[5th Division] Shadows of the past, Captain's Might.

#21

At the fall of the beast, the earth took in darkness like a Marijuana addict taking in fumes. The might of the origin beast still undisputed had momentarily robbed the earth of its colors and for Hazuki, his favorite shadow beast, equivalent to an 80's kido spell went puff without a wave of goodbye. However, none of this fazed him the slightest not when there were more things to consider.

Shadows quickly cast aside into the corners of the field, while the beast stood heads high as if he’d just won a bone.

Fastening the grip on his blade the captain focused his gaze on the monster, awaiting any sudden move which may impede the goal of his partner below.

However, it seemed the fiery captain had plans of his own, allowing the monster no chance to move or defend itself.

Blades of flames quickly tore through its chest and without delay the final blow came soaring through, carving a huge hole through its open chest. Quickly the monster coiled up in pain and soon gave in. Its breath drained away while its massive size crashed into the earth, shaking it's with all its might.

It was done Hazuki thought, slightly tilting his head to the left to have a good look at its hideous faces. “What do you think?” he whispered, referring to his Zanpaktou spirit who uttered no words in return. The captain quickly felt Shisou was not in the mood for chats and quickly let him be.

Adjusting his head back in place, he moved forward to join the fiery captain. However, an explosion halted his movement halfway, tossing a cow sized boulder his way. Thanks to his basic reflex, He raised his blade against its width, parting it into two equal halves which sent them both smashing into the earth at different sides of his rare. His eye furrowed in anxiety, concentrating only on a spot where an unidentified figure stood confidently within the body of steam smiling dubiously with eyes of daunting red. Soon enough another figure caught his gaze and attention this time with a kido hurled at the first to pin it to a wall. Recognizing him to be one of gotei 13 leading figure, the captain of the 13th division, Hazuki slowly dropped his guard, deciding only to watch and see.

Successfully the weird man smashed into a wall few meters to his left, with waves of purple rod’s embedded into his body to keep him steady. However he didn't seem disturbed rather it almost felt like he was expecting it.

"Captain!" Hazuki called wondering what he was doing here at such a time. However before he could get any other word in his eye spotted a child, no two children hanging on top the rock he had just patted mid way with his sword.

"Shinigami" it spoke, the children spoke and from every corner of the field it echoed yet its mouth remained motionless where he hanged. "Shinigamis" it continued with the resonating source now multiplied in number, trooping in from every corner of the arena all inform of children none more than 5ft tall. "You shall all know your place" they all uttered in perfect synchrony, causing Hazukis heart to sink a few depths.

Immediately It's daunting spiritual presence came barring down on the arena once more, this time opening up a pathway to hell where swarms of children numbering in100s came gushing out consuming the building holding their master with share numbers.

#22

Stabbing his 3m long tail into the earth beneath_he slowly pushed himself up and unto his two feet. Now it became clear to the big Captain that the creature had numerous forms which they could witness by simply damaging it to a certain degree, but how many underlying forms the creature possessed was still a mystery. Yet, he knew that such regenerative capabilities and transmutations were not limitless.

And as a thousand thoughts raced across his mind in a bid to fully understand this calamity, he failed to notice the arrival of a third party, only noticing when a blueish thick rod of kidou buzzed through the air towards the man in the shadows and pinned him to a nearby wall. Causing Darius to turn and sight them, Hazuki and another Shinigami who boasted Captain level resonance, and seeing how he appeared to be on their side, Darius would assume he had been sent as aid or possibly possessed more understanding of the creature than any of them.

However, amidst the mind boggling situation, child like beings appeared on both sides of the shadowy Captain, uttering the words Shinigami repeatedly, then the resonance multiplied to fill a large portion of the field. To the big Captain this was all a distraction akin to the minotaurs of its previous form, and as such only one opinion was left, defeat it as a unit or be defeated.

Returning his gaze on the man shaped creature who was being freed by a nigh limitless number of demonic teenage beings, he would give a new purpose to his Reiatsu, spiking it whilst he descended the lower parts of his massive size to the ground as a stalking wolf would. Tail swirling upwards and left arm claws stabbed into the earth, a circular white light would begin to glow just beneath the suspended demon man.

Now free of the bind from earlier, he was detached from the building's walls and made a stomp on the earth as he landed on the glowing white circle, and just at that instant, the crouched Darius sped off in a single speed boom, sucking in the surrounding air into his previous location and causing the earth to submit into a cratered ripple. He was inches before the demon man with a pulled punch ready to pulverize his current target, but the demon was quick to react, sending a right side kick to meet the Shinigami Captain's waist who had an incoming fist, but that was not all.

The earth instantly exploded upwards[1] to the effect of a hadou 33 kidou, sending forth massive shards of hot white stones to smash into the two combating beings from below synchronously. Then it happened, the explosion had sent countless shards of hot stones into the demons feet and the Captain's face, yet the kick also smashed into his rib section, sending a devastated Captain acres away and back from whence he came, while displacing the demons footing in the process.

While all occurred rather timelessly, those who claim to be the progenitors of speed would clearly see through this gimmick. The propelled Captain would disappear in a poof of smoke to reveal it had been a speed clone from the beginning, whereas the real Darius would materialize from the left side of a dislodged demon man at blinding speed, grabbing him by the waist in a bear grip as they both dashed 25m through the field akin to a bullet and into a massive metal bell amidst an abandoned religious building in the distance.

With the demon's knees and hands placed on the floor in an attempt to rise, Darius would relentlessly smash his right knee into its skull, further colliding it into the bell to give off a second loud ring. Then attempting to lift it by the shirt would not go so well as the demon grabbed unto the big Captain's right arm and tossed his back against the bell, and with a powerful right kick, sent the Captain flying a couple of feet outside the building in a blocking stance. And just as his eyes were raised above his blocking arms to see through the rubble, the massive bell would come out of the resulting veil and smash against the Captain, sending him off once again as it was tossed by the demon.

As the Captain moved horizontally through the air, suspended with face pointing toward the sky as a result of the smash, he would look up to find the demon man right above him with an outstretched right fist motioning to hit him into the earth below, and instinctively Darius would motion his left knee towards the man's skull in tandem. While both strikes connected, two powerful ripples were crafted from the two contact points, sending Darius crashing into the earth beneath and the demon crashing forward across several other buildings ahead.

#23

Though his assault worked, he didn't want to indulge far too much, however, he'd exceedingly planned out his supportive sequences and felt more like he needed them all to work off this creature, hand in hand and in conjunctive formation.
Cutting a corner glance at the 'Shadow-Monarch'; the 8th division Captain, shortly after receiving the blaring scream, but before he'd even process and respond, two child-like figures drifted into his perception, far off and atop a rocky platform while they uniformly yelled 'shinigami!' not once but twice. Each time they spoke, it appeared as if the world was together with them, each space, corner and cardinal recollected and responded in unison.

Space bore open, the children rallied others in from a displaced location, filling every tiny space with horrendous and obscuring amount of child-like figures, trooping in thousands and perfectly in sync with every speech and movement. With sheer number, they'd slowly free their master from captivity by jawing down on the building he'd been pinned into. His eyes caught the motion of the flaming Captain's clone, rushing in without any hint of doubt and he- the captain himself rolling in to take on the monster that led these demon children.

"Hey! Shadow monarch"
Screamed Atsushi, commonly referring to Hazuki due to his current appearance.
"Once I say Link, you'd respond with Amaterasu, I need you to trust me on this one."
He pleaded, stretching his ashes far and wide, rushing at and scorching the myriads of trooping children into cinders from inside out through their breath; they'd inhale the ash that occluded their path and feel their breath steam up before bursting into explosive vortex of incinerating flames.

"Link!"
Totally up to the shadow monarch to respond, he at once spoke out, whilst he cushioned Darius crash by vesting his body with durable yet light-weight ashes, armoring him up like a typical samurai attire.
He wished for Darius to listen to his plan but he's had his plate full already by attempting to deal with the monster all by himself.

#24

With words uttered, both children leapt into the air hopping to pounce on him arms open. His sword swiftly swiped across the wind severing both children into halves while fading through them. They both dropped with a slight thud unaware of what had happened to them. However, slowly their parts slide of each other slamming into the muddy floor with a tiny splash.

“Shadow monarch” another called out, returning his attention to the battle field he had almost neglected. Calmly he listened to all the captain had to say while observing Daruis get entangled in a high paced physical combat. “Hmmm” he’d reply, now observing most in trooping children scorched into cinders while he tried to fend off as many as he could.

Raising his head to the sky line, he’d immediately find the monster and Daruis parting ways at canon speed, with both aimed to crash into different locations. Their trajectory left the monster man crashing into a pile of minions raised to cushion his fall while Daruis met similar faith as he bolted for the earth.

“Amaterasu” he replied shortly afterwards, reacting to the signal let loose by the 13th Captain. He'd know little of what to expect from the uttered word or what effect it held. However, what ever it was he hopped it worked and worked fast as the tension built around the vicinity.

The minions formally zombieng around quickly stopped on their tracks, jamming their jaws as if transmitting some sort of signal. Hibernating only for a few seconds, their speed quickly picked up pase as most bolted like a bullet, appearing near Daruis (first), Atsuchi (2nd)and Him with a ticking time bomb capable of discharging a 50’s spell kido blast effect. With each bomb being an embodiment of themselves they cared little about how they landed or threw themselves at the opponent and only aimed to get as close as possible before detonating.

A few more shied away from this sudden new engagement, only gathering themselves in little circles.

Jamming their jaws as they did, they’d immediately mount each other merging their cells to form a vaguely familiar masterpiece.

“Baby’s?” He’d utter out as nine circles of at least 20 children grew into a 12 ft toddler all staring down at them. They’d all move against them, appearing above each captain in a group of threes with hands and legs stamped to crush each one.

#25

Darius plummeted downwards and a suit of ash armor appeared on his person, in thought he guessed the new Captain did so to save him or at least cushion his fall. Perhaps he knew little about Darius after all as such could be said likewise, but to have additional aid watch his back wasn't as bad as he'd thought. Still he had no fear from time for even the very earth obeyed his command and could never hope to cause him harm. Just then a mass of demonic children appeared within this ruckus at bullet speeds, hoping to get a grip of the fast descending Captain and then it happened.

Darius hit the ground but even that was hardly so, he had permeated through the earth as though it was water in essence, and he drew the demon lot along with him as they all sank beneath the earth alongside. All the creatures within a 30m radius sank into the now sinking mud despite desperately trying to grasp solid earth. Moments later, loud explosions could be heard from beneath, as some visibly spat up chunks of muddy earth, a result of the demonic creatures exploding in multiple self destructions.

And soon after, Darius emerged from the earth on a fast moving, earthen hover board with arms crossed over his chest to meet three giant demon babies attempting to trample him beneath them. However he moved too fast for them, reaching high up on his board to meet their faces. 'Incinerate, children of abomination...' Darius said in anger, as three massive chains of burning hot flames curled up each of the giant babies in intertwining layers much like a snake till they were all tied up and he would spread both arms wide to his sides. '...be gone.' He concluded, causing the chains to explode in its might to release massive fumes of smoke and flames to effectively rid the area of this lot.

Returning his gaze to the others below, he searched for the beast man and sighted him, though it seemed the others had something in store for it, Darius bid his time and waited for the right time to pounce.

#26

The demonic children held hatred within their stare, their melancholic words brought about an unpleasant feeling- as though their unanswered tears and screams darkened and drew out one's faintest desires. Fall to your faint desires and become one of us. Forsake the morals you own and come along, no justice in this world just prejudice. You, you whom has suffered just as much, come, let's burn the world and tear down the remnant. Our Master adores all, accepts all without the idea of discrimination, that's Justice.. The world was theirs to burn but these individuals' to protect. Without any ounce of doubt within their heartless bodies, their sympathies were as dead as the rotten, decayed animals with different shades of white and brown bones sparkling out between murky strips of rotting flesh. The children halted their strides and faced their master, half turned, hibernating as it seemed and relaying orders.
- To defeat a demon, we need a demon. . . Moeru. . . -
Some acceleratedly grew in size, a few hurled themselves at Hazuki, Atsushi and Darius.
It'd be quite an unfortunate turn of events -not for the shinigami- but for the children that launched themselves at Hazuki and Atsushi. Hazuki's body darkened with soot, moreso than prior. His breath rolled flames and steams. The miasmatic mud of darkness and shadow that clustered round Hazuki flashed with red and black, monsters, wolves, ogres, beasts, they all crawled up from the darkness with fire in their eyes and heat within their breath. Atsushi and Hazuki's appearance became one of a pair except Atsushi's was solely ash while Hazuki's comprised of miasma and ash; pairs of wings spawned out aggressively from their backs like tattered wings of a wounded bat, their eyes charred out leaving behind the dark of their void sockets and constantly wafting embers and soul ashes. Jagged spikes of ashes scaled all over Atsushi's left arm, the veinal cracks running through, coursed with flames and heat and the same occurred on Hazuki's right arm and his entire body, leaving bare his left arm. The build of ashes inclined massively whilst they were engulfed in a spiralling spire of flames that scorched all that got close into smithereens. . . With Moeru active, the children couldn't hope to draw near, this was Atsushi's gamble in a last stride to strike down the monster, Hazuki had become his own demon, not just in appearance but in his every arsenal. Each step he took left nothing but flames and cinders, the swings of his now-plasmic blade sent torrent of flames blazing about, every movement and action had an effect, shadows crawled behind his feet, ashes wafted furiously around him and acted without his will, the children that drew near had already breathed their last immediately within Hazuki's close proximity, the creatures that slithered/crawled out of the darkness snarled and hissed with strange, scornful expressions. It felt as if they were rebuking all that stood against Hazuki;Shinjitsu's effect played in.

-. . .2000°C! -
Atsushi staggered back a few steps with his breathing now unsteady, he stabbed his blade into the ground and supported his weight- he hoped Hazuki and Darius could settle things while he assisted.
However, he began an incantation with his abased eyes and mumbling voice that had difficulty pronouncing fluently.

"Seeping crest of turbidity. Arrogant vessel of lunacy! Boil forth and deny! Grow numb and flicker! Disrupt sleep! Crawling queen of iron! Eternally self-destructing doll of mud! Unite! Repulse! Fill with soil and know your own powerlessness! Hadou #90 - Kurohitsugi"

#27

The word Amaterasu barely rolled off his tongue when suddenly the world around tumbled, spinning in ash and heat. The darkness around him thickened yet his reiatsu sat docile, in mere moments he became some sort of a demon, well something more considering he hosted one before. His breath rolled with flames and his sword beamed blood red, yet while all this went on he found the chaos soothing a little bit warming. What’s this? He wondered while focused on the enemies ahead.

They came in numbers though very few from the numbers that stayed behind yet their action mattered little, with the threat they possessed quickly faded as they burnt before his very eye turning into nothing but a pile of ash.

"Was he the one doing this, off course he wasn’t but could he?" he wondered swinging his sword forcefully to his right side in a slice off gesture, only to find the lower layer of a building with the closest proximity to him sliced off. simultaneously, traces of fire and ash spanned out along its severed edges instigating a phenomenom know as the creeping flame. His shadows quickly sipped into the building, rising from ground up to consume the chopped off building block in what seemed like a burial of fire and darkness till there was nothing left. Interesting he smiled looking back at captain Atsuchi whom for some reason took some step back, probably in preparation of something big.

"I don’t know what you did but allow me" he whispered with the word "obscure" uttered to end his statement. Immediately 100 flies manifested around him as if they consumed him and once he was fully covered they flew away with the captain vanished. They flew towards the head of the serpent with red glowing eyes and traces of flames lined over their wings yet the night blended them to the environment making them appear as nothing less than a ghost. In no time they arrived towards the side of the man surrounding himself with children, opening their form to let their master go.

Once overhead, Hazuki torpedoed himself towards the midst of the children smashing into the earth like a missile about to detonate, and this he did. Successfully he smashed into the earth with a rippling wave, forcing the children to stagger to the vibrations it caused. Sadly, that was not all they had experienced as the moment he made foot with solid ground darkness rose from the ground covering all around him in flakes of ash. The ones closest to him found themselves burnt from within fading almost immediately like the sands of time, while others situated meter’s away had the liberty to only raise their hand over their face before cremated and blown away by the wind.

Slowly his hollowed eye rose to meet the smiling demon and just like before his smile didn’t fade away. However, this didn’t bother him as he too had become some sort of bad omen with flame exhaled through his lung, gutted wings attached behind him and darkness following him as if he was the devil himself. Quickly he vanished in a burst of shunpo arriving by the best side with a line of decapitated demon kids who obviously tried to ward him off lying behind him with miasma of darkness and ash consuming them whole. The beast quickly held his throat with both hands with blood dripping to cracks of his fingers. Shinigamis it coughed still smiling through his teeth while it took some few steps back. Shinigamis he spoke this time transforming to form his own beast with wings and a 3rd eye open above his head. The little children left around the environment transformed also with him turning into little monsters with devils wings and horns.

Quickly it let his hand go free of his neck and dashed towards him in a boost. However, Hazuki replied in kind vanishing simultaneously till both of them met at the center where their sword clashed blades. He quickly proceeded to fending him off with a kick which sent the captain headed to a building at an amazing speed. However, on reaching the building the captain sank into the shadow casted on the wall by his presence immediately re-emerging behind the monster with his blade sliced to sever his wings. The monster reacting without turning bent over to avoid the slash, shifting out in shunpo movement after crumbling the earth beneath him while kicking the captain a few ft backwards to see him smashed into a building which got eaten up by darkness and ash moments later. "What are you? he questioned, wondering if the man before him was seriously a Shinigami or something else birthed from their realm.

Ignoring his words, the captain moved in on him swinging his sword across his chest which it perfectly parried only to regret that immediately. Ash spewed forward towards his face burning his chest while blinding him momentary. With the heat scotching his eyeballs and the pain cursing down his veins, the monster could never have been more vulnerable however, its spiritual prowess manifested to his aid, pushing everything away while he slashed back at the captain who he later figured out was an ash statue of the real one. He blinked heavily afterwards, trying to clear out any remaining ash particles that burnt his eyes and blurred his view only to see a blade travel across his face making him stumble back in an alarming application of shunpo. Again resting foot on solid ground, another blade slashed through his foot though this was basically his own shadow taking stabs at him which made him to flap his wings and rise on top a nearby building where his demonic children gathered around him.

Simultaneously, A swarm of black flies quickly hovered above them, transforming back into a blade which Hazuki caught mid air with his left hand as it tried to smash into the ground.

"Let’s end this", the captain eventually uttered looking deep into demons eyes as if talking to him, though referring to the other Captain Daruis whom he hopped already had his tool ready.

In a distance darkness loomed……red eyes glowed in the dark with giant claws sinking into the earth.

The rebirth, a beast returns......

#28

With yellow flaming eyes, and stationed almost 30m above ground with crossed arms on a flaming hover board, Darius observed the intense battle play out before his eyes at a speed he too could follow, where others would only sight sparks of light at random locations and intervals.

First was the shadow Captain's sudden transformation into a form of hideous demonic creature laced with an armor fiery ash and darkness, taking semblance to the other Captain whom had joined their cause. The demonic summonings surrounding them simply turned to dust upon reaching nearer proximity to the demon twin Captains.

However, watching closely, it seemed as though the new Captain acted as a sort of battery to empower Hazuki's power output to even higher output than its already insane level. The Thirteenth squad Captain had still refrained from physically engaging the creatures, only burning them to cinders whilst he rested on one knee, uttering some words which Darius could not hear from such crippling distance away. But he could still read the word 'Bakudo #90: Kurohitsugi' from his lips on sight alone, and at roughly the same time, he heard Captain Hazuki yell out to him to end this alongside.

The black box had risen that instant to consume the beast man who now possessed horns and wings. It held him down by gravity and slashed at him from all angles at once, creating multiple deep lacerations and threatened to rip him apart if not for his immense healing capabilities and durability. At best it bled the monstrosity and bought them time by trapping him at a spot and in pitch darkness.

In response to the Captain's call, Darius jumped off his flaming hover board in a forward summersault as though about to land with his feet. He landed however, on something different, it was solid and alive, with four feet and an eerie blackness for complexion. It was the same two-headed giant beast dog earlier created by Captain Hazuki, returning to life from the shadows, and now Darius stood on it's back as they rode towards the top of the building, whence the winged beast sat with its demonic children. They swarmed the dog's feet in a bid to slow and prevent any further advancement but even that wasn't enough to stop their zeal.

As the black coffin dispersed, Darius and the shadow dog arrived at the top, biting tightly unto the chest of the beast boss, descending him into the building's center and glowing a bright white light in the process to signify the birth of a devastating blast effect. They were completely swarmed, save for the ash covered, samurai looking flame Captain_Darius who jumped off towards the sky and wrapped himself in solid round earth whence the explosion detonated.

The occurring blast was like non other, filled with hatred and fiery destruction, one which threatened all life forms within a 30m radius and easily brought down the integrity of the 3-storey concrete building, descending the demon kids and their boss into the generated mushroom of explosion.

The winged demonic younglings were obvious victims, and yet the surrounding Captains strongly believed this was not enough to bring the death of the catastrophic abomination. That was when it was decided, they had had enough. The rounded earth cocoon dropped into the heart of the explosion, and at the very bottom a loud voice spoke from the flames, reciting some words before eventually calling out at the top of his voice.

Under the moon lit sky, the shadow dances to the rhythm of the flame, become a victim and despair, Hino-Kagutsuchi. BAN...KAI.

Those words instigated an abrupt change in climate and the immediate surrounding, bringing with it, a colorful explosion so large_it leveled the structures within a 50m radius. Thick fumes and dust filled the area, effectively hindering visibility to a great degree, such that one would easily miss the creeping hot liquid that seeped from the earth, something easily identified as molten magma from the earth's core, this was Darius' doing.

This outcome gave off a certain level of heat that drained even moisture from the atmosphere, and the demon creature who was lost beneath all the chaos finally dug his right hand out of the burning liquid, no more than a skeletal frame it appeared to be for even now, Darius could see what happened in the earth. His eyes blazing red through the silhouette he casted from the shadows gazed upon the demon creature that desperately tried to regenerate its dissolved organs and skin whilst still immersed in the liquid that brought him said harm, all to no avail. Perhaps this was it's inevitable end, still Darius just stood above the sea of fire and watched it wail in agony as chains of molten heat wrapped around it to keep it submerged.

Soon, the smokey thickness dispersed to reveal a shirtless, bald, and skin tarred man with 4 massive red tentacles protruding from his back, this man was Darius true self and appearance in this state and perhaps even now there was not much needed from him to bring this to its eventual end. There was no resistance from the beast and all its floating minions began to drop into the liquid flames that consumed their master.

Their job was done, and he wondered what it was they had just faced, the darkened cloud dropped black ashes briefly before a hint of light gave rise in the East, signaling sunrise. It was daytime and Darius reverted to his normal human form after sealing his blade once again. With the land left dried up and black, the fossil left behind by the demon creature slowly scattered to the wind.

In thought, Darius knew they_Shinigami had to gain more power for Soul Society, for there may be a time when an army of creatures stronger than this will come knocking, and hopefully then, they will be ready.

#29

The threat had grown too deep. . . sucked in too deep and became a whole different existence entirely within these moments that flowed without restraints, normally and without pain for most individuals. Perhaps, the blade that once reached the monster, wouldn't reach it anymore. No, an inconceivable and invisible force would surely make the distance insurmountable. Atsushi felt his coffin disperse unnaturally, by a building force that tended off the gravity within the box, though it may appear as though his gambit paid off, in reality, nothing worked, everything failed, unscathed and uninjured, and back in form.
But before those thoughts could be reassessed, Darius spurred on furiously with haste, eye flew through the field, He'd engaged with his bankai. . . something that remained concealed for Atsushi. He breathed in the chaos and unease, they slowly waned off into smaller bits. Eyes glared, intently and with rapt focus. His gazes betrayed him, he couldn't account for Darius' fierceness yet it became a pleasant experience. Eventually, the rusty chains that dragged off his thoughts and leeched his strength sealed and dispersed the skill he'd cast on Hazuki and himself. To think they were captains this strong and the sleeping chaos still draws breath plunges him into confusion. A swarm of thoughts raged on in his mind but he needed to break the silence and show his gratitude. He found his lost balance and stared at Hazuki before returning his gaze and holding it on to Darius.
"Magnificent"
He complimented in rasp tone and slid his blade back into his scabbard. The ashes fluttering in his void sockets vanished to reintroduce his eyeballs. He smiled and turned to face Hazuki, extending a handshake with his right arm.
"I've found a compatible pattern that I'd march into potential wars with"
He spoke with a broad smile, hinting on another possibility, another growing monster within the shadows of Amnesta and The Infernals. His hand hung in air as he anticipated for a returned handshake.

#30

Just as expected Daruis rose to the occasion but not before Atsuchi played his card which settled in the final piece of the stage. Their responce was glorious and so was the beast tanacity which Hazuki more or less came to adore. It was indeed a threat to the shinigami realm and maybe the whole world but its luck came to an end the moment one of them went bankai.

"Bankai!!" Daruis had called summoning the true power of his zanpaktou which he vested on the enemy

He quickly felt his energy drained on seeing this causing him to smirk at the thought of how's powerful Daruis had become over the given space he had last seen him. Also seeing him put this much effort on taming the monster meant his subordinate Kin, had been correct about his loyalty the whole time and there was nothing more he needed to prove it.

"Interesting!!" Shisuo mumbled feeling so excited he couldn't maintain his silence anymore. "Maybe now you'll listen to me more often" he mocked reffering to a situation which Hazuki totally ignored.

Pulling down his straw hat to cover the direct path of his gaze Hazuki instead monitored the dispersing of the beast as it vanished with the rising sun. He also observed the damage they had brought to a deserted city he could barely recognize now.

The ash cloud wrapped around him also returned to its rightfully owner signaling the end of their delightful combo. Hoping at least the beast was dead for good he too quickly sealed his zanpaktou as he gazed off at Atsuchis direction, imagining what more he could achieve with a comrade like him.

"I've found a compatible pattern that I'd march into potential wars with"

"Like wise", Hazuki smiled returning the handshake as friendly as he could.

Noticing how timely the captains words had been to his line of thought he wondered if the link had done anything more to him. However judging by how effective the link had been he'd find it less likely for both of them to think of anything more. He'd wish however to speak nothing more about what had happened today and immediately turn to his rare to open up a portal."why don't we continue this later, theres still a lot I need to know". He'd immediately vanish into the light playing out today's event at the back of his mind with the zeal to get stronger pumping his every step.

#31

The big brute sighed in displeasure at the fact that something this dangerous existed and they knew nothing of it. The insecurity made his liver quiver and anger drooled over his mind. One such anger directed towards the governing body of Seireitei for being so lax.

Yet, he was glad to realize there were others this strong, even he would gladly acknowledge their potential. All that was left was something to tip him over to the side of kind evil if it existed, where he could seat and watch over Soul Society, the place he has come to love and protect.

He knew a creature like this could return some day or even an army of it, and therefore they only needed to grow. He looked around and sighted the both Captains, one of which complimented the big man in a rasp tone before sheathing his blade and the ashes which clouded his retina had dispersed. Darius would only smirk in a slight moment of elevated ease and speak, Tsk... Swordsmen. And just as he was done, he stepped into the highest form of his Shunpo and was gone with the unruly wind.