A Prelude to Armageddon (Open, No Death)

Izanami would be forced to trust that the Shinigami could handle himself. As Izanami caught her breath and allowed herself a moment's reprieve, she began to draw in more of the ambient Reishi in the spiritually dense town of Karakura. Truly, it was a wonderful city to have such a massive amount of spirit particles just waiting to be used. After a few moments of cautious observation of the battle before her, she noticed something strange. Izanami had been able to lay idle for a fairly significant amount of time. Usually when she was fighting, even in skirmishes with allies she would have to watch her back. But this time...

She had spent roughly the entire last few moments completely undisturbed. Not even a minor attack thrown her way to keep her moving. It was like the Togabito completely changed her focus. It could be a ploy but...she didn't seem like that kind of person. The Sin she was fighting seemed far more driven by raw instinct and emotion. She was powerful, but only that. Izanami smirked. This might not be as impossible as she previously thought. Izanami took to the sky without hesitation. This Togabito may be so resilient that her techniques would be unable to deal a fatal wound, but that did not mean she was invincible. If they injured her sufficiently, wore her out, or otherwise managed to subdue her, it would be a boon for the Consecro. They would have a live Sin to do with what they desired.

As she reached a fair point in the sky, Izanami checked again to make sure her fast ally in this fight had things under control. Then, she stabilized the platform of Reishi beneath her feet, making sure she had good footing. The Quincy pentacle structure formed at her back once again split, but this time, it parted completely. Each spoke and ring broke from its setting and flew around her, slightly ascending into the sky. The Obelisk of Chastity raised her arm, the bangle of Reishi around it glowing brightly. Her spirit swords, the Empty Skies, disintegrated and fused their composite energy into the bangle. When her palm faced the sky, the bangle began to spin, and the divided Quincy pentacle parts settled into an orbit around it, spinning in the opposite direction. All around her, faint particles of light popped to life seemingly out of nowhere; they were the gathered and condensed Reishi drawn en masse from Karakura's spiritually saturated environment. Combined with her own Reiryoku, which also sprung from her body moving up her arm like electricity, all of the potential power began moving lightning fast, gathering just above her palm. Slowly but surely, an orb of brilliant spiritual mass began to form, and the spinning of both bangle and pentacle began to accelerate.

'Virtuous Saint's Holy Rapture...,' she thought to herself. It was usually used for bombarding a number of enemies, but if its output were to be focused, it could be even more powerful than her Divine Spear. Under normal circumstances the technique took too long to be used against powerful foes without assistance, but not only was the Shinigami monopolizing Kira's attention, his onslaught would sufficiently add to her own offensive, and could be the key to victory. While the Sin may or may not notice the attack until it was too late, she doubted the competent ally she had made would miss the charging energy.

"Oh Dear, perhaps I gave you a bit to much credit for your resilience." Fero said more to himself then to the Sin before him. She had recovered from the secondary blow rather well, getting herself immediately away from him by flinging herself from the impact site and not allowing him to take that chance to deliver any more assaults on her while she was down. However as far as putting the wind back in her sails she seemed to be struggling for a moment. He felt the icy chill of death run down his spine as she held his eyes with her stare and that lifeless chain of drool hanging from her lips. Dripping down to her breast bone and trailing inexorably down to her...to her...

Fensake nearly averted his gaze when he took full stock of her finally outside of checking for his condition after his assault to gauge how much power he would need to put her down for good. Bloody hell she is might as well be unclothed at this point. Why did the quincy have to slash up her outfit! And varily his minds inner turmoil was well founded for after the quincy's assault Kira's clothing was shredded to the point where a few threads further snipped would leave her well exposed to the elements of the world about her. His foolish allowance for the distraction gave Kira the moment longer she needed to put her faculties in order and with a swift and strong-willed declaration she charged forward like some strange schoolyard brawler with her fist raised high behind her.

Her strength is no joke, I'll need to be fairly careful with how I handle that attack even if it is delivered by the technique of an amateur. Fensake thought as he readied himself with his hands held out wide beside him blades held with the blunt tips inward as if he aimed to smash them into her sides when she came to range. He shifted balance slightly to his right foot and leaned in, bringing his arms in now just slightly.

She reached her axe, but Fensake was so focused on her he did not even notice her kick it's handle and it smashed heavily into his shin spilling him forward to the ground. He gathered his left arm beneath him to try and catch himself entirely on instinct letting his body fall atop it as she barreled down on him. "Bakudou no Hachi, Seki." Once again his instinctual reaction sought to assist him in escaping what he assumed would be a very painful trampling but do to the nature of his spell his body was flung from atop his arm and out of the line of fire while the arm itself was merely pressed down into the ground. As she roared past he felt her heel smash through the spell, never meant to try and block her level of power in the first place, and crash down on his outstretched arm to the tune of a sharp but momentary pain as a fracture on his bone cracked to life from the stress of her raw strength crushing down on it.

Undeterred by the pain Fensake rolled out and curled himself into a ball before coming up onto his feet and while refraining from physically lashing out at her for fear she would expect it he did intend to not let her hit and run. "Hadou No Sanjusan, Soukatsui!" He roared shoving his uninjured arm forward as blue energy coalesced and shot out to engulf Kira from behind.

When the great amount of spiritual energy and Reishi collided and subsequently compacted to a fine point, it was suddenly released into multiple focused beams of light. The arcs of brilliant spirit power shot into the sky, before breaking away from each other and swerving around, changing course to converge directly at the Sin's position. Like the judgement of an angry god, they fell, holy spears of retribution. Many succeeded where her earlier Crusader attack had failed, targeting some of the weakened spots in her tough skin and piercing right through with little difficult. About halfway into the bombardment, Kira managed a rough defense, bringing her unwieldy weapon up as a sort of shield. It only served to partially protect the wretched being from Chastity's righteous fury.

As the dust settled from Izanami's intense barrage, The Reishi dispersed, her Quincy Pentacle separating once more and retaking its place upon her back. The particles she had gathered up until now slowly departed, releasing bit by bit from her transformed state. Gabriel would not be sustainable for much longer; she had used so much energy already, but it had paid off; the Sin had been dealt a crippling blow, and was now clearly being pushed to her limits. As the waves of wind hit her, Izanami held it at bay with her remaining spirit energy, the last reserve being saved for an emergency.

With the Togabito and Visored's movements, they had eventually worked themselves around to the spot where she had discreetly placed a Ginto. Holding out her hand, a small spark of Reishi darted from her fingertip to the small silver canister where it lay amongst the rubble. "Grand Cross."
A flash of light, and a towering crucifix of silver material rose forth from the shattered concrete. Both Fensake and Kira, unable to manipulate Reishi directly, would feel a strong pull towards the object, though nothing either would find an insurmountable force. On its own, the Grand Cross would not be able to contain such a strong Togabito within its field, but with the pressure from the man assisting her, as well as a little additonal help...

Izanmami reached into her robes again and withdrew a new pair of Ginto. In these, she infused a small amount of her energy, configuring them to act for a different purpose. Tossing her arm, the two capsules exploded, loosing rapid beams of light that quickly encompassed the area surrounding Fensake and Kira. Numerous joints of silver floated around them, and every other moment or so, a flash of light could be seen bouncing between them. In actuality, this was the Reishi becoming momentarily visible. The Ginto had formed a sort of electric fence to surround Fensake and Kira, and combined with the pull of the cross as well as Fensake's strong combat competency, the Sin would find retreat very daunting. Izanami prepared Empty Skies in shotrbow form once more to assist as air support.

"She won't be able to keep her distance from you very easily! Now is your chance to deal a decisive blow!" She shouted this at Fensake who undoubtedly would take the chance when he saw fit.

That was most definitely a compound fracture. Fensake spared a glance to his arm held close in to his body for protection. Now that the shock of adrenaline had passed he was feeling it but even so he had no chance to dwell on it as the Girl turned about to speak with him. She certainly did not seem any worse for the wear the way she stayed up. Her breathing wasn't coming at the cost of laborous effort nor had her movements dulled any discernible amount with the blow to her center. A fighter struck by reigning blows on key sections of the body, from kidneys to upper inside ribs. With normal fighters that was the base area you aimed for as no other spots left the opponent feeling as much pain. However with fighters capable of leveling city blocks the way any of the gathered might be able to do, a strong blow to a central area like the stomach was more problematic. Muscle groups from that area were involved in every other body movement one could perform but she was not so much hindered by it as she was perturbed it seemed like. She was truly a dreadfully powerful enemy, possibly stronger then any he had ever faced before.

And Fensake could not stop trembling with excitement.

The series of events to follow, even for Fensake, was a blur that molded itself into a coherent chain of events only after it had all settled. Spears of light lanced down to the ground all about the sin and himself, many finding their way to target and shredding the girls body apart even as she fell back to hide behind her massive Ax. Fensake narrowly avoided several errant lances himself, tucking in and diving away from the barrage as best he could but not escaping it unscathed as beam cut across the bridge of his nose and left a long wound that stuttured itself from right eyebrow across the bridge of his nose and leaving a slightly deeper wound in his left cheek. The very ground around the two it seemed was being shredded under the quincies assault but at last the world fell quiet.

Kira had been dealt a severe blow, one that had splattered Fensake with an unnaturally chill blood spray. In disgust he removed the white outer portion of his ninja Detective costume before reaching up and ripping the black mask from his face that now only acted as an annoyance due to the facial wound. Even despite all the wounds her body carried this monster rose from the aftermath, angrier then she had been and if anime's were to be trusted she was thus at least three times as powerful as before. Fensake could take away that he was still at least on her good side but then whether a blessing or a curse such information was he might never know.

Her newly sprouted and wretched form definitely did not go against any of his theories that her anger only enhanced her ability to dole out punishment as even just after upgrading herself she managed to send him nearly tumbling end over end into nearby rubble. He slammed into it heavily but under control so the damage was minimized to the stronger muscle groups of his back and shoulders. Countless civilians still close enough to feel the presence of the gods fighting for their sake went airborne only to land with sickeningly wet snaps and crunches as bones gave and in not a small amount of cases entire organ systems simply exploded.

Rubble from the top of the pile Fensake had been sent flying into rolled over top of him, trapping him beneath even as the quincy attempted to regain some control of the combat area by surrounding it and setting down her Grand Cross.

"You know, it's funny you mention ending this quickly." A deeper, far more austere voice uttered from within the rubble. "You seem to keep thinking somehow, no matter what you let happen, you can beat us." Rubble quaked, as steam arose from between cracks and crevices. "Not a single shred of assistance comes from the Soul Society yet we have kept you here for how long? Ever wonder why they might not have sent a single unit to check this event out?" A hand erupted from within the rock, no longer sporting a knife it grabbed hold of a large slab before heaving it aside so that it's master might rise from his shallow grave. "Because one man," Fensake lifted himself from within the rubble cocoon, the insides somehow melted together as if by intense flames so he appeared to emerge from an earthen stasis bed. "Is already present, ready, and far more deadly then anything they might be able to field."

The very ground Fensake stepped down on seemed to glow red hot, sagging beneath each step and leaving a clear line of his imprints behind him as he stalked towards his foe. "I have the power to crush not just you but every single sorry ass fool who might think to call themselves I Am." He finalized, stopping just ten feet short from her as he cocked one arm back and locked eyes with her. "Ban-," Flames erupted about his body, starting from the farthermost tips of his hands and feet and slowly burning their way along his limbs leaving a deep crimson armor in their wake. Flares of energy erupted from points of the armor as it was formed like small little test firings of a rocket engine before releasing it's full power and engulfing where Fensake stood completely in flames while his weapon finished forming itself. "KAI!"

Suddenly the very flames that had engulfed him seemed to erupt with even greater intensity as they shot skyward, filling the air behind him entirely with a flaming hell inferno. From that hellish inferno came a massive crimson armored hand belching fire from every conceivable angle. If one were to not be staring at the giant fireball behind Fensake's own smaller one they would notice his own hand likewise jutting out from within it. Slowly he, and likewise the giant hand above, would reach from one side to the opposite and physically took hold of the flames like they were a fabric blowing in the wind. With a swift tug the fires were swept aside like a curtain and dissipated revealing Fensake in fully armored and splendid glory,twin chains leading from his back upwards to the bottom of a floating torso likewise plated almost entirely in armor but for a great maw that showed a molten core of energy. Fires belched and sputtered from opening through both armors highlighting Fensake and his Bankai's sinister appearance. "Crimson Hell Furnace Enigma."

The air itself seemed to want to melt as flames radiated off of both Fensake and the monstrous torso of metal hanging behind him. Tentatively Fensake re-cocked his arm, small fire bursts enhancing the speed and fluidity of his movement, and the armored body of his spirit mimicked the maneuver. "..." He held her gaze for a full three seconds before full burns from the upwards of seventeen nozzles on his arm propelled his arm down into the ground in an instant. His armored giant again mimicking the maneuver with equal swiftness as it's own fire spewing fist rocketed down to smash the airborne Sin back down to the earth and crush it there.

"Not exactly the delicate sort are you. Not that I had thought you were before though." Fensake grinned, struggling with her raw strength with his fist held mere inches from the ground before him to mirror the scale of his armor fist hovering mere feet where she sought to fend it off. "Horyaaaaaah" Fensake bellowed as he shoved all his weight further onto the arm to be rewarded with a sickening crack of bone and tendons from the girls arm before she flung the fist aside and threw herself back and away.

"I've noticed you around for quite awhile today." Fensake said as the dust began to settle about them from the impact of his weapons fist. "I was done with you before any of this ever came to pass, your the one who decided to re-open the book." His and the giants hand opened and closed several times as he let his head idle a bit to the left to look at her. Small flakes and bits of metal fell from the giants backhand and knuckles, making it seem oddly brittle but truthfully showing a testament to the womans strength before him. "Kurosaki, that quincy, you. I don't know and never intended to know what any of you were or are. I had to act serious all over again because for some reason a war decided to erupt in my town." He seemed to be on a roll and ready to keep babbling on but a sickened look crossed his features as he finally got a look at her mangled limb. At her apparent lack of feeling as she forced it to rise to her mouth to deposit a blade within her teeth. No, serious Fensake had just checked out cause he realized now that what he had just seen was actually a replayed memory. He had seen it moments before speaking but the sheer disturbing nature of it forced him to process it slower then normal. To take note of it after the fact. To question one small thing about it that would never make sense to him till she told him how.

"Wait? How did you talk with a knife in your mouth?" And then suddenly his brain caught up to the situation at hand. And then suddenly her feet smashed into his chest without him ever noticing her approach, so baffled had his mind been that whole seconds were only now being played through his mind. He shot backwards, his ribs only surviving by factor of the armor covering his upper body cracking under the pressure of the blow and dispersing it's force. Regardless he would have some serious bruising to deal with. On instinct he immediately grasped for the section of his body and his enigma's hands enclosed around him and protecting him from her follow-up assault.
"Gah geez what the hell just...Oh. OH. Ooooh, right that's it." He shook his head to clear it of the sudden flurry of events that were finally being relayed to him. "Man this girls pretty unstable," He tilted his head as the knife shot through a small gap in the armor and left a small cut on his ear. "Definitely need to calm her down. Capture and kill, and what was the crap I spewed? I get caught up to much in the moment." He waited as the girl continued to cling and clang her knife on his armory cocoon, taking a twist here and their to avoid a stab that managed to break through the armors fingers. "Calm Down Already. Enigma, Scorch her off us wouldja?" He said absently as he knocked his head against the armored palm holding him. On that cue the fist cocoon spewed flames outwards towards the crazed monster assaulting it to burn her off itself. Only opening to let Fensake out if/when she backed off her crazed assault.

Izanami had conserved a fair amount of energy to assist if she was needed, but with Kira so heavily damaged and forced to fight in such close quarters, the battle had turned in their favor. Eventually, the Sin finally lost consciousness. The battle was apparently over.

Disengaging her holy form, the Obelisk descended to the ground, moving in to capture her target. Upon close inspection, it became apparent that the sum of damage was enough to subdue her long enough to get he under containment. Eva and Katrina would be returning soon when they felt the spiritual intensity subside, and it would only be a short trip back to the Vatican upon their transportation seal. "Such evil...thank you, for protecting those people." She directed this sincere comment at her fast ally, glad that innocent lives were spared. If it was within her power, she would have tried harder to keep the Sin away, but Kira had proved far more volatile than she anticipated. Izanami would have spared more words with the man who helped her, but she was short on time.

Picking up the unconscious body, she began to carry it away towards the direction of her subordinates. From there, they would use the transportation ritual to cart Kira back to the Vatican, and at that point she would be under the lock and key of Consecro. Her part in this was done; all she need to do now was ensure her swift delivery.

((Exit))

"Oh that is quite a ripe smell I must say little girl." Fensake said as he emerged from within his armored hand cocoon. He was not particularly a fan of the smell but then he was likewise no fan of taking even a life or death struggle seriously. He noted large chinks and cracks gouged into the gauntlets from her crazed assault in her desperate hour. Could smell the sweetened acridness of flesh seared to a reddened mass of cooked meat. He could tell even without needing to give her more then a cursory glance that she was not on her last leg, but literally not on her legs at all. She was an old car held together by spit and bandages. She was so out of it that, though coherent, her words were spat out more by instinct then intent. As if she was trying to coach herself with them to arise back to action one more time. So broken was she that he actually started to reach out to catch her as she stumbled forward towards him.

"Oh, I don't know about that, whoever this Kurosaki is sounds kinda like a disappointment if he isn't here to stop his arch rival. At least I am sure he's a good guy since he's a rival to a sociopath like you. Evil, good, neutral, it's all the same thing really to me when it comes to a fight. I'll do what I think needs doing and stop what I don't like to see." He said, not looking openly but tracking with his senses the women on the sidelines who he was still all but certain that he could blame this entire debacle on. A loose cannon on a war path who had dragged a war right into a civilian hotspot. This girl was dangerous and whoever she worked for could not add up to be much better. "One of us should have." He said dryly, not hiding his current suspicions of her fault in all this. Wasn't his nature really to hide his thoughts. He watched her leave quietly, dialing his phone to contact his manager and check to be sure everyone was alright. He had to get out of here...the shinigami could not be to far behind such a disaster.