Marin Vs Kueshi

Marin had sent a memo to Kueshi concerning the thought of a spar around a Volcano in Hawaii. The CEO of Arran Corp would wait for an hour for his sparing partner to arrive.

Now the challenger stood at the base of a Volcano with the Hawaiian wind blowing through his hair. And heat emanated through the ground making his Uwagi sway from the heat.

Kueshi had recieved a memo from lord Marin concerning some sort of spar in Hawaii. He opened up a garganta and entered the scene. Kueshi was dressed in a black suit with a white shirt and red tie. The island of Oahu had a large volcano right next to the ocean with a small beach nearby. Kueshi exited through the garganta placing himself a few hundred feet overtop of the volcano, looking down at lord Marin. He jumped into a Sonido and placed himself directly in front of Marin, maybe twenty feet away. Kueshi stared the man in the face, waiting for him to make a move; hand on his hilt, other at his side.

Spoiler:

"Oh, so we're going to go right into it then?" He smiled, "Very well then."

Marin shot a bala in front of Kueshi to kick up a dust cloud. He then sonidoed into an aerial tumble to land behind withdrawing his Zanpaktou hook sword. The Arrancar leader brought his sword down in an attempt to hook his Espada's shoulder. If he hooked he would spin his foe around possibly taking off him arm, this spin should have him intercept Marin's fist with his face.

'Now I'll see how strong you've become as my Espada.' Marin hopped that Kueshi would be tactical enough to counter this...

{Zanpaktou]

Spoiler:

“Let’s begin indeed.” Kueshi replied to Marin’s question. He was anxious to see Marin’s excellence in combat. As the king he was known to be the strongest fighter in hueco mundo. Kueshi was almost surprised when the bala hit the ground in front of him instead of hitting him directly, then he understood. Kueshi ducked and rolled to the side, expecting the attack to come at him vertically from the direction of the screen of dust. When it came from behind him he was surprise, but his dodge would work just as well. Kueshi switched facings during his roll, pointing himself towards Marin and drew his sword, taking a sideways slash at the king of hueco mundo around chest level. It was a rather forward and obvious attack, but he wanted to see the man’s defenses as well as his offenses.

While his Espada was in his roll Marin 'unsheathed' his Zanrei Hook blade and was preparing to link them for range, but before he could Kueshi came at him with a horizontal slash. The Arrancar leader parried the tip of the blade with his Zanpaktou's fist guard and then tried to hook the Zanrei's hook around the bottom part of the Espada's blade above the guard. Assuming he hooks, he then pushed with his fist guard at the tip and pulls with the hook at the lower blade in an attempted disarm. This disarm if successful would turn said weapon around, blade towards its former owner, balanced with both hook swords. Marin would then flip the blade back to it's owner.

"You just wanted to see what I would do didn't you?" He asked has salted wind blew in from the sea. Though by the end of this spar who knew what this area would be like...

*Zanrei=Lvl 15

Kueshi was in trouble, Marin had managed to disarm him without a moment’s thought. Kueshi should have known something like this would come from the king of hollows, but Kueshi had something up his sleeve. Kueshi opened his mouth and let out a loud battle cry. A cero formed in a bubble shape around Kueshi and exploded outward a total of fifty feet. Anything inside of that area would be blinded and deafened temporarily, it acted like a military flashbang. Anything within the inner twenty five feet would receive minor burns, and anybody in the inner ring of ten feet from Kueshi would receive major burn wounds. Considering Marin had just pulled Kueshi’s weapon from him, he would most likely be in that inner circle.

After blinding his enemy, Kueshi would jump over top of his enemy and attempt to lift his weapon from the handle out of the hold Marin had it in and land behind Marin maybe ten feet away.

Marin staggered backwards as has was hit by heat and light. The balanced blade fell allowing it to easily be recovered. The heat burned and disintegrated away portions of his clothing, his heirro partly protected his skin from maximum damage, but was not left unscathed. In addition to the burns the mechanized arm sheath for his Zanpaktou was melted and no longer able to auto-disengage or "sheath" the blade and gritted his teeth as the super heated sheath cooled against his skin.

For a moment he though he was in shock, but quickly realized from previous, unfortunate, experiences that this blackness he was seeing wasn't from a shadow, his eyes were damaged or at least overloaded. Marin steadied himself and realized something else, he couldn't hear the ground or rather the effects that movement would have on it... he was deafened!

'Impressive he didn't try to attack me bare handed, nor did he try to simply retrieve his blade.' The leader mentally praised his Espada.

"Intuitive response Kueshi. Of this lasts too much longer, then I'll have to resort to certain tactics early, let's see how you handle this." Marin said jovially.

This situation was good, this reaction was good, this meant he had brought on a tactician, but something like this situation wasn't going to be crippling or as crippling as it could of been. Marin hooked his blades together, his Zanrei blade as the first segment and the Zanpaktou as the second. He then began spinning them in his right hand like a fan or windmill at his right flank while he fired balas off with his left hand, the first at the ground and the rest straight. While doing this he turned a full circle letting loose bala and keeping the windmill guard up. Marin payed close attention to the feel of the dust in the air, hopefully hr would be able to feel a change in air current if someone were to attack.

Kueshi noted that Marin was obviously disoriented still, he hadn’t managed to turn around and face Kueshi. The blindly spinning his swords wasn’t particularly smart, it left openings to disarm him. The ballas weren’t a bad idea, when he moved in a circular motion firing them Kueshi had to dodge a couple of them that fired in the right way. Simple enough to dodge though, even if he let himself get hit it would only do so much damage. Kueshi decided on a tactic. If his opponent was blinded and deafened flailing randomly at close range, the easiest way to best him would be sniping.

Kueshi jumped backwards into a sonido, flying backwards about a hundred yards and pointed his finger straight at Marin’s chest. Something simmiliar to a Cero charged at the end of Kueshi’s finger. When it fired it was less than an inch in width; a super-focused cero, known to Kueshi as the Superfine Cero. It would follow Kueshi’s fingers for a few seconds after it was fired. Kueshi drew a circle with his finger attempting to make about a four foot circle starting from Marin’s chest moving left, up, right, down. The cero would likely be reduced by Marin’s hierro, but it could still do damage, especially if it hit torso and arms like was planned.

Kueshi stared off at the King of Hollows in the distance. “You may want to step up your game soon my friend. You are going to take critical damage if this keeps up.”

Marin felt the impact of an unusual Cero, though it was slowed by his heirro the energy slowly drilled into him. He brought the "windmill" in to the fire arc of the attack, while doing this he moved to the side buffering the damage across his body. If the Arrancar was able to see he would realize that his Zanpaktou was scorched by the defense.

"Your right... Hatsu Tebanatsu" He uttered his first release phrase, his Zanpaktou dissipated as he underwent a change.

His body is suddenly enveloped by his own hair, the braid and hair roll broke apart into individual strands. The envelopment almost looked like a suit of body armor, except the front and back of the torso which has solidified into bone and his normal cape like hair which flowed freely. The knuckles/palms and top/bottom of the arms and legs also had solidified into bone with hair flowing out of the seems leaving the sides between the segments looking like semi-tight muscles of hair with individual strands of hair poking out. In addition the hair flows and tendrils poking out from the sides and segments of the bone armor it wiggles and squirms of their own accord.

He extended his senses to find Kueshi and let Reiatsu flow into his hair. He had to regain his primary senses, but since he couldn't he'd have to deal.

"Heh, come at me!" Marin challenged.

Shinrei Shouchi (Active)
Hatsu Ouso (Active)

Kueshi noticed the king of hollows releasing his resurreccion. If it weren’t for the heat of battle; Kueshi would be reveling in the honor of causing this to happen so quickly. “For the king of hollows… your battle skills could still use some work.” Kueshi said with a matter-o-fact look on his face. Being sure to keep a distance between him and his opponent; Kueshi spoke his own release phrase. “ Rompe la Tierra, Dios de la Tierra!”

Kueshi’s sword began to grow crystals on it, starting from the tip. They grew up the length of the sword and around the guard. Crystals also grew from Kueshi’s skin, covering his body in something that resembled full plate mail; but comprised of bright red crystals. His shoulders, knees, elbows, feet, and wrists had sharp spiked crystals pointing out of them. The only part of Kueshi’s body left exposed was his face.

Kueshi moved his hands upwards from the ground, a group of ten pencil-sized pieces of crystals materialized in the air. Kueshi spread his hands downwards, and the ten pencils arranged themselves in a circular shape around Kueshi’s body. Kueshi wasn’t going to attack Marin just yet, but rather form a defensive position for himself. He didn’t know enough about Marin’s resurreccion form; so he figured he would take some time to find out. "I would rather you make the first move my friend."
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Resurreccion Activated.
Crystal Stacks: 1

"Heh... Well, that's what sparring is for. I'll warm up, then be in better fighting form." Marin said as his vision and hearing returned.

"I'll use some force then if you really want me to attack."

The Arrancar, Marin, then opened a Garganta between himself and his Espada with the opening behind. He then jets several clumps of hair through to impale his sparring partner from behind. Marin then sonidos to his Espada's side and swung his Zanrei hook sword to attack his legs.

"Let's see how you deal with this. And it's only the start."

Shinrei Shouchi (Active)
Hatsu Ouso (Active)
Garganta Mastery C-1

Kueshi noticed the Garganta open behind him and quickly turned around to see the one behind him with several jet black spikes coming towards him. Kueshi swung at the hair with his sword; moving forward a few steps as he cut through chunks of it. Kueshi created two Frisbee sized and shaped pieces of crystal with razor sharp edges to cut a few of the strands of hair he would otherwise have missed and possibly been impaled by. The Frisbee discs cut through the strands easily and hovered in the air over each of Kueshi's shoulders.

"I certainly hope that is only the start lord Marin. I need to get my blood flowing at least a little bit more..."

The ten shards were now behind Kueshi slightly. Kueshi was surprised to see Marin's sonido and his Zanrei hooksword flying at his leg. Kueshi picked up his feet in an attempt to dodge the Zanrei and sent the ten pencil sized crystals flying towards Marin's exposed side.

"That's more like it!"

A wave of hair blocked the oncoming crystal shards as he retracted his garganta bound hair and the rip in space closed.

"Good." Marin smiled that was only his first Garganta trick, but he'd have to wait to use more.

Marin leaped at Kueshi like a animal but mid jump blurred and reappeared in an over head somersault. During the overhead time Marin sent his hair down and around his Espada, assuming he wasn't quick enough, to form a cylindrical wall cage twisted at the top from the aerial movement and landing. Marin was now behind Kueshi and charged his hair with Cero energies. Finally he began to enclose the area.

If Kueshi managed to dodge the cage form or escape it, he had a plan for that too. He would still charge his hair, but have it lunge at his sparring partner like a large swarming missile volley.

Shinrei Shouchi (Active)
Hatsu Ouso (Active)
Hatsu Osou X(Cero level) D-1

“It would seem attacking your back is rather ineffective, that hair of yours is quite a bother…” Kueshi stated the obvious. Kueshi noticed Marin mounting a charge and braced for impact, but was surprised when the man reappeared over head. Kueshi noticed hair coming down around him in a cylindrical shape, but not directly at him. He took his sword, cutting through the hair and upwards in a twisting spiral motion. Once there was enough of an opening to move through, he used sonido to place himself opposite the hair cage from his opponent.

After escaping the cage, Kueshi noticed Marin’s hair charging with reiatsu. ‘is he creating a cero inside of his hair? That looks dangerous…’ The thought was nearly too late. Several of the pieces of hair were lunging at him like missiles. Kueshi jumped and dodged, using his two discs to break off pieces of hair as they got about five or ten feet from Kueshi. Kueshi spawned a Kickball sized crystal. And sent at flying at his enemy’s torso, around the hair flying at him; angling it out 30 degrees from himself and curving it back inwards as it flew. Kueshi re-arranged the ten pencil sized crystals into three baseball sized orbs and sent them flying in above, under, and opposite to the dodge ball sized crystal.
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Crystal Stacks 3

"Impressive, my friend, but as I said this was only the beginning." He smiled at the impressive spread of oncoming crystals.

There were four spheres heading his way curving in at him. One at his chest, another looked like it was going towards his legs, the third at hius head and the fourth opposite the three. Marin had to think fast... and he did.

Marin threw his Zanrei blade at Kueshi, freeing his han and using for Bala counter fire on the three spheres deflecting them. No doubt that Kueshi would redirect them swiftly. He then brought another Bala to bare on the fourth sphere, but it was too close, while he hit the crystal and redirected it, the ball still hit him, it clipped his shoulder causing him to spin.

"Gumph" the hit had hurt, but the pain wasn't going to stop him, maybe distract, but not stop.

During the counter fire the Arrancars charged hair still was swarming after Kueishi. Unfortunatly that's all the Marin could realy do in offense as countering the sphere was taking up some time.


Shinrei Shouchi (Active)
Hatsu Ouso (Active)
Hatsu Osou X (Cero level) D-2
*Zanrei blade= level 15

Kueshi continued to dodge and fall back, fleeing away from the onslaught of glowing hair. He continued to slice at chunks with his two Frisbee discs and spawned another pair to double the efforts. Even doing all of that, it was just a matter of time until Kueshi was hit. He missed a piece of hair that reached and made contact with his leg. The hair drilled at his crystal, breaking through part way, then exploded. The explosion ripped crystal off off of his leg at the knee and left only his hierro in between him and his opponent. Under the crystal were a few cuts from where the crystal itself shattered. None of them were deep and they were concentrated around where the hair hit at his ankle. Kueshi knew his bones wouldn't be broken by something so simple, but the hit still hurt him, and the cuts stung and felt sticky in the warm volcanic air.

Kueshi put his mind back to his opponent and evading the hair. He knew falling back would only work for so long, so he jumped into a Sonido, placing himself directly above Marin. He pulled the three baseball sized orbs and the crystal orb to him and morphed them into a 3’x6’ sheet of rain drop sized crystals. Kueshi fired the crystals off at Marin and then called his four bladed discs to his side, one at each shoulder and one at each knee, ready to defend or attack. "Let's see how you handle those, my lord."

Four Crystal stacks.

Marin lost him for a second when he went to sonido, but required him. Kueshi was above him! However Marin could think fast now that the lead was out of his head. He glanced up and made a quick gesture then sonidoed ten feet to the right. He brought his charged hair up in front of Kueshi like a curtain. At the same time the shard rain looked like it broke through glass, in reality.

Marin had opened a garganta for the attack to fly through, he surly would of been hit if he hadn't. The end point of the garganta formed behind his Espada with his own attack flying through. The problem with these advanced uses of garganta is the stress this puts on local dimensional space.

"That was very close Kueshi, but I removed them." He said with a smirk. He then raised his left arm to fire a Bala, but then grimaced as the previously hit shoulder had a moment of great pain.

Shinrei Shouchi (Active)
Hatsu Ouso (Active)
Hatsu Osou X (Cero level) D-3
Garganta Mastery C-0
*Zanrei blade= level 15

Kueshi watched as it looked like his crystal beads broke through what he guessed was a garganta based on the nature of Marin’s previous attacks. “Hmm… close indeed” Kueshi said as the first few beads bounced against his back, and then became froze in the air behind him. They left a couple minor scratches on his armor, but did no real damage. He pulled the beads back around to his left side as his opponent jumped into a sonido. Crystal began to grow at the end of Kueshi’s Zanpakuto and was aided by the two stacks of crystal bringing it to the size of much larger blade, a nodachi.

Kueshi pulled his four razor discs from where he previously stood and cut into Marin’s hair with them about a foot past his arm. Kueshi placed his sword in a lunging stance and charged Marin, lunging his sword forward quickly a couple steps in as soon as he was in range to reach Marin. He lunged the nodachi towards Marin’s chest, planning to break the end off inside of him if it made contact.

2- Crystal Stacks
Active- Crystal Combination- Nodachi

Marin rolled out of the way using his Shinrei Shouchi to read his movements.. or at least thought he did. If the blade was normal length he would of cleared it, but the extended crystal cleaved into his left arm. His Heirro was the only reason why he still had his arm, the partially dodged strike hit a rock, the sword didn't stick, but it cracked the rock like a pain of glass with no ill effect on the weapon.

"Impressive my friend, but it's time for me to show some new tricks." Marin said while brushing some small crystal remnants from his Gi sleeve, what he didn't notice were the small splinter fragments resting in his open wound.

Marin raised his right arm and pointed two fingers and charged a Cero, multi-colored energy gathered at his fingertips. The wind seemed to pick up as Marins hair started to raise and spread out into the air.

He smiled, "Difficulties are going to be abound soon." The charge of his Cero continued and was of course just for show and ambiance.

His first layer of rising hair when at Kueshi attacking the man's left and right at the same time one thrusting and the other slashing. Marin himself dashed forth with a open palm punch, but these where all distactions. The rest of his hair fanned out during the attack and bent around to form an elongated bubble of hair around his foe.

Shinrei Shouchi (Active)
Hatsu Ouso (Active)
Charging Cero 1
Hatsu Osou X (Cero level) C-1
Garganta Mastery C-1
*Zanrei blade= level 15

Kueshi noted that the weapon made contact with his opponent. ‘marvelous.’ He thought to himself as he readied for the next part of his attack. The tip of the weapon splintered off, returning the Zanpakuto to its normal katana-esque size. Some of the splinters laid across the sleve of his opponent’s Gi, which he saw the opponent simply knock away. That wasn’t what was going to do his opponent in though. Several of the splintered shards found themselves embedded partway in Marin’s arm. Kueshi reached out to the shards with his mind and ordered them. ‘drill.’

The shards began to drill themselves into Marin’s left arm. Around the time that they started moving, Kueshi noted that Marin was charging a cero. Kueshi figured he would have just as much of an advantage up close as he would anywhere else against a cero, so he continued his attack. Several layers of hair came slashing and thrusting at Kueshi. The first one that came slashing at him was cut off by two of Kueshi’s razor disks. The second thrusting attack was simple enough to dodge, but Kueshi had to be careful. When Marin came forward with an open palm punch, Kueshi noted that Marin was charging with one hand and thus Kueshi had an advantage in hand to hand combat… not to mention the crystals digging into Marin’s arm. Kueshi brough his sword in an upward slashing arc across what was Marin’s attacking hand, hoping to do enough to make the man either step down or show Kueshi something along the lines of high speed regeneration, possibly turning his arm into something ethereal, or even matrix-style slow motion dodging.

Past thoughts of how his opponent would dodge, Kueshi returned his mind to the battlefield. He had two of his razor discs still floating across his right side unused, but that wasn’t what he needed. Kueshi melded the discs into a spike, about a half meter long and one inch thick. He also created another similar spike above his opponent and sent them both flying inwards at the part of Marin’s bubble where Marin himself was. Kueshi was aware of the bubble surrounding him and his enemy, and hoped that between the two spikes piercing it and the damage that Marin himself would be taking that it would either dissipate or whatever he was planning to do would be weakened. "Are you planning to kill me inside of this bubble of yours Marin?"

Crystal Stacks 3
Nodachi: CD 1/4

Marin Shuddered and dropped to a knee as the crystal shards moved inside his arm like burrowing scarabs. This was in fact good as the pain and corresponding motions had made his arm not be in Kueshi attack arc. A moment later he fought to open his eyes and saw two spikes heading towards him.

The Arrancar did the easiest thing at the moment and rolled to the side along with a backwards sonido. This caused the spikes to hit his hair on the right side of the bubble closest to himself. Due to the weakened Reiatsu flow through his hair the crystals penetrated making two bands of hair , each an inch wide, to fall away. Marin noted this, barely, as he blurred back into sight.

"It may be because of my lack of recent tra" he grimaced, "-ining, but ether way you are worthy of Primera." Now with five meters between them he raised his cero charging arm and the building of energy stopped, he fired and as the beam left he did what he could to smirk, "Cero... Shatter!"

Upon his words the charged Cero started sub-dividing into other, smaller Cero. the core was still present, but the outer energy from the front part of the attack broke off into four and began a curved arc toward the Espada. The Cero continued to sub-divide it's other sections. Ultimately it would divide itself into 20 parts, but for this instant it would divide into ten, ten rapidly approaching Cero with proportional power.

'Damn crystal!' he though as his arm twitched in pain.

"Can you handle this Kueshi?" Marin began siphoning Reiatsu from the surrounding area to attempt to keep up with the damage, "Of course you can."

Shinrei Shouchi (Active)
Hatsu Ouso (Active)
Charging Cero 1 [Fired as MIRV] D-1

*Ref MIRV (https://bleachbc.rpg-board.net/custom-cero-f17/off-bore-and-mirv-cero-t91.htm)

Hatsu Osou X (Cero level) C-2
Garganta Mastery C-2
Regeneration 1
*Zanrei blade= level 15

Kueshi took notice that the crystal had managed to break through Marin’s hair… This meant that he could escape if he played this closely. He pulled the two spikes towards him and melded it with a third he created to make a three foot radius, six foot diameter, shield with razor sharp edges. Though this crystal was originally shaped like a shield, it had many more uses than that. In this case, holding the disc horizontally, Kueshi flung it at a section of hair to his side. If the same thing happened that did with the crystal spikes, it would create a doorway he could fit through.

Kueshi would jump into a sonido, moving through the opening, and potentially avoiding the Majority of Marin’s cero. Considering the way they appeared to be curving, Kueshi assumed that at least one or more of the Cero would make it through the opening he made, or would burst through Marin’s hair as if it weren’t there. Kueshi brought the shield back in front of him to block from any potential attacks, ducking slightly so that it covered his entire body.

Kueshi had two of the smaller razor discs left in his control to do something with, but saw no immediate use for them, so he brought them towards the side of the shield he was currently at, opposite to Marin and his dividing cero. From there, he could use them to lessen the blow if for whatever reason the Cero could make sharp 180 degree turns. Kueshi yelled out from behind his shield; "That's a dangerous cero you have there Marin. Is that one of the reasons you are the king of hollows?" Kueshi didn't forget about the crystals in Marin's arm. he continued ordering them to tear through the man's flesh.

Crystal Stacks: One
Crystal Combination: Shield
Nodachi CD: 2/4

Marin saw Kueshi get out of his net. He knew this would of been much harder for his foe if his hair were charged, but he hadn't had time for that. The Arrancar coughed up blood.

"Nice Shield my friend, but how much punishment c-can it take?" As Marin asked this he moved his arm draggin the MIRV Cero in a wide arc. While this made some of the attacks within arc, most of the remaining ten sub-divided Cero would be lost in the drag.

As his Cero expended itself he brought his hair out from it's bubble into a curved form as if it was going to focus something. This attack was his ultimate attack in this form and if this didn't work he would have to up the game again. Even though he was regenerating, there wasn't enough Reiatsu in the area for him to win against this crystal "infection", only slow it, but if he survived for a few more moment he might be able to eliminate that threat.

Marin's Reiatsu spiked and from the countless amount of hairs flayed and arced, energy started forming at the tips of each strand and he brought up his damaged arm slowly, painfully. As this was charging the wind picked up as the environment was reacting to the intense amount of energy, it was like a pressure front spontaneously emerged and was forcing the weather to react. After a few moments his arm was in place and charged a powerful Cero of its own, a Gran Rey. Marin took a moment to speak to his Espada.

"It is too bad that you're completely covered by the shield of yours." Spiritual pressure increased from Marin, the beach side water lapped and churned and the humidity greatly increase as the climate became confused, "Cero, Hatsu Rey Cero."

A Gran Rey Cero fired from his nearly broken arm and time seem to freeze for a second as blast was passing the focus point. The charging of the hair stopped and a the Cero fired from every strand of hair into the Gran Rey, adding to its power. The initial gran rey increased in size as well as power and it was heading straight for Kueshi, the person completely covered by by crystal shield and armor.

After the expenditure of this vast amount of energy, he fell to his knees and his left arm hung limp. He tried to speak, but found that he couldn't at the moment. He hoped to be able to soon if that didn't end this fight. Marin let out a decisive breath.

Hatsu Rey Cero C-The Rest of the Battle
Shinrei Shouchi (Active)
Hatsu Ouso (Active)
Charging Cero 1 [Fired as MIRV] D-2 [end]
Garganta Mastery C-3
Regeneration 2
*Zanrei blade= level 15

Kueshi could see what was going on behind his crystal shield. When he saw the Gran Rey Cero charging, he noticed the massive amounts of reiatsu pouring from Marin. He knew his little shield wouldn’t take that on it’s own. He also knew that even between that and his armor he would look like a roasted pig. As his opponent spoke the words “Hatsu Rey Cero,” Kueshi spoke his own short scentence. “Cristales Astilla, Dios De La Tierra.” Kueshi’s armor lost it’s tint, turning clear like diamond and gaining some larger amount of resistance. For a second, his shield shattered, then reformed into a clear shield of simmiliar dimensions with spikes coming off of the front of it. The other two Frisbes exploded outwards into a fine powder, and the shards in Marin’s arm divided into dust entering his bloodstream, Kueshi directing them and wreaking havoc on his nerves as they moved along. After entering his bloodstream, they would have to be able to do the rest on their own.

Kueshi strained his eyes as the bright light of Marin’s Hatsu Rey Cero drew close. It hit his shield, which absorbed a large bit of the impact. As that happened, Kueshi spawned ninety pencil sized crystals directly around Marin giving him about ten feet to move around inside of the bubble. Kueshi sent the crystals flying inwards at the exact moment the Hatsu Rey Cero broke through his shield and smacked against his armor. The Cero broke completely through his armor and left Kueshi with burn marks, but the shield and the armor took well over ninety percent of the impact. “I wouldn’t have expected less of the king of hollows than to tear through my armor in my segunda epta form. I don’t know if anyone else in this universe can do that.” Kueshi grinned at Marin as Kueshi’s crystals grew to speeds of twenty five to thirty miles an hour before they would have reached Marin’s skin.


____ Segunda Epta level full crystal stacks: 1
____ CD for Crystaline Maiden: 0/4
____ Nodachi CD: 3/4

Marin winced as the crystal dusts in his blood stream.

"That's it Kueshi! Now it's Time for me to stop testing." His voice began to echo, "Naikai Naikai Kireru Kireru" His spontaneous release of Reiatsu threw a good number of crystals off and his Heirro took another chunk. Only a few of the crystals dug into his skin, but that wouldn't matter anymore...

Marin's multitude of hair turns into wisps of energy, out of existence. His flesh began to burn and fall off. His entire body transforms and seems to rip apart finally becoming a vaguely humanoid form with orbs flying around him.

Spoiler:

Marin slowly looked up towards his Espada "This is it, Kueshi..."

The Segunda commander of Arrancar momentarily disperses his arm reforming it after the dust clears. Then he sonidoed towards Kueshi and in fact through him dispersing his body around his foe's to appear behind him and after reappearing thrusts his arm towards his back. Assuming Marin hit, he would do far more than a simple punch. Marin would siphon off a portion of his targets Reiatsu temporarily empowering himself.

"Kueshi, my friend, I thank you for becoming my Espada and proving that you are more than capable of helping me improve my fighting skills. I am also impress by you and disappointed in myself for being pushed to my Segunda form."

Seishou Tate (Three Orbs)
Hatsu Rey Cero C-The Rest of the Battle
Shinrei Shouchi (Active)
Garganta Mastery C-4
Regeneration 3
*Zanrei blade= level 15