'The Phantom Realm' -Bleach RP- [Advanced/Started/Accepting via PM/PG 16]

[Dark Lightning]

Hiyori and Raizen were still going at it. Each round usually ended in Raizen getting blasted to the floor.

"Get up!" Hiyori Shouted as she took off her hollow mask to conserve time "At this rate, your going to have to release your Zanpacto just to get a single scratch on me..."

Raizen groaned as he got back up once again. He called upon his hollow mask, but this time, he was too tired to keep full control over it. Raizen let out a wicked laugh that was similar to Ichigo's hollow. He suddenly appeared hovering over Hiyori while she was distracted; and blasted a kick towards her. Hiyori had to draw her blade in order to block the forceful attack. It wasn't enough through, and the kick broke right through her defense, throwing her to the ground this time. Raizen shook his head and managed to then get rid of the hollow mask.

"So...You really don't have full control..." Hiyori grunted as she got up.

[namelessk]

Shinji continued watching the battle, his arms folded across his chest as he did. "Hmm...Raizen's really grown, but I'm worried about him. He isn't fighting with his all. He's fighting at half of his strength, but why?" Shinji thought. He lifted his left hand to his chin and held it there as he continued thinking. "His spiritual pressure is unbalanced. I thought he beat his inner hollow the last time he left here?" Shinji mumbled to himself. This was really bugging him. If Raizen lost to his inner hollow, then he would no longer exist as the Raizen they all knew. "I might have to step in sooner than I thought." Shinji muttered to himself as he continued watching.

[Dark Lightning]

Raizen was starting to breath heavily after he regained control.

My inner hollow is different than others...It won't give up...It's still here...I can feel it...

Hiyori then got back up without any hesitation.

"Is this it?! Is that all you've got?! I thought you were supposed to be the highly respected lightning master of the Soul Society!" she shouted at him as she charged. Raizen grunted, but sooner or later, he charged again, allowing his blade to clash with Hiyori's.

Raizen started hearing the spirit of his Zanpacto speaking to him

You haven't used me in a while...

"Raikenmaru..." he muttered.

[namelessk]

Shinji continued watching them. He saw the uneasyness in Raizen's face and it worried him even more. He noticed how Raizen kept becoming tense as well as his lack of control over his mask. It was then that he had put all of the pieces together. "Hiyori. Watch out. He doesn't have control over his inner hollow." Shinji called out. "He hasn't even been able to keep his mask on longer than Ichigo could when he first got here." he added. Shinji then looked at Raizen. "So, am I right Raizen? How did your hollow resurface again after you already beat it?" Shinji asked him.

[White Hollow]

Zack absorebed the strike

"I don't counter it"

Zack landed on the ground

"I don't have 2 zanpaktos. I already told you. My previous one was zangestu's sealed form"

Zack pointed him with zangetsu

"This is his true form"

[Dark Lightning]

Raizen was a bit startled. He then turned to Shinji

"...I've only been able to tame it....Not control it..." he muttered. Hiyori then backed away from Raizen and also turned to Shinji. Raizen shook his head.

"Shinji...I would like to train with you...But not for the sake of completely controlling my inner hollow...But for the sake of just testing out my Shikai" he said "Ya see...It's gotten a bit rusty, so I don't want it to just become weak on me..."

He chuckled a bit. Hiyori jumped towards Raizen and slapped his face with her sandal

"So your saying I'm not strong enough for your Shikai!?" she shouted as she hit him. Raizen's face was now sore and then he laughed again.

"Well...er...I..." Raizen muttered. Hiyori looked towards Raizen and then back at Shinji

"Whatever...Let's just see how strong your Shikai is..." Hiyori groaned as she sat down with the other Vizards.

[White Hollow]

Kisuke yawned and waked up. He drank some tea and opened the Urahara shop.

"I wonder who will come to buy today. I feel a large spirutual pressure. A shinigami is here for sure...maybe a captain"

Kisuke weared his hat and sat down. He contnued to drink his tea and waited for the shinigami to make a move

[Mr.WHAM]

Ze'borova sighed. "Then you truly underestimeat you blessing. What you said was that this Zanpaktou was a sealed version of Zangetsu. Arrancar also have sealed Zanpaktou. But they use Resurreccions instead of Shikai and bankai. Do you not think its possible to do both? You basically just released your swords resurreccion without evem considering that you can have two Zanpaktou in one. With this information, I wantnyou to traain on your Shikai and Bankai, not you Resurreccion which you are doing now. And be sure to keep it a secret. As I believe that you have a Segnda too. But nonetheless,, unless you wish to continue, we are finished."

[White Hollow]

"Υou know nothing about me"

Zack placed Zangetsu in its place and began to walk

"We are finished, let's move"

Zack sighed and ate another cookie as he moved

[namelessk]

"Train your shikai against me eh?" Shinji said and his smirk reappeared on his face once more. I will try and see if I can get his inner hollow to come out and then have him defeat it again once and for all. Shinji landed on the ground and began walking over to where Raizen was. He held his sheathe in his left hand and then placed his right hand to the hilt of his zanpakutou. He drew the zanpakutou slowly, the blade scraping against the inside of the sheathe as he did so. When he fully withdrew the blade, it shined in the small amount of sunlight that poured in from the windows of the warehouse. "Well then....let's get this started, shall we?" Shinji said as he threw his sheathe aside. He stood there, holding his blade loosely in his right hand and then motioned Raizen forward with his left hand.

[Mr.WHAM]

Ze'borova nodded in agreement. He did not know much about this shinigami. And what he already knew was so little and may not be of use to him. Then again, knowing that someone is the creator of such a powerful Zanpaktou could be useful. Then something occured to him. "How do you make a Zanpaktou? This may prove to be incredibly important to us later on in our fight against our Reborn foes."

[White Hollow]

Zack had a flashback of his past for some moments when his Inner Hollow interupted

"Heeee. You told him that you can keep me inside you with a cookie? You think he fell for it?"

Zack was disturebed and talked back to him

"Shut up. Why don't you put a --"

Zack remembered his past again and stopped talking

"You are really pathetic. And you made Zangetsu. You know that you shouldn't use it"

[Dark Lightning]

Raizen slowly drew his blade, but left the tip of it still remained inside the sheath.

"Before I release my Shikai...I would also like to try out a new technique that has taken me quite sometime to learn..And I haven't yet mastered it.."

Now, Raizen instantly drew the blade completely. He purposely allowed some sparks to form inside the sheath.

"Rai-myaku!" he shouted. When he did this, a small pulse of lightning was instantly heading towards Shinji.

"I could do the same thing when in Shikai, but it'll be bigger..." he spoke as the lightning flash dodged the air to get to Shinij "It's a bit like Getsuga Tensho...Except I can use it, even when my blade is in sealed form. All I really have to do, is lit a few sparks, then release a bit of my electrifying Spiritual Pressure, and then I just focus on combining them..."

[Mr.WHAM]

Ze'borova smiled. He felt lightningabout to strike. "Raizen," he said softly. He then looked at Zack who seemed to be at an inner conflict. "So you lied. You can't control a hollow with a cookie. I suspected as much. I wish I could fight it for you. My only advice to you is that it is your mind. And in your mind you can do what you want." 'I wonder how that novice lightning user is functioning.'

[Dark Lightning]

((...Raizen is not a novice lightning user... D: ))

 

~Hiyori~

Hiyori looked at the lightning flash with a bit of amazement. She then grunted and looked towards Shinji. She then looked back at Raizen's blade.

"...How weird..." she muttered. Hiyori then turned back to Shinji

"But I don't think that he'll be one to get hit by that so easily..." she sighed. She continued to watch the fight, wondering what each Shinigami would do next.

[White Hollow]

"Zack, do you hate me?"

Zack looke at his hollow angry

"Damn you."

His inner self laughed and pointed at Zack

"You must hate me. I am the reason that girl died."

Zack's inner world turned red and the sky turned black. The clouds dissaperared and a moon appeared.

"You bastard...shut your mouth."

The hollow laughed and grinned

"I am telling the truth, that was the bigest loss of your entire life, am I right?"

Zack screamed and attacked him

"SHUT UP! SHUT UP!"

The hollow left by burning its image

Zack stopped for a while as he saw a hot spring in the road

"Let's stop here. Our wounds will be healed."

[Mr.WHAM]

Ze'borova looked at the boy as they got to the hot springs. He felt...angry for him. That hollow was nothing like his, but then again his hollow was a ravaging monster with a bloodlust the size of Asia. He wondered if there was anything he could do to help this shinigami. Suddenly an idea occured to him. "Hey I think you ca ocntrol that hollow of yours with out the cookies."

[White Hollow]

Zack looked at Ze'borova and replied

"Get in here and don't give me advises. I can controll that hollow. I don't need cookies."

Zack dived in the hot spring and drank some

"After all, I told you: I just like their taste"

Zack closed his eyes and relaxed. He had a worried and sad look in his eyes and waited for Ze'borova to tell him something.

[Mr.WHAM]

"Stop lying and being defensive," Ze'borova said as he got into the hot springs. "That hollow has invaded your most sacred place. He has done things that you can't even imagine & you dont want to admit he's not in control. Ha!" Ze'borova could see the expression on Zack's face and continued to speak. He knew that he had to make him realize that ultimately, he is in control. "In your mind, you have complete and utter control. Its one of the few things in life that you do have such control over. That being said, you must know yourself better than that hollow does. He can get in your mind and explore the parts of it, you don't want to see. Embrace those parts. Embrace ALL OF IT. Once you do, you can do whatever you want to get rid of that menace, which means tyou can make him unable to move speak or even function, but you must know thyself." With that, Ze'borova slinked down into the springs relaxed by there warmth.

[White Hollow]

"That hollow made me kill my girlfriend...."

Zack talked and had a sad expression.

"He controlled me and made me kill her. Why I can't controll him is that he is linked with her memories. If he is gone, I will foget her."

Zack tried to relax but he couldn't. He closed his eyes and tryed to remeber of his girlfriend.

"She was...so beutiful..so much."

Zack's face shined as he talked about her.

"She only kissed me once and it lasted forever for me..."

[namelessk]

Shinji stood staring at Raizen and waiting for him when he saw him draw his blade half way. Then, when he saw him draw it fully, he prepared himself. When he saw the flash of lightning fly at him, he quickly kicked off of the ground and into the air to avoid the lightning. Once he saw the lightning flash pass under him, he looked back to Raizen. "Nice little technique ya got there." Shinji said. "Now it's my turn." he added as he burst forward with reiatsu at his feet. Shinji flew towards Raizen with his blade pointed forward like a lance. When he neared, he lifted his blade quickly and slammed it down towards Raizen. He knew that this would be easy to block, but he had something in store. His smirk grew wider as he was slashing. I've got to be careful of that lightning at close range.

[Mr.WHAM]

Ze'borova looked down. He should have known something like that. "I cannot sympathize with you as I wish too for, I've never known a woman's touch aside form that brief moment when I was born. Whether it be here in Hueco Mundo, in the Soul Society or in my time in the human world I never had such success as you and for that I envy you." Ze'borova knew there was a way to defeat the hollow, but how was the predicament. "I believe, that if you wanted too enough you could defeat that hollow because the strongest memory he is connected to by your formerr lover is that one in which he killed her. From that you can separate it. That is a horrid memory and one that you can use. Seperate the good from the bad and let their lines become clear," Ze'b said as carefully as possible," And you will be able to strike down that hollow while kepping your lover close to you."

[Dark Lightning]

Raizen kicked off as he saw Shinji getting closer. He then jumped a bit, and allowed their blades to clash. As their blade's clashed, Raizen nodded.

"Strike Down with your Thunderous Roar, Raikenmaru!" he shouted. As he said this, more flashes of lightning started to emit from the blade. The blade started to glow as it the blade started shooting lightning bolts. When the display was over, the blast had pushed Raizen away from Shinji.

[namelessk]

Shinji stared right into Raizen's face as the two stood there with their blades clashed against one another. When Raizen shouted out something Shinji's eyes opened wide and he quickly jumped back. His body then seemed to disappear into the air with a whooshing sound, signaling his flash step. He reappeared farther in the air, staring down at Raizen. "So, you released your shikai eh?" Shinji asked. Now I've got to really be careful. Shinji suddenly rushed forward, a two handed grip held on his blade. As he came 5 feet in front of Raizen, he disappeared with a quick flash step. He reappeared farther back in front of Raizen and then slashed down across his chest with his right hand held on the blade. His left hand was reaching forward with reiatsu gathering on it, ready to fire it right into Raizen.

[Dark Lightning]

Raizen was unable to move, and was given a minor wound from the slash on his chest. He then knew to watch out for Shinji's left hand. Raizen held his blade in his right hand, signaling that he wasn't that much worried about anything. He then watched Shinji carefully, and when the right time came, he lashed his blade, much like Toshiro, and then allowed another lightning flash (This time bigger) to rush towards Shinji with intense speed. When he did this, he used the blast to back away from any incoming attacks. He then flash stepped fast enough to make it seem like there were more of him. Suddenly he appeared a few yards behind Shinji, his finger pointed at him. Raizen wasn't going to waste any time.

"Hado #4, Byakurai!" he shouted as a lightning beam emitted from his finger, also rushing towards Shinji.

He only has time to dodge one now...

Raizen watched from afar as the lightning flash rushed towards Shinji from the front, and the kido blast from the back. Raizen himself was a bit surprised that he was able to execute such an attack so quickly.