From Ashes Once More. [Open]

Thu Sep 28, 2017 1:09 pm

Hueco Mundo, the land of hollows. Once in the past it had been ruled by a terrifying figure, a skeletal being that had lorded over the land of hollows since times immemorial. However, this being had vanished into the annals of history. However on this day, over the confines of a ruined past, of las noches, the land that once embodied the power of hollows a figure appeared. Their face was weathered with time, their heavy set build exuded a dominance, that demanded all bow down and be subservient before it. This was not a power that asked for obedience, instead it demanded it.

Upon this figure's head rest a crown of bone, one that identified him as an arrancar. His wild white hair and thick bushy mustache adorned his face and gave him the appearance of a barbarian, a wild menace to society. Their one good eye with it’s gold-brown hue pierced the darkness and was illuminated by the moonlight, it glanced at the ruins below his frown hidden by that heavy mustache, yet scowl lines visibly would soon adorn his weathered and scarred face.

”Hmph”

He harrumphed in disdain for the land of hollows, disdain for what once was his sacred land, his kingdom without end! This thunderous sound echoed violently in the air as the double sided battle axe that rested upon his shoulder shifted and was hoisted until the male's arm was pointing directly into the air above.

”Pitiful vermin, relying on the aid of lesser species.”

His voice was thick of condescension, and the male's arm jerked down with such force that the air surrounding the axe rippled, the kinetic energy smashing into the side of las-noches with such force that the remainder of this ruined castle was reduced beyond it’s broken state to simply a pile of sand and pebbles. Only after everything was destroyed did the man raised the axe up once more to rest it upon his shoulder, his actions leasurily as if he had just taken out trash.

”..It’s time to set these young upstarts straight.”

Barragan's tone was gravely as he spoke, a tinge of anger flavoring his voice. The only thing that would show the rage that was smoldering just below the surface. Hueco mundo was His domain. How dare these insects not only take it from him, but also desecrate it.

Just like aizen. .

Baraggans thoughts strayed to the man who had been the beginning of his own downfall. Aizen. Baraggan was furious that someone else had taken his prey, and couldn’t help but wish he could have finished him off himself. It was this kind of sentimentality that brought baraggan here to the wreckage of his kingdom. All these ants would tremble, and quake. When he trampled them firmly under foot they would understand why hueco mundo belongs to him. Why the skies are the roof of his palace, and the sands are it’s infinite foundation.

His eyes roamed the desolate sands, the sands of his kingdom.

Thu Sep 28, 2017 4:43 pm

ENTER THE BEAST

Artist: FeeWet - Song: Evil Morty - Word Count: 543

Hayuko stood on a mound, overlooking Hueco Mundo. A canvas of white sand that portrayed nothing but a desolate painting, a wasteland of broken dreams. A place filled with endless hollow lost their hearts to despair, land that was nothing but an abundance of regret. With plains spanning thousands of feet before reaching craters that weathered by years of storms, Hueco Mundo was truly a desert devoid of life.

It was comforting.

He needed it, as he was being overwhelmed. The voice inside his head returned. The never-ending primal screams of tortured souls damning his very existence were back to haunt him. There wasn’t a moment of peace to ease his mind. He was dealing with his inner demon, it was returning in full force; he could feel it. It was pulling at him, tugging him in every direction trying to tear his sanity apart. It was an crushing pain inside of his head that wouldn’t let him relax. A pain pulsating so violently, it was as if a screwdriver was constantly whirring a hole out of his head. He was certain that cracking his skull would be less painful than the constant anguish that he had to deal with. Hayuko clamped his hands over his ears as if trying to keep any more affliction from entering his mind, struggling with himself to retain himself. Then the peace was disrupted.

“HMPH”

The boisterous sound boomed across the porcelain colored plains, and reverberated in the drum of his ear; despite his best attempt to keep everything out. What followed soon was an explosion blistering wind, carrying pelts of sand that began to grate on his skin, like dragging exposed skin on concrete pavement. He closed his eyes to shield his eyes from the ensuing mess. The change was unexpected, as a castle in the distance had been ripped apart by a great force; and the ravaging wind was only a symptom of the cause. However, Hayuko was reaching his breaking point. His anguish, his irritability was all building like a deep water current; and the damn holding it all in was beginning to crack.

What filthy vermin thinks that he can interrupt HIS private time. A wicked tornado was forming on the inner confides of his mind as he’s disrupted. A need to lash out, he couldn’t hold the animosity in any longer. The sand beneath him began to boil, and the earth beneath him began to shake as he let out an Earth-shattering roar to be heard all throughout Hueco Mundo. The roar was a mixture of pure unbridled rage, and grating frustration from the issues gnawing at him. Following the pulsating sound of his roar was a wave. A wall of sand that was barreling towards the area where Baraggan awaited, thousands of feet in the distance; violently pushed by the overbearing release of his soul force. It could be felt throughout the wasteland.

The oppressive, satanic aura of his soul force was just demanding the nuisance disturbing him to return to its crevice. Exhaling after his outburst, he remained standing fully expecting nothing to remain standing after that. With his mental state, he couldn’t have realized what was out on this barreling wasteland; or what kind of trouble could soon come.

Thu Sep 28, 2017 9:44 pm

His golden eye glinted with the iron of his will, and a thunderous roar pierced the night sky. The sands shifted and rushed like a stampede, a wall of drifting alabaster that encroached upon the previous lord of all hueco mundo. His thick and bushy eyebrows raised incredulously as he spoke in a tone of mild amusement and loftiness, as if he stood above all. As if before his splendor and might all would become meaningless.

”Hm? A wild animal dares bare it’s fangs at me?”

The sands rushed neared as Baraggan louisenbairn’s mighty stature stood firm in the face of this tsunami like presence. He deigned to raise a well muscled arm, as the sands swallowed up everything around him. Burying him alive so that when the dust cleared the landscape would be churned and barren. Yet with a voice akin of a god upon high, Baraggans condescending voice echoed across the vast expanses of hueco mundo, full of his unbending arrogance these words would hold no consideration for the being who had accidentally wandered into his domain.

”A wild animal is but a wild animal, let me show you how insignificant you truly are.”

With these words the sands began to writhe, as if a living thing. They rose and churned like they were a violent northern ocean, the very skies began to distort. Soon a whirlpool formed in the midst of the freshly lain sand, showing the aged barbarian like figure of Baraggan. Baraggan’s heavy gaze would in this moment settle upon the source of misfortune, a raven haired brat who seemed to still be practically wet behind the ears! For hayuko, this lone eye would have immeasurable weight that stemmed from the incalculable age of Baraggan. It was a calm gaze that had weathered eons, how many had died before this dispassionate arrogant gaze that beheld all in contempt?

Soon Baraggan’s spiritual pressure descended upon the realm around them, and nothing short of pure chaos ensued. Where hayuko’s voice caused the sand to behave like a rogue wave, Baraggans spiritual pressure would make it behave like the epicenter of a disaster. Space would twist and turn under it’s weight, the sands would explode and whip into a hurricane surrounding them. The weight of his arrogance could be beheld in his energies splendor! He looked down upon all, and only he deserved to calmly judge them, use them.

Barragan's hand raised casually and from it the beginnings of a crimson beam shone into existence. It swelled, charging the air around it, bathing the skies red with it’s brilliance. It would swell until it was the size of a basket ball before it was fired at hayuko, the orb quickly expanded until it was a massive beam of energy that at it’s narrowed point spanned several hundred feet, and at it’s widest would decimate everything within the surrounding half-mile of it. The sands beneath this beam had turned to glass from its heat, the stone like tree’s of hueco mundo that marred it’s perfect sandy landscape would be incinerated, growing cherry reds before fading away before it’s might and power.

Baraggan gazed dispassionately at the destruction that was brought about by his own Gran-rey Cero. To him this was nothing more than taking out garbage, so why should he feel anything more than contempt towards the person before him? Baraggan’s hand fell back to his side as he watched the violent crimson glow fade away. Only once the light faded did baraggan peer at the landscape to see what had transpired.

Thu Sep 28, 2017 11:48 pm

ENTER THE BEAST

Artist: Bleach OST - Song: Sakkaku - Word Count: 685

Hayuko inhaled after his outburst. Alas peace, albeit fleeting. The small but nagging ache was already beginning to ache. However his brief outlast allowed him to reign in his bearings, his sanity returning to him for however long. See this is just a common occurrence in Hayuko’s life. It honestly took a willpower beyond imaginable means to deal with the ongoing whirlwind that is his inner demon; but all that is irrelevant as another problem was about to rear it’s ugly mug.

Hayuko could hear it in the distance, a booming voice that did nothing but irritate the inner linings of his ear drum. As the beings voice continued to pulsate, Hayuko’s irritation grew. The pounding inside his head rhythmically grew in pressure, matching the beat of the obnoxious voice. His eyes narrowed as he witnessed the sand roaring into the sky like a rampaging ocean current. The heavens seemed to split as Hayuko finally narrowed his vision to the perpetrator.

Their eyes met, and Hayuko could feel the abnormal presence of the being above him. He could practically feel his own skin aging as he understood this was no ordinary being he had laid his eyes on. A stray though passed his mind as the one before him could have been as old as the sands of this time. It’s almost certain that the 400 years Hayuko had wandered the realms, was nothing to the existence before him. However, something that resonated more deeply with him was that look. That fucking look. This fucking thing had the audacity to look down at him in contempt? That egotism that would falsely lead him to believe he was superior to anything.

That thing was a fucking over-glorified pile of bones.

They had locked gazes this much is certain, but did this brittle skeleton dare to continue its arrogant charade? Inside Hayuko’s eyes was a slithering darkness, one that would sink deep into the soul of any being. One that would drag the soul deep into an abyss of withering souls, agonizing and writhing in pain. The look was a sinister one. One that could shake the very core of any being.

The raging sands began to twist and turn into a moving natural disaster. In the eye of the storm Hayuko stood unwavering. Such a farce wouldn’t be enough to phase him, but his look of disdain was sure to affect the kings demeanor above. Was this all? The look portrayed them disappointed emotion clearly as any line of sight was then broken by the red beam that Baraggan was then charging. A cero, it must be an arrancar. He could immediately tell from the size of the cero that this was no regular arrancar, this one was powerful.

A swelling massive beam of energy radiated towards Hayuko, however he stay unmoving. Covered by the rampaging storm around them, the arrancar would have no vision of what he was to do next. Hayuko created a radiating shield of dark energy in order to shield himself from the incoming blast. “Tch” he muttered to himself as the cero exploded in front of him, flinging cascades of sand hundreds of feet into the sky.

Hayuko had used the cover of the blast to launch himself into the sky. With his shirt singed off from the pure heat of the cero, you could find that Hayuko himself was practically unscathed. His eyes were swirling into disdainful rage however, as he couldn’t believe he had just been interrupted.

“So fucking brittle bones here has the fucking gall to wag his shit at me huh?”

Hayuko said this mockingly, knowingly provoking Barragan. But he knew those words wouldn’t be enough to spurn him forward. Hayuko knew how to provoke prideful people. He contorted his face in disgust, to practically look down at baraggan as he spoke “I’ll give you this once chance to drag your ass from where you came”. He knew this would be the final nail in the coffin. He wasn’t simply going to beat the shit out of this thing, he was going to ridicule and humiliate him.

Sat Sep 30, 2017 5:06 pm

Baraggan’s gaze drifted upwards to stare at the man who floated in the sky. His expression was one of slightly neutrality as he stared into those sickening eyes. The darkness that lurked within them held no sway over baraggans mighty will, in fact baraggan found this passive agressive display to be cute, like watching a tiny dog yapping at a lion who couldn’t be assed to deal with the minor annoyance.

But even the yapping could be offensive sometimes, and as hayuko’s mouth opened as his grating words boomed across the sands, Baraggan’s face did not display a whit of anger. Rather, the calm composed expression upon Baraggans face would shift only as his gravelly tone echoed across the landscape.

”Hmm. . “

Seconds after, a resounding crack of sonido could be heard right next to hayuko, and if he tried to move away he’d find time had slowed down drastically, everything was akin to moving through molasses. The back of Baraggans hand would smoothly come into contact with hayuko’s face more likely than not due to the abruptness of this entire instance. Once the attack landed the force behind it would be enough to cause the sands to once more be blown into disarray as the sonic blast echoed outwards. There would be tremendous amounts of force behind this blow, capable of sending hayuko blasting through the sands like a rocket for hundreds if not thousands of feet.

”Vermin should not be seen, nor heard.”

Baraggans calm voice belied his rage. Cool arrogance filled every ounce of his voice, yet beneath the surface there was a white hot flame raging about. How dare this insignificant pebble on the way side insult him! He would not stand for this affront to his pride, which was why as Baraggans single eye shifted to glance in the direction that this scum had been thrown his expression mocking as he spoke with a slight amusement in his tone.

” However, so be it. “

The finality in his tone was further reinforced as he left the axe that was on his shoulder shift down, pointing the very end of it directly in hayuko’s direction. Energy began to visibly rise from his body almost like it was a tangible force, rising up and saturation the air while he spoke with open hostility towards this other person he had only just met. As well as speaking as if the outcome of this encounter had already been decided the moment his opponent had crossed paths with him.

” I’ll show you what vermin amount to. ”

Baraggan finished speaking his arm swinging to the side with a gust of wind as he accelerated rapidly, his body jetting towards hayuko’s location, his body quickly accelerating beyond that of mach 1. The wind would howl around the former ruler of hueco mundo as he appeared before hayuko in moments, his axe drawing a slanted arc as it sought to rend hayuko in two. If it missed which was highly likely due to how long it had been since baraggan had actually fought another being near his own strength, the ground would simply explode beneath the might of his heavy axe. It would form a chasm that would expand down a mile and a half into the sands, the aftershocks of the blow causing tremors in the surrounding area.

The second swing would be horizontal, cutting through the dust and smoke to blast the area clear of debri. Only then did baraggan utilize pesquia to hopefully sense where this fly had flown off too.

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