((I got really bored so i started it with two people but feel free to join Planning thead))

Locron stood there looing up at he giant pearl wihte walls of the academy with great discussed, "they had building like this yet they coul have made houses for the poor in district 80...." He sighed deeply and deprssingly as he loked at his white and blue academy uniform "why exactly am i doing this again..... i'm just going to be insulted and called district 80 trash...again...." Reachng in his pocket pulled out a piece of parchment and read the top row which had his classes on ".....I can't be depressed all the time" Forcing a very convincing smile he headed off to the wooden red doors. It appeared that there was an upper year stopping a group of lower years going inside. Keeping himself in a very happy mood he weaved in and out of the crowd until reaching the front.

Locron looked at the upper year with his zunpakto raised and pointing at the rest. He sighed deeply and just walked fowad and put a hand on the door before getting knocked back by the upped year "where do you think yor going..... we don't allow trash like you in he district 80 scum....." the Upper year punched Locron square in the stomach with all is might knocking him back a short distance. Locron just straightened himself up a there was a cheer from the crowd, he walked towards the door again but before he could reach it the upper year punched him again. Locron straigtened up again and approached. this repeated anougther three times bfore the upper year raised his zunpakto. "Why won't you go down" But before the upper had time to swing at Locron again locron had hold of both his wrists with a firm grip "Only cowards attack unarmed people with weapons" The uper year dropped the zunpakto and backed away with fear letting Locron and the others into the enterence hall. "Frstly we have an assembly in the main hall." Sighing again as he looked around the room which was even more beutifully decorated then the wall outside "Where do they get there money from"



((I will do all this for you))
UPPER YEARS ATTACKS
((Level 1 x 5)+3) (17) (6) (16) (6) (6)
17+16 -(10 x 2 (for 2 attacks))= 13
16-13= 3HP

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Kurai tanashi had all of his stuff ready. He knew his classes, and knew what he had to do. His thoughts on the other students were simple as he wlaked with them towards the school "their mostly just ignorant idiots...and you need to best them, you need to get better, stronger. He walked towards the school, knowing that his primary reason for being here was entirely to learn. He didn't want to fool around, to get in trouble, he just wanted to become better then he was.

As he approached the school, Kurai saw one of the upper years get taken down by a lower year. He heard from a bit away what the upper year had said to him, and his jaw practically dropped. He hated the average student, and he detested bullying. It seemed so pointless, showing off bravado when you had not even really achieved any strength yet. Anyone could become stronger, and they would do best to focus their attentions on trainging, rather then fighting opponents who really were no challenge, though this one apparently proved the upper year wrong. Kurai smiled, and walked into the building.

Kurai was not the type to be considerred social...andhe had barely talked to anyone in awhile, but he decided to give this one a try. After all, he was a new to. "Hey..." he said, and lifted up his hand for him to shake.

"Kurai Tanashi, don't worry...i don't care where your from. Nice job with the upper year...but the problem is, he may run now, but he might have friends. Sounds like you could use some yourself...what's your name?" he asked, trying to sound friendly.


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Locron looked at the lower year who just introduced himself. Nodding elegently Locron Introduced himself "I am locron hicross....... and so called district 80 scum who can make an upper ear scared" He luaghed as he opened the front of his robe to reveal old bandages wrapped around the entire of his tourso. Locron muttered very quietly under his breath "Lets see what th damage is this time...." sighing pulled down the bandages to reveal bruises everywhere.... som of the purple showing that they were quite old and some of them dark blue idicatig fresh bruises. There was even a couple of idication showing broken ribs and other bones. "It's not that bad" smiling he pulled up his bandages and walked towards the main hall.
He hadn't forgotten about the other lower year, infact he was exspecting him to follow him. Turning left and entering through two large doors locron entered yet anougther perfectly decorated room that was full of luaghter and talking before he attension went to him. "Great.... first day and i'm popular" He sighed and sat down in a large space at the purposly away from everyone else.


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Feya had already got inside before she heard something was happening at the doors, she sighed, figuring it was just the older students being bullies- again. She sat with another female, and joked about a few of the males they had seen, but when everyone went silent her eyes slowly went up to the door, probably the last one to look up. She held back a gasp as she looked at the males at the door, her eyes scanning over them like most other girls's were.

She got to her feet, when a few students started to talk in low voices to one another, and her feet carried her instinctivly towards where he had seated himself. She moved silently, other then the soft swish of her clothing. She paused once she drew close enough to figure out his eye color, and bit her lip, unsure of what to say- which was unlike her. She heard a few girls snicker at her hesitance.

"Hey... you're new here too right?" She asked as she looked forward at Locron expectantly, yet calmly, despite her earlier hesitance. She hadn't been sure whether or not she should approach, but she had followed her gut. "I'm Feya..." She said smiling as she let her hand go out towards Locron, while her eyes danced from him to the others in the room.

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Locron simply nodded in ackowlage of feya, he was not one to intriduce twice in one day so she'll need to either find out or waitfor the roll call, but at that percise moment the slidding dors opened again and a shimigan in a whie cloak elegently glided down the stairs. His pure presscense demanded silence off evryone and he indeed got it as everyone shot upright and face forward looking at him. There was one person who didn't sit upstraight or pay attension and that was Locron. The shimigan just completly ignored locron and started to speak to the fairly large group of wannabe shimigan.
"Welcome an i hope you all managed to get here safly.... we will begin with role call an then i ill tell you what you will be doing in this year." and so it began a very long list of names unill it came "mr. hicross......" the shimigan looked up at here locron was sat as myumbing started "ahh yes the once proud noble family of he Hicross....... i believe you are the last member and no live in district 80 because your father got you all kicked out of the seretai....... NOW SILENCE" he mumbling stopped as the list of name continued to be read out infront of the class. Locron still lhad his head on the deskand not paying any attension...

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Feya frowned as she dropped her hand to her side, but spung around as the doors opened again and a shimigan came down, her eyes followed his movements. Like everyone else, except Locron, she was standing and completely silent, while her mind was whirling.

She knew she'd have to wait until the role call before she could find out his name, but as she stood there and listened she couldn't help but flick glances at him, wondering who he was.

When she heard his name, she turned her head sightly to look at him, her eyes showing no emotion as she stared quietly and studied him. "So... that's who you are.." She thought to herself as she turned her partcial attention back to the shimigan. The rest of the names basically went in one ear and out the other, she sighed softly, tempted to sit down, but she didn't. Her shoulders slumped a little as she was lost in her thoughts on being a shimigan, and how many ould become one and if she would be one of them.

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"Last but not least mr tanashi......" Looking around the shimigan waited for a reply before getting impacient and looking back to the class "as most of you already know i am Captain Seret from squad 6 and you are here not to enjoy yourself or slep mr Hicross!!!" the class fell silent once again apart from the faint snorring that came from Locrons mouth. the catain sighed and continued to speak anyway "You will all unde go hard training and challaging task.... some of you my not even survive tosee next year..... I am hoping to see most of you in my squad when you leave the acaemy...... apart from him" The captain pointed at ocron the turned back to the class "and now ff to your first class..... have fun running around the seretia five times" The captain walked back out the room and at the slam of the door Locron finaly drifted out of his sleep. "It's ovr already" yawning Locron stretched and headed off out the door again without paying attension to half the other students followinghim for protection.

After finaly reaching the outside sourtyard Locron slowly dragged his feet across the flr untill he reached the teacher "Ahh so your mr hicross..... get a bag now and same with the estof you the teacher indicated to half adozen large bags that were ext to carages. Lcron slowly picked up the half a tonne black ruck sack and placed it on his back as the rest stuggled That it teach i'm sure we can allhold more weigh then that" the teacher smiled you are going to be" she indicated to the carrages which had about anougther tonne of weights o.There was small grown from th other students....

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Kurai nodded towards Feya as she introduced herself. She was kindof cute looking for a schoolgirl, but he wasn't here to flirt. Kurai had widened his eyes a bit as he saw Locrons bruises, but lifted up his shirt to show a few of his own. "i'd say that we're pretty well matched my friend..." he said, then listened as the speaker started announcing their names. He responded as he said "mr. Tnashi" with a nod, then turned back to locron...giving him a light tap on the shoulder as the shimigan came over and woke Locron up.

After they were dismissed, kurai gave another acknowledging nod to Feya, and walked to his class. To his surprise, locron was in the same class he was. No problem there. Kurai watyched as he once again challenged the authority, and couldn't help but chuckle slightly, before the teacher came over to him.

"what are you smiling about?" he asked, and put two bags on his back. Kurai frowned, but held both the backs up, not complaiuning, not groaning, only letting out a little huff as he held the bags up. As the teacher walked over to the other students, Kurai looked at Locron, and gave him a bit of a challenging smile. "How many do you think you can hold? Shall we go for a nice even six?" he joked.

Feya followed behind the others after giving a faint smile to Kurai after he nodded, her mind still occupied as she picked up one of the packs with a small groan. She wasn't one of the toughest that was for sure, but she deffinatly wasn't the weakest. Her mind continued to move in circles, mostly questions about what was gonna happen and who would make it.

She listened to the words that had been spoken and gave a little chuckle before looking at the carage. Her shoulders slumped a little as she held back a groan, even though quite a few others allowed it passed their lips. She looked at Kurai and Locron, her eyes moving, studying them both. She let out a squeaky-ish sound as she looked back to the teacher, her eyes saying she didn't wanna do this, but would.

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Locron looked at kurai as he attempted o better him. Sighing Locron Walked over to the bags again and put anougther three on making it a total of four. Smiing again he placed anougther five into the cart he was going to use. The total weight he was now going to carry as five tonnes. He luaghed ashe ooked at kurai in a way saying you can hold this much weight i will respect you. The teacher just sighed at both kuria and locron. "You two are the most competavive people i have een in a long time..... but because of your arrogence and trying toout better everyne you can do double laps and can carry everyone elses bags. Which will make it a grad total of 10 tonnes each and 10 laps.... i hope you are happy? Locron just smiled as the teacher said this it qwas no hastle carring 10 tionnes for over 30 miles...... acturally come to think of it this miht push his limits thjis early in the morning exspecial considering they had anougther four classes.

He wtched as the class devided theres up into two carts, all with smiles on there faces. "I just said you didn't need to carry the bags class you still need to push the carts that contan half a tonne" there was a groan as they all lindup against the carts and got grip on them. Locron Lifted the handles of his and felt the strain on his muscles almost imediently "Mr. Hicross i hope this teaches you for challaging authority. Now you may al begin...." there was a large amount of groaning and heavy breathing as the class started push there carts. Locron Using timmed steps managed to pushhis cart with ease considering the weight. It was just simple stratagy keep you steps all the same distance twith equal time between them ad your energy won't be drained as quick. Locron looked round to see if kuria was near him as he started to pull away from everyone else. "I don't eve think half of them will finish a lap... exsopecialy mr. hicross and mr. tnashi" the teacher smiled as she sat down in a chair and waited or half of them to come walkig back slowly....

Kurai Tanashi watched as Locron started carrying five of the bags, giving him a challenging look. Kurai himself didn't know if he could actually hold that many, but he would sure as hell try. He considerred this his first real challenge. He put the bagsa in the cart, and on his back in the same manner Locron did, and got the four on his back first. He was about to get the five in the cart, and got four of them in when the teacher came over. "well...that's not a good start..." he thought silently, as the teacher walked away. "only ten? Aww...disappointed..." he said out loud, giving Locron another challenging look. "although...I have to say. This must be some sort of record. First day and we're already the most competitive people she's seen in awhile...." he said. The teacher suddenly turned around, surprising him. "Very well, mr. Tanashi, you can do 11 laps." she said. Kurai sighed and began pushing his cart.

Kurai's strategy was a bit different. He closed his eyes, and concentrated entirely on pushing the cart. The pain and exertion he felt by doing such, he attempted to ignore, forcing all his thoughts onto that cart. He opened his eyes for a brief moment, and realised Locron was a bit ahead of him. Oh, he couldn't allow that...

Putting more effort to it,he closed his eyes, and focused even more strength into it, bringing his muscles to practically screaming in agony, but ignoring the pain, as he slowly caught up to his competitor. He actually didn't know if he could bring 10 tonnes through 11 or even 10 laps...but...he couldn't resist the attempt. He knew, that if he faile dnow...he would try all night, all morning, every day, until he could. He never accepted failure. He didn't believe in physical limits.

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Locron watched as kuria was trying his best to keep up with hi. "If you go at this keep going at this reat you will faint. Use big even stepsand once you speed up you must be sure you can maintian that speed for the rest of th laps. Because if you try nd slow down the weight will continue pulling you forward which may lead to your arms etting pulled out of there sockets, and that will be bad when you have to doeven more laps." Locro closed his eyes and increased his speed dramaticaly and started pullig away from kuria at the 2 mile mark.......

Locron started to feel the strain on his muscles as they litterally began to rip because of ths pain. He bit his teeth together as he turned a corner, somehow he kew it was there even with his eyes closed. "Pain is good it means tht your body is pushing it's limits further and further" He smiled and increased his speed again he knew that kuria was tryig to keep up and he wouldn't allow that. He must win by any means possible even if it destroyed his muscles. Fousing all his spiritural energy somehw he found speed that he never had before. Locron opened his eyes and looked back at kria. "Heres anougther techneque focus your spiritural energy into your feet and you can trevel even faster with little effot."

Feya's feet pushed against the ground evenly and quickly as she focused on her spiritual energy, for her it was very easy to do. She was a kidou user after all. Her mind was still wandering slightly, but not nearly as much as she thought of her body and it's energy, her foot steps soon brought her up behind Locron and Kurai, she wasn't that suprised since she was using shunpo.

Even though she wasn't as strong, she was sure she was higher in speed. She stayed a little behind them as she heard Locron giving advice as he moved ahead of Kurai, and she gave a small smile as she moved forward some more. She had already felt the pull of the weight on her muscles back a bit, and that was when she started to use shunpo. Her eyes danced between the two, her mind wandering to how they both were so competetive and cute, but after that thought crossed her mind she shook her head. Now was not the time.

Her body hummed with energy as she let it move to her feet, her arms started to ache from holding onto the cart, even though her load wasn't nearly as heavy as the two males infront of hers was. She let out a soft sound, very faint, as she shifted her grip an inch on the bars.

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Kyshu strode along through the city, as usual he was alone but that was how he prefered it. No one to slow him down, no one to depend upon him. He was a free spirit, he want where he pleased and did what he wished most of the time. He was a Soul Reaper and had a deep set hatred of Hollows as a result of what they had taken from him. He had sworn that he would make them pay, that he would never let anyone else go through the same pain he had.

Kobayashi Nadori was late. How late, and how did he know he was late? He knew he was late because the he recognized the captain who was to be the first instructor of the year for the first years was OUTSIDE the seraitai whiel the the class was doing laps around it. Upon reaching the Captain's position, he asked the Captain "Honorable Captain-Sama, may I join in this exercise? I am supposed to be in this class although it took long than expected for me to reach the Seraitai from area 80 of the Ryokongai, due to some ruffians..."

The captain without turning to look at the young man, replied with "First your name, I must check it against my list. Also your inane prattle bothers me to no end. I insist that you do not speak in my presence for the rest of the day unless I bid you speak."

Immediately after the Captain stopped speaking, Nadori gave his full name to the Captain saying, "I am Kobayashi Nadori of the Ryokongai area 80."

"Your name checks out, you may join in although expect to be punished when the day is through. Your task is to push or pull one of those carts, with one of the bags laying over there in the cart, the bags weigh a half ton each.. Well what are you waiting for, grab a bag and get to it! On second thought your punsihment comes now, you must push or pull three bags on the cart."

No sooner than this was spoken, Nadori rushed over to the spot where the bags lay and picked one up with a bit of exertion. He then took it over next to the cart, and repeated this action with the second two. Then when he had them next to the cart he put them in, causing the cart which was worn down, unlike the other ones he saw passing him ,to nearly buckle under the weight. He then moved to the front of the cart, or what he thought to be, as the cart had two sets of handles.. It had smaller ones on the back, and longer ones on the front. He had gone to the side with longer handles. He grabbed the handles, secured a firm grip, and began to take slow short steps to build up speed until he was at the maximum speed he could maintain. It was a terribly exertion for him. The first one hundred steps he felt his muscles ache. By the second hundred he felt the acid begin to build up. By the third hundred his leg muscles were positively screaming with pain. Finally, by the fourth hundred he had managed to reach the maximum speed he could attain. Although at the cost of having torn some muscles.

He began to think about how fast he was going... he noticed he had caught up to one of the people, and asked "What lap are you on?" They answered that they were on the second lap and currently in last place. "Well you're not last anymore, I just started. See ya if I catch up to you again," Nadori said with a smile. He then began to pass the person and by the time he was on his second lap he was in agony, and he could tell his legs were bruised from the torn muscles. He began to think of how he could increase his speed more, he then thought of a splendid idea. He focused on his legs, which brought him greater pain, but allowed him to move a little faster. Then he visualized his legs, he visualized the muscles in his legs how they always had felt, then he took that feeling and matched it to how he felt now, he could tell which muscles he tore, if just barely. He thought on how he could fix his legs. He slowed down to allow himself to concentrate. Then it hit him, spiritual energy could be used to knit together the muscles couldn't it? But how would he do it? He visualized the torn muscles as they were with each movement he made then, with a a leap of faith, he began to visualize the muscles knitting together... he tried ot make his body do what he was visualizing by taking the tiny pieces of Rekei and forming them into chords connecting where the muscles were torn. He remained focused on this task for about three minutes, during that time he had passed two more people, but had been passed by countless more. He decided that while focusing on keeping the rekei chords together he must increase his speed, he began to take longer strides, and found it was much easier. He then tried to speed up to a run... but that was too much, so he slowly increased his speed for the next 2 and a half laps until right before halfway through the 4th lap, 17 people had finished by then, but during that time he had found that if he extended the rekei chords connecting his muscles over the rest of his musculature that eh could increase his speed three fold, he was halfway through the last lap when he tried to push it even further and found that he had reached his limit for speed with his current level of spiritual power and fitness. He finished the last lap in 19th place... far behind the three who had finished before all the rest.

After finishing thoroughly exhausted he release his new found technique and slumped to the ground, shortly thereafter he began to cough up blood, and little chunks of his lungs which had apparently been damage by his unskillful attempt at such a technique.



[ooc] was that long enough? oh and I figure being that late he couldn't finish first... I figure your three will finish the top three and the rest will come in after, however by no means have I excluded you from having input into the races ending.. I merely stated where my character finished... if you want your characters obviously don't have to finish in the top three, although i hope for their sakes they do, bragging rights are a big plus... please feel free to continue your competition guys... and go FEYA... besides I don't want my guy to stand out from the start... although I think he may get the captains notice... if the captain was paying attention to him... anyone up for a coin toss to determine that?


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”Well done Mr. Kobayashi, you didn’t come last. Now who wants to go to the inferm...,” the captain was cut off by a horde of laughter from a crowd watching the path with there backs to her. “MR. HOCROSS!!! Have you done your ten laps yet?” The crowd separated to show Locron running in quite fast with his 10 tonne cart and multiple bags on. “How did you guess that teach....” skidding to a stop inches away from Kobayashi Locron smiled barely able to keep himself up but with a smile still on his face. Letting go of the handles the cart came crashing down making the floor crumble under the force. “That feels much better....” ignoring the pain Locron stretched as the class give him a round of applause, but at that time a second captain walked into the court yard and up to the crowd of students. ”You four to my office now, the rest of you talk among yourselves as I will ne needing your teacher as well” The new captain pointed at Locron, Kobayashi, Kuria and Feya, before walking off back into the building. Locron sighed depressingly and disappeared and reappeared near the door “Holy shit..... I didn’t think that this was that fast,” the teachers mouth dropped open as Locron did this, but his class mates simply cheered and whistled at him.

Locron quickly got to the captains office and just walked in without knocking, “ahhh yes the unruly Mr. Hicross.... How did you get here so fast.... on second thought I don’t want to know just sit down and wait for the rest,” Locron grunted and sat down on a mat on the floor...


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~~NOTICE: all XP double so the RP spped up a bit~~

Feya had finished her laps with aching muscles, and pretty drained of her energy. Although she didn't have to do as many laps as Locron and Kurai, she used alot of her spiritual energy in shunpo. She had stood there and watched as the power horses worked through their laps, her eyes basically never leaving Locron and Kurai, not to mention the male who had been late. But she didn't know his name, at least not yet.

Her hands went together in appalause the same time everyone else's did, while a small smile graced her lips. Her smile disappeared as she heard a different captain speak, her eyes widened and she bit her lip, hoping they'd done nothing wrong. She followed behind the captain, her eyes widening slightly when Locron disappeared and reappeared, but she knew what he had done and didn't want to seem so suprised, her face stayed calm as she walked towards the door.


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Nadori attempted to scream, "In-firm-ary! PLEASE!" But it came out as a gurgling cry. He was wracked with pain, and still curled up in a ball on the ground. He occasionally coughed up bits of blood, and lung tissue. Struggling he managed to crawl to the side of the captain. Looked up at the Captain from the ground. He tried to manage a smile, but came up with a grimace. Then almost immediately coughed blood onto the Captain's Boots "Not good," he muttered under his breath. He thought, "Wonder if I'll have to do this every day? If so I may die before i graduate." The Captain looked down at him, and said "You are to go to the office of Captain Ashigu. Afterwards you may go to the infirmary. Any questions?" "Where is Ashigu's office?" The Captain gave him a strange look then told him where the office of Captain Ashigu was... Struggling to his feet, he made his way towards the Office of Captain Ashigu. He wobbled on his feet and weaved from side to side while he walked. When He finally reached the office of Captain Ashigu the others were already there. He weaved his way to the nearest mat and practically fell into it. The mat was uncomfortable, but that wasn't important compared to the pain in his legs and lungs. He had strained them too much during the run, and knew he needed immediate medical attention of the highest order. Captain Ashigu looked at him, and began to chant a kidou. Then the captain said to them, "I will make this brief.. due to the condition of Mr. Kobayashi..."

+2 EXP - correct?

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[ooc] don't feel comfortable speaking with the voice of this captain and I feel that this is an important plot point for your RP Locron, you should be the one to do the Captain here

~~NOTICE: Yesterday Rez said he quit the RP so he will no longer be included in the plot and his XP will be divided between everyone remaining~~


The captain coughed as he looked down at the three students in front of him, "I shell begin with you Mr. Hicross.....” both Locron and the captain gave a deep depressing sight “.... You have already broken the academy rules three times if I recall, firstly you started a fight with an upper year student, then you disrupted the assembly and finally you caused chaos for your class teacher. If it wasn’t for your potential of becoming a lieutenant or captain, I would throw you out right here right now!” a very large grin grew across Locron face as he herd these words. The captain lowered his voice as he continued to speak to the other two “Feya unlike Locron you show displace and relay on intelligence not brute force..... Mr. Hicross don’t think about it.....” The captain gave Locron a warning look as he was about to shout out in objection. Noticing this he changed it into a yawn quickly ”You too have potential of becoming a ranking officer if you keep at it..... Last but not least Mr. Kobayashi, During that lesson’s exercise we had officers stationed around disguised as average souls, one of these officers saw you using a very advanced kidou technique.... although it didn’t turn out quite right you still repaired some of the damage....” the captain smiled joyfully as he stood up ”during your next class you will sped the first half of your lesson obtaining your zunpakto while everyone else is sparring. If you do not obtain it today don’t worry because you will continue the exercise tomorrow, but I am convinced you will obtain it by the end of the lesson.... now you are all dismissed, go to second class.... and Mr. Kobayashi you will find all your injuries healed, they were only minor ones to what squad four are use too” When the captain stood up, Locron released all his joy in a very loud cheer before calming down. “I take it that all of us will be partners from now on” Locron laughed and headed out the door in such a joyful mood, as he headed towards weapons training...

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everone will obtain 2 XP thanks to rez

Kobayashi Nadori breathed a sigh of relief, his wounds were a near memory, but fading fast from his mind. He thought, 'Didn't know those of Captain class outside the Fourth could heal. Must ask him about this.' Thank you, honorable Captain Ashigu-Sama, may I ask one question after this one which I so foolishly must ask?"

"I would like to say that for one so new to the Soul Society you show great potential as a kidou user. Now proceed with your question."

"Domo arigatou goshimaitsu, oh honorable Captain Ahsigu-sama! Now for my quesiton, how is it that you know how to heal? I thought it was the domain solely of the Fourth Division?"

[color=yellow] "Well all shinigami are given healing training, although those in the fourth specialize in it. Those not in the fourth of higher than Lieutenant level are given a little extra training in it by the Captain of the Fourth. This should answer your question, now tell me something, how is it that you applied three times to the academy and were not accepted, also what was that technique you used?"

"To be honest I'm not sure why i wasn't accepted on the first application, or what the technique was. I simply thought that by using Reiki i could make replacement muscular chords, and then I found that I could spread those out across whole muscles. It seems that it increased both strength and speed by about 2 fold. Unfortunately I have not mastered it. Is that a sufficient answer?

"Yes that is quite sufficient, you do know that shunpo would have worked better don't you? Nevertheless this s an interesting technique you have used which i was not familiar with, nor would have probably conceived of on my own."

"I'm sorry but what is shunpo? I have little experience in formal shinigami ways, and plan to be learning much in the coming months and years."


The Captain was barely able to conceal his shock that this young man had never ehard of shunpo, and that despite this he had actually used what might be a higher level technique than shunpo if used properly. "You say you've never heard of shunpo? Well let me explain for you,. It appears that during this exercise the two other gentlemen seem to have taught themselves it, which is an admirable accomplishment. Now shunpo is accomplished by focusing spiritual energy into the feet and legs, and when done properly greatly increases speed with a minor increase in leg strenght. Now for an explanation of the technique you seem to have used by your description, you used spiritual energy to increase both strength and speed by about 2 fold, while not as fast as shunpo it appears that it may have more uses than shunpo. i hope this has been informative. Dismissed all of you."

Nadori then turned to Locron, and addressed him formally with, "Greetings Locron-dono of the former noble house of Hicross. I do believe that for now I will be training separately from you four for the next few hours. But afterwards I would thoroughly enjoy gettting to know you and the others..." he finished with a quick look at Feya only.

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[ooc] hwo about we make all captains words YELLOW, that way it's easy to distinguish... if captains speak to each other make the names included in the YELLOW? How about that?
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((Locron: 2XP+2XP+extra 2XP for starting late = 6XP))

Locron just nodded arrogantly at the formal introduction as he made it down the hall and into the class room. “If you’re going to talk to me loose the formality or you loose the ability to speak...” He hated formal speak because formality related to the rich and the rich were the ones who drove the Hicross family into exile and now Locron was the last one left, he would get revenge. Locron duck and dipped under several wooden swords as the class were sparring. Finally reaching the teacher Locron just stood there and gave her a funny look as she examined him. “So you’re the last of the noble Hicross family..... I’ve herd your one hell of a trouble maker..... Let’s test that theory.....” she indicated for three lieutenants, which were in the room watching over the fights to come over. “If you can knock the lieutenants zunpakto’s out there hands..... I will teach you how to get one...... If you don’t you simply die.... sounds fair enough.....” she clapped her hands loudly and all the class stopped and looked at her..... “We’re going outside to watch this class you might get to see Mr. Hicross and the others die” She smiled joyfully and opened the door into the upper year training grounds. The class that was outside also stopped and crowded around the large training ground.

“I hear that Locron ran around the whole Seraitia ten times holding twelve tonnes” whispers erupted around from all the upper years about the three lower years around them “.... that nothing the other lad has discovered a new healing ability which also increases his strength and the girl know shunpo...” the whispering suddenly stopped as the captain raised her hand. “BEGIN!!” Locron looked at the lieutenant in front of him in a lazily kind of way. The lieutenant laughed and used shunpo to get behind Locron. Keeping his calm Locron spun on his heels and grabbed the lieutenants wrist to stop the attack just in time “You know that wasn’t very nice” he smiled as he pulled the blade away from his face to reveal a cut that instantly started bleeding. The crowd gasped and cheered from different points of view. But before Locron could do anything else there was a sound of bone crunching as the lieutenant landed a kick square in Locron chest, causing him to fly backwards all the way into a wall. The wall instantly gives way because of the force and covered Locron in rubble. “It appears Mr. Hicross is unable to battle....” but as soon as she finished these words there was a sound of hysterical laughter coming from the crumbled wall as Locron began to get back up. “Give me more credit then that” Locron smiled as he used shunpo and kneed the lieutenant back square in the chest.....


6XP - Training

"Captain-Sama, I also have to fight the lieutenant correct? Allow me a moment to prepare myself." Using his new found technique a little more skillfully he applies the reiki chords to only his arms and legs and neglects his torso. Minus the healing of the ligaments, tendons, and muscles he feels much stronger than he did the last time he used it. Turning to his assigned lieutenant, he asks "May I ask your name lieutenant? So that I know who i am fighting. I am Kobayashi Nadori."

The lieutenant sneers, and says "My name is Duraki of the 11th Division. That's all you need to know trainee! Now fight me!" The lieutenant licks his lips and shunpos towards Kobayashi. Kobayashi is able to detect his movements, although missing an occassional step. He ducks under the Duraki's horizontal stike, and grabs his left writst, ass he grabs a cracking noise is heard. The lieutenant screams, "WHAT tHE FUCK? Let go, damnit you broke my wrist. Ow Ow Ow Ow Ow. Luckily it isn't my sword hand." While he makes a short pause to allow the lieutenant to speak, Kobayashi Nadori thinks to himself, "Hmmm.. maybe I should lower the amount of strength and up the speed, but how to do so?" As the Duraki finsihes screaming he lifts him over his head and throws him towards the wall. The throw is just short due to his decreasing the strength of the technique in his arms, while increasing the strength of the effects on his lower body. "You're pretty strong. But I'm not even trying. Maybe I should try just a little. Would you like that?"

"Do as you deem necessary in order to keep me from disarming you."

"Well... since you put it that way. Get ready, here I come squirt!"

This time, although he can track the Lieutenants movements with his eyes he can't make the movements fast enough to stop the attack. He can only attempt to dodge. Duraki with his sword using the flat of his blade, catching Nadori across the arm, causing an immediate welt. He then throws a kick at Nadori which Nadori side steps, but is caught off guard by an attack with the lieutenants broken left hand. he is sent flying towards the wall, but manages during the flight to roll into a position to land feet first on the wall, and springs off of it towards Duraki while thinking to himself, "He must have healed the wrist, but to do so during battle? Impressive, and in such a short time without a chant that I could hear. Incredible. Perhaps I will need to test the limits of this newfound technique of mine." Pushing his technique to the limit he uses all of his spirit power to energize the muscles of his body, he appears to have disappeared to the students of the first year, the second years as well, a select few of the third and fourth years detect his movements. But the lieutenant is able to detect his movements near perfectly, and says so as Nadori reaches his back. "Well i guess you don't just have strength do you?" As Duraki says this nadori unleashes a flurry of strikes at him, landing three to his torso It is all the lieutenant seems to think he needs to do to block the majority of the attacks when he begins to realize that this kid is slowing down considerably. Nadori notices this as well, and makes one last ditch attempt to disarm Duraki, nearly succeeding in doing so, the zanpakuto nearly touches the ground before Duraki can grab it with his offhand. [color=red] "That was close, you almost won.

"Kobayashi Nadori, that is enough. You have proven you could disarm the lieutenant, Lieutenant you seem to have forgotten that DISARM means to make the weapon level the opponents hand, not hit the ground. Duraki Zenichi, you never were the brightest, but your seat states that you should have been beyond this young man's level of ability, I suggest you train more. Nadori, although Duraki seems not to have tried too hard it is impressive in and of itself that you, with so little training, were able to disarm him."

Releasing his now known to be a trademark technique, he bows to the Lieutenant no more than is necessary, and inquires of the Captain, "When will my zanpakuto training begin?

"Wait until Mr.Hicross finish his battle then i will tell you."

[ooc] sorry for finishing in one post... I don't like cliff hangers.... turned into a cliffhanger anyways... [/ooc]

The lieutenant coughed up blood at the impact of the attack, but before he had time to recover a second knee hit the lieutenant’s chest causing him to spit up more blood. Locron stepped back letting him recover as he dropped to the floor. Smiling Locron raised his arms in a victory mocking style. The lieutenant took insult to this and stood up facing Locron as he rubbed the blood from his mouth. “Do you have any idea who I am punk....? I am kilos, lieutenant of squad six..... Now feel my wrath..... Chains of fate seek your foe!!!” Kilos laughed evilly as his zunpakto’s blade changed into a mass of little chain links. “KILOS WAIT IT’S...” the captain was cut of by a scream of pain as a chain came out of the floor behind Locron and pieced right though his chest, causing blood to spill out and spray over the nearby student, Feya and Kobayashi. The chain dragged back out as Locron collapsed to his knees. Attempting to get back to his feet Locron was hit by another blow causing even more blood to spray out and keeping Locron on his knees as he passed out or thought he had.

When he woke up Locron was in a wasteland type place which was total shaded by mountains all around. Getting up he looked round with total confusion. “Where is everyone?” “I’m here who else do you want?” Locron jumped at the sound of the female voice as he did a full turn and saw nothing but a single tree. “Up here in the tree...” looking up at the tree Locron noticed a quite large black skeleton, type bird, “I must be going insane” he watched as the bird flew over and landed on his shoulder. “no your not, insane”[ /color] finally realising the voice had come from the bird Locron held his arm out in front of him as it hopped along. It didn’t feel heavy compared to its size. [color=red] “What’s your name?” “My name is......” Locron looked at the bird funny as it continued moving it’s beak but no sound came out. “I do not repeat myself twice..... Now if you value your life I would run towards the mountains as fast as you can” Locron looked back as he herd barking and saw a large pack of white wolves running towards him. Not thinking twice Locron ran as fast as he could as the bird flew off, but for some reason he couldn’t use shunpo. Looking back he noticed the wolves gaining rapidly. Not wanting to get chewed to death Locron focused only on getting to that mountain. As he came closer to the mountain he saw a cave on the other side of what appeared to be a bottomless pit. He could feel one of the wolves breathing on the back of his leg. “Jump Locron...... Jump NOW!!” not wanting to argue Locron jumped lunching himself with all his force towards the cave. As he reached the ledge of it he reached out and grabbed it with the tips of his figures. All he heard was yelping as the wolves fell off the cliff behind him. Locron Slowly pulled himself up making sure not to loose grip. When he got up he looked back over the ledge and saw the bird there again with an extremely long katana in it’s beak. As it flew past Locron reached out and grabbed it “Take this..... And hopefully you will hear my name next time” Locron nodded as he looked at the katana with the black blade this was his zunpakto and he couldn’t believe how long it was. Getting up Locron ran towards the light at the back of the cave.

When Locron finally reached the back he was back in the training grounds with his zunpakto blacking a killing blow. “Did you miss me” Locron laughed as he knocked kilos back with all his might. Locron felt like a new person..... He felt like god. Kilos laughed as he began a long and gruelling battle with Locron. Blood was spilling everywhere from both shimigan and all that went through each others mind was only one will win. After one final effort from the blood soaked Locron he managed to thrust his zunpakto through the shoulder of kilos causing him to fall to his knees and drop his zunpakto. Panting for breath Locron took the zunpakto out of kilos’s shoulder and fell down through exhaustion. “Well done Mr. Hicross you have completed your training with full effort and you have beaten a lieutenant, the captain commander was right not to get rid of you.” Two upper years helped Locron too his feet and helped him over to the captain sitting him down on the floor....



6XP

Duraki and Mr. Kobayashi round 2 of your fight begins now. Duraki you may use Shi Kai, as Mr. Hicrosses opponent has already used his. Mr. Kobayashi, THIS IS YOUR ZANPAKUTO TRAINING. On my mark! Ready! BEGIN!

"Hear that squirt? You don't stand a chance now. Kitsune-Kakato!" Before Nadori could comprehend what had happened, he was struck. The sword pierced his left leg, just shy of the femoral artery. He began trying to heal it with the sword still in his body, the next strike pierced his left lung. For a moment everything went black.

When he was able to see again he was in a dark place, where no light was. He saw a figure before him. It appeared to be some kind of devil or demon. At any rate it was a creature of Nightmare. "Who are you? No, what are you? And where am I?"

"I am called by the name ... ... ... ! As to what I am I am the soul of your sword. As to where you are you are within yourself."

"You are a soul? Of a sword?" Remembering why he was here he said hurriedly, "I am doing my zanpakuto training, how might I gain your favor, oh spirit of my sword?"

"You must find my body within this place. It stuck in the floor somewhere within here."

Nadori thought to himself, 'Is this some kind of trick? An illusion? Am i dead? How can I die again? At any rate I should begin my search.' He wandered through the spirit world within him for what seemed like days, although he had no way to tell the passing of time in the absolute dark. Eventually he bumped into something on what he thought was the third day, he reached out to it and found that it was in the shape of a sword, feeling for a place to grab he cut his fingers on the blade twice, after cutting his fingers twice on the blade he found the hilt, which had what felt like four sharp spikes extending to the four cardinal directions as it's hilt. He didn't know how he knew they pointed to the four cardinal directions, North South East and West. But he knew nevertheless. He grabbed above the hilt and found the handle, it was covered in finest cloth. he pulled the handle upwards and the sword came free. All was blacker than black for a moment, and he came to with the Lieutenant about to strike a killing blow. He rolled to the side and thrust his sword, catching Duraki in the side. He focused a large amount of his energy into enacting his trademark technique and began to feel slightly better. He had sustained alot of damage while unconscious, and had been fighting on base instinct during that time, similar to a person suffering from a black out due to excessive alcohol consumption would. "That is enough, Kobayashi you have acquired you Zanpakuto. Good Job. I believe this training method may have resulted in your death had you taken any longer in acquiring it." The Captain muttered to them self, "But just how was it that you were able to survive for 5 minutes on instinctual fighting alone that I would like to know..." ... "You and Locron may stand aside and allow Feya to engage in her training battle at this time..."

"You got lucky squirt, next time I won't waste any time going for the telling blow."

"Why didn't you kill me then when you had the chance?"

"Pfft, Captain said you had 5 minutes to acquire your zanpakuto from the time you went into your spirit realm. If you weren't able to do it in that time, he didn't care what happened."

"Say what? They were going to kill them??" a few of the first year students exclaimed. The second years muttered under their breath something about it taking them months to acquire even the right to train for theirs. The third years said something about the training being different than they remembered. The fourth years just looked on in stony silence.

"Then I am most truly thankful for the fact that I am alive, I must say I feel on my part that it was much luck. Tell me, is your Shi Kai intended to increase your speed, before I could track your movements but then you said Fox-Heel Release, and you movement speed changed dramatically."

"You have a good eye for detail. I'll say no more," Duraki replied.

"That is enough Mr. Kobayashi, Mr. Zenichi you are dismissed. Now let us await the outcome of Ms. Feya's training."

"Go Ms. Feya!"

[ooc] It's all up to you Midnightfire/Feya. [/ooc]

"That is enough Mr. Kobayashi, Mr. Zenichi you are dismissed. Now let us await the outcome of Ms. Feya's training."


"Go Ms. Feya!"

The words screamed through her ears as she panted from where she knelt on the ground. She had used her shunpo a few times when the lieutenant came too close to her for her liking, her eyes never once leaving the female. Unlike Locron and Duraki who both had males for their attacker, she had a female, and she found it a load of crap that she got a female instead of it being the same as it had for the others.

Her blonde hair swirled around her head as she spung on her heel when she heard the swoosh of air stirring behind her, she knew it would be the lieutenant. Immediatly she dove to the ground as she focused her energy into her legs again, her legs came up, meeting the Lieutenant square in the stomach. Feya heard the breath whoosh from her opponents lungs and she took advantage, despite having hurt her ankle when she had landed on it wrong earlier. She knew the others had got their zunpakto's, she had heard the commotion, which had made her pause and get sent flying into the air from a swift kick to the chest; which resulted in her ankle being hurt.

Her hands tingled as she pushed from the ground, forcing the Lieutenant to either go flying or stumble back. Just as Feya thought the Lieutenant wouldn't budge the female let out a strangled squeak of surprise as she slammed into someone who had been standing to close. The Lieutenant was helped to her feet by a student as Feya got her balance, trying not to put too much weight on her weaker leg.

Unfortunately for her, the Lieutenant had seen her favoring her leg, and knew it to be in pain and used it to her advantage. She shunpo'd close to Feya and kicked her supporting leg out from under her, which caused her to immediatly put more pressure on her hurt leg. She let out a scream as she heard something crunch in her ankle before her head connected to a small rock just as she saw the Lieutenant lifting her zunpakto. Darkness.


"Feya... it's about time you got here. That Lieutenant's not working you enough, but that ankle of yours is probably about to get you killed... unless... you can climb that there mountain by the time I get up there." Said a voice from below her. Feya looked around her eyes scanning every object. But all she saw was a pair of eyes staring at her from a dark area.

"What are you? and who do you think you are! pulling me out of a fight that my life is riding on! don't you have any sense?" She said angrily to the pair of eyes that were hiding in a cave. The eyes blinked twice before she heard the dark voice mumble a few low words she'd rather not have heard.

"What I am is not of much importance, but who I am.. well that's a different story, and perhap's you will find out later. But before you can even get close to finding out my name, you must climb the mountain before I reach the top." The rough voice was like rough sandpaper moving down her throat and she shivered.

"Fine, I'll climb your mountain.." She started to continue to speak but she heard a sudden noise and glanced behind her to see a bunch of spiders coming towards her. She let out a squeal before her hands found a firm grip on one of the ledges and began to pull herself up, she tried to focus her spiritual energy into her arms, but it was like her arms were dead, she only had her normal strength, which wasn't much in her opinion.

After several minutes, or what she thought to be minutes, she had managed to make it to the top, her body collapsed at the top and she laid there staring up at a blue sky. It hadn't been blue a moment ago. Suddenly she felt the heaviness of something laying in her hand, and her hand gripped it tightly as she watched the shadow of a sword come towards her. In a moment's time Feya somehow managed to move out from beneath it, what she had done she wasn't sure, but she figured it was close to doing shunpo as she was on her feet, behind the Lieutenant.

Her zunpakto went up into the air, and Feya went in a circle while muttering something under her breath. She could feel energy moving to her fingertips and she looked down at her fingers as something bright flew from her hands. She gasped and stared at her hands as the Lieutenant jumped out of the way of the bolts. It was obvious that Feya didn't know she could do that, but she had known the words due to hearing someone say them before around her.

She fell to the ground as her ankle gave out, and she hung her head as she heard the captain and Lieutenant speaking, but the words were a blurr to her ears. But she was pretty sure it was along the lines of: "Since when did she know how to do that?" or.."that crazy girl isn't in control of herself, she almost killed me." Well, the second part she was sure of, cause she distinctly heard the Lieutenant say it. Her zunpakto sat before her, the red handle staring up at her.

((If I screwed anything up..tell me.. and I WILL edit.. and...sorry it's so huge..couldn't stop typing.))

“That’s enough Miss Feya..... It appears all of you obtain your zunpakto. Guess I’m lucky because I won’t have to put up with Mr. Hicross for the rest of the year because I’ve had orders to advance you three to fourth year because of your advanced abilities. There isn’t much we can teach you that you won’t learn by yourself as Feya demonstrated then. So at the end of the year you three will be going on the graduation mission and will become fully pledge shimigan. Congratulations... Hope to see you in squad six in another year...” the captain smiled as she finished her speech. This didn’t go down well with all the years apart from first and fourth years. Shouts of outrage broke out, but eventually calmed down as a large group of fourth years approached there three new class mates and began shaking there hands.

The rest of the year went smoothly the three were at the top of there classes but there were exceptions, no matter how hard Locron tried he couldn’t master kidou and always need up with D. On the other hand Locron was accepted into advanced swordsman class. As the year passed the three of them became close friends but Locron never forgot about his goal. To take revenge upon the ones who exiled the Hicross house. As the end of the year came they began to pick the squads for the graduation mission and the missions for the squad. This is where we pick up our story back up.

Locron lied there sleeping on the desk once again as the names were being read out for the squads. He4 knew the three of them were going to be together again, they always were. One of his class mates woke him up as the mission was being read out. “Is Mr. Hicross awake yet? Good.... your mission is....” the captain commander stopped as a shimigan cam bursting into the hall and ran down to the front. The shimigan handed what looked like a piece of parchment. The captain read the piece of parchment with great joy “Every squad must head to the cross world gate now. A mass of hollows over two thousand have come into contact with a quite large group of renegade shimigan. You will all be acquired to wear a white piece of cloth around you arm to identify each other, everyone else is a target please proceed with caution, a large number of court guard squads will be there as well.....” all the students ran out of the hall whispering “there hasn’t been this big a fight for over one thousand years why now?” Locron laughed as he followed them. ’just a good bit of exercise in my opinion nothing else’

As Locron approached the gate a hell butterfly joined him and passed through the gate with him. He remembered back in class at the beginning of the year. ’a soul can’t pass through the gate without a hell butterfly’ he laughed at the thought of this actually being true. Locron exited that gate just on the outside of the town where his class mates were gathered. “Squads five and six go together, squads seven and eight....” Locron looked around and spotted squad eight. He sighed as he realised that they were paring the strongest squads with the weakest. Well ten shimigan in a group wasn’t bad, five strong, five weak. Locron headed over but froze dead in his tracks as he looked at the sky as a rip opened letting tonnes of hollows through. “SHIT!!! EVERYONE UP HIGH” this was probably one of the worst things he could have done as mass panic erupted. Everyone began to scatter and abandon there squads as they headed into the town. Locron looked around for Feya and Nadori but couldn’t spot them amongst all the commotion. He watched as the hollows started chasing after the student shimigan and devouring them, “watch out!!!” Locron dived at a large group of hollows surrounding his class mates. Using shunpo Locron began to hack the hollows down one by one letting his class mates get away. But he didn’t think this all the way through now it was him verses thirty. “I like these odds..... Who’s first? he laughed and began to slice the hollows left right and centre. No matter how many he did cut down though they just kept coming and coming. “This is where i could use some help..... How many of you guys are there?” he laughed as he was cut across the back by a sharp claw but he quickly got his revenge by hacking the hollow to pieces.

Looking at the sky he watched the rip get bigger and eventually a menos came out. Gulping, he quickly got back to his battle thinking all the time please don’t come this way.....please don’t come this way..... ducking under a tail Locron quickly jumped up to have a look at how many hollows were around him. He sighed as he saw hundreds of hollows gathered around him. This calls for heavy artillery, he laughed as he started jumping onto some of the flying hollows head. As he got fighter he started saying a kidou, aiming it at the menos he said the last line “BLUE FIRE CRASH DOWN!” A stream of blue light shot out of the palm of Locron’s head and hit the menos right in the head getting its attention. The menos let out a screech as it opened its mouth and started charging up a very large cero aiming it at Locron. If I miss my timing I’m dead. One the other hand it could be worse I could be hollow chow. Locron kept jumping from hollow to hollow waiting for the moment, and there it was the menos released the cero giving Locron just enough time to shunpo out the way. The cero hurtled past Locron hitting the large group of hollows on that were gathered.

Locron laughed evilly as the hollows disintegrated “Locron one, hollows nil....... oh shit not again” Locron’s eyes widened as the menos charged a second cero and aimed at him. Narrowly avoiding the se4cond one Locron fell into an ally to hide away from the menos “come on I suck at kidou and it got hurt off it..... God it must be weak....” Taking big deep breaths Locron looked both ways and saw souls holding zunpakto’s come running at him. Shit.... I get one problem off my back and I get another he sighed and began fighting once again. He knew he wouldn’t last long after fighting the mass of hollows....


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Because the appearance of the hollows in such quantit and the renegade shinigami's appearance happened at the same time, Kobayashi Nadori suspected that they were linked. He had read something in a text book about the Quincy's, an old shinigami enemy who were human, using Hollow Lures to eradicate massive quantities at a time. If some renegade shinigami had found one and unwittingly broke it open, it would have caused a mass attack like this he believed. He also suspected that some of the others in the class and the instructors might have come to this conclusion as well.

As he reached the place specified by the Instructor he was tapped on the shoulder by a classmate whom he did not know very well, named Tudor something. The classmate said to him, "Why so calm? Aren't you even a little excited? Scared? Nervous even?

"You know that the appearance of the renegade shinigami and the Hollows at the same time can't be coincidence don't you? Despite this fact it never does well to lose your head in battle or in preparation for battle, the instructors must have taught you as much, Tudori. Anyways I suppose I am slightly nervous, and a little excited. But truth be told one must keep their emotions to the minimum when battling. Any Battle will not go well without reasoning, and strategy. But it is now my turn to receive my armband. I hope to see you again after this battle!" The last sentence he exclaimed with a smile, completely un-befitting the tone he had just set. Tudori just stood there looking at him dumbfounded.

Nadori received his white arm band with due speed, and put it on quickly. He wore it not just to distinguish himself from the renegades, but as a show of pride in being considered fit enough for this battle. He waited for his hell butterfly to come to his side, and set off at a furious pace through the doorway to the Physical World. When he reached the other side, he found himself in the middle of an undeveloped area near where he was born. He immediately had a flash back to the last days his previous life.

The wind was cold on the skin of his face, it was winter. In all his memories of his old life it always seemed to be winter. He was walking to the store, just a few blocks away. He saw a group of men in ragged clothes walking towards him, he would have crossed the street but it was overrun with traffic. So he passed them by with a nod and a smile. They grinned at him and nodded back. He thought it odd that they would grin, but dismissed it from his mind. He had to pick up food or he would starve. He usually preferred noodles and sauce in a cup. But today he thought he would get something better. Perhaps some yakinuk( barbecue! )i. He entered the store, made his purchase and left, eating while he walked home. The road was free of traffic now, and he once again saw the group of men walking towards him, this time as they passed one shot a foot out and tripped him sending him sprawling. As he fell he hit his head on a fire hydrant. And passed out, when he came to he was in a hospital, and couldn't move, his heart was beating very fast, and he was in a cold sweat... He looked around and saw that his family was there. They all looked very sad and were very surprised when he opened his eyes. He tried to speak and found that his mouth was wired shut. He looked at his mother who was talking to his father, "... Nadori's ... I mean... should we pull the plug? I know it's horrible but he won't be able to walk again, maybe never eat solid foods, his arms and hands are broken, his fingers are supposed to be severely frost bitten, in all he's never going to be the same. He would be a burden to us, and the rest of the family."

The sudden cry of Locron's voice snapped him out of his flash back... something about up in the sky he said. Nadori looked up and saw the sky tearing open. He remembered this from class, the sure trademark of a menos grande's appearance. They were supposed to be handled by Captain Class shinigami. He hoped Locron didn't try to take it on alone. He noticed that the crowd was moving in disorder around him, he thought it strange, then realized that it was Locron's cry that had done it. He rushed forward towards the battle ground, now using shunpo instead of his own technique, due to the lesser strain of it on his spirit power reserves. Besides that he now was skilled enough in shunpo to surpass his own technique in speed, although just barely. He had also improved his own technique greatly. He was in the process of trying to find the proper chant to strengthen it, but there were no other techniques quite like it that he had heard of so far to base his chant off of.

When he had finally reached the site of the battle when he spotted Locron jumping across hollows heads towards the Menos Grande. He watched as Locron fired a kidou at the Grande, and then was assaulted by several hollows. Dispensing them fairly swiftly he moved towards Locron's last known position. once he had battled his way there sustaining a mere few minor cuts from hollow claws, he jumped on top of the head of the nearest hollow, Locron style and quickly surveyed the lay of the battle ground. There was a lone shinigami with a white arm band surrounded by the renegades. Judging from the fighting style it was Locron, or someone who had taken to his ways of fighting. Nadori shunpoed to the position and hailed his comrade, who nearly had not noticed him appear. "Seems like you need some help! Let's make short work of these guys eh?"

Nadori began using his technique, and dove into the mass of enemy shinigami on his side with a battle cry. [end post] - 1080 words...

Feya had followed the others to get her arm band, her thoughts blank as she tried to stay calm, not wanting to get excited and lose her thoughts in a jumble of excitement. She got her arm band, and nodded her thank you before sprinting towards the gate. She spotted the hell butterfly fly towards her and smiled before running into he gate with it, and her zunpakto, not knowing what she was about to run into.

She got through the gate and sneaked to the corner of a building, her eyes moving from the menos to the renegade shinigamis to the hollows. She had followed Locron and Nadori through the gate a couple minutes after, so she couldn't see them as they fought. Her pinkish colored eyes landed on two shinigami's fighting, of course one was renegade while the other had a arm band.

She was watching them so intensely that she didn't hear the hollow come up behind her until too late, and it had one of it's claws through her shoulder. She screamed, but it wasn't one that would echo, and wasn't blood curdling, but it did sure as hell show it hurt like a bitch. She lunged forward, ripping her shoulder off the hollows claw and she winced as she stumbled forward her head already starting to feel full of air.

Her zunpakto hung at her side as she focused her spiritual energy on her wound, hoping to make the bleeding slow by doing what she remembered from what Nadori did, but she wasn't as good at it as he was, but she was able to slow the bleeding quite a bit so her head was stable and she wasn't going to pass out. Her body tingled as she caught her breath that she had lost in worry of her life, and she quickly stumbled away from the hollow as she looked behind her to see it wasn't alone anymore.

"Oh bloody hell." She said under her breath as she stumbled backwards, but she wasn't moving quick enough because one of the other hollows got her arm, but not badly. Nonetheless it pissed Feya off as she was knocked into a building, she slid down the wall she was against and tried to get her head under control. After a moment she slid away from the wall, along the ground towards another building, pulling herself with her un-injured arm while pushing with her legs. Her sword arm was injured badly, and barely holding onto her zunpakto. She raised her hand as she got some of her spiritual energy into her hand.

Since she couldn't lift her sword, she'd use kidou. Her fingertips tingled as she glared at the hollows, her eyes moving from each of them as she got to her feet, but was leaning against a building for support. "HADOU 4 BYAKURAI!" She all but yelled a she aimed her hands directly at the hollows and watched as the bolts of lightning met with the hollows.

She quickly picked up her zunpakto and went back to focusing on her wounded shoulder's healing, before letting out a heavy sigh as another batch of hollows cornered her against the wall. Despite her bleeding wound, she lifted her zunpakto with major wincing and started to slice the Hollows.

Ryshu wandered alone through the academy, his katana hung at his side and his robes were moved by a gentle breeze. As usually he was alone, but he worked better that way, no one to depend upon him or slow him down. Although he was told he had a kind and caring nature he would use violence if he was forced too, especially against Hollows. Ever since he was a child he had hated them, sworn that one day he would join the Soul Reapers and fight to rid the world of those foul abominations once and for all. He walked through the Academy gates and out into the city, now where were those Hollows? He would kill any Hollow he found, such was his hatred of the dark creatures and those who consorted with them. Another gentle breeze ruffled his hair as he slunk through the city outskirts, keeping hidden as he searched for his quarry. He could feel the spiritual energy of others nearby but ignored him, they would only distract him from his job. He drew his katana and flipped it over in his hands revealing the inscriptions running down the blade which rad 'Never forget, they must pay'. He smiled, the Hollows would indeed pay. He felt a tinge of spiritual energy and smirked.

“Ah my quarry awakens,” he said softly to himself and set off in the direction that Hollow energy had come from.