Woodland Cemetary (Private)

Rihiku's overly agile body reacted rapidly to this attack. Taking the gust off wind to the face, he rode the wind backwards to dodge Kenshins sword swing. Maybe that was a little stupid Kenshin, you need to make sure you can hit your enemy after all. Rihiku was still standing perfectly straight as if he had absolutely no fear, no humanity or even any thoughts running through his mind. All there was, was the overwhelming desire to tear this man before him in two. Holding out his arms to his sides, Rihiku's possessed body took a somewhat human stance. Crystals rapidly formed on his wrists as two very long and well made blades appeared from his wrists. they were bright purple in colour, and as soon as they finished growing, Rihiku pounced forwards with great force, wrecking the earth beneath his feet. The gust of wind that would be thrown at rihiku now wouldn't be as effective. He was streamlining himself with thin layers of ice across his mask and the rest of his body to reduce the wind resistance. It would still slow him, but more would be needed now to throw him about.

Getting close to Kenshin, Rihiku would openly begin slashing with his wrist blades. If Kenshin chose to block with his sword, the wrist blades would shatter into shards before reforming almost instantly. If Kenshin would dodge, Rihiku's mouth would open once again to reveal that creepy tongue and rapidly blast several Cero's in his direction. All the while his echoing hollow roars displayed his violent nature.

Within his world however, Rihiku's blade was still striking against this other mysterious mans sword. The man in red had a big grin on his face as he laughed throughout the battle almost mocking Rihiku entirely. Rihiku dashed up to him and swung his blade in the blink of an eye. Before he knew it though, the man was now above him and upside down, firing bullets form the sky onto Rihiku. Shunpo moved Rihiku out of the way but not until one bullet cruised through the end of his coat. Rihiku stopped moving and slowly walked in a semi circle to turn back to the red cloaked man that did the same. The other man then began to talk.

"Haha, it's been a while since Iv'e had this much of a challenge. I admire your spunk, but that won't win you this dance."

Rihiku chuckled, almost as though he was trying to talk to his own brother. This guy spoke tediously, always metaphorical or exaggerated like a child. he had little meaning behind his words rather than to mock him. How pathetic.

"You are not so bad yourself. Being capable of swinging a blunt sword and firing a slow pair of guns must is very impressive."

The red man laughed aloud, hauling his sword over his shoulder and holding one of his handguns in Rihikus direction.

"Well your only on par with this slow sword, does that make you slow as well?"

Rihiku vanished after that comment. Appearing directly behind the man, he slowly moved as he spoke.

"Do not count on it"

Rihiku then swung his blade up, across the mans back...

Within Rihiku's inner world, a climax was about to unfold unseen by the outside world. The sound of clashing metal tossed the two men in opposing directions. Catching his footing pretty early, Rihiku slid back only a few meters before unbracing himself by lowering his sword from his face and looking forward at his opponent. This, man was sitting down in a sofa made of red ice. Rihiku looked at him, then began to circle the man slowly. he had said his name once before: Hikun. he was a rough fighter that took the entire thing as a joke. This really got under Rihikus skin. Hikun leant forwards and began to talk, slamming his sword into the dirt beneath him.

"Well, This is starting to bore me."

He leant back in the red ice sofa and chuckled to himelf before talking more.

"To be honest, I expected you to be better than this. Why don't we..."

Hikun stood up, kicking his sword so it spun into the air and caught it in his hand effortlessly. he then slowly began strolling up to Rihiku with his sword over his shoulder showing no signs of violence.

"...kick this up a bit? I mean, I'd like to cherish this moment between us for longer before I kill you so lets have some fun first"

Rihiku looked at him for a moment, then began to chuckle too.

"You insolent child. I have yet to be bested by a Hollow so let's see you try."

This entire battle within Rihiku was starting to unfold into more of a brotherly rivalry. They didn't seem to care about striking one another but maybe that was because neither was capable of it. Rihiku stood firmly and Hikun stopped wlaking. The gigantic sword flung over Hikuns shoulder was now firmly smashed into the dirt again as he yelled out. Rihiku Held his sword pointing directly towards Hikun and called out as well. The girl laying in the grass, almost lifeless suddenly opened her eyes. Her right eye blue, her left red. Both men then screamed:

BANKAI!

Outside of this world however, things were starting to get very dangerous. RIhikus cero's were missing Kenshin which wasn't a surprise considering a Hollows natural aim is pretty shoddy. However this wasn't to be counted on as the creature turned it's head towards Kenshin and read his rietsu signs to remember where he was moving. As soon as the hollow lost vision of the man, it decided the best course of action would be to move: forwards. The hollow bent down onto all fours and suddenly, burst through the air, skyward like a cat over the dust that kenshin had flung up. From here, Rihiku could see where Kenshin was hiding as the dust was settling. However, this wasn't too helpful as Kenshin held up three fingers and fired entwining cero's at Rihiku. Having nothing more than momentum, Rihiku spread his arms and legs, built up a thick layer of ice onto his skin and roared, colliding with this cero in a frightening display of roars and grinding sounds. ANy normal man would have been killed by this, but there was something Rihiku was doing that was altering this fact. the ice on his body was rebuilding from the collision as Rihiku's claws dug into it, his mouth wide open launching his own cero back at it to stop it from moving. Then, twisting his metallic body, taking as little damage as possible, Rihiku flung the cero back downwards, slipping it over his frosted body and pulling it with his own cero and strength. So now, kenshins own attack was heading right back at him.

Rihiku in the air however looked wounded. In fact, that bloody hurt. But what happened soon after changed that. The eyes within the mak began to glow red and blue, similar to the girls eyes inside his inner world. Opening the creatures mouth, blue and red fumes began to spew out slowly like fog. The monster then spoke a word...

Ban....kai

just as the men within it did, the creature called out as well, and that is where the bright blue and red blasts of reitsu shot out from the creature. Kenshin probably doesn't want to get anywhere near this new form as the hollows body grew, overlapping several times a tonne of ice that just continued to build on it's body. A few seconds passed and all that was left, was the body of what looked like a gigantic dragon made of ice. Noticable within the dragon was the Hollows veno body, staring down at Kenshin. The creature stood like a humanoid on two legs, had two thick arms, a pair of gargantuan wings and a head of a dragon plus tail. It looked down and roared, sending a Hail of ice shards powered by Bala with the same speed crashing down like rain. It then spun around, smashing it's wings and flailing in case anything got too close to attack it. Roaring one more time, the monster had finally lost all control; it's eyes glowing blue and red.

So, what would you do against an ice dragon with a body that doesn't feel?...

Rihiku's monsterous body raised it's fierce stature to watch what Kenshin was doing. It was still a Hollow so it wasn't exactly registering all of Kenshins words but it could certainly gauge just how much power was being built up. Because of this, the dragon knew that both sides of the fight are raising their power levels to try and best one another. However, the ferocity of a dragon cannot be bested by a mere man. The creature reared it's head and roared a bellowing roar with enough velocity to throw buildings back. Tree's were lifted and shattered as they flew backwards with the gusts of wind being produced by both Rihikus roar and Kenshins Bankai being used. neither side was going to back down so easily. The dragon kept it's gaze on the man, watching evidently and broadening it's wingspan to appear much more threatening. If Kenshin wasn't feeling even a little bit of dread then he must have a heart of steel.

Suddenly, Kenshin was above the dragon. He was aware of the movement and looked up to see where the man had gone. He was distant, but his power could still be felt. Now, when your fighting a dragon, is running to the skies a good idea? If Rihiku was in control right now he would be having a fit. Dragons rule over the very skies themselves. The Beast lifted it's wings and made a terrific effort with all of it's power to kick off the floor. It moved rapidly, dashing like a fighter jet away form his location and vanishing into the skies above him. Whatever Kenshin was doing, he needed to aim it somewhere else. Rihiku was the master of speed, he was now also incredibly pwoerful. This is why he was so hard to tame and Kenshin was going to take the full brunt of his power if he didn't move. Flapping great wings of ice, the dragon darted faster than what you could think was possible for a lump of ice right for Kenshins power source. he couldn't tell where he actually was so what else was there for it to run at? The dragon opened it's mouth, a flames began to engulf it's teeth in a blue colour. then without warning, it unleashed not a cero, but a stream of potent ice in a concentrated thin beam in Kenshins pin point location. Sure he could just move, but The dragon wasn't exactly flying straight. the beam acts like a water cutter made of ice. Anything hit, turns to ice and is cut to shreds if it crosses them too quickly.

If this wouldn't work, the dragon would simply fly past at a rapid pace before circling around.

What was happening inside this beast however became more and more cloudy as before. the grasslands around the two men was now covered in ice, a Red dragon standing with several parts of it's body removed. A blue dragon shattered on the ground beneath it...

The gigantic ice beast flew through the sky, not realising that Kenshin was undergoing a change. reistu was blasting in all directions form him but the dragon seemed to not be too threatened by it. The glowing drake shaped monster that kenshins reitsu was forming just looked like a hunting rival. Rihiku flapped his gigantic wings harder to build up more speed as he flew directly towards Kenshin. But just then, the man moved at a rapid speed. His rietsu signatures were too high to be so easily ignored, and so Rihiku was able to keep up with sensing where Kenshin was but turning the dragon to face him was not as easy. Instead, the dragon stopped flying by folding it's ice wings vertically and catching a vast amount of wind. Now on the spot, the dragon kept itself airbourne and looked around itself to figure out where the man had gone. Sensing a sudden blast of wind, the dragin turned to be greeted by a wind arrow that crashed directly into the beasts head and shattering the ice.

No roar was heard, mainly because the dragons head was no longer there so it couldn't. For a moment it seemed as thoguh the beast may had been defeated form losing it's head but that was not the case. The ice began to glow a vibrant blue and the entire structure of the dragon reformed the head in a matter of second. The creature turned to Kenshin and with one gigantic bellow, the dragon emitted a roar with enough force to throw fighter jets backwards in their tracks. Tree's beneath the dragon toppled and critters ran for safety but could find none. The attacks Kenshin was throwing towards the dragon would have combined with the torrent of the roar and depleted one another.

Holding out it's arms, the dragon revealed holes along it's wrists. Using it's wings to push off, the dragon spun it's body on the spot and spewed out a massive number of Ice swords from both it's wings and the holes over it's wrists and arms. Sword of absolute Ice flew out creating a sphere effect from Rihikus body. The beast then got a hold of it's stature again and flapped its wings to raise itself into the sky. Zooming upwards at a steady speed, the beast unfolded its wings yet again, moving away form any close combat Kenshin may approach him with and eventually passing through the clouds in the sky. So...where is the dragon now?