Chapter 48 – 100 vs 1
Ketu prepared for an attack as Emperatriz rushed towards. But she did not draw her sword, instead she jumped just in front of him and suddenly Ketu felt dizzy and everything around started to spin and he felt as though he was getting sucked into a vortex of some kind. The grounds and walls around him collapsed and he felt himself falling and falling into darkness and eventually losing consciousness.
It seemed like hours had passed when he finally woke up. He stood up and looked around gingerly, prepared for any form of surprise attack. But when he sensed no trance of spiritual energy around him he lowered his guard though still alert. He properly looked around him and studied his current position. He was standing in, literally, the middle of no where. It was like a desert, no trees, no wildlife, just a massive sandbox. He looked around many times to make sure that he wasn't dreaming or he has already died or something. But he could sense the same spiritual energy of when he was around Usaitar, so he knew he couldn't have died. He then looked up at the sky. There was no sky, it was just an empty void, a complete yet empty darkness where nothing moved at all.
He was about to move on and work out where he was before he suddenly sensed a familiar evil spiritual pressure appear behind him.
"Are you enjoying yourself?" asked Emperatriz voice.
Ketu turned around and readied himself for an attack, but nothing happened. Emperatriz was just standing there looking annoyed but calm.
"Yes I'm enjoying myself in this mild temperatured desert," said Ketu sarcastically.
"No need to be moody," she grunted.
"Speak for yourself."
"I have a reason to be pissed off. That stupid Usaitar forced us to fight fair against our opponents and this is the only time when I'm away from him to say that I hate it.
"You don't fight fair?" asked Ketu raising an eyebrow.
"Oh I do, I do fight fair, I don't back-stab, ambush, surprise attack or anything like that. Probably due to my master's influence. I just really don't like Usaitar's one on one fair fight thing. I mean, why bother dirtying my own hands when I can just call out a few friends to do it for me, right? He's too into that honour thing, all about fighting fair, no back stabbing etc. all that crap. I hate that part of him."
"You may not like him but you talk as much as him. Reminds me of Terri actually, sometimes she just can't stop talking, I'm not complaining though, she's always good to have a chat with. Ah, I love her. But I guess it runs in the family and you've probably been influenced more than you want by Usaitar which obviously isn't a good thing. "
"True I may not like him, but I still won't allow you to insult him like that."
"Actually, I didn't insult him. I just said you and him both talk too much. I mean, I'm a person who just like to get down to business straight away but then I stand here for an hour listening to you jabbering on about a load of rubbish, it's rather boring to be honest with you. Besides this is just stating a fact, nothing wrong with that is there?"
Emperatriz looked extremely annoyed and flustered. "You need to know how to show respect to those who are stronger than you."
"Stronger than me?" he asked sarcastically looking around. "Sorry I don't see anyone."
"You really piss me off. But no matter, you'll be gone in a matter of minutes and I won't have to deal with you again," she said confidently.
"Oh? Don't make me laugh, if you kill me then get on with it already. I'm waiting. Or are you too scared to attack?" taunted Ketu.
"Oh no, I'm not scared. Why would I be scared of an insignificant brat like you. I'm just letting you have a bit more time to live."
"I'd prefer it if you got this over with and I can get going. Either that or I'm just going to leave now."
"Unfortunately for you, you can't leave until our fight is done and a winner is decided. That means until one of us dies we'll be trapped in here."
"So basically I kill you and I leave. Correct?"
"Don't get cocky, you won't win against me," said Emperatriz.
"Alright, why don't you prove your strength already. I've been standing here for ages now and neither of us has moved an inch. I mean come on, this is boring. Draw your sword and let's get this over with already."
"I really don't want to dirty my precious sword you know."
"What kind of arrancar are you, seriously this is just annoying now."
"But." She raised a hand, "I can get other people to kill you." She moved her hand vertically down and a five arrancars appeared in front of her. They were weak arrancars, you can tell because they didn't even have a human shape. "Usaitar always say for us to be fair in our fights and to win with honour. He lets us have our own little army of arrancars, even if they are weak. He says be fair, but he never said we couldn't use our armies to crush our opponents even if there's only one of you." None of the arrancars carried a sword, all of them were deformed and look like a bunch of barbarians with no legs and twice the size of normal people.
"You think a bunch of idiots like that can stop me? I'm a captain for gods sake. If I can't handle those morons I wouldn't be a captain."
"True, but let's see how you do anyway." She waves her hand forwards and the five arrancars immediately move to her command.
"Well, I guess this'll have to do as my warm up then, at least I'll get to stretch my arms a bit." sighed Ketu.
He doesn't move, he stood there and waited for the five arrancars to move to him. The five arrancars simultaneously fired cero at Ketu. He doesn't move at all and the attack doesn't even reach him before getting deflected into the air.
The arrancars then used sonido and appeared near Ketu surrounding him. They all moved in and tried to punch Ketu. He again didn't move and none of the arrancars came in contact with him stopping just short of him but couldn't get through the force field around Ketu.
"Nope I guess I was wrong. This won't even be good enough to wake me up," yawned Ketu. He vanished and appeared again in the same position in less than a second and in that second the arrancar's shoulder's burst open, spraying blood everywhere and disintegrated.
"Not bad little boy. I can see why you're a captain at least," said Emperatriz with a smile.
"Is it just me or do all high level arrancars like to analyze their opponents' power before going all out?" asked Ketu scratching his head.
"Sorry, it's just a habit we Wu Jian arrancars have. Usaitar taught us never to fight a fight we can't win, so we have to analyze out opponents power first before actually attacking."
"Is that why you all talk so god dam long?"
"It could be, but I don't see how that analyses your strength."
"Ah who cares. There you've seen my strength for yourself, so will you finally fight now?"
"Oh, I dunno. I may consider it, but still, I can't be arsed really."
"You really annoy me."
"Nothing new then is it?" smirked Emperatriz.
"Just shut up," said Ketu he moved his hand swiftly and fired a hado four at Emperatriz without saying a word.
Emperatriz intercepted the attack with a cero also without saying a word. The attacks collided and exploded.
"I see you know how to use non-verbal kido attacks."
"Of course, I am a master of kido believe it or not. If I didn't know how to do non-verbal kido I wouldn't be a kido master."
"Yeah, oh I'm sorry. I dozed off," said Emperatriz.
"You are so dead." Ketu charged forwards without warning and fired kido attacks at Emperatriz continuously. She moved, avoiding each attack with sonido.
She jumped back and intercepted the last attack with a quick bala shot.
"You really want to die that badly?" she asked raising an eyebrow.
"Just you try it," taunted Ketu as he stopped his advance.
"Just so you know, those five arrancars were the weakest in my army. I think as a fitting end for you, you should die at the hands of a hundred." She raised her arm once more just like when she summoned the five arrancars. "Fear my army because it's about to CRUSH YOU." Her dark spiritual energy spread out around her and immediately arrancars of all shapes and sizes emerged from the ground like zombies.
Soon Ketu was standing there being stared down by an army of a hundred arrancars.
"Better for you now?" laughed Emperatriz. "I hope this is enough to wake you up, because, if, you mange to beat this lot I wouldn't want to face a feeble person who couldn't even stand."
"So things can finally start to get interesting eh? About time," smirked Ketu flexing his arms and getting ready to face the incoming horde.
"Don't hold back my servants. Crush him with all you've got."
"Bring it." And a hundred cero beams flew towards him. Ketu reacted quick and flash stepped into the sky before any of those landed a hit on him.
"Rain from the skies, pillars of the heavens. Hado twenty-two, arrows of light." He chanted quickly in his mind without saying anything and shot out light arrows from around him piercing many arrancars and disintegrating them. He flipped up into the air and fired hado four repeatedly blasting many arrancars to pieces. He landed expertly in the middle of a large group of arrancars.
They saw him land and all attempted to punch or slash him all at once. Ketu ducked effortlessly. "Incinerate, flames of hell. Dissolve, waters of the sea. Hado sixty-nine, burning sea." He chanted again quickly in his head and a huge wall of burning water rose around him and washed out all arrancars within a ten metre radius of him like a tsunami.
There were still many arrancars remaining but they were retreating slightly.
"You useless idiots, stand your ground," ordered Emperatriz. The arrancars stood still immediately and fired cero.
Ketu flew towards them at a fast speed twisting and twirling in mid-air dodging the cero and counter-attacking with hado four and taking out a few more arrancars. He flash stepped and stood in front of one of the arrancars. The arrancar saw him and reacted instantly trying to stab him. Ketu sidestepped stepped forward and kneed the arrancar in the stomach and kicked him into the air. He then jumped up after him, grabbed the arrancar, chanted a few quick words in his mind and threw the arrancar into the others. As the arrancar smashed into the ground he exploded and took down all the arrancars around him.
"Nice, implementing kido. I haven't seen one of those in ages."
"I'm glad you like it, because you're going to be one of my victims." Ketu moved again, more arrancars blocked his face, he grabbed one and chucked it at Emperatriz exploding just as she jumped out of the way. He followed up the attack with another hado four, but two arrancars got in the way and were incinerated but the attack didn't reach Emperatriz.
She raised her arm once more and more arrancars turned up.
"One against a hundred eh? I like those odds," sneered Ketu. He moved out once more, flash stepped and appeared behind the line of arrancars as tens of them were disintegrated. They turned and fired cero at him. He jumped up and dodged them. "You know what I hate about arrancars? They are so simple minded, all they can do is wear white and use cero. I mean seriously, come up with something more original."
"Doesn't have to be original if it does the job," said Emperatriz.
"That's the problem. It's going to do bugger all." Ketu saw more cero, he flash stepped and avoided them. He closed his eyes and raised his hand into the sky and said quickly. "Skies darken and dragons roar. The land has fallen and the mighty will rise once more. Hado ninty eight, dragon meteor!" He then moved his hands downwards as if throwing something down. The skies filled with rock of all sizes and they rained down onto the hollows crushing every single one. Explosions filled the ground and screams of pain from the arrancars. Soon Ketu and Emperatriz was the only two standing once more.
"A level ninty eight kido? Extraordinary. But I found out that you're not strong enough to do that kido non-verbal."
"Big deal, I don't need to."
"Whatever you say then. I guess I should show you true power then. Yes, now that I have no army left, I guess I'll have to fight."
"About damn time, I was getting bored."
Emperatriz drew her sword. "So, you want to face me that badly do you? Well then, I'll show you. MY POWER." A dark evil spiritual pressure erupted from her and sent a strong wind of spiritual pressure that would have crushed anyone below vice-captain rank.
Ketu readied himself and stood firm in the presence of her spiritual pressure.
Emperatriz gave a scary grin, "Roar, poderoso accla."
May have a lot of errors I apologise for that, I was a bit rushed to finish it today cos I forgot, the festivities got the better of me, hope u understand, also I'll be taking a break next week cos it's Christmas then new year, so see you all in two weeks