Entresacar(Logger), Malum, Senryoku, Shingen
So, it turns out that Entresacar had gotten hungry, hopping a garganta into the human world to find something to eat. It was night when he arrived, which fit him just fine. The nine foot skeletal beast stalked through the night towards the farmlands on the edge of town, trying to seek out adequate prey for his hunger.
Given the civil war, it had been quite some time since Senryoku was in the human world. It was not unfamiliar to him, but it was possible he'd not been here for several years or even a decade without noticing. He generally observed things in the quieter places, enjoying the views and avoiding the bigger cities and towns. He was not here for any particular assignment, simply to see how things were on this day. So far, everything seemed about where he left it.
A hole appears in the ground at the edge of the farmlands, dark and unstable. From it's depths rises a malformed heart, a single large eye blinking as it views it's currently hunting ground. One of the tentacles at the top of it's head shivers. It was night here. Good. Plenty of time fo survey his prey before making a choice. Malum floated forward, searching for one of the night guards.
The presence of the other two goes un noticed by him for the moment, focused on looking for prey near the farms to dismantle and devour. Luckily for all the humans, he doesn't particularly feel like tearing into the houses just yet, but a few of the animals around running around the farm aren't so lucky and quickly get torn into by his claws, trying to lure something over to the sound that's a little more tasty.
Senryoku would observe a casual arguement between husband and wife. It was casual in the sense of they were so used to it, they weren't heated about it, they just argued their points and then ignored each other. One of the older children would be fed up with it and just storm out of the home and start calling out a name. Most likely it was some form of pet given the way the name was spoken. Senryoku would shadow the teenaged girl, simply watching where he adventure would take her, before he'd feel the sudden loss of reiatsu from something near by... as well as the flicker of something else. Senryoku would move away from the girl, but keep her in sight as he'd speak out, "Hiding will do you little good in the end... I already know that what ever you are is not Shinigami."
The floating heart's jagged iris suddenly shifts over to a sound, widening as it focuses. The long tendrils at the top of it's head begin writhing in subtle motions, floating towards it. It was the night guard. His cough had spelled his devourment. But another sound, that of animals crying their death sounds as they were torn asunder, caught the hollow's attention, bringing it to a pause. It may've ignored it, had it not been accompanied by the sense that there was... something there. And then there was the shinigami, calling out. Malum's eye flickered in the two directions before floating away from the both of them. Developments would occur, and it'd decide what to do then.
Seeing the girl come out of the cottage was tempting, but so was this shinigami who decided to show himself. Decisions decisions, who to kill first? Entresacar grins lurking in the shadows as the girl unwittingly moves closer to his hide out. When she gets close enough he reaches out and grabs her, hoisting her up in the air and stepping out into what little light there is in the field, hissing at Sen wickedly while the girl screams and thrashes. "Little shini, out for a stroll. Didn't even hear his own death toll."
"Ah..." Senryoku stated as he simply watched the girl being picked up, screaming and having no idea what was happening to her. "...I see that your remedial intelligence has discovered the child like joys of rhyming things." Senryoku moved close, stepping slowly but without hesitance. "Most of you cannot even speak, let alone hold a conversation." Sen would then draw his blade, pointing the tip at the beast before him and the completely clueless, screaming girl in kind. "I would let her go before I actually consider you a threat." he would command and warn condescending.
Malum lets out a quiet, moist rumble. An entirely inhuman sound. The night guard he'd been next to, planning on eating whipped around at the sound of the girl screaming. "What was that?" he asked the darkness before starting towards the sound of the continued fright. And from the shouts that were cropping up, there were other guards reacting the same way. Hungry -- always hungry -- the giant heart sped towards it's guard, the tenticles at the top of it's head lashing out and spearing through his chest. Malum brought him down and began tearing him apart, feeding, the sound of the other night guards approaching the girl growing distant from his mind.
Shingen had heard that his cousin, Senryoku, had gone to the Human World and he assumes it was for a patrol. However, it also seemed that his cousin had come alone. So in the interests of backup (and he wanted to get out of soul society for a while) Shingen had followed after. His long hair is done up in a high ponytail so it will be out of his way should the need arise for a fight. After what had happened the previous day with his other cousin Youko, Shingen was actually quite in the mood for a fight. He is wearing his usual black Shihakusho with the pale scarf around his neck, not needed here but it's become part of his appearance and he'd just left it on.
He steps into the field in time to hear the girl's screams. Shingen's hand drifts down to hover over the hilt of his weapon as he moves swiftly but with caution toward the sound, comming up just in time to hear his cousin's words ordering ...who.. a hollow! to drop the girl. Senryoku's blade is out and glints int he light and Shingen steps up closer hand still hovering over his hilt, prepared to draw as needed, but for the moment he stays silent and back a short distance. He did not wish to startle or distract his cousin from his target and would only enter the situation if needed. He did, in fact, see a good opportunity to watch Senryoku's actions. He is not aware of the second hollow in the area as of this moment.
The hollow gives a low chuckle, squeezing and digging his claws into the girl's chest, causing her to cry out in pain as blood starts to leak from her body and mouth, ribs and bones cracking and breaking as the life starts to leave her body, just causing Entresacar to grin a large toothy grin. "Stand and watch, wait and see. There's none for you and more for me. By days end you'll be dead, and my belly will be full and I'll be fed."
Another minute amount if reiatsu was gone suddenly. Yet another hollow? Or maybe a Quincy... but it wasn't a hollow's reiatsu that was now gone. Senryoku narrowed his eyes at the large monster tearing in to the girl. A Senkaimon gate was felt closing in Senryoku's peripheral senses. There was more happening here than he was comfortable with. The humans had been alerted and were scrambling to figure out what was going on. He wasn't going to be able to protect them all, and if he let either of the hollow go, those were souls that would not be sent properly on to the after life. "I have no time to find out why you are here." Senryoku stated as he'd flash over towards the hollow and slash at his arm. "So it is time for you to disappear. Shingen..!" he would command just after his attack, taking an educated guess, "...find out what is going on at the farm house!"
Once the human beneath it was dead and the sustenance devoured, the sound of the investigating guards comes back into Malum's attention. It's single eye moves to the hollow standing in the light, now killing the gi -- the shinigami attacked him. It blinked it's giant eye. For now, it would sit back, stay in the darkness of the night. Let the two fight. If it was lucky, by the end of this, one of them would get hurt enough to leave him a heartier meal. The second shinigami was unnoticed, though Malum was keeping aware for movement to see just who this Shingen was.
Shingen sees the girl's body and winces. He's sure there's no saving her from those kinds of injuries. Physically anyway. It was still possible that between them, the two shinigami could perform a Konso on the soul that would result if they managed to get that hollow away from her first. He sees Senryoku's attack and then his 'order', but he simply opens his awareness toward the farmhouse and chides himself for not being aware of the other hollow. "On my way." Is all he says as he turns on his heel and heads that way, hand still prepared to draw at a moment's notice. He looks around, suspecting every ounce of shadow that existed near him. But not quite able to pick out a target .. yet...
Entresacar hisses as the Shini launches towards him, trying to bring up a clawed hand to block the incoming strike, but not moving quite fast enough as the blade bites into his arm. Instead of reacting with pain, Entresacar seems to enjoy the feeling, grinning a wide toothy grin again and bringing a hand up to try and punch his claws right through Sen's chest. The girl in his other hand laboring for breath gets put out of her misery as he shoves her into his mouth and crunches down, blood seeping through his teeth as he devours her to free up his other hand.
Bringing his blade back up after he is unable to make the beast release the girl, Senryoku would defend himself against the attack, but would not be able to stop all over it as he'd slide back a little, his arm strained and his kimino slightly ripped. He kept his gaze level with the Hollow as he'd say, "Now I have to go get her back." Charging foward, Senryoku woudl attack with a sudden blurr of movement, coming down atop the hollow with a downward stroke as he rotated his body in to an axe kick to follow up with, double the attack to the same area.
Malum's eye locked onto movement separate to the new battle, mucus falling from it, seeing another shinigami coming directly towards him, blade in hand. This must be that... Shingen. They were coming his way. But they couldn't see him, not yet. Which meant... he could flee. Or he could eat.
The tentacles at the top of his head reach forward, a red ball of energy forming at their tips. He would eat. He had to eat. The ball grew bigger, illuminating the darkness before sending a sudden beam of chakra towards the approaching shinigami, looking to surprise and take them out early.
Shingen senses a buildup of energy and his danger sense flares. He spots the growing cero and swears under his breath turning and bolting to the side, but he is not fast enough. He takes the brunt of it on his left side, the material of his gi charring and the skin burned. The force slams him back several feet and he rolls, suceeding in reducing his impact but also getting dirt in the burns. He takes two breaths as he bounds back to his feet. Not good, though the pain he could ignore -- for now -- he knew he had to move fast. The boy runs in a zig-zagging way as he approaches the hollow's location he ends up just to one side of him and uses his momentum to add to his attack speed as he draws and strikes at the same time, cutting at the creature's eye diagonally from the bottom then he brings the blade back across in a horizontal strike at the same location.
The two attacks come in and Entresacar tries to put his claws between the attacks again, but Sen is just a little to fast for him, and the attacks bite into him one after the other and he just grins, seeming to enjoy the pain. He spits out some of the girl's blood at Sen and swipes out at him with a raking of both claws. "You have a little bite to your fight, but I'll show you which one is right."
Senryoku would continue to use his blade to deflect and parry the attacks. One of them was slashed out of the way, while the other was able to get through as Senryoku wasn't quick enough to push it out of the way as well with his blade. His arm was scratched, but it was far from truly wounded. He would keep his focus on the hollow considering Shingen for a moment. His footing changed as well as his stance, drawing back his lead leg as well as his blade, the point beside his face before he'd move forward, sending out quick thrusts at the Hollow's abdolem. He was serious about removing the girls' soul if he must.
Malum's tentacles begin whipping around as it sees that the shinigami he'd struck with his cero was up and running his way. That blast had drained it some, and it'd hoped that would be the end of things. But this might be longer and, it learned as it's limber limbs are cut into as they deflect the blade from it's eye, bloodier than it desired. As the blade came in a second time, the eye closes, lids shutting to reveal it's hollow's mask. The weapon slides along it before opening a light cut on it's skin. It went ignored, the tendrils at the top of it's head lashing out in offense, the claws at the end of them seeking to rip and tear.
Shingen sees the tentacle comming at him and brings up his sword in an attempt to cut the repulsive thing but only manages to take part of the hit on the flat of the blade, a shallow cut opens across the front of his gi and he frowns... He does not tarry, however, and leaps forward again, trying to send his blade into the eyeball, what he sees as the main weakness, in a stabbing motion then pivoting on his backfoot and sending a solid kick at the thing, hoping to send it off balance as well. His crystalline eyes shine darkly as he presses every advantage he can grasp at.
Entresacar looks like he's trying to block the thrusts to his chest, but is just so slow he doesn't even get his arms in the way at all as the blade sinks into his chest. He moves to grab at the Sen as the blade sinks into him, trying to grab and squeeze.
Senryoku help his ground, keeping the hollow form advancing on him as he would slash at the on coming claws and shift his feet in to the hollow's guard. While the hollow moved to crush him, Senryoku would try to reverse it, grasping the blade with both hands and moving to cleave through his fingers while ducking under the attack simultaneously.
The hole that was Malum's pupil grew red as the blade swung in towards it, the sudden beam of a cero streaking out and hitting the blade. It happened a little too late, however, deflecting the weapon so that it scored a light diagonal cut above it's eye. It's tentacles lash out as the kick comes in, seeking to subdue the limb and grab a hold, but the strike is too swift, hitting it in the side. This sent it into backwards motion, but as soon as the kick landed, it lashed out with it's feelers to try and grab the shinigami's leg and throw it behind it towards the farm house.
Shingen had put most of his weight into the kick so when the tentacle comes up, though he tries to move out of reach, it snakes around his ankle and throws him back against the farmhouse's exterior. The hit to his back brings out a cough and for several seconds he's trying to reclaim his breath. It doesn't take his long before he has it under control again, even his expression seems more controlled now and he moves at top speed, leaping up and slashing down hard with his blade, teeth clenched.
The swipe cuts into his hand, but doesn't cause any major damage. Entresacar grins widely, reaching back behind him. "This was fun, but my time is done. When next we meet, you'll be dead at my feet." A garganta opens behind him and he steps back into it, cackling a little as he leaves. "The girl is in my care, come and get her, if you dare." And with that the garganta closes and he's gone.
Sternly, Sen would focus on the garganta and largely ignore the words of the hollow. He had taken minor wounds and dealt back more than that in return, but it wasn't nearly enough. However, that was of little concern. What was truly disturbing, is that this one seemed to have a will of it's own, as well as control over when and where it came to the human world. The abyss that was opened up and traveled in to was a dangerous tool for the hollow to have access to at will. It was going in to his report immediately when he returned to Shikongai. Senryoku would turn then, flashing from his locatino as he'd head towards the farmstead in order to give Shingen backup.
As Shingen came down towards it, Malum's eye glowed red, crimson light leaking from the jagged confines of it's pupil. A moment later, the force of it's cero shot out, streaking towards the shinigami. But rather than send them flying, the hollow found it's attack being cut in half by that dreaded blade of his. Just before it struck, the creature squinted. The blade struck the mask on it's eyelid, edge sinking slightly into it's hide. And then Malum's eye opened wide, the beam intensifying, cero lashing out at Shigen with renewed power in an effort to send him flying away.
Shingen smirks as his blade slices the ill-conceived cero then makes a little Che. sound as his blade cuts only mask. He had to find a way to put more force behind his swing... He had little time to consider this however, as the next cero comes at him almost immediately as he lands on his feet. The searing blow catches him full ont he chest and sends him flying. He hands hard and curls onto his side coughing harshly. The blow to his chest and the impact on his back ensures he's not getting up immediately. One hand goes to his mouth and after he catches his breath, comes away bloody.
The flowing violet kimono and black hair would roll over Senryoku's form as he'd stand before the downed Shingen. Sen did not ask how Shingen was doing, he was observant and aware enough of his condition, and his job now was to buy him time. "Your demented nursey rhyme spewing friend has been sent back from whence he came." Senryoku would announce that much as he'd step forward with utter focus on the strangely tentacles eye ball. "So now I will banish you... all the same." He would say, mockingly, incase this one also liked to do such things. Drawing his sword back, Senryoku would seendly charge with bluring speed towards the massive eye. "Don't blink..." he'd chide.
Malum's tentacles twined together as the other shinigami rushes in. It'd been too focused on it's own battle to see the result of the other one, but now it was stuck cleaning up their mess if it wants to eat. The bundle of writhing flesh swings at the shinigami as he comes in, striking the blade and deflecting it, some of them starting to bleed at the contact. The soft club comes back around, swinging at Senryoku once. Twice. Looking to batter him.
Shingen coughs once more and growls, wiping his bloodied hand off on the grass and getting back to his feet. Both hands thus on his sword he would fall into a controlled way of breathing. Seeing Senryoku's attacks Shingen moves as fast as he can, comming up around beside the monster, aiming his blade for the tentacles swinging at Senryoku, hoping to give him an opening where he had previously failed to strike.
The tentacles on this were were far mroe flexible and less predictable than his former opponent, and thus Senryoku was unable to stave off the attacks with his blade in the end, taking both attacks to his body and then jaw. He'd fall back, bound one, and roll to land heavily in a skid, keeping his eyes on the hollow while Shingen keep at it's flank. Being so far out of the battle meant that he had to rush back in when Senryoku got his footing back, leaping to send an arcing attack down upon the masked monster.
Malum's tentacles with in something near to pleasure as the shinigami flies backwards. Of course, the other shinigami was back. Malum turned it's back, letting the weapon score a hit along it's bumpy back. It started turning around only to feel the second slash of the other shinigami, the swift Senryoku already back. A rattling sound came from the hollow's tendrils as it simply rushed backwards, looking to bash Senryoku and sending it's bundled limbs at Shingen to knock him away.
Shingen feels the satisfaction of landing a hit but is not happy with the extent of the damage. He lands on his feet, watching the hollow closely. Those tentacles had no visible joints, though and that made predicting where they'd move and how they'd move impossible. As such when he does see the one aiming for him he just has enough time to cross his arms in defense. The blow sends him back several feet and drags a few more coughs from him. He focuses and spins backward, using momentum to add to the force, and tries to kick the floating monstrosity again, maybe he'd send it into one of Sen's attacks.
Once again, Senryoku was unable to keep all of the attack under control with just his blade, and while he did deflect some of it, most of it got through as he blocked over head and was smashed in to the floor boards. The people had long since evacuated the area and sent for Quincy, but it would take awhile for that message to be recieved by anyone. Senryoku kept the low ground, attacking from below Malum with two swift strikes before leaping back up from the floor boards, panting just slightly for two breaths before getting himself under control again.
Malum's hits landed, it begins to fly away only to find Shingen rushing towards it, lashing out with a foot. It's tentacles come together to form a shield only to be compressed by the momentum powered strike, proving only a slight buffer as the kick hits it firmly, sending it moving backwards and in range of Senryoku's strikes. The both land, the heart's hide unable to resist the force of the blade, leaking viscous blood on the shinigami. Immediately, Malum rose higher out of range, tendrils coming before him to bring a red orb into being. It brightens, and soon the cero travels downwards at Senryoku to bury him.
Shingen watches Senryoku get thrown to the ground and winces. He looked like he'd been attacked with little knives.. or a psychotic tailor... Lots of little wounds could add up to more than they seemed. Shingen took a second to take inventory of his own body. Burns on his chest and left arm and side and one good cut across his chest. Not too bad even if you did count all the tiny cuts and bruises.. or the dirt in his wounds. He looks up and as he sees the cero forming calls out sharply "Cousin!" And swings his sword hoping to distract the thing from Senryoku.. or at least to land a hit while the thing was otherwise occupied. the mucus and vviscous blood the thing emits is starting to turn his stomach as well.
Watching very carefully as the ebon beast would charge their power to use against him. Senryoku seemed to be transfixed for a moment on the power being used. The way that it would gather and swirl together as a much smaller point before being unleashed as a beam. Senryoku first stepped away from the building where it was more open. Shifting his weight as he waited for the attack to come and as it did, the reiatsu eminating from his blade would help to cleave the attack in twine. He did not seek to parry the attack, but go though it as he leapt up in to it, almost seeming to disappear to Shingen, noly to be seen driving his blade forward with a thrust and a strenly stoic look upon his face.
A rattling hiss escaped Malum as Shingen's blade opens up yet another small cut in it's tough hide, the creature shifting away from it even as Senryoku moved with a blurring speed. Abruptly, it's tentacles were pressed against the shinigami's chest, straining as the man's blade slowly began to sink into it's body.It hadn't been able to stop the attack entirely, but it hadn't been run through. Once more, it's iris begins glowing red, the light filling in all of it's jagged edges. Crimson reiatsu swells within the hole. The hollow slides backwards off of the weapon, rising into the air as it sends the cero down at the shinigami that'd just had his weapon in it, the energy screaming through the air.
Shingen is starting to get frustrated with the ineffectual attacks he's produced against this beast. He certainly had reason to train further. To one side as he is, there's no time to think as the Cero shoots out again, he moves quickly in between the two (after the cero has passed). He has not looked to see if the cero had struck his cousin, instead he takes a deep breath and launches at the eye again like he had int he beginning of the fight, slashing up and diagonally then bringing it back in a spinning motion always targeting the large eye rather than the tentacles. He hopes to buy his cousin some time. "Over here you eye sore."
Taking in the attack and everything about it once again. Senryoku would place both hands on his weapon, holding it before himself as his elbows were held out. He raised the hilt of his blade to heye level, facing the hollow whom was about to let loose his Cero on him. Senryoku would take a moment, the Cero fired down upon him once again as he would concentrate on the way the reiatsu moved and was formed, how it coelesced and was releated as an explosion from the source that was funneled towards the victom. At the last moment, he would murmur "...Cero..." as a point of red reishi would block the on coming attack, formed right at his hilt and expanding rapidly before exploding outwards, struggling against the wave sent towards him as the two waves seemed to battle it out for a few moments before finally the Cero of the hollow was deflected... by one fired from a Shinigami? Senryoku however was drop his sword arm, panting a moment. Using sucha foriegn attack took a lot out of him for the time being.
Malum blinks. Did the shinigami just fire a cer -- it's eye swivelled towards Shingen, widened, started to blink onto to have it's lids forced open by the blade whipping along it. Pus escapes, mixing with mucus and flying to the side with the second swipe. Immediately, the hollow begins flying backwards, letting loose a sound akin to a strangled elephant's cry. Reality opened up behind it and swallowed it up, erasing it from the human world.