The Espada Are Next!! (Training, Lilly) [Invite]

Lilly shivers and sighs softly. She was getting full. She hadn't eaten that much in quite some time. Then again, not every day she meets thing after thing that considers her a blight and tries to wipe her out. It was also not every day that each and every one of those things she met fell for childish taunts and went right for Lilly while her aura was up, leaving them completely unguarded as her explosions racked their bodies enough so Lilly wouldn't have a struggling meal. Really, when one saw a girl cloaked in reiatsu, no matter how annoying she was being or how cute she seemed, one would think that the sight would garner a second thought. At the very least, caution. She hummed and went back over all of the fun things she had met.

"Let's see... Fourteen Hollows, three Shinigami, couple of evil humans with bows, couple of evil humans that run really quick... Err... Lilly thinks there was a... Togie-thingy in there... Oh, and fake Espada-sama! He was friendly and tasty..." She grins widely and giggles, excited that she was training for a purpose. She had one goal in mind, and that was to devour the Espada and take over Las Noches. If she kept training like this, she'd get there in no time! Her aura was positively flaring about the young-looking Arrancar, the small girl sitting on a bench and bobbing her head to a dropped MP3 Player. Somehow, it was on while she was fighting a certain Quincy, and it was dropped while she was being devoured by the diminutive Arrancar. It seemed to fit her, although she had no idea who Lady Gaga was, or why she wanted a Bad Romance...

When one looks at Lilly, you wouldn't expect her to be able to devour things much bigger than her, but that's because it's a rare occurance to watch her eat and not be on the menu. The secret was that Lilly had no internal bones or structures, and her mouth was stretchy as hell. She could eat an entire Hollow with ease if she wanted to. However, this leaves the issue of body bloat, which Lilly's internal temperature has covered. In order to melt down everything into fuel for the Arrancar's body, her insides are unbelievably hot. So much so, that almost nothing could be eaten and survive. So by the time Lilly has something in her mouth, it has already begun to melt into fluid. Essentially, Lilly drinks everything, albeit in the one of the oddest ways anyone can think about drinking something.

Lilly pursed her lips and looked about. Despite how creepy her eating habits were, she was an exceptionally clean eater. She grinned widely and got up to her feet, sighing softly. "Lilly's not done yet! She has to eat more if she's gonna be powerful enough to eat them, and Lilly's gonna eat them all!" She giggles and holds her arms out, dashing after someone else and diving in and out of craters. There were impact sites from Lilly's explosions littering the area. She simply blew everyone up and ate them, a true Hollow if there ever was one.

Lilly stops and fires a Cero at another passing Hollow, easily burning it's lower half badly enough to make it roar in pain. She skipped over to the beast and grinned widely. "Lilly's gonna eatcha~! No hard feelings!" Then she leaned down, opening her mouth widen than thought possible, and began her process. Luckily for Lilly, the Hollow resembled a long snake, so she didn't have to work her lips around any odd protrusions or anything. She hated arms for that reason, as the shoulders tended to be annoying to work lips around. Slurped like a long noodle, the Hollow was gone as quickly as it was found, into the infinite bowels that made up Lilly's belly, adding not a pound of extra weight as the Hollow's practically deconstructed body added power to Lilly's Resurreccion, along with the other poor souls that had fallen to the girl's eating binge.

She let out a long sigh and shook her head. "Lilly's gotta keep going! She can't quit now! She can feel it! Her power is growing a lot!" With that, she was off once more, paying no heed to the roof of the building destroyed with her ignorant firing of the Cero at the Hollow. However, she rarely considered collateral damage when she was feeding. Not because she didn't care, but that she seemed to not notice when something was destroyed. What an odd little girl...

A beeping. That's what had awoken the once-peacefully-sleeping Urahara. Damned beeping from his damned alarm. With a drowsy groan, he slammed a fist down, expecting to hit his alarm clock. Yes, he did actually have an alarm clock. It never woke him up for more than a few moments, but it was there so he could at least say he set his alarm. When the beeping did not stop, Urahara pulled his head up from his desk, before realizing it was a device he had rigged to alarm him whenever a being with higher reiatsu than most Shinigami and Hollow's was in the area; namely, a Sin other than Vlasta, or an Arrancar. He stood up, before reaching into his waistband, and giving his body a good scratching. He put his arms in the air, stretching, as he attempted to crack his back.

"Well, back to the grind." He said in that oddly cheerful, yet narcissistic way that he tended to say things. He grabbed the haori of his everyday street clothes, putting his arms through the sleeves, and grabbing Benihime, who had been put off to the side for now. He walked through the doorway, stopping in front of Vlasta's own, listening for something on the other side. Nothing, silence, zip, zil, nil. He'd bug her later. In some odd way, he found he DID enjoy bugging anger-prone Arrancar. Which reminded him... he had to add the definition of Arrancar to the Soul Dictionary he was writing. He kept forgetting to do that. Probably because he would get bored halfway through, and have someone occupy his time with meandering chit-chat, or make his monkeys-err, employee's, cater to his every whim.

As he walked through the shop and reached the front door, he practically disappeared. Despite still being in a gigai, he had perfect use of most of his functions as a Shinigami, unlike most other Shinigami. But that was the extent of his abilities. If he wanted to actually fight, he would need to leave the gigai in the care of a Mod Soul. He found himself drawn to an area, similar to a park, that had various craters in it. Nearby, police officers were already on the scene, taping off the area so they could inspect whatever had happened. He felt the reiatsu of another being nearby, stronger than the average Hollow by far, most likely the culprit.

Kisuke turned his attention from them, to the building. Half of the roof had been destroyed by, judging from the composition of the residue, an Arrancar or Hollow. At least, this is what Kisuke had theorized. It may have also been some Shinigami with an ability like a cero, but very unlikely. The reishi composition made it clearly evident of the malevolent being's nature. Or at least, what gave off the reishi of a malevolent being, born of corruption. That source of reiatsu. Urahara turned his attention to the little girl that was taking off in the distance.

"Well now, isn't that interesting?" He mused to himself, as he often did when he was alone. He tapped his cane for a second on the platform of reishi that most Shinigami made to keep themselves aloft in the air. Immediately, without warning, he shunpo'd to the little girl, catching up to her fairly easily. "Is that you destroying this part of town?" He asked, sounding somewhat amused as he kept at her pace, not seeming to stop her or slow down so she could pass.

As he had sped up beside her, Urahara couldn't help notice that it seemed she was a young girl. How curious. She was quite clearly an Arrancar by now. She seemed to be little more than a child, actually. Her aura was rather explosive, something that Urahara wasn't even a little concerned about, in all honesty. Her mask fragment was rather interesting, and the fact that she seemed determined to do something piqued his interest somewhat, also. What could this girl be doing?

Regaining his head, Urahara questioned the motive of the little girl. What cause would she have to destroy part of a building? There weren't remnants of an enemy nearby. Unless she had disposed of them. It wasn't unheard of for Hollow's to eat other Hollow's, and Arrancar to eat Hollow's.

"Because if so, may I ask what you're trying to accomplish by destroying our humble city?" He asked, his blonde hair being buffeted by the wind. He kept a firm hand on his hat so it didn't fly off, the other hand on Benihime, which was in her unreleased form of a cane.

Lilly grinned as she ran down the street, not using her Sonido at all to dash about. She was in no hurry, and everything would be easily eaten by her incredible maw! Her running with her arms outstretched like that was kinda adorable, despite what she was doing. She gasped when Kisuke stepped out in front of her with little effort, not expecting someone so quick to be out and about during her shenanigans. Although, such acts tended to bring some attention, negative or otherwise. She was very rarely concerned with that, however, as it took a lot for her to be genuinely upset about something. However, there were distinct buttons one could press to get the girl angry, as was the case with Nikolai. Hell hath no fury like a Lilly scorned.

"Awuh? Who are you? The buildings?" She pursed her lips and looked behind her, gasping. Wow... She destroyed quite a bit... This was significantly more destruction than the park or the shooting range. "Ahhhh...." She grinned widely and looked to Kisuke with no guilt detectable on the child Arrancar's face. She wasn't going to lie, but her face told of a want to lie. "Err... Well... Lilly's eating..." That was the basic response, but Lilly could tell he would delve further to get the most information as he could, or rather, he would try. She shook her head and sighed. "Well... Lilly's eating a lot so she can be as powerful as the Espada, so she can eat them, too... That way, Lilly's the only Espada and then everyone will fear her like they should!" She pursed her lips as she explained her somewhat scary-sounding plans. However childish her plans sounded, Lilly meant every word, and if she saw a way to do it, she would take it.

She sniffed the air a couple times and smiled. "Shinigami... That's what you smell like... Lilly would know, since enough of you attack her and get eaten..." She hummed and tapped her foot. "Whatcha doing here? Got nothing to do better than to follow Lilly?" Unlike her usual reaction, she did not mention Sora or what he would think if he found out what she had been doing. She had already learned to not mention him, because it makes people want to subdue her and take her back to her Onii-chan for punishment. That wasn't happening again, Lilly would make sure of that.

She then remembered his previous question and shook her head. "Lilly's not trying to destroy the city or anything. Lilly's prey just jumps everywhere and makes them hard to catch! So the city gets in Lilly's way." She nods and crosses her arms. "Lilly watched a human show about this once. You should take the city... And push it somewhere else!" She grins, confident her plan would work if everyone pitched in.

Suddenly, an odd look crosses her face, making her do a double-take to Kisuke, herself, then back to Kisuke, a wide, almost sinister grin spreading unnaturally far across the child's face. "Hey, hey... So... You're a Shinigami, right?" She leans forward and presses her nose to Benihime, giggling. "So... You should help Lilly get stronger so she can eat the Espada...Y'know, because you smell very strong..." She turned around and walked a couple steps away from Kisuke, humming softly while her reiatsu grew, her aura becoming rather erratic. "Besides, don't you wanna help a girl like Lilly?"

She then snapped around, holding her void-like mouth open, giving him an excellent view of the infinite space that her internal body housed. However, the view was short, as an unearthly purple glow came over the Arrancar as she charged her Cero. "It's okay if you don't. You'll help Lilly get stronger, anyways~!" She was fully prepared to fight yet another battle to the death to get stronger. Good thing Kisuke was so much stronger, as a loss to the child Arrancar meant he would become food as well.

Then she fired the Cero, the massive purple beam attack rocketing towards Kisuke an breakneck speeds. She fully intended to hurt him enough to render him edible for her noble cause. The Cero had a good power, but was unremarkable, despite the beautiful shade of purple it was. Even if Kisuke wouldn't be eaten, Lilly could still use the training in a battle. However, she was never one to ask for a fight. She always would press into the fight as fast as possible with a preemptive strike, and that is what this was. The only way he wouldn't be helping her is if he fled from her. Since he was faster than her, he would be able to get away, leaving her a frustrated, sobbing mess most likely. However, would he be able to allow such a destructive creature to stay in Karakura, eating and destroying as she pleased?

"Lilly's eating..." Urahara said, as if amused at the term. Judging by that very sentence, he figured he knew what was going next. Very familiar with the cannibalism that almost all higher-ranked Hollow's, and some Arrancar, had, he was fairly certain that this would turn into a fight in which he would have to destroy the poor girl, as nobody seemed to be on-hand that was capable to. Urahara hated getting directly involved with most things that weren't personal, but in some belated sense, this was personal. This was his town, and there was no way he was going to let somebody just mess up the serenity and peace. (Or, at least, the peace of his room, where the alarm rarely goes off, as it is wired to a device that detects different spiritual pressures in the area. Meaning, if a Shinigami is already in the World of the Living, and on his/her way to deal with the Hollow/Arrancar, then the alarm doesn't go off, and Urhara can keep sleeping.) So, as unfortunate as it was, and as much as he hated fighting Child-like enemies, Urahara seemed to be the only one up to the task of defeating this child Arrancar.

When the cero was released, the full brunt of it seemed to hit him head-on, knocking him out of the air and into the ground in a crater. He lay still, not seeming to move at all, his whole body at an awkward angle. But with that, however, a surprise came. From behind, actually. A strong, concussive blast of crimson energy emerged from directly behind Lilly, aiming directly for her midsection. Off a little ways from her, behind, was Urahara, Benihime now in her unreleased form. What had once been a sword within a cane, was a traditional Zanpaku-to now, being a rather medium-sized sword. The hilt's grip, which has a gentle black-decorative wrapping, bends forward at the end with a pommel shaped to look overlapped three times, and a crimson tassel dangling from its base. Instead of a tsuba, there is a U-shape guard covering three inches of blade, with a flower petal design. At the base of the guard is a red string wrapped thrice around the hilt, with a three-loop bow on the back side and a folded paper decoration on the front side. The blade is black with a silver-edge and is somewhat thicker than the cane-sealed state. It remains straight and slim with a somewhat short size with the tip ending in a slanted razor-like edge instead of being tapered to a point

"Nake, Benihime." Urahara said after the technique had been fired, holding his hat on his head, as his Zanpaku-to was pointed directly at Lilly. He lowered it, though this did not mean he lowered his guard. "Fancy item there, isn't it? One of my very own design." He said, as he began walking towards it in mid-air, descending to the crater. If Lilly looked, what looked like Urahara would still be there, seeming to be dead. Urahara gripped it by the neck, before raising it. "This is my own custom Gigai." He said, as he flipped a switch hidden beneath the cloak, causing it to dissipate into a puff of smoke, turning into a box that Urahara put in his cloak. Unfortunately, it had a recharge time, and couldn't be used more than once a day, for fear of wear and tear. Urahara always had hated replacing his inventions with newer versions.

If Lilly tried using Pesquisa to detect the spiritual pressure of Urahara, she would find nothing there. The reason for that was he was wearing a cloak of his own design, specially-made by himself to cloak his spiritual pressure, effectively hiding him from the Spiritual World, making him seem like an everyday person; though, this was rather far off. He looked up to see whether Lilly was still standing or not. While it was not guaranteed to hit, Urahara was fairly certain he didn't miss entirely. But then again, although rarely, he has been wrong before. "You still alive up there? Still hungry? Because I've got more than enough to feed you." Urahara called out good-naturedly, as Benihime hung casually in his hand, almost touching the ground. Urahara searched the area for her spiritual power signature, finding it still there. So the blow hadn't killed her. He was somewhat surprised, but at the same time, not. She had a hierro, like most Arrancar, so while it may inflict a grievous wound, it would not kill her. If she were lucky, she may have just moved, and the attack may have just taken an arm or a leg off. Surely dodging it was not out of the question either despite it being a preemptive sneak attack, were she fast enough.

Lilly ended her Cero with a sigh, wiping her lips on her sleeve. Humming, she was trying to follow Urahara, only to find she could not. "Nyeh? Where did you go?" He just up and vanished! She couldn't have incinerated him that easily. Humming in thought, she felt reiatsu grow behind her, making her gasp and dive to the side just in time to avoid a fatal blow, stumbling on her feet until falling to a stop on her back, looking at the sky softly. What had just happened? She now had a long reiatsu burn across her back, through her clothing and turning her black shirt into a belly shirt as she tore the rest of it away. She looked about in a soft bout of confusion and huffed, finding him again. The sigh of a child slightly upset escaped her lips as her reiatsu seemed to pick up a bit as well, flaring visibly with her pressure.

"Whuh? How did you... How are you moving so... AHHH!!!" She screams as she gets to her feet, pointing to Urahara holding the clone of himself, or at least, that's how it seemed to her. "Ahh! She... But you... And... You were...." She continues freaking out, not able to contain herself. "Lilly didn't mean to kill him! She swears! She only wanted to train by fighting him!" Apparently, the girl thought the gigai and Urahara were two different people. "Please don't be angry with me! Lilly... Lilly knows! She can eat him, then you can forget all about everything, right? You wont tell anyone?" She pursed her lips, really hoping he'd just forget. The last thing she needed was to be hunted down for accidentally killing the wrong person. No... No, she was certain Urahara wouldn't tell anyone.

She then stopped and looked to Urahara softly, an odd curiosity in her eyes. "Hey... Ummm... Why aren't you trying to kill Lilly? Are you not mad at her for killing that guy?" She points to the dead-looking Gigai again and looks actually halfway sorry. "Ummm... Maybe you could train me still? Lilly has to be really strong if she's going to eat the Espada..." She hummed and kicked her feet, looking to the odd man. "Lilly's always hungry, human! That's what makes her power better! In fact, if you feed Lilly that guy, she'll show ya!" She nods quickly and smiles cutely to the man she only just a couple minutes ago tried to hurt with a Cero. That wide, guiltless grin of hers was almost infectious in how it looked. She merely looked at him, an unknown number of things going through the girl's head.

Eventually, she broke her gaze and walked into the open, holding her arms out and smiling. "Alright! Lilly's decided! Do that thing you did earlier at Lilly's back, only to her front! That way, Lilly can try to knock it away or block it somehow... Not really sure yet... But she'll think of something!" She grinned again and nodded, her plan making sense to her and only her. She then gave him a particularly dark look and started giggling. "If you don't attack, then Lilly will..."

That was his only warning before Lilly uses Sonido to appear at his side, still standing still. "Whatcha waiting for? Gonna attack me?" She then uses Sonido to appear on his other side. "Getting cold feet? Think Lilly will eat you afterwards?" She uses Sonido again to reappear in front of him, nodding. "Alright! Lilly will go first then! She is a lady, after all!" She crouched low to the ground and nods. "Better get ready, because Lilly wont go easy on a powerful Shinigami! If you aren't careful, you'll die!"

She bends her legs slowly, then rockets into the air, putting all of her power into her lithe legs for a quick Sonido. Once in the air, she stopped, spreading her arms and legs to almost look like a star as she grinned down to him. Then, with a quick snap of her limbs to herself, he turns in midair and streamlines herself to the best of her ability, aiming her body somewhat towards the ground near Urahara before using her Sonido to push herself forward at an astonishing speed. If Urahara didn't move, he would take Lilly's head to his gut while she was moving so quickly. It would be an incredible hit just like that, but the added danger of her explosion was sure to cause Damage whether she hit him or not.

Lilly, however, also put a spin in her strike, her body twirling rapidly through the air as she moved towards Urahara. This had the added effect of creating a spiral of her reiatsu behind her as she sank through the air. What this would do is when she did hit something and her aura was set off, the explosion would also travel up the created spiral and cause a tower explosion, enough to push with frightening force. When she hit the ground and the initial explosion dug a crater into it, the uneathed soil and pavement would serve as deadly shrapnel as the tower sent it outwards with it's somewhat delayed explosion.

As Urahara put the blow-up Gigai in his pocket, he allowed himself a chuckle. This was just too cute. It was a shame he had to get rid of her. She was quite the amusing little girl. "This was just a fake version of me. It's not real. It's like a puppet." He said, trying his best to explain it in terms she would understand. Upon her confusion of the Gigai, thinking that it was a dead man, he grinned, tipping up his hat a little bit with the tip of Benihime. People were always surprised when he used such a sneaky trick, but never THAT surprised. It was a refreshing change of pace for the man, who had become quite bored when using that trick to surprise others.

"It's not even alive. Don't sweat it, kid!" He said, as she kept trying to lament to her mistake on 'killing the other guy'. An eyebrow slowly, almost comically, raised on his face as Lilly insisted on eating the Gigai. He wondered what would happen, were she to eat it. Of course, he noticed the gaping wide, nearly endless maw, but were a normal person to eat it, would he be able to inflate it inside of them and end a fight instantly? That was definitely an idea worth working on. But then again, Urahara didn't want something to be that messy. Something that messy was just calling for a bath, and Urahara hated bathing. He did, because it was a necessity, but he hated the fact that it took time out of his day just so he could refresh himself when he could be working on something, or pestering his employees.

But then again, it DID give him something to do when he was bored; which was fairly often. He snapped his head to Lilly, having oddly been paying attention to everything she said while he was in his reverie. He looked between Lilly, and Benihime, wondering if she would be able to block the Nake technique. So far, nobody that he had known of was able to; at least, not for long. Urahara was tempted to laugh as he remembered one time when a Fraccion had thought he was big and bad, and seceded from the Arrancar. It, too, had tried to block the Nake technique with its Zanpaku-to. It had held the blade in a vertical position, to try and split it down the middle. The concussive force had actually pushed the blade into the Arrancar's head, killing it instantly. Ahh, good times, good times.

"But if I do it again, you might not survive this time." He said, almost sarcastically, feigning concern for the smaller Arrancar. He wasn't doing it to be cruel, smart-assery was just something he enjoyed in his spare time. As Lilly used her sonido to attempt to confuse him, he remained staring ahead. He knew she wouldn't outright attack him with such under-handed methods as he might use. She seemed too... well, she seemed to be into rather flashy maneuvers, and so that's probably just what she would do.

And... Urahara was right. He watched her rocket into the air, then fly back down spinning, straight for his gut. Urahara merely walked casually away from the spot, seeing as she had been rather high up. He stopped when he was about fifteen feet away, estimating this was a good distance away. He noticed that when she hit the ground, she would create a tower effect, and turn the roadway into an effective shrapnel. Well, that was just no good, was it? He pointed Benihime at the exact spot he predicted she would land, before saying, "Nake."

This time, instead of a streak of concussive energy being blasted, a blood-red shield formed at the tip, large enough to encompass himself and even another person if there were one there. When Lilly hit the ground with a violent tremor, he didn't even appear to be fazed in the least. With each piece of debris that had hit his Blood Mist Shield, it eroded slightly, though it was unnoticeable. "You done playing in the dirt yet?" Urahara called out, as he kept his zanpaku-to placed against the center of the shield.

Honestly, he hoped that the fall had broken her neck. He didn't want to go about the dirty business of having to put down the seemingly loveable Arrancar himself. It was just something he wasn't into, unlike some of the more blood-thirsty predators he had known. "If you're dead, I'm gonna go home and probably nap or eat." He said, hoping she would surface rather quickly. He was a patient man, but when it came to napping or food, he could instantly become even more impatient than a child. Those were, after all, two of his favorite things to do.

Unluckily for Urahara, Lilly had never heard of a puppet, having died young under cruel circumstances and Hollowfied. She never really got a chance to do anything fun as a child, like play with puppets or have fun with others. When Urahara mentioned that it was a puppet, Lilly had no reaction to it, merely thinking it to be a funny human word that she didn't understand, which in this case, it was. She didn't understand 'fake version' either. All she could see was the seemingly dead person being shoved into Urahara's pocket, like it were a handkerchief. It didn't make exact sense to the child Arrancar, but then again, what rarely did? Lilly hardly paid enough attention to what she did on a daily basis, let alone what other people did around her.

Now, as she hits the ground, the magic of her power shows itself. From such an impact would destroy anyone's body moving at such speeds. However, thanks to her aura, she was completely undamaged thanks to the outward push. As she was about to collide with the ground, her explosion buffeted the ground enough for a soft landing, and her explosion also pushed her up, braking her quite efficiently. That's saying nothing of the houses around the area, many of them perforated with small chunks of pavement and rocks. So as she laid in the dirt, most likely against Urahara's wishes, she was completely unscathed by her own doing. No broken neck... Not even a scratch upon her pale, adorable face, still smiling widely after the explosion. The girl was quite smart when it came to her explosions. If only she cared enough about other things to apply her inventive mind...

She picked herself out of the dirt and rubbed her head, apparently having hit the ground to some degree. She sighed and looked to Urahara, the bone around her eye showing the soft purple tracer dashing around her sclera quickly. "Heh... You dodged..." She rubbed her nose on her sleeve and grinned widely. "That wont be enough, though! Lilly's gonna give you something to think about before you get in the way of other people's meals!" She starts dancing like a boxer would, her reiatsu rising further, breaking her normal threshold. Her aura was not back, but for some reason, the girl's reiatsu kept getting stronger, and her pressure kept coming down upon Urahara and everyone around. Lilly was through playing around, although she was always technically playing. She was ready to hurt the man acting so nonchalant to her.

"Lilly mean it! I really will hurt you!" She looked to him and pursed her lips. Why was he so relaxed? Why did he have no reaction? Was it because he wasn't scared of Lilly? She would have to change that. She sighed softly and looked at him, her purple eyes looking rather downcast. "Y'know... Lilly didn't wanna do this, but... She has to eat you now... You're too powerful for Lilly to ignore, and your power would go great with hers! So... Well... I don't wanna hurt you, though..." She seemed to be having a moral contradiction, sighing softly and shaking her head. "Just... Well... Oooohhh..." She stamps her foot and points to him, growling softly. "Just act like you might actually die! Because you will! Lilly will eat you, seriously!"

She then rockets forward on a Sonido, arms out behind her as she aimed a punch for Urahara's chest. Then another for his arm, and another, and another... Lilly was throwing rapid punches that wouldn't cause much more damage than a bruise or two, but there were quite a few of the rabbit punches, Lilly putting all of her effort into beating upon the man. Whenever he moved, she would follow, so dodging out of the way wasn't an option. He would have to block them all. Of course, she kinda swung out of left field when she jumped into the air mid-punch, spinning and coming at his neck with a rather devastating downwards kick that, if it missed, would have the girl landing on her hands and knees, taking a small break to pant herself out. However, if it did hit him, although it wouldn't cause much damage, would definitely be powerful enough to knock the man off balance and make him stumble back. She was through playing, and Kisuke would soon find that out, if he hadn't gathered that from the malevolent feel her reiatsu had taken on, or by the continually growing power the girl had. She was getting upset with Kisuke. However, if Kisuke really paid attention, Lilly's reiatsu, although it felt like it was growing, was actually moving and changing shape. Something big was coming, something devastating...

The sky yawned open, revealing a maw of pure unending darkness. It was a realm of nothingness, a precipice between the world of man and the realm where the Hollows resided. Springing forth from that boundless black world was a rather strange person, probably ranking near the levels of oddity as the two combatants below. Immediately noticeable was the mask she bore upon her face. It was not a pretty thing, rather, its visage was that of some primal ape. The lower jaw, like an underbite to the whole of the mask, had large, protruding teeth. The upper jaw was much more reserved, though one would certainly not like to be bitten either way. Peeking out from under the mask was an unkempt mop of black hair, barely growing past the neck. Arguably rivaling the Hollow face for attention was her bared chest, which, though lacking in size, was still quite bare. The rest of her appearance was ordinary, consisting of a simple black hakama as well as a Zanpakuto.

The spiritual pressure came then. As might be expected of a Captain level Visored with her Hollow mask on, the magnitude would easily be felt by the Shinigami and Arrancar below. She was not exactly expecting to run into trouble that she could not handle, but then again, a relative few people matched her in power; that her spiritual pressure was a handful to reign in while masked also factored. Ice crystals began to form all around her as her own unbridled power affected the realm of the living. As she was not a member of the Gotei Thirteen, she lacked the restraining seals that would keep such power in check.

Yukiko took in the world around her. Immediately, she noticed the telltale scars of a battleground. The Visored was not exactly a pro at using Garganta, so reaching a specific location was not her forte. Still, she knew she was aiming for a civilized area, not a warzone. The cause of the wreckage became clear soon after. On the ground, she could sense a strong spiritual pressure; it wasn't as high as her own, but it was more than enough to be considered a threat. Judging by the feel, it belonged to an Arrancar. She could not make out who it was fighting though; no matter how she strained her senses, no other spiritual pressure could be detected.

She moved in for a closer look with Shunpo. If it was a battle she was about to become involved in, removing her mask would be a bad idea; she might need the power to weather whatever surprises this Arrancar had in store. Yukiko was far too experienced with danger from being constantly on the run. Everyone, no matter who, was a potential enemy.

She could see them clearly now. One was a man, dressed in a casual garb, though he was wielding what appeared to be a Zanpakuto. Was that the Arrancar? No...she couldn't sense anything from him. He was being assaulted by a girl, who looked to be about to break into that odd wall between them, though she could not tell for sure. The girl was the Arrancar, no doubt about it. She bore the telltale mask fragments, and her presence was a dead ringer for their kind. What's more, her spiritual pressure was rising...rapidly.

That wasn't good. It usually indicated they were about to release their weapon. Distracting the man now could be his undoing, so she wouldn't ask if he needed help. Yukiko didn't know whether or not the man was a Shinigami, but Arrancar were rarely good news; she would try her luck with the unknown. There was a chance that the man would attack her at seeing her mask, but it was one she would have to take. Worst case scenario, she could use her Bankai and make a getaway.

Calling out softly, though still audibly to the trained senses, Yukiko brandished her long nodachi. "Hunger..." The sword morphed, growing exponentially in size and mass until it easily rivaled her own; it was a vicious looking weapon, looking more like it was built to tear a person apart than cleanly cut. More ice crystals formed around her as her spiritual pressure began to build. "Esuka."

Deciding now was probably her best chance at getting in a first blood, Yukiko flashed forward with a low rumble, indicating her use of Sonido, rather than Shunpo. She swung her released Zanpakutou in a wide arc, intending to bleed the Arrancar in whatever manner she could. Were the blow to draw a wound, the blood spilled would freeze and move to hover around Yukiko's person.

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Yukiko Stats: (Masked)
Rank - ADV-2
Hankou - 12
Reiryoku - 10
Hakudo - 10
Seijuu - 13 (+3) = 16
Bukijuu - 14
Hoho - 11
Total - 70 (+3) = 73

Urahara frowned, feeling the spiritual pressure of Lilly still there. It was obvious this was not going to be an easy fight. Especially when she just lay there smiling. He watched, his smile back on his face. "Well now, good job. I'm surprised you survived such a thing." He said, immediately and accurately guessing her main resureccion ability was the ability to produce explosions, and not be harmed from said explosions. So he immediately figured she would be resistant to most explosions; which ruled out his Hiasobi technique. That was a shame, too, as that was arguably his most powerful technique while in Shikai. It didn't rule out Shibari, however. That was something he could still use effectively; especially if he used a Kido along with it.

"I didn't dodge. My shield didn't allow me to get hurt." He stated simply, with a blank look on his face, wondering if it was possible to be this.. well, not idiotic, but empty-headed. He frowned when she said she wanted him to fight more seriously, before that fox-like grin came back to his face again. "You want me to fight seriously? Okay~ but don't say I didn't warn you." he said. "Kirisake, Benihime." He said. Immediately, a white light began to glow around the red Blood-Mist Shield in between himself and Lilly.

Red streaks seemed to fly out from the shield, needle-thin, and deadly as a blade flying out. They pierced the entirety of the area in front of him, shooting at an extremely quick rate. It would be extremely hard, if not impossible, for some to dodge. This was much more than a simple raise-your-blade-and-block-the-attack technique. The needles flying out were so fine and thinly-dispersed that, while your torso may have been left untouched if you had a large blade, it was guaranteed they would pierce the rest of your body. With the power of the needles, unless they struck your heart or head, they would not kill, but they would go fairly deep within a person. If one were unlucky, (Though this isn't entirely uncommon.) it would be possible for the needles to hit a nerve or vital point, temporarily, or in some cases permanently, paralyzing/numbing the target.

Now, normally Urahara would be worried about collateral damage, but at worse, the only thing this technique would do is maybe drop a few civilians, break some windows, etc. It was nowhere NEAR as destructive as Lilly's explosions, though it was dangerous in its own right. Urahara's face was set in a tight smile. It was obvious he wasn't very interested in this nasty end of business. He was hoping against hope that this would finish her off. Because if it didn't, Urahara might have to take off his cloak. Like most non-exiled Shinigami, he had a limiter, though his wasn't set by the Soul Society. His was set by the cloak he made to hide his reiatsu. If he took it off, then there wouldn't be much left around them; not that there was much around them anyway.

It was at this point in time Urahara noticed a rather large spiritual pressure appear, in the form of a tall Visored. He looked up briefly, which was all he needed. A monkey mask, but a human form. Yep, she was definitely a Vizard. Rarely, if ever, did an Arrancar keep a full mask, rather than a fraction. That was the, surprisingly for Urahara, the first thing he noticed. Anybody who knew him would figure he would notice first what he actually notice second; her lack of shirt. He suddenly felt a pressure on his nose, as he kept imagining the exposed chest. They may have been flat, but Urahara accepted them at any size! His fox-like grin got a little wider, as he now had something that had made his day a little bit better.

"Thank you for that." He said to himself, as he risked one more glance, before looking to Lilly. He couldn't see, as the technique was kicking up quite the dust cloud from the rubble behind Lilly. He felt for her spiritual pressure and felt it, finally having noticed the fact it was taking shape. Or at least, it seemed he finally noticed it. On some subconscious level, he probably noticed it, but didn't make note of it. He shook his head as he stopped the technique, keeping the Blood-Mist Shield raised in case of another attack.

Idly, Urahara wondered if he could make something like an air conditioner, but for the world. Perhaps something to control the season's. That would be very excellent. Then the woman up top would come to him, and be like, "Urahara-san, I'm so cold. Won't you please take me in?" At this thought, Urahara got a perverted look in his eye as his thoughts that had once been strictly focused on battle became tainted with the human emotion of lust. With these thoughts, the pressure on his nose became even greater.

Lilly continued her assault on Kisuke's shield, not stopping for a second to give him leg room. She would never win a fight if she was thinking about her opponents. No, she had to keep pressing on! Not let the man have any say in what happened! In the back of her mind, she registered that there was now someone else there, with a Hollow-like reiatsu, but Lilly didn't care. They weren't involved yet, whoever they were. If they were lucky, the child Arrancar wouldn't notice them until they had left. Lilly was in a quite ravenous mood, and she wasn't about to give leeway to two people! That was unheard of! She would have to simply devour them both. Maybe then she would be powerful enough to begin her plan of devouring the entirety of Las Noches.

Then Urahara spoke, saying he would take her more seriously, giving her a last warning as well. This caused her to stop for a second and raised an eyebrow. "Ahhh... What?" Then he activated his attack, causing Lilly to squeal in fright as the many needles pounded against her Hierro and pierced her through. They weren't going very deep, and most were clinking off, but something had to be done, because the ones that were getting inside the Arrancar's skin were dangerously close to shattering her chest. Once that happened, it was game over for Lilly, as her refuse and fuel would spill out and she would die.

She began thinking in a panicked state, swatting away a few of the needles with her arms, until she felt Yukiko move. She looked to her through squinted eyes and saw her coming at Lilly with her sword raised. Instantly, she got an idea. It would be rather dangerous, but she would have to try, otherwise the needles would run her through completely. She turned her head and looked to Yukiko timidly, trying her best to avoid any more needles in her, then grinned to the Visored, as she did exactly what she wanted her to do. The slash came down, and Lilly caught it with her softly glowing ring of Hollow bone around her eye, a piercing scraping sound echoing out that mimicked fingernails on a chalkboard as the sword slide across the child Arrancar's mask fragment. This also had the effect of sending her back and away from the rest of Kisuke's attack, Lilly practically kicking off the ground so the slash would hit her harder. She knew the blade would not penetrate the ring of bone, so she tried to get as much force onto that part of her as possible. This sent her reeling back and out of Kisuke's attack's reach, safely away from the needles. However, this put a long cut down the girl's face, from her eye diagonally to her jaw.

For a couple minutes, she just laid there on the ground, breathing softly as her reiatsu dropped to near-undetectable levels. To most people, she would be declared dead from such a drop in reiatsu. As few people knew, however, Lilly's reiatsu level was incredibly erratic, capable of dropping completely, only to strike heights a second later. Lilly was truly a marvel, more like a well-greased machine than a living thing. She was in a crater and covered by dust, so she wasn't visible while she mentally did a damage check. There was a long cut on her face, and several needles in her legs and belly, with one in her neck. She was leaking the refuse once more from those small perforations, with the exception of the one on her neck. The refuse in her body tended to stay chest-level and below. Good thing they were only small holes, but ti would still prove troublesome.

Suddenly, her reiatsu exploded once more, reaching even newer heights as her aura fully recharged. However, it wasn't all over her body this time. It was only covering her right arm. As she shakily got to her feet, she moans softly in a sort of disorientation, rubbing her forehead and the cut across her face. "You..." She then looked to Yukiko and Kisuke, growling as her anger boiled over. "You... You..." She couldn't seem to form an entire sentence, until she fell to her knees and whimpered. "No fair... I wanted to train... Against him... Then you cheated... Bringing in a teammate..." She sniffled between every couple of words, once again cementing the fact that she was, in fact, still a child. She kept whimpering like that, her clothing completely tattered and barely on her anymore thanks to the needles. "You... Lilly will..." She sniffles a couple more times and stands, suddenly screaming out.

"LILLY WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU CHEATERS!!!!"

Then her reiatsu exploded without being triggered, cloaking the child in a thick dust as soon as her shout ended. Her reiatsu was still there, not having decreased as it usually does when her aura explodes. A sharp hiss could be heard in the smoke, and then the loud click-shunk of a pump-action shotgun being cocked. Nothing could be seen, but she was there, and it seemed like the game was only going to get more deadly.

Yukiko's opening gambit earned her a number of things. The first was the most immediately obvious to her; a number of stabbing sensations in her left arm, that side having the misfortune of being exposed to the last moment of Urahara's barrage of needles before he ceased the technique. It was the price she paid for an opportunistic strike; she would not call it friendly fire as much as her own risky behavior.

The second was that her blow was ineffective, but completely wasted. She did not understand how, but the Arrancar girl's mask fragment was resilient enough to withstand the full brunt of her swing. If it were not for the fact that her heavily toothed sword was so designed to inflict injury from nearly any close blow, she would have gained nothing from the attack. As it were, though the strike was greatly mitigated, it definitely connected. She could feel flesh give way to her attack at some point, so the girl had to have been cut at least a little.

This brought her to the third realization. There were no flecks of frozen blood surrounding her. Yukiko's shikai was only capable of manipulating blood, and only when it drew it from the wound or otherwise struck it. At that point, the blood would freeze and enter an orbit around her. But there was no blood on her blade, else it would have done this. Instead, there was some other liquid of unidentifiable nature, and it wasn't very great in quantity. "This girl doesn't bleed blood." Yukiko called out to the man she had assisted."Hey, my Shikai won't work very well on her. What do you know so far?" Yukiko threw her lot in with the man as a potential ally; if he did have any innate hostility towards her, hopefully her assistance was a show of good faith.

Before she could use whatever information the other Zanpakuto user would have provided, Yukiko's attention was stolen back by the sudden drop in spiritual pressure from the Arrancar. Was she dead? That didn't make any sense, her blow was shallow. Could this guy have done so much damage to her on his own? The Visored was proven wrong when the spiritual pressure not only resurged, but violently expanded in magnitude. Yeah. That had to be Ressureccion.

With her ambush expended, the Visored would have to play it safe until she could determine what all this girl was capable of. Her Shikai would prove unhelpful if it could not draw blood, but hopefully the massive size and reach would be able to inflict enough damage to kill her anyway. Still, with the Arrancar's release to take into account, this battle would be cut out for her. She still had most of the time left on her Mask, but if she could not put a stop to the girl's rampage before then, Yukiko may need to resort to Bankai.

'She's a tenacious one, that brat. Bankai might be something you want to use now Yukiko. Our Hollow powers are great, but judging by her intense spiritual pressure, we'll need all the output we can get.' Escarcha, though her inner Hollow, was as trustworthy to Yukiko as her own Zanpakuto. The three were in near perfect synchronization with each other, with perhaps a little more favoritism weighed towards her Hollow side. This was reflected in Esuka, whose name was long since forsaken in favor of one similar to Escarcha's, and whose power's told of the brutality of a Hollow more than the finesse of a Zanpakuto.

She did have one more trick up her sleeve to stop the mad child in her tracks; she only hoped her foe was not strong or fast enough to counter it. With her left arm injured, Yukiko would have to improvise. Holding her sword horizontally before her, the woman extended two of her fingers. "Bajo Cero." Ice-blue spiritual energy rapidly condensed at the apex, subsequently and rapidly releasing with a thunderous roar. The blast was massive in scope, heavily augmented by her Hollow mask, and easily capable of engulfing a slow to move foe. Its power was not to be underestimated; easily her strongest attack at the moment, Bajo Cero was capable of turning everything in its path into a frozen waste. In theory, it would be more than sufficient to thwart an alpha strike from the released Arrancar, were she to attack from where she stood with the dust as a cover. If she exited the dust cloud, Yukiko kept watch and prepared to fire a Bala.

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Yukiko Stats: (Masked, 8 posts remaining)
Rank - ADV-2
Hankou - 12
Reiryoku - 10
Hakudo - 10
Seijuu - 13 (+3) = 16
Bukijuu - 14
Hoho - 11
Total - 70 (+3) = 73

Urahara watched as his spray of needles pierced both the little Arrancar, and eventually, the taller Vizard. She must have been an ally, the taller one, seeing as she didn't attack Kisuke himself. Well, that was good news, at least. He watched the swing she took to little damage as it pushed back the young Arrancar via her bone fragment. He kept a check on her spiritual pressure as she went sailing, seeming to have snuffed it out. But oh no, Urahara knew better than that. He had watched every last needle pierce her, and none of them had hit vital locations like he had hoped. He turned his attention to the Vizard, who in turn had spoken to him, asking him what he knew. He had two options here. Tell the truth, or lie for no apparent reason. How about we go with the third option? A partial truth never hurt anybody. "Well, she seems fond of explosions, she's not too shabby when it comes to the art of battle, and she wants to eat everything in sight." He said. From the way he described her, Lilly honestly seemed like nothing more than an overpowered Hollow. But then again, wasn't that what all Arrancar were?

Urahara turned when he felt the explosion of reiatsu coming from where the smaller being had been. Yup, he had guessed right. He figured she wasn't down and out. But how was he to destroy her? He looked to see a little bit of the black gunk that the Vizard had been talking about, nodding. Yep, definitely not blood. Though the smell and the composition of it seemed to be a sort of fuel. Was she a machine? Did she have the potential to break things down at such a level to become something like that? Remarkable. She was truly something that Urahara would like to inspect one day, were he not supposed to kill her here. He watched as the Vizard readied what seemed to be a cero. Well, he could always throw his lot in with her, he supposed.

"LILLY WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU CHEATERS!"

Urahara heard that, and chuckled, turning his attention to the Arrancar. Why did people take these fights so seriously? It was only their life that was on the line. Something small, meager, even, compared to most things that were at stake in stories. "We're no cheater's. We're helping you train. If there's two of us, you'll get stronger...even more, if you defeat both of us." Urahara said, forcing himself to use bad grammar in the hopes that Lilly would understand such speech. He raised the hand opposite of the one holding Benihime, pointing at Lilly.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to use a Hado, or maybe a Bakudo at this point in time, to either damage Lilly, or subdue her so she can be damaged further. No matter the cost, he surely wasn't going to go into Bankai. That just wasn't worth it for one as small as her. Besides, he didn't feel like actually getting hurt today. Not by Lilly, of course, but rather himself, as his Bankai was a sacrificial bankai.

"Alright, Lilly. I think we can kick this battle up a notch, no?" He asked, figuring he could give her at least a little warning before he sent a Hado in her direction. Don't ask why, but you could call it Urahara's way of playing with his opponents, confusing them. One moment, he would tell he was about to attack, then the other, he would attack without any warning. Confusing, no?

"Ye lord! Mask of flesh and bone, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Truth and temperance, upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws." He chanted, his lips moving at a speed quick enough to make him hard enough to read for even those skilled in lip-reading. "Hado 33, Sokatsui." He said. Along with the cero now, Lilly would have a blue stream of energy flying directly at her, which, coupled with the cero, would be rather devastating.

In truth, Lilly HAD been begging for him to take her seriously. This was him taking her seriously. Or at least, more seriously than he had been. It's very seldom when Urahara will take anything seriously, fight or otherwise. This is evidenced by Vlasta Kral. The Sin of Wrath. She'd had an urgent matter to discuss with him, and had been infuriated so much by his nonchalance, that he would guess that right about now, she was taking it out on some poor person or animal. No, not just a person. She would most likely be out in the woods about now, taking it out on an animal. After all, it seemed she was trying to make an effort to be benevolent.

The girl's reiatsu seemed fairly malevolent as she stood up, now suddenly wearing a small juggernaut suit that covered her entire body as the dust cleared around her. She had a rather large, chromed rocket launcher-like weapon on her arm. She looked like she was about to go to war as a one-girl army! However, the only thing covering her head were her hollow-bone eye rings, now outfitted to look like a pair of goggles. She looked to the pair and sighed softly, then raised the cannon, seeming like a different person almost. She hummed softly as she studied her new weapon, poking at it curiously as if she were a child with a new toy. For all intents and purposes, she was.

She eventually stopped and gave them another look, pursing her lips. "Not cheating? Lilly disagrees... There's a distinct disadvantage here against her..." She hums, speaking in a dark tone, also thinking everything out. It was quite a switch from her earlier. Her eyes weren't fun anymore, holding malice in them as she stared Urahara and Yukiko down. Lilly, like she had said before, was through playing. Her power had finally fully released, and she was going to use every bit of it taking at least one of them out. She cocked the rocket launcher and grinned. "Time for Lilly to do what she does best!" Her reiatsu seemed to level as she watched the attack coming at her. Sokatsui with a Cero... Quite a formidable combination. Good thing Lilly feared nothing!

She closed her eyes and let the launcher drop, pointing towards the ground. "Detonate... Kamikaze!!" Just then, the launcher was raised at the oncoming attack, firing a small rocket-like Cero at the attacks. The rocket, once it struck the Sokatsui, exploded with sheer force, pushing both attacks out and around Lilly to be next to harmless. The building around the blast were simply shoved to the side, not even cared for by the indiscriminate energy. She cocked the gun again, loading the second round into the chamber and smiled. The shell popped out and onto the ground, red-hot and glowing. "This... This is it! Lilly's power! Lilly can take out the Espada with this! She can finally become an Espada!" The girl danced with glee, a wide slime on her face. She felt like she finally had the power needed to usurp an Espada and take their place. Of course, she still had a ways to go, like... First, she had to get out of this situation alive.

She pointed the launcher at Kisuke and grinned. "Now, Lilly just has to test it out! Stand real still, now! Lilly doesn't want to accidentally hit that thingie back there!" She pointed behind Urahara to a supermarket, were several dozen people were hiding and barricading the door. They didn't know what the explosions were coming from, nor did they care. They were only trying to survive by hunkering down. Of course, were Yukiko and Kisuke to simply dodge the next salvo, it would rocket right into the Supermarket and annihilate it, most likely killing everyone inside. Lilly wasn't using it as a threat, though. Lilly simply didn't see it as wrong. Then again, nothing Lilly ever did was wrong. She was completely guiltless, no matter what she did. "Do that shield thingie again!" Then she dropped to one knee, carefully aiming at Kisuke.

Truth be told, in her current garb and with her over-sized weapon, she looked like something from a video game. It was very hard to look at the skin-tight armored suit and the Hollow-bone goggles and take her seriously. Even the thick tubing that connected the girl's launched to her arm looked a little cartoony. However, how she was officially a threat, whether she wanted to be or not. She could very easily cause serious damage to everything if she wasn't careful, which she rarely was. Now, it was all up to the pair against her to redirect her attacks and stop her from doing them, but how was one to redirect something that exploded on contact?

With a wide grin, she fired once more, sending the glowing red rocket right at Kisuke, ignoring Yukiko for now. She would definitely be picked out for a target later, however. Lilly wasn't picky-choosy when it came to targets, as she really only had to hit around them to do damage. The rocket moved far quicker than Lilly ever could, which would make it much harder to simply sidestep. However, if he did, the Supermarket behind him was gone. The rocket sped on it's collision course, waiting for something to hit it hard enough to cause it to detonate and demolish the surrounding area. Lilly simply watched with a wide grin, eager to see what the Shinigami would do, given the lose-lose situation he was in.

Yukiko cursed as her Bajo Cero was thwarted so easily...her strongest attack. This was not going to be easy. Luckily, most of the city buildings around them were rubble, so she would not have to worry about collateral damage if she had to resort to Bankai. As the dust cleared and the girl began to speak again, it became all too clear that she was highly cognizant of the situation. Was her act a moment ago just a ruse? Obfuscating stupidity, perhaps? Yukiko couldn't chance that she was oblivious to her earlier attack style, so trying the same thing again would prove futile.

Clearly, the girl had changed a lot physically. The Ressureccion seemed to grant her some sort of crazy robot armor from out of a science fiction film that could be seen at the theater. Yukiko found time every now and then to walk right in and watch for free; dead people were not charged for admission. If her guess was accurate in the least, the man's explanation of her affinity for explosions meant this release had something nasty in store. Judging by the way it disrupted her full power Bajo Cero, the power she held had a high yield. Getting hit would be unwise.

That in mind, when the girl decided to level her gun-arm at the two of them, Yukiko was quick to move out of the way. Or rather, she would have been, had her eyes not caught sight of the civilians sheltered inside one of the few buildings still intact. As if to confirm her fears, the Arrancar not only knew they were there, but was more than willing to fire on them if they dodged. "She's forcing us to either weather a bombardment or let innocent people die...a master stroke. Damn it! I hope your little shield there is strong!"

Yukiko had no choice but to trust in the man's power who she knew little about. Her own shikai's shield would take far too long to set up in order to withstand an attack of that caliber, and she would be forced to use her own blood in the process. The loss would probably cost her gravely. If the man's shield was as strong as it looked, he could take one, maybe two hits. They needed more than that. It would help if she had any measure of his spiritual power or abilities, but Urahara had been forthcoming with neither, and they were out of time to negotiate.

"Bankai!" Yukiko's spiritual power reached its maximum output as the explosion from the rocket wracked her body. Thanks to her sturdy build and a quick raising of her sword to guard, she took no fatal damage. In spite of that, a third of her mask had been blasted off, and her forehead was bleeding as a result. Her shoulder and right arm were badly burnt, and the concussive force cracked a rib. "Hyougakotsu...Esuka." Yukiko's breath came out somewhat ragged. She had taken the force of an explosion almost directly, and was lucky to survive. She would not make the mistake of holding back again. Unfortunately that decision migt be too late.

Yukiko's Bankai made her form even more menacing than before. Surrounding her torso was an icy mockery of a skeletal ribcage, spine and all, even connecting right up to the back of her Hollow mask. Her already massive sword had grown in size, becoming more like a pole weapon with an oversized blade. Out of the torso structure's shoulder grew two large cylindrical pipes that oozed copious amounts of crimson slush. It smelled a lot like blood. The gas came next, and with it, Yukiko told her makeshift ally of a plan. "Heh, you were right...she really freaking loves explosions." Yukiko managed to crack a grin at him and start a laugh before coughing roughly and grunting from the pain in her rib. "I'm messed up pretty bad, but I can hold the line with my Bankai and Cero. I'm not sure I can get close enough to her without getting my ass blown up, so I'll leave that to you. Think you can handle it?" She was of course referring to protecting the innocent bystanders. Her powers were great for defending and siege, but pursuit was not her forte, especially as injured as she was. Yukiko used Shunpo to close a better part of the distance between herself and the half assed shelter the normal folk were holed up in. Yukiko was a little rough around the edges and slow to trust, but she had a soft spot for protecting the weak.

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Yukiko Stats: (Masked, 7 posts remaining)
Rank - ADV-2
Hankou - 12
Reiryoku - 10
Hakudo - 10
Seijuu - 13 (+3) = 16
Bukijuu - 14
Hoho - 11
Total - 70 (+3) = 73

Urahara watched as the girl came from the rubble of the dust. Again, he wasn't entirely surprised. It seemed she was actually very fond of comebacks. He sighed, as he tensed his grip on Benihime again. In a way, he admired her new look. He liked it better, actually, but then again, he was pretty fond of cartoon's, but he knew it was going to be harder to defeat her with this new release. It was excellent for his research, however. He hadn't known until now that Arrancar were capable of going through a change in Resureccion, like a Fullbringer, but now, this opened a whole world of possibilities. Did their strength affect if it would change or not? Emotions? Did they have a second release? He'd heard about it a few times before he rather callously killed the offending Arrancar that prevented him from his research.

He was rather impressed, actually, with this new release of Lilly's. A rocket launcher and a blast suit was so much more becoming of her explosive personality than simply blowing up was. He looked to the side a little bit, noticing out of the corner of his eye the building full of people, as Lilly had said. "My little shield? It'll probably hold up. We'll have to see though, won't we?" He asked, rather casually. Upon Lilly's request, he looked to her, raising Benehime again. "Nake." He said, as a large crimson shield raised above him. If Yukiko had been closer, she could have missed a good portion of the explosion.

He turned, to see Lilly getting ready for an attack. It wasn't necessarily a matter of her physically doing things to get ready, but a bunch of other small things Urahara noticed. Muscles tensing, that one breath of air people tend to take before they attack, firming her feet just the tiniest bit, subconsciously at that. Plus, the fact that she had said 'Hold still' had helped.

As the explosive went off in front of him, not even the air was affected directly behind the shield. When it blew up, the Blood-Mist shield cracked, looking a lot like a mirror still held together by its frame, but likely to fall apart if gravity pulled it in the wrong direction. When the dust cleared from the smoke, it was visible to all that the shield had cracked, and now it was shattering. With the sound of glass breaking it pulled apart, shards flying every which way, one even faintly piercing Urahara's cheek, making a small bead of blood come out. Still, he did not move, and even stood nonchalantly. Not that he was in shock, but that he was running figures and observations through his head. It was exactly like a human rocket launcher, for all purposes, though it seemed to be fueled by something she herself did.

"That sounds like an excellent plan." He said, as he took off the cloak, only to reveal ANOTHER CLOAK UNDERNEATH. What was this man thinking? However, there was one significant thing that happened when he took off the cloak. The area around them was rubble, so there was no point in keeping it on and concealing himself. The moment he took it off, the ground directly underneath him cracked even more, a lot of smaller pieces of rubble. The man's reiatsu was... a little bit suffocating. It was rather immense, to say the least. "I suppose I should actually get serious about this, then. Seeing as my first blood was drawn." He said, wiping the single drop of blood off his cheek. He looked to Yukiko, hearing her idea, the smile wiped off of his face, now replaced with a look of concentration.

As soon as the cloak touched the ground, Urahara himself instantly disappeared. It looked like he teleported more than anything; he hadn't moved a single muscle, nor given any sign that he was going to run or go in a specific direction. He reappeared to the right and behind Lilly, holding his wrist at an angle to make the blade of Benihime face the air. "Kamisori, Benihime." He said, as he slashed up. Immediately following, a line of red appeared along the ground, headed directly for Lilly. The attack itself seemed as if it were travelling along the ground, though if Lilly were to get hit, it may have been game over for her, as the attack has no trouble piercing most objects, an Arrancar's hierro included, with ease. It made its way directly to the right side of Lilly, intending to cut her in half entirely.

Urahara stayed in that position as the attack was fired, his other hand resting comfortably on the hat he never let stray from his head. His smile was still gone, but he seemed to have eased up a little bit; or rather, he looked like a man who had the whole situation perfectly in the palm of his hand.

Lilly hums and looks to Yukiko. "Y'know... Lilly wasn't supposed to hit you yet... Did you get impatient?" She purses her lips, as this threw her initial plan all out of whack. Not that she really had a plan, but she often acted like she had one to shrug off people trying to figure her out. Not that it ever happened like she prepared for, as the girl was generally too odd to be taken seriously. Lilly had probably the most over complicated and convoluted thinking process of anyone around, and yet, she could sift through it easily.

However, the fact that Yukiko was indeed damaged registered within the child's mind quickly. That's how Hollows had to be while they grew. They took out the weaker ones first, so no additional threats would grow. Lilly was all too familiar with this tactic as it was what she lived by, even as an Arrancar. Hell, it was even her plan for taking on the Espada. Study them, pick out the weak ones, and start there. In this sense, Lilly was an excellent Hollow. However, as Lilly also knew, Yukiko was far from no longer a threat. Of course, there was still the issue of the random guy poking around and seeming not to care about Lilly in the slightest.

Lilly gasped as she looked where he was, Kisuke not being there anymore. "Hey! Where'd he go?" She looked to Yukiko, expecting an answer from the wounded Visored. She then gasped, looking behind her as she felt the suffocating pressure. He was right there! She only had time to turn her head and give him a rather frightened look before the attack connected with her, hitting her fiercely on her right side and tearing a hole in her bulky armor, sending her cartwheeling to the side as she attempted vainly to dodge the attack. She landed solidly, making a thick thump on the ground that would indicate she was much heavier in her current form. Thank the powers that be that her suit was somewhat like a Hierro on top of her own, otherwise she would have just lost a leg.

She rolled onto her back and sat up, wincing in pain and tearing up. That cut was rather deep, made obviously by the seeping refuse and the thick smell of crude oil permeating the air. She whimpered softly, looking to the man as he just stood there, seemingly still in the middle of his attack. She used her launcher to get back to her feet, stumbling as it was obvious her hip was seriously hurt. She wasn't going anywhere quickly for a bit, that was for sure. She panted softly and stumbled back, catching herself on the weapon and looking as Urahara with a rather frustrated look. How could he not take her more seriously? She was incredibly deadly! Yet there he was, not a care in the world, acting as if nothing was even happening.

Lilly made a soft whimper as she felt his spiritual pressure beating down on her, causing her to drop to her knees and give Kisuke a fearful look. This was bad, and she knew it. Lilly might be incredibly eager for battle, but she wasn't stupid. She knew when she was outclassed, and the feelings she was getting from the man were telling her just that. She needed to find a way out, or even a way to catch him off guard. She continued to back up from the man, panting softly as she tried to think of a way out of her current situation. Worst comes to worst, they seemed to want to keep the Supermarket out of harm's way. If she needed to, although it left a horrid taste in her mouth, she could fire a round at the building and run in a different direction. Kisuke wouldn't be quick enough to stop the rocket without serious physical harm and catch Lilly as well. Lilly also doubted that the Visored would survive another hit with one of her salvos, nor would she give her life to save a bunch of humans.

Now that Lilly had an exit strategy, it all came down to whether or not she wanted to keep going. Regardless, she didn't move immediately, just looking to Urahara and out of view of Yukiko behind some rubble of a building she'd blown up before. Kisuke would be able to tell that the child was trying to figure out something, but would he have an idea of what she was thinking? She didn't give any visual clues to her exit strategy, but would he expect it of an Arrancar, even one so young-looking? Lilly wasn't exactly sinister like most Arrancar, generally only looking for attention and food, but she was an Arrancar.

She gives a quick look in Yukiko's direction, even though she was looking at a pile of rubble, and lifts the launched to point at Kisuke. Pulling the clip free, she allows the one to stay in the chamber, easily swallowing the other. She tossed the empty clip to the side and latches in the second clip, giving her five shots before she would have to create more ammo for herself. She then kept looking to Kisuke, coming up with a rough plan. She only gave the visual effect of swallowing, not actually swallowing the extra round. This might have been a trick, but this made it so that, if needed, she could fire a Cero near instantaneously from her mouth using the round on her tongue. Her mouth gave no weird bulges that would make Kisuke think differently as well, Lilly making sure the round was perfectly concealed in her mouth. She lowered the launcher again as she mumbled out in pain, the cut in her leg now stopping it's slow drainage of the highly-flammable refuse, but the wound was deep enough to cause Lilly near constant pain. She was being purely defensive at this point, waiting the other two to make a move. She was now what she marked Yukiko as not more than a minute earlier, and needed to be careful.

Yukiko took some time to fortify her defenses in her mind as the volatile Arrancar girl was placed on the run by what she now identified as a definite Shinigami. That was something to consider. She had her suspicions, but it wasn't until Urahara removed his spiritual pressure concealing cloak that she felt both his true nature, and the magnitude of his power. But if he was a Shinigami, what was he doing here? He was not wearing a Shihakusho, but that did not prove where his allegiances lay. Yukiko was uncertain where her fate lay at this point, as she was caught up in a battle between a violent Arrancar and a Captain-class Shinigami. She could not be sure that he would not execute her after her help was no longer needed for the girl.

Now was not the time to be second guessing herself. She made her decision already. Yukiko would be damned if she failed these people now. She would just have to trust that man to keep Lilly on her toes and take her down swiftly before she caused anymore damage. That in mind, Yukiko took the time to focus her power and prepare for another strike. Blood slush was flowing profusely from her shoulder pipes, and what was not cocooning her in a crimson ice ball was pooling around the concrete. Her gases were dissipating harmlessly into the atmosphere, but unless her enemy decided to come up relatively close to her, they were not of much use anyway.

With the amount of ice and blood at her disposal now after so much idling time, the Visored would have no difficulty countering another rocket blast, provided it were the same magnitude as the one from before. It was potent, true enough, but so were her own powers, especially while masked. A quick Shimo would be sufficient to prematurely detonate another shot like the first, considering both its speed and its augmented spiritual power. Bajo Cero was too wide range of an attack, and coupled with the explosion from the rocket and Urahara's disrupted Sokatsui, just wide enough of a gap was formed to survive the attack. It was in no way weak; that much was evident by the scarred frozen wasteland that was carved into the cityscape behind the Arrancar's initial position. Everything there was covered in rime, top heavy objects having long since snapped off and fallen to the ground, shattered. Even the slightest of pressures would crack the deep-frozen metals, and wood would turn to chunks.

Though her smaller Shimo would be sufficient to counter a basic shot again, at least as long as Escarcha held up, Yukiko would need something with more punch to stave off a stronger variant. For that, she would have to use a larger Shimo. Shimo in her Bankai state was a deadly weapon, and should be capable of mitigating larger shots. Still, Yukiko would not be surprised if the girl was packing a nuke somewhere. If it came to that, she would have to rely on her strongest defensive technique. Yukiko was not in Soul Society long enough to learn any decent kidou, but she would not need it for this. Unless her enemy had a big surprise under that robotic suit of hers, one possibly unrelated to heavy artillery, she would be more than prepared to thwart any attacks made on her person or the supermarket.

Lilly had miscalculated, if she was capable of foresight at all. The jury was still out on whether she was insane or brilliant, but the two often crossed paths. Had she continued to bombard Yukiko without pause, she very well might have taken her out of the fight completely. But now that she had a moment of respite, and was able to get her bearings and think straight after the shell shock from the first attack, she would be able to viciously defend her position. Though not a complete Hollow, Yukiko was a Visored, one more in tune with her inner self than most. Her instincts of survival put her on high alert and prepared her to react to any assault that may come her way. Though injured, she was by no means a pushover. She was in her element; maintaining a defensive was something she had perfected for decades. If it was just her, she would be able to volley a few attacks her way as well, but she could not risk hitting Urahara and losing the fight to friendly fire.

"We know what you're up to brat. I can hold this line all day. I know what you can do now. Hitting me again won't be so easy, and if that guy's spiritual pressure is anything to go by, you don't have the time to come up with a counter attack." Yukiko made an attempt to talk her down. It was by no means a bluff, but if she could prevent a pointless death, she would.

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Yukiko Stats: (Masked, 6 posts remaining)
Rank - ADV-2
Hankou - 12
Reiryoku - 10
Hakudo - 10
Seijuu - 13 (+3) = 16
Bukijuu - 14
Hoho - 11
Total - 70 (+3) = 73

Urahara gently lowered Benihime, inspecting his handiwork. He had nicked her pretty good, he would say. He watched as the attack homed in, figuring she wouldn't have very good mobility in such a large suit. Somewhat like a tank. Not very fast, but loaded with firepower. This was definitely a weakness Urahara could exploit, and maintain a safe distance. Not only this, but he noted how the limb wasn't completely severed. She must have been fairly heavily armored, as that attack was the one of his with the best piercing ability; at least, out of his shikai attacks. Urahara glanced to Yukiko, that pressure on his nose once again as his eyes automatically zoned in to her chest. Perhaps.. he had a weakness of his own. But if Lilly had exposed herself to him, he more than likely wouldn't be nearly as interested, not that the girl seemed likely to use such underhanded methods. In fact, she more than likely hadn't even noticed Urahara's aversion to the female anatomy.

Urahara slowly circled Lilly, going closer to Lilly, so he was directly to Lilly's right, with Yukiko directly in front of her, making an X formation now. This, Urahara figured, was most strategic, as he could now attack freely without fear of striking Yukiko, so long as it wasn't a very wide-scale attack. He'd hoped that her attacks were relatively small and precise, like his Kamisori, Benihime, or else he might be in trouble with fighting a battle on two fronts; the original enemy, and a battle of what he figured could be friendly fire.

"Did I hurt you? I'm sorry. I was trying to make it painless, but it seemed I acted too hastily." Urahara said to Lilly, actually sounding sorrowful, despite not feeling it in the least. He'd had to see how thick her hierro was now with the added armor, and this gave him a general idea. He'd definitely need to use a good portion of his wits with this one, considering he couldn't cancel out her attacks, as they were canister's of explosives, rather than energy attacks. Plus, he'd already used his Gigai once already today, so he wouldn't be able to use it again.

Perhaps it was best to just attack once more? But no, not just yet. He was waiting to see what move Lilly was going to make. Perhaps he had hurt her more than he realized, however, as she seemed to actually be calculating something in her head, rather than just blatantly attacking. Now she was beginning to realize the direness of the situation, it seemed. So had it been the other way around, and SHE was finally taking it seriously? She had been telling him to be serious, so the irony almost made him laugh if his hypothesis held true.

Now was the time to make his move. The female Visored was on the defensive, also, so it appeared Urahara was the only one who was on the offensive. That suited him just fine; he didn't have any qualms with being a key player here. "Well, my turn again, I suppose." Urahara said, shrugging his shoulders. "Scream, Benihime." he said, creating a slash-like motion vertically in mid-air, a crimson-colored arc of energy flying from the tip of the zanpaku-to. This would be much easier to dodge than the Kamisori, given that he couldn't change the direction once fired, and plus the fact that it was vertical, rather than horizontal. His reason for this was because due to her terrible mobility, he could cover more area were he to attack vertically, sparing accuracy for more damage.

It's not that Urahara was trying to damage her anymore, but rather, he was attempting to create more openings he could use to his own advantage, to further injure her inside of the suit. Were he not so concerned with the explosives that she seemingly had quite a bit of, he wouldn't be afraid to attack with his zanpaku-to itself, rather than his attacks. But considering such a close proximity to the explosive young Arrancar, for all he knew who could still blow herself up, it was not his safest bet. Doing something like that was simply foolish to Mr. Hat-and-Clogs.

The crimson arc flew towards Lilly, not as fast as Kamisori either, but it required much less energy from him to execute, and if the enemy seemed to not be able to block, it only created more openings so he could finish them off with a Kamisori technique. He looked to Yukiko quickly after he fired the attack. She seemed to be in bad shape, but was making the best out of it. That being said, she seemed to be holdings steady against her condition, which was good. Urahara didn't want a death other than the Arrancar's on his hands now.

Lilly kept her eyes on Kisuke as he apologized, it act seeming really weird coming from the man. Honestly, she couldn't believe that he was apologizing to her, even though she had been waiting for him to take her more seriously. Lilly really should pay more attention to her opponents, instead of goading them on. She would never beat the Espada like that! If Urahara actually paid attention, he would see that the hip of her suit was torn open. Although this would mean nothing to most people, to a purveyor of the ladies like Kisuke, he might nothing that there was only shards of her suit, implying she was nude beneath it. Of course, unless he was a hard lolicon, this would still have next to no effect on him. Although the girl was nearly a millennium and a half years old, she had the appearance of a young girl, no older-looking than Ururu, who even worked for the man. She even had a launcher-type weapon, mimicking her attack style! This had to run through Urahara's head and make him wonder if her kicks were as deadly as his faithful employee's.

Lilly broke away from her thoughts, looking to Yukiko. How could the woman possibly know what she was thinking?!? Did she have mind reading powers? Or... Or maybe she was just trying to psyche Lilly out! Yeah, that was it! What dirty, underhanded tactics... Of course, Lilly was doing the psyching out to herself, and Yukiko didn't have to say anything more for Lilly to freak out about it. However, the Visored's words did ring true. Lilly knew she was outgunned... For now. She had to get more power... And stop picking fights with people stronger than her. Honestly, one of these times, Lilly would actually die from such an encounter. It wouldn't happen today, if Lilly got her way. She was already thinking on another way out. Of course, it was hard to fight off two people and figure out your new powers at the same time.

Then Urahara spoke again, denoting another attack. However, dodging was not Lilly's style, and that tended to get her in a bit of trouble when she fought. When Kisuke sent the red slash at her, she sent an immediately Cero right at him back. The Cero would form around the slash, however, and still hurtle towards Kisuke. The slash was not interrupted, though, and still made it's way towards Lilly, slamming into her chest and sending her back onto her back once again. It seemed the Cero did take some power out of Kisuke's attack, as her chest was not even barely damaged, her suit holding up. Kisuke would barely be burnt by the weak Cero if he just stood there and took it, though. It wouldn't have been enough to damage his clothes.

Panting, Lilly gets back to her feet once again, somewhat displeased that she had to gun her emergency Cero so quickly. Then against, it had been an emergency. Had she been hit with that, both of her defenses would have been shredded through easily, leaving her cut cleanly in half as the only outcome. She looked to Kisuke and sighed. "Y'know... Lilly's thinking you're only pretending not to be mad at her..." She steps and whines out cutely, her leg still bothering her from the earlier attack. She mumbles softly and incoherently before giving Kisuke a look. "You wanna kill Lilly, don't you?" She purses her lips and hums somewhat sadly. She wasn't bluffing or hamming up her actions, either. She felt like he was trying to kill her. "You know, Lilly's not trying to kill you... Lilly's just training... Y'know... To get stronger and eat the Espada that pushed Lilly away... They were mean!" She hums and looks to the ground, then lifts her head. "Oh, well! You're gonna have to try harder than that to kill Lilly!" She flashes him a wide, happy grin, then jumps into the air, landing on a roof that looked about to fall.

She smiles and points to Yukiko, her grin having some odd sinister elements to it. "You, however... You don't know how smart Lilly is! Lilly's already got a couple plans!" She aimed the launcher at Yukiko and giggled happily, eager to prove Yukiko wrong. Then, as she fired, the roof caved and Lilly fell through with a cute yelp of fright, the salvo aimed at Yukiko instead sailing straight into the air, so high up that it couldn't be seen anymore. However, it never exploded in the air. It simply seemed to disappear.

Lilly got up from the wreckage and groaned, rubbing her neck. "Ugghh... Alright... Now is my plan!" She smiled widely and aimed or Yukiko again, cocking the launcher to eject the casing onto the ground. She then quickly took aim and fired, aiming for the ground beneath Yukiko. When she salvo would hit, most of the force would go upwards sharply, ejecting tons of dirt and pavement into the air with Yukiko if she didn't dodge in time.

Yukiko was watching the fight very closely for any motions of attack from Lillithe. As a result, she could see that Urahara was quickly putting her on the defensive. Already he had done as much damage to her as Yukiko herself received, and that was on his first actual move. By the way this fight was going, Lilly would have little choice but to retreat or die. She might have packed a major punch, but she was no match for the two of them combined. Yukiko was certainly shaken by the surprise attack, but now she had her momentum, and short of a repeatable heavy attack, she would not so easily be overcome by the Arrancar girl. Her mask had about half its duration left, and as long as she could weather the next few blows, the Shinigami was likely to put an end to her movements.

When another rocket was launched her way, albeit at an angle, Yukiko was prepared. Though aimed slightly below her, the trajectory was not wide enough for her to be unable to counter. Yukiko thrust her free fist forward, launching a chunk of blood ice gather around her at great velocity, its power further magnified by her Hollow mask. The smaller Shimo rocketed forward and slightly, downward, intercepting the canister explosive at around halfway. A solid attack, the great speed at which it was shot and the compaction of power it possessed acted as a sudden stop hitting the rocket dead on. This caused it to detonate prematurely, shattering the already rubbled concrete around the ground in which they met even further.

"I've already told you. That ain't gonna work again. Your attack might have thwarted my Cero, but it won't conquer my Shimo. Its stopping force will be more than enough to set off your rockets as soon as they connect." Yukiko would have followed with a taunt about how she would need a bigger bullet, but the Visored did not want to give her any ideas. If she said anything, Yukiko would not be surprised if a nuclear warhead came next. It would depend on the speed of a mid-level attack, assuming the basic rocket was her standard, whether or not she could counter with a larger Shimo. The attack was slower to form than a Cero the bigger it got, so she was not sure it would be sufficient to counter anything bigger than the rockets; it would likely form too slowly. She would be a fool to reveal this information though, as keeping the girl thinking that she had no chance against her defense was key to a victory here. Yukiko would have to rely on Urahara to follow through with his pursuit swiftly and end this fight before she broke her defenses.

Seeing as the Shinigami man had positioned himself to keep himself out of her line of fire, should she send any, and her out of his, Yukiko decided the would punish the mistake and retaliate. A great pool of icy blood was surrounding her now. She swung her giant weapon upward, its jagged blade pulling on invisible strings that drew up a great deal of the crimson slush. The mixture gathered and compacted into itself, forming into an immense boulder of red-tinged ice. Its form was rugged and menacing, not at all meant to be sleek. The massive ball was covered in rough, jagged ice blades, jutting out at odd angles. If such a thing hit you, it would be none too pleasant.

"Shimo!" Yukiko swung down her blade, knocking into the ice boulder and sending it flying at the speed of cannon fire. It hurtled towards Lillithe, settling into a fast spin. The boulder began to roar loudly, its great mass and dense power greatly enhanced by her Hollow mask. Stopping it even a little would require the use of at least another rocket, but it would only be liable to slightly deflect it, resulting in a glancing blow. So great was its speed and power, Lilly would be forced to either dodge or hit it with one of her strongest attacks to divert it completely.

Yukiko placed her blade back in its settled position, letting it rest on the ground beneath her. That would give her some time to catch her breath. More freezing blood began to pump out of her shoulder-mounted smoke stacks. She only used about half of it to form that giant boulder; the amount remaining until more was produced would be sufficient for a sturdy rampart.

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Yukiko Stats: (Masked, 5 posts remaining)
Rank - ADV-2
Hankou - 12
Reiryoku - 10
Hakudo - 10
Seijuu - 13 (+3) = 16
Bukijuu - 14
Hoho - 11
Total - 70 (+3) = 73

Kisuke watched his attack, watching the exact landing zone he expected it to be at through his peripherals. He wasn't surprised in the least when she didn't seem to dodge, figuring she would rather counter it by some other means. Unless she was just going to take the hit? That would have been interesting, to see whether her double hierro would be able to hold up to it or not. He was only slightly disappointed when she released a cero, not having ruled out the possibility of her using that in her Resureccion. After all, from what he had seen, all Arrancar could use Cero no matter what condition they were in. A cero to Arrancar was much like...well, you could say Kido to a Shinigami, though Kido had to be learned, while Cero were a natural-born gift that Arrancar had.

Urahara, after watching the Nake technique power down the cero considerably, didn't even bother moving, figuring it was too weak to actually do him much damage. He held his other hand out in front of him, splitting the cero down the middle, though burning his hand more than he would have originally been burnt in the process. He waved his hand, looking at it to see it reddening and blistering. It seems that the Nake hadn't cooled it off quite as much as he thought. Or perhaps it was because he had foolishly shoved his hand directly in the middle.

"Seems you're still packing a punch." He said casually, as he waved his hand to cool it off. He glanced at Yukiko again, this time, surprisingly, not at her chest. He was looking at the general condition she was in, seeing the blood all around her. At least she was making the best. In fact, being injured seemed to actually help her. He looked to Lilly, hearing her talking. "Mad? Nah, I'm a pretty easy-going guy. I don't get mad at anyone." He said, as he inspected the burn on his hand left from the cero. He shrugged it off; dealing with his Bankai, he had become accustomed to pain a long time ago.

He watched as Lilly fired a rocket in the Visored's direction, wondering if he should intervene. But she HAD said she could defend the area. He would just have to trust her. At least if the attack hit and she didn't defend herself, the other people in the store didn't die. He looked back to the store once more, seeing some shocked faces. More explosions had occurred, so by now they were more than likely confused as hell. Was the government setting of landmines? It must be a conspiracy. It was probably a bombing from another city. But in one general area? He could imagine it now. He couldn't wait to read tomorrow's paper.

He looked back, to see the chaos that had ensued, and listened to Yukiko's rant. That was a good sign. Although he couldn't help but feel the odds WERE a little bit stacked against her. Bah, whatever. Whatever got his job done. He looked to Lilly, contemplating on what to do next. He could just send out another Kamisori, or a Nake, but that wouldn't do very well. Perhaps he would try his hand at a kido again? Higher-level this time, of course. The other one's power didn't seem to cut it. Or perhaps, maybe a different kido, with a wider area that it encompasses? Yeah, that'd probably work out pretty well.

"Ye lord! Mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Inferno and pandemonium, the sea barrier surges, march on to the south!" Urahara called out, swiping his hand in a horizontal arc. "Hado, number 32, Okasen." He said just before swiping his hand. An arc of yellow energy burst from his fingers in a wave, heading towards Lilly, requiring her to either jump, or fall flat to the ground. Either way, she would be wide open, and that's when Urara would strike. Unlike the others, this one wouldn't be easily defeated with a simple blast from her rocket launcher, as it encompassed a wider area.

"You weren't wrong, though, about me trying to kill you. It's nothing personal, I just can't allow you to ruin my town. You've created nothing but destruction, and I can't let this pass." He said, shrugging nonchalantly. "If I knew you weren't going to destroy anymore of the city, I'd let you go, but... well, considering your Resureccion is pure collateral damage, I'm afraid I more than likely won't be able to do that." He said, as if he were simply stating a fact.

Lilly gave a glance to the man so calmly addressing her. He was so weird to her, and Lilly didn't even want to attempt an understanding of the man, as he seemed just as messed up in the head as she was. Well, not messed up... More along the lines of convoluted, like Lilly's own mind. Lilly grins as the man speaks, taking his words as a compliment. "Thank you! Lilly tries her hardest to be powerful!" With a soft giggle, she allows her head to tilt to the side, looking rather cute and not threatening. Her rapid mood swings tended to weird most people out, going from unbelievably angry to completely happy and giddy in mere seconds. Now, it appeared that Lilly was just enjoying a conversation with Kisuke, bobbing her head as she spoke.

"Well... If you don't get mad, then what happens when someone steps on your foot? Or maybe when someone eats the last gooey gummy candy in your bag that you were saving for last because it's your favorite?" Honestly, it was like the girl forgot she was fighting. Even the launcher was down at her side, swaying with her arms as she paid no attention to Yukiko as she charged her attack. How could someone be so careless to completely neglect an attack being charged? This thought crossed more minds than Lilly cared to remember.

"Like this one time, there was a Hollow I was eating, then another Hollow, a really big one, knocked Lilly away and stole her meal! Ohhh, I'm getting mad just thinking about that guy! Good thing Lilly ate him because he was mean to her... Lilly woulda shared if he asked..." Lilly then gasped as she reached into a pocket, grinning. "Speaking of that! Today, Onii-chan gave Lilly these tiny things! They taste really good!" Lilly tugged a bag out of her pocket, revealing it to be a bag of Skittles. She giggled cutely, wiggling about as she looked to the bag and drew a deep sniff, still in complete ignorance of what was going on to her side, as she was facing Urahara. She reached into the bag and ate one of the multicolored treats before looking to Kisuke softly. She hummed and looked back to the Skittles in her hand and nodded. "Well... Onii-chan says it's always nice to share, so... You can have some... Just don't take a lot..."

Then she began to walk forward as Yukiko threw the massive orb of iced blood, breaking into a brisk skip in her step. Due to this, she narrowly avoided the attack, it whooshing behind her and ruffling her hair. She stops completely and widens her eyes, taking a couple seconds to look behind her. Of course, with such velocity behind it, and since Lilly froze for a whole three seconds, it was three streets over by now, leaving Lilly wondering what exactly had just happened. It was then that she turned her back to Kisuke, looking to Yukiko.

"Hey, did you want some, too? I got a bunch because Onii-chan's real nice to me." Wait, the girl couldn't be thinking that the attack was Yukiko's way of getting her attention, could she? Was she really that easily distracted, or was she being slightly hypocritical and not taking them seriously? The wound was still on her leg, and although it was no longer leaking, it was still painful to the girl.

Lilly then hummed as she heard Urahara utter the incantation for a Kido, not recognizing it. However, as she was about to respond, she was struck rather solidly with the Okasen, making her go face-first into the dirt with a soft whimper of objection and no time to even catch herself. Her full weight went into her head as she hit. The entire back of her suit was seared away, but once again, the Arrancar seemed to avoid major damages to herself. However, it didn't end there, as when she hit the dirt, her trigger finger clenched in pain, causing her to fire into the ground. Since the rocket had nowhere to go, it exploded and sent the girl sailing through the air with a panicked squeal, soaring above Yukiko's head and into the ground roughly fifty feet behind the Visored. Urahara might've been hit with some expelled ground acting as shrapnel from the blast, but it would do little more than dirty, and at worst, tear his clothes.

One would expect at least some crying from the child after such a hit, but yet, no such sounds came from her crater. If they ventured closer, they would find the girl completely dazed, mumbling incoherently and swaying side to side. It also seemed her goggles took the brunt of the blow, as Lilly's skin was unscathed on her face. Those goggles were truly marvels in and of themselves, being able to shrug off blows to the head like they did. She slowly got up, Lilly seeing double and swaying from side to side as she sat on her knees. "Nyeehhh... What hit Lilly?" She was tearing up slowly, so it was clear that the blow did hurt the child a bit, but she was so dazed she couldn't stand. If it wasn't for the iron-clad grip she had on her rocket launcher, or the tubes connecting it to her, she would've dropped it mid-flight. Yukiko might have also been struck by a falling bag of Skittles as Lilly flew if she wasn't paying attention.

Yukiko hefted her sword back over her shoulder, considering her next move. The boulder had missed by an apparent stroke of luck, but from such a range it was not really expected to hit. The attack was more effective when used to hit multiple targets, but she was not about to try that with Urahara in the way. The Visored was getting pretty tired of listening to the girl's inane jabbering. It would be nice if they could strike a decisive blow. As it happened, a series of freak accidents had sent the girl like a projectile all the way over to between her and the supermarket.

Flash stepping between them once again, she decided to keep her guard up in the event of a retaliation. The girl breached her line by sheer luck, and such an oversight would not happen again. Any further attempts to close in on the civillians would be met with extreme resistance. The blood slush that was pooling around her feet before began to flow back towards her, collecting into the crimson shell of ice that was a prepared ability. The rest dripped and slid over the rubble and damaged roads, before settling once again around her feet. Being that she was now in range of the sickly looking smoke, Lilly would feel her reactions slower than usual as she inhaled it. The gas had been pumping out for a while now, saturating the air all around her vicinity.

One moment the stupid kid was a tactical menace, turning the tide of battle in her favor in a single shot, the next she was a bumbling oaf, incapable of doing much of anything. She did not understand this girl. For all intents and purposes she seemed nearly defeated, if not physically, then mentally. Was it a surrender? Or did she get a concussion? Yukiko was not sure what to do here, but attacking seemed uncalled for at the moment. She was clearly off balance, possibly not even aware of the situation in which she had placed herself before.

"Hey, I think that last blow knocked her brain around or something. What do you wanna do?" She shouted to the Shinigami assisting her, keeping herself prepared to counter whatever attack the Arrancar might have decided to prepare. With the sudden change in personality, her classification as a threat was in question. Maybe they could subdue her peacefully, or at least without bloodshed. Yukiko was not the type to strike down a child if she was not forced to.

Yukiko tapped the air nearby herself. Opening like a rip in the sky was a Garganta. She pointed her finger to the portal. "Hey, there's candy in there. Go get it, kid." The Hollowfied Shinigami made an effort to talk her down again. This time she appealed to her inner child, hoping beyond hope that the call of free candy, as well a little help from her dazed state combined with the depressant smoke, would lure her back to Hueco Mundo. To improve the illusion, she formed a handful of pebbles of frozen blood, making sure they looked like red candy, and threw them into the Garganta. That would work. Yeah.

Should the ploy fail, Yukiko could think of a few ways to counter her renewed assault. Being so close to the supermarket now, she would have to use her wide rang Shimo in order to push the girl back towards Urahara. If she got too close, the Visored would hopefully be able to take her down with her great weapon mastery, else she would have to resort to using her shield to block a massive point blank attack. No doubt, it would mitigate almost any single blow, but it would also mean the end of all her blood for a while now.

She didn't have much time on her mask left. If she was going to put an end to this, it would have to be soon. The next few moments would, in all likelihood, decide the battle. If Lillithe retreated, she could go and live another day. If she snapped out of her daze and continued her attack, she would be struck down without mercy. This was her last chance to surrender peaceably, as far as Yukiko was concerned. The girl was clearly damaged; the fight was not in her favor. A leg with a grievous wound, some of her protective armor burned away. All it would take is a good clean hit to bring her to her last legs, and from then on, escape would become infinitely less likely.

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Yukiko Stats: (Masked, 4 posts remaining)
Rank - ADV-2
Hankou - 12
Reiryoku - 10
Hakudo - 10
Seijuu - 13 (+3) = 16
Bukijuu - 14
Hoho - 11
Total - 70 (+3) = 73

Urahara listened to her questions, before answering as he watched her go careening over Yukiko's head, settling between the female Visored and the shopping center. He instantly regretted having sent the kido, because after all; he REALLY loved candy. His sweet tooth was even bigger than his boredom on most occasions. It was actually a wonder he wasn't obese from how often he ate sweets. Except chocolate. He really couldn't stand chocolate, for some reason. He preferred fruity candies the most. He listened to Lilly, confused. "Well, you hit yourself with one of your own rockets." He said, rather blankly, wondering if someone was that.. clumsy, would that be the right word? Something like that. He wondered if somebody could really be that clumsy, so as to send themselves sailing with their own attack. And even worse, not know what hit them. Unless, of course, she was referring to Kido.

Since Yukiko had fallen, the candy had missed her, and instead struck the ground. He hardly doubted that Lily would fall for the Garganta trick, so instead decided to merely grab the bag of skittles. He walked over casually, Benihime held in his hand loosely, bending over to grab the Skittles. He grabbed one from the bag, popping it in his mouth, chewing. "Hey, thanks for the skittles. I've never had the tropical ones yet." He said cheerfully, as he walked up to Lilly, his hand open to hand her the bag of Skittles. She seemed... rather influence-able. So perhaps he could persuade her to just... leave, maybe? It didn't seem like that hard to do. She had only wanted to train, and she had done just that. So maybe she would be ready to leave, and who knew, maybe he could persuade her not to destroy half of the city again.

"So... I think the Training should be over with." He said, stretching as soon as he made sure Lilly had the bag of sweets. "I'm going to take you back, okay?" He asked, as he walked back a few steps. At some point in time, between when he had begun to walk to Lilly, and when he was walking away, Benihime had gone back into its cane form, as Urahara was walking with it causally. He stopped a few feet away, turning to Lilly. "I'm ready whenever you are." He said, as he dug a small cube out of his pocket. It was small, and looked to be made of a shiny black. He pushed a button, tossing it on the ground shortly afterwards. Fluidly, it landed with the button facing up on the ground.

A tearing sound, and a Garganta opened up above it, somewhat bigger than most, and not shaped as oddly. The visible swirling int he background that most Garganta held was evident, signifying its status as a garganta. He realized that Yukiko had opened one up, but figured that Lilly would trust him more, considering he seemed non-threatening. "Our next plan is to get her back home, and get out of here before the Gotei shows up." He said, his eyes crinkling as he smiled, taking to Yukiko this time.

"Which reminds me... where did you even come from?" He asked Yukiko. "You just appeared out of that Garganta. I realize you probably came from Hueco Mundo, but.. well, nevermind. I guess it's not my business." He said, his hat shading his face. He turned to Lilly again, becoming serious once more. "But next time you come, if you start destroying the town, I'll have to finish the job." He said. With that, he began walking over to where he had dropped his coat. He put it on once more, getting rid of his reiatsu completely.

He turned back to the two, seeing what they were both going to do. Frankly, if Lilly insisted on staying, he didn't mind finishing the job; he would just rather avoid the bloodshed, and possibility of coming into contact with the Gotei. He wasn't exactly... on good terms, you could say. Urahara looked up to the clouds, tipping his hat down once more, to cover his face. It really was a lovely day out. Perhaps he would go do something later on in the day. Taking the employees out to eat didn't sound like a bad idea. Who knew, maybe he'd even treat Vlasta. Despite the woman being incredibly angry all the time, she wasn't as bad as she was supposed to be. Sure, she had a temper, and sure, things tended to get broken a lot, (Thankfully not himself, since he was rather invaluable to her.) but that she wasn't completely evil, or even unbearable to live with, really. Plus, it gave him something to do. He always loved poking fun at her, and doing nothing visibly important when she was around, prompting her to get irritated at him when her matter was urgent to herself.

Lilly shakes her head to get the fuzziness out of it, sighing softly as she still swayed. She mumbles and whines, making all sorts of cute noises to try and get her head out of the state it was in. In truth, this was a violent injury from her childhood while she was still alive, but Lilly doesn't remember. That's what made her so weird as she went through day to day life. Lilly was just... Lilly. She knew about the rocket, but didn't remember the Kido blast, which actually was what she was referring to. She didn't really have an understanding of Kido, hence it being so easy to pull one over on her. That, and the girl seemed to have a very separate understanding of other spiritual being's powers. However, her initial reaction was always to eat whatever was thrown at her, and that always seemed to work with most things.

However, somethings took more than just a ravenous appetite to take down, in the case of these two. Lilly shook the dizziness out of her head and sighed softly. "Urgh... Lilly needs to stop hitting her head..." She looked to Urahara, humming softly as she got her full mind back, or what was left of it. "Oh, Lilly knows that. She was wondering what you hit her with..." So she did know that he attacked her, yet was being so calm about it. When he mentioned the Skittles, she grinned widely. "They are Lilly's favorite! Onii-chan knows this, so he gives her some whenever Lilly asks! He's awesome like that!" She giggled softly, apparently showing off her talent as a comeback kid by getting up as if her hip was not even wounded and walking to Urahara.

She then gasps and looks into the air. "Oh, I forgot!" She aims her launched into the air and fires, cocking the launcher back again. Before long, there was an explosion that seemed as powerful as two of Lilly's rockets echoing out into the air, not creating shrapnel at all. She had just saved Yukiko from the falling rocket, as if the Visored had not moved, the shell would have hurtled back to Earth and exploded upon hitting the girl. Most likely, since the rocket was untraceable with all of the reiatsu gone from it that propelled it, it would have caused serious damage upon impact.

Lilly shakes her head, sighing softly. "That would've been bad! Good thing Lilly always pays attention to that stuff!" This might've struck the pair as odd, especially Yukiko, as it seemed the girl had complete control of the situation, and even a couple aces she hadn't even used yet. Of course, as she was only training, she wouldn't have gone all out. That was why she was partially upset when Yukiko blocked the rocket with herself, and when she had asked Kisuke to use his shield to block the rockets. She was just after some training, like she had said.

Lilly looks to Kisuke and hums, turning to the Garganta. "How did you do that?" With a soft poking of her finger, she attempted to make her own Garganta, being not able to do that. This kinda led to the question of how she even got to the World of the Living in the first place. She purses her lips in frustration, looking to Urahara. "That leads to Hueco Mundo, doesn't it? You want to help Lilly eat the Espada, too?" She hums and smiles, waving her arms happily. "I'm glad! You did a good job of helping Lilly train so she can!" She happily wandered back over to him, jumping up and clinging around his neck in a tight hug before putting an oddly warm, friendly kiss on Kisuke's cheek. She smiled as she dropped down off of him, her suit and launcher not putting a ton of weight on him like he might suspect. She looked to Yukiko and hummed. "Uhhh... You look really hurt... Well... Lilly's sorry, but you shoulda just stuck to the plan..." She hums and wanders over to her, digging another bag of Skittles out of her clothes and handing it over. "Here! Lilly is actually sorry... You weren't supposed to get hurt..."

She pushed the Skittles into Yukiko and wanders to the Garganta, taking a second to look back to Urahara and grinning. "Wish Lilly luck, because when she comes back, she's gonna get a super-huge cake covered in those things and she'll share it with you! Oh, and you can keep those if you want. Lilly has more!" She pursed her lips and dove into the Garganta, quickly running from view and snapping shut whenever Kisuke decided to close his Garganta with a quick last sentence to him.

"Lilly's gonna come play with you again sometime!"

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