CHAPTER 10: FINISH HIM!

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"Nora!" Kieli screamed running as the limp figure quickly fell to the ground. Yoh beat Kieli to the punch, catching Nora before she could hit the floor. "Nora!" Tears glossed over her eyes, threatening to spill.

"Is she…" Yoh whispered, fear in his voice. Kieli snapped her head up to him, fear and anger dancing behind the tears.

"No!" Kieli shouted. "She can't." Her voice dropped when she looked at Nora's face. "Yoh, you have to stop the bleeding." Yoh nodded, shifting Nora slightly so he could place his hand over the gash in her stomach.

The blood continued to soak Nora's white dress. Yoh and Kieli would have to take her to the one that knew their anatomy the best; the one who had created them.

"We have to take her to Szayel." Yoh said, pointing out the obvious. Kieli gritted her teeth.

"You take her…"

"Kieli!" Yoh warned but Kieli was already walking to the one who had harmed her sister. "Kieli don't!" She didn't listen, blood pounded in her ears, fear fueled her anger as she locked her eyes onto her target. "God damn it Kieli, you're going to get yourself hurt!"

Stark watched the three with curiosity. He found their weakness; the thing that would surely get them killed, if not by a soul reaper then by Aizen himself. Yoh gave up trying to talk Kieli out of what she was doing and flashed out of the room to get help for his sister.

"I swear if she dies..." Kieli said with an eerily calm tone. Stark crossed his arms.

"You are each other's flaws." He stated. Kieli glared at him. "You three are too close. This proves you are emotionally unstable when something happens to any one of you."

"'Emotionally unstable'? Ha." Kieli gave a short dry laugh. "This isn't me unstable." Kieli's eyes changed from an ice blue to a deep midnight blue, her pressure rose causing the ground to buckle under her. "This is me unstable. Kill, Jaguar!"

Stark looked down upon the girl who had drastically changed from the one he had seen only a few moments before. Her aura darker than anything he had seen.

There was nothing like this in their brief abilities files Szayel had given him. This was something he had never seen in anything, be it hollow, human, soul reaper or Espada.

Kieli appeared next to Stark faster than any Espada, and before he could register it, he was on a crash course to the white tile beneath him. 'What is she?'

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Yoh flashed down the hall, his heart beating so fast he thought it would explode. Nora lay limp in his arms, her breathing very shallow and uneven. If she died he was going to kill Stark…. If Kieli didn't rip him apart first.

'Kieli.' He knew he shouldn't have left her alone with him, who knew what she would do to him. Suddenly the ground began to ripple as a wave of power swept over him making him lose his balance and almost topple over.

"Shit! Kieli!" Yoh cursed to himself. He had only felt very little of this power, but knew his sister was in a state of extreme devastation; she had gone into her stage two full release.

Yoh burst through Szayel's door. The pink haired scientist glanced up, his eyes on Nora. "So this is why Kieli is upset," he stated, motioning for Yoh to place the girl on an empty table.

"Upset? She went into her Jaguar release!" Yoh shouted.

"Thank you for pointing out the obvious, Yoh," Szayel quipped not looking up from Nora's body. "I'm sure everyone here has felt her rise of pressure." Yoh glared at the Espada but said nothing. "…Go."

"I'm not leaving Nora," Yoh interjected stubbornly as he watched the scientist roll a cart next to Nora.

"Nora will be fine now, she is in my hands. Kieli on the other hand will destroy the place as well as her own body unless you calm her down. Or are you playing favorites with your sisters?" Yoh clenched his jaw. That was a low blow.

Before Yoh could do something stupid, he ran out of the room, leaving one sister to save the other. The tall dark haired teen ran as fast as he could to the training room, but the closer he got the stronger the pressure. 'Shit' he thought. He felt as though the air was slowly being sucked from his lungs.

"What the hell is going on?" Grimmjow asked when he saw Yoh run past.

"Kieli."

"What? What about her?"

"She's the one causing this." Yoh answered. Grimmjow gave him a look of impressed disbelief as they ran forward.

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Stark could barely catch his breath before Kieli hit him again, sending him flying across the room and creating a crater in the wall. The room was quickly turning to debris and rubble. How did she have so much power?

Kieli didn't look like herself; her hair had turned to a darker blue, almost black, and grew far past her hips, her nails had sharpened into cat like claws and her teeth resembled those of a jaguar.

Yoh and Grimmjow stood at the edge of the room astonished at the scene that played before them. Yoh tried to figure a plan that would calm her down while Grimmjow tried to accept the fact that she had done this.

"Kieli!" Yoh shouted. The girl stopped and looked at Yoh, a badly beaten Stark held in her grasp. "Kieli, Nora's fine. Please calm down." Kieli dropped the Espada and brought her hands up to look at them.

"Yoh, I can't…" Pain and fear leaked into her shaky voice. "Help me, it's... too much."

Yoh's eyes widened. "What's wrong?" Grimmjow asked at the sudden worried look Yoh had.

"We have to get her to calm down…"

"We?"

"Unless you want her to destroy everyone here, including yourself, then you will help me think of a way to calm her down." Yoh ordered icily.

Grimmjow watched as his daughter struggled to control the power that rolled off of her. What did most people do whenever they saw an emotionally unstable girl? Leave? That wouldn't solve anything….

A light bulb went off in Grimmjow's head, but for it to work he'd need to find a way to get closer to her without becoming a victim to her overwhelming power.

"Keep her distracted." Grimmjow whispered to Yoh, who nodded with no clue as to what the Espada had in mind.

"Kieli, Nora is alright," Yoh reiterated. "She isn't going to die, she just needs some sleep, but if you don't calm down you will hurt yourself and you will hurt Nora too."

"…Yoh…" Tears rolled down her face. "It's too much, Yoh." Suddenly Kieli felt something slip around her waist. Her powers flared and she turned to face her attacker. As Grimmjow held her in an awkward hug, Kieli felt her powers dwindle a little.

"Calm down." He ordered roughly, not really knowing how to act. Kieli felt fresh tears sting her eyes and she buried her head into his chest, spilling the salty water onto his bare skin. Slowly the uncontrollable power evaporated, Kieli's hair turning back to its natural shocking blue color and her eyes fading to its lighter color as well.

What had he seen most people do to help someone? How did a father calm and reassure a confused teenaged daughter? A hug. Amazing what a simple gesture could do. The two stood there in the awkward embrace as Kieli cried her heart out, both from the thought of Nora's near death and the fear that she would lose herself to a power she didn't really want but had to live with. Soon Kieli had cried all her tears, her body suddenly very tired and heavy, and she collapsed into her fathers' arms.

At a loss of what to do next Grimmjow picked her up, holding her awkwardly. Yoh was busy helping Stark off to Szayel's lab for first aid, so the teen wouldn't be of any help. Not knowing what else to do, Grimmjow carried Kieli back to her room.

If asked, Grimmjow would have no answer for why he was acting so nice to the girl he refused to recognize as his own daughter, but seeing her struggling to control that impressive power had clicked something together in him. Maybe she wasn't as weak as he thought she was….

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"Perfect." Aizen said to himself. A smile danced on his lips as he re-watched what had just happened. The girl had more power than he first thought, and the way to tap that power was by hurting the ones so near and dear to her. His plan was finally falling into place, piece by piece. Just one more thing before the three of them left for the human world; the piece that would make everything come crashing to a devastatingly beautiful end…

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[A/N] Happy Halloween everyone! Sorry for the late post, I've been working a ton more hours now for the holidays so new chapters will be a bit slower until after Christmas. Let me know what you think, I love hearing from y'all.