Chapter 4
In the darkness a figure sat upon a beautifully ordained throne atop his head was a twisted black crown. The emptiness of the throne room was broken by a duo of hollows, one snake-like, the other resembling a turtle.
"News?" the crowned figure inquired.
The snake snapped to attention. "Um- y-yes. The transition procedure on the arrancar was successful, his spiritual pressure has increased dramatically, although it is under our projected values."
"I can take care of that." The crowned figure declared. "Has zähmen finished?"
"Yes"
"Then I will visit soon. What is the status on the Visoreds?"
"Um…well my lord… they continue to be unresponsive to the procedures."
The crowned figure was silent.
"B-but the hollow produc-"
The snake was cut in half.
"Congratulations, you are now in charge of research." The crowned figure offhandedly said to the turtle. "I recommend you look into the visored project." As if nothing had happened he stated "Now I will visit our new member."
Back in the Soul society seth was barely avoiding Kenpachi's blade.
"C'mon! Stop stalling, fight back!"
Seth saw an opening and gave the slice command. He swung the whips and created a large cut on Kenpachi's chest. Kenpachi stared at the wound. With excitement he exclaimed "Alright! You can cut me!"
"What?" Seth questioned.
Kenpachi dashed toward and past seth swinging his blade. A large gash appeared on seth's shoulder. Unphased Seth sent his whips after kenpachi. Kenpachi dodged the first and grabbed the other.
"What kind of cheap trick is this?" Kenpachi inquired.
Seth proclaimed with a grin, "Pierce!"
Petenshi began to shoot large needles out of its whips, like thorns on a rose. Kenpachi's had was impaled by several sharp spikes.
With slight difficulty Kenpachi let go of the whip. "Cut it out with the fancy tricks and attack me!" He proclaimed with a bloodied hand.
"What the hell is with you?" Seth stuttered in horror.
Kenpachi let out a deep sigh, "I thought you were going to prove fun, but I guess you're just as dull as the others. I'll kill you and get this over with."
"Not so fast!" Several yellow bolts flew toward kenpachi engulfing him in a dusty cloud.
"Madera." Seth acknowledged.
"Miss me?" Madera taunted joining his companion.
"Not at all, I could have handled him."
"He he…" a voice trailed out of the dust cloud.
Kenpachi stepped out of the haze, a fierce grin on his face.
"Even if you are using stupid kido type attacks, that still stung. Maybe… If I fight both of you at the same time it'll balance out!"
"What's with this guy seth?"
"That's what I've been trying to figure out."
"Enough talk!" Kenpachi leapt off flying at the two.
Kenpachi swung his blade with ferocious force, only to have the blow blocked by Kurogane's shikai. Seth flashed stepped behind kenpachi and wrapped Petenshi around him. "Spark"
Kenpachi's entire body became engulfed in electricity, stunning him. Madera fired off several point-blank shots off.
"All right, if you too aren't going to try I'm ending this." Kenpachi exclaimed as he broke free of the whips unphased.
Kenpachi removed his eyepatch and tossed it to the ground. Instantly his spiritual pressure exploded, his yellow aura began to fill the area.
The duo were experiencing fear for the first time since entering the den of soul reapers.
Overcoming the dread Seth gave the slice command and swung at kenpachi who effortlessly deflected both blades. Kenpachi rushed the two of them severely cutting Madera and harming Seth with his spiritual pressure alone. Kenpachi turned quickly to slice Madera only to cut a gash in Kurogane.
"Y-you cut it… I'LL KILL YOU!" Madera flew into a frenzy.
He instantly fired a salvo of about fifty shots. Most of them disentigrated upon contact with Kenpachi's aura, but a few managed to hit their target. Madera had a sudden realization. He rushed straight into kenpachi's aura of destruction. Kenpachi was stunned for a second out of confusion. He snapped out of this and slashed Madera across the chest.
Madera back off reeling in pain, but he none the less smiled deviously. "You just made me invincible!" he declared." Kurogane doesn't just get its power from physical attacks, it also can charge from kido type attacks."
Seth noted "In case you haven't noticed this guy doesn't use kido."
"No, but kido is really just concentrated spiritual pressure and that spiritual pressure of his is strong enough to give kurogane a charge. I'd say I just got about 100 shots from him."
"Don't tell me…" Seth began.
"Yeah" Madera confirmed.
Madera held Kurogane about to fire.
"Didn't you already try that?" Kenpachi pointed out.
Kurogane's center began to glow and a single gigantic beam flew out of it.
Kenpachi was instantly engulfed in the massive wave. As the wave began to dissipate the pair could make out kenpachi falling to his knees.
"Y-you cheating bastards…" Kenpachi crashed to the ground, his body burned and bruised.
"I hate resorting to that attack, shooting a bunch of smaller ones, even if they are weak, is so much cooler." Madera commented.
He looked over to see seth stariing at the fallen captain.
"Yo, what's the deal?"
"We should have been able to beat him."
"Um, seth we DID beat him."
"Let me finish madera… we should have been able to beat him with no trouble at all, we barely won." Seth said, feeling the wounds on his chest.
"Hey, he was a captain, of course he would be tough."
"We've been training for CENTURIES MADERA!" Seth exploded, "THERE SHOULDN'T BE A SINGLE SOUL REAPER WE CAN'T DESTROY!"
He managed to regain his cool, "That meeting can't last forever, tend to your wounds and rest, we move out in an hour." He turned and left.
