Yourichi raised her head still dazed. With slightly blurred vision she watched Trex walk over to the remains of his zanpakuto, pick up the handle with what was left of the blade still attached, and walk towards her. Yourichi quickly recovered and stood up only to find Trex stood in front of her holding his broken blade next to his waist,
"Unlucky for you saiyans are taut to ignore whether the person we're about to kill is male, female, or even a child, and simply get the job done," Trex swiftly raised the sword over his head whilst flipping it so it was help like a dagger.
Yourichi took her advantage while Trex was monologuing to focus her reiatsu, and just as Trex finished his speech she thrust her elbow into Trex's stomach, causing him to stumble backwards winded. Yourichi then kicked the broken zanpakuto from Trex's hand and with surprising speed got Trex into a grapple pulling both his arms backward near to breaking point,
"To bad you never learned to keep your mouth shut and get the job done," said Yourichi with a smile on her face.
Trex attempted to struggle against Yourichi's grip with no success,
"Are you ready to do this my way? Or are you going to continue to struggle and waste your potential?" asked Yourichi pressing her foot into Trex's back to help her keep Trex's arms pulled behind him.
After a few minutes of struggling Trex relaxed and seemed to give up, cautiously Yourichi lessened the force with which she was pressing into Trex's back, although she didn't relax her grip on his arms.
"Well?"
"Saiyans never surrender, no matter what the situation, so I shall not surrender from this easily escapable grapple, I will whoever give you the chance to release me so we may continue this battle properly, you are a good opponent for a woman"
"If you could escape my grapple you'd have done it by now, so just agree to do things my way and we can continue your training once you and your zanpakuto have recovered"
"If that is your choice, but don't say that I did not give you the chance,"
Suddenly Yourichi's foot that had until now was pressed into Trex's back, was flung downwards causing Yourichi to fall forwards which made her release her grip on Trex's arms. Apparently during their brief conversation Trex had slowly wrapped his tail around Yourichi's foot while she was distracted. Now free Trex stretched his arms and back, then channelled his reiatsu until once again there was a red glow surrounding him,
"Scarlet Flash!" Trex shouted putting his hands out in front of him. A scarlet wave of energy burst from his palms expanding as it rushed towards Yourichi making it impossible to dodge, but thanks to her speed Yourichi was able to flip over it rather than attempt to dodge sideways. With more amazing speed Yourichi spun round kicking towards Trex's head. She missed as Trex leant backwards moving just out of reach of her foot. With a powerful kick of his own Trex put his foot into Yourichi's side knocking her over again, Yourichi didn't stay down for long and took up an attack stance while Trex rushed to one side, quickly pick up his broken zanpakuto, and lunge towards her propelling himself on his Reiatsu for more speed. Yourichi stood firm waiting for the perfect time to counter Trex's simple lunge, but this time she would not forget about his tail.
As Trex lunged towards Yourichi he felt energy coursing through him like an adrenaline rush, the thrill of battle was strong and he was close to making his killer move. As he continued to lunge the familiar glow surrounded him, but it also surrounded the broken sword that he held out in front of him. A distance away, side on the the battle scene, a light shot up from a silhouetted building into the sky, then it changed course and headed straight for Trex and Yourichi, both of them noticing this only just as Yourichi was about to counter Trex's attack, the two of them stopped and turned to the now orange light that soared towards them like a ball of fire. Yourichi jumped away but Trex stayed where he was, the light did not deviate and headed straight for Trex. Crossing his arms in front of his chest Trex prepared for the impact, but there wasn't one, the light simply halted in front of him. In the centre of the light floated a shard of black metal. Trex raised his broken sword blade in case he would need to attack the strange object hovering in front of him. The glowing shard of metal floated towards the broken blade which cracked and simply fell away as though it had been hit hard by something. The metal shard then fixed itself into the hilt where the old blade used to be, glowed a brilliant white and extended to to full shape of a katana blade. The glow faded away to reveal a shinning silver blade. Trex stared at the sword completely bewildered, as he took a closer look a flash of orange ran up the blade from the hilt to tip like a brilliant flame,
"What was that!" Trex shouted at Yourichi questioningly,
"This is an interesting turn of events, I have no idea what that shard was or why it has attached itself to your zanpakuto," Yourichi cautiously approached Trex keeping an eye on him as well as inspecting the zanpakuto.
As Trex stared at his new sword he felt a heat coming from it, as if it had it's own energy. As he continued to look at the shining blade one word slowly pressed itself into his mind,
"What is a Soukyoku?"
No sooner has Trex asked the question then his sword began glowing again and a large amount of energy radiated from it like a living thing, it's body grew and changed shape into a staff with curved blade on the end. When the transformation ended Trex was looking at a magnificent halberd. The staff and flat of the blade were black but the blade's edge was a bright silver and shone in the feint crescent moonlight.
"Now this is a weapon, I can see why you wanted me to train now," said Trex admiring his new halberd,
"But that's the soukyoku, the zanpakuto with the power of one million zanpakuto's, I thought it was destroyed," Yourichi stared in amazement at this smaller version of the weapon once used to execute shinigami who broke the most upheld of their laws.
"The power of one million of your magic swords? I like the sound of that," said Trex grinning as he weighed up his zanpakuto, as he did so he felt that energy again, that heat the halberd had put out when it was transforming. Trex focussed his own energy to meet with the halberd's energy, as soon as he did his mind went blank.
When Trex opened his eye's he was in an open space, he stood on a hard dirt ground and was surrounded by a shadowed veil of some kind that prevented him from seeing anything beyond a few meters. After a few moments a bright light moved across the sky and the veil seemed to fade away, and the shadows began to take shape. As his eye's adjusted Trex saw that the shapes surrounding him were stands like in an arena of some kind, and he was in the centre. A bright blue sky lit up over his head and the light that had caused the shadows to disappear flew round the stands and landed on a perch that had appeared.
The white light took shape and a fiery bird that stared intently at Trex. Trex stared back and turned to completely face the bird and moved a few steps towards it,
"Where am I?" Trex asked, then thought about what he had just done, "Yeh, like a bird could tell me,"
"This is your inner world," came a voice from the bird's direction, Trex stared at the bid, but it's beak had not moved so it couldn't have been it,
"Show yourself coward, where are you?" Trex yelled around him,
"I am right here," said the voice again as if from the bird, which had now started to groom under one of it's wings,
"Seriously now, show yourself and tell me where I am and how I got here," Trex yelled around himself again ignoring the idea that it was the bird that spoke,
"I am showing myself, and I have told you where you are, as I said this is your inner world, it is a reflection of you and your desires,"
Now Trex turned specifically to the bird to catch it in the act, but even as the voice spoke the bird beak did not move and the bird just stared back at Trex,
"Are you saying that you're that bird thing in front of me?" Trex asked taking a step towards the bird,
"Yes, did you not already realise this, I am Soukyoku, Twinned Punnishment, and now I am your partner,"
Surprisingly Trex seemed to accept this information and walked up to the bird stood on it's perch,
"You're a bird, and a weapon at the same time?" Trex asked looking at the firey bird,
"This is the form my spirit takes, the weapon is my physical body, do you understand this?" the bird looked right into Trex's eye's as it said this,
"It seems simple enough, in this world I get a transforming weapon with a spirit and a name," Tex replied, still surprisingly calm, "I still don't understand what this place is though,"
"This is a world in your mind where we can communicate in person, it takes the form of your personality," the Soukyoku looked around to get an idea of it's new surroundings, "As for it's appearance, it's up to you to decide why it is the way it is,"
"Well it looks like and arena, for contests and things," said Trex trying to work out the meaning behind the place,
"An arena, where people compete to be the best at what they do, is that what you want to do?" asked Soukyoku turning to face Trex,
"It is every saiyan's ambition to be the greatest warrior in the universe," said Trex, his voice full of pride,
"Then that is why your inner world looks like this," said Soukyoku as he spread his wings and took off for a better view, as Trex watched after him he saw that the stands didn't seem to end as they rose towards the sky,
As Soukyoku flew higher into the sky, he cried down to Trex,
"Remember, should you need my help in battle, simply call my name and my power is yours,".