Day 4 ☀ Digging through my own muscles for a clue
Who: Ichigo ( savior_n_black ), Shiro ( holeheart ), Rukia snowwhitesoul ) AND POSSIBLY MORE LATER?
What: Ichigo, and Shiro's powers finally force them to merge back into a single soul.
When: Day 4, early
Where: Middle of the city
Warnings: Language, violence, minor body horror?
( Hoping I can clear the way by stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side. )
What: Ichigo, and Shiro's powers finally force them to merge back into a single soul.
When: Day 4, early
Where: Middle of the city
Warnings: Language, violence, minor body horror?
( Hoping I can clear the way by stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side. )
The Hollow is feeling the effects, even if he's not showing them. Ichigo's soul, calling out to him, begging him to come home. Through his gorging, and their synchronization, Shiro could easily maintain his larger Hollow form, and he was running on all fours after Ichigo. It probably also spoke volumes that Shiro was conscious, and capable of rational thought while still in this form. Normally, instinct was his only driving force. But thanks to that chain, slowly becoming more and more solid, he found that his human mind was closer than it should have been. Or was it Ichigo's human mind? It was getting hard to tell. His appearance also reflecting their drawing together; his long white mane had streaks of tangerine, and the fur ruffs around his neck, ankles, wrists and on his back were no longer solid black. No indeed, each hair was now crimson red, fading to black at the end of the shaft. But neither commented on the physical changes in the other. It was up for debate if they even noticed.
Yer goin' the ( ... )
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It's strange to hear the two-as-one voice through TENEKA no doubt, and it was even confusing for the dual set of conscious minds trying to keep an equilibrium with one another. But the kiss is what it is. There's important things that need taking care of right now.
Stay close, Rukia. Have to be stronger.
Which meant that suffocating sense of reiatsu increasing was only rising as the horned helm turned to look away toward the Clinic. The would clear a path ( burn them all, cut down everything in the way ) between here, and there. That place as Safe. It would stay Safe. They would make sure of it.
The clink of chain wrapping one arm, and the scratch of claws across scorched pavement are the only noise as Shiro ( Ichigo ) steps forward again. The muted sounds of buzzing were rising. Those few forerunners of another plague of locusts was fast approaching.
And a plague it was. So many, and so vast the bloated insects looked like a seething cloud of chitinous darkness as they flew, or crawled forward ( ... )
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Of course I'm staying close, someone has to watch your back after all.For all her briskness, her cheeks are still flushed at the apples and that dab of blood right near her hairline has dried there. That tiny nick would eventually form a very pale scar, almost invisible except to someone who knew it was there. A tiny, particulate bit of hollowfied reiatsu would remain. She faced the on-coming swarm with a haughty, icy calm. Game ( ... )
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The sword clinks as they stand back to back with her.
Our back will be fine.
Wait.
A talk? Crap. Aibou...
The icy blast of reiatsu snaps them out of it, and Shiro (Ichigo) opens the mouth of the mask, letting out a roar. But instead of forming energy between the horns, Shiro pulls on Ichigo's power and his own in equal measures, ( ... )
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But for the rest, he puts his extravagant power on display.
Lips beneath the mask pulled back in a snarl, the blackness is condensing, turning inside out, becoming more, and flowing over him. His sunrise hair whipping around him like a thrashing solar flare in the extreme shifts between hot, and cold ( ... )
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Because they weren't ready for this. The broken soul of Kurosaki Ichigo wasn't yet ready for this level of power, not in any sustained form. And their third, he wasn't truly in on it. The Hollow being magically severed from Ichigo's soul in this place did not a thing to help with matters either. The reiatsus that had been so perfectly blended were starting to precipitate out like oil and water.
They weren't ready, and now they were going to suffer for it. One would soon go back to being two, the only way they were stable in this world.
Shiro suddenly became aware, painfully aware of his existence as another being, seemingly trapped in another body. Their endless cycle of energy creation, the nuclear power plant that was Resurrecíon was melting down. Shiro was out of energy and was being spit back out. Everything hurt, acutely, all over his body. His body, not their body. The ( ... )
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Pain sizzled throughout a body that was now, and distinctly his, Ichigo's, but everything from his bankai reverting to it's sealed state, to his claws, mask, hair, all of it was literally melting into pure energy, and coiling up like a hot blade spearing through his chest.
Ichigo screamed, and dropped both sword, and mask fragments as that soul chain ignited into being again; black fire welding the links together in a sudden flash. But the chain itself ends in another, tiny form of coalesced reiatsu...until even that burned away reveal the helpless, nearly-depleted, and most basic form of a hollow ( ... )
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The scream didn't come through the teneka, but within. Sode no Shirayuki crying out in alarm. Rukia had been standing a bit of a distance from their back, nothing more than a few feet to give her some maneuvering space and just some distance from that overwhelming reiatsu to keep it from scorching her back.
When she turns, its just as that terrible sound of both men screaming suddenly becomes just Ichigo's voice in her head. Howling in agony as the skull mask starts to fragment down the back of his head. No. No. No. No. No. No! She has to leap away and shield her eyes as the nuclear core overloads, bathing the street, the buildings, everything in incandescent, scorching light. The insects that are too close are simply...gone. Dust. Incinerated in a the space of a blink by the outlashing, uncontrolled power.
Ichigo! Shiro!
Then, with the sudden, but purposeful motion like a cell dividing, the form splits and the scream of pain reaches it's crescendo before going silent. The light vanishes, casting the street into darkness ( ... )
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Shit!It seemed like the locusts, wise to where their prey was, decided that bringing down their little tower was the quickest way to reclaim their meal. Hammering at the base, and given the transient nature of the attack itself, they wouldn't be safe for long. A splinter crackled between her feet and she cursed again, sheathing her sword and looping Ichigo's dead arm over her shoulder and scooping up the white lizard as the tower gave out under them and they plunged to the ground below ( ... )
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