimimaro, when Moonie followed up with a second punch to his abdomen again, this time the Bone Arrancar was sent flying nearly thirty feet, until he skidded and stopped moving. He was now laying on his back on the ground, seemingly defeated from the second attack as he wasn't moving at all. He stayed like this for a few seconds until his eyes opened back up and he began to stand up. He was quickly back to his feet, and seemed completely undamaged by both of Moonie's very powerful physical attacks upon his torso. Another thing that seemed completely unchanged was Kimimaro's gaze; his eyes hadn't changed even slightly, and he still looked on at Moonie as though he himself was dead.

"You're strong....that second punch may have injured me if I hadn't increased the density of my bones beforehand. I may die if you're this strong....."

Kimimaro was standing still as he watched his opponent, his empty gaze seeming to go straight through the Nature Iramasha as though he himself wasn't an actual real being, and was just a long-empty shell, if even that. Despite Moonie's....well, personality, even he would be able to notice the sheer emptiness and loneliness of Kimimaro's spiritual pressure, which also seemed empty by nature. It was as though Moonie were fighting a shadow instead of a real, physical man. The Bone Arrancar remained completely still even as his opponent suddenly rushed at him with his large weapon raised up over his head, ready to strike. To bystanders, it would seem as though Kimimaro was so confident in his own abilities, that he wouldn't even try to dodge or prepare a major counter offensive, however in reality it was just that he didn't care enough to attempt to clash attacks with Moonie, so instead he simply increased the amount of bone in his right arm, as well as creating a thick layer of bone directly below his skin, and increased the density of said bones to an extremely high level.

When Moonie swung his massive weapon at Kimimaro, all the Arrancar did was move his left foot back to keep his body supported, and raised his right arm above his head, which would serve to block the Iramasha's attack with the aide of his forearm. The sheer power of the attack was still enough to send out waves of pressure in every direction, as well as damage the environment by creating a rather large crater underneath Kimimaro and by sending up chunks of rock into the air surrounding them. Though Kimimaro felt the pressure in his arm increase to extremely high levels, he maintained both the stability of his position and his bones, which didn't crack under the pressure. However, Moonie would feel the crippling pressure in his arms from hitting an unmoved object with such a tremendous amount of force, as his own attack would act as a double edged sword by potentially damaging his hands and arms even further, stacking on the damage already accrued due to attempting to punch Kimimaro's body. It would seem the Iramasha would need much more than that to cause actual harm to the Bone Arrancar.

Kimimaro didn't even try to move his other arm in order to protect his body from the Moon God's next attack, and so he would be caught completely by Moonie's Moon God Spear. As the extremely dense and powerful 'spear' of energy and force impacted Kimimaro's body, his face remained unchanged throughout the entire ordeal. After just a moment or two, Moonie's attack suddenly sent Kimimaro flying backwards with a tremendous amount of force, sending the Arrancar through the air until he crashed straight into a rather large boulder some thirty yards away. The sheer force used on Kimimaro was enough to completely blast apart the boulder into much smaller pieces, and just from the way he lied still, as well as the smoke rising from his body, the Arrancar actually seemed.....dead. His entire chest seemed to have been torn open as there were entire sections of skin torn off, and the remaining skin seemed as though it had been burned black.

However, there was something strange about his wounds. Instead of blood pouring out, the missing sections of skin revealed a layer of what seemed to be white.....bone. It would seem that at the last moment, Kimimaro had formed more bone as a layer underneath the skin across his entire torso, and had thus prevented any serious damage from being inflicted upon him. However, that didn't change the fact that his skin had been ripped apart, as well as the fact that he had, after all, been sent flying into a boulder. Kimimaro's eyes opened slowly, and he began to rise back to his feet, acting completely unfazed and as though nothing had just occurred. His very low level natural Hollow regeneration quickly rebuilt the skin on his chest, returning his skin to its previous state. He looked on at his opponent with the same dead gaze as ever. It seemed as though Moonie's powerful attack and ranting had changed nothing.

"Are you...upset?"

The emptiness in Kimimaro's words might even be enough to surprise Moonie, as it seemed like a robot had spoken them instead of a sentient creature. The Arrancar watched as his opponent charged and then consequentially launched a blast of volatile energy at him, which was both large in size and power. Kimimaro could sense that with the Iramasha's release into a higher level of power, he was now in a form equivalent to a Shinigami's Shikai release, which would now be similar to Kimimaro's own Shikai-level of power. It appeared as though now both combatants were on the same level of power release, though Kimimaro still remained on a higher level than his opponent due to having a larger supply of energy in the first place. So Kimimaro decided that in order to avoid being out into direct combat again, he would just counter and stop the Iramasha's attack. In order to do this, Kimimaro raised his right hand up with his palm facing the energy blast coming towards him, and then charged his own sphere of energy until it launched out from his grasp in a massive wave of bone-white energy that clashed with Moonie's attack, until it began slowly pushing it back, and then caused both energy attacks to explode in a massive inferno of swirling energy.

With the blast energy now gone, Kimimaro stood still, untouched by his opponent's powerful attack. Suddenly three sections of skin on the section below the elbow on Kimimaro's right arm ripped open, revealing muscle, tendons, and everything else in his arm to the open air. However, instead of remaining like that, three long, curved bones were pushed out of the gaps in his skin. He now had three bones sticking out of his right arm that extended past his fist. Kimimaro had done this because he knew Moonie was going to attack again, except this time close up with a physical assault. Kimimaro had known this due to sensing the approaching Iramasha, and so he prepared to defend himself. When Moonie swung his weapon with a tremendous amount of force as he had done earlier, Kimimaro blocked with his right arm, which meant Mun would only hit bones on the exterior of Kimimaro's body. 

These bones were notably more dense and much more durable than the bones Kimimaro had formed within his body previously, and so he was able to successfully block Moonie's attack, which caused a massive ripple of pure force that spread out in every direction and damaged the terrain. Kimimaro blocked the second swing with his right arm as well, preventing harm to his body. When Moonie attempted to grab Kimimaro, he used the back of his wrist to push the Iramasha's arm away by making contact with Moonie's wrist, and then pushed himself off of the ground and leapt from his position, and then landed back on the ground a short distance away. Kimimaro surveyed the environment, determining just how much damage had been done to the area. After a moment of this, Kimimaro looked back at his opponent.

"Why are you here.....why are you assaulting Hueco Mundo....what is your purpose....?"