"So what'd I miss?" Aurora asked
"Nothing much my little shinigami spy, these two just rescued you and wiped out my whole army, that's all, oh, and you're all about to die, thought I should mention that" a voice said from behind the trio
In unison they spun around to see who had spoken. before them was a tall arrancar wearing a modified black version of the standard uniform of the enemy army. It had several pockets, and was split open in the middle to reveal a dark skinned, heavily muscled chest. On this chest was a tattoo of the number 66 in red numbers the color of flames. A hole could also be seen down towards the groin area, only half of it was visible though.
Immediately Torin grabbed Rida and Aurora and leaped back, dragging them along with him as the arrancar punched the ground where they had been standing. The ground exploded from the punch completely obscuring their vision of the arrancar with dirt clouds.
"backing away, a good plan, assuming you're in the same league as your opponent" the arrancar said from behind Torin.
Torin's pupils contracted in surprise and panic as he threw Rida and Aurora away from him and turned to face the arrancar. Torin hastily brought his arms up in an X shape in fron of him as the arrancar threw a kick. As the kick connected Torin could hear his bones crunch and a shockwave of air spread from the point of impact. Torin got sent flying into the woods, crashing through a large number of trees before eventually stopping, nothing could be seen of him through the clouds of dirt that Torin had kicked up as he crashed into the ground
Rida formed a platform of reiatsu and regained his posture, then immediately charged a fist of flame "you bastard! eat this!" he roared as he fired his attack with even more power than he had used previously back in the cave
Aurora was also regaining her footing at this time, stretching a palm out towards the arrancar she began the spirit chant for a kido spell "Ye lord! Mask of flesh and bone, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Truth and temperance, upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws. Hado 33! Sokatsui!" With the spell cast with full incantation the power of it was increased immensely, at the completion of the spell name a huge burst of blue energy blasted from her palm and struck the arrancar at the same time as Rida's attack
The attacks converged and exploded in a fantastic display of power, but when the smoke cleared the arrancar stood there without even superficial burns to show for it, he was also pointing one hand at both Rida and Aurora and charging a ball of red energy in each
"Cero!" it said with a smirk as the balls of energy burst into two beams of energy that surged towards Rida and Aurora with frightening speed.
"Damn!" Rida cursed as he tried to block the cero with his arms and failed miserably.
Aurora fared little better "bakudo 39! Enkonsen!" she cried, a golden shield of energy formed in front of her and blocked the cero, but it soon shattered from the power of the attack and Aurora was hit just like Rida.
Both of them crashed into the ground, creating small craters with the impact, with just that one hit both of them were in bad shape, a testament to the power of the enemy's cero.
"pathetic, not a scratch on me!" the arrancar laughed scornfully "I suppose its to be expected though, I AM the 60th Daichiken, Teki Saisho, mere shinigami whelps like you can't be expected to present a challenge to me! It was silly of me to even consider that possibility."
"Shut up, I'm not done yet" Torin said as he reappeared in the air a short distance away from Teki "you caught me off guard once, that doesn't mean you've beaten me, to the contrary, the fact that I'm still alive after you had such an opportunity means that in fact I've all but beaten you."
Rida forced himself to his feet, groaning in pain "I... I can still fight too!" he said, then collapsed to one knee again.
"Don't Rida, you were both hit hard with a point blank cero, you're in no condition to fight" Torin said "I'll handle this"
Aurora was also trying to get up to fight more, but Torin shot her a look and she reluctantly stopped.
"You're going to fight me alone after seeing how badly I injured your friends?" Teki laughed "how foolish of you boy"
"Me? I'm foolish?" Torin asked with a snarl "no, what was foolish was hurting my friends, if you had valued your life you would never have so much as touched them until you were absolutely sure I was dead."
Teki scowled " don't talk big boy! A whelp like you is nothing to me!" he hissed as he vanished in a blur and a sound of what could be vaguely described as thunder
Torin casually swung his sword to his left and blocked the incoming strike with ease
"what!?" Teki gasped
Torin slowly turned his head to glare at Teki, his eyes blazing with reiatsu, then the air burst into a static like distortion as Torin's reiatsu skyrocketed and began to affect gravity.
"Release your zanpakto arrancar" Torin said
Teki's eyes widened in surprise and confusion, but he said nothing
"If you don't... you'll die in a few seconds" Torin said as he began to apply pressure to his blade and began to cut through Teki's blade.
Teki's eyes narrowed and he broke away, bringing his other hand up and rapidly charging another cero "Scum like you have no right to see my Resurreccion! Now die! Cero!" he roared as he fired the cero.
With a rush of air and a bluring of the body Torin shunpod next to Teki and grabbed his wrist, knocking the cero wide
"Release your zanpakto" Torin commanded "I want to kill you at your full power"
"Isolent little!" Teki began, but her ended with a scream of pain as Torin's grip tightened and his arm broke.
"Do not make me say it again" Torin said
Teki broke away and sonidod backwards to distance himself from Torin. "Have it your way then! Don't blame me when you get crushed by my overwhelming power though!" Teki roared in pain and anger
Torin said nothing as Teki tossed his sword up in the air
"Crush him! Nadare!" Teki roared as he caught a massive battleaxe in one hand, his attire changed slightly, his upper body expanded with additional muscles and his shirt dissipated entirely, revealing his entire hulking upper body. His broken arm also appeared to have healed now.
Torin waited for Teki to attack, when suddenly the reiatsu platform he had been standing on shattered and he fell to the ground with even more force than he normally would have.
"what the...?" Torin said as he crashed into the ground, then got back up and rubbed his back, which now had a nasty bruise on it
"Confused?" teki laughed as he landed on the ground a lot more gracefully than Torin did "Nadare intensifies the gravity on spirit particles, making them plummet to the ground, which means reiatsu platforms are impossible to maintain."
Torin cracked his neck then looked at Teki with a bored look on his face "is that all? if so then I needn't have bothered with your release, it changed nothing but how far your corpse will fall" he said "Grow, Kessho Satsujinsha"
As Torin went into shikai Teki smirked and vanished once again, reappearing in the middle of an upward slash across Torin's chest.
Torin blocked the blow with ease, but then the force of the blow knocked him into the sky, he smashed into the ground a good distance away, then slowly got up again, now a crack could be seen in his zanpakto for a brief moment before it grew together and healed itself.
"what happened there?" Torin wondered "before I could stop his blows as easily as I could a baby's, but now he even managed to put a crack in Kessho Satsujinsha! He did get a lot bulkier, but that can't possibly account for such an increase in power"
Teki smirked "Nadare also gains attack power based on the amount of spirit particles in the air around it in a flat plane extending ten feet up from where I'm standing to teh ground at my feet" he explained " and since all the spirit particles in the air are being forced down to our level..."
"Your attacks get exponentially stronger" Torin finished "but is that really all? If you have any last abilities use them now before i cut you down"
Teki frowned in anger and frustration "From someone in your position... you seem awfully confident"
"that's because I have yet to seriously attack you, and your best efforts have yet to actually break through my guard, as impressive as it is that you managed to crack my zanpakto, that isn't enough to win this fight" Torin said calmly "last chance arrancar, go all out, I'm tired of this fight"
Teki scowled, what was with this kid? Nothing fazed him, and his calm tone was so frustrating! No... it was more than that, it was actually intimidating, this shinigami runt, practically out of his mother's womb, was actually intimidating him? Impossible, he'd crush the child and put such silly notions behind him for good!
Teki let out a savage roar and smashed the ground with his axe, sending a wave of energy at Torin that tore up the ground as it traveled towards him
"Kurisutarubimu" Torinsaid as he swung his sword over his head and it burst into a blazing beacon of reiatsu that spiraled off the blade in copious amounts, the blaze of white reiatsu with a prismatic outline was blinding and Rida and Aurora were forced to avert their eyes until Torin swung his sword down and released a crescent shaped wave of energy that surged towards the incoming attack.
The attacks met in a brilliant clash of power, then Torin's attack split Teki;s in two and traveled down to split Teki in two as well.
"No...way..." Teki choked as he split into two halves, turned to crystal, and shattered as his halves hit the ground.
Torin resealed his zanpakto and walked over to his friends, who were both staring at him in awe.
"You two ok?" he asked once he reached them
Aurora and Rida nodded dumbly, they had never seen Torin that merciless before, uptight? yeah. Serious? Most definitely yes. Merciless? Not the Torin THEY knew
"That's... good..." Torin said, then he passed out from exhaustion.
"Woah man are you ok? Hey speak to me! what's wron... oh god, how were you?" Rida exclaimed as he inspected Torin's body. His arm bones were cracked in numerous places, as if the impact of the blows he had been taking was nearly enough to make his arms shatter, most of his ribs had been broken as well. Despite this, somehow Torin had completely ignored the pain during his fight.
"That idiot! Why did he fight? he should've just run!" Rida said "We could've covered his escape"
Aurora shook her head "you don't know Torin if you think he;d ever do that" she said "how much of his past has he told you about?"
"Nothing, all i know is that he's from the rukongai, same as you, only a much poorer district. What does that have to do with him and his trying to commit suicide here?" Rida asked
"If you don't know his past, you'll never understand his personality, and if you don't understand that then his actions will never make any sense to you" Aurora said with a sigh
"Well then enlighten me, we've got time, it's not like any of us are moving any time soon here, and how do you know so much about him anyway?" Rida asked
Aurora took a deep breath "alright, I don't come into his story until towards the middle, but everything before that is more important than my role, if you can call my involvement in his past a role. So I'll start from the beginning..."