LOCK PLEASE.

[Guest]

Mateo kneeled in front of Dura, after a month of training and practice he had only one fragment of his shard remaining along with knowledge of a good source of new techniques. The Arrancar now doned a black priest robe with a small hollow touch and seemed as if he could be pushed over in a instant by something as weak as a crayon. "Lord Dura, I'm guessing it's time for me to return to the Seireitei to tip the outcome of the battle correct?" Mateo had easily changed in personality after a month spent training with the massive hollow known as Dura yet it was unknown, even to himself, how big thoses changes were.

[Dad]

Dura gave a glare to the ever anxious Mateo. "Mateo my boy, you have the potential to claim victory so easily. Why go now? Wait until the Shinigami have entered. I have a special assignment for you." Dura opened a viewing portal in front of Mateo, bringing Shiro into sight. Zooming in on his eye, Shiro's last piece of his shard was clearly displayed. "Shiro is your target. You will draw out his power, and take it."

 

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Getting up from his seat, the morning sun was high in the sky, and gave quite the glow to his black hair. Zaraki gave a nod to Shiro, who was already awake and pacing about. "Are you ready my boy?" Zaraki didn't wait for an answer, but instead headed downstairs, where the Dark Senkai gate was still open.

 

Shiro shook Yoruichi violently, trying to wake her. "Mother, it's time." The shaking corpse vanished, as Shiro looked around, his mother standing at his shoulders. "I know Shiro," she said walking to the stairs. "Hurry then."

[Guest]

Mateo smirked, Dura assumed that he had plans for battle. "I just need to.... check up on someone, I just planned on supressing my reitsu then simply watching from the sidelines and biding my time. Besides it's more fun to see death close up then from a far, don't you agree?" The Arrancar supressed his reitsu, showing that he was ready to go to the Seireitei. "So can I go or do you still want me to wait."

[Dad]

"You're quite the arrogant one," Dura said to Mateo. "Go on then. If you're caught, I will personally see to it that your soul suffers greatly." Dura smirked and opened a rift to Soul Society's dark forests.

 

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Elena jumped for joy as Jo's training came to an end. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say Kiron could make you the Segunda Espada! He knows your true potential better than myself, so I'll let it be." A sparkle came from Jo's palm, as the first piece of her shard fell to te ground and shattered.

 

Elena looked closely? "Was that your shard? You can't be undergoing such a dramatic change already right? This more than makes you Segunda material! You should tell Kiron." Elena smiled, picking up the fragment to observe it.

[Signosis]

Jo sighed in relief, rubbing the back of her neck, smiling at Elena.

 

"If I didn't know any better, I'd say Kiron could make you the Segunda Espada! He knows your true potential better than myself, so I'll let it be."

 

"Aaaw, quit it, you're making me blush." Jo flirted, giggling. She watched as a piece of the shard fell, and the other Arranacar pick it up.

"Was that your shard? You can't be undergoing such a dramatic change already right? This more than makes you Segunda material! You should tell Kiron."

 

Jo grinned at her then hugged her sensei.

 

"Thank you so much, Elena-kun." Jo said, smiling at her, then ran off to her King.

[Guest]

"Lord Dura..... thank you. I won't let you down." The Arrancar quickly stepped through the portal, landing in the forest. //Jo I will find you.// Mateo sensed a bunch of different reiatsus in the area, each ringing a bell into his head but one standing out as Jo's alone. After some quick sonido work the Arrancar was already inside the edge of the Seireitei, placing him closer to the one he was trying to find. //Soon......//

[Dad]

Elena blushed as Jo ran off, following close behind. "Wait, I wanna hear this!" Mileya wasn't too far behind either. As they approached Sougoyku Hill, Kiron was calmly sitting drinking a pint of water. "Oh, I'm so nervous!" she thought. Suddenly a strange feeling over came her; as though she was being watched.

 

Kiron greeted the group of ladies with a smile, ushering them to him. "I trust your training has gone well Jo?" The sunlight hit Kiron's right cheek, and a sparkle of green shone in the air.

[Signosis]

Jo laughed as the two followed, and she jogged up to Kiron, kneeling in front of him. She still was grateful for him turning her into an Arranacar, so she bowed, no matter what.

 

"I trust your training has gone well Jo?"

 

"Very well, sir! You gave me wonderful teachers," Jo said, smiling up at him. The smile faultered, though, when the green had sparkled. Jo stood instantly, walking closer to him to touch his cheek gently. "You have one, too, sir?"

 

Jo then blinked, a shiver running through her.

'This reitsu...it's...,' Jo thought, her mind and eyes turning away from Kiron to look around herself. 'Master...Mateo?'

[Dad]

Kiron smiled, rubbing her hand to his cheek. "Yes. But I'm not to use it. It would be far to dangerous. However, I'm glad to hear your great results. Your strength has increased greatly from what I can see. And with your shard, you'll be quite the foe to those Shinigami." He nodded and closed his eyes. "Their Senkai gate is prepared. They should be here soon. Prepare yourselves ladies and gentlemen. The show is about to begin."

[Guest]

//My guess is that everyone is getting ready for the fight soon to happen, even if I have a low chance of being seen I should be a bit more..... careful.// Mateo focused a bit of reitsu into his chest, making sure that it was still suppressed. What happened next however was a bit..... different. The Arrancar shrank dramaticly then transformed into a tiny garden snake, allowing Mateo to get around the Seireitei while being able to blend in. Another set of Sonido's and the small snake made it to the Squad two building, where it awaited Jo's arrival............

[Signosis]

Jo smiled down at her King as he nuzzled into her hand.

 

"Yes. But I'm not to use it. It would be far to dangerous. However, I'm glad to hear your great results. Your strength has increased greatly from what I can see. And with your shard, you'll be quite the foe to those Shinigami."

 

"I hope so. They have been training, too, sir. Let's not overestimate them," Jo said, watching him as he closed his eyes and speak, nodding as she gently cupped both his cheeks, raising his face slightly. "You don't mind if I can take a quick nap, right? Something or someone will wake me up."

 

Jo grinned at him and let go of him, running off to her palace. Upon arriving there, she flopped into her 'nest' and sighed in content. Jo's mind instantly went back to the familiar reitsu.

 

"Master...." Jo said quietly, looking around her room sadly.

[Guest]

The snake sensed Jo's reitsu enter the building, making Mateo's goal easier. The Arrancar quickly reverted to his normal self then sonido'd behind Jo, leaning over her shoulders. "Well well, look whoses gone and gotten themselves to transform into a Arrancar." Mateo grinned slighty, he was happy that Jo was still safe and for the fact that after his depart that she had become an Arrancar. //Let's just hope she isn't being used a puppet of Kiron's.//

[Signosis]

Jo jumped as her Master leaned over her shoulder, speaking in her ear.

 

"Well well, look whose's gone and gotten themselves to transform into an Arrancar."

 

Jo instantly leaped around and hugged her Master, nuzzling into his shoulder.

 

"I've...missed you, Mateo." Jo said, doing her best not to cry.

[Dad]

Kiron nodded as Jo sped off to rest. She had worked hard, so she deserved it. He beckoned the Espada to him, preparing for the final moments of peace for this day. "It is high time for the death of the Shinigami. Upon their arrival you will spare nothing to them. Be ruthless. Be tactical. Be Espada." Kiron's eyes were raw with power, and he could feel victory drawing closer.

[Guest]

"Sorry about leaving without notice, Kiron sorta beat the unholy jesus out of me in Hell, which lead to me dying." The Arrancar looked into Jo's eyes, He noticed how only a small fraction of her shard had broken along with her urge to cry. "Lucky for me someone else had other plans and a month later here I am." Mateo smiled and supported Jo's head as she placed it into his shoulders. "I'm sorry..."

[Signosis]

Jo sniffed as she listened to his story, looking up at him, into his eyes.

 

"It's okay...," Jo began, her eyes beginning to turn cold. "But what took so long!?"

 

She lashed out at him, practically smacking him over the head. Too bad that he had a nearly impenatrable defense, so she was left there to sit there and hold her hand, gritting her teeth in pain.

 

"Ooooooow!" Jo cried out, shaking her hand.

[Guest]

Mateo laughed slighty grabbing Jo's hand. "Now if I came back eariler I would of just been killed by Kiron right?" A flash of purple went off in his broken mask where his remaining shard fragment laided, surrounding both in it's soft glow. "You know that I went to get stronger for you right?" The Arrancar looked into her eyes as he moved a bit of Jo's hair to the side, away from her face.....

[Signosis]

Jo nodded, wiping a tear from the corner of one of her eyes. She stared at him, blushing slightly.

 

"You know that I went to get stronger for you right?"

 

"N-no, I didn't," Jo said truthfully, a blush covering her entire face as she looked to her left, nuzzling into his hand. "But I'm happy you're back, Mateo."

[Guest]

"I'm glad to be back." Mateo smiled at the female Arrancar, rubbing her head with his hand. "During the battle however, theres two things I need to get down. One you shouldn't worry about, but the other..... The other is to make sure you stay alive." The Arrancar adjusted Jo's head, pulling it closer to his. The shard on the top of his mask glowed a bit softer as he kissed her on the lips.

[Signosis]

Jo pracitically melted in his arms as he kissed her, and she kissed back with twice the intensity. But she quickly broke it, pushing him back alarmingly.

 

"S-sorry. I just don't...wanna paralyze you," Jo said, blushing. She poked her lips, looking apologeticly at him. "It was a few weeks ago when we tried out my shard. We trained it upon a random Fraccion...and yeah...."

 

Jo rubbed the back of her neck, looking at the ground.

 

"The poor guy was practically paralyzed through half of the day." Jo stated, folding her arms.

[Guest]

"But I'm not a fraccion so it shouldn't stun me or at least not that bad." Mateo walked backed up to Jo, putting his hand on her cheek. He was staring again into her eyes, not only thinking about Jo but her shard as well. "Just in case I do get stuned I need you to hide me somewhere that no one will find me and you can't tell a soul that I'm alive understood?" Mateo kissed Jo again, but more slowly and with more passion then the last.

[Signosis]

Jo smiled into his kiss, wrapping her arms around his waist. She leaned her head back to talk, though.

 

"Listen, I won't tell a soul, but Mileya and Elena are like big sisters to me, so they're allowed to walk into the palace and my room at any given moment. And as for a hiding place, your frozen ass is going in my closet or under my bed." Jo giggled, pecking him on the lips.

[Dad]

Zaraki stormed through the portal, without warning, leaving everyone behind. "They'll show up sooner or later." This time, as he plunged into Seireitei, he shot down like a missile to the ground, crushing and destroying the 11th Squadron barracks. Standing up slowly, Eric was already awaiting him.

 

Shiro wasn't too far behind with Yoruichi. Forcing a slowed pace, he stopped in the air watching Zaraki from afar. But he couldn't waste time here. "I've got a snake to skin." Shiro looked to Yoruichi, who simply nodded as he sped away. Yoruichi would be doing some quiet investigating of her own. Suppressing her reiatsu, she Flash Stepped her way to the shattered old cannon.

 

And of course, Amago refused to be left out, and was looking for a good warm-up. He scanned the premises vaguely as he entered. Sougoyku Hill was the first place he spotted; but before he could make his move, an explosion rang out throughout Seireitei, and everyone turned to see where it came from. "The 11th Barracks?" Amago hurried to get a closer look.

 

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"Elena," Kiron called hurriedly. "Find Jo and bring her to me. We could use her strength." Elena nodded and sped off. Kiron took to the air, Kaien by his side. "Stay with me. I have a special assignment for you." Kiron smirked, watching Amago soar through the skies towards the 11th Squadron Barracks.

 

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Eric stumbled backwards as Zaraki slowly approached. "Where's your King?" Zaraki commanded. Eric shook his head listening to the arrogant Head Captain. "Why would I tell someone like you? You're not worthy of-- GAH!" Before Eric could finish his sentence, Zaraki had moved in quickly, snatching him by the throat. "Then I'll just have to beat it out of ya." He tossed Eric in the air and reappeared behind him, kicking him to the ground, and pinning him, stomping on his head.

 

A 'splat' sound went off, as Zaraki's foot came down. "Tch. Door mat." Eric laughed at Zaraki's attempt to kill him. "Good try. It may have seemed like you killed me, Head Captain, but I'm unbreakable." Eric shaped himself and crept behind Zaraki, reforming, and pinning his arms back.

 

Zaraki joined in laughing. "What's so funny?" Eric asked. Zaraki turned to glare at him, arms still pinned to his sides. "You're still alive." Zaraki kicked Eric against a wall, and forced him to release him. Eric was impressed, reshaping himself from the wall.

 

"So the Head Captain isn't all brawn eh? Perhaps I'll even have to use my release, but I fear doing so." Eric drew his oddly shaped Zanpaktou, and charged forwards.

[Guest]

A small prickle of a stun like feeling coursed through Mateo's body, making his left arm numb. "Ok maybe you can effect me a bit with just a peck." However the happy reunion was about to end. The Arrancar had sensed the Shinigami enter the Seireitei, looking for battles. "sheet I thought we had more time." Mateo held Jo's cheek, "I need to go into hiding for now but before the end of the battle I will find you." Just like that Mateo turned back into a snake and sonido'd out of the barracks, arriving at the east sector of the Seireitei. //Now I wait for Shiro to find me.....//

[Dad]

Flying east, Shiro took his time looking for Mateo. He scouted every ounce of Seireitei carefully. It seemed empty except for Sougoyku Hill, "But Mateo is smarter than that." He arrived patiently at the eastern portion of the Dark Forest. "He's here. I can feel it." Drawing his Zanpaktou, Shiro began to search the area.