Zaraki
Becoming a shinigami captain was easier than Zaraki expected. He strode up to the front gate of Seireitei with Nergui at his side and Yachiru on his shoulder and roared out his challenge to anyone who would listen. Most ignored him or gave him a wide berth (Weaklings. He didn't want to fight them.) but there was one who rose to the challenge.
Kenpachi Kiganjo roared with laughter at the idea that a mere peasant with no training would DARE pick a fight with the captain of the eleventh division, especially with such a relatively small dæmon in comparison to his own warthog. He laughingly summoned his entire division, over two hundred shinigami, to watch as he taught the 'mangy cur' a lesson. The old taicho was arrogantly certain of his victory.
Zaraki never faltered as the ring of cheering and jeering spectators and snarling dæmons grew larger. He listened with growing boredom as Kiganjo's insults became longwinded. Eventually, he lost his patience.
"Ya gonna be done soon?" he barked. "Kid needs her nap."
Yachiru, just an infant at the time with a fluffy Tasmanian Devil pup clinging to her head, cooed happily and waved.
Kiganjo sneered and raised his sword. The warthog dæmon at his side grunted threateningly and pawed the ground, ready to charge. "You will learn your place, Peasant. Perhaps I will even leave you alive when-."
With a single strike of the newcomer's unnamed blade, Kiganjo's head was severed from his body. It was flung through the air, thudding to the ground beyond the ring of spectators. Before it came to rest, the warthog exploded into Dust with a panicked, startled squeal.
For a long moment, the spectators were silent from pure shock and incomprehension. Then they erupted into a cacophony of yelling, screaming, and various animal noises. Zaraki didn't put up with it for long.
"Oi! Can it!" They fell eerily quiet upon his order.
"So I guess you're a captain now." Nergui rasped, voice unimpressed. She'd been hoping for a challenge, but hadn't even had a chance to get involved.
"Too easy." Zaraki grunted. He reached down and stripped the captain's haori from Kiganjo's headless body, throwing it over his own shoulders heedless of the bloodstains.
From that day on, the eleventh division was under his command.
Zaraki's Dæmon
Species: Honey Badger (Mellivora capensis)
Name: Nergui (No Name)
Yachiru's Dæmon
Species: Unsettled
Name: Vesper (Evening Star)
Kiganju's Dæmon
Species: Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus)
Name: Nika (Bringing Victory)
My…everything…is still up in the air and promises to get even busier over the next few weeks. I'll probably have to change my update schedule to once every two weeks pretty soon.
