Aza raised her sword and whip, then dashed forward, flicking her wrist to send the whip at Hikari.
Hikari ducked, feeling the wind of the whip pass over her, then slashed, the blade appearing close enough to strike Aza.
Aza blocked the strike, she was completely awatre of her surroundings, an attack could come from anywhere, and she needed to be ready. Hikari pulled her blade back, and Aza darted forward, stabbing with her sword as she drew her whip back for another lash.
Hikari straightened and knocked the strike high, then planted her foot in Aza's face and knocked her back, then slashed again. Aza recovered quickly and saw Hikari's blade appear before her, she started to block, but then noticed something odd. "the top half of her blade… where is it?" she thought, then she heard the whistle of a blade cutting through the wind behind her. Azea reacted immediately, using sonido to dodge as the two halves of Hikari's sword slashed the air where she had been from opposite sides.
Aza appeared a small distance behind Hikari and lashed out with her whip sideways to cover a large area. Hikari withdrew her blade and spun, she knew she couldn't dodge in time, so she'd meet power with power.
Suddenly all the light in the area seemed to be sucked into Hikari's sword, causing it to shine with blinding light. "Arcus!" she shouted as her blade met with the whip.
At the very instant the attacks met, two massive explosions of energy burst into life, one of golden light, the other of fire.
The energies faded, and the light in Hikari's blade was gone, but was so was Aza's Cero Azote. The two women stared at each other, and then a massive cut opened in Aza's chest, spraying blood into the air like a fountain.
"It's over Aza, I win" Hikari said as she stood tall and held her blade at her side. The injury would be fatal. As the attacks had met, Hikari had used the light to extend her blade, and when her slash destroyed the whip, Aza had been nearly cut in two.
"Filthy… shinigami…" Aza coughed "you… haven't won… yet."
Blood still spurted from her chest in copius amounts, but suddenly Aza's reiatsu skyrocketed.
Hikari took a step back "She should be dead already with a wound like that!" she thought "how is she…?"
"Enchant, El Encantador" aa said, and then she vanished in a sphere of black reiatsu. When the sphere dissipated the old Aza was gone. In her place was a suit of full-plate armor, complete with a helmet and visor. The armor was black as night, and spikes jutted out and nearly every joint, as well as from the chest plate and shoulders.
Hikari frowned, the reiatsu she felt now was impressive, even by her standards, this arrancar was dangerous, more so than any hollow she had fought before.
Without warning, a blue cero shot from the visor of the armor, hikari used shunpo to dodge, but her leg got burned regardless.
"They're faster now, and if she can aim just by looking at me… tch" hikari thought as Aza looked at her and fired a regular red cero. Hikari dodged again, the red cero was smaller and weaker than the first, allowing her to avoid injury this time.
Aza began to move her head to face Hikari and fire another deadly beam of energy, but Hikari had recovered from her surprise and was prepared. The area dimmed again as light was absorbed into Hikari's blade. Using her sword like a laser pen on the air in front of her, Hikari drew a glowing outline of a circle and then slashed through it. The orb filled with light and shot at Aza the instant she fired a cero. "Ignis Orbis" Hikari said as the attacks met, and her attack drilled through Aza's with minimal resistance.
Aza, firing the cero from her eyes as she was, didn't see Hikari's orb until it literally hit her in the face and exploded. She screamed in pain and jumped out of the smoke cloud, looking for Hikari so that she could blast that annoying woman to hell, but he vision became obscured with a flurry of blade pieces of carrying lengths appearing and attacking from all sides in a relentless onslaught.
Aza no longer had a weapon to guard herself with, so instead she tried to escape the sphere of death she was in, but it followed her, hacking and slashing and stabbing at every kink in the armor.
"ENOUGH!" Aza screamed as a cero shot from her whole body in the shape of a sphere, striking everything in a rapidly expanding radius.
The sphere soon expanded to the area Hikari was in, she had cloaked herself with kido, but she had to drop the cloak as the omnidirectional attack came at her. Hikari used her arcus attack to slice through the sphere, then looked at Aza.
The damage dealt by Hikari's assault was extensive. Aza bled from cuts and stab wounds everywhere, staining the armor red.
"I've HAD it with you shinigami!" Aza screamed, barely even coherent because of her rage "how can you be so powerful? I lost so much to gain this power! How can you so casually defeat me? HOW!?"
Aza raised an armored hand into the air, suddenly a cero expanded from her palm to a size that blotted out the entire sky. Hikari's eyes widened in amazement at the sheer size of the cero, then narrowed in concern as the cero began to compress.
The cero shrunk more and more, and soo it was about the size of a basketball. The compressed energy was pitch black, it was so dense that light was actually being trapped in it, it was, in effect, a black hole.
"Singularidad" Aza said as she threw the cero at Hikari.
Hikari moved in a panic, she knew if that attack even landed near her she was finished. It traveled with the speed of a bala, but Hikari narrowly evaded it.
The black cero traveled far before hitting the ground in the center of the town that surrounded the Seireitei's west side.
In an instant, every last bit of the sizable town was vaporized in a massive ball of flame.
Hikari looked down in the crater the cero had left in horror. She knew the residents of the town have been evacuated at the beginning of the war, but now they had nothing to return to but a giant hole.
Aza's arm rose again, and another singularidad formed in her palm.
"She can use more than one of those!" Hikari panicked
"DIE!" Aza screamed as she began to throw her attack
Hikari knew she couldn't allow that attack to hit the ground again, she had to contain the blast somehow.
Hikari remembered something she taught her squad members on a regular basis.
"Hado and Bakudo do not exist, they are simply classifications we as shinigami make based on the nature of a spell as it is created. However, any spell can be cast as the opposite category of spell, if used by a master of Kido" Hikari said in her memory
"Seeping crest of turbidity. Arrogant vessel of lunacy! Boil forth and deny! Grow numb and flicker! Disrupt sleep! Crawling queen of iron! Eternally self-destructing doll of mud! Unite! Repulse! Fill with soil and know your own powerlessness!" Hikari chanted at speeds only achievable by a true master of kido
"Bakudo 90! Kurohitsugi!" Hikari finished. The black box of the converted Hado spell formed around Aza as she thre her attack, trapping her and her miniature nuke together.
"Oh…" Aza said as the box sealed it self
"Sorry, my sisters" she thought as her attack met the wall of the box "looks like your sacrifice was in vain after all"
There was a shudder from the box, but it faded, and when the box dissipated, Aza was no more.
Hikari sighed with relief, she hadn't been sure if her kido could stop that monstrosity of an attack, but it had held. As she dropped to the ground the members of squad 3 cheered triumphantly.
Hikari sealed her zanpakto and walked through the broken wall, she did not share the squad's joy, the area by the gate was littered with corpses, and the town was a smoking crate. They had won, but at a terrible cost. Hikari shuddered at the thought of how the rest of the war would go.